Director: James Wan
Writer: Leigh Whannell
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins
A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.
(Not Yet Rated)
Insidious (2010)
Insidious (2010)
Director: James Wan
Writer: Leigh Whannell
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins
A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.
Review Coming Soon...
Director: James Wan
Writer: Leigh Whannell
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins
A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.
Respire (2011)
Respire (2011)
Director: David A. Cross
Writer: David A. Cross
Cast: Tracy Teague, Mathew J. Wright, Vince Eustace
The Ancient Romans believed that the soul escaped ones body with the last breath. It was believed that last breath held the power to cure disease and prolong life. In 1930s, Dr. Robert Kaminsky devoted his life to finding out how to harness the power in the last breath. Susan Jordan owns a local novelty shop. One item in her shop, an antique box once owned by Doctor Kaminsky, draws the interest of two men: Raif Collins who hopes itâs contents can save his dying sister, and Alex Poe whose motives are more mysterious. Susan quickly finds herself in a perilous struggle to protect the box and the secrets that it holds.
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Director: David A. Cross
Writer: David A. Cross
Cast: Tracy Teague, Mathew J. Wright, Vince Eustace
The Ancient Romans believed that the soul escaped ones body with the last breath. It was believed that last breath held the power to cure disease and prolong life. In 1930s, Dr. Robert Kaminsky devoted his life to finding out how to harness the power in the last breath. Susan Jordan owns a local novelty shop. One item in her shop, an antique box once owned by Doctor Kaminsky, draws the interest of two men: Raif Collins who hopes itâs contents can save his dying sister, and Alex Poe whose motives are more mysterious. Susan quickly finds herself in a perilous struggle to protect the box and the secrets that it holds.(Not Yet Rated)
Biutiful (2010)
Biutiful (2010)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Writer: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone
Cast: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Diaryatou Daff
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.
Bleak depressing tale about a man's struggle to get by when everything he attempts goes wrong, eventually turning him inward on himself. It plays out much like a classic blues song dealing chiefly in how much one man can lose and his hardship of living in a struggling environment. The always fantastic Javier Bardem plays Uxbal a man whom never knowing his own father wants better for his own two children. He has to deal with single parenthood since becoming estranged from his drug addicted bipolar wife (who's now shacked up with his sleazy brother). To keep his family going Uxbal tries to manage various aspects of an illegal Chinese run sweat shop. His job involves protecting the street vendors who sell the wares to the illegal immigrants who make them. If things wasn't bad enough for the hapless man he also needs to deal with having incurable cancer, and how his eventual death will affect his two children.
So then Biutiful isn't trying for feel good movie of the year. It is downbeat and even boring at times but it's still a mighty powerful story. Modern master Alejandro González Iñárritu manages to rise the film away from it's kitchen sink/gutter depths to a place that feels very human and real. Even though its an harsh journey, the end is truly epic with Uxbal's character finally getting the peace and resolve he so yearned for. Most people I've spoke about it with didn't like the film very much, but I really did and would whole heartedly recommend it. The performances are fantastic especially those by the legendary Javier Bardem and new comer Diaryatou Daff who plays the street vendors wife whom ends up looking after Uxbal. Ohh by the way the title Biutiful is a misspelling Uxbal gives his daughter when he's helping her with her homework, no doubt a reference to never really knowing beauty himself. Here's looking forward to Iñárritu's next feature hope its not too long away.
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Writer: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone
Cast: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Diaryatou Daff
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.So then Biutiful isn't trying for feel good movie of the year. It is downbeat and even boring at times but it's still a mighty powerful story. Modern master Alejandro González Iñárritu manages to rise the film away from it's kitchen sink/gutter depths to a place that feels very human and real. Even though its an harsh journey, the end is truly epic with Uxbal's character finally getting the peace and resolve he so yearned for. Most people I've spoke about it with didn't like the film very much, but I really did and would whole heartedly recommend it. The performances are fantastic especially those by the legendary Javier Bardem and new comer Diaryatou Daff who plays the street vendors wife whom ends up looking after Uxbal. Ohh by the way the title Biutiful is a misspelling Uxbal gives his daughter when he's helping her with her homework, no doubt a reference to never really knowing beauty himself. Here's looking forward to Iñárritu's next feature hope its not too long away.
(8 out of 10)
Litan (1982)
Litan (1982)
aka: Litan La Cité des Spectres Verts
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Writer: Patrick Granier, Jean-Pierre Mocky
Cast: Marie-José Nat, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Nino Ferrer
The inhabitants of a remote mountain town are being transformed into zombies.
