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Release Date: TBD
Director: Kevin Chenault
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
Kevin Chenault’s Different Drum is the type of low budget indie that hits all the typical tropes, but in this case, that’s
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Publisher: Titan Books
Film Pulse Score: 8/10
Before director Joon-ho Bong adapted it for the big screen, the story of Snowpiercer was originally a French graphic novel written by Jacques Lob. With
4.5
Release Date: January 31, 2014 (limited)
Director: Maggie Kiley
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 4.5/10
A more appropriate title for Maggie Kiley’s rom com Brightest Star should probably have been Dullest Star or possibly
8
Release Date: January 31, 2014 (limited)
Directors: Various
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 8/10
For the last several years before the Oscar telecast the short films that have been nominated for an Academy Award are given a rare
Release Date: TBD
Director: Jacob Kindberg
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 3.5/10
Not being a Christian, I had no idea who Dennis Jernigan was going into the documentary Sing Over Me, which takes an
6.5
Release Date: March 7, 2014 (Limited)
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Director: Eugenio Mira
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 6.5/10
Despite the ludicrous premise, Eugenio Mira’s Grand Piano is a surprisingly taut thriller that
8.5
Release Date: January 31, 2014
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Director: Lotfy Nathan
Film Pulse Score: 8.5/10
Have you ever been to Baltimore and witnessed a gang of dirt-bike and ATV riders barreling
5.5
Release Date: February 15, 2014 (Colombia)
Director: Juan Diego Escobar Alzate
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 5.5/10
Live Life Dearest is a unique experimental film that joins more than a thousand collaborators to create
4
Release Date: February 1, 2014 (VOD)
Director: Eric Priestley
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 4/10
Eric Priestley’s Don’t Pass Me By is a meandering and mediocre drama centering on four separate women in crisis.
7.5
DIRECTED by: Matthew Lessner Film Pulse Score: 7.5/10
Winning the Short Film Audience Awaard at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Matthew Lessner’s Chapel Perilous blends a healthy amount of absurdity, mysticism, and the musical stylings
We had the opportunity to see a number to great shorts at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival and we wanted to make sure they get discussed as part of our coverage since shorts too often fall by the wayside at festivals.
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DIRECTED by: Fernando Frias Film Pulse Score: 6/10
Fernando Frias De La Parra’s Rezeta is a wonderfully shot love story about an Albanian model moving to Mexico City in order to further her career. We journey
7
Release Date: January 24, 2014 (Netflix)
Director: Greg Whiteley
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
Going into Greg Whiteley’s Mitt, I had little interest or expectations to learn about Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. I
7.5
Release Date: TBD
Director: Mark Raso
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7.5/10
Mark Raso’s Copenhagen is your typical fish out of water story about a guy in a foreign place who falls in love
One of the best parts of Michael Winterbottom‘s road trip comedy The Trip was witnessing Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon do dueling Michael Caine impersonations. Thankfully, in the upcoming sequel which just had its premiere at Sundance, the impression is back and
7.5
Release Date: TBD
Director: Allan Luebke
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7.5/10
There’s no hiding that Allan Luebke’s documentary is patterned after Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky franchise. The film’s title even appears on screen as
