Brick Mansions
Brick Mansions is about two policemen that stage an operation to infiltrate some dangerous crime organization. One of the policemen is Paul Walker and his dad was killed by the boss of this particular group of criminals. Also, these two policemen seem to have had some serious ninja training. They jump around a lot and do flips and stuff in the trailer.
The important name attached to this film is the producer Luc Besson. He is the man when it comes to action movies. Every movie he touches has a distinct action feel to it. The director is Camille Delamarre and she is a newcomer. She's mostly been involved in the editing department of other Luc Besson productions. But if Luc Besson hired her she's probably fairly good for action.
In terms of pure sentimentality - Paul Walker is in this movie. I think that will have a minor drawing effect.
Good or bad this movie will be in-your-face action to the max.
The Other Woman
The basic premise here is that three women discover they are all dating (one is actually married to) the same man (John Tucker Must Die, anyone?). From there they decide to make him pay.
The director, Nick Cassavetes, has a filmography that is all over the place. He actually directed The Notebook ten years ago. And now he's doing a comedy about destroying relationships. Hmm. It gets weirder. Between then and now he also did a hardcore gangster crime drama and a sappy family drama/tearjerker.
The Other Woman comes from first time writer Melissa Stack.
Side note: this movie originally received an R rating but that was appealed. Evidently they were successful because now it's PG-13. I'm not clear on what that means for content. It could be the same content that was originally deemed R. If you're like me this information can be useful.
The Quiet Ones
The Quiet Ones comes to us from relatively new horror director/veteran horror writer John Pogue. It is found footage horror at least partially. The story centers around some college students in the 1970's performing unorthodox experiments to treat patients with - I believe - mental illnesses. Anyway it all goes horribly wrong I'm sure. And it's all very scary of course.
I just don't like horror movies. It's so rare that a horror movie will go for tension or psychological horror over cheap bumps in the night.
As stated on the poster this is from at least one producer of The Woman In Black, which I thought was a cut above most horror movies of today. So that's something. Who knows? Maybe this one will stick.
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