Starred Up (Mackenzie, 2013)
The words "violent" or "gritty" and "prison drama" give me pause when used in the same sentence.
Category: Disclosure–DVDS
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Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance vs. Judas Priest (Taylor, 1992)
Dream Deceivers stops short of insisting on an explicit connection between Mrs. Vance's religion and her willingness to blame heavy metal music for her family's dysfunction. But only just.
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The Maid’s Room (Walker, 2013)
Despite the many second act flaws, the film is not without merit. The opening act is very strong, the four leads dig into their characters with relish, and Arturo Rogriguez composed an effective, atmospheric score.
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Levitated Mass (Pray, 2013)
Levitated Mass is one of those delightful, obscure but unheralded documentaries that always seems to congregate around my the bottom of my list of annual favorites.
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Wet Behind the Ears (Copeland, 2013)
Like its protagonist, Wet Behind the Ears is unpolished but still willing to work for our approval. The characters do acknowledge how difficult it is to be (young and) unemployed, but the film doesn't wrap those acknowledgements in a most-put-upon-generation entitlement blanket.
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Heaven is for Real
1More Film Blog is giving away a free DVD of Heaven is For Real to one lucky reader.
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Cannibal (Cuenca, 2013)
Much as with George Sluizer's The Vanishing--another horrific film that I can't quite understand why anyone esteems--I find that Cannibal's stylish beauty doubles rather than mitigates the repulsion I feel at the film's lack of humanity. If you aren't going to tell me anything true, at least don't try to trick me into thinking it's not ugly.
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Honour (Khan, 2014)
The United Nations estimated in 2000 that there are approximately 5,000 honor killings each year. Can a movie adequately address the horror of knowing your family wants you dead?
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Persecuted (Lusko 2014)
While the opening ten minutes of the film certainly bring to light the great questions facing Americans as to religious orientation, the following eighty are little more than the typical action thriller.
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I’ll Follow You Down (Mehta, 2013)
Richie Mehta's Siddharth has been the film that I have admired the most in an overall lackluster 2014. So when I found out that he wrote and directed I'll Follow You Down, a sci-fi drama with many similar themes as its less commercial counterpart, I was anxious to see it.