Virus

March 17th, 2010

Virus (1999)
IMDB rating: 4.20
Plot: After losing their payload the ramshackle, sinking, ocean-going salvage tug “Sea Star” takes refuge in the eye of a typhoon in an attempt to make repairs. Whilst trying to find help the tug, captained by Robert Everton (’Donald Sutherland’ (qv)), discovers a Russian science vessel adrift in the eye. The crew [...]


Showtime

March 16th, 2010

Showtime (2002)
IMDB rating: 5.30
Plot: LAPD Detective Sergeant Mitch Preston cares only about doing his job and nailing crooks. LAPD Patrol Officer Trey Sellars joined the force as a day job until his acting career took off. During an undercover drug buy Mitch was working that Trey botched by calling in for backup and drawing media [...]


Stakeout

March 16th, 2010

Stakeout (1987)
IMDB rating: 6.40
Plot: After a brutal murderer escaped from prison, it is ordered that all of his possible contacts are put under survey. His former girlfriend Maria McGuire, who ceased contact with him long ago, is observed by four cops. The night-team is formed by Chris Leece and Bill Reimers, who work as partners [...]


Man, The

March 15th, 2010

Man, The (2005)
IMDB rating: 5.40
Plot: Special Agent Derrick Vann is a man out to get the man who killed his partner but a case of mistaken identity leads him to Andy Fidler, a salesman with too many questions and a knack of getting in Vanns way.

Directors: Mayfield Les
Actors: Jackson Samuel L.,Levy Eugene,Goss Luke,Ferrer Miguel,Mackie [...]


War, Inc.

March 11th, 2010

War, Inc. (2008)
IMDB rating: 6.50
Plot: A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President (Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation’s CEO hires a troubled hit man (Cusack), to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, [...]


Justice League: The New Frontier

March 10th, 2010

Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)
IMDB rating: 7.20
Plot: Adapting the award-winning DC Comics miniseries DC: THE NEW FRONTIER by Darwyn Cooke, Justice League: The New Frontier spins a tale of the DC Universe in the 1950s, focusing on test pilot Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) and the Martian Manhunter. The story also features other DC characters, [...]


Wake of Death

March 7th, 2010

Wake of Death (2004)
IMDB rating: 5.40
Plot: Ben Archer (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a thug/enforcer for a criminal organization. Tiring of the work, he tells his coworkers that he’s ready to retire. His wife Cynthia is a social worker for the INS. She brings a Chinese refugee girl to their home. Soon, Sun Quan (Simon Yam) [...]


Dark Blue

March 4th, 2010

Dark Blue (2002)
IMDB rating: 6.60
Plot: Set in the Los Angeles Police Department in April 1992, Dark Blue is a dramatic thriller that takes place just days before the acquittal of four white officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King and the subsequent L.A. riots. In this racially-charged climate,the LAPD’s elite Special Investigations Squad [...]


Blues Brothers 2000

March 4th, 2010

Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
IMDB rating: 4.40
Plot: Primarily a two hour video, albeit a very good one, this sequel picks up 18 years later from the original and finds Elwood Blues being released from prison and trying to re-form his old band with new lead singer Mighty Mac replacing Jake. A road trip culminates with a [...]


Dirty Harry

February 26th, 2010

Dirty Harry (1971)
IMDB rating: 7.80
Plot: In the year 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as Scorpio- who snipes at innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Harry Callahan (known as Dirty Harry by his peers through his reputation handling of homicidal cases) is [...]