Larry Mantle is joined by KPCC film critics Claudia Puig, Henry Sheehan and Charles Solomon to discuss this week’s new films, including The Five-Year Engagement, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, The Raven, Safe, and more. TGI-FilmWeek!

Guests:

Claudia Puig, film critic for KPCC and USA Today

Henry Sheehan, film critic for KPCC and henrysheehan.com

Charles Solomon, animation critic for KPCC, author and historian for amazon.com

Films Reviewed:

The Five-Year Engagement

A couple repeatedly pushes back their wedding date.

Starring: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt and Alison Brie
Written by: Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller
Directed by: Nicholas Stoller
R
Universal Pictures

The Pirates! Band of Misfits (in 3-D)

The captain of a ship yearns to win the Pirate of the Year award.

Starring: Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton and Martin Freeman
Written by: Gideon Defoe
Directed by: Peter Lord
PG
Columbia Pictures

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe teams up with a detective to solve murders.

Starring: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve and Brendan Gleeson
Written by: Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare
Directed by: James McTeigue
R
Relativity Media

Safe

A cage fighter rescues and protects a young Chinese girl.

Starring: Jason Statham, Robert John Burke, Chris Sarandon, Anson Mount
Written and directed by: Boaz Yakin
R
Lionsgate

Headhunters

A headhunter and art thief’s double-life begins to intersect.

Starring: Aksel Hennie, Synnove Macody Lund and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Written by: Lars Gudmestad and Ulf Rybergand
Directed by: Morten Tyldum
R
Magnolia Pictures

Bernie

A funeral director is charged with a wealthy widow’s murder.

Starring: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey
Written by: Richard Linklater and Skip Hollandsworth
Directed by: Richard Linklater
PG-13
Millennium Entertainment

Sound of My Voice

A couple plans to infiltrate a cult and expose its leader.

Starring: Brit Marling, Christopher Denham and Nicole Vicius
Written by: Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij
Directed by: Zal Batmanglij
R
Fox Searchlight Pictures

Mamitas

A bookish girl sees through a cocky high schooler’s façade.

Starring: E.J. Bonilla, Veronica Diaz-Carranza and Jennifer Esposito
Written and directed by: Nicholas Ozeki
R
Screen Media Films.