Wow don't even know where to start with this surreal opus, if ever a film deserved the moniker 'WTF film' then Litan is it. The story follows a couple trying to uncover what happened to a scout during a creepy small French town festival of Litan day. Turns out he's returned from death, the reason is something to do with a strange substance in the towns local water supply. Towards the end as more and more of the towns folk are dying the couple find out they're just premonitions of the dead people's minds. And that we only ever exist as figments of each others minds and none of us are truly alive.
Such a puzzling plot that I could of easily of got the wrong idea about, its loaded with dreamlike imagery from people wearing creepy masks to a spooky asylum styled hospital. The scenery (which is usually foggy) is bizarre as well, it ranges from strange caves to cross packed mountains and an odd looking fishing village. Worth seeing for anyone who loves arty surreal movies it's closest rival is the original Wicker Man, but its far more ambiguous than that.
aka: Litan La Cité des Spectres Verts
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Writer: Patrick Granier, Jean-Pierre Mocky
Cast: Marie-José Nat, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Nino Ferrer
The inhabitants of a remote mountain town are being transformed into zombies.Such a puzzling plot that I could of easily of got the wrong idea about, its loaded with dreamlike imagery from people wearing creepy masks to a spooky asylum styled hospital. The scenery (which is usually foggy) is bizarre as well, it ranges from strange caves to cross packed mountains and an odd looking fishing village. Worth seeing for anyone who loves arty surreal movies it's closest rival is the original Wicker Man, but its far more ambiguous than that.
(7 out of 10)
Breaking Point (1975)
Breaking Point (1975)
Director: Bo Arne Vibenius
Writer: Bo Arne Vibenius
Cast: Andreas Bellis, Irena Billing, Barbara Scott
Exploitation thriller.
Wild wacked out pornographic thriller centring on an accountant who rapes and sometimes kills during his work breaks. This is basically a set of sexual vignettes that supposedly follow the crazed office man's day dreams. They range from pretty standard sex scenes which are usually rapes (the tv and his car stereo tell him its what females want) to dumb moments he uses nuclear bullets, there's even an odd scene he abducts a young girl from a swing that thankfully he doesn't do anything with other than eat candy.
Breaking Point was director Bo Arne Vibenius follow-up to his more infamous grindhouse gem Thriller A Cruel Picture Well worth tracking down for fans of strange exploitation movies.
Director: Bo Arne Vibenius
Writer: Bo Arne Vibenius
Cast: Andreas Bellis, Irena Billing, Barbara Scott
Exploitation thriller.Breaking Point was director Bo Arne Vibenius follow-up to his more infamous grindhouse gem Thriller A Cruel Picture Well worth tracking down for fans of strange exploitation movies.
(6½ out of 10)
LolliLove (2004)
LolliLove (2004)
Director: Jenna Fischer
Writer: Jenna Fischer, Peter Alton
Cast: James Gunn, Jenna Fischer, Peter Alton
Mockumentary about a wealthy couple who set out to make a difference in the lives of homeless people by giving each of them a lollipop with a cheery slogan on the wrapper.Amusing mockumentary written/directed and staring the US version of The Office Jenna Fischer. Follows a couple trying to set up an homeless charity which gives them gum (to help clean their teeth) filled lollipops that contain self help slogans as wrappers. So many gags based on aspects of homelessness (from bum fight's to bum hygiene) to the vacuous self gain/publicity of celebrity charity. Oddly released by Troma it's loaded with heaps of South Park styled crude anti-semitic jokes. Only runs around the hour mark so never outstays its welcome.
Director: Jenna Fischer
Writer: Jenna Fischer, Peter Alton
Cast: James Gunn, Jenna Fischer, Peter Alton
Mockumentary about a wealthy couple who set out to make a difference in the lives of homeless people by giving each of them a lollipop with a cheery slogan on the wrapper.(7 out of 10)
Freakshow (1989)
Freakshow (1989)
Director: Constantino Magnatta
Writer: Bob Farmer
Cast: Audrey Landers, Peter Read, Dean Richards Wiancko
After being ditched by her cameraman because of her manipulative behavior at a murder scene, a reporter wanders through town looking for a phone she can use. She finds a small museum, where the proprietor invites her in to have a look around before leaving. In one room, she encounters a strange jar which causes her to have strange visions, visions that are supposedly drawn from her own mind. These ´visions´ make up the rest of this four- part anthology, which includes horror and suspense stories about a junkie chasing a dog for his runaway fix, a pizza delivery boy who gets a Halloween surprise, a living but paralyzed OD victim forced to undergo her own autopsy because everyone thinks she´s dead, and a deal between a golf course owner and a gravedigger that has some unexpected consequences.
