Feature Film

A brutally intimate look at home invasion from director Miguel Ángel Vivas’ Kidnapped.
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From director Jiang Wen, comes a rock and roll western set in the warring period of a 1920s China. As a scheme to get-rich-quick is applied without the knowledge of it’s original entrepreneur, a bloody battle of wit and grit is ignited. Chow Yun-Fat, Ge You, and Jiang Wen star.
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“In May 2007, the men of second platoon, Battle Company, began a 15 month deployment in the Korengal Valley of Eastern Afghanistan”. Considered by CNN “the deadliest place in the world” due to the fact that close to 70% of ordinance dropped in Afghanistan was used in the Korengal Valley. “Restrepo”, a documentary by...
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More of an honorary tribute than documentary, Steven Soderbergh expertly edits and stitches together the storytelling prowess of Spalding Gray in And Everything Is Going Fine.
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Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life encompasses the childhood and adult life of Jack (Sean Penn). While struggling to understand the complicated relationship he had with his father (Brad Pitt) as a young boy, Jack begins to question his own existence, the meaning of life, and the fortitude of faith.
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Betrayal, confusion, betrayal, confusion, and a lot of vicious spikes of disturbing violence. Director Takeshi Kitano goes back to the Yakuza domain in his latest entry, Outrage. Nothing too complicated in terms of story, all glazed over with a visually muted cinematography known to most Kitano films.
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Director Claire Denis’ White Material. Maria (Isabelle Huppert) owns a coffee crop plantation in Africa, and has lived there with her family for three-generations strong. When the news of impending danger comes through, many see escape as their only option, but Maria plans to stay.
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Just watched Bara No Sôretsu (Funeral Parade of Roses), and it’s my favorite Japanese film now. *edit* PS commenter below, it’s NOT a hipster film.  I would never promote hipster culture.  I don’t eat that bread.
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Director Sion Sono’s Cold Fish is a film based on events of a serial killer with a murderous 50-victim count.
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A writer (William Shimell) meets an art enthusiast (Juliette Binoche) in Italy. The hard facts in Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy are scarce, as I’ve read through some reviews. But the overall scope of the film focuses on the hypotheticals of how are feelings/memories would change if we found out that the object attached to...
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Director Pablo Larraín’s (Tony Manero) Post Mortem is set during Chile’s remaining days with President Salvador Allende. The story centers around a recordist at a Morgue office. He falls in love with a local burlesque dancer, but soon after they meet she mysteriously disappears.
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Jorge Michel Grau’s We Are What We Are, or originally known as Somos Lo Que Hay, is a tale about a family of ritualistic cannibals living in seclusion. When the father of the household disappears, the circumstances become grim, and a new means of bringing food on the table must be instantiated.
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The latest film by Denis Villeneuve, Incendies. After the passing of their emotionally distant mother, twins Jeanne and Simon discover through her last will that they must deliver one letter to a father they thought dead, and another to a brother they never knew existed. Their journey takes them deep into their mother’s tragic...
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Jason Eisener’s dystopian Grindhouse Hobo with a Shotgun, starring Rutger Hauer. What originally started off as a parody trailer for a SXSW/Robert Rodriguez Grindhouse contest/panel, soon developed into a full length feature.
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Winning this year’s Palme D’Or at Cannes, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is an intriguing culturally-infused ghost story about a man lying on his deathbed.
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Aaron Katz’ Cold Weather is an uniquely stylized mystery about a man who moves back home, only to find out that his ex-girlfriend has gone missing.
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Adam Wingard’s serial killer drama takes a shape of it’s own in his latest entry, A Horrible Way to Die. The trailer gives a good idea of things to come, better than me explaining it here in writing.
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Sound of Noise from Swedish directors Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson.  A detective who hates music must investigate a terrorist plot in the form of a musical apocalypse.  Trailer below, no English subs but the sounds and images tell all.
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Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) tackles the classic Charlotte Brontë tale “Jane Eyre”  -Starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. Apple Trailer
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