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Discerning fans of comedy already know who Kristen Schaal is. They've seen her be hilariously creepy in Flight of the Conchords. They've witnessed her control of cutting satire as a Daily Show correspondent. For the last few seasons of 30 Rock she kept Kenneth Parcell's heart in a state of constant confusion. She's even left her mark in the animated world with Bob's Burgers. When she isn't busy stealing the scene in whatever project she's involved with, she finds time to be a fixture on the alternative comedy scene bringing her blend of oddness and absurdity to the masses. For a comedienne who has done so much (and all of it so well), it's kind of surprising to note that Live at the Fillmore marks her first hour-long special for Comedy Central.

I know I've already called Schaal's style of comedy odd and absurd but it bears repeating m...Read the entire review

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Fantasy edges its way into the modern world with director Aleksander Nordaas' Thale. He builds his film around a bit of Norwegian folklore and makes it stick by allowing the tale's gentle pacing to slowly lay out its mystery in a manner that completely takes a hold of one's imagination. That he does so with a tiny cast and limited resources makes it even more impressive.

When we first meet our protagonists Leo (Jon Sigve Skard) and Elvis (Erlend Nervold), they are knee-deep in quite the mess. I mean that quite literally since they are crime scene cleaners (No Shit Cleaning Service is as great a business name as I've ever heard) who are currently taking care of a little old lady's mostly liquefied remains. Well, Leo is taking care of her remains while Elvis pukes his guts out in a corner. It's a grisly application of less-is-more (who needs to see the remain...Read the entire review

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Nobody typically accuses modern slasher films of putting much thought into the setup. It's usually all about getting a group of pretty young things into a nondescript location and finding new ways to dismantle their bodies. 13 Eerie rises above its low-budget roots and bucks this trend by staging its mayhem against a fairly imaginative backdrop. The fact that it can't keep the creativity alive for its entire running time speaks to its slavish devotion to zombie and slasher film clich s. As it stands, it's a fun little diversion but based on the promise of its first half-hour, it could have been so much more.

Pay no attention to CSI and its many variants. Take away the stylized visuals and throbbing electronic score and you see forensic work for what it really is: an investigator alone with a mass of something that used to be alive. This is the blea...Read the entire review

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Pure dumb curiosity. That's what compelled me to watch Tom Green Live. The very idea that the oddball comedian who was responsible for The Tom Green Show and Freddy Got Fingered could do something as mainstream as stand up in front of an audience and tell them jokes for an hour was hard to grasp. And yet, that's exactly what we have here. Not only does Green do the whole stand-up thing, he actually fares quite well. Cohesive, silly, pointed and just a touch poignant; Green's act marks yet another turning point in his career.

It's hard to appreciate just how far Green has come until you give some thought to exactly where he's been. While Green traces his comedy roots back to doing stand up in small clubs as a teenager, his big break really came in the late 90s when he went from having a public access show on Canadian television to hosting The Tom G...Read the entire review

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I rarely expect to enjoy watching a sequel when I haven't seen the original film. When we're talking about a series of slasher films, those expectations sink just a little bit lower. It's not that I hate slashers; quite the opposite. I just haven't seen anything terribly encouraging from the genre in recent times. Well, I guess I just wasn't looking in the right places because Norwegian director Mats Stenberg takes my preconceived notions and blows them to smithereens with his 2008 slasher Cold Prey II (aka Fritt Vilt II).

Despite being a direct sequel to 2006's Cold Prey, screenwriter Thomas Moldestad's story has the decency to start by giving newbies to the series (like myself) a few new characters to latch on to. We're introduced to Camilla (Marthe Snorresdotter Rovik), a doctor at a remo...Read the entire review

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An anime show from studio BONES by director Seiji Mizushima and writer Shou Aikawa of Fullmetal Alchemist fame...how could that possibly disappoint? And yet, Un-Go seems to fall short of the slam dunk that it ought to be. This 2011 series is chock full of promise with plenty of positive elements on its side. In fact, that's part of the problem. This show has so much going on that it doesn't know how to coordinate all of its moving parts into a working whole.

