The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)

The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)

[7] The Place Beyond the Pines, from writer/director Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine), is a family epic of sorts. The first third of the film follows a low-life motorcycle showman, played by Ryan Gosling, who turns to crime to try and provide for…
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)

[7] J.J. Abrams (Lost, Super 8) takes the directing reigns from creator George Lucas and delivers a better film than any of the prequels. Original core cast members join new players in a script co-written by Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan, who penned…
Krampus (2015)

Krampus (2015)

[7] Writer/director Michael Dougherty (Trick 'r Treat) returns to holiday horror with Krampus, starring Adam Scott and Toni Collette as the hosts of a Christmas family gathering that goes terribly awry when everyone's lack of Christmas spirit spurs a visit from the…
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

[7] Martin Scorsese remakes Casino, only instead of the Las Vegas gambling backdrop, we now have the shady thievery of Wall Street. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jordan Belfort in this true story of Belfort's rise to highly successful stock-broker and his fall…
Rush (2013)

Rush (2013)

[5] Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl star as real-life race car drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, who became world-famous adversaries in the 1970s. Ron Howard (Apollo 13, Backdraft) directs from a script by Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon), so I was…
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)

[7] This documentary tells the story of how two very successful Israeli filmmakers came to Hollywood and shook things up for a while in the '80s. While neither Menahem Golan nor Yoram Globus are interviewed, their personalities come across in archival footage…
Frozen (2010)

Frozen (2010)

[7] Emma Bell (Final Destination 5), Shawn Ashmore (X2: X-Men United), and Kevin Zegers (Wrong Turn) star in this claustrophobic thriller about three friends stranded on a ski-lift. Writer/director Adam Green (Hatchet, Holliston) winds the tension nicely, introducing wolves, frostbite, and paranoia…
Love (2015)

Love (2015)

[4] Writer/director Gaspar Noé (Irreversible, Enter the Void) serves up the tale of Murphy (Karl Glusman), an American man in Paris whose life is turned upside down and inside out after he has sex with two different women, decides he loves only…
Bernie (2011)

Bernie (2011)

[7] Jack Black stars in this quirky comedy about a beloved Texan mortician who begins a relationship with one of the town's wealthiest widows and becomes prime suspect in her murder. Writer/director Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Dazed and Confused) adapts from a true…
Crimson Peak (2015)

Crimson Peak (2015)

[8] Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) serves up an old-fashioned gothic romance the likes of which we haven't seen on the big screen since Roger Corman last dabbled with tales from Edgar Allen Poe. Heavily inspired by the Bronte sisters…