Silent Hill

Starring Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates, Tanya Allen
Director Christophe Gans
Studio PATHE DISTRIBUTION LTD
Certificate 15
Genres Thriller
Language English
Released 4th September 2006

Adopted from the video game of the same name, SILENT HILL features Radha Mitchell (PITCH BLACK). She plays Rose Da Silva, a young mother whose adopted daughter Sharon talks about Silent Hill, the West Virginia mining town while she sleepwalks. Rose then takes Sharon there to try to find out why it haunts her dreams. but Silent Hill has been a deserted town since a series of underground coal fires 30 years ago (in 1974) The remaining residents turn out to be pretty nightmarish, having formed a medieval like cult -- evil being the operative word...

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

Starring Woody Allen, John Tormey, John Schuck, Dan Aykroyd, Helen Hunt
Director Woody Allen
Studio PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Certificate 12
Genres Comedy
Language English
Released 1st November 2004

THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION by Woody Alen is set in the 1940s. Partly a detective story, partly a comedy. Allen plays C.W. Briggs, an old-time insurance investigator who won"t get along with the bright new efficiency expert, Betty Ann Fitzgerald (Helen Hunt), hired to streamline his office's operations. This results in tit for tat quarreling. When a magician, played by the excellent David Ogden Stiers, hypnotizes them as part of his stage act, Briggs unwittingly becomes a jewel thief while also falling in and out of love with the much more confused Fitz, who is having a secret affair with the married head of the company (Dan Aykroyd). Mayhem erupts as a pair of brother detectives home in on the criminal, a sexy debutante comes on to Briggs, and Briggs and Fitz start suspecting each other.
The soundtrack, which features such 1940s jazz classics as Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington, is simply splendid.

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American Splendor

Starring Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Chris Ambrose
Director Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Studio HIGH FLIERS
Run time 97 mins
Certificate 15
Genres Drama
Language English
Released 21st May 2004

AMERICAN SPLENDOR is about Harvey Pekar, the downtrodden yet hilarious Cleveland comic book artist, titled after Pekar's autobiographical series. Played by actor Paul Giamatti, Pekar also appears as himself, giving the film a documentary feeling with some behind-the-scenes on-set shots. Directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini maintain this balance between the actors and the real-life characters--Pekar's wife Joyce and workmate Toby also appear on set as themselves--while creating a funny, but heartwarming tale that contains Pekar's life, work, and uniquely weird perspectives.
Peckar is a pessimistic file clerk with no hope of ever improving his lot in life, his boring job, scruffy apartment, and bad attitude. Amazingly set in his ways, Pekar's constant self-doubt is clearly a front for his prolific interests in music and art. When his friend Robert Crumb (James Urbaniak) gets his big break as a comic book artist, Pekar decides to try his hand at the craft. Though he can't draw, his stories are good, and Crumb agrees to illustrate the pictures. Soon several artists are illustrating Pekar's American Splendor series, and the comic book's readership grows. The film streams through the events of Pekar's life--meeting wife Joyce Brabner, appearing on David Letterman*s TV show, battling with cancer, and adopting a daughter--always showing Pekar's no-frills outlook on life. AMERICAN SPLENDOR is a creative and punchy film and invites viewers into the odd world of Pekar and his comic-book persona.

Witness

Starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Danny Glover, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Alexander Godunov, Patti Lupone, Timothy Carhart, Viggo Mortensen, Brent Jennings, Ed Crowley, Angus MacInnes, Frederick Rolf, Jan Rubes, William Francis
Director Peter Weir
Studio PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time 108 mins
Certificate 15,
Genres Thriller
Language English
Released 2nd October 2000

An Amish boy and his mother are traveling across the country to see relatives but he witnesses a murder of a cop in the bathroom of a Philadelphia train station. A hardened cop (HARRISON FORD) takes him and his widowed mother back to their Amish farming community. There, hiding from his crooked bosses, he finds a simple, old fashioned yet seductive world where love is sure to blossom.
Academy Award Nominations: 8, including Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actor--Harrison Ford. Academy Awards: Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing.

