On Sunday, July 26, 2009, Diane Schuler left the campgrounds in upstate New York where she was vacationing with her family and set off towards home on Long Island, a drive she had made numerous times before. With her were five young children: her son, her daughter and three nieces. Four hours later, she drove the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway for nearly two miles – eventually crashing into an oncoming SUV,killing herself and seven others. One of the worst motor-vehicle accidents in New York State history, the tragedy quickly became national news and her actions on that day, and in ...

Of the 125 prisoners at Badam Bagh Women’s Prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, approximately half are there for crimes like drug smuggling, murder and attempted suicide bombing. The others are imprisoned for “moral crimes” that include running away from home, adultery and premarital sex.

Granted unprecedented access to Badam Bagh Women’s Prison and Kabul Men’s Prison, as well as several Afghan courtrooms, Tanaz Eshaghian weathered dangerous and unpredictable prison conditions to craft intimate profiles of three subjects imprisoned and awaiting trial for alleged sexual transgressions, as wel...

The statistics are chilling. A sexual assault occurs every two minutes in the U.S. One in six women in America will be the target of rape or attempted rape in her lifetime. And 40% of rapes go unreported. While many victims of sexual assault try to forget their attacks, there is a dedicated group of men and women working to bring the perpetrators to justice for the ones who come forward.

Directed by Lisa F. Jackson (HBO’s “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo”) Sex Crimes Unit takes a look inside this division of the New York District Attorney’s office, which was the first of its kind...

Noir detectives, hot women who speak physics for pleasure and iconic actor Sam Elliott looking to pull back the curtain on God – is moviemaking great or what?! We’re taking a look at the new to DVD/Blu-ray stylish outing called "The Big Bang" (out now from the movie folks at Anchor Bay Entertainment!) starring Antonio Banderas as a private eye in search of a mysterious girl who gets a lot more then he bargained for. We review the flick and extras, followed by an insightful one-on-one Q&A with Director Tony Krantz – enjoy the alternative.

Title: "The Big Bang"

Grade: 4

Cast: Ant...

Ever see a film so disturbing it almost turned you away, but was so inventive that you couldn’t turn it off? We’re taking time to pay homage to all such things different (good…and bad!) with a review of the highly unusual movie "The Violent Kind" on Blu-ray from Image Entertainment.

Title: "The Violent Kind"

Grade: 3 1/2

Cast: Cory Knauf, Bret Roberts, Tiffany Shepis

Director: The Butcher Brothers

Rating: R

Runtime: 89 minutes

Release Company: Image Entertainment

Website: www.image-entertainment.com

The Flick: I can honestly say that in all my long years of film view...

Some filmmakers have a career where their films slowly decline with each outing (see John Carpenter!), while others sporadically make hits and misses at will. (Classic Steven Soderbergh!) What’s most interesting about the series of Drive-By Chronicles pictures by filmmaker Kenneth Castillo is how each learns, evolves and becomes better then its predecessor. With his first flick "Sidewayz," Castillo showed a potential for telling a unique story with an authentic flavor, while the follow up "Ghostown" went further by infusing a savvy style. "Confession of a Gangster" is by far Castillo’s ...

What really makes a memorable movie car chase? Could it be speed, style, sass – or maybe all of the above? The arrival of "Fast Five" (hitting theaters on April 29), which combines all the original Fast and Furious gang with some highly decked out new roadsters, has us at Starpulse revving our engines with nostalgia. With so many seriously significant car sequences in cinema history, how do you choose what’s really the best? Well, the brain has been wracked and the result is a list (complete with visual aids!) of some of the most speedometer pushing, gas peddle slamming, tongue-in-cheek...

For the love of all film both big and small (in both budget and length!), here is a noteworthy event for all our Starpulse readers who live in Los Angeles, California set for April 14. The film loving folks over at Film Independent are putting on a new free short film night with premium up and coming talent that movie lovers should certainly watch out for. (There could be a new Christopher Nolan or Kathryn Bigelow in the group!) Here’s the skinny:

Film Independent is proud to present the Project: Involve 8th Annual Showcase, featuring a compilation of short films written, directed, ...

With the arrival of the multi-time repeating, race against the clock fueling, Jake Gyllenhaal starring flick "Source Code" hitting theaters April 1, Starpulse thought it only polite to give a little cinematic love to the movies that utilize the power of time travel. But unlike the vast number of top five favorites lists both big (yes, we all KNOW "Back to the Future" is king!) and small ("Donnie Darko" at #1 – how hip of you!) already in abundance on the net, this is a collection of five hidden gems you may not have heard of. So flux capacitors at the ready readers, cause here are five ri...

This weekend, moviegoers will finally get to see the much-hyped and surprisingly well-reviewed film “Let Me In” directed by “Cloverfield” director Matt Reeves. The marketing for the film has been relentless over the past few weeks and consensus from fans and critics alike is that it is one of the best horror movies to come out in years.

The novel from which the movie was adapted is called “Let the Right One In” by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist and was adapted into a Swedish film in 2008. When the film finally made its way to the U.S. it was one of the best reviewed and most talked a...