The Identical

September 5th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Dustin Marcellino

Plot: Identical twin brothers (both played by Blake Rayne) are separated at birth during the Great Depression. Their parents (Brian Geraghty, Amanda Crew) just cannot afford to give them both a life beyond poverty, so one is adopted by loving family. Despite their very different upbringings, the boys’ shared passion for music causes their lives to unknowingly intersect as they experience a powerful and mysterious connection often felt by twins.

One of the boys becomes the most famous rock ‘n’ roll legend in the world, Drexel Hemsley, while Ryan Wade struggles to find balance between his love for music and trying to please his evangelist father (Ray Liotta) and his devoted mother (Ashley Judd) who have very different plans for his life in the ministry.

Ryan is encouraged by his wife Jenny (Erin Cottrell) and lifelong friends Dino and Avi (Seth Green, Joe Pantoliano) to follow his musical dreams. And oh, can he sing, just like his world famous brother!

A timeless tale of love, hope, and redemption. A captivating journey about the restoration and the reconciliation of a family broken apart by culture, creed and tradition.

 

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Frontera

September 5th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Michael Berry

Plot: Set in the tumultuous Border area of Arizona and Mexico, Frontera follows the events that take place after a former Arizona Sheriff’s wife (Amy Madigan) is killed while riding on their Ranch property. It would appear a Mexican man (Michael Pena) crossing in to the US illegally is at fault. As former Sheriff (Ed Harris) and current Sheriff (Aden Young) search for answers, lives are changed forever and the facts as to who is really at fault in this tragedy are nearly as tenuous and complex as the issues and tensions between the people who live in this region on either side of the line.

 

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The Green Inferno

September 5th, 2014

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 73

Language: English

Director: Eli Roth

Plot: THE GREEN INFERNO follows a group of student activists who travel from New York City to the Amazon to save a tribe from extinction. In an unfortunate twist of fate, when the group arrives, they are taken hostage by the very tribe they sought to protect.

 

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Levitated Mass

September 4th, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 115

Language: English

Director: Doug Pray

Plot: LEVITATED MASS is Doug Pray’s new documentary about a two-story tall, 340-ton, granite boulder that was moved from a quarry in Riverside to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and mounted atop the walls of a gigantic slot in the earth. The massive artwork, titled Levitated Mass, is the latest ‘land sculpture’ by one of America’s most exciting and misunderstood artists, Michael Heizer. Heizer’s sculpture references the expanse of art history — from ancient traditions of megalithic stones to modern forms of abstract geometries and cutting-edge feats of engineering.

The boulder’s 105-mile journey from quarry to museum attracted international media attention and challenged the imagination of thousands of Southern Californians over 10 nights as it crawled through 22 cities on a football-field length, 206-wheeled trailer. The film captures this spectacle while weaving together the dramatic story of the reclusive Heizer, the ambitions of a major metropolitan museum, and the public’s wild reactions to this massive display of modern yet eerily timeless conceptual art.

 

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Last Days in Vietnam

September 4th, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 135

Language: English

Director: Rory Kennedy

Plot: During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese closed in on Saigon as the South Vietnamese resistance crumbled. As Communist victory became inevitable and the U.S. readied to withdraw, some Americans began to consider the certain imprisonment and possible death of their South Vietnamese allies, co-workers and friends. With the the clock ticking and the city under fire, American officers on the ground faced a moral dilemma: follow directive from Washington to evacuate U.S. citizens and their dependents only — or break the law to save the men, women and children they had come to value and love during their years in Vietnam. At the risk of their careers and possible court-martial, a handful of individuals took matters into their own hands in a desperate effort to save as many South Vietnamese lives as possible.

 

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PAY 2 PLAY: DEMOCRACY’S HIGH STAKES

September 4th, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 91

Language: English

Director: John Wellington Ennis

Plot: Driven to make the world a better place for his newborn daughter, John Ennis looks for ways out of our system of pay-to-play politics. Along the way, he journeys through high drama on the Ohio campaign trail, uncovers the secret history of the game Monopoly, and explores the underworld of L.A. street art on a humorous odyssey that reveals how much of a difference one person can make. PAY 2 PLAY: DEMOCRACY’S HIGH STAKES is the layman’s guidebook to returning the United States government to its People.

