How Beer Saved The World

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This show traces the important role that beer has played in human history from the probable origins of the first beer at the dawn of history to the development of a special beer for use in zero gravity space missions.



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BiPolar

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Synopsis: Harry Poole, an introverted young man, suffers from bipolar disorder. He enrolls in a clinical trial run by the famous Dr. Lanyon, whose miracle drug is destined to help people like him lead a more balanced life. Under constant video surveillance, Harry quickly experiences positive results and turns into a new man, more charismatic and charming. He even manages to seduce Anna, a young nurse who looks after him. Harry, fully embracing his rebirth, 
creates a new personality for himself. "Edward Grey" is born, the man he has always wanted to be: outgoing, bold and fearless. Unfortunately, the doctor abruptly discontinues the clinical trial. Cases of rage and confusion have been reported among other test subjects and the medication is pulled. Anna, taking pity, gives Harry a parting gift: a large supply of the pills, with which he continues his own "trial" at home. Intoxicated by the freedom and power of his new identity as "Edward", Harry slowly surrenders himself to his dark alter ego



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http://bbrfoundation.org/  - disorder causes dramatic mood swings—from feeling overly “high” and/or irritable to sad and hopeless, and then back again, often with periods of normal mood in between. Severe changes in energy and behavior go along with these episodes. The periods of highs and lows are called episodes of mania and depression. It is often not recognized as an illness, and people may suffer for years before it is properly diagnosed and treated.

so..yea.. ok, this is really a strange film. I mean, bipolar disorder does not work the way it does in the film, but for the sake of cinematic license, I’ll not harp upon that and move forward with the review.

*****TRIGGER WARNING FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE******

so our main character Harry takes part in a clinical trial for a drug that is believed to cure bipolar disorder. His mother committed suicide, and his dad is less than present. Our boy has some issues…and rightly so.

at first it seems the medicine is  doing him some good. However, due to some issues with the other test subjects, the experiment is suddenly ended. Our boy is upset, but his hot nurse Anna hooks him up with a supply to keep him going.

Apparently the medication has pulled forth an alternate personality called Edward – suave,cool, and totally a ladies man. Edward has all the confidence that our hero lacks, and well…there we go.

So Harry/ Edward begins a serious relationship with his hot nurse and it looks like every thing is going well for our hero.

Sounds like it’s not so bad, right? yea. the experiment was stopped for a reason.

Following his release from the experiment, Harry/Edward continues to document his life on home video for the doctor so he can “follow up”…I guess.

Harry shares his home with his stoner brother, and at first all it seems that the two of them have a great love for each other. But as Edward takes over, that seems to become less of a reality, at least from Edward’s standpoint.

then there is this other broad who gets the hots for him. too bad she has a boyfriend. a volatile boyfriend. and that becomes a thing. then the video documentation gets a little…blue. Meanwhile, we have the side story of Harry’s father’s attempt to reconnect after what appears to be years of seperation.

and as we move forward in the story, Edward becomes the dominate personality. and it only goes wrong from there.

This is all sorts of a modern version of the story of Doctor Jeckyl and Mister Hyde. Edward is basically Harry’s id, acting out all of his violent, revenge fantasies. And it gets uglier and uglier until Edward finally takes over completely and crosses the line of humanity. He goes on a killing spree that is beyond expectation. Sadly, we only hear Edward describe all of this violence. We, the audience, don’t get to see any of it. but we get to watch Harry/Edward spiral into madness on home video, and I think it is the best use of FPS/found footage I have seen to date. There is some really nasty stuff that happens between Harry/Edward and his girlfriend (not the hot nurse) that is just too awful to describe. Ergo, my trigger warning at the beginning of this review.

The actor is quite good at playing both characters, almost simultaneously at times. As the viewer, you both sympathise and hate him at the same time. and honestly….some girls are so damn stupid it makes you want to scream. Just sayin…

I started watching this film with a level of indifference, but by the end I was in desperate need of a shower and maybe some therapy. It’s disturbing how the character of Harry/Edward evolves. And his final revenge? yea…. In all honesty, I’m a bit uncomfortable watching it.

