Don't drink the Kool-Aid: how anticipation has murdered reflection

New Release Review - Men In Black 3

Directed by: Barry Sonnenfield

Starring: Will Smith, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Emma Thompson, Jemaine Clement, Alice Eve

Smith travels back in time to 1969 to stop an escaped alien convict, Clement, from assassinating a young Jones, played by Brolin.

New Release Review - Moonrise Kingdom

Directed by: Wes Anderson

Starring: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman

Adolescents Gilman and Hayward flee from their New England town, pursued by local sheriff Willis and scout leader Norton.

Minnelli May - The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse (1962)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J Cobb, Paul Lukas, Yvette Mimieux, Karl Boehm, Paul Henreid

Ford, an Argentine playboy living in WWII Paris, embarks on an affair with Thulin and becomes a spy for the French resistance.

New Release Review - Sleepless Night

Directed by: Frédéric Jardin

Starring: Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier, Joey Starr, Lizzie Brocheré

A crooked cop (Sisley) attempts to retrieve his kidnapped son who is being held in a vast Parisian nightclub by gangster Riaboukine.

New Release Review - Two Days In New York

Directed by: Julie Delpy

Starring: Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, Albert Delpy, Kate Burton, Dylan Baker, Daniel Bruhl, Alexia Landeau, Alex Nahon

French photographer Delpy is living with her new boyfriend (Rock) when her father (Albert Delpy), sister (Landeau), and sister's friend (Nahon) come to visit her new home in New York.

Minnelli May - The Cobweb (1955)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish, Fay Wray, Oscar Levant, John Kerr, Susan Strasberg

The issue of new drapes stirs up tension in a psychiatric clinic.

New Release Review - The Raid: Redemption

Directed by: Gareth Evans

Starring: Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy

A SWAT team's attempt to storm a druglord's tower block goes horribly wrong as they battle with it's residents.

New Release Review - Get The Gringo aka How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Directed by: Adrian Grunberg

Starring: Mel Gibson, Peter Stormare, Dean Norris, Kevin Hernandez

An American criminal struggles to survive in a huge open air Mexican prison facility.

New Release Review - Jeff Who Lives At Home

Directed by: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass

Starring: Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Judy Greer, Judy Greer, Rae Dawn Chong

Two bickering brothers(Segel and Helms) are united in their investigation of Helms' wife's infidelity.

New Release Review - Charlie Casanova

Directed by: Terry McMahon 

Starring: Emmett Scanlan, Leigh Arnold, Valeria Bandino

A ruling class sociopath kills a working class girl in a hit and run and uses a deck of playing cards to determine his fate.

New Release Review - Piranha 3DD

Directed by: John Gulager

Starring: Danielle Panabaker, Ving Rhames, David Hasselhoff, Christopher Lloyd, Gary Busey, Chris Zylka

The killer fish from "Piranha 3D" make their way to a newly opened waterpark looking for fresh blood.

Minnelli May - The Bad And The Beautiful (1952)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Leo G. Carroll, Gilbert Roland, Elaine Stewart, Ivan Triesault

An actress (Turner), writer (Powell), and director (Sullivan) recount their experiences working with ruthless producer Douglas.

Minnelli May - Brigadoon (1954)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Van Johnson, Barry Jones, Elaine Stewart

American tourists Kelly and Johnson stumble across the remote village of Brigadoon in the Scottish wilds, a place that only appears every hundred years. Falling for local girl Charisse, Kelly faces a choice, return to New York or disappear in time with the village.

Minnelli May - Undercurrent (1946)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Katherine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Jayne Meadows

Hepburn begins to suspect her husband, Taylor, has murdered his missing brother, Mitchum, and plans to dispatch her next.

New Release Review - Silent House

Directed by: Chris Kentis, Laura Lau

Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens

Olsen finds herself trapped in her family's lakeside retreat with strangers who seem to have attacked her father in this remake of the Uruguayan thriller "La Casa Muda".

Minnelli May - An American In Paris (1951)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Nina Foch, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary

Struggling expat American painter Kelly falls for up and coming French dancer Caron, the girlfriend of his friend Guétary.

Pre-Code Retrospective - The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

Directed by: Irving Pichel & Ernest B. Schoedsack

Starring: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong

Shipwrecked on a remote island, McCrea and Wray find themselves the prey in an elaborate hunt run by the island's resident psycho, Russian Count Banks.

Great Movie Posters - Vincente Minnelli

Minnelli May - The Band Wagon (1953)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, James Mitchell 

Astaire is a faded Hollywood star who returns to New York to reignite his broadway career.