PAY 2 PLAY features Robert Reich, Noam Chomsky, Lawrence Lessig, Jerry Springer, John Nichols, Van Jones, Marianne Williamson, Jack Abramoff, Thom Hartmann, Bob Edgar and more…

 

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Rocks in My Pockets

September 4th, 2014

Genre: Animation

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 132

Language: English

Director: Signe Baumane

Plot: In the new animated gem Rocks in My Pockets, Latvian-born artist and filmmaker Signe Baumane tells five fantastical tales based on the courageous women in her family and their battles with madness.

 

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Gringo Trails

September 3rd, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 121

Language: English

Director: Pegi Vail

Plot: Are tourists destroying the planet-or saving it? How do travelers change the remote places they visit, and how are they changed? From the Bolivian jungle to the party beaches of Thailand, and from the deserts of Timbuktu, Mali to the breathtaking beauty of Bhutan, GRINGO TRAILS traces stories over 30 years to show the dramatic long-term impact of tourism on cultures, economies, and the environment.

 

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The Little Rascals Save the Day

September 2nd, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 67

Language: English

Director: Alex Zamm

Plot: The Little Rascals are back in an all-new movie! Join the fun with Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla, Buckwheat, Petey the dog and the whole gang as they are up to their usual mischief! The Rascals try anything to raise the money needed to save their grandma’s (Doris Roberts) bakery. The only trouble is – they just can’t seem to do anything right! From botched pet washes to terrible taxi service, they can’t raise a penny. Their only hope is to win prize money from the local talent show – but have you ever heard Alfalfa sing?

 

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One Chance

August 29th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 140

Language: English

Director: David Frankel

Plot: From the director of The Devil Wears Prada, ONE CHANCE is the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night. Paul became an instant YouTube phenomenon after being chosen by Simon Cowell for ‘Britain’s Got Talent.’ Wowing audiences worldwide with his phenomenal voice, Paul went on to win ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ and the hearts of millions. Fresh from celebrating his Tony Award-winning Broadway run in ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’.

 

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The Calling

August 29th, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 155

Language: English

Director: Jason Stone

Plot: Detective Hazel Micallef hasn’t had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Fort Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a higher calling.

 

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Innocence

August 29th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 159

Language: English

Director: Hilary Brougher

Plot: Haunted by the death and dreams of her beloved mother in a Montauk surfing accident, 16 year old Beckett and her father, novelist Miles Warner, move to Manhattan and attempt to piece together their shattered life. Now enrolled at the exclusive Hamilton preparatory school, her psychosis and hallucinations intensify with the dubious suicides of current and past students as does her first love for Tobey Crawford. The discovery that her new school may be run by a coven of beautiful and seductive women who perpetuate their youth by drinking the blood of virgins becomes the ultimate challenge of Beckett and Tobey’s young lives.
INNOCENCE is a chilling allegory of the precarious state of an American teenager, explores themes of loss, the human condition and a society torn between purity and narcissism.

 

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The Damned

August 29th, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 116

Language: English

Director: Victor Garcia

Plot: The film follows American David Reynolds (Peter Facinelli), widowed from his Colombian-born wife, who flies to Bogota with his new fiancée (Sophia Myles) to retrieve his rebellious teenage daughter Jill (Nathalia Ramos). En route to the city of Medellin, a car accident leaves them stranded in a rundown isolated inn. When they discover the old innkeeper has locked a young girl in the basement, they are determined to set her free. But have they made a terrible mistake?

 

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The Last of Robin Hood

August 29th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Richard Glatzer

Plot: Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an aspiring actress, Beverly Aadland. The two had a high-flying affair that spanned the globe and was enabled by the girl’s fame-obsessed mother, Florence. It all came crashing to an end in October 1959, when events forced the relationship into the open, sparking an avalanche of publicity castigating Beverly and her mother – which only fed Florence’s need to stay in the spotlight. THE LAST OF ROBIN HOOD is a story about the desire for fame and the price it exacts.

 

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Life of Crime

August 29th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 130

Language: English

Director: Daniel Schechter

Plot: Based on Elmore Leonard’s novel “The Switch,” LIFE OF CRIME is a dark caper comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, Yasiin Bey, Will Forte, Mark Boone Junior, Isla Fisher and Tim Robbins. The wife (JENNIFER ANISTON) of a corrupt real estate developer (TIM ROBBINS) is kidnapped by two common criminals (YASLIN BEY and JOHN HAWKES), who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decides he’d actually rather not pay the ransom to get back his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and plot twists that could only come from the mind of Elmore Leonard.

