Manchester Orchestra – Hope

The guys in Manchester Orchestra are some seriously sneaky dudes.
The guys in Manchester Orchestra are some seriously sneaky dudes.
Devil’s Knot tells the story of the West Memphis Three, the Arkansas teenagers tried in the early nineties for the murder of three young children in spite of an almost complete lack of evidence. It definitely makes for a compelling story. The biggest problem with this Atom Egoyan-directed movie however is that there’s nothing left to tell we didn’t already know from the very thorough Paradise Lost documentaries, which make for a way more compelling view than this movie.
When you see Danny Trejo in a movie and think that he’s too good to star in it, you know you’re in for one seriously crappy movie. That’s the case with “In The Blood”, a flick with no redeeming value whatsoever.
The Keeper Of Lost Causes (Kvinden I Buret) opens with detective Carl (The Killing’s Nikolaj Lie Kaas) assisting in a stakeout that goes wrong, leaving his partner dead and his best friend paralyzed. As a result, Carl gets reassigned to department Q, where he gets partnered up with rookie Assad (Fares Fares) and has to sort through all the unsolved cases. In other words, it’s the kind of place where detectives go to die.
Afflicted is the debut feature by Derek Lee and Clif Prowse and follows two best friends (played by Lee and Prowse) as they head off on a yearlong trip around the world. Compromising their trip however, is the fact that just before they leave Derek is diagnosed with a condition that could lead to a fatal brain aneurysm at any time.
Seemingly out of nowhere comes this slick film noir/police thriller starring Orlando Bloom and Forest Whitaker from the hands of director Jérôme Salle (The Tourist, Largo Winch). Taking place in South Africa after apartheid, the story kicks off with the discovery of the heavily mutilated body of a girl from a wealthy family. The only lead in the investigation is an unknown drug that is found in the girl’s blood.
Ten years after being convicted for the murder of his parents, Tim (Brenton Thwaites) is newly released from protective custody and ready to move on with his life. His sister Kaylie (Karen Gillan) however still dwells on the events of that night and is sure that it was an evil force in a mirror called the Lasser Glass, which serves as a gateway to evil, that killed her parents. Determined to find out what really happened, she has tracked down the mirror and learned that similar deaths have befallen previous owners over the past century.
After five years, Helen Earth Band is back with the aggressively titled “We Fucking Quit”, which is probably a reference to the turbulent times the band has been through with two members leaving.
New Jersey’s Aspiga dropped a new album on Paper + Plastick called “What Happened To You?” and we’d like to take a minute to thank them for doing so.
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Forever Came Calling already dropped a solid pop-punk album back in 2012 with “Contender” and they’re doing one better now with “What Matters Most”, their most focused and smoothest release to date