Tuesday, February 27, 2007

The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Graded)

The Fantastic Four learn that after seemingly beating their arch nemesis Dr. Doom, they aren't the only super-powered beings in the universe. When they square off against the powerful Silver Surfer and the planet-eating Galactus things might just finally be getting fantastic. Let us all hope so.

Grade: F +
Trailer HERE

Friday, February 23, 2007

Days of Glory (Graded)

The young North Africans had never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlisted in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous soldiers,” to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. These heroes that history forgot won battles in Italy, Provence and the Vosges before finding themselves alone to defend an Alsatian village against a German battalion.

Grade: A
Trailer HERE

Next (Movie Watch)



Las Vegas magician Cris Johnson has a secret gift & a curse which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing & living off small-time “winnings.” When a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in L. A., agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris & convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.


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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

First Snow (Movie Watch)

Stranded after an accident outside a desolate town, Jimmy Starks a smooth-talking salesman certain he’s on the verge of a big break, visits a roadside soothsayer to pass the time, but soon learns that he is running out of time. At first skeptical, Jimmy's world begins to unravel as the soothsayer's visions come true. Now with fate looming nearer paranoia takes a hold or is it destiny?

Grade: A -
Trailer HERE

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Fracture (Movie Watch)

A position with a high-profile law firm is only a couple of weeks away for young hotshot district attorney Willy Beachum. His final case before the transition, however, may also be his most difficult. When the devious & dangerously clever Ted Crawford has to stand trial for an attempted murder of his wife, he declines access to a lawyer & defends himself. Thanks to a series of technicalities, he’s able to evade sentencing, angering his ambitious prosecutor. Willy’s ego will not let him rest until he’s brought the guilty man to justice & soon he & Ted are fierce adversaries in a dangerous cat & mouse game.


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Monday, February 12, 2007

The Abandoned (Movie Watch)

An American woman searching for her birth parents learns she has inherited a house in the middle of a forest in a remote area of Russia. It is the house where she was born. Abandoned & uninhabited for 40 years, it stands in total disrepair and neglect. What she finds is more than an old house. She meets a mysterious man who claims to be her brother, a twin she never knew. Finding that the house holds secrets to a past they don’t remember, they are forced to relive a series of horrifying events & shocking murders that occurred just after they were born, in the place they were supposed to die.

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The Valet (Movie Watch)

The tale begins when François Pignon, a restaurant Valet at a posh Paris hotel gets caught-up in a billionaire industrialist’s sneaky infidelities. Veber’s plot quickly turns on the fall guy, when Francois - an innocent passerby - is photographed by a paparazzo leaving the hotel along with Pierre Levasseur, the wealthy tycoon & his beautiful supermodel mistress Elena.


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Thursday, February 8, 2007

The Kingdom (Movie Watch)

The Kingdom: After a deadly terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia takes the lives of many innocent American civilians, the FBI decides to take action by sending a team to capture those responsible.

Grade: B
Trailers HERE

Mr. Brooks (Movie Watch)


Mr. Brooks is a relatively normal man with a wife & a daughter. Buried beneath the ordinary façade, however, is an emotionally tortured soul of a person harboring a dark secret. Mr. Brooks’ devious alter ego Marshall loves murder & mayhem & pushes Mr. Brooks to commit heinous deeds. As much as he is determined to remain disciplined & fight the sinister urges, Mr. Brooks cannot fully resist Marshall’s influence & lives a second life as a serial killer. His rampage catches the attention of detective Attwood, a tough female cop devoted to her craft & to catching the culprit. His intelligence, however, gains her respect & eventually leads to a strange symbiotic relationship between the two.

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Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Black Book (Movie Watch)


Holland 1944 - The final years of the Second World War find the beautiful singer Rachel Stein taking refuge with the Tsjempkema family in rural Holland. Once a popular and wealthy singer, Rachel has been waiting out the war like many Jews in Europe, separated from her family and a moment away from being caught by the Gestapo.


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Angel-A (Movie Watch)


In Angel-A a beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together.

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Monday, February 5, 2007

Across the Universe (Movie Watch)

At once gritty, whimsical & highly theatrical, Across the Universe is an original movie musical.
A romantic musical told mainly through numerous Beatles songs performed by the characters. The story revolves around a young man from Liverpool who comes to America during the Vietnam War to find his father and instead winds up in Greenwich Village, where he falls in love with an American girl who has grown up sheltered in the suburbs. Together they experience the sweeping changes of America in the late 60's. In being set against the backdrop of the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock 'n roll, the film moves from the dockyards of Liverpool to the creative psychedelia of Greenwich Village, from the riot-torn streets of Detroit to the killing fields of Vietnam.

The star-crossed lovers, Jude & Lucy, along with a small group of friends and musicians, are swept up into the emerging anti-war and counterculture movements, with "Dr. Robert" & "Mr. Kite" as their guides. Tumultuous forces outside their control ultimately tear the young lovers apart, forcing Jude & Lucy – against all odds – to find their own way back to each other.

Grade: B +
Trailer HERE