Let’s talk cast shall we? our main character, Harry/Edward, is played by Andrew J West, who some of you may recoognize from the city of Terminus in The Walking Dead.

Emma Bell, also from The Walking Dead, plays the hot nurse Anna.

The other actors all have one-offs from tv and movies, including Transformers, NCIS, and other series.

I didn’t want to like this film, but I totally did. Creepy, disturbing, real world horror.

On a scale of one to ten, ten being awesome, I give this film 8 jagged little pills.

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House Rules for Bad Girls

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Becca has just arrived back to New Hope (a girls Ranch) to find that there is a new set of rules she is going to need to follow.

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Daddy's Home

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Angelica is a fresh-on-the-job elementary school teacher who follows her long time boyfriend Bryon to a new town. On the first day of school she notices one of her students (Willow) seems troubled and different from all the other kids. After a period of unbroken silence from Willow and violent behavior from her older brother Steven, Angelica learns that there is a problem far beyond her power to fix. When the children's dark family secret becomes known, Angelica does what she can to protect them, even if her own livelihood is at stake. As the situation unravels, so does her sanity in this story of deception, mystery and terror. The question is... "What do you do when Daddy comes home?" -- (C) Official Site

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Aaron Bacon - Troubled Youth Collection

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Aaron Bacon Troubled Youth Collection presents four award-winning featurettes with stunning production values and star making performances. AARON BACON (starring Stephen Michael Kane) is inspired by the book "Help at Any Cost" by Maia Szalavitz, based on the true story of a 16 year-old kid who dies at the hands of malpractice and abuse in the tough-love, wilderness drug-treatment facility. BED RIDDEN (starring Joel Moore and Alan Tudyk) describes a day in the life of a drug addicted young man, as he escapes his parent induced entrapment at home and travels the length of Los Angeles, chained to his bedpost, to meet with his fixer. FLIGHT TO SINAI is a musical coming of age film, in the tradition of "GLEE" and "High School Musical," describing the coming out of Jack Strong, a teen raised by religiously conservative parents, and the reactions of his friends, teachers, girlfriend and his religiously conservative parents. THE BABYDADDY, inspired by true events, is the coming of age story about a troubled sixteen-year-old girl (Kether Donohue) struggling to cope with her Vietnam-Veteran father's illnesses. Official Selection of the HBO Sponsored G.I. Film Festival. Each describes in their own way, physical and mental pressures, abuse and ultimately violence, against youth, struggling to find their way in this world. These are more than shorts, as each film is 25-30 minute long, but what they all have in common are quality thought-provoking productions, by and about youth, together representing a true talent discovery.


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Tank Girl

Another Cult Film



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Based on a popular British cult comic book, this film is the story of a futuristic feminist superhero and her fight to preserve the environment against an evil government bureaucracy. The action is set in the year 2033, after an ecological disaster of drought and pollution has ravaged the countryside, and water is scarce. Tank Girl (Lori Petty) is a sassy punker who has her own vintage tank in tow, along with other high-tech weapons. Her mutant friends join her in bizarre battles against thecorporate-statist Department of Water and Power and its villainous chief, Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell). At stake is the world's water supply, which the Department is hoarding and which the rebels frequently raid. Rock star Iggy Pop has a cameo as Rat Face, one of the half-human, half-kangaroo Rippers. Courtney Love coordinated the post-punk soundtrack. ~ Michael Betzold, Rov

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Whatever the faults of "Tank Girl," lack of ambition is not one of them.

Here is a movie that dives into the bag of filmmaking tricks and chooses all of them. Trying to re-create the multimedia effect of the comic books it's based on, the film employs live action, animation, montages of still graphics, animatronic makeup, prosthetics, song-and-dance routines, models, fake backdrops, holography, title cards, matte drawings and computerized special effects. All I really missed were 3-D and Smell-O-Vision.

