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Sunday, March 21st, 2010Carny (2009)
IMDB rating: 4.80
Plot: When a traveling carnival comes to a rural Nebraska town, the caged attraction everyone is talking about is the alleged Jersey Devil. When the beast escapes, tearing the citizens to shreds, local sheriff Sam Atlas steps up to form a tracking team. But the carnivorous fugitive is only one of Sam’s [...]
Old School
Sunday, March 21st, 2010Old School (2003)
IMDB rating: 6.90
Plot: Mitch, Frank and Beanie are disillusioned with their personal lives begining when Mitch’s nymphomanic girlfriend, Heidi, cheats on him, then former party animal Frank gets married, but unwilling to get go of his wild life, and Beanie is a family man seeking to reclaim his wild and crazy youth. Beanie [...]
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
IMDB rating: 5.60
Plot: During a sanitarium transfer, Michael Myers murders his hospital escorts and brutally murders the staff of a gas station. Dr Loomis hears of the incident, and he is confident that Myers is planning to return to Haddonfield to kill his niece. He confronts Michael in [...]
Medicine Man
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Medicine Man (1992)
IMDB rating: 5.60
Plot: An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he’s close to a cure for cancer. When the assistant turns out to be a “mere woman,” he rejects her [...]
Superman Returns
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Superman Returns (2006)
IMDB rating: 6.90
Plot: After eliminating General Zod & the other Kryptonian arch-villains, Ursa & Non, Superman leaves Earth to try to find his former home world of Krypton after astronomers have supposedly found it. When he finds nothing but remnants, he returns home to Earth – to find out that Lois Lane is [...]
Once
Friday, March 19th, 2010Once (2006)
IMDB rating: 8.00
Plot: An (unnamed) Guy is a Dublin guitarist/singer-songwriter who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners in his Dad’s Hoover repair shop by day, and singing and playing for money on the Dublin streets by night. An (unnamed) Girl is a Czech who plays piano when she gets a chance, and does [...]
In Enemy Hands
Friday, March 19th, 2010In Enemy Hands (2004)
IMDB rating: 6.00
Plot: At the height of Hitler’s infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisoners of war aboard U-boat 429, a small group of American survivors will find their loyalties put to the ultimate test when they’re [...]
Se7en
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Se7en (1995)
IMDB rating: 8.50
Plot: A film about two homicide detectives’ desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world’s ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic “John Doe” sermonizes to Detectives Sommerset and [...]
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (2005)
IMDB rating: 7.20
Plot: Based on the classic novel by ‘CS Lewis’ (qv). Four London children are sent to a professor’s country home in order for protection during World War II. There they find a magic wardrobe which leads to a mystical land called Narnia, [...]
Enter the Dragon
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Enter the Dragon (1973)
IMDB rating: 7.40
Plot: Hong Kong circa 1973. Lee, a member of a Shaolin Temple, is a master of the physical and spiritual disciplines of the martial arts, and is being visited by Braithwaite, a British law officer. Lee has been invited to a tri-annual martial arts tournament held on an island owned [...]