Archive for September, 2011

Love Crime

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 103

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Director: Alain Corneau

Plot: When Christine, a powerful executive (Scott Thomas) brings on a naive young ingenue, Isabelle (Sagnier) as her assistant, she delights in toying with her naivete and teaching her hard lessons in a ruthless professional philosophy. But when the protege’s ideas become tempting enough for Christine to pass one as her own, she underestimates Isabelle’s ambition and cunning-and the ground is set for all out war. In this devilish, propulsive thriller, Corneau sets up a the scenery expertly and his actors devour it.

 

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 111

Language: English

Director: Jon Foy

Plot: Strangeness is afoot. Most people don’t notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and one that hits disturbingly close to home.

 

Saving Private Perez

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 120

Language: Spanish

Director: Beto Gomez

Plot: Julian Perez, Mexico’s most notorious leader of organized crime, must embark on a mission given to him by the only authority he respects… his mother. Joined by a colorful band of infamous criminals, Julian must risk his life to fulfill his mother’s wish & rescue his brother from the war-ridden bowels of the most treacherous land in the world, IRAQ.

 

Seven Days in Utopia

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 151

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Director: Matt Russell

Plot: SEVEN DAYS IN UTOPIA follows the story of Luke Chisolm (Lucas Black), a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour. When his first big shot turns out to be a very public disaster, Luke escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas, home to eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford (Robert Duvall). But Johnny’s more than meets the eye, and his profound ways of looking at life force Luke to question not only his past choices, but his direction for the future.

Based on David L. Cook’s best-selling book Golf’s Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia.

 

Insight

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Genre: Mystery-Suspense

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 137

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Director: Richard Gabai

Plot: Shot in the seedy Boyle Heights district in Los Angeles, InSight follows Kaitlyn (Natalie Zea), an ER nurse who while tending to a young stabbing victim, Allison, is accidentally electrocuted by the defibrillator that was being used to save the woman’s life. Almost immediately she starts to experience the victim’s memories. Kaitlyn turns to family, friends, and the police, but no one takes her seriously, so she takes it upon herself to solve the crime – as the terrifying visions threaten her sanity. Ultimately, Kaitlyn teams up with detective Peter Rafferty (Sean Patrick Flanery) and weaves her way through the victim’s past in an attempt to discover the brutal truth about the murder and herself.

 

Zombie Diaries 2: World of the Dead

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 93

Language:

Director: Michael Bartlett

Plot: Life in the new zombie-filled world is tough and brutal, but hope appears when a high level communication is received. Just as salvation appears to be in reach, the base suffers an overwhelming defeat at the hands of the living dead.

 

Hellraiser: Revelations

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 107

Language: English

Director: Victor Garcia

Plot: Two friends in Mexico discover the Lament Configuration and unleash Pinhead, but one decides to try to survive by swapping himself with someone else. Once they go missing, family members go in search of them, but find Pinhead instead.

 

The Woman in Black

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 44

Language: English (International)

Director: James Watkins

Plot: The Woman in Black follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe), who is ordered to travel to a remote corner of the UK and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in an old and isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover its tragic secrets, and his unease grows when he discovers that the local village is held hostage by the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance.