Tagged: Thriller
Max Payne DVD Review
Max Payne (Region 2): Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is a cop. He is a moody, angry soul with a permanent scowl who obsessively works on cold case files in an attempt to find clues as to who killed his wife and baby. He finds a lead which may help him and he pursues it. On [...]
Learn more...From the Collection: Snatch DVD Review
Periodically I will take a disc from my collection and review it, this week it is that Guy Ritchie classic Snatch. Snatch – R2 – 2 Disc Collector’s Edition There is so much happening in Snatch that it may be difficult to pin down what is going on, when its going on, and who it [...]
Learn more...[REC] DVD Review
Ángela Vidal (Manuela Velasco) is a reporter whom along with her cameraman Pablo (Pablo Rosso) are spending the night with a Barcelona fire crew for a TV program called while you sleep; my guess is that it is supposed to be one of those documentaries that shadow a group for a period of time to [...]
Learn more...Kill Bill Volume 1: DVD Review
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Boy oh boy has that never been truer. Uma Thurman kicks ass and takes names. If she says it’s Christmas you better start singing carols! Quentin Tarantintos’ fourth film. I would also say it’s his most reserved and ostentatious work in equal measure. That snappy dialogue for [...]
Learn more...Lakeview Terrace, DVD Review
Movie: Lakeview Terrace is a film about relationships and about prejudice. Samuel L Jackson is Abel Turner, a 28 year old veteran of the LAPD who has worked really hard all his life in order to afford a nice house in a nice area, he is self proclaimed guardian of the cul-de-sac that he lives [...]
Learn more...Eagle Eye, DVD Review
Eagle Eye is the 2008 action/thriller directed by D.J. Caruso (sounds like he should be doing the club scene!) and written by Dam McDermott. The film opens with the military tracking a terrorists leader in the Middle East. Unable to get absolute confirmation that their intended target is actually present at the funeral they’re observing, [...]
Learn more...Vantage Point – DVD Review
Movie: If you like action movies you just HAVE to see this. Despite some of the bad things that I have read about the film I think that anyone who has a liking for the action film genre will absolutely lap this up and that the people that didn’t like it only ever watch things [...]
Learn more...Zodiac DVD Review
In 2007, Five years after directing Panic Room David Fincher has picked up the directorship reigns again with a story about a serial Killer. The killer had struck fear into the San Francisco Bay area in the late 1960’s with his random killings, he was attributed 7 victims, 2 of whom survived, he was known [...]
Learn more...Black Water, DVD Review
Black Water. Grace (Diana Glenn), her husband Adam (Andy Rodoreda) and Grace’s little sister Lee (Maeve Dermody) go on a two weeks driving holiday, they read about a place called Backwater Barry’s who does fishing trips out into the Mangrove Swamps of Northern Australia and they decide it would be a fun thing to do. [...]
Learn more...Basic Instinct: Special Edition DVD Review
When Ex rock star Johnny Boz is found murdered in his bed the eyes of the police turn straight towards his lover Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone). Suspicions run even higher when Detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) discovers that he was murdered in exactly the same way as a character in one of her books. Nick [...]
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