Monday, January 31, 2011

Red Hill (2010)



Young police officer Shane Cooper relocates to the small country town of Red Hill with his pregnant wife Alice to start a family. But when news of a prison break sends the local law enforcement officers - led by the town's ruling presence, Old Bill - into a panic, Shane's first day on duty rapidly turns into a nightmare. Enter Jimmy Conway, a convicted murderer serving life behind bars, who has returned to the isolated outpost seeking revenge. Now caught in the middle of what will become a terrifying and bloody confrontation, Shane will be forced to take the law into his own hands if he is to survive. A taut thriller which unfolds over the course of a single day and night, and told with explosive action and chilling violence, Red Hill is a modern-day western played out against the extraordinary landscapes of high-country Australia.

Director: Patrick Hughes
Writer: Patrick Hughes
Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley and Tommy Lewis
More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1530983/

Wind Chill (2007)



A couple of college students known only as the Girl and the Guy are traveling home to Delaware the day before Christmas Eve. They're on a frozen road that the Guy is convinced is a scenic short-cut. In the middle of nowhere in below freezing conditions they are run off the road by a hit and runner. They soon realize they're caught in a supernatural bubble where a crime from 1954 is doomed to repeat itself, year after year threatening new victims. The Guy attempts to walk back to the last petrol station but his wounds from the crash are worse than he let on.

Director: Gregory Jacobs
Writers: Joe Gangemi and Steven Katz
Stars: Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes and Martin Donovan
More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486051/

Slither (2006)



The sleepy town of Wheelsy could be any small town in America -- somewhat quaint and gentle, peopled with friendly folks who mind their own business. But just beneath the surface charm, something unnamed and evil has arrived...and is growing. No one seems to notice as telephone poles become clogged with missing pet flyers, or when one of the town's richest citizens, Grant, begins to act strangely. But when farmers' livestock turn up horribly mutilated and a young woman goes missing, Sheriff Bill Pardy and his team, aided by Grant's wife Starla, uncover the dark force laying siege to their town...and come face-to-face with an older-than-time organism intent on absorbing and devouring all life on Earth.

Director: James Gunn
Writer: James Gunn
Stars: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks and Michael Rooker
More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439815/

Eden Lake (2008)



Nursery teacher Jenny and her boyfriend Steve, escape for a romantic weekend away. Steve, planning to propose, has found an idyllic setting: a remote lake enclosed by woodlands and seemingly deserted. The couple's peace is shattered when a gang of obnoxious kids encircles their campsite. Reveling in provoking the adults, the gang steals the couple's belongings and vandalizes their car leaving them completely stranded. When Steve confronts them, tempers flare and he suffers a shocking and violent attack. Fleeing for help, Jenny is subject to a brutal and relentless game of cat-and-mouse as she desperately tries to evade her young pursuers and find her way out of the woods.

Director: James Watkins
Writer: James Watkins
Stars: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender and Tara Ellis
More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020530/

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Riverworld (2003)



Hale, an American astronaut dies and is reincarnated with other persons who have lived throughout all of human history and end up on a mysterious planet called 'Riverworld'. The humans are left to their own devices and create tribal fiefdoms and succumb to brutal wars and raids. A mysterious race of hooded 'beings' oversee them - sometimes intervening, but their motives are unknown. Anyone who has ever lived and died on Earth comes here rather than 'the afterlife', even an extra-terrestrial call Monat, who had the unfortunate luck of dying on planet Earth in 2039. Hale leads a revolt and joins with others on a large boat to explore this mysterious new world.

Director: Kari Skogland
Writers: Philip Jose Farmer (novels) and Stuart Hazeldine (screenplay)
Stars: Brad Johnson, Karen Holness and Emily Lloyd
More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310952/

Gunless (2010)



A quiet and peaceful community in the Dominion of Canada is shaken up by the arrival of a wounded and stinky gun-toting American cowboy, simply known as The Montana Kid, wanted for the alleged killing of seven men. A subsequent clarification reveals that his real name is Sean Rafferty, and he admits to killing, not seven, but eleven men. Things only get worse after Sean gets in the bad books of the local militia, and with armed bounty hunters hot on his trail, challenges the local unarmed blacksmith, Jack Smith, to a duel - wild west style!

