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The Blackout

08 Nov

In a creature feature, the atmosphere and setting play part of the biggest role.

The apartment building and the basement setting are pretty weak.

The opening was kind if interesting, but once we got into the apartment itself, the movie went downhill pretty quickly.

There are very few quality moments in this, and the fact of the matter is that the story, acting and overall attempt at horror with this movie was pretty thrown together.

The CGI didn’t blend well with the live action footage, and the creatures themselves looked wooden and lifeless.

The girls were good looking, but none of the characters were given even a modicum of development in order to care about their fates.

The frenetic pace of the action was confusing, and there the only good things about The Blackout was the musical score which wasn’t half bad, and a couple of the shots were quality. Overall, it is a PASS!! :D

It’s Christmas Eve, the city goes dark, and the few remaining tenants of The Ravenwood find themselves trapped in their building. And they are not alone…  nice!!

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Cirque Du Freak The Vampires Assistant

03 Nov

UCirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan, is a fantasy-adventure about a teenager who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires.

Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.

John C. Reilly was super, he had a very powerful presence that we’d not really noticed before.

The Vampire’s Assistant tells the frightening tale of a boy who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires.

Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.

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The Maiden Heist

23 Oct

Peter Hewitt casts great actors to play the role of museum security guards who have spent the better part of their lives standing still.

Each of these guards becomes attached to and finds meaning for his life in one of the pieces of art of the museum.

However unexciting the main storyline might be, Hewitt uses the script to build this satire on so much realism that it makes for a good comedy.

If you are looking for a light and innocent comedy, can look past a couple stereotypes and predictable twists, than you might enjoy this movie.

Three security guards (Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, and William H. Macy) scheme to steal their favorite pieces of artwork that their museum is about to relinquish to another gallery in this Peter Hewitt-helmed crime-comedy.

A comedy centered on three museum security guards who devise a plan to steal back the artworks to which they have become attached after they are transferred to another museum.

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Star Quest: The Odyssey

22 Oct

StarquestIn the wake of a great battle that ravages planet Earth, mankind begins establishing colonies on other planets and chaos reigns.

The government has been destroyed, and rogue colonies are preying on the innocent.

With the future of our entire civilization hanging in the balance, the fight for the future begins.

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The Lost And Found Family

21 Oct

When her husband dies unexpectedly, a high society woman is forced to give up her lavish estate, and plots to sell the rural Georgia abode that she still owns the title to, but is currently being used as a Foster home.

Ester Hobbes’ life of luxury was a transparent fallacy, a hard truth that she isn’t quite ready to accept upon discovering that her late husband died without a dollar to his name.

Instantaneously rendered homeless and penniless, Ester begins drawing up plans to sell the one asset she still possesses – a weather beaten Georgia home that’s currently housing a handful of unwanted adolescents.

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The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall

19 Oct

After Tom Hurndall is shot in the head in Gaza, his parents Anthony and Jocelyn arrive in Israel wanting to know how it could have happened.

They expect sympathy and co-operation from the Israeli authorities, but are instead met with an official explanation that fails to tally with  eye-witness accounts, and a wall of silence.

When an Israeli army report attempts to whitewash the incident, the Hurndalls decide the only way to establish the truth is to launch their own investigation into the shooting, a process which brings them face to face with both the Open-Fire regulations of the Israeli army in Gaza, and the soldier who pulled the trigger.

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The Keeper

11 Oct

Nowadays there are lots of so called “action films” but many times the makers have concentrated too heavily on the blot.

A good action movie needs to be very very entertaining and those complicated blots are some times in the way.

So… The Keeper, to keep it short delivers this.

Seagal really is like in the old days, a kick ass ex cop with a personal charisma to blow up walls, the fighting scenes are made quite nicely and they are nice and brutal enough.

People who enjoy watching action movies with bones crunching and people getting beaten up by Steven Seagal will love this! ;)

In the vein of “The Professional” and “Man on Fire”, Steven Seagal plays an LA cop who after nearly being killed by his greedy partner, flees to New Mexico to work as a bodyguard for the daughter of a wealthy businessman.

When mobsters kidnap her, he hunts them down to rescue her and protect her.

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Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure

08 Oct

All fans of Tinker Bell and her first movie have no reason to worry; “Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure” is a full-worthy sequel to the first movie.

Considering that there’s only one year of absence between the movies, the filmmakers have done a good job to make this a complete movie and not only a product for cash-cowing, like it easily could have been.

The film focus more on the relationship between Tink and Terence this time, which serves the movie well. Tink herself is presented as a versatile character and the fact that she actually talks feels never distracting in neither of the movies.

Otherwise, this film has the cuteness-factor like the first flick had, which only makes the experience more enjoyable, but it’s also a bit more edgier in terms of the adventurous plot.

The animation is even better this time, the characters are still likable and the cute score of Joel McNeely fits the movie well. Besides, there are more humor in the screenplay.

This year’s Autumn Revelry promises to be something special.

A blue harvest moon will rise, allowing the fairies to use a precious moonstone to restore the Pixie Dust Tree — the source of all their magic.

But when Tinker Bell accidentally puts all of Pixie Hollow in jeopardy, she must venture out across the sea on a secret quest to set things right.

With some help from her friend Terence — and a charming, rascally firefly named Blaze — Tink braves an astonishing new world and discovers the greatest treasure of all.

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The Rebound

05 Oct

There’s none of the commercial, fake feel some romantic comedies have, or the ones that try to be funny and are not, this is a daring romantic comedy, really in tune with our times that breaks with some stereotypes.

Great acting, both by the adults and the kids, interesting storyline, and nice imagery of New York City.

When a beautiful, smart, suburban 40-year-old mother discovers her husband is cheating, she takes her two children to New York City to start over.

A demanding new job forces her to hire a nanny, and she chooses 25-year-old Aram, who is still trying to figure out what he wants in life.

As Aram increasingly becomes attached to her kids, Aram and Sandy become aware of their own undeniable chemistry.

The Rebound is a fresh, witty, and sexy comedy about an unexpected romance.

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The Tournament

02 Oct

Filming is good, nothing too dark or menacing but just nice.

It’s not Battle Royale but if action is your thing and you liked Death Race 2000, Shoot Em’Up or Wanted then you’ll be happy enough.

Any gripes about morality are irrelevant here, this is in a moral vacuum, and so are plot holes, logic, or how heads explode like watermelons, this is either your type of film or you should really it avoid totally.

Yep, it’s violent – limbs fly, people die in well, imaginative ways – but it is not horror. ;)

It’s all well put together, nicely cast, and creates enough interest; better than just hunt or be hunted there is a real plot and even character development.

Fight scenes are marvelously staged, with great fight choreography, but also outstanding gunplay and vehicle stunts.

When it comes to the sheer amount of action “The Tournament” gives you the most for bang for the buck.

It is very hard to invent some new kinds of action set-pieces and choreographies but in a couple of scenes “The Tournament” does that.

Also, you must bear in mind that action is very violent and gory.

The sheer amount of gore is comparable to Neill Blomkamp’s “District 9″.

Bloodletting is stylish and lavish and Scott Mann really has the guts (quite literally) to pull it off.

Every seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place.

A battle royale between 30 of the world’s deadliest assassins.

The last man standing receiving the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of Worlds No 1, which itself carries the legendary million dollar a bullet price tag.

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