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In this remake of the classic film, ” The Last House on the Left”. Mari Collingwood ( Sara Paxton) and her parents, John Collingwood and Emma Collingwood go out to there vacation home that’s out in the middle of nowhere. Mari goes to spend the day with her friend Paige ( Martha MacIsaac ) that works in a convenience store. While there, a under aged boy named Jacob walks in to buy some cigarettes. He tells Paige that he’ll hook her up with some good smokes back at his motel if she hooks him up with the cigarettes. Jacob takes them back to the hotel thinking that his criminal father (Krug),uncle(Giles), and father’s girlfriend (Sadie) won’t be back for the day.

They have a good time smoking until his father and the rest show back up at the place suddenly. Since they are criminals on the run , they can’t risk the new visitors, Paige and Mari telling anybody. Read the rest of this entry »

“Watchmen” is a film that is set in 1985 and deals with the threat of a nuclear demise of the world. Edward Blake also known as “The Comedian” engages in an action packed ,but unfortunate losing battle with a mysterious intruder that ends with him being thrown through his balcony window with at least what looked to be a 20 story drop to his death. The plot of this film is kind of shaky at first and as we move through the film we are introduced to the different characters of the film. One of them being Walter Kovacs who’s hero persona is Rorschach. He is investigating some possible murders or something. I’m still not quite sure. I think most of it was in his mind. He was kind of a nut, but he had extremely good fighting skills which are displayed quite often in the film. Read the rest of this entry »

In “Slumdog Millionaire” Jamal K. Malik grew up in the slums of Mumbai,and the movie shows that he is now on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”. He’s answered all the questions correctly, and is now on his final question to win 20,000,000 rupees. However, when they take a break from the show for the next day, the game show host has him arrested on suspicion of cheating. So the police shock him and torture him to try and get him to confess to cheating because they can’t understand how a boy from the slums could know all the answers. Finally, they stop torturing him after he continues to profess that he knew all the answers.

They proceed to run back the games show tape, and go over each question chronologically in an effort to explore why he knew the question to each answer. Read the rest of this entry »

In “Street Fighter : The Legend of Chun Li” , Chun Li (Kristin Kreuk) grows up with her father and mother in Japan. Her Father teaches her how to play the piano and also how to fight,and they grow a close relationship. Her father is a well established businessman, and she lives a very nice wealthy life in Japan. However, one day evil businessman, Bison (Neal McDonough) breaks into her home. Her father fights back quite well against Balrog (Michael Clarke Duncan), one of Bison’s main lackeys, but at last is forced to go with Bison in order to keep Chun Li from being harmed. Bison kidnapped her father so that he could use his business contacts to fuel his own corrupt business plans.

Then we fast forward years later. Now Chun Li is all grown up, and is a great concert pianist. Read the rest of this entry »

In “Fired Up !” Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) and Shawn (Nicholas D’Agosto) are both high school football stars who really like girls,and likes to date a lot of girls so much in fact that after overhearing some of the girls from the cheerleading squad talk about going to cheerleading camp where there would be over 300 new girls they just couldn’t resist.

They decide to cook up a scheme with the help of Shawn’s little sister, Poppy (Juliette Goglia) to convince the cheerleading coach that they need male cheerleaders on the squad so they can go to cheerleader camp instead of football camp. Carly (Sarah Roemer), the cheerleader captain doesn’t buy their act, but has to go along with it since they’ve convinced the coach they belong there. Read the rest of this entry »

In “Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail” Madea (Tyler Perry) is hauled into court for having a crazy mad temper and beating up a cop. She gets off on a technicality, but is warned that if she ever shows up in court again, she show would go to jail. She also has to get anger management counseling from none other than Dr. Phil who makes a cameo appearance in the movie.

Meanwhile Attorney, Joshua Hardaway (Derek Luke) takes on a case to prosecute a young prostitute, Candace Washington (Keshia Knight Pulliam) thats addicted to drugs. However, after seeing that Candace is an old friend from childhood, he realizes that he cannot take the case. Read the rest of this entry »

“Friday the 13th,” a remake of “Friday the 13th Part II,” is really two stories in one. The film begins with the introduction of five friends out to find a ‘score,’ of weed out in the bush near Crystal Lake. After the myth of Jason Voorhees is told around the campfire the story shifts into high gear as the beast himself terrorizes these young campers and dispatches several of the characters in minutes. Many of the early death scenes are the most brutal of the film and involve a woman dying of asphyxiation while several others find the sharp end of a machete. Read the rest of this entry »

The survivors are saved by the mysterious prophet, Shot Bus Gus, who seemingly has the ability to control the beasts. He leads them into the sewers as they travel to the big city. Along the way they get help from karate expert Jean-Claude Seagal and learn that the beasts originate from a place called “The Hive.” Armed with this knowledge, they decide to fight back and destroy the beasts once and for all (Internet).

“Feast III: The Happy Finish,” starts off with some good initial action sequences and a flair for the comedic; y,et the film’s cohesiveness seems to fall apart in the second act. One scene where a local hero shows the character, Secrets how to load a .35 revolver Read the rest of this entry »

In the long awaited “Push” movie, a young Nick Grant (Chris Evans) who has level 2 telekinetic abilities is told by his father (Joel Gretsch) who also has the same gift, that in the future a girl would give him a flower, and that he should help that girl.Moments later his father is found and killed by a group called the, “Division. The movie moves forward nine years later the, and shows that the “Division” has been testing out a drug on paranormals that is designed to enhance their abilities, but it usually kills them instead. They test it out on a girl named, Kira Hudson (Camilla Belle) who is a pusher, and is able to control other people by placing her thoughts into their head. She is the first to survive the drug. She escapes the custody of the “Division” along with a syringe containing the drug. Read the rest of this entry »

In “Taken”a retired government spy,Brian Mill’s (Liam Neeson) daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace) gets his permission after much prodding and pleading to go on a trip to Europe with her friend, Amanda (Katie Cassidy). When they get off the plain in Paris they are met by what is called a “spotter”. A nice -looking guy that greets them,gets in a cab with them, and rides with them to where they are staying. Once the spotter knows they’re alone,he gives the okay for the kidnappers to come and take them. So Kim and Amanda get kidnapped by sex trafficers who drug them and turn them into prostitutes, but not before Brian is able to talk to his daughter before the final minutes of her kidnapping which gives him valuable clues. Read the rest of this entry »