Screen Noir

Disney throw out another live-action blockbuster trying to enthrall the big kids. After a few establishing flashbacks to set the scenery and apparent death of John Carter, the action skips even further back in time and when we catch up with our hero he's far out of his comfort zone on Earth, instead trapped on Mars though not with out some fancy new talents to help him out against some equally new and menacing alien threats. Not a barren land but rather a lively world where warring civilizations struggle for control, the Mars John Carter faces is full of Martian combatants who capture Carter and on seeing his skills plan to use him as a weapon against the other civilizations on Mars. With Red Martians(Human like) warring amongst themselves with the aid of the mysterious Therns and keeping the native martians at bay, Carter is thrown into this new galactic warfare with much distaste and realizes he needs to find his way back to Earth before he too becomes a victim of the war wa...

Nicholas Cage is feeling the heat as Johnny Blaze takes a ride through Eastern Europe to try and escape the curse of the Ghost Rider. As Blaze travels the world in an attempt to escape his curse he finds himself pulled into a new struggle by a mysterious Frenchman named Moreau who wants Blaze's help to rescue a young boy named Danny from the Devil in return assured that Moreau can save him from his curse. Nadya and son Danny like Blaze are on the run, from not just the devil but also an ex boyfriend named Ray who's become a pawn of the Devil. It's up to Blaze as the last chance to save Danny's soul before the Devil can use him for his own grievous undertakings, Blaze will have to channel the wrath of the Rider in order to stop the infamous evil he faces but will even that be enough to take on the Devil, save the boy and finally escape the curse. Nicholas Cage is the headline and clearly driving force of the film, yet to this moment that i type these words if he was in...

Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington soon realize that nowhere is safe in this high-octane action packed kicker. Young CIA agent Matt Weston isn't enjoying what he thought would be the dramatic and adrenaline fueled life of a US government secret agent, he's stuck staring at the same four walls of a safe house in South Africa everyday just begging for a chance to prove himself. Elsewhere in South Africa renegade CIA agent Tobin Frost finds himself in a deadly scenario with foreign involvements which forces him to turn himself into the protection of the US embassy. Frost is taken to Weston's safe house to be questioned and kept secure but midway through his interrogation his pursuers catch up and massacre the CIA agents. Weston finds himself alone with Frost and only one choice though unwilling to be known as the man who let Tobin Frost escape, he starts out to personally deliver frost and midst the chaos finally prove he has what it takes. Stepping away from Ro...

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...