Review Coming Soon...
Director: Constantino Magnatta
Writer: Bob Farmer
Cast: Audrey Landers, Peter Read, Dean Richards Wiancko
After being ditched by her cameraman because of her manipulative behavior at a murder scene, a reporter wanders through town looking for a phone she can use. She finds a small museum, where the proprietor invites her in to have a look around before leaving. In one room, she encounters a strange jar which causes her to have strange visions, visions that are supposedly drawn from her own mind. These ´visions´ make up the rest of this four- part anthology, which includes horror and suspense stories about a junkie chasing a dog for his runaway fix, a pizza delivery boy who gets a Halloween surprise, a living but paralyzed OD victim forced to undergo her own autopsy because everyone thinks she´s dead, and a deal between a golf course owner and a gravedigger that has some unexpected consequences.(Not Yet Rated)
Stake Land (2010)
Stake Land (2010)
Director: Jim Mickle
Writer: Nick Damici, Jim Mickle
Cast: Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, Kelly McGillis
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.
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Director: Jim Mickle
Writer: Nick Damici, Jim Mickle
Cast: Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, Kelly McGillis
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.(Not Yet Rated)
Bereavement (2010)
Bereavement (2010)
Director: Stevan Mena
Writer: Stevan Mena
Cast: Michael Biehn, Alexandra Daddario, Peyton List
The horrific account of 6 year old Martin Bristol, abducted from his backyard swing and forced to witness the brutal crimes of a deranged madman.
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Director: Stevan Mena
Writer: Stevan Mena
Cast: Michael Biehn, Alexandra Daddario, Peyton List
The horrific account of 6 year old Martin Bristol, abducted from his backyard swing and forced to witness the brutal crimes of a deranged madman.(Not Yet Rated)
Polytechnique (2009)
Polytechnique (2009)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writer: Jacques Davidts
Cast: Maxim Gaudette, Sébastien Huberdeau, Karine Vanasse
A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.
Dramatization about a 1989 Montreal engineering school massacre, when 12 women died at the hands of a misogynistic young gunman.
Visually stunning filmed in smooth looking black and white, the story follows those involved from the angst ridden killer whom had big grudge with women, to the females he killed and the survivors who lived through it. The film ends with a truly beautiful letter from one of the survivors un-sent letters to the killers parents, about how much he shattered her whole existence. It's close in feel to the slow paced Gus Van Sant film Elephant but with more substance. Highly recommended take on gun massacres.
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writer: Jacques Davidts
Cast: Maxim Gaudette, Sébastien Huberdeau, Karine Vanasse
A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.Visually stunning filmed in smooth looking black and white, the story follows those involved from the angst ridden killer whom had big grudge with women, to the females he killed and the survivors who lived through it. The film ends with a truly beautiful letter from one of the survivors un-sent letters to the killers parents, about how much he shattered her whole existence. It's close in feel to the slow paced Gus Van Sant film Elephant but with more substance. Highly recommended take on gun massacres.
(8 out of 10)
Crosstalk (1982)
Crosstalk (1982)
Director: Mark Egerton
Writer: Mark Egerton
Cast: Gary Day, Penny Downie, Brian McDermott
Only the computer saw the murder...and it liked what it saw...Computer designer Ed Ballinger has been left temporarily wheelchair-ridden following a car crash. His boss sets him up in his apartment so he can continue working on the new designs for the I-500 computer. But while Ballinger sleeps, the I-500 develops a fascination for his neighbor in the apartment opposite.
Review Coming Soon...
Director: Mark Egerton
Writer: Mark Egerton
Cast: Gary Day, Penny Downie, Brian McDermott
Only the computer saw the murder...and it liked what it saw...Computer designer Ed Ballinger has been left temporarily wheelchair-ridden following a car crash. His boss sets him up in his apartment so he can continue working on the new designs for the I-500 computer. But while Ballinger sleeps, the I-500 develops a fascination for his neighbor in the apartment opposite.(Not Yet Rated)
The Rite (2011)
The Rite (2011)
Director: Mikael Håfström
Writer: Michael Petroni, Matt Baglio
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Colin O'Donoghue, Rutger Hauer, Ciarán Hinds
An American seminary student travels to Italy to take an exorcism course.
Review Coming Soon...