The movie is set in the year 2033, after a meteor has struck the Earth, creating a global desert. "You gotta squeeze 12 in a bathtub," Tank Girl tells us in the opening narration, "...so it ain't all bad." The planet is mostly ruled by the evil Water & Power Co., run by a madman named Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell), who controls most of the water supply and whose name is possibly a misspelled anagram of "leaks." Living outside the W&P sphere is a small group of self-sufficient desert rats, who pump water by hand to grow hydroponic crops. Tank Girl (Lori Petty) is one of their number, and when Kesslee's troops attack the commune, she wipes out eight of them before she's hauled before the evil monster himself.

McDowell, who has specialized lately in weirdo villains, thinks she might be useful in his war on the Rippers (anagram of Sippers? - oh, never mind).

They're kangaroo-men who were developed in a DNA experiment, as Ultimate Soldiers: They're smart as men, can hop like crazy, and always have a place to keep their grenades. (The actors playing them, including Ice-T, are a little easier to identify than the stars of "Planet of the Apes.") Some Rippers remember life before their DNA got manipulated; one solemnly tells Tank Girl, "I used to be Ted Smith, assistant manager of Chief Auto Parts in Cincinnati, Ohio." Tank Girl refuses the chance to work for Kesslee, and after making a friend of the shy Jet Girl (Naomi Watts), she wages war against Water & Power, in scenes involving lots of machine guns, tanks, planes, grenades, electrocution, and even a weapon that is plunged into the victim, draining his blood while simultaneously purifying it into water.

Under the direction of Rachel Talalay, the movie plunges headlong into technique. Some of the locations, like the desert commune, are obviously scale models. Others are elaborate sets, including the dark satanic mills where Kesslee sets his slaves to work. Tank Girl careens through this landscape with an evil snicker and incredible good luck, dodging death and causing a lot of pain to the genital areas of her enemies. She talks back to her captors ("Hey! I have two words for you: Brush your teeth!"). She smiles at the camera in a heroically gratuitous Busby Berkeley dance routine.

And of course she prevails.

Enormous energy went into this movie. I could not, however, care about it for much more than a moment at a time, and after a while its manic energy wore me down.

Director Sidney Lumet has a new book out about how to make movies. In it he observes that slowly-paced scenes can actually make a movie seem to go faster than a relentless pacing that never stops.

Uh-huh.

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America's Most Haunted Inns

This Was fun so Who want to go Inn Hoping?
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Explore some of the country's most haunted inns with this release that offers a ghostly journey into the unknown for far less than the cost - and the terror - of an overnight stay. From the spectral colonial maids of Pennsylvania's Bucksville House to the lingering spirits that flow up from the Underground Railroad tunnels beneath the Wedgewood Inn, this release aims to provide some of the most compelling ghost-hunting footage ever captured on camera. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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The Hopeful

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Rising from the ashes of media scrutiny and surrounded by critics who are watching every step, waiting for him to fail, Cody Keith finds himself relentlessly chasing his dream to play big time college football. His family are his biggest supporters and make a sacrifice to move across the country embarking on a journey that will take them far away from their home in Charlotte, North Carolina. Amidst the immense pressure created by bad press, school transfers and college recruiting, Cody Keith finds himself on a personal journey of self discovery and realizes that playing the game for himself is the most gratifying experience he could have hoped for.


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National Lampoon's Pledge This!

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The rich and beautiful leader of South Beach University's most elite sorority concocts a sexy scheme to cash in on her sisterhood's newfound fame in a raunchy college comedy starring Paris Hilton. The Gamma Gammas have been voted the hottest sorority in the country by FHM, and now their leader, Victoria English (Hilton), is determined to take full advantage of the positive publicity. Only girls of Victoria's caliber can aspire to Gamma Gamma status, so what better way to solidify their influence over Greek culture than to take part in a photo shoot with one of the most popular men's magazines in the country? As the photo shoot draws near, however, it soon becomes undeniably clear that Victoria is more interested in furthering her own clandestine agenda than getting good press for Gamma Gamma. Simon Rex co-stars in a National Lampoon comedy that's as rowdy as Animal House, only ten times sexier. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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Stephen King Golden Years

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We live in a culture where people are always looking for ways to seem younger — botox, chemical peels, hair dye, and the list goes on. What if you could actually get younger? Maybe take a special pill or shot and grow younger, gradually, so people wouldn’t notice a stark difference.

