Side Effects

Side Effects is a 2013 American psychological thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh from a screenplay written by Scott Z. Burns. The film stars Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Channing Tatum. The film concerns the ramifications of an event following a young woman being prescribed antidepressant drugs.Side Effects was released in the United States on February 8, 2013.Emily Taylor`s husband Martin is released after serving a four-year prison sentence for insider trading. Shortly afterward, Emily drives her car into a concrete wall in an apparent suicide attempt. Jonathan Banks, her assigned psychiatrist, fears for her safety but agrees to her release from the hospital as long as she attends sessions with him on a regular basis.Emily tries a series of SSRI anti-depressant medications, but none of them work. Jonathan contacts Emily`s previous psychiatrist, Victoria, who suggests that Jonathan put Emily on a new drug called Ablixa. Jonathan is reluctant to put Emily on the experimental drug until she attempts suicide a second time by trying to jump onto a subway track. The medication works, enabling Emily to function normally besides occasional sleepwalking episodes, a side effect of the drug. One evening, she stabs Martin to death while seemingly sleepwalking.Watch Side Effects for free, previously titled The Bitter Pill, was directed by Steven Soderbergh, produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Gregory Jacobs, and Scott Z. Burns who also worked on the screenplay. In January 2012, the film was reported to be produced by Annapurna Pictures. A few weeks later, Annapurna Pictures pulled out from the project resulting in Endgame Entertainment financing the project.Principal photography started on April 5, 2012 in New York City. The first pictures from the set surfaced on April 10, 2012.

The Numbers Station

The Numbers Station is an British-American action thriller film, starring John Cusack and Malin Åkerman, about a disgraced CIA black ops agent assigned to protect the code operator at secret American numbers station somewhere in the British countryside.The film is directed by Danish director Kasper Barfoed (four episodes of Those Who Kill, The Candidate, The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar), and the camera work is by Icelandic cinematographer Óttar Guðnason (Love, Wedding, Marriage, Inhale, A Little Trip to Heaven). It is produced by brothers Sean and Bryan Furst of American Furst Films (Daybreakers, The Girl in the Park, The Matador) and Nigel Thomas at British production and film finance company Matador Pictures (Princess Ka iulani, Dread, Book of Blood).The film is partly shot at RAF Bentwaters, a former RAF and USAF air force base north-east of Ipswich in Suffolk, which was closed down in 1993. It is now known as Bentwaters Parks and has been turned into a film studio.The Numbers Station is scheduled for release in Denmark on 18 April 2013, in the United States on 26 April 2013, and in Iceland on 3 May 2013. The movie has been pre-released in early April 2013 on Apple`s video streaming service Apple TV. Watch The Numbers Station for free has received mostly negative reviews from critics. It currently holds a 29% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. One of the movie`s most positive reviews came from Chuck Wilson of Village Voice who noted there are some decent shootouts, but the movie`s strongest assets are the soulful performances from John Cusack and Malin Akerman. Another positive review came from Lou Lumenick of The New York Post who rated the film three out of four stars and stated Kasper Barfoed, a Danish director in his English-language debut, makes great use of the main location, a bunker on a former airbase in the UK, as well as a novel premise. With Cusack s help, Barfoed holds your interest without resorting to car chases, a rarity in a contemporary thriller.

To the Wonder

The film was announced in February 2010, and was set to star Christian Bale. Bale ultimately dropped out of the production and was replaced by Ben Affleck.When the film entered production it did not have a title, and was referred to by the crew as Project D. Filming took place primarily in Bartlesville and Pawhuska, Oklahoma, and began in September 2010. Additional shooting took place in early 2011 in Bartlesville and Paris, France. Malick and his crew adopted an experimental approach. Actors described working without a screenplay or the use of lights. Emmanuel Lubezki called the film `abstract` and described it as being less tied to theatrical conventions and more purely cinematic than any prior film directed by Malick.All footage of the performances by Jessica Chastain, Rachel Weisz, Amanda Peet, Barry Pepper and Michael Sheen was removed from the final cut.The film has received mixed reviews in the United States, as it holds a 41% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 94 reviews with the consensus, To the Wonder demonstrates Terrence Malick`s gift for beautiful images, but its narrative is overly somber and emotionally unsatisfying.At the Venice Film Festival, as Javier Bardem s character (a priest), appeared, the audience started to laugh, although he was not a comical character. In the same way, the audience laughed at scenes featuring the Italian actress Romina Mondello (who spoke phrases like I am my own experiment) however, a similar response was afforded Malick s former film upon its Cannes premiere, despite that film going on to win that festival`s Palme d`Or, as well as a Best Picture Oscar nomination. Watch To the wonder for free was the final film reviewed by Roger Ebert, prior to his death on April 4, 2013. His review was published on April 6, two days after he died. He awarded it three and a half out of four stars. A more conventional film would have assigned a plot to these characters and made their motivations more clear. Malick, who is surely one of the most romantic and spiritual of filmmakers, appears almost naked here before his audience, a man not able to conceal the depth of his vision.The film opened with $130,000 in select screens and was in the top 10 itunes rentals the week of its opening.