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Review: John Landis Burke & Hare, starring Simon Pegg (Fantasia 2011)

Rating: 7/10

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Nineteen century con-men, Burke (Simon Pegg) and Hare (Andy Serkis) stumble upon a profitable new endeavor, grave robbing and murder- which allows them to sell cadavers for medical dissection to the deep-pocketed Dr. Knox (Tom Wilkinson). REVIEW: BURKE &...

Review: Kim Min-Suk’s Haunters, starring Gang Dong-won (Fantasia 2011)

Rating: 7/10

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Cho-in (Dong-wong Kang), a physically weak man, with an artificial leg-was born with the ability to control minds. Having been abused by his parents as a child, to the point that he forced his father to snap his own...

Review: The Devil’s Double

Rating: 8/10

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: In this feature based on a true story, Saddam Hussein’s son Uday is looking for a double. He is searching for somebody who can take a few extra risks when Hussein stays behind and enjoys the company of his...

Review: The Change-Up

Rating: 6/10

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Dave (Jason Bateman) is a devoted family-man/lawyer, with three kids, and an ignored wife (Leslie Mann). Mitch is an unemployed wannabe-actor, with a never-ending string of sexual conquests, no commitments, but- at the same time, no prospects. Life-long best...

Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Rating: 7/10

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Will Rodman (James Franco), a brilliant young scientist, invents a formula that could cure Alzheimer’s, but after a botched experiment on a Chimpanzee, his project is shut down, but not before discovering that his ape subject had a son...

Review: Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee & The Mystery Of The Phantom Flame (Fantasia 2011)

Rating: 6/10

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: When a series of strange, supernatural deaths start occurring close to the inauguration of Empress Wu Zetian (Carina Lau), she sends for the imprisoned Detective Dee (Andy Lau)- a former official who was sent into exile for eight years...

Review: Chris Sivertson’s Brawler, starring Nathan Grubbs (Fantasia 2011)

Rating: 6/10

Posted 15 years ago

Note: This review is based on an unfinished rough cut of the film. PLOT: Two brothers (Nathan Grubbs & Marc Senter), both of whom are champs in the New Orleans bare-fist fighting underworld; settle a family score in the ring....

Review: Adam Wingard’s What Fun We Were Having, starring A.J Bowen (Fantasia 2011)

Rating: 6/10

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: An anthology of short films about date rape. In the first segment, a young man who’s recently outed himself, takes advantage of the neighborhood stud. In the second, a young woman who wakes up every morning with fresh bruises...

Review: Jack Perez’s Some Guy Who Kills People, starring Kevin Corrigan (Fantasia 2011)

Rating: 5/10

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Ken (Kevin Corrigan) is just out of the state mental hospital, and has to resort to living with his loony mother (Karen Black), and working a minimum wage job at the local ice-cream shop. If that isn’t bad enough,...

Review: Crazy Stupid Love

Rating: 5/10

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Cal (Steve Carell) is a mild-mannered suburbanite whose world is turned upside-down when his wife of twenty-four years, Emily (Julianne Moore) abruptly announces that she’s having an affair, and asks for a divorce. Having never been with any women...

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