1.5
Release Date: Currently playing on VOD platforms
Director: Scot Michael Walker
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 1.5/10
A couple of things are clear after watching Scot Michael Walker’s Rockin’ Reverend. At least based
5
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Director: Edgar Wright
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 5/10
Having successfully satirized the zombie and action genres in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, Edgar Wright and
7
Release Date: September 20, 2013 (Limited)
Currently playing on VOD platforms
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David M. Rosenthal
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
Director David M Rosenthal has switched gears and made a sharp
6.5
Release Date: September 6, 2013 (limited)
Currently playing on VOD platforms
Director: Hannah Fidell
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 6.5/10
Clocking in at a mere 75 minutes, Hannah Fidell’s feature debut, A
8
Release Date: August 23, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Joe Swanberg
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 8/10
Drinking Buddies, the latest from writer/director Joe Swanberg happens to be the first film of
9
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
4
Release Date: August 23, 2013 (Limited and VOD)
Director: Renny Harlin
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 4/10
In a world where found footage horror movies didn’t come out by the dozens, Renny Harlin’s
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.
3
Release Date: August 22nd, 2013 (Action on Film International Film Festival)
Director: Adam Simcox
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 3/10
In a world where everyone has a Cannon 7D (or 5D, depending on your
Here’s a quickie review of Elysium: The Art of the Film by Mark Salisbury, which is currently available in book stores and online everywhere.
Despite not being the biggest fan of the film, this is a pretty great coffee table
1.5
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Director: Jeff Wadlow
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 1.5/10
Director and co-writer Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass was generally well-received when it was released in 2010, but it was not
6
Release Date: August 16th, 2013
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Film Pulse Score: 6/10
Barbeau-Lavalette sets out, in her second narrative feature, to display the precarious on-going situation on both sides of
7
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,
1.5
Release Date: August 15th, 2013 (Limited and VOD)
Director: Jeff Chamberlain
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Film Pulse Score: 1.5/10
Very few good scary movies have been made with a PG-13 rating. Now, that does not
