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Surveillance
Editor's rating: 
 6.0


What: Film Review
Directed by: Jennifer Lynch
Written by: Jennifer Lynch, Kent Harper
Starring: Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Ryan Simpkins, Pell James, French Stewart, Kent Harper
Running Time (in minutes): 97 mins.
Language: English
Rated: R
Rated by: Andy Sandoval
Director Jennifer Lynch (Boxing Helena) returns to the big screen after sixteen years with the thriller Surveillance, her second feature film.  While it is flawed and oftentimes silly, the delivery of this film's terror hits hard, usually with a scream or a splatter.      Bill Pulman and Julia Ormond (The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button) play two FBI agents whose case is a string of serial killings.  Concurrently, a horrible accident has just occured involving two sadistic and larcenous cops, an All-American family on a road trip, a doped-up pair of twentysomethings, and a van with a corpse behind the wheel.  Via closed circuit TV, agent Hallaway (Pullman) watches three survivors tell their version of what happened.  His oversight in the case borders on fetishistic fascination, and... READ MORE >>>

Downloading Nancy
Editor's rating: 
 7.0


What: Film Review
Directed by: Johan Renck
Written by: Pamela Cuming, Lee Ross
Starring: Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell, Amy Brenneman
Running Time (in minutes): 102 mins.
Language: English
Rated: R
Rated by: Kevin Ronwood
Downloading Nancy is the feature directing debut of Swedish director Johan Renck who also directed an episode of AMC's Breaking Bad.  Since B.B. is one of my current favorites on television, I really had high hopes for this film.      This dark and tragic film follows a desperate and alone woman (Maria Bello) who meets a man over the internet (jason Patric) to not only kill her, but kill her in such a sadistic way that she will get off on it.  But as the two spend time together, the man slowly discovers that Nancy is his soul mate.  At the heart of the film, a dark love story emerges. Nancy's husband (Rufus Sewell) is clueless to her self-inflicted pain habits and he becomes suspicious after she... READ MORE >>>

The Stoning Of Soraya M.
Editor's rating: 
 8.0


What: Film Review
Directed by: Cyrus Nowrasteh
Written by: Besty Giffen Nowrasteh, Cyrus Nowrasteh
Produced by: Stephen McEveety, John Shepherd
Based on the Novel by: Freidoune Sahebjam
Starring: Shoreh Agdashloo, Mozhan Marno, Jim Caviezel, Navid Nagehban, Parviz Sayyad
Running Time (in minutes): 116 mins.
Language: Farsi (w/English subtitles)
Rated: R
Rated by: Kevin Robinson
How do those expressions go?  "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"?  "Let he without sin cast the first stone"?  Well, those time worn phrases along with many other thoughts and ideas will come to mind if you watch The Stoning Of Soraya M.  And you should.      Based on the best seller of the same name by author Freidoune Sahebjam, The Stoning Of Soraya M. tells the tragic story of a young wife and mother accused by her husband of marital transgressions in 1980's rural Iran.  Co-writers Betsy and Cyrus Nowrasteh (who also directed) adapted screenplay unfolds a heart-wrenching tale of what happens when religion, mob rule, and oppression become insurmountable forces.     As told through the eyes of her Aunt Zahra (superbly... READ MORE >>>

Whatever Works
Editor's rating: 
 7.0


What: Film Review
Directed by: Woody Allen
Written by: Woody Allen
Produced by: Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenebaum
Starring: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Ed Begley, Jr.
Running Time (in minutes): 92 mins.
Language: English
Rated: R
Rated by: Oktay Ege Kozak
Whatever Works celebrates Woody Allen's return to his New York roots after his extended road trip to Europe.  For those of you who are fans of the "New European" Woody, complete with a sultry Scarlett Johansson engaging in steamy love scenes in the countryside, you are advised to stay away.      This film is old school, bitter, cynical, neurotic-to-the-core Woody.  It's Annie Hall, Manhattan, Woody.  Entire sequences presented on a single, static, wide shot, fixated on a group of middle-aged, upper-class intellectuals who banter on about the meaninglessness of their lives.  There are constant, unapologetic jabs at modern society, government and above all, religion.  His love of jazz.  His fear of death.    It even has the main character, a hopeless misanthrope chess teacher named Boris Yellnikoff... READ MORE >>>

Moon
Editor's rating: 
 7.0


What: Film Review
Directed by: Duncan Jones
Written by: Nathan Parker, Duncan Jones
Produced by: Trudy Styler, Stuart Fenegan
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey(voice), Kaya Scodelario
Running Time (in minutes): 97 mins.
Language: English
Rated: R
Rated by: Karen Aziz
     In "Moon", set sometime in the near future, a non-toxic substance called Helium 3 has been discovered on the Moon that can provide a cheap source of energy for Earth.  The Lunar Company sets up a station on the Moon to extract this material and send it back to Earth.  The company uses one person, Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) to do this job, plus a talking computer named Gerty (voice of Kevin Spacey), who sounds eerily like HAL from "2001", but with a touch more personality.  All Sam has to do is collect the mined He3 and send it back to Earth.  He is nearing the end of his three-year contract when puzzling events begin to occur, leading him to a realization of the... READ MORE >>>

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  • 'Transformers,' 'Ice Age' battle for top
    Film News: 'Public Enemies' takes $6.6 million from 3,319 -- Paramount's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and Twentieth Century Fox's 3-D toon "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" ended Thursday in a photo finish at the domestic box office, with "Transformers 2" narrowly winning.
  • Digital Domain loses termination suit
    Film News: 'Button' f/x company to pay $2 mil in damages -- In a verdict handed down Thursday evening in Malibu, Christian Bradley "Brad" Call has won his wrongful termination suit against visual effects shop Digital Domain and has been awarded just under $2 million in damages.
  • Nimrod Antal to direct 'Predators'
    Film News: Project scheduled for 2010 release -- Fox has tapped Nimrod Antal ("Vacancy") to direct "Predators" for producer Robert Rodriguez through his Troublemaker Studios.
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  • Japan's Gonzo to delist, downsize
    International News: Animation co.'s debts have exceeded its assets -- Japanese toon house Gonzo will delist from the Mothers section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on July 30.
  • Euro Commisssion OKs French rebate
    International News: Hollywood tax incentives to commence in fall -- The European Commission signed off Thursday on France's tax rebates for foreign shoots -- meaning the rebates will likely be available in the fall.
  • Hulu plans September bow in U.K.
    International News: Company may ask U.K. firms to take stake -- Online video service Hulu plans to bow in the U.K. in September and is close to reaching content deals with local broadcasters.
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