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PLOT: Two best friends named Zack and Miri are having a really bad time. Rent is due, the electricity is about to be shut off, and neither is expecting much in the way of funds any time soon. So after...
PLOT: After four New York City police officers are killed in an ambush, an investigation leads to a possible narc within the department. When Detective Ray Tierney takes on the case at his father’s bidding, he begins to question his...
Plot: Shell shocked Sergeant Dunne (Paul Gross) is sent home to Calgary to recuperate after being injured in battle. He’s reassigned to an enlistment center where he encounters a young wannabe soldier named David Mann (Joe Dinicol) who’s been refused...
There’s been a lot of whispering lately about THE ROAD, the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning novel, moving to 2009 and out of the 2008 Oscar race. Does it have anything to do with the quality of the movie? Luckily...
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK Directed by: Charlie Kaufman Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton PLOT: Prompted by his life falling apart, New York theater director Caden (Hoffman) is asking himself the big questions and goes as far as mounting a mammoth...
PLOT: Max Payne is a DEA agent who has lost it all. His family was taken away and he cannot forget his sad loss and the desire for vengeance. That is when a series of violent murders start to sweep...
BLINDNESS Directed by: Fernando Meirelles Starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo PLOT: When a group of varied folks get struck with a sudden case of BLINDNESS (I hate when that happens, specially when at a strip club), they get tossed...
PLOT: A teenage virgin finds a possible soul mate in an internet chat room. And with the convincing of one of his friends, he takes his bullying brother’s car without permission and end up on a road trip to get...
PLOT: The Poes are your typical suburban family. Dad- David (Adrian Pasdar) is a Lutheran minister, while Mom- Claire (Cady McClain) is a child psychologist. Everything seems perfect- until their children, twins Jack & Emily (played by real life...
J.C.V.D. Directed by: Mabrouk El Mechri Starring: Jean Claude Van Damme PLOT: Jean Claude Van Damme the action star (JCVD plays himself) is having a rough patch. His Agent won’t hook him up with a Studio flick, he’s about to...