I Am Legend

Starring: Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Paradox Pollack, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan
Director: Francis Lawrence
Studio: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time: 96 mins
Certificate: 15
Genres: Audio Descriptive, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language: English, English Audio Description
Released: 21st April 2008

I AM LEGEND, Richard Matheson's classic thriller is in it"s 3rd adaptation (after THE OMEGA MAN and THE LAST MAN ON EARTH) With this film from director Francis Lawrence (CONSTANTINE). Will Smith plays Robert Neville, the last survivor after a deadly virus wipes out the world"s population 1000 days earlier. Set in a post-apocalyptic New York, Neville who"s a scientist doctor, desperately works on a cure for remaining humans who have been turned into deadly creatures by the virus.

Wrong Turn

Starring: Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Kevin Zegars, Lindy Booth
Director: Rob Schmidt
Studio: PATHE DISTRIBUTION
Run time: 81 mins
Certificate: 18
Genres: Horror
Language: English
Released: 2nd February 2004

WRONG TURN starring Eliza Dushku (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER).is a tense, suspense-packed horror film. When Chris (Desmond Harrington) is late for a job interview, he drives speedily through a backwoods dirt road, and ends up in a head-on collision with a group of teenage campers. The cars are write-offs so the group has no choice but to trek through the woods and seek help. After discovering a mysterious cabin, the unhappy campers realise they are in grave danger when they stumble upon a mixture of grotesque oddities and body parts, The freakish inhabitants of the nightmarish abode soon return and the intensity builds as the inbred, murderous cabin dwellers chase Chris and the campers, leading to some grisly scenes in the dense woodland, and a series of brutal, bloody set-pieces from director Rob Schmidt.
WRONG TURN takes similar backwoods horror flicks like TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and THE HILLS HAVE EYES as its inspiration, The film should appeal to older horror movie fans keen to revisit the movies from their youth. also to younger fans keen to witness some modern-day stalk-and-slash horror mayhem!

The Grudge 2

Starring: Amber Tamblyn, Jennifer Beals, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Edison Chen, Eve Gordon, Arielle Kebbel, Takako Fuji, Jenna Dewan, Joanna Cassidy
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Studio: UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time: 95 mins
Certificate: 15
Genres: Horror
Language: English
Released: 7th May 2007

Aubrey Davis (Amber Tamblyn) discovers that her sister Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar BUFFY EMPIRE SLAYER) has been admitted to hospital.in Japan. She immediately flies to Tokyo. Once there, she learns her sister's story and discovers that a fatal supernatural curse has been unleashed. Meanwhile two American schoolgirls, along with their Japanese friend discover an old burnt out house which turns out to have this curse. As the grudge spreads across the world, It claims a host of unsuspecting victims and refuses to go away... A very creepy film full of mystery.and suspense.

Spiderman 2

Starring: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe,
James Franco, Alfred Molina, Daniel Gillies
Director: Sam Raimi
Studio: COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO
Run time: 122 mins
Certificate: Certificate PG
Genres: Action/Adventure, Audio Descriptiion, Thriller
Released: 26th November 2004

In Sam Raimi's SPIDER-MAN 2, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) struggles to balance his everyday life with his alter ego as the superhero. He still carries the burden of keeping his crime-fighting identity from his friends and family--including his longtime love Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst), his best friend Harry Osborn (James Franco), and his doting Aunt May (Rosemary Harris)--Parker also has to battle against a dangerous new adversary, Dr. Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina), a scientist driven crazy by experiments. He attaches powerful mechanical arms to himself and carries out his test for a new energy source but it goes horribly wrong, threatening to destroy the city.
When the deranged Octavius (AKA Doc Ock) forms a partnership with the vengeful Osborn, who blames Spider-Man for the death of his father, the wall-crawling hero is in for his biggest conflict yet. -- with some stunning special effects.