Sounds good right? What if there wasn’t a cut off? You might just Benjamin Button your way on out; start out at twenty-five and wake up an infant months later. What’s next? An embryo? An atom? Nothing? For Harlan Williams this is life.

Harlan (Keith Szarabajka - The Dark Knight) having been exposed to an experimental chemical in a lab explosion has noticed himself growing younger: scars disappearing, eyesight changes, etc. When his wife (Frances Sternhagen - The Mist) notices little changes, Harlan knows that his secret is out. After the wrong people get a whiff of Harlan’s reverse aging, people around him start dying in mysterious ways, and it’s time to run. Where do you run when the Shop, the scariest department in the F.B.I. is looking for you?

Stephen King’s Golden Years was a short lived television series, aired on CBS in 1991,  dropped just after the first seven episodes. I enjoyed this series, there were a lot of elements of humor, life long love and a great theme song by David Bowie. I was able to watch it all at once though, whereas weekly viewers may have lost interest as they waited for the next episode. There were a few cliff hangers at the ends of episodes, but the shows could be a bit slow at times.

While this series isn’t terrifying like some of King’s other works (Cujo, It,The Shinning) one of the aspects that Golden Years has going for it is King’s insight into what it means to grow old with someone. There are, of course, suspenseful moments and excitement, but the deeper side investigates everlasting love in extremely trying times. Many horror fans might not like a mushy, gushy film, but before you write of Golden Years, think about what scares you the most. When it comes down to it, isn’t is scariest to imagine losing the one you care about the most?

This series is obscure enough for you to impress your hipster friends, bragging that you saw it first. The released recording, also available on instant Netflix, has an alternate ending from the televised version in 1991. If it were up to me, I wouldn’t have changed the original ending of Golden Years, even if there were loose ends that didn’t get tied up by a second season. The original ending is much more real and raw, whereas the “new” ending gets a bit cheesy.

You can find the original ending and a commercial for Golden Years below.



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CloverField

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remendous thrills!

Author: kanerazor from Yorba Linda, CA
15 January 2008

Some people have derisively compared this film to The Blair Witch Project because it was all told from the point of view of someone's shaking camera. Unless you have motion sickness, I don't think that's a bad thing. What matters is who's in front of the camera. While The Blair Witch Project featured annoying people screaming at each other, this movie actually made me care about the characters. In fact if it had continued with the romantic drama tone established during the first half hour, I STILL think it would have been worth watching and that's the biggest compliment I can give it.

Of course people will be watching this movie for the visceral pleasure and Colverfield delivers. Many thrilling visual and sound effects wowed me (there were a few times I yelled out in shock at a sudden scare). Any horror film will also benefit from a sense of entrapment and this movie pulls off the seemingly impossible feat of making New York City seem claustrophobic because there was seemingly nowhere to hide from the monster.

What is the monster? Whatever it is clearly is meant to be an allegory for the carnage 9/11 inflicted on New York, much the same way Godzilla was meant to be an allegory for the damage inflicted on Japan by the atom bomb. There are moments seemingly recreating the documentary footage from 9/11, and they give the film verisimilitude. Touching upon real life horror, plus creating characters that we can relate to and care about, and assaulting our senses with incredible sights and sounds leads to entertainment worth watching many times over. Perhaps the 80 minute run time will bother some people, but on the other hand I think that's better than a film wearing out its welcome. Great job J.J. Abrams 

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DeadHeads

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Two inexplicably coherent zombies awake amidst a zombie attack and decide to take a road trip to find the one's lost love, unaware they are being chased by the agents of a ruthless company with it's own agenda

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Mike and Brent are inexplicably coherent zombies who become self-aware during a zombie attack. As Mike's memories slowly come back to him, he recalls wanting to visit his girlfriend so that he can tell her that he loves her. Brent adopts a feral zombie which he dubs "Cheese", and they set off, not knowing that they are being tracked by an evil corporation. Eventually captured by a zombie hunter hired by the corporation, the boys escape and make their way to Mike's girlfriend, who accepts him despite his condition.

