Mark Burger, 2 Guys Named Chris' Film Critic, brings you the latest on newly released moveis in theaters and on DVD.
Posts from January 2013
January 25, 2013 by Biggie Josh Ellinger,posted Jan 29 2013 7:06AM
Broken City - In a city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure: Mayor Nicholas Hostetler.
The Rabbi's Cat - Set in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi's cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.
DVD Pick Of The Week
In Search Of Dracula - Low-budget "exploitation documentary" from the '70s.
January 18, 2013 by Biggie Josh Ellinger,posted Jan 29 2013 6:55AM
Zero Dark Thirty - A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May 2011.
DVD Pick Of The Week
Grand Hotel - A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
Texas Chainsaw 3D - A young woman travels to Texas to collect an inheritance; little does she know that an encounter with a chainsaw-wielding killer is part of the reward.
DVD Pick Of The Week
Lawless - Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by a new deputy and other authorities who want a cut of their profits.
January 4, 2013 by Biggie Josh Ellinger,posted Jan 10 2013 6:49AM
Les Miserables - In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole, agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's daughter, Cosette. The fateful decision changes their lives forever.
Django Unchained - With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Jack Reacher - A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.
Hyde Park On Hudson - The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
The Impossible - An account of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time.
Not Fade Away - Set in suburban New Jersey the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.
DVD Pick Of The Week
Sunday Bloody Sunday - Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as the mood takes him.