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Release Date: December 25, 2013
Director: John Wells
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 7.5/10
What defines a family? The fact that you’re related by blood? The unconditional love? The unwavering support? Knowing that
AFI Fest in LA is wrapping up tonight, and the jury and audience award winners have been announced earlier today. Nothing Bad Can Happen (pictured above) took home the New Auteurs Critic’s Award, along with audience awards going to The
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Release Date: November 8, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Chris Nelson
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 5/10
Kate and Chloe have been best friends forever. They live in a studio apartment in the city. They
It was announced today that Wes Anderson‘s The Grand Budapest Hotel will be making its world premiere at the 64th Berlin Film Festival on February 6th. The full lineup for this year’s fest hasn’t been released just yet, but this film alone
One of the surprises we saw at SXSW this year was Jonathan Singer-Vine‘s powerful urban drama Licks. Fortunately, others are recognizing this film for just how good it is and it just picked up four awards at the Chelsea Film Festival including
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Release Date: TBD
Director: James Sizemore
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 6.5/10
James Sizemore’s The Demon’s Rook harkens back to the eighties when picking up a movie meant actually getting in your car
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Release Date: October 25, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 8/10
Jeffrey Schwarz’s I Am Divine is a fascinating look at the famous cross-dressing character actor Divine, or Glen Milstead,
The final lineup of this year’s AFI Fest has been released with the full list of independent, world cinema, and midnight selections being announced. The special screenings and galas have been previously announced with screenings of Alexander Payne‘s Nebraska, Ben Stiller‘s The
Fantastic Fest, the nations largest genre film festival, has announced the lineup for its 2013 tour which includes a fantastic lineup featuring Why Don’t You Play in Hell (pictured above), Cheap Thrills, Borgman, and many more.
More than thirty short films were screened at the Thirteenth Annual Screamfest held at the Laemmle NoHo 7 in North Hollywood, CA. Not only do these films represent a wide variety of themes inherent to the horror genre they stand as
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DIRECTED by: Oren Carmi Film Pulse Score: 6/10
Being single and living in the city sure can be tough. You never know who you’re going to meet as you walk down that street or stroll through
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DIRECTED by: Olivier Beguin Film Pulse Score: 7/10
Like the zombie genre the vampire genre has been mined so much to the point of exsanguination. Unfortunately nowadays to most people vampire lore equals Twilight and its
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Release Date: December 3, 2013 (DVD & VOD)
Director: Paul Hyett
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Film Pulse Score: 6.5/10
It’s fair to say that the only thing that could prove much more scarier than your
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Release Date: October 18th, 2013 (Limited and VOD via SundanceNow)
Director: Vincenzo Natali
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 5/10
Vincenzo Natali has always been
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DIRECTED by: Adam Gierasch Film Pulse Score: 7.5/10
Film Noir is a type of film that is often recognized by stark light/dark contrasts, skewed visual angles, a dark foreboding mood, disorienting compositions, a voiceover narration and
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Release Date: TBD
Director: Michael S. Ojeda
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
“Vengeance is a dish best served cold.” “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” “The only good Indian is
