Thursday 25 April 2013

The Company you Keep (2012)

In Brief: Sharon Stolzar (Susan Sarandon) leaves her family one morning, and while going into New York, she's arrested by the FBI. Sharon has spent the last 30 or so years living under a assumed identity after her student activist group, The Weather Underground, shot a security guard during a bank robbery. Her capture sparks a Journalist (Shia LaBeouf) to look into her story, and start following the connections to Jim Grant (Robert Redford) who appears to know more then he's letting on, about the activity of The weather Underground.


Thursday 4 April 2013

Trance (2013)

In Brief: Simon (James McAvoy), is a Art Auctioneer, With a Gambling Debt. He arranges with a local criminal Franck (Vincent Cassel). Only, He chooses to double cross him. During the robbery, Simon is beaten and looses his short term memory. After Franck decieds he's not lying, they enlist the help of Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson), A Hypnotist, to unlock the missing memory.


Promised Land (2012), Hara-Kiri : Death of a Samurai (2011)

Promised Land, In Brief: Steve (Matt Damon) is roaming the country convincing people to allow them to build Natural Gas wells on they're properties with his partner (Frances McDormand). During a town meeting, they are met with some resistance from the townspeople, and an environmentalist (John Krasinski) who has been burned by big corporation tries to encourage the town to reject the offer.

Hara Kiri : Death of a Samurai, in Brief: A Ronin (Kôji Yakusho) approaches the house of a fudal lord, requesting the use of his courtyard to die with Honour. The lords advisor recounts of another young Ronin (Eita), who requested the same service.