Director: Mikael Håfström
Writer: Michael Petroni, Matt Baglio
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Colin O'Donoghue, Rutger Hauer, Ciarán Hinds
An American seminary student travels to Italy to take an exorcism course.(Not Yet Rated)
The Inheritance (2011)
The Inheritance (2011)
Director: Robert O'Hara
Writer: Robert O'Hara
Cast: Keith David, Rochelle Aytes, D.B. Woodside
Five ambitious cousins set out on a family reunion during the dead of winter. The purpose of the retreat is to secure their inheritance, a fortune that dates back many generations. Upon their arrival, Uncle Melvin (Keith David) welcomes them with open arms, but warns them to respect their family traditions. During the weekend, as each of the cousins mysteriously disappear, they learn the truth about their family legacy, blood ancestry and the ultimate sacrifice they must make in exchange for their beloved inheritance.
Review Coming Soon...
Director: Robert O'Hara
Writer: Robert O'Hara
Cast: Keith David, Rochelle Aytes, D.B. Woodside
Five ambitious cousins set out on a family reunion during the dead of winter. The purpose of the retreat is to secure their inheritance, a fortune that dates back many generations. Upon their arrival, Uncle Melvin (Keith David) welcomes them with open arms, but warns them to respect their family traditions. During the weekend, as each of the cousins mysteriously disappear, they learn the truth about their family legacy, blood ancestry and the ultimate sacrifice they must make in exchange for their beloved inheritance.(Not Yet Rated)
Mandrake (2010)
Mandrake (2010)
Director: Tripp Reed
Writer: David Ray
Cast: Monica Peña, Alan Eaglewolf Bryant, Marcus DeAnda
An expedition led by adventurer DARREN McCALL and funded by the wealthy Harry Vargas braves the impenetrable jungle to retrieve a fabled bejeweled dagger from an ancient burial ground. But pulling the dagger from its rightful resting place awakens the long-dormant plant creature – part plant, part animal, and all bloodthirsty — and sends it on a feeding frenzy from which there seems scant hope of survival or escape.
Review Coming Soon...
Director: Tripp Reed
Writer: David Ray
Cast: Monica Peña, Alan Eaglewolf Bryant, Marcus DeAnda
An expedition led by adventurer DARREN McCALL and funded by the wealthy Harry Vargas braves the impenetrable jungle to retrieve a fabled bejeweled dagger from an ancient burial ground. But pulling the dagger from its rightful resting place awakens the long-dormant plant creature – part plant, part animal, and all bloodthirsty — and sends it on a feeding frenzy from which there seems scant hope of survival or escape.(Not Yet Rated)
Baby Shower (2011)
Baby Shower (2011)
Director: Pablo Illanes
Writer: Pablo Illanes
Cast: Nicolás Alonso, Claudia Burr and Sofía García
Four ex classmates get together to celebrate the pregnancy of one of them. The venue chosen for the party is a country house located one hour away from the city.
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Director: Pablo Illanes
Writer: Pablo Illanes
Cast: Nicolás Alonso, Claudia Burr and Sofía García
Four ex classmates get together to celebrate the pregnancy of one of them. The venue chosen for the party is a country house located one hour away from the city.(Not Yet Rated)
Bedevilled (2010)
Bedevilled (2010)
Director: Chul-soo Yang
Writer: Kwang-young Choi
Cast: Yeong-hie Seo, Seong-won Ji and Min-ho Hwang
When her pleas for help are ignored and cause her daughter's death, a woman seeks revenge on the person she blames.
Review Coming Soon...
Director: Chul-soo Yang
Writer: Kwang-young Choi
Cast: Yeong-hie Seo, Seong-won Ji and Min-ho Hwang
When her pleas for help are ignored and cause her daughter's death, a woman seeks revenge on the person she blames.(Not Yet Rated)
Geo-Lobotomy (2005)
Geo-Lobotomy (2005)
aka: Noejeolgaesul
Director: Gok Kim, Sun Kim
Writer: Sun Kim
Cast: Kyoung-jin Min, Ran-hee Lee, Hyun-min Na
@In an underground laboratory, a brain experiment is underway. In an abandoned coal mining area, casino creditors are being murdered. Those who inherit credit are now waiting to enter the casino.
Review Coming Soon...
aka: Noejeolgaesul
Director: Gok Kim, Sun Kim
Writer: Sun Kim
Cast: Kyoung-jin Min, Ran-hee Lee, Hyun-min Na
@In an underground laboratory, a brain experiment is underway. In an abandoned coal mining area, casino creditors are being murdered. Those who inherit credit are now waiting to enter the casino.(Not Yet Rated)
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