Month: December 2015

The Film Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac), a businessman in New York City 1981. An immigrant who is fighting to protect his family and his business. And we see his story during the most dangerous year of this city’s history. In essence, A Most Violent Year. Abel is trying very hard to do everything honestly, building… Continue reading A Most Violent Year (DVD): Review

The Film Pressure, a word with so many meanings, and many of those are aptly portrayed in this story of a group of men trapped in a submersible pod, deep down on the sea bed. Sent to repair an oil pipeline, they become separated from the surface ship, as a storm hits, and now must… Continue reading Pressure (DVD): Review

The Film Stretch (Patrick Wilson), a limo driver who has fallen on bad times, and indebted to the wrong people. Struggling to turn his life around, come clean, pay off his bookie, he battles to actually live up to his potential. With bookies breathing down his neck, he takes on a crazed passenger in a bid… Continue reading Stretch (DVD): Review

The Film The Riot Club, an infamous group of ten students at Oxford University. A club that has existed through the history of the establishment, steeped in tradition, and debauchery. Two first year students are drawn into this elitist group, and shortly after their destructive initiation, the group sets off on their club dinner’ It… Continue reading The Riot Club (DVD): Review

The Film Everly (Salma Hayek), a prostitute working for criminal overlord Taiko (Kiroyuki Watanabe) . She has been attacked in her apartment by Taiko’s enforcers after he finds that she has been working with the police to bring down his organisation. While Taiko would have expected his men to easily be rid of Everly, things… Continue reading Everly (DVD): Review