01/14/2006
Dukes Of Hazzard
Cousins Bo (Seann William Scott) and Luke (Johnny Knoxville) Duke, with the assistance of their extremely sexy cousin Daisy (Jessica Simpson) and Uncle Jesse (Willie Nelson) must save the Duke family farm and the whole town from destruction by the town's corrupt and evil commissioner Boss Hogg (Burt Reynolds).
Their efforts constantly land the "Duke Boys" eluding authorities in "The General Lee", the boys' orange 1969 Dodge Charger. Their quick thinking and rocket of a car always keep them one step ahead of the dimwitted antics of the small southern town's Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane (M.C. Gainey) and his band of goons.
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12/29/2005
Green Street
Matt's (Elijah Wood) character has recently been expelled from Harvard after taking the fall for his roommate when cocaine was found in their room. In truth, he resents his roommate for it but his roommate, we hear, has a powerful and influencial father.
Matt decides to move on and clear his head. He goes to visit his sister, who moved to England a few years ago. There, he meets his brother-in-law, Steve, for the first time, and Steve’s brother, Pete (Charlie Hunnam). He’s appears to be an ill tempered rude guy with easily aroused bouts of violence, but Matt gets to know Pete and his friends, and grows to like them.
Pete is a massive football fan, and takes Matt to his first match. After which he gets jumped by a gang of the rival team’s hooligans. Pete and his friends show up and a gang fight ensues. After this Matt spends more and more time with Pete and the 'firm'. They get in more fights and Matt gains respect among the fans, despite being a "Yank". And Matt gains respect for Pete who he realises is much more than just a thug.
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Bad News Bears
Morris Buttermaker (Thornton), an alcoholic pest removal worker and former professional baseball player (for a very short time), is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team of 12 year olds which is about to be thrown out of the league. Although the team does not win the first place in the next championship, it does achieve a great comeback.
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12/28/2005
Wedding Crashers
The film follows two sneaky guys who, apart from refusing to grow up, crash weddings to meet women. Things get complicated, however, when John (Wilson) falls hard for one of the bridesmaids (McAdams) they encounter whose family are American royalty - her dad is the secretary of the treasury! (Christopher Walken). Can Jeremy (Vaughn) help his best friend to get his act together in time to land the girl he never knew he always needed?
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Land Of The Dead
One heroic group of scavengers try to bring justice to the city within which they live. However they later face a much greater challenge when they become the cities main defence against an evolving group of killer zombies. These once slow and brainless creatures are becoming more advanced and intelligent as well as even more dangerous to the human survivors within the city.
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11/17/2005
Cinderella 2
A new sequel to the classic fairy tale, the lives of Cinderella and her friends Gus and Jaq have changed forever. And this story tells of the magical adventures that they went on...
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11/06/2005
Eye 2, The
Thai horror maestros Oxide and Danny Pang follow up their hit 2002 film with a sequel that equals the chills and creepy mise-en-scene of the first. Qi Shu (MILLENIUM MAMBO) stars as Joey Cheng, a troubled young woman who is pregnant with the child of the boyfriend who just dumped her. On holiday in Bangkok, she makes a suicide attempt in her hotel room, but is foiled by her wake-up call. Something was altered in her close contact with death, however, and returning home to Hong Kong, the realisation slowly dawns on Joey that the wraith-like people she now sees everywhere are actually deceased. This knowledge does not sit well with Joey, and as she descends further and further into her own torment, she attempts to reconnect with her ex-boyfriend Sam (Jesdaporn Pholdee), who seems to be hiding some kind of secret. The Pang Brothers' characteristically excellent cinematography infuses THE EYE 2 with atmospheric foreboding, and Qi Shu hands in an outstanding performance as the haunted expectant mother.
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The Amityville Horror
On November 13, 1974, Suffolk County Police receive a frantic phone call that led them to 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville. Inside they discover a horrific crime scene: an entire family slaughtered in their beds. Ronald DeFeo, Jr., confessed to shooting his parents and four siblings while they slept, claiming “voices” in the house forced him to commit the murders.
One year later, George and Kathy Lutz and their children moved into the house. But shortly after settling in, bizarre and unexplainable events began to occur – nightmarish visions and haunting voices from an evil presence still lurking within the house.
Confused and frightened by her daughter Chelsea’s interaction with an imaginary friend named Jodie, Kathy struggles to hold her family together as George’s increasingly strange behavior finds him spending days and nights in the basement. With lucid visions and evil voices swirling through George’s head, the house comes alive in a spine-chilling climax.
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Sin City
Dark and deadly, Sin City hits you right between the eyes with a striking blend of old school film noir and newfangled comicbook visuals.
Cinema's first literal adaptation of a comic book, this ferocious tale of thugs, prostitutes, murder and revenge is like nothing you've ever seen before.
Set in the fictional metropolis of Basin City and featuring a powerhouse cast including Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba and Clive Owen, Sin City intertwines three stories from Frank Miller's notorious novels.
There's The Hard Goodbye, in which thug Marv (Rourke) seeks revenge for the death of a prostitute; The Big Fat Kill which sees private eye Dwight (Owen) help a gang of warrior prostitutes; and That Yellow Bastard, the tale of a cop's (Willis) battle against a child-killer.
Director Robert Rodriguez rewrites all the rules with a movie that is shot almost entirely against a green screen, with the backgrounds added during post production, and reproduced in glossy monochrome with poignant splashes of colour.
Sticking close to the noirish comic book mood, this movie is packed with hard-boiled dialogue, and barely a moment passes in this ultra violent movie when someone isn't being killed in some innovative and ghoulish fashion. The men are tough-talking monosyllabic types with high thresholds for pain, and the women wear very little.
Rodriguez has certainly come a long way since his no-budget debut triumph of El Mariachi in 1992, the first in the acclaimed trilogy, and what he did for the western he has more than achieved in this modern noir.
"I was a big fan of noir, I almost re-made Kiss Me Deadly back in 1997... but I was afraid to be too nostalgic," explains Rodriguez.
What I liked about Frank's material was that although it is in that tradition of noir, it was so updated, so savage and new that it wouldn't feel like a nostalgia trip. That's why I was really excited about this."
There's a little of Pulp Fiction in Sin City, both in the hipness and the jolt it gives audiences, and that's no surprise seeing as Quentin Tarantino shot a scene in the movie.
Rodriguez recalls: "I told him last year, it took him a while to make Kill Bill which he thought was going to be a very fast shoot but I told him if he'd shot it on digital, it would have been much faster. So I said the next time I was shooting something on digital, he should come and direct a sequence.
"We shot the scene with Clive and Benicio in the rain, on the road in a car - and there was no rain, no road and no car. He got to see how all that stuff went away and he could concentrate on getting a great performance from the actors".
Sin City is a rich and scintellating homage to Miller's work - but is there more to come?
Rodriguez says: "I know we're going to do the second one, that's based on A Dame To Kill For which takes place before these stories. So that would probably be the most interesting one to help complete this story".
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11/05/2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith
The galaxy is weary after three long years of war, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi have become legendary heroes in their campaigns against the droid forces of the evil General Grievous.
Anakin and his secret wife, Padme Amidala, have been separated for months, and he finally reunites with her to learn that she is pregnant. He is plagued by visions of her dying in childbirth, haunting images of a possible future. Anakin is determined to stop her from dying, no matter the cost. This leads Anakin down a dark path to commit terrible deeds.
Obi-Wan Kenobi must face his former apprentice in a ferocious lightsaber duel on the driery world of Mustafar.
Whether you love the new Star Wars films or prefer the old school originals this film has elements of both and will definately not disappoint!
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Batman Begins
As a young boy, Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of him--a trauma that leads him to become obsessed with revenge. But the opportunity to avenge his parent's deaths is cruelly taken away from him by fate. Fleeing to the East, where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra's Al-Ghul, Bruce returns to his now decaying Gotham City, which is overrun by organized crime and other dangerous individuals manipulating the system.
Meanwhile, Bruce is slowly being swindled out of Wayne Industries, the company he inherited. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, along with a prototype armored suit, leads him to assume a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong; he becomes Batman!!! In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan 'The Scarecrow' Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.
Cast List
Christian Bale ...Bruce Wayne/Batman
Michael Caine ...Alfred
Liam Neeson ...Henri Ducard
Katie Holmes ...Rachel Dawes
Gary Oldman ...Jim Gordon
Cillian Murphy ...Dr. Jonathan Crane
Tom Wilkinson ...Carmine Falcone
Rutger Hauer ...Earle
Ken Watanabe ...Ra's Al Ghul
Mark Boone Junior ...Flass
Linus Roache ...Thomas Wayne
Morgan Freeman ...Lucius Fox
Larry Holden ...Finch
Gerard Murphy ...Judge Faden
Colin McFarlane ...Loeb
Sara Stewart ...Martha Wayne
Gus Lewis ...Bruce Wayne - age 8
Richard Brake ...Joe Chill
Rade Serbedzija ...Homeless Man
Emma Lockhart ...Rachel Dawes - age 8
Christine Adams ...Jessica
Catherine Porter ...Blonde Female Reporter/Assassin
John Nolan ...Fredericks
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