Firestarter

Firestarter

A young girl with the telekinetic ability to start fires goes on the run with her father in Firestarter. When they were younger, Andy McGee (Zac Efron) and his wife Vicky (Sydney Lemmon) were subjects of a drug trial conducted by Dr. Joseph Wanless (Kurtwood Smith), which gave them telepathic and telekinetic abilities respectively. These…

Judas and the Black Messiah

Judas and the Black Messiah

A petty criminal in sent by the FBI to infiltrate the Black Panther Party in Judas and the Black Messiah. William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield) is a small-time criminal, who is caught attempting to hijack a car while pretending to be a federal officer. FBI Special Agent Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons) approaches William and offers to drop…

The Girl Down Loch Änzi

The Girl Down Loch Änzi

A Swiss farm girl is curious to learn the truth about a local legend in The Girl Down Loch Änzi. Laura is a 12 year old girl, who lives with her family of a charcoal burners on a farm in the Swiss mountains. Laura has becomes obsessed with the local legend of the Änziloch Maiden, who…

The Double

The Double

British comedian Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) follows up his directorial debut Submarine with this highly surreal and stylized adaptation of the famous Dostoevsky novella. The Double focuses on Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg), a meek man, who lives a really unnoticeable existence.  His boss Mr. Papadopoulos (Wallace Shawn) fails to realize that Simon has been…

The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man

If nothing else, The Amazing Spider-Man can be seen as an experiment about how responsive an audience would be towards a reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, only five years after the last film (and a decade after the first film).  Those in the know are aware to the fact that this film was created as a way…