 

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Jessabelle

August 29th, 2014

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Kevin Greutert

Plot: From the mastermind producer of Paranormal Activity and Insidious comes the ghostly tale of Jessabelle. Returning to her childhood home in Louisiana to recuperate from a horrific car accident, Jessabelle (Sarah Snook of Sleeping Beauty) comes face to face with a long-tormented spirit that has been seeking her return — and has no intention of letting her escape.

 

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Shadows From My Past

August 28th, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 233

Language: English

Director: Gita Kaufman

Plot: With current anti-Semitism rising across the globe, SHADOWS FROM MY PAST is a chilling personal account—and dire warning. In 1940, Gita Weinrauch Kaufman escaped from Austria with her immediate family the day they were to be deported to Dachau Concentration Camp. More than 50 years later, she returned to Vienna with her husband and co-director, Curt Kaufman, to ask the question: Is present-day Austria truly different from the country from which she fled? The filmmakers had remarkable access: survivor Simon Wiesenthal infamous former UN Secretary General, Kurt Waldheim former US Ambassador to Austria, Ronald Lauder Austrian President Heinz Fischer chancellors distinguished academics contemporary Austrians Oscar-winning film producer Eric Pleskow actor, singer Theodore Bikel and many others. However revealing these interviews are, the letters Kaufman cites, written by her family from 1939 – 1941, desperately asking for help trying to obtain visas, truly animate the shadows. For years, Austria claimed to be “the first victim” of the Germans, despite the number of Austrians among top Nazi leadership, including Hitler and Eichmann. On this, the 76th Anniversary of the Anschluss, SHADOWS FROM MY PAST creates a collage of evidence that Austria is coming to terms with its own dark past. As former Chancellor Franz Vranitzky states in his apology to Israel, “We must tell the truth to our children and the world….We do not want to disguise that any longer.”

 

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November Man

August 27th, 2014

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 79

Language: English

Director: Roger Donaldson

Plot: Code named ‘The November Man’, Peter Devereaux (Pierce Brosnan) is a lethal and highly trained ex-CIA agent, who has been enjoying a quiet life in Switzerland. When Devereaux is lured out of retirement for one last mission, he must protect valuable witness, Alice Fournier, (Olga Kurylenko). He soon uncovers this assignment marks him a target of his former friend and CIA protégé David Mason (Luke Bracey). With growing suspicions of a mole in the agency, there is no one Devereaux can trust, no rules and no holds barred.

 

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Isolated

August 27th, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 103

Language: English

Director: Justin Lepera

Plot: A group of feral surfers and modern day explorers embark on a journey to search for one of the world’s last undiscovered waves in the journalist dead zone island of New Guinea. Their adventure becomes all too real as they encounter real life cannibals, discover human rights atrocities and expose an unethical mining corporation. This unique, visually stunning film craves an international spotlight as it brings to light one of the world’s least documented places on earth. Isolated features never before seen footage of a ancient aboriginal culture as well as one of the most epic wave discoveries of the past 20 years. Already being lauded as Endless Summer meets The Cove, the film is guaranteed to cause international controversy and hopefully spark the change to save lives.

 

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Here Comes the Night

August 26th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 122

Language: English

Director: Pete Shanel

Plot: Leo and Nick, college friends now estranged, meet again after the funeral of their friend James. Seemingly polar opposites, straight laced east-coast family man Leo and flakey would-be Hollywood movie producer Nick embark on a series of outrageous nocturnal adventures. With a knowing nod to the worst of L.A. stereotypes, Nick pulls Leo along on what becomes an homage to debauchery. Ably assisted by Trish and Claire, a pair of drug-loving young beauties they meet along the way and hook up with for a while, Leo and Nick’s journey is both poignant and hilarious. With a wealth of unexpected and thoroughly engaging plot twists and turns, this is one of those rare films that strikes just the right balance between comedy and pathos. Pitch perfect casting, snappy dialogue, sly observations, seamless editing and an evocative score make this a “must see” movie. Sweet, gentle, hilarious and thought provoking. -Barbara Pokras A.C.E(Film Reviewer – Woodstock Film Festival)

 

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