Kiss The Girls

Starring Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes, Tony Goldwyn, Alex McArthur, Jay O. Sanders, Bill Nunn, Richard T. Jones, Brian Cox, Roma Maffia, Jeremy Piven, Gina Ravera, William Converse-Roberts, Justina Vail
Director Gary Fleder
Studio PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time 111 mins
Certificate 18
Genres Thriller
Language English
Released DVD: 05 Nov 2001
Production year: 1997

North Carolina police detective Dr. Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) searches for an elusive psychopath whose mission is to abduct young women but not necessarily kill them but "collect" them like trophies who he hides in a mysterious place in the woods. His quarry though, includes the detective's own law-student niece, so he has a race against time to find them. Kick boxing medical intern Dr. Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd) who escaped the "collection," volunteers to help. The film is a nail biting yet formulaic thriller, based on the series of novels by James Patterson.

Saw

Starring Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung, Dina Meyer, Monica Potter, Leigh Whannell
Director James Wan
Studio ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO
Run time 102 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 18
Genres Thriller
Language English
Released DVD: 21 Feb 2005

When Adam (Leigh Whannell) nearly drowns at the bottom of a decrepit bathtub, he awakes to find himself chained to a rusty pipe inside an old disused bathroom which seems to have been turned into some kind of torture chamber. Someone else is in the room. Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) has also just regained consciousness and is chained to the opposite side of the room. A man is lying in a pool of blood between them after apparently shooting himself in the head with the pistol in his hand.
All they hear is the voice of the sinister person who put them in there give out instructions to aid their escape but sets a time limit. The clock on the wall is ticking though and Adam and Dr. Gordon piece together the clues left behind by this deranged criminal mind that has brought them together and finally realize that they, too, must make a seemingly impossible set of choices for their lives.

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!