Heaven is For Real
As is the hell of sitting through faith-based movies
Movies
Love, Rosie
A drippy, unrealistic romantic comedy
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
A fitting adieu to Middle Earth
God’s Not Dead
A lame attempt even for faith-based cinema
Gone Girl
Intelligent, mesmerizing, high-level pulp
Alive Inside
Doc about the healing powers of music
Savaged
Surprisingly entertaining zombie thriller
Fury
Intense, visceral and unpredictable war flick
Kami no Tsuki
A flat thriller riddled with false notes
Uhnellys CD Release Party
Avant-garde rap-rock duo presents Loopholic
Delightful Nightmares
SoundWitch lays down lethal romance
Runner Runner
Rushed, pointless and flaccid crime opus
Open Windows
An inventive, gleefully manipulative techno-thriller
Director Takashi Yamazaki’s Parasyte
Sci-fi tale of a high school student whose right hand is taken over by an extraterrestrial parasite
The Last Days on Mars
A lot of badly choreographed fights in space suits and helmets
Fukufuku-sō no Fukuchan
Yosuke Fujita’s forlorn, funny, touching and tantalizing new film
Interstellar
This must-see film will stretch your mind
DamNation
Eco-doc with a general lack of focus or political balance
The Mornings
Post-hardcore trio explores new ideas
Halloween at Futuropolis
Check out what went down this year at Metropolis’ Halloween Glitterball celebration!
Laughter Across Cultures
Canadian Katsura Sunshine rocks rakugo
Paranoia
Air Force One this ain’t
Boyhood
A coming-of-age story, 12 years in the making
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
The most inventive use of 3-D since Hugo