Director: William Phillips
Writer: William Phillips
Stars: Paul Gross, Sienna Guillory and Dustin Milligan
More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1376195/

Fanboys (2008)



Set in 1998, the story tells of a group of friends who, anxious for the premiere of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace - and because one of them is suffering from cancer and wishes to see the film before his death - decide to break into Skywalker Ranch and steal an early print of the film. A road trip begins as the friends encounter William Shatner, obsessed Trekkies, and bikers who make them undress for water.

Director: Kyle Newman
Writers: Ernest Cline and Adam F. Goldberg
Stars: Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel and Kristen Bell
More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489049/

The Quiet (2005)



Following the death of her father, a teenage Dot moves into the home of her godparents and their teenage daughter Nina. Dot arrives wrapped up in the silence of being deaf-mute. She finds a different kind of silence waiting for her in her new home, for this home is a place with a dark secret involving Nina and her father. At first, Dot and Nina seem to be polar opposites. However, they gradually realize how much they have in common. Bringing them together catalyzes a series of events in which both reveal their secrets and shed their double lives. A violent consummation almost destroys them. Yet they find hope for the future in the quiet after the storm.

Director: Jamie Babbit
Writers: Abdi Nazemian and Micah Schraft
Stars: Camilla Belle, Elisha Cuthbert and Edie Falco
More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414951/

Saturday, January 29, 2011

My Name is Bruce (2007)



Four teenage kids from the tiny mining town of Gold Lick vandalize a nineteen-century cemetery of Chinese laborers when one of them disturbs a demon who's been guarding the souls of 100 workers killed in a cave-in. Jeff, the surviving teen, goes in search of his hero, over-the-hill B-movie star, Bruce Campbell. Jeff kidnaps the actor and brings him to Gold Lick to save the town. Bruce thinks it's a birthday treat engineered by his agent, so he plays along, humoring the townsfolk and chatting up Jeff's unimpressed mom. Bodies pile up as the demon slashes. What will the sorry, boozy Bruce do when he realizes that Guan-Di, the demon, is for real?

Director: Bruce Campbell
Writer: Mark Verheiden
Stars: Bruce Campbell, Grace Thorsen and Taylor Sharpe
More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489235/

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)



The script, written by Jamie Mathieson, follows three social outcasts -- two geeks and a cynic -- as they attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub. Faris plays a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion.

Director: Gareth Carrivick
Writer: Jamie Mathieson
Stars: Chris O'Dowd, Marc Wootton and Dean Lennox Kelly
More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910554/

Seraphim Falls (2006)



In the 1860s, five men have been tracking a sixth across Nevada for more than two weeks. They shoot and wound him, but he gets away. They pursue, led by the dour Carver, who will pay them each $1 a day once he's captured. The hunted is Gideon, resourceful, skilled with a knife. Gideon's flight and Carver's hunt require horses, water, and bullets. The course takes them past lone settlers, a wagon train, a rail crew, settlements, and an Indian philosopher. What is the reason for the hunt; what connects Gideon and Carver? What happened at Seraphim Falls?

Director: David Von Ancken
Writers: David Von Ancken and Abby Everett Jaques
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson and Anjelica Huston
More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479537/

The Wave (2008)



In probing the underpinnings of fascism, The Wave is far from a social-studies lesson. As with his previous film, Before the Fall, director Dennis Gansel fashions an energetic, gripping drama that cuts through superficial ideological interrogatives and goes straight for the veins--the human psychologies and individual behaviors that contribute to collective movements. In unpeeling the emotional layers and contradictions of his characters (the need to belong, to be empowered, to escape social distinctions), Gansel offers a humanistic perspective on the terrifying irony that these students may welcome the very things they denounce.

Director: Dennis Gansel
Writers: Dennis Gansel and Todd Strasser
Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau and Max Riemelt
More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1063669/

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