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When Nicole Barlow goes to her newly deceased mother's house to make final preparations for her funeral, she makes a Skype call to her daughter from the seemingly empty house. "What's that behind you?" her daughter asks. Several days later, Annie Barlow comes looking for her sister. Produced on a shoestring budget, The Pact is an expansion of Director Nicholas McCarthy's short film that drew screams at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The story doesn't completely hold up in the final act, but the film is anchored by an appealing Caity Lotz and McCarthy's excellent direction keeps the tension high.

Before Nicole's disappearance, Annie (Lotz) planned on skipping the funeral, as the girls' mother made their childhoods miserable. A...Read the entire review

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Martin is a quiet Frenchman who gets a devastating phone call telling him that his mother has died. In shock, or more of a 'walking shock,' he tells his girlfriend Claire (Chiara Mastroianni) that he has to leave and see to his mother's affairs. Martin stops by his estranged father's place to tell him about the death, which he quickly states that Martin should be the one to travel to Los Angeles to settle her estate. Linda (Geraldine Chaplin), a close friend of Martin's mother will meet him in Los Angeles.

When Martin arrives in Los Angeles the memories of his mother and his childhood hit him like a ton of bricks. Martin loved his mother, but his mother was a bit of a free spirit who did her own thing and sort neglected him at various times. As we see Martin walking the old neighborhood of Venice, we're taken back to his childhood via flashbacks that piece together the days of h...Read the entire review

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Written and directed by James Felix McKenney, 2009's Hypothermia is an odd one. The film is played completely straight but populated by a monster so ridiculous looking that you have to wonder if it's going for Creature From The Black Lagoon mood and suspense or Zaat! level camp homage. It doesn't really end up doing either of those perfectly, but the film is not without merits and monster movie buffs might get a kick out of it.

When the movie begins we meet Ray Pelletier (Michael Rooker) and his wife Helen (Blanche Baker) who, with their medical student son David (Benjamin Foster) and his lovely girlfriend Gina (Amy Chang), head out to the sticks to enjoy some relaxing time ice fishing. Once they get there, the anticipated peace and tranquility turns sour in the form of an obnoxious city slicker type named Steve Cote (Don Wood) and his son, Stevie J...Read the entire review

Jane Fonda playing a grandmother? Having watched mostly her older films like Barbarella and Fun With Dick & Jane in recent years, it's a bit of a shock to see her as an "old person" in Peace, Love and Misunderstanding.

This is the latest film from director Bruce Beresford. It features Catherine Keener as Diane, a lawyer in New York with a husband named Mark (Kyle MacLachlan, who appears in only a few scenes) and two teenage kids, Zoe and Jake (Elizabeth Olsen, younger sister of the famous Olsen Twins, and Nat Wolff of Naked Brothers Band fame and bearing a strong resemblance to Christopher Knight's Peter Brady from The Brady Bunch.)

Shortly after the film begins, Mark tells Diane that he wants a divorce. Diane deci...Read the entire review

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Who'd a thunk my first taste of Argentine horror would be so damn delicious? Penumbra is smart and sneaky with a sly sense of humor that warms my heart. In short, it has everything I look for in a horror movie but seldom find.

After an ominous opening, we meet Marga (Cristina Brondo) who happens to be a very busy lady. She's got places to be and people to lord over (she's a nasty piece of work but more on that later). Having been dragged away from her home in Barcelona, she finds herself in Buenos Aires trying to rent out an old family property that has fallen into disrepair. Much to her surprise, the local realtor (Berta Mu iz) who was supposed to work with her, claims to have found a client who is willing to pay many times Marga's asking price. The only catch is that the client simply must move into the apartment that very same day. Incidentally, a tota...Read the entire review

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The tale of the good man driven by desperate circumstances into a life of crime is one that's been told almost as often as that of the colorful bank robber who becomes a national folk hero, so a more jaded filmgoer might conclude that you're getting two overdone movies for the price of one with Nathan Morlando's Citizen Gangster. But to dismiss the film based on its logline would be a mistake--Morlando may be telling you a story you've heard, but he tells it as though he doesn't know that. Set under the perpetually overcast skies of post-war Canada, Citizen Gangster is less about the crimes than it is about the criminal, less interested in the thrill of theft than about what's going through the head of the man holding the gun. Morlando may not break any new ground here, but he spins the familiar yarn into something fresh and urgent.

Edwin Boyd (a mustachio...Read the entire review

Theplotof My Sucky Teen Romance is fairly simplebut it is effective and creatively plotted from beginning to end. Acouple ofteenagers go to the annual SpaceCON; a convention that essentiallyexists toplease geeks. The girls mainly seem to go to meet some boys. However,leadingheroine Kate (ElaineHurtRead the entire review

The Movie:

The Heineken Kidnapping certainly wears the event on its sleeve, but in the fictionalized re-telling of the actual event, we're given some additional insight into the worlds of the rich and poor and how they play against each other. Alfred "Freddie" Heineken (Rutger Hauer) has been running the family's beer company for the past fifty years. The brand had yet to become popular outside of Europe, but even so, Heineken was still very well off. Heineken was able to indulge in a mistress, but still maintain, for appearance sake, a "normal" family life. He was a very private man who never had an entourage or traveled with a security detail.

The hooligans that conspire to kidnap the wealthy beer magnate cannot say the same. Initially the group works on their own taking down easy enough capers, but when Rem (Reinout Scholten van Aschat) who has an ulterior motive comes up with ...Read the entire review