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 r...

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 throw...

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... Th...

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...

Impossibly the fourth in the franchise isn't a mission too far and proves itself a worthy edition. Ethan hunt is back, after breaking out of prison in Moscow with the help of the IMF he's brought up to speed and forced into a new mission to infiltrate the heart of Russia itself, the Kremlin. Mid mission things go sour and the operation is called off as Hunt still in disguise escapes the Kremlin behind him bursts into flames, the Russians view this as an act of war sending Hunt and his team on the run. Meeting with the secretary of defense in secret Hunt is informed that the whole IMF has been disbanded, Hunt is on his own and the orders are to take him in... Unless he chooses to accept a new mission. The president activates ghost protocol meaning the remnants of the IMF must on their own discover who's responsible for bombing the Kremlin, bring them to justice and at the same time prevent a nuclear holocaust sparking between Russia and America.  Tom Cruis...

Based on the book of the same name and the Swedish film adaptions, David Fincher hits audiences hard with his adaption of the dark and stylish crime thriller. Mikael Blomkvist is an established journalist and co-editor of the newspaper Millenium who after printing an issue on the illustrious Wennerstrom group he finds himself prosecuted at the wrong end of a law suit, his name and reputation badly damaged he decides to bow out of his publication and fade from the public eye. Lisbeth Salander is the top and low key researcher for Milton security who has to deal with her own fragile existence from a mysterious and dark childhood and who is asked to produce a report on the infamous journalist Mikael Blomkvist. Salander doesn't realize the mystery the report involves her in and the chilling case it leads her to. Henrik Vagner, an old business tycoon looks to the journalist to find the answer to an unsolvable crime that happened years before...

The boys are back and the game is afoot. The first film ended on the promise of Professor Moriarty as the next big case for Sherlock to foil and follow on it does as both Holmes and Watson are thrown back into chaos as the game begins. While Watson has plans for settling down with his new wife, Holmes confrontation with a new nemesis, alliance with a mysterious fortune teller and complicated relations with his brother Mycroft send events spiraling and forcing both men into Moriarty's game. The stakes are raised and it soon becomes apparent that Moriarty means business, not only threatening lives but threatening to break the barriers of countries as well with a war that would span the whole world. All is to play for as Holmes faces his most deadly match and possible equal, Holmes must put emotion aside and pull out all his tricks in order to best Moriarty before he can bring chaos and destruction to the world. They've been here before but Robert Downey Jr(...