FOLLOWING FILMS

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March 1 30 for 30: Of Miracles and Men (2015) The Brothers Grimm (2005) Evelyn (2002) 1953. Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Irish courts put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that he'll get his children back after he gets a job, he learns there's another barrier. During that time, Evelyn suffers abuse while Desmond goes to court to get his children back. A barmaid, her brother, her suitor, and a tippling footballer become Desmond's team Finding Neverland (2004) Mercy Rule (2014) Monster High: 13 Wishes (2013) Patch Adams (1998) Rules of Engagement (2000) Teen Witch (1989) March 5 The ABCs of Death 2 Food Chains (2014) March 6 Aziz Ansari Live at Madison Square G...

Fuck man. I didn't know Bruce on a personal level but I like many people was definitely personally involved with his work. The first Paradise Lost film came out when I was in high school and like many people my age it had a profound impact on my life. The film was about a horrific triple child murder that led to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence. This was the first film that brought out a pure sense of hopelessness and rage in me. I was beyond effected, I was changed. I assume that I always had a lefty "fuck the man" leaning deep in my soul but this film brought it screaming to the surface. My voice has never carried a deep resonance but seeing Bruce's film.... it taught me to never hesitate when I felt I should raise it. I like many others are in Bruce's debt. Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelly were wrongfully convicted and placed on death row for the murders at Robin Hood Hills. Bruce Sinof...

This is one of those films that will be incredibly difficult for me to discuss without going off on expletive laden tangents. I'll do my best but I make no promises. Out In The Night tells the story of the "New Jersey Four" a group of  lesbians who were arrested for fighting a straight man. The "New Jersey Four" nickname was clearly a play on the "Central Park Five" case from 1989 and it was appropriate because the media frenzy surrounding both cases were solely based on prejudice and conjecture. You see, when you sell the story as "a gang of scary black lesbians stab a straight man in front of a movie theater" it sells papers, keeps viewers tuned in and in the process destroys the lives of the people involved. If you sell the story in a truthful manor it might just disappear and that would be missing a wonderful opportunity to up your Neilsen numbers and sell some ads. Journalistic integrity be damned when you are in the business upset...

Thompson has starred in more than 30 films, 25 television movies, 4 television series, more than 20 ballets, and starred on Broadway in "Cabaret". Lea can currently be seen on ABC Family's Peabody Award-winning hit show "Switched at Birth," where she acts and directs. Lea's movie credits include: "All the Right Moves," "Red Dawn," "Some Kind of Wonderful," "The Beverly Hillbillies," "Howard The Duck"(star and vocals), Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar;" the 2014 Sundance favorite "Ping Pong Summer;" and a wonderful film that you need to see called The Trouble With The Truth. It's currently streaming on Amazon and one of the best films I've seen in years. Click play on the embedded player below to listen to our conversation.  

ALOHA May 29, 2015 In Aloha , a celebrated military contractor (Bradley Cooper) returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs – the US Space program in Honolulu, Hawaii – and reconnects with a long-ago love (Rachel McAdams) while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog (Emma Stone) assigned to him.   From Academy Award®-winner Cameron Crowe, the writer-director behind such films as Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous , Aloha also stars Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride, and Alec Baldwin. Written and Directed by:  Cameron Crowe   Cast:   Bradley Cooper,  Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride, Alec Baldwin

Directed by: Jim Hemphill Starring: Lea Thompson and John Shea Talkies. After the silent era films with sound were called talkies. Ironically enough films have moved away from conversation and grown (or digressed) into an era of pure visual spectacle. The Trouble with the Truth is a throw back in many ways but in others its quite progressive. The film centers around Emily (Lea Thompson) and Robert (John Shea) who are divorced couple having dinner, that's it, a couple talking. This is the kind of film that we rarely see, one that is completely built on performance and writing. The set pieces in this film are emotional ones and they carry far more weight than anything I've seen in a multiplex for years. Thompson gives the strongest performance of her career and is absolutely captivating to watch in this film. I've always enjoyed her work but I had no idea how good she was. This is the kind of film that has made me reevaluate her work as a performer. John Shea is also...

The first horror films I remember are the ones whose names I can barely recall. They were gory, filled with sex and defiantly inappropriate for a 12 year old. I'm not talking about The Shinning or The Exorcist, those were films that I could watch with my parents. The movies I'm talking about were dangerous, I wasn't allowed to watch them. I would go to the video store and find films based solely on the box art. These films rarely lived up to the images used to sell them but it didn't matter, the promise of might be was enough. I took films like; Sleepaway Camp, Sorority Babes at the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama, Class of Nuke Em High, and Chopping Mall seriously. I didn't watch them like some douche bag hipster with a detached sense of irony, nope Phantasm was my Citizen Kane. My taste has matured (slightly) but those films will always hold a special place in my heart. I've seen tons of modern films that try to call back to the B-Movie masterpieces of my y...

Directed by: Neill Blomkamp Written by: Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell Cast:  Sharlto Copley,  Dev Patel,  NINJA and ¥O-LANDI VI$$ER,  Jose Pablo Cantillo  with Sigourney Weaver  and Hugh Jackman In the near future, crime is patrolled by an oppressive mechanized police force. But now, the people are fighting back. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.  As powerful, destructive forces start to see Chappie as a danger to mankind and order, they will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo and ensure that Chappie is the last of his kind. Finger crossed for this one it could be my favorite film of the year or the biggest let down. Either way I fully expect a strong reaction. 

No contemporary filmmaker has chronicled the messy human experience with the eye and ear of a comedic cultural anthropologist like Judd Apatow. Hits as varied as those he’s directed, like Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and those he’s produced, like Superbad and Bridesmaids, are all unified by their honest, unflinching, comic look at how complicated it is to grow up in the modern world.  Apatow has also built a history of helping break distinctive new comedy voices into the mainstream, from Seth Rogen to Lena Dunham among many others. Now, in his fifth feature film as a director, Apatow again brings a portrait of an unforgettable character, and a portrayal by a breakout new comedy star, together in Trainwreck, written by and starring Amy Schumer (Inside Amy Schumer) as a woman who lives her life without apologies, even when maybe she should apologize.     Since she was a little girl, it’s been drilled into Amy’s (Schumer) head by her rascal of a dad (Co...