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Killing Daddy

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When Callie discovers that her father has had a debilitating stroke, she sees it as the perfect opportunity to return home and seek justice for her mother.



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Cassie Ross is scarred by the suicide of her mother, which occurred when Cassie was a child. She is convinced that her father was to blame for her mother's death. Cassie's older sister, Laura, has always sided with their father, so for years Cassie has been estranged from her family. When Cassie discovers that her father has had a debilitating stroke, she sees it as the perfect opportunity to return home and seek justice for her mother. Confiding in her mute and helpless father her plans to destroy her sister and stepmother and ultimately kill him, Cassie sets out on her path to destroy her broken family and take all of their riches. But Cassie's revenge won't come as easy as she thinks as hidden truths about her family may derail her entire plan.

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Starred Up

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19-year-old Eric (Jack O'Connell, star of the upcoming UNBROKEN), arrogant and ultra-violent, is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father (Ben Mendelsohn, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES). As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and fellow inmates - and his already volatile relationship with his father is pushed past breaking point - Eric is approached by a volunteer psychotherapist (Rupert Friend, "Homeland"), who runs an anger management group for prisoners. Torn between gang politics, prison corruption, and a glimmer of something better, Eric finds himself in a fight for his own life, unsure if his own father is there to protect him or join in punishing him. Written by prison system therapist Jonathan Asser, STARRED UP is a merciless, uncompromising portrayal of a dehumanizing life behind bars, and the most accomplished film of David Mackenzie's career; as father and son, Mendelsohn and O'Connell give extraordinary performances, charting a path that resembles Greek tragedy. (c) Tribeca Films

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If you can’t understand half of what the characters say in “Starred Up,” not to worry. It’s an artistic choice on the part of director David Mackenzie (“Young Adam”), who clearly sees language as secondary in this brutal full-body immersion into the British prison system. There’s something primal about the way these inmates communicate, mixing their heavily accented British prison slang with bursts of spontaneous aggression. It’s a harrowing place to do time, but a surprisingly effective stage for a father-son reconciliation, and though the unintelligibility issue will severely limit its reach, this powerful dysfunctional-family saga is too well acted to go unreleased.

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As prison films go, “Starred Up” hits all the usual bases with blistering naturalism: There’s brawling in the corridors, sexual tension in the showers and corruption among the guards. But the plot defies the genre, and its two central performances rank on par with those in 2009’s “A Prophet.” Instead of wanting to get out, 19-year-old Eric (“Skins” star Jack O’Connell in a career-making turn) desperately wants to stay behind bars, where he can be with his dad.

He’s a mixed-up young man, shuttled between state care facilities for most of his childhood after the death of his mother and incarceration of his father, Neville (Ben Mendelsohn, who betrays no trace of his Ozzie origins). “Starred Up” opens with Eric’s arrival at the same adult prison where Neville has spent the past 14 years, and the interactions that follow suggest that this severely compromised reunion may be the closest thing he’s ever had to a proper family environment.

The script doesn’t offer much in the way of backstory, though puzzle lovers will pick up the clues as the taut-jawed teen swiftly demonstrates his prison smarts, fashioning a weapon from a toothbrush and safety razor. Eric has clearly spent significant time behind bars already and must have angled to get himself “starred up” — a controversial practice by which the British prison system boosts especially dangerous juvenile offenders to the 21-and-over facility before their time.

