I guess to call Detour, director William Dickerson’s micro-budgeted drama of confinement and descent into madness, by a more accurate moniker, Mudslide, would be to court an unfortunate array of jokes centered around bodily excretions. But, seemingly taking Buried and Danny Boyle‘s 127 Hours as its inspiration, the movie spends most of its time trapped in a SUV covered with the detritus of a muddy landslide. While not lacking for decent acting or technical execution, the movie’s lead and de facto host is, as written, something of a cipher, leaving one wishing for MacGyver, or even MacGruber, to tackle a similar dilemma. The impulse to fight for survival is buried within all of us, but Detour lacks a compelling enough arc to sustain what might have worked much better as a short film. For the full, original review, from ShockYa, click here; for more information on the film, click here to visit the movie’s website. (Gravitas Ventures, unrated, 86 minutes)

A couple attractive Aussies whose respective stars are on the upswing, Teresa Palmer and Liam Hemsworth, try to help anchor Love & Honor, a well meaning but essentially dopey period piece flick that tries with increasingly diminishing effectiveness to meld an anti-war message with Nicholas Sparks-type romance. By all means, though, for the full, original review, from ShockYa, click here. (IFC Films, PG-13, 96 minutes)