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Dark Shadows

A gothic fantasy with a tint of Burton and Depp tries to bring an old flame back to light. Barnabus Collins a wealthy playboy of old strutting his stuff in 1772 and breaking many hearts, including that of a family servent Angelique. When Barnabus tries to put his illustrious conquests behind