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Release Date: August 23, 2013 (limited)
Director: Destin Cretton
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 9/10
2013 has certainly been quite revelatory when it comes to films featuring young actors. It is even more
7
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Director: Adam Wingard
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
The horror genre has been so overdone in recent years that new sub genres were created. Minimalistic home invasions
6.5
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Currently playing on VOD platforms
Director: Noah Buschel
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 6.5/10
It can’t get any simpler than this. Girl meets boy. Boy meets girl.
5
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Director: Lee Daniels
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Film Pulse Score: 5/10
Lee Daniels’ film is inspired by the article “A Butler Well Served by This Election” written by Wil Haygood.
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Release Date: August 16th, 2013 (limited)
Director: Erik Sharkey
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
It’s very easy to take a theatrical one sheet for granted; especially since current posters are dominated by simplistic,
6/10
Release Date: August 2nd, 2013 (Limited)
Currently Playing on VOD Platforms
Director: Sebastián Cordero
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Film Pulse Score: 6/10
Found footage films seem to be a dime-a-dozen these days. They’re quick
Every year hundreds of thousands descend upon the city of San Diego and the San Diego Convention Center. The annual Comic-Con is an epic four-day pop-culture event that draws people from every corner of the globe and who knows perhaps other
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After the overthrow of the Indonesian government in 1965, the new regime declared that anyone determined to be a communist is to be executed. The executions were not carried out by the military itself but by hired guns. Typically these death squads were run by local gangsters. No one responsible for these war crimes has ever been made to answer for these atrocities that cost untold numbers of people their lives. Decades later, directors Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn commemorate this dark period in Indonesian history by focusing their cameras on the men responsible.
8.5
The tagline for James Cameron’s Titanic was “Nothing on Earth Could Come Between Them.” This can certainly apply to Tom Bridegroom and his partner of six years Shane Bitney Crone. They were the sweetest of couples so madly in love with each other that it was fate that they found each other. In fact it seemed they were destined to find each other. Their relationship was the stuff of dreams.
7/10
Release Date: TBD
Director: Lisa Biagiotti
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
The AIDS/HIV epidemic has been with us for nearly two generations now. At the outset it was a disease that caused
6/10
Release Date: TBD
Director: Marco Bellocchio
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 6/10
Euthanasia. The right to die. It can certainly be a very sensitive issue. Is it murder to allow someone to die
4/10
Release Date: July 12th, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Sebastián Silva
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 4/10
We’ve all met someone or know someone who is, for lack of a better word, an asshole. Whether it’s
7/10
Release Date: TBD
Directors: Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
After a night of drinking Virgil First Raise wakes up in a ditch. Groggy
With the year half over, we thought it would be nice to take a look back at some of our favorite films of the year so far and publish some mid-year top tens. Here’s Film Pulse contributor and critic Ernie Trinidad’s take
4.5/10
Release Date: July 3rd, 2013
Director: Gore Verbinski
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Film Pulse Score: 4.5/10
Has it really been nearly thirty years since a solid adventure/western graced the silver screen? I am referring to
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There’s just something utterly captivating about hearing someone who’s nearly one hundred years young talk about life. Not just to talk about what they’ve seen or what parts of history they recall the most but just about living, about making a difference, about taking a stand. The tagline for Mel Gibson’s Braveheart was “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.”