The setting is a near future post-war Japan that has turned into a bit of a police state thanks to the constant threat of terrorism. Our protagonist is Shinjurou Yuuki who goes by the moniker of the Defeated Detective. Besides being quite deflating, the nickname is also patently false because Shinjurou isn't defeated as much as he is ignored, on top of which he barely qualifi...Read the entire review

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David Mamet loves games: the games that he plays with words and the games that his characters play with each other. This is especially evident in his affection for movies featuring con men. His directorial debut House of Games is a shining example of the genre done right and Heist is a minor masterpiece featuring some of his most quotable lines ("Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money" and "I'm as quiet as an ant pissing on cotton" being two of my personal favorites).

With that said, I have a real soft spot for his 1997 thriller The Spanish Prisoner. Perhaps it's partly due to nostalgia because the film was my first true exposure to Mamet (which sparked an enduring fascination) but I...Read the entire review

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Any synopsis of Special Forces would make it sound like standard issue direct-to-video Hollywood fodder. That is until you see that Djimon Hounsou and Diane Kruger are speaking in French...and so is everybody else. That's right, Special Forces (aka Forces Sp ciales) is a French Men on a Mission film that mixes together elements of Tears of the Sun and Behind Enemy Lines with distinctly European flair before forcing its protagonists into a showdown with an unflinching opponent. I'm talking about Mother Nature. Spoiler alert: she's in full-on bitch mode.

After a rousing opening that features our titular badasses capturing a war criminal in Kosovo, the film sets the stage for...Read the entire review

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I was a little wary of The Factory, a direct-to-video serial killer thriller starring John Cusack. Sure, the presence of Cusack gave me hope but then there was that whole 'direct to video serial killer thriller' aspect that could have gone either way. Having seen it, I can confirm that writer/director Morgan O'Neill's movie is a lot better than I expected while still falling short of being something that I could whole-heartedly recommend to a fan of the genre.

Cusack plays Mike Fletcher, a weary cop who has been on the trail of a potential serial killer with little success. I say potential because none of the victims have ever been found, dead or alive. For three years, prostitutes have been snatched off the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. never to be heard from again. In the absence of any well-wishers, the only people who truly remember them are Cusack and his p...Read the entire review

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I must confess that before I watched this special, I was blissfully unaware of Joan Rivers' status as a comedienne. I certainly knew of Joan Rivers, the TV personality, from her inescapable presence at various red carpet events and her TV shows. I just assumed her schtick was limited to mocking celebrities and what they were wearing. Her new stand up special, Don't Start with Me, proves me wrong by demonstrating how willing she is to mock everybody (celebrity status not required).

She starts off the show in Chicago by grabbing the microphone from the backstage announcer and preemptively declaring her intent to offend the entire audience. From there she strides onto the stage and jumps right into an awful Michael Jackson joke. The gag is darkly funny in a way that makes her look a lot worse than Jackson himself. As it turns out, this wil...Read the entire review

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Back in 2006, a little movie called Ultraviolet was seen by few and enjoyed by even fewer. Kurt Wimmer's attempt at cinematically reverse engineering a graphic novel elicited reactions that ranged from "psycho-stylized cheddar" (positive) to "gigantic flaming ball of suck" (umm...negative?); and that's just a few of my fellow reviewers on DVDTalk. Just to let you know which side of the fence I fall on, I rather enjoyed the movie despite its many shortcomings. Sure it's more than a little silly and the plot is barely coherent but when I'm in the right mindset I'm able to appreciate it in all of its nonsensical glory. Milla Jovovich hurting goons in a futuristic setting conceived by the guy who gave us Equilibrium (a film I legitimately love)...yeah, I'm okay with that.

Clearly someone over at Madhouse agrees with me because in 2008 the esteemed anime studio cr...Read the entire review

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White people do it like that and Latinos do it like this. Oh and the way Latinos do it is soooooo much better. There you have it. That's George Lopez's latest HBO special in a nutshell. I won't deny that there are a few laughs to be had (I definitely chuckled a few times). Just be prepared to have the same basic premise flogged over and over again for roughly an hour. Lopez's charisma will keep you from tuning out but there's a really good chance that the shallowness of his material will leave you unsatisfied after he's left the stage.

