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Directed By: Benjamin Barfoot
Written By: Danny Morgan
Cinematography: Laura Bellingham
Editor: Benjamin Barfoot & Jim Page
Cast: Danny Morgan, Michael Socha, Georgia Groome, Kelly Wenham, Dougie Poynter, Benny Bereal, Dexter Fletcher, Liz Kingsman
A man can’t speak to ladies. His friend makes things happen but with 2 man-killing sisters looking for a virgin man to sacrifice to bring daddy back from the dead.
Directed By: Tyler MacIntyre
Written By: Chris Lee Hill & Tyler MacIntyre
Based on an Original Screenplay By: Justin Olson
Cinematography By: Pawel Pogorzelski
Editor: Martin Pensa Continue reading “TRAGEDY GIRLS (2017)”
Directed by: Greg McLean
Written By: James Gunn
Cinematography by: Luis David Sansas
Edited By; Julia Wong
Cast: John Gallagher Jr., Adria Arjona, Tony Goldwyn, John C McGinley, Melonie Diaz, Sean Gunn, Owain Yeoman, Josh Brenner, Michael Rooker, Abraham Benrubi, Brent Sexton, Gregg Henry, Rusty Schwimmer, James Earl
In a twisted social experiment, eighty Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company’s intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.
Directed By: Joe Lynch
Written By: Matias Caruso
Cinematography By: Steve Gainer
Editor: Josh Ethier
Cast: Steven Yuen, Samara Weaving, Steven Brand, Dallas Roberts, Kerry Fox, Mark Frost, Caroline Chikezie, Annamaria Serda, Nina Senicar
Mayhem tells the story of a virus that infects a corporate law office on the day attorney Derek Cho is framed by a co-worker and wrongfully fired. The infection is capable of making people act out their wildest impulses. Trapped in the quarantined building, our hero is forced to savagely fight tooth and nail for not only his job but his life.
Directed By: Alex De La Iglesia
Written By: Alex De La Iglesia & Jorge Guerricaechevarria
Cinematography By: Angel Amoros
Editor: Domingo Gonzalez
Cast: Blanca Suarez, Mario Casas, Carmen Michi, Secun De La Rosa, Jamie Ordonez, Terele Pavez, Joaquin Climent, Alejandro Awada, Jordi Aguilar
On an ordinary day in bustling downtown Madrid, life ticks over as usual, while inside a decrepit and noisy central bar, a motley assortment of common urbanites is killing time indolently, up until a loud gunshot sends chills down the spine. Out of the blue, now a man lies dead in front of the bar in a pool of blood, and then surprisingly, in broad daylight, another death follows. Where did that mysterious lethal bullet come from? Is this an act of terrorism or is there a solitary invisible sniper hidden on a roof? As hysteria prevails and the bodies miraculously vanish into thin air, the perplexed and terrified bar’s regulars are bound to turn on each other, paranoid and suspicious of the potential assassin who might be hiding inside the place. Is there indeed a wolf among sheep?
Written & Directed By: Christian Papierniak
Cinematography: Alexandre Naufel
Editor: Zach Clark & Micah Stuart
Cast: Mackenzie Davis, Carrie Coon, Lakeith Stanfield, Annie Potts, Brandon T. Jackson, Haley Joel Osmet, Alia Shawkat, Kyle Kinane, Rob Huebel, Sarah Goldberg, Lauren Miller Rogen, Alex Russell
Broke, job hopping, indie musician, Izzy has just discovered that her ex-boyfriend- her soulmate!- got engaged to her ex-best friend, and their party happens to be tonight. Enraged and desperate, Izzy embarks on a quest to charge across Los Angeles and break that up in order to fulfill what she believes to be her destiny – before it’s too late.
Directed By: Jeffrey Schwarz
Cinematography By: Jeff Byrd, Matt May & Keith Walker
Editor: Jeffrey Schwarz & Carl Pfirman
Featuring: Steve Guttenberg, Lorna Luft, Maxwell Caulfield, Valerie Perrine, Marlo Thomas, Connie Stevens, Brett Ratner, Bruce Vilanch, Sherry Lansing
Armed with a limitless Rolodex and a Benedict Canyon enclave with its own disco, Allan Carr threw the Hollywood parties that defined the 1970’s. A producer, manager and marketing genius, Carr built his bombastic reputation amid a series of successes including the mega hit musical film GREASE and the Broadway sensation LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, until it all came crashing down after he produced the notorious debacle of the 1989 Academy Awards.
Directed By: Richie Keen
Written By: Van Robichaux & Evan Susser
Story By: Max Greenfield, Van Robichaux & Evan Susser
Cinematography By: Eric Edwards
Editor: Matthew Freund
Cast: Charlie Day, Ice Cube, Jillian Bell, Tracy Morgan, Dean Norris, Kumail Nanjani, JoAnna Garcia-Swisher, Dennis Haysbert, Christina Hendricks, Kym Whitley, Stephne Weir, Alexa Nisenson, Max Carver, Charlie Carver, Nolan Bateman
When one school teacher unwittingly causes another teacher’s dismissal, he is challenged to an after-school fight.
Written & Directed By: Ana Lily Amirpour
Cinematography By: Lyle Vincent
Editor: Alex O’Flinn
Cast: Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Diego Luna, Yolonda Ross, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey, Giovanni Ribisi
A love story set in a community of cannibals in a future dystopia. In a desert wasteland in Texas, a muscled cannibal breaks one important rule: don’t play with your food.
Written & Directed By: Jeff Baena
Cinematography By: Quyen Tran
Editor: Ryan Brown
Cast: Dave Franco, Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Kate Micucci, Nick Offerman, Jemima Kirke, Molly Shannon, John C. Reilly, Paul Reiser, Fred Armisen, Paul Weitz, Lauren Weedman
On the run from the battle-seasoned Lord Bruno for sleeping with his wife, the handsome and willing servant, Massetto, flees to the safety of the woods during the warm and peaceful summer of 1347. There, after a chance encounter with the always boozy but merciful Father Tommasso, the young charmer will find refuge into his convent’s sanctuary, on one condition: to pretend he is a deaf-mute. However, Massetto’s tempting presence will unavoidably upset the already frail balance of things within the sexually-repressed female realm, as nun after nun desperately seeks an escape from their tedious way of life and an extra reason to molest the charming handyman. In the end, will those cloistered Sisters finally find out what they had been missing out on all these years?
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