July 27, 2010
After a rampaging Rhinoceros claimed the lives of his parents, James (Paul Terry) was forced to live with his two cruel aunts, Spiker (Joanna Lumley) and Sponge (Miriam Margolyes). From his barren room, James daydreams of escaping the Sisters’ cruelty by travelling to New York to start a new life for himself. One day while ...
July 26, 2010
Welcome to Earth. Population Zero. That’s the catchy slogan of History Channel’s “What If?” show, Life After People. The Second Season of Life After People consists of 10 episodes, each of which have a topic that ties together the stories of entropy it covers. For example, in Wrath of God, we take a look at some of the ...
July 21, 2010
Unable to secure steady employment and henpecked by a dominant pregnant girlfriend who is earning the family income, Yun-ju reaches his breaking point when his sulking is disturbed by the piercing barking of a neighbor’s dog. Yun ju does what any rational person would and immediately sets off to kill the offending creature. He quickly ...
July 20, 2010
Ever start a new job and find yourself wondering if you made the right choice before the end of the first day? Even if you said yes, you have nothing on Fool (Joe Anderson). On his first day of work as a secret agent for the US Government, not only does the Director, aka The ...
July 18, 2010
Director Marcus Reed (Reshad Strik) suffers from strange nightmarish visions of the legendary Matya (Zelda Williams.) These visions lead him to Romania as director on a film of this character of Romanian legend, hoping to find closure to personal problems and restart his career. According to the legend, Matya was born possessed and eventually was ...
July 16, 2010
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. ...
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July 13, 2010
After yet another loss in the Himalayas to the elite special mission team G.I. Joe, Cobra Commander is brought before Cobra’s true leader, Serpentor, to account for his continual failures. Branded as useless, he is stripped of his power and imprisoned. We are soon introduced to Golobus (Burgess Meredith,) the leader of the secret group ...
July 9, 2010
Based on the Hasbro toy line for younger superhero fans, The Superhero Squad Show follows the adventures of the Marvel superheros as they fight Dr. Doom and his evil cronies. Led by Iron Man, the Squad hero’s up whenever there is a threat to Super Hero City (which happens to have Stan Lee himself as a ...
July 8, 2010
Somewhere in a small canyon called Blood River Gulch, two teams of futuristic soldiers wage war, not really knowing why or against who. As the battle rages on over a 100 episode span, well…continues, we meet these unique soldiers as well as mercenaries, aliens, ghosts and half alien babies. Fans of the series do not need much ...
July 7, 2010
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, ...