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- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay GrinkoThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.May 4
5/5 - DirectorSam PillsburyStarsNicolas CageErika AndersonJudge ReinholdThierry's wife Zandalee married the poet he once was. Taking over his dad's company in New Orleans gives him stress and impotence. Thierry meets his high school buddy Johnny at a bachelor party. The painter Johnny can satisfy Zandalee.May 24
1/5 - DirectorUwe BollStarsKristanna LokenBen KingsleyMichelle RodriguezIn the eighteenth century, a vampire escapes from the freak show, in which she once participated, and teams up with a group of vampire slayers to kill the man who raped her mother.June 14
1/5 - DirectorPete TravisStarsKarl UrbanOlivia ThirlbyLena HeadeyIn a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.June 20
3/5 - DirectorTerrence MalickStarsAugust DiehlValerie PachnerMaria SimonThe Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.July 1
5/5 - DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsLubna AzabalMélissa Désormeaux-PoulinMaxim GaudetteTwins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.July 2
Like watching a snake eat its own tail.
5/5 - DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartWalter HustonTim HoltTwo down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.July 3
What's important is to hold onto your sombrero at all times.
5/5 - DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartMary AstorGladys GeorgeSan Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.July 4
Copycats may be aplenty, but there's only one Maltese Falcon.
5/5 - DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonTony RobertsAlvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.July 5
No matter how well the film is made, I can't help feeling that I just watched someone beat their meat for 93 minutes, but if I said that aloud I would be considered antisemitic.
3/5 - DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsHenrik MalbergEmil Hass ChristensenPreben Lerdorff RyeFollows the lives of the Borgen family, as they deal with inner conflict, as well as religious conflict with each other, and the rest of the town.July 6
What is told in paintings can not be summed up by words.
5/5 - DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsJean-Louis TrintignantKlaus KinskiFrank WolffA mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.July 8
As aesthetically pleasing as a grumpy essay on criminal law can be.
4/5 - DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsWarren OatesIsela VegaRobert WebberAn American barroom pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect the bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.July 9
A lyrical yarn of revenge that stinks like the loo and has more blood on its hands than a butcher.
5/5 - DirectorElia SuleimanStarsMenashe NoyElia SuleimanBaher AgbariyaAn examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.July 11
I would have never even imagined that I would get my long overdue dose of Tati from a notably touchy and politically charged subject.
5/5 - DirectorMaurizio LucidiStarsRoger MooreStacy KeachIvo GarraniA Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.July 12
The film forgot it had an audience to tell the story to although for a while it had me thinking it might be intentional because the director is Italian.
2/5 - DirectorFrederick De CordovaStarsRonald ReaganDiana LynnWalter SlezakA college professor attempts to salvage his personal and professional reputation by using a laboratory chimpanzee to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.July 13
So faithful to the run-of-the-mill tropes of its time that it becomes unintentionally creepy given its quirky scenario.
2/5 - DirectorRichard LowryStarsChristopher AllamonRichard BabcockJack BallIn this film in which the cast is comprised entirely of kids, Hawk Jones is one cop fighting against a city full of criminals. Now reluctantly working with a new partner, he vows to rid the city of a crime syndicate run by Antonio Copolla.July 13
A respectably well-crafted and curiously distasteful ride that is powered by nothing but novelty value.
3/5 - DirectorJames WanStarsAnnabelle WallisMaddie HassonGeorge YoungMadison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities.July 14
When you have a twist so silly that it breaks the entire film no matter how you try to view it yet it still deserves recognition.
3/5 - DirectorHal NeedhamStarsBurt ReynoldsSally FieldJerry ReedThe Bandit is hired on to run a tractor-trailer full of beer over state lines, in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.July 14
What else do you need when you have a diabolically evil sheriff and heroes with a delightful disdain for common sense?
4/5 - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHarrison FordCate BlanchettShia LaBeoufSet in 1957, it pits Indiana Jones against Soviet KGB agents led by Irina Spalko searching for a telepathic crystal skull located in Peru.July 14
Less a directed film than a produced film, mixed with some acid.
3/5 - DirectorKevin LewisStarsNicolas CageEmily TostaBeth GrantA quiet drifter is tricked into a janitorial job at the now condemned Willy's Wonderland. The mundane tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for survival against wave after wave of demonic animatronics. Fists fly, kicks land, titans clash -- and only one side will make it out alive.July 15
Willy's Wonderland is the guy who, while telling a joke, laughs so much that he can't even finish it.
2/5 - DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsKris KristoffersonAli MacGrawErnest BorgnineTruckers form a mile-long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff - Based on the country song of the same title by C.W. McCall.July 15
Not quite the happy-go-lucky twin brother or the contemplative other side of the coin of Smokey and the Bandit, it keeps hanging embarrassingly somewhere between the two.
3/5 - DirectorKazuhiko YamaguchiStarsYasushi YokoyamaNorio NishikawaMari ShiratoAugust 14
Although the film never gets tired of awkward adult humor and ridiculous action scenes it is actually even more entertaining when it tries to lay down a serious moral lesson that is entirely incomprehensible, which has nothing to do with a cultural barrier.
2/5 - DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerSharon StoneMichael IronsideWhen a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?August 18
The one in which Schwarzenegger screams even more than he beats people.
4/5 - DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJohnny DeppBenicio Del ToroTobey MaguireAn oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.August 26
The more I learn about the 70's in the US, the more I have begun to feel that this is the most accurate portrayal of the time period.
5/5 - DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsKurt RussellKim CattrallDennis DunA rough-and-tumble trucker and his sidekick face off with an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown.September 1
Or How I Learned to Stop Questioning and Love China
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