To have recorded 3 stand-up specials for HBO is no small feat. Lopez accomplishes exactly that with this set performed in front of 7000 adoring fans at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Lopez is on his home turf and has the crowd hanging on his every word right from the start. Lest anybody accuse him of disguising his intent, he ...Read the entire review

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Harland Williams is one odd duck. At least that's the impression I used to have of him after watching him in movies like Half Baked and RocketMan and catching his interviews on late night talk shows. That's okay, I like odd. After sitting through his unorthodox comedy special A Force of Nature, I'd like to amend my earlier statement. Harland Williams is one seriously odd duck...and not the kind of odd that I like.

It's impossible to proceed without first addressing Williams' choice of venue since it is the foundation on which he builds his act. In a rather ballsy move, Williams takes his audience out of the picture by performing his entire set on a hilltop in the middle of the desert. Yeah, you read that right. There is no stage, no production value to speak of and most importantly (without an audience) no give and take. It's just Williams ef...Read the entire review

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Sexual politics turn ugly in Cherry, a movie about shallow people doing horrible things to each other all in the name of love or what passes for it in their world. Despite the film not possessing a single character worth caring about, it remains watchable thanks to some occasionally sharp writing by writer / director Quinn Saunders and co-writer / star David Crane and a finale that goes heavy on the shock value.

Brian Cherry (David Crane) is a sad and lonely man. This isn't immediately apparent because the film opens with him having a boozy night out with his best friend, Sam (Rey Valentin). Unfortunately, Sam is a brash, misogynistic alpha-male who keeps Cherry around just so he can feel better about himself. Even his offer to chat up a girl on Cherry's behalf comes with the warning that if Cherry doesn't put the moves on her, then Sam will...what a pal. I...Read the entire review

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The parody movie genre has taken a real beating over the last decade thanks in no small part to the efforts of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. After offering up a few laughs as writers of the first few entries of the Scary Movie franchise, they went on to bigger (but not better) things by co-writing and co-directing some of the most painfully unfunny excuses for comedy that I've ever witnessed (Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans...I'm looking at you).

It may seem unfair to drag Friedberg and Seltzer into any discussion of Supernatural Activity since they had nothing to do with this movie. However, a glance at the film's tagline 'From none of the creators of Scary Movie' shows that director Derek Lee Nixon and writer Andrew Pozza are comfortable with the comparison, the assumption being that their low-budget comedy is superior to Friedberg and ...Read the entire review

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It's always nice to see a low-budget production execute a concept with efficiency and polish in a way that would make the big boys jealous. The Ghostmaker is one such flick. Ostensibly a supernatural thriller, it borrows ideas from sources as diverse as Flatliners, The Invisible Man and even Final Destination to say something about the dark depths of addiction. It may be light on scares overall but it manages to keep the tension high. This is largely thanks to the keen eye of writer/director Mauro Borrelli who puts every cent of the budget up on the screen for all of us to see.

After an ominous start filled with grainy internet footage hinting at what's to come, the film wastes no time in establishing the lead character of Kyle (Aaron Dean Eisenberg). He has a lovely girlfriend, Julie (Liz Fenning), works at a cleaning service part-time and is ...Read the entire review

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To say that Jeff Ross knows a thing or two about roasting people would be an understatement. Insult comedy is Ross's bread and butter. Besides being the Roastmaster General of the New York Friars' Club, he has been cutting celebrities down to size on Comedy Central Roasts for quite some time now. I'm guessing that's where a number of folks saw him for the first time (I know I did). From there, he parlayed his success into a Comedy Central show (The Burn with Jeff Ross) and now this release which covers 8 stops on his first major national tour.

As the special started, it was immediately apparent that nothing would be off limits as a clip showed Ross cracking wise on stage moments after learning about Whitney Houston's death. His audience howled with laughter, relishing the very awkwardness of it all. I chuckled too, thinking of the gag as a twisted palate cleanser. ...Read the entire review

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From the fine folks that brought you Transmorphers and Snakes on a Train, here comes the next low budget soundalike direct-to-video classic Shark Week. Actually, scratch that. It may have been filmed on a shoestring budget and its title is definitely meant to capitalize on the name recognition of Shark Night but this one's no classic. It's just another tiresome slog through bad movie terrain that's unwilling to go the distance and be so gloriously awful as to actually be entertaining on some level. I'm struggling to think of anything positive to say but I'm sure there's something in here that's worthy of a passing nod. Let me circle back to that.

