ClubAntix Reviews

Karen (Annette Bening) is a woman haunted by the ghost of the child she gave up for adoption 37 years ago. That daughter is determinedly-single Elizabeth (Naomi Watts). Karen is too scared to seek out her daughter for fear of rejection, while Elizabeth is so consumed by anger at her adoption and then loss of adoptive parents at a young age that she leads a life best-described as misanthropic.

Ten different directors have each made an eight-minute film set in New York. The rules are that each story had to be visually identified with one or more New York neighborhoods; each had to involve some kind of love encounter; each director, along with his chosen DP and cast, would shoot for only two days but the production designer, costume designer and rest of crew would remain consistent throughout the entire project.

Josh "J" Cody (James Frecheville) is a 17-year-old whose mother dies of a heroin overdose. He heads off to live with his estranged grandmother, Smurf (Jackie Weaver), who is mother to the Cody brothers: Pope (Ben Mendelsohn), an armed robber in hiding from the police, Craig (Sullivan Stapleton), a hot-headed drug dealer, and baby of the family, naïvely aspiring crim Darren (Luke Ford).

God, tired of humanity, has decided to end it all. This time, instead of a flood, he’s sending angels to possess the weak-willed and make them into spiky-toothed zombies hellbent on killing the unborn child of Charlie (Adrianne Palicki). Standing between them and her are her lovesick friend, Jeep (Lucas Black), his Dad (Dennis Quaid), a bunch of people stuck at their truckstop diner, and the Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany), who has rebelled against God and decided to stand with mankind.

Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jnr) has outed himself as the armoured hero, Iron Man, so what next? A blast from his father’s past, as Whiplash (Mickey Rourke) comes seeking revenge for what Howard Stark (John Slattery) did to his own father. And with the US Senate demanding Stark hand over the Iron Man suit to the military, it’s not a good time to demonstrate that Stark is not the only one with a suit of power armour…