6.5/10
Release Date: May 31, 2013 (Limited)
Directors: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 6.5/10
Jen and Sylvia Soska (“The Twisted Sisters”) developed something of a cult
8/10
Release Date: May 31, 2013 (Limited)
Available on VOD Platforms June 4th
Directors: John Mitchell, Jeremy Kipp Walker
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Film Pulse Score: 8/10
When discussing independent comedies, many
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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.
3/10
Release Date: May 23, 2013
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Todd Phillips
FilmPulse Score: 3/10
The wait is finally over! No, not the anticipation for the newest installment into the adventures of the Wolfpack,
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A few months ago, director Steven Soderbergh made the announcement that he would be retiring from the movies in order to pursue other artistic endeavors. While he has been attached to direct a new Cinemax series titled The Knick with Clive Owen, Behind the Candelabra is supposedly his last feature film. So did he go out with a bang or a fizzle? It seems like having a Liberace biopic as your final goodbye is a fitting and extravagant sendoff and fortunately, Soderbergh proves once again that he’s one of the best directors out there.
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In 1995, the soulful Before Sunrise introduced us to Jesse and Celine. Two twenty-somethings who have a chance encounter in Vienna. Knowing they don’t have much time they wander the city together and have a romantic filled evening It was embraced by a generation as one of the most romantic films ever made.
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You walk off that stage with a college degree in hand, ready to conquer the world. You pursue your dreams working in the field you’ve wanted to for most of your life. Your life couldn’t be any better, could it? Can it? Well no one ever said life is easy and it’s a hard truth that many of us have to face; sometimes we’re too oblivious to even notice or perhaps overly optimistic.
7.5
The Fast and the Furious franchise is truly impressive. The first film capitalized on the street racing culture that gained prominence in the early 2000s and was then followed by a pair of less than stellar sequels, 2 Fast 2 Furious and Tokyo Drift; the latter was directed by Justin Lin. In 2009 something unexpected happened. A series of films that was merely about racing and honor amongst thieves had morphed into something else. Justin Lin once again took the helm for a film where the criminals were now facing off against a drug kingpin and the result was a rare sequel that was better than the original. Not to rest on their laurels they did it again with 2011’s Fast Five, again directed by Lin, where the scale was even bigger, the scope of the story expansive and the car chases were thrilling. Again a sequel that was better than the original and even better than the last one. Lin returns once last time and nearly does it again with Fast & Furious 6.
7/10
Release Date: June 28th, 2013 (Limited)
Playing on VOD and digital download May 24th, 2013
Director: Mark Christopher Covino, Jeff Howlett
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
3.5/10
Release Date: TBD
Director: John R. Hand
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 3.5/10
John R. Hand’s The Synthetic Man is a crude nightmare of a film that asks the question “What would it be
6.5/10
Release Date: May 31, 2013 (Limited)
Currently Available on VOD Platforms
Director: Jay Gammill
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 6.5/10
After spending the night out drinking and waking up with a hangover
3/10
Release Date: May 17, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Pauline Chan
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 3/10
After nearly a decade of correspondences between her and her sponsor, a young orphaned Chinese girl seizes the
7.5/10
Release Date: May 17, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Phie Ambo
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Film Pulse Score: 7.5/10
The human brain is such a complex mechanism that to this day we still don’t know the
5/10
Release Date: May 17, 2013 (Limited Release and VOD platforms)
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Film Pulse Score: 5/10
Ki-duk Kim’s newest film Pieta won the Golden Lion (Il Leone d’Oro)
8/10
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Director: J.J. Abrams
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Film Pulse Score: 8/10
With the 2009 film Star Trek, director J.J. Abrams successfully rebooted a beloved franchise. What really stood out was
7.5/10
Release Date: May 10th, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Philippe Béziat
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7.5/10
Philippe Béziat’s Becoming Traviata is less a documentary and more a backstage pass at what it takes to re-imagine
