A decidedly off-balance historical character study, Becket concerns the friendship between Thomas Becket and King Henry II. Taking place within 100 years of the Battle of Hastings, and the conquering of the lowly Saxons by the haughty Normans, the film does not shy from showing the utter corruption that permeates the halls of power. Here, […]
Becket (1964)

Film Title
BecketSynopsis
King Henry’s best buddy becomes too cozy with God after the King appoints him to a high Church position.
Director
Peter GlenvilleCast
Peter O'Toole
Richard Burton
John Gielgud
Donald Wolfit
David Weston
Pamela Brown
(Un Conte de Nol) A Christmas Tale (2008)

Film Title
(Un Conte de Nol) A Christmas Tale (2008)Synopsis
The need for a bone marrow transplant unites a family just in time for Christmas
Director
Arnaud DesplechinCast
Catherine Deneuve
Jean-Paul Roussillin
Anne Consigny
Emile Berling
Mathieu Amalric
Melvil Poupaud
In A Christmas Tale, the family deals with their defeats with sublime acquiescence, as though marching to the guillotine with a bottle of vodka in hand.
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
It would be all too easy to attack the immense (and at times immensely shitty) catalog of Cannon Films and the insane Menachem Golan and Yoram Globus overlords who brought it all to fruition. They built a studio out of almost nothing, and began forcing into existence a fuckton of movies with nothing more than […]
Chappie Die Antwoord

Film Title
ChappieSynopsis
Die Antwoord Die Antwoord Die Antwoord Die Antwoord.
Director
Neill BlomkampCast
Sharlto Copley
Dev Patel
Deon Wilson
Yo-Landi Visser
Jose Pablo Cantillo
Hugh Jackman
Sigourney Weaver
Ninja was thrown off set for sending dick pics.
A Most Wanted Man Review

Film Title
A Most Wanted ManSynopsis
A Most Wanted Man Review: Le Carre moves into the war on terror and maintains quality.
Director
Anton CorbijnCast
Grigoriy Dobrygin: Issa Karpov
Philip Seymour Hoffman: Günther Bachmann
Homayoun Ershadi: Abdullah
Mehdi Dehbi: Jamal
None of us really get to know whether anything we do is worth a damn to the world as a whole, or even to those we care about
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
Maybe I am taking a movie about monkeys riding horses too seriously, but even the original Planet of the Apes was pretty silly. The subtext was…
2 Guns: A Movie About 2 Guns
Well, yes, the title characters each carry a gun, and so there are 2 guns total carried by the protagonists. Or you could go with the figurative gun, in which case…