In the second half of the 19th Century, China was engulfed in a civil war. The Warlords opens with Pang (Jet Li), a general in the Chinese Army, attempting to stave off the attacks of the Taiping rebels. The rebels overthrow the army and we find Pang surrounded by the dead bodies of his troops. ...
Grace (Eva Amurri) is a bright girl relegated to working a summer job at the local water park after finding out she has been turned down for student loans to attend medical school. She is understandably depressed girl who has had her future decided for her by her mother’s (Susan Sarandon) indiscretions with her credit ...
Since Blu Monday rolled over into Red, White and Blu Monday, I am a little late with this week’s column. This week we are taking a close look at the latest release from Anchor Bay, Brooklyn’s Finest. Brooklyn’s finest is a trilogy of stories about 3 different NYPD officers who, although their stories are different, ...
As a new prototype airplane prepares for its inaugeral flight, the crew is unaware that an Aryan militia group is preparing to kidnap pilot Joe Franklin’s (Scott Valentine) family and hijack the plane. They have little difficulty stashing weapons on the jet beforehand, which makes the takeover fairly easily.
Told by an aging schoolteacher, The White Ribbon is the story of a small secluded German town in the early 1900’s, just before World War I. The movie starts with the town doctor being critically injured after his horse runs into a wire stretched between two trees as he is finishing his daily ride. The ...
Unthinkable is an uncomfortably intimate look at Homeland Security and the practices utilized to extract information from identified terrorist operatives. When American born Muslim Yusef (Michael Sheen) sends out a video message threatening to ignite three nuclear bombs that have been planted in the United States, the FBI reacts and attempts to locate him and ...
Ever since the death of his older brother, Tyler (Robert Pattinson) has been going through the motions of life, failing out of college and only coming to life when his little sister Caroline(Ruby Jerins) is present, whom he feels a duty to protect and practically raise, as their workaholic father (Pierce Brosnan) is never around ...
Blu Monday, Blu Ray Reviews, Bulin, Drama, New ReleasesEvery few months Acorn Media comes out with a set of DVDs for one of Britain’s most successful crime series, Midsomer Murders. June 1st sees the release of Set 15 of the series which, in fact, consists of the three first mysteries from Season 11. These episodes originally aired in England during 2008 but have ...
Box Set, DVD Reviews, Drama, New Releases, Sasto, TelevisionAn unknown homeless man (Steve Austin) surfaces on the FBI’s radar after he unwittingly thwarts a kidnapping ransom by taking out the crime boss. It is soon revealed that the Stranger is Tom Tomachevsky, a man with no memory of his past that is of extreme interest to Agent Mason Reece (Adam Beach) who has ...
Action, Bulin, DVD Reviews, Drama, New ReleasesWhen Ellie (Alex Kingston) is released from prison after serving 4 years to cover for her mob connected husband, she is met by Roy (Mark Frost) who welcomes her back. A short while later we find the pair at a hotel, involved in a shady jewel transaction involving three million pounds. The transaction goes horribly ...
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