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)

Gia 1998

starring: Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Michael Cole, Kylie Travis, Louis Giambalvo, John Considine, Scott Cohen
Director: Michael Cristofer
Studio: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time: 117 mins
Certificate: 18
Genres: Drama, Gay/Lesbian
Language: English
Released: 21st July 2008 (on DVD)

Brief Description of Gia
Gia Carangi, one of America's first supermodels,(Angelina Jolie),lives a hard life in the tough mean streets of 1970s New York City while treading the catwalks of the dog eat dog fashion industry. Unfortunately, she sucumbs to the temptations which often plague this world and tragically dies young.
This rather gritty drama was adapted by director Michael Cristofer and novelist Jay McInerney from the biography THING OF BEAUTY by Stephen Fried. This is on of Jolie"s early film appearances along with GIRLS INTERRUPTED.

Quarantine (2008)

Starring: Columbus Short, Jay Hernandez, Jennifer Carpenter, Johnathon Schaech, Marin Hinkle, Rade Serbedzija, Denis O'Hare, Steve Harris, Greg Germann, Joey King
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Studio: SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 89 mins
Certificate: 18 Genres: Audio Descriptive, Horror, Thriller

TV reporter Angelina Vidal (Carpenter) & her cameraman (Harris) have been assigned to spent time at a Los Angeles fire station. They follow the firemen to a routine 911 call to a small apartment block. Police officers have already arrived in response to agonising screams coming from one of the apartments. They soon realise that a woman living in the building has been infected by an unknown condition. The situation deteriorates rapidly and they become trapped. This is a remake of the Spanish film "Rec"