Opinion as a Movie-freak

Summary
The acerbic, hilarious Claire becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group. As she uncovers the details of Nina's suicide and develops a poignant relationship with Nina's husband, she also grapples with her own, very raw personal tragedy

Genre : Drama
Country : USA

Cast :
Jennifer Aniston : Claire Bennett
Anna Kendrick : Nina Collins
Adriana Barraza : Silvana

Director : Daniel Barnz

2/10 Action

Tracers (2015)

woensdag, april 29, 2015

Summary
Wanted by the Chinese mafia, a young New York City bike messenger down on his luck who just wants to do good, escapes into the world of parkour after meeting a beautiful stranger and her group of Parkour trainers that get him involved in a criminal delivery service for extra money.

Genre : Action
Country : USA

Cast :

Taylor Lautner : Cam
Marie Avgeropoulos : Nikki
Adam Rayner : Miller

Director : Daniel Benmayor

6/10 Drama Thriller

Coldwater (2013)

donderdag, april 23, 2015

Summary
A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, the counselors, and with the retired war colonel in charge.

Genre : Drama/Thriller
Country : USA

Cast :
P.J. Boudousque : Brad Lunders
James C. Burns : Colonel Frank Reichert
Chris Petrovski : Gabriel Nunez

Director : Vincent Grashaw

5/10 Drama

Small Time (2014)

woensdag, april 22, 2015

Summary
A young guy decides to skip college in favor of joining his father on the lot of his used-car business.

Genre : Drama
Country : USA

Cast :
Christopher Meloni : Al Klein
Devon Bostick : Freddy Klein
Dean Norris : Ash Martini

Director : Joel Surnow

7/10 Crime Thriller

Nightcrawler (2014)

dinsdag, april 21, 2015

Summary
A thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Lou Bloom is a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling - where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.

Genre : Thriller/Crime
Country : USA

Cast :
Jake Gyllenhaal : Louis Bloom
Bill Paxton : Joe Loder
Rene Russo : Nina Romina

Director : Dan Gilroy

2/10 Thriller

The Maid's Room (2013)

zondag, april 19, 2015

Summary
Set entirely on the posh east end of Long Island, the film centers around Drina, an attractive, intelligent immigrant who takes a job for the season as live-in maid to the Crawfords, a privileged New York family who maintain a splendid home in the Hamptons. The job could be worse, since Mr. and Mrs. Crawford spend most of their time in the city, but their teenage son, Brandon, who is starting Princeton in the fall, is summering at the beach, and Drina must look after him and his spoiled friends. Since the maid's room is next to the garage, Drina can't help noticing when Brandon returns late one night, noisily and obviously drunk. The next day, she sees that Brandon's car is battered and bloodied and, when she reads in the local paper that there has been a fatal hit and run, it's clear who's responsible.

Genre : Thriller
Country : USA

Cast :
Paula Garcé : Drina
Bill Camp : Mr. crawford
Philip Ettinger : Brandon

Director : Michael Walker

9/10 Drama

I Origins (2014)

vrijdag, april 17, 2015

Summary
A graduate student, Ian Gray, is researching the evolution of human eyes with Karen and Kenny, in order to discredit creationists by proving that eyes have evolved. Seven years later, when the hospital takes an iris scan of his son and enters into the database, they appear to match with another person's eyes, which suggested that their son may be some sort of reincarnation of the deceased man.

Genre : Drama
Country : USA

Cast :
Michael Pitt : Ian
Brit Marling : Karen
Astrid Bergès-Frisbey : Sofi

Director : Mike Cahill

6/10 Drama Horror Thriller

Backcountry (2014)

dinsdag, april 14, 2015

Summary
An urban couple go camping in the Canadian wilderness - where unimaginable beauty sits alongside our most primal fears. Alex is a seasoned outdoorsman while Jenn, a corporate lawyer, is not. After much convincing, and against her better judgment, she agrees to let him take her deep into a Provincial Park to one of his favorite spots - the secluded Blackfoot Trail. They push further and further into the woods, Alex stubbornly insisting that he remembers the way. After three days their path disappears; they are hopelessly lost.

Genre : Horror/Drama/Thriller
Country : Canada

Cast : Missy Peregrym : Jenn
Jeff Roop : Alex
Eric Balfour : Brad

Director : Adam McDonald

3/10 Horror

Late Phases (2014)

dinsdag, april 14, 2015

Summary
Ambrose McKinley, a cantankerous blind vet, moves into a retirement community only to learn the residents there have been dying, not from old age, but from dog attacks. After surviving his own encounter with a canine one night, Ambrose comes to believe the assailants are much more than mere dogs...

Genre : Horror
Country : USA

Cast :

Nick Damici : Ambrose
Tom Noonan : Father Roger
Lance Guest : Griffin

Director : Adrian Garcia Bogliano

4/10 Action Adventure Fantasy

Seventh Son (2014)

woensdag, april 08, 2015

Summary
John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected his country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward. Will he survive the training to become the spook that so many others couldn't? Should he trust the girl with pointy shoes? How can Thomas stand a chance against Mother Malkin, the most dangerous witch in the county?

Genre : Action/Adventure/Fantasy
Country : USA/UK

Cast :

Jeff Bridges : Master Gregory
Julianne Moore : Mother Malkin
Ben Barnes : Tom Ward

Director : Sergey Bodrov