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 | When In Bruges... Looking for a brief vacation? Or perhaps you’re looking to lay low after an assassination gone awry? Try Bruges. If you’re scratching your head wondering exactly where Bruges is, you’re not alone. It’s in Belgium and for Ray (Colin Farrell), an impatient assassin with a heavy conscience, it’s home…at least for a little while.More |  | Kicking off the San Francisco Film Festival Season For those who couldn't make it up to Park City for Sundance, the folks at SF Indiefest offer a more geographically convenient alternative. The 7th Annual San Francisco Independent Film Festival unspools on February 3rd offering numerous unique and eclectic celluloid gems that may never see the light of a multiplex. I had the good fortune to view a number of the films on display this year and while not all of them shined, virtually all of them explored intriguing subject matter in interesting and provocative ways.More |  | Kicking the Bucket Nothing can bring two distinctly dissimilar individuals together quite like imminent death. Or so [b]The Bucket List[/b] would seem to suggest. A disgustingly wealthy, cantankerous Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) finds himself stricken with terminal cancer and laid up in a hospital bed next to a comparatively poor auto mechanic, Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman). Rather than resign themselves to their ultimate demise, this odd couple decides to craft a list of all the things they’d like to do before they die...and set out to do them.More |  | P.S. I Hate You The trailer for [b]P.S. I Love You[/b] would lead you to believe the film is a sweet, charming (albeit somewhat saccharine) romantic comedy with a solid cast including Kathy Bates, Hilary Swank, Lisa Kudrow, and Harry Connick Jr. While the cast is unarguably solid, [b]P.S. I Love You[/b] strays far from charming, and if you were looking for a romantic comedy just in time for the holiday season, prepare for serious disappointment.More |  | Everyone Loves Cox! American music legend, Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly) saw it all and did it all (including one of the male members of his band) during his 71 magical years of life. At long last, a bio-pic worthy of the man, has arrived in [b]Walk Hard-The Dewey Cox Story[/b]. Admittedly, Dewey was always a bit of a mystery, but there is one thing we all know about Dewey, the man could walk…HARD!More |  | No Mercy For Swine The innocent are left beaten in the streets. Thugs roam alleys without regard for human life. Law and order is a feeble joke with a bad punchline. Welcome to writer/director Nick Cave’s vision of present day London. However, a group of maligned, emasculated men disappointed with the failures of the police force and government decide to take things into their own hands in [b]Outlaw[/b].More |  | There are Worse Things than Cancer In 2009, the cure for cancer is discovered. Three years later, virtually everyone on the planet is dead. Apparently this "cure" has a nasty habit of turning its host into rabid, bloodthirsty, sunshine intolerant monsters. Fortunately, one of the last (if not the last) humans on the planet (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist who is actively seeking a cure for this heinous virus. Unfortunately, his efforts haven’t exactly panned out.More |  | Fear Changes Everything A strange mist blows into a seaside town in Maine. This mysterious mist brings with it a ghastly assortment of creatures that conveniently have an insatiable thirst for human flesh. Local artist David Drayton (Thomas Jane) and his son manage to hole up in a grocery store with several other locals and tourists while seemingly everyone outside is eaten or otherwise killed. Thus begins the creepy collaboration between director Frank Darabont and Stephen King in [b]The Mist[/b].More |  | Street Parking is Advised Holidays are painful and scary enough as it is without being trapped in a parking garage run by a psychotic security guard. Leave it to the twisted, French horror director Alexandre Aja ([b]High Tension[/b]) to trump garden variety holiday horrors with his latest parking garage headtrip, [b]P2[/b].More |  | The Boy Who Fell To Earth In [b]Martian Child[/b], John Cusack plays a grieving widower, David, who finds himself gravitating towards an eccentric young orphan, Dennis, who spends most of his waking hours outside hiding in a cardboard box. To boot, Dennis (Bobby Coleman) also thinks he’s from Mars. Fortunately, David’s a bit eccentric himself and has a gift for writing science fiction, so this odd match just may have some potential. Can humans and Martians coexist? Is a human father really capable of raising a Martian son?More |
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