Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud between the Vampires and the Lycans. Aided by his secret love, Sonja (Rhona Mitra), courageous Lucian (Michael Sheen) leads the Lycans in battle against brutal Vampire king Viktor (Bill Nighy). Determined to break the king’s enslavement of his people, Lucian …
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Film Review: S. Darko (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Seven years after the tragic death of her brother Donnie, Samantha Darko is still mourning him and the loss of the loving family that fell apart after he died. Her home life in shambles, 18-year-old Sam impulsively decides to join her rebellious best friend Corey on a cross-country drive from Virginia to California in the hope …
Read More »Film Review: The Sky Has Fallen (2009)
SYNOPSIS: Within a couple of hours, a new disease wipes out almost all of mankind. Trying to avoid infection, people flee to remote locations, but they start seeing mysterious black figures, carrying away the dead and experimenting on them. Now, Lance and Rachel, two survivors determined to fight back, must kill the leader of these creatures before the rest of …
Read More »Film Review: Melancholie der Engel (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two friends meet again to share their last days in an old house where everything happened a long time ago. They gather a group of people, which results in a disastrous turn of events, during which reveals the deepest human depths.
Read More »Film Review: Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An American named Anthony is living and working in Tokyo and married to a Japanese woman. When their son is killed by the same driver who creates the Tetsuos in previous films, he makes the transformation into Tetsuo REVIEW: An assault on your senses… this was the first and presiding thought that came over me as …
Read More »Film Review: Blood Creek (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A struggling, German, immigrant family in West Virginia, in the early 1930’s, receives a letter from the Reich that they will be paid for housing a Nazi scholar Richard Wirth, (Michael Fassbender) while he conducts research. This being the Dust-Bowl/Great Depression era the impoverished family reluctantly accepts the man into their home. Once there, he inquires …
Read More »Film Review: C Me Dance (2009)
SYNOPSIS: A drama centered on a teenage girl who has trained her entire life to dance for the Pittsburgh Ballet. REVIEW: Let me just open here by saying that I am not a religious person in any way shape or form. Therefore, I do feel that there is the possibility that the messages that this movie was trying to send …
Read More »Film Review: The House of the Devil (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret; they plan to use her in a Satanic ritual. REVIEW: D: Ti West C: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Dee Wallace Samantha (Donahue) doesn’t care for her …
Read More »Film Review: Daybreakers (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After an outbreak of vampirism has washed over the planet and its inhabitants have been infected for nearly ten years, supplies of human blood have diminished while demand remains steady. Few humans remain in the wild, having been rounded up by the military for use in blood supply and breeding, and the large holding facilities, where …
Read More »Film Review: A Serious Man (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking REVIEW: Another odd quirky gem from out of the minds of the Cohen brothers, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, A Serious Man (2009) takes a dramatic comical look at …
Read More »Film Review: The Poker Club (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Four poker buddies end up with a house full of problems when an armed intruder interrupts their weekly card game. Stabbing him and tying him up was one thing, but they shouldn’t have bashed his skull in with a baseball bat. Now, with an accidental death on their hands, they’ve got to hide the body … …
Read More »Film Review: I Am Here…Now (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Disappointed by its creation, the almighty being that created Man arrives on Earth in a human form and interacts with various troubled, wicked and sinful people on his journey to Vegas. REVIEW: My suspicions that the HIgh Sheriffs at this site are trying to see if they can break a person’s spirit by making them watch …
Read More »Film Review: RoboGeisha (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Director Noboru Iguchi and gore master Yoshihiro Nishimura team up for this hyper-violent and hilariously grotesque depiction of a very angry army of butt sword-wielding geisha robots with enough strength to embed tempura shrimp in villains’ eyes. Special effects in Iguchi’s (Machine Girl) over-the-top, feminist melodrama include chainsaw lips, blood-spouting buildings, geisha transformers, machine gun bras …
Read More »Film Review: Yatterman (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A team of young superheroes and their robots fight to protect their futuristic city from a bumbling gang of evil-doers – in order to do so, they must collect the four miraculous and sacred Skull Stones before they fall into the wrong hands!
Read More »Film Review: Yoga (Yoga Hakwon) (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After the co-host of a shopping channel TV show loses her job to a younger rival, she enrolls in an intensive yoga course. The very strict trainer informs her students that there will be serious consequences if they do not follow her rules. REVIEW: Yoga, also known as Yoga Class, Yoga Institute and Yoga Academy, is …
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