The plot (or what passes for it) involves a lunatic (Patrick Bergin) who kidnaps strangers, brings them to his island and then has them fight for survival in shark-infested waters. That's it. That's ...Read the entire review

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As much as I love it when a movie tosses a few unexpected twists and turns my way, it's tough to ignore the sheer number of films that throw out their backs while bending over backwards to deliver that one big oh-my-god-you'll-never-see-it-coming mega twist. Add Barricade to the list of casualties claimed by this growing trend. What could have been a spooky little haunted home invasion flick slowly comes undone in the second half as disjointed scares pave the way to a monumentally silly ending.

At least director Andrew Currie working from a screenplay by Michaelbrent Collings builds up a reasonably effective atmosphere before it all goes to hell. Much of the credit for our investment in the film's setup goes to the core casting. Eric McCormack plays against type here as a dad struggling to cope with the death of his wife while putting on a brave face for his...Read the entire review

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Apparently, revenge is a dish best served cold...and blind...and sometimes naked. This is one of many truisms to be gathered from director Raoul Ruiz's film that feels like a dressed up stage play with interesting performances from Tom Conti and Daryl Hannah. Its intimacy sets us up quite nicely for a tale of intrigue that only stumbles towards the end.

Due to the limited setting and tiny central cast, I can't say too much without spoiling some of the film's surprises. I'll try to skim along the top and not give anything away. Conti plays a famous art critic and author, named Paul, who lost his eyes in a terrible car accident a few years ago. When the desire strikes to write one last novel, an autobiography no less, he realizes that he's going to need a little help. He auditions a number of people to act as his eyes and hands before settling on Hannah's character, Jane....Read the entire review

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Plenty of action movies promise non-stop thrills but Sleepless Night is one of the few that actually delivers. Director Fr d ric Jardin's film is an unyielding shot of adrenaline that simply can't be denied. It goes and goes and just when a lesser film would have paused for a breather, it takes off like a rocket.

As the film opens, we hit the ground running with Vincent (Tomer Sisley) and Manuel (Laurent Stocker) who steal a duffel bag filled with cocaine from a couple of thugs. Unfortunately, things get messy in a hurry when Manuel gets trigger happy. In the ensuing commotion, one of the thugs is killed and the other escapes but not before getting a good look at Vincent's face. This is going to be a problem because Vincent and Manuel are actually cops...dirty ones, but cops nonetheless. The heist comes back to haunt Vincent in a big way when his son (Samy Seghir...Read the entire review

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The oh-so-hot-right-now found footage subgenre of horror takes a voyeuristic turn with writer/director Randall Cole's 388 Arletta Avenue. A shift in perspective is a key factor in one's appreciation of what Cole and his crew are trying to do here. We've seen plenty of horror movies that feature protagonists who suffer from an inability to put down their video cameras even as terrible things are happening to them and their loved ones. Very rarely (if ever) do we get one where the footage is from the perspective of the antagonist. 388 Arletta Avenue fills that vacuum by tormenting an unassuming couple for the enjoyment of an unseen voyeur (and us of course...we do like to watch...don't we?).

James (Nick Stahl) and his wife Amy (Mia Kirshner) are under surveillance. Someone in a van has been watching them go about their lives, making note of their habit...Read the entire review

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It's rare to see a movie with a decent premise fall apart as thoroughly as Red Lights does in its final act. This is largely due to an ending so monumentally dumb that it can't help but tank everything that came before it. Director Rodrigo Cort s may have scored points with genre fans with his last offering where he buried Ryan Reynolds alive but some of that good will is definitely squandered here.

Before I go off on a rant about the film's stupefying climax, let me exercise some restraint and start at the very beginning (a very good place to start). Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy) are paranormal investigators with a twist. Rather than entering haunted houses with an arsenal of cameras and acting terrified for no particular reason (like every supernatural r...Read the entire review

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Buddhist Neo-noir. Let that phrase roll around on your tongue. There's something a bit incongruous about it. At least, that's how I felt until I watched Headshot, which uses the phrase in its marketing material. After seeing the film by Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, I can't think of a better way of describing the blend of philosophy and nail-biting tension contained within.

