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Severance

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:46:32 +0000

Office team building taken to the extreme! Seven colleagues from the British division of Palisades Defence, an international weapons manufacturer, are on a work trip through Europe. As a break from their promotional duties, they’re enjoying a weekend in a luxury lodge where they take part in those naff team-building exercises. When they find the road blocked by a tree, their Hungarian bus driver refuses to take an alternative route through the forest. Insisting it’s not far, manager Richard (McInnery) leads the group off on foot. Almost immediately Steve (Dyer) starts muttering, “There’s someone in the woods.” Of course, everyone ignores him because he’s a stoner.

Anyone who’s ever been on a team-building expedition (“I can’t spell success without ‘u’ ”) will cringe/ laugh as Tim McInnerny’s idiot boss frogmarches his office geek (Andy Nyman), graduate posho (nostril-flaring Toby Stephens), hot fox (24’s Laura Harris), right-on bore (Claudie Blakley), sweet square (Babou Ceesay) and cheeky-chappie layabout (Dyer) off to Hungary for a weekend of outdoor activities. Broad-stroked backstories ensue, along with plenty of gags – both visual and verbal, clever and (gleefully) stupid – before Creep writer/director Chris Smith gets down to the blood-letting.

Starting to see a trend in the sort of movies we like and don’t like? This one gets the thumbs up from me!

YEAR: 2006
STARS: Danny Dyer | Laura Harris

From Dusk Till Dawn

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:39:52 +0000

What you get here is the very best ass kicking, shotgun toting, gloriously slimy, outrageously funny, vampire-slaying-bank-robbers-on-the-run road movie ever made. The Gecko brothers (George Clooney, and Quentin Tarantino), have killed a lot of people in Texas and so they’re forced to head for Mexico. On the way, they hijack a family motor home, taking ex-minister Jacob (Harvey Keitel) and his daughter Kate (Juliette Lewis) as hostages, to help them sneak out of the USA.
South of the border, they plan to meet up with a crook named Carlos (Cheech Marin) at a sleazy truckers’ bar called the Titty-Twister. In this crimson decorated dive, one of the sexy dancers (Salma Hayek, no less!) suddenly turns into the queen of vampires, and the inevitable bar fight that ensues becomes an overzealous blood ‘n’ guts massacre as hordes of hideous soft-bodied monsters are stabbed, slashed, shredded, shot in the head, or blown to smithereens. For scenes combining senseless horror and macho action this is almost unsurpassed. This film is definatly one of my favorites. You either love it of hate it!
YEAR: 1996
STAR: George Clooney

DAYBREAKERS

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:21:47 +0000

In a world 10 years into the future, vampires make up the vast majority of the population with only 5% of the human race remaining. This presents particular challenges as the vampires’ food supply – human blood – is dwindling and rationing is now the norm. There is growing evidence that vampires deprived of an adequate blood supply are themselves evolving into wild, vile creatures that attack anyone and anything in order to survive. Dr. Edward Dalton, a vampire and hematologist who works for a pharmaceutical firm, has been working on finding an artificial blood supply that will meet the vampire society’s needs. He is sympathetic to humans and sees his work as a way of alleviating their suffering but his views on finding a solution change considerably when he meets someone who found a way to transform himself from being a vampire to again take human form.

Sounds great, awesome idea for a Vamp film with a nice twist! The humans are the minority and being farmed to extinction wow thats gotta suck. Shame however that the films seem thin on the ground for story and nothing really comes together. It just seems that they had to include all the typical vampire scenes, the slowmo walk through smoke, the backlit hair emotional looks…

YEAR: 2009
STAR: ETHAN HAWKE

The Burning

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:15:00 +0000

Cropsy, an alcoholic, sadistic caretaker for the summer camp called Camp Blackfoot is pranked by a group of adolescent boys who felt it was necessary to get him back for all the terrible scares he inflicted on the kids. The prank goes wrong and Cropsy is left in a hospital for five years, yet to no avail Cropsy is left to go back out into the world again but this time he is a changed individual inside and outside. Cropsy, back in society again for the first time in five years, feels more than obligated to pay a visit to some individuals at a place called Camp StoneWater, just across the way from his old stomping grounds. This movie has an alternative title of “Cropsy.”

YEAR: 1981
STAR: JASON ALEXANDER

Forget Me Not

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:15:00 +0000

It’s graduation weekend, and Sandy Channing, the popular and beautiful class president of her small town high school, should be enjoying the time of her life without any worries. But when her friends start disappearing and ending up murdered, Sandy discovers they have unwittingly awakened the vengeful spirit of a girl they wronged long ago, when they were playing a dumb school kids game. Fighting for her sanity while trying to maintain her friendships, Sandy must unlock a dark secret from her own past and figure out if the maniacal ghosts are real or fictional before it’s too late, and she ends up like her many college bound cohorts.

YEAR: 2009
STAR: CODY LINLEY