Screen Noir

A traditional horror modernized for a new audience. Arthur Kipps, a young solicitor facing financial woes and still coping with the death of his wife who died in childbirth with his now four year old son Joseph, is assigned to take care of the legal proceedings of Eel Marsh House. When Arthur arrives in the local village his reception is far from warm and many of the residents hesitantly yet brashly try to force Arthur back to London and away from the old manor house. Managing to reach the house Arthur soon discovers there is much more to the manor than he had previously been told, with eerie deaths plaguing the children of the village and townsfolk ebbing him to leave the house well alone, Arthur becomes unwillingly entangled in the sinister events. Determined to complete the requirements of the transition Arthur sets out to brave the house again with the aid of friendly local Sam Daily he hopes to quickly put an end to the proceedings and return to London and his son, though the long

Super powers get personal in this first-person origin tale as a trio of friends gain strange new abilities. Loner Andrew Detmer starts to film his life as a means of something to do, as well as an escape from his bed ridden mother and abusive father. Andrew's cousin, Matt Garetty wants to help him out and insists he takes a more normal approach to teenage life and drags him to a party at an abandoned warehouse. With his camera still rolling Andrew goes to the party but his social standings get him into a near confrontation and isolates him outside by himself. Popular High school student Steve Montgomery finds Andrew and drags him to a nearby crater explaining how they need the camera to record what they found. Matt stands by the mysterious crater excited and waiting, while Steve suggests they should check it out. The trio comes across a bizarre construct deep in the depths of the crater, humming with power the construct awakens and throws the group about before collapsing the crate

Liam Neeson is back to show Hollywood how to be a gritty action hero. John Ottway is a natural hunter, hired to keep an oil drilling team safe from packs of wild wolves his life is plain, simple and dull. He isolates himself from his peers and views them from the outside as not worth the hassle, the wild is his home. The wild may too serve as his grave after the plane carrying him and the oil-drilling team goes down mid flight, the survivors are left with no means of communicating with the outside word and only their wits to help them survive. Ottoway instantly steps forward as an unwilling leader to the charge of souls left standing, realizing beyond most the harsh realities of the wild, death could come from anywhere. The group must overcome freezing temperatures, packs of predators and harsh terrain in order to try and navigate their way to safety, will any of them make it through the hazardous trials that stand between them and their lives beyond the grey... The central figure of

Kicking of another year of film, Haywire throws in a mixed up adrenaline rush of bizarre action. Thrown into the lot midway, Mallory awaits her contact in a lonesome diner in upstate New York yet when Aaron (her contact) finally turns up and a difference of opinion kicks off, namely Mallory's freedom she's forced to lash out and the battle it out to the shock of the fellow diners. Shots are fired, chaos ensues and Mallory escapes with the aid of a panicked diner named Scott, who she proceeds to explain her position and how she ended up in her current predicament through an extended flashback into past events of betrayal, violence and corruption. Gina Carano cements herself as an up and coming female action star with her physical ability and with her portrayal of the military background/black ops heroine Mallory yet she is the stand out point of an otherwise fairly bland film. Ewan McGregor seems fairly off form while magically younger than other past performances, though even