The film follows Tul (Nopachai Chaiyanam) across fragmented timelines. He used to be a passionate cop until he crossed paths with a drug lord who had political ties. When Tul wouldn't accept a bribe, he was framed for a murder he didn't commit (and that may not have been a murder after all). After being tossed into the gears of the very penal system he had sworn to protect, his idealism slowly faded away. Now, he is employed as an assassin for a shadowy group that is working outside the l...Read the entire review

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When simplicity is called for, anything more than the bare minimum simply feels like too much. If that sounds too obvious, please feel free to share with Gregory McQualter. The first time writer-director has overstuffed his debut feature, Blood Money, to the point where it's just a giant mess.

The unnecessarily complicated plot involves a Shaolin fighter-turned-assassin named Zhou (Zheng Liu) who finds himself in the middle of a drug war. The tiff between Hong Kong Triads led by Steven Ho (Jimmy Wong) and a Colombian cartel led by Esteban Cabrera (Alex Castro) feels a little petty when you realize that their initial plan was to work together. Unfortunately, after setting up a large shipment of cocaine for Australia and China, greed rears its ugly head. Next thing you know, folks are getting double-crossed, family members are being kidnapped and death warrants are ...Read the entire review

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Who'd a thunk my first taste of Argentine horror would be so damn delicious? Penumbra is smart and sneaky with a sly sense of humor that warms my heart. In short, it has everything I look for in a horror movie but seldom find.

After an ominous opening, we meet Marga (Cristina Brondo) who happens to be a very busy lady. She's got places to be and people to lord over (she's a nasty piece of work but more on that later). Having been dragged away from her home in Barcelona, she finds herself in Buenos Aires trying to rent out an old family property that has fallen into disrepair. Much to her surprise, the local realtor (Berta Mu iz) who was supposed to work with her, claims to have found a client who is willing to pay many times Marga's asking price. The only catch is that the client simply must move into the apartment that very same day. Incidentally, a tota...Read the entire review

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Martial arts noir...does that sound appealing to you? If the thought of that genre coupling gets you all hot and bothered then you're in the target demographic for The Girl from the Naked Eye. The action scenes take prominence over the noir trappings to yield a film that is entertaining without being completely successful.

Our protagonist is a broke gambler named Jake (Jason Yee). In order to pay off his debts, he works for a sleazy club owner named Simon (Ron Yuan) who runs an escort business on the side. Jake drives Simon's girls from client to client and steps in as a bruiser when things don't go as planned. It's a simple enough job that gets complicated when Jake meets Simon's newest girl, Sandy (Samantha Streets). He has his guard up and she has secrets of her own but over time they develop a friendship. Unfortunately before their relationship can bl...Read the entire review

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Playful. Sweet. Silly. Delightful. These were words I jotted down as I watched The Fairy. I couldn't be bothered with constructing complete sentences because I was too busy smiling from ear to ear for the duration of the film. Filmmakers Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy use a firm foundation of physical and visual comedy to give us a touching tale that speaks to a bygone era while feeling timeless itself.

Dom (Dominique Abel) is going though another day of drudgery, working the night shift at a small French hotel when a woman approaches him with a most intriguing offer. Her name is Fiona (Fiona Gordon) and she claims to be a fairy. As part of her job description she offers him three wishes. He, in utter confusion, offers her a room. And so begins their unusual courtship. One skinny-dipping-and-underwater-dance-sequence (!!!) later, Dom is absolute...Read the entire review

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Making a serious-minded vampire movie in the Twilight era ("He needs more glitter...I said MORE GLITTER DAMMIT!") has got to be tough. Sharing the same genre space as a recent cultural juggernaut (whether the status is deserved or not) influences how your film gets marketed and especially how it is perceived. While Midnight Son definitely features a romantic subplot between its leads (one a vampire, one not so much), that is far from being its ultimate selling point. What writer/director Scott Leberecht has crafted here (in his debut no less) is a touching and ethereal story of metamorphosis where growing pains threaten to leave scars.

