Starring:Anjelica Huston, Mae Whitman, Kristin Chenoweth, Pamela Adlon, Lucy Liu, Jesse McCartney, Raven-Symoné
Director: Klay Hall
Writer: Evan Spiliotopoulos
Release Date: 27 October 2009
Genre: Animation | Family | Fantasy
Plot:
Tinker Bell’s greatest adventure yet takes place in Autumn, as the fairies are on the mainland changing the colors of the leaves, tending to pumpkin patches, and helping geese fly [...]
Imagine a universe where people are incapable of lying, where even the idea of a lie is completely foreign. This is the world depicted in Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson’s new film The Invention of Lying, which takes place in an alternate reality where people have never discovered this ability. Everything is different in a [...]
Taking a ten-sentence children’s book and transforming it into a 111-page screenplay is no easy task. The original book, Where the Wild Things Are, had a simple plot and only one named character, so how does one go about turning this into a feature film? Some might turn it into a Pixar wannabe movie with [...]
The saving grace of Michael Jackson’s swan song This Is It, a grab-bag of rehearsal footage, on-camera interviews and backstage moments captured on the fly, is that its contents were never intended as a film. Instead, as a solemn caption informs us, this footage, shot in America between March and June this year, was destined [...]
Not many horror franchises make it to part six. Halloween and Nightmare on Elm St in terms of how many direct sequels it has had. The franchise’s killer is Jigsaw, played by Tobin Bell. He is not a mindless killing machine like Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers, he’s a self-righteous ponce who uses torture to [...]
Starring: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell, Shawnee Smith and Peter Outerbridge
Release Date: 23 October 2009
Genre: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Director: Kevin Greutert
Plot:
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to [...]
Paranormal Activity, a horror film directed by Oren Peli, might at first be thought of as a clone of another well known horror film, The Blair Witch Project. Both are low budget horror films shot with a handheld camera and both spread like wildfire thanks to viral marketing to become sleeper hits.
Like the film before [...]
Hollywood’s latest low-budget scare-fare ‘Paranormal’ competed last weekend against two other “blockbusters”: The $50 million ‘Law
Abiding Citizen’ and the $65 million ‘Astro Boy’. It busted both.
Horror trumped honor by a country mile.
The coup has horrified Hollywood bigwigs, whose mantra generally has been to spend mega bucks at extravaganzas aimed at blowing the box-office down. Movie [...]
