REPLI-KATE

Synopsis:

What's your idea of the perfect woman? Max and Henry are Biology/Genetics lab assistants at a non-descript (read-UCLA) university in Southern California. After many years of hard work they have finally broken the genetic code that will allow mankind to clone anything or anyone it wants. The chair of the department Dr. Jonas (Eugene Levy) is essentially clueless about the entire process but dangles Assistant Proffesor status over the boy's heads should their cloning process work. When they successfully clone a hamster the president of the University sees green and pushes Jonas for a public display of the "Hyper-Replicator" for the benefit of the schools many benefactors. Word of this leaks out and a reporter for the magazine, Modern Science, shows up for an impromptu interview on the entire process.

This is no ordinary frumpy "Columbo-esque"reporter mind you. It'...Read the entire review

As sheriff, Wes Clayton (Richard Dutcher) has devoted his life to protecting the people of Brigham City, and until recently, that has mostly involved supervising parades and breaking up fistfights; as a bishop in their close-knit Mormon community, he's also devoted to their spiritual and emotional well-being. But both those responsibilities begin to weigh much more heavily on him when an abandoned car at the outskirts of town is found to contain the body of a murdered woman. A killer is among them, like a wolf among sheep, and Wes must make the troubling and difficult change from peaceful shepherd to wary hunter.

Brigham City is a polished, well-crafted thriller that balances an intelligent and interesting plot with thoughtful characterizations. The characters, particularly the main character of the sheriff, offer realistic and sympathetic portrayals of small-town inhabitants. Contrary t...Read the entire review

If the word 'extreme' is used in a movie title, it's invariably either hardcore porn or sports for the Mountain Dew generation. Extreme Days is a Christianity-tinged flick, so it's obviously not going to be the former. Younger members of the church-going public have been crying out for years -- "for the love of You, please package together Christianity and extreme sports!" -- and a higher power has finally answered their prayers. No, not God...an executive at Providence Entertainment, one of the distributors of The Omega Code stateside, again dipping its feet into the Godsploitation genre. Writer/director Eric Hannah apparently wasn't satisfied by Providence's best known project, eschewing its faux-dramatic action and the very presence of Casper Van Dien. No, he wouldn't settle for anything less than...EXTREME!

Two aspects of my personal life should be apparent to those...Read the entire review

The Story: A woman walks through a train car, her dress covered in blood, her handbag dripping. She walks off the train and goes to a cemetery where she begins to tear and dig into the ground before the police haul her away...

Gary Ellis has marital problems. Consumed by suspicions that his wife, Tess, may be cheating on him with one of her co-workers, a writer named Alex, Gary, rattled by the stress, drops over from a heart attack. He is in need of a heart transplant, and during his convalesce and waiting for a donor, Tess, perhaps pushed by Gary's jealousy, does begin to have an affair with Alex. When a young promising athlete has an accident, Gary finds his donor, and after a successful transplant he feels like a new man. He tries to patch up his marriage, but between his jealous bitterness and Alex's snide jokes and prodding, the marriage is still on uneven ground... Thi...Read the entire review

Religious themed movies are proving to be big business. Left Behind, Carman The Champion, and the two Omega Code films are just a handful that have hit theaters in recent years. These 'godsploitation' movies have been criticized for being little more than thinly veiled propaganda, driving the agendas of a powerful few and exploiting the piety of audiences. Richard Dutcher, who also wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the successful 2000 indie film God's Army, broke from the traditional hackneyed formula of a lead character finding religion and living happily ever after for his follow-up, Brigham City.

Like Zion Films' God's Army, Brigham City deals with the Mormon faith. Dutcher stars as Wes Clayton, a widower who is both the sheriff and a bishop in a small, predominantly Mormon town in Utah. When a body turns up in the outskirts of tow...Read the entire review