8/10
DIRECTED by: Denis Hennelly Film Pulse Score: 8/10
“If you’re expecting an apocalyptic end-of-the-world movie with burning cities and cars exploding, I’m sure there’s one playing in the theater down the hall,” director Denis Henry Hennelly admitted
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Release Date: August 2nd, 2013 (Limited)
Director: James Ponsoldt
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 6/10
Coming of age films in American Cinema tend to lean towards the sweet and charming aspects of the intersection
8.5
What if something happened to someone who was working in your home. You discover they have no identification on them and they look to be in serious condition. You do the right thing and get help. Once the paperwork and reports are taken that should be the end of your involvement, right? Right? If it turns out it wasn’t what would you do? How far would you take it? Kamal K.M.’s solid mystery/drama raises these questions as one woman attempts to find out the identity of a mysterious laborer in the film I.D.
8.5
Release Date: TBD
Director: Eddie Alcazar
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 8.5/10
We are all familiar with the Rocky formula. The underdog comes back from unbeatable odds to win it all; the girl,
With the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival ending today, the full list of award winners have been announced, with top prizes going to films Short Term 12 (Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature), Mother, I Love You (DIRECTV Narrative Award), and Code
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Sitting in the theater at the LA Film Festival's Gala screening of Only God Forgives, director Nicolas Winding Refn gave a preface to the audience before letting the film roll. "I'm a pornographer, (audience laughs) and I like to make things that really excite me. So if Drive was a drug experience, I'd say that it was like the best cocaine you've ever had, and lots of it. With this film, I wasn't so much interested in cocaine as I was into LSD. Not the kind of LSD that makes you really happy and want to have a lot of sex and stuff like that, but the kind of LSD that makes you see really crazy things that aren't there, like sitting in the armchair and you just totally melt into it, you hear voices telling you really important things, you know, stuff like that."
7/10
DIRECTED by: Aaron Douglas Johnston Film Pulse Score: 7/10
Quiet, naturalistic storytelling rarely gets noticed amidst the clamor of today’s blockbuster
6/10
Release Date: TBD
Directors: T. Arthur Cottam, Karl Jacob
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 6/10
Pollywogs opens in New York City; a phone message plays over scenes of
This year’s Los Angeles Film Festival promises to be a great one, with another fantastic lineup. Three of our writers, Ernie Trinidad, Gina Kelly, and Elisha Male chimed in on what they are most looking forward to at the fest, which kicks
It’s time to start getting excited for the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, which is set to run September 5-15. Though the lineup is still under wraps, the festival programming was announced today, with some old favorites like Midnight Madness making a
Here’s the newly released trailer for the documentary The New Black, which is set to have its world premiere at the LA Film Festival on June 14th. The film takes a look at same sex marriage in Maryland, and focuses on the
Today it was announced that James Wan‘s The Conjuring has been added to the slate of the upcoming Los Angeles Film Festival that’s set to kick off June 13th. The film, which garnered an R rating not for violence or language, but
The full lineup for this year’s New York Asian Film Festival has been announced with some notable highlights including the world premiere of Fruit Chan, Lee Chi Ngai, and Simon Yam‘s horror anthology film Tales From the Dark Part 1, as well
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It’s no secret to our readers that Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me is one of my all time favorite films. It’s a simple story about a group of friends hunting for a dead body, but it’s in these friends that true meaning of the film takes shape and is realized. It’s a story about growing up and friendship and cherishing the small, fleeting moments, in life.
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Update: Abdellatif Kechiche‘s Blue Is the Warmest Color has been announced as the winner of this year’s Palme d’Or. The film stars Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux, and is a 3-hour coming of age story about two lesbians in France. This win comes
Deadline announced today that Drafthouse Films picked up the North American rights to the German film Nothing Bad Can Happen from writer/director Katrin Gebbe. The film follows a young Christian punk rocker who falls in with a family who