Leberecht draws us into his tale by introducing Jacob (Zak Kilberg), a shy and solitary security guard. He works the night shift because he has a skin condition (if you can call catching on fire a skin condition) that p...Read the entire review

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All good things come to an end. This is especially true of the The Adventures of Tintin which gives us 13 final episodes in the company of the young journalist, his spunky dog and colorful friends. The third season of the show moves away from the sheer variety of adventures offered by season two and follows the example of season one where multi-episode arcs reigned supreme. Trading in breadth for depth turns out to be a positive move since the final season emerges as the show's strongest.

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If you ever meet Gabriel Iglesias in person and he insists on introducing you to one of his incredibly funny friends, do a quick check to see if his shorts (the man hates pants) are engulfed in flames. I'm just saying that there is a really good chance that HE IS LYING. His Comedy Central series Stand-Up Revolution does indeed feature a number of stand-up comedians but hardly qualifies as a revolution. For that, they would have to actually generate laughs.

Gabriel plays the role of ringleader as he brings 18 comics to the stage (over the course of 7 episodes) in a bid to tickle our funny bone. The format of every episode remains the same with Gabriel receiving an entirely unnecessary introduction by 'host' / sidekick / hype-man Martin Moreno. Gabriel and Martin banter for a couple of minutes and by that I mean to say Gabriel cracks a couple of silly jokes while Mar...Read the entire review

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Guy Pearce - Action Star. If that phrase doesn't get you unreasonably excited then Lockout won't do much for you. On the other hand, if you are prepared to watch the immensely talented actor gleefully take on a role that shoots way below his skill level in a perfectly entertaining B-grade actioner, then step right up.

The film opens in 2079 where Pearce stars as Snow (never mind his first name), an Ex-CIA operative who is accused of killing a high-ranking official while committing espionage. His interrogation at the hands of a predictably sinister Peter Stormare doesn't go too well. Pretty soon it becomes apparent that he only has one shot at freedom. You see, the President's daughter Emilie (Maggie Grace) has just been taken (Get it? Maggie Grace...taken...nothing?...fine, be that way) on board a space prison. She was there on a humanitarian mission to check out...Read the entire review

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If you want to see incredible vehicular mayhem and tensely choreographed shootouts, then Wind Blast may be the film for you. If you would like to give half a damn about the people being chased and shot at...well, you may want to look elsewhere. While populated with some eye-catching set pieces, that all too familiar hollow feeling of watching an exercise in style over substance quickly takes hold and never lets go.

The story is fairly simple since it just involves 3 groups of people who take turns chasing each other across the Gobi Desert for a variety of reasons. First up, we have Zhang Ning (Xia Yu) and his pregnant girlfriend Sun Jing (Charlie Young). Zhang is a small-time crook turned assassin who is trying to make a quick getaway after his latest hit. Standing in his way is our second group, a set of dedicated cops: Leopard (Duan Yihong), Shepherd (Wu Jing), ...Read the entire review

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Given its level of polish and purpose, I wouldn't have been surprised if Headspace had been created by a genre veteran. Acknowledging that it was the directorial debut of a hungry, young filmmaker makes it downright impressive. In 2005, Andrew van den Houten, backed by an immensely talented cast and crew, unleashed his little horror movie on an unsuspecting audience. It earned some well-deserved praise back then and this director's cut release simply reaffirms that.

The entire film is driven by the character of Alex Borden (Christopher Denham) since it's his noggin that the title is referring to. It's fair to say that he's seen some things. If you want proof, just take a look at his childhood. After watching his mom (Sean Young) go batshit crazy and his dad (Larry Fessenden) putting her d...Read the entire review

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Bland and inoffensive; Bollywood Beats feels like a classic bait and switch. You're lured in by promises of fun and frothy dance sequences before being served up enough drama to choke a horse (I'm making the bold assumption that horses hate drama). I have no problem with films that carry messages but writer / director Mehul Shah approaches his material with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, crushing all nuance into smithereens in the process.

The film revolves around a core group of 6 characters. We first meet Raj (Sachin Bhatt) who dreams of being a dancer and goes to plenty of auditions in order to make that a reality. His parents aren't as supportive as he would like and give him an ultimatum: he has 6 months to find a paying gig or he has to start working for his dad at the family jewelry store. To make matters worse, Raj's long time gal pal dumps him because th...Read the entire review