Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Cast: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter

Director: Tim Burton

Genre: fantasy, family, adventure

It is still worth the high price of the 3-D admission to see some of
the amazing animation and design, but the writing is extremely boring
and clumsy, and the performances cannot save it. Too many …

Trailer Alice in Wonderland

Balibo (2009)

Cast: Anthony LaPaglia, Oscar Isaac, Nathan Phillips

Director: Robert Connolly

Genre: thriller

Born a decade on from the events depicted in this film I new little of
the story of the occupation and take over of then Portuguese Timor ,
even though I was avid History student in school. By the …

Play the Game (2008)

Cast: Paul Campbell, Andy Griffith, Doris Roberts

Director: Marc Fienberg

Genre: romance, comedy

Not having high expectation for a film that literally had no p & A so
that people would even know that it's in theaters, I was pleasantly
surprised by the story. I wanted this film to be …

Trailer Play the Game

The Book of Eli (2010)

Cast: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis

Director: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes

Genre: western, thriller, sf

In a very short space of time two post-apocalyptic films have been
release, the brilliant The Road which is aiming for Oscar glory, and
the action packed The Book of Eli which is appealing for the …

Trailer The Book of Eli

The Box (2009)

Cast: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella

Director: Richard Kelly

Genre: mystery, horror, drama

The creator of Donnie Darko brings you a twilight zone themed tale of
the oddest fashion. The film centers on a middle aged young couple
living paycheck to paycheck in 1976. One day a mysterious bo…

Trailer The Box

Taxidermia (2006)

Cast: Csaba Czene, Gergely Trócsányi, Piroska Molnár

Director: György Pálfi

Genre: drama

Beginning in World War II-era Hungary, two soldiers stay at a remote
country home. The sexually frustrated soldier Vendel (Csaba Czene)
concerns himself with myriad masturbation techniques while wa…

2012 (2009)

Cast: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Director: Roland Emmerich

Genre: thriller, drama, action

The 2012 idea offered a great opportunity to make a true global
disaster movie. The plot is imbecile. The characters are black and
white. Typical stereotyping. Except for the White House staff. The…

Trailer 2012

District 9 (2009)

Cast: Sharlto Copley, John Sumner, William Allen Young

Director: Neill Blomkamp

Genre: thriller, sf, drama

Just got home from a preview of District 9. We had seen the previews
and were intrigued to see just what the film would be like.

Trailer District 9

9 (2009)

Cast: Elijah Wood, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau

Director: Shane Acker

Genre: fantasy, drama, adventure

Man I got to tell ya it is so nice to see something different that has
the intensity of a mature movie yet lies within the realm of the
animated world. Every scene was beautifully done and you can …

Trailer 9

Nine (2009)

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz

Director: Rob Marshall

Genre: musical, drama, romance

The film is beautiful, visually stunning, and exciting, and the cast is
remarkable, especially Penelope Cruz (no surprise there), Marion
Cotillard (her singing is wonderful), and the gal who blows …

Trailer Nine

$9.99 (2008)

Cast: Tom Budge, Joel Edgerton, Leon Ford

Director: Tatia Rosenthal

Genre: animation

Made up of Israeli writer Etgar Keret's several short stories, .99 is
a black comedy satirizing social manners and discontents of today's
urban nation. Within a high density of morbid h…

Trailer $9.99

The Descent: Part 2 (2009)

Cast: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Krysten Cummings

Director: Jon Harris

Genre: thriller, horror, adventure

In the first The Descent movie, where Sarah was the only survival of a
caving expedition, Neil Marshall (director and writer) chose to keep
the ending open to different interpretations of the real …

Trailer The Descent: Part 2