Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker’s classic novel of the same name. A young lawyer (Jonathan Harker) is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker’s betrothed, Mina Murray. …
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Film Review: Mary (2019)
SYNOPSIS: “In MARY, David (Academy Award Winner Gary Oldman) is a struggling blue-collar captain looking to make a better life for his family. Strangely drawn to an abandoned ship that is up for auction, David impulsively buys the boat, believing it will be his family’s ticket to happiness and prosperity. But soon after they embark on their maiden journey, strange and …
Read More »Film Review: Robocop (2014)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Detroit police officer, Alex Murphy, is critically wounded by a criminal mastermind his only hope of survival is the experimental robo-program at OmniCorp led by Dr. Dennett Norton. CEO Raymond Sellars sees Murphy as an opportunity to introduce his “robot soldier” technology to U.S. soil by putting a man into the suit making him a …
Read More »Film Review: Red Riding Hood (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Valerie (Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter (Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie’s older sister has been killed by …
Read More »Film Review: The Fifth Element (1997)
SYNOPSIS: “In the twenty-third century, the universe is threatened by evil. The only hope for mankind is the Fifth Element, who comes to Earth every five thousand years to protect the humans with four stones of the four elements: fire, water, earth and air. A Mondoshawan spacecraft is bringing the fifth element back to Earth but it is destroyed by …
Read More »Get Robo-phobic With The New Trailer For ROBOCOP
The second trailer for the redo of ROBOCOP has made its way online and I’m still holding to my original opinion that I’m liking what I’m seeing. A stellar cast and an already proven story will hopefully lend itself to an better than average remake experience. In this retelling we are in the year 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is …
Read More »First Trailer For ROBOCOP Brings The Goods
I know there is a lot of bad mojo out there when it comes to this remake of ROBOCOP but do yourself a favor and watch this new trailer. I think you’ll come away feeling a little better about things. This one don’t hit till February of next year but I think this trailer did its job, I’m interested. Did …
Read More »First Still From DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Will Have You Swinging From The Trees!
Kind of lost in all the other news from SDCC was this little tidbit about a flick I know a lot of us here at horrornews.net world headquarters are really looking forward to seeing. DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES got itself a little buzz rolling through the convention when they released this: Slated for a summer of 2014 …
Read More »Film Review: The Dark Knight (2008)
SYNOPSIS: When Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent launch an assault on the mob, they let the clown out of the box, the Joker, bent on turning Gotham on itself and bringing any heroes down to his level. REVIEW: “The Dark Knight” was the perfect on screen adaptation of the Batman lineage. Christian Bale held his ground continuing in his Batman …
Read More »Gary Oldman To Play With Those Damn Dirty Apes
Great news ape fans. Gary Oldman has joined the already kick ass cast of DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. The sequel to the pretty awesome RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES is slated to start production pretty shortly as they have a release date of May of next year. According to comingsoon.net Oldman “will be boarding the …
Read More »Film Review: The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
SYNOPSIS: Eight years on, a new terrorist leader, Bane, overwhelms Gotham’s finest, and the Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy. REVIEW: It’s been four years since the second of director Christopher Nolan’s proposed trilogy of Batman films “The Dark Knight” was released. A masterful film that ended with Batman taking responsibility for the …
Read More »Film Review: Interstate 60 (2002)
SYNOPSIS: A confused young man (Marsden) takes a journey on a road that doesn’t exist on any map. REVIEW: “Interstate 60 Episodes of the Road” was one film that caught me by surprise. I’ve always associated it with the stylings of a cult film although I’m not so sure it ever caught on to signal “that” classification. For starters we’ll …
Read More »Film Review: Batman Begins (2005)
SYNOPSIS: “As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader …
Read More »Film Review: The Unborn (2009)
SYNOPSIS: Tortured by frightening dreams at night and the ghost of a young boy during the day, young Casey (Odette Yustman) turns to a spiritual adviser named Rabbi Sendak (Gary Oldman) for help. Together, the two uncover and try to stop a powerful family curse dating back to the Nazi era. David S. Goyer writes and directs this supernatural thriller …
Read More »Film Review: Hannibal (2001)
SYNOPSIS: Anthony Hopkins returns as one of the great villains in screen history, Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter, in this riveting sequel to The Silence of the Lambs. Lecter’s only surviving victim, the hideously scarred Mason Verger (Gary Oldman), tries to draw the serial gourmet out of hiding using the one person he cares about: Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore). Can the …
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