What Eric doesn’t realize is that his status is a red flag to the warden (Sam Spruell) and a call to duty for volunteer therapist Oliver (Rupert Friend) determined to teach these tough cases anger management. What follows is a battle for Eric’s soul, as criminal elements try to corrupt him, Neville and Oliver attempt to reform him and the warden threatens to “warehouse him” — or keep such dangerous types off the street for good, even if it means staging what looks like suicide.

If that sounds like a lot of detail, the jaggedly assembled narrative demands a certain amount of explication that the brusque con talk — partly garbled by the characters, partly drowned out by badly mixed ambient sound — simply doesn’t provide. This film needs footnotes, not subtitles, though it seems unlikely that Mackenzie would agree to the sort of dub job that made “The Guard” more accessible abroad, if only because the helmer seems so committed to the reality inherent in Jonathan Asser’s script.

Despite its graphic violence and nudity, “Starred Up” never feels like an exploitation picture. At times, O’Connell calls to mind Tom Hardy’s turn in “Bronson” (especially in a scene where he strips down and greases up in order to take on a phalanx of prison guards), though the tone couldn’t be more different. For starters, the behavior onscreen feels too raw and immediate to register as “acting,” every twitch of it captured with handheld cameras and reinforced by a completely plausible supporting cast.

Mackenzie isn’t attempting to craft a larger-than-life antihero here, but delving into the sociology of this hellish subculture, where prisoners and staff alike coexist in this dehumanizing environment. The pic owes its believability to Asser, who served as a therapist similar to Oliver’s character, drawing from his experience to shape the world. Asser brings more than just realism, however, crafting the central father-son relationship on the foundation of classical Greek tragedy.

Eric’s agitation reads loud and clear from frame one, thanks to the startling unpredictability of O’Connell’s perf. The young thesp plays it in such a way that auds can never be certain whether he loves his father or wants to see him dead. The more he gets to know the guy, the less he admires — the polar opposite of the film, which will only get better upon closer inspection, as even the sharpest viewers are sure to miss a great deal the first time around. That’s why the father-son dynamic is so crucial to its success, lending a degree of universality to a story whose context is so uncompromisingly specific.

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PLOT: Nineteen-year-old Eric (Jack O'Connell) is transferred to a maximum security prison, ruled by a fierce gang run by lifer Neville (Ben Mendelsohn) who also happens to be the boy's father. Having not seen each other since Eric was a child, the two are forced into a confrontation when the hot-tempered Eric keeps making trouble, leading to problems with the prison authorities.

REVIEW: STARRED UP was a movie that kind of hit me out-of-the-blue at TIFF. It wasn't something I was planning on catching, despite having earlier admired one of the director David Mackenzie's movies, YOUNG ADAM. It just wasn't high on my list of priorities, with it pitted against so many high-profile, soon-to-be-blockbusters. But, a hole in my schedule led to my catching it one afternoon, and boy am I glad that I did.

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REVIEW: STARRED UP was a movie that kind of hit me out-of-the-blue at TIFF. It wasn't something I was planning on catching, despite having earlier admired one of the director David Mackenzie's movies, YOUNG ADAM. It just wasn't high on my list of priorities, with it pitted against so many high-profile, soon-to-be-blockbusters. But, a hole in my schedule led to my catching it one afternoon, and boy am I glad that I did
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PLOT: Nineteen-year-old Eric (Jack O'Connell) is transferred to a maximum security prison, ruled by a fierce gang run by lifer Neville (Ben Mendelsohn) who also happens to be the boy's father. Having not seen each other since Eric was a child, the two are forced into a confrontation when the hot-tempered Eric keeps making trouble, leading to problems with the prison authorities.

REVIEW: STARRED UP was a movie that kind of hit me out-of-the-blue at TIFF. It wasn't something I was planning on catching, despite having earlier admired one of the director David Mackenzie's movies, YOUNG ADAM. It just wasn't high on my list of priorities, with it pitted against so many high-profile, soon-to-be-blockbusters. But, a hole in my schedule led to my catching it one afternoon, and boy am I glad that I did.

Read more at http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/review-starred-up-tiff-2013#yrwKV5LspLhMYVBU.99