Resident Evil

Starring: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez,James Purefoy,
Eric Mabius, Martin Crewes, Colin Salmon
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Studio: PATHE DISTRIBUTION
Certificate: 15 Run time: 96 mins
Genre: Horror Released: 2002

The vault, a secret underground facility located below Raccoon City, is sabotaged and a deadly virus is stolen. Alice (Milla Jovovich) is in the mansion that conceals another entrance to the Vault, She lies naked on the shower floor, except for the shower curtain. She can't remember anything but, as she dresses, she recalls memory fragments. Then, masked intruders burst through the windows. They tell Alice she is a Corporation agent living undercover in the mansion. She goes with them into the Vault to discover who sabotaged it. As they penetrate the Vault, trying to get to the Red Queen, the computer system at the heart of the facility, Alice and her confederates face many horrors--dead bodies suspended in water, blood-red flayed dogs, flesh-eating zombies, and 'the Licker', a dynamically mutating monster.

Basing RESIDENT EVIL on the popular video game, writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson delivers a tense, exciting science-fiction/horror film. Anderson and director of photography David Johnson shot the movie in rich silver-and-black, so that its few bursts of colour are striking--like the image of the blonde Milla Jovovich in a very short crimson dress, with a trailing veil, and black boots dragging a silver axe behind her.

The Cave

Starring: Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian, Rick Ravanello
Director : Bruce Hunt
Run time : 97 mins
Genres : Horror
Certificate: 18
Released: 2005

A group of scientists discover a series of underground caves in the ruins of a 13th Century Abbey, A group of divers are called in to investigate the caves but run into very strange flying reptile like creatures... a species not discovered before. This encounter turns out to have some very nasty consequences.

Watchmen

Starring: Carla Gugino, Billy Crudup, Malin Akerman, Patrick Wilson, Jack Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Matthew Goode
Director: Zack Snyder
Studio: PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 163 mins
Certificate: 18"
Genres: Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Released: 27th July 2009

Director Zach Snyder"s WATCHMEN is a comic adaptation of a smart series from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. It revolves around a group of masked heroes who find their abilities banned in a future chaotic America. Someone starts to take down down the former heroes one by one, and a strange character named Rorschach, (who"s inherited his fathers wealth) begins to investigate.. A stunning movie with plenty of special effects but these don't detract from the storyline.
Out soon on DVD

Ashes to Ashes (1st series} BBCTV

Starring: Philip Glenister, Keeley Hawes, Dean Andrews, Marshall Lancaster, Montserrat Lombard, Jonny Campbell, Bille Eltringham
Studio: CONTENDER ENTERTAINMENT GROUP

Gene Hunt Swaps his old Ford Cortina for an Audi Quattro and blasts into the Eighties in the sequel to Life On Mars. DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) is back but he's no longer the so called 'Sheriff of Manchester'. Aided by his faithful sidekicks, Ray Carling (Dean Andrews) and Chris Skelton (Marshall Lancaster), and drawn to the excitment and intrigue of the London Met, Gene turns his attentions to taking on the 'southern nancy' criminal scum. He doesn"t though expect to be slung together with sexy and intelligent, DCI Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes). also a single mother to daughter Molly, Alex has rapidly risen through the ranks of the Met and uses psychological profiling to snare suspects. When Alex and her daughter are kidnapped she makes a brave attempt to escape. This results in a horrific accident. Alex suddenly finds herself in 1981 interacting with familiar characters, not just from her own life-time, but also from the detailed reports logged by Sam Tyler of all people (from the earlier Life on Mars) which Alex has previously spent months pouring over. Alex is ripped from her current (today"s) world of sexual equality and respect and finds herself opposite an arrogant fellow DCI in a Two Tone, New Romantic Eighties London with a soundtrack of The Human League, Adam & the Ants and Roxy music ringing in her ears.
Second series is currently showing on BBC1 Mondays 9pm.

1st series now available for rent on DVD at Lovefilm. (see advert)