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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.

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".

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!