The ten best movies of 1973
New Release Review - Brave
Directed by: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell
Starring: Kelly MacDonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, Craig Ferguson
New Release Review - Chernobyl Diaries
Directed by: Bradley Parker
Starring: Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Dudley, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Dimitri Diatchenko, Devin Kelley, Nathan Phillips
New Release Review - Lay The Favorite
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joshua Jackson, Laura Prepon, Frank Grillo, Joel Murray, John Carroll Lynch, Corbin Bernsen
Former stripper Hall becomes involved in the world of Las Vegas bookmakers.
New Release Review - The Five Year Engagement
Directed by: Nicholas Stoller
Starring: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie, David Paymer, Mimi Kennedy, Dakota Johnson
Segel and Blunt's plans to get hitched are repeatedly put on hold as their relationship stagnates.
New Release Review - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov
Starring: Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Cooper, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Anthony Mackie, Erin Wasson, Jimmi SimpsonAmerica's most famous president is re-imagined as a hunter of blood-suckers.
Retro Review - Jaws (1975)
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Murray Hamilton, Lorraine Gary
A great white shark terrorises the resort island of Amity.
New Release Review - Bad Blood: The Hatfields & McCoys
Directed by: Fred Olen Ray
Starring: Jeff Fahey, Priscilla Barnes, Christian Slater, Perry King, Tim Abell, Sean Flynn, Kassandra Clementi
Low-budget telling of the legendary feud between the clans Hatfield and McCoy.
New Release Review - Red Lights
Directed by: Rodrigo Cortes
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy, Toby Jones, Elizabeth Olsen, Joely Richardson
Skeptic investigators Weaver and Murphy focus their attention on exposing celebrity faith healer De Niro but evidence mounts that he may not be the fraud they believe him to be.
New Release Review - Cosmopolis
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric, Jay Baruchel, Samantha Morton, Paul Giamatti
Billionaire Pattinson insists on being driven across a nightmarish Manhattan to receive a haircut from his regular barber.
1975 - The Year I Made Contact
The year I was born, 1975, was arguably the greatest year in cinema history, fitting then I turned out to be so obsessed with the medium. Here are my ten favorite movies from that great year.
New Release Review - Dawn Rider
Directed by: Terry Miles
Starring: Christian Slater, Jill Hennessy, Donald Sutherland, Lochlyn Munro, G Michael Gray
Former outlaw Slater returns to his home town to find it under siege by a gang of masked bandits. Unbeknownst to Slater, his friend Munro is said gang's leader and responsible for the murder of his father.
New Release Review - The Pact
Directed by: Nicholas McCarthy
Starring: Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, Agnes Bruckner
Lotz returns to her childhood home for her mother's funeral only to encounter a supernatural presence which may be responsible for the disappearance of her sister and friend.
New Release Review - Prometheus
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean Harris, Rafe Spall, Kate Dickie, Benedict Wong
An exploratory team sets off into space in 2093 to investigate Rapace's theory that mankind was created by an alien race.
Pre-Code Retrospective - A Free Soul (1931)
Directed by: Clarence Brown
Starring: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, James Gleason, Lucy Beaumont
Alcoholic lawyer Barrymore gets mobster Gable off a murder charge but is none too happy when his daughter Shearer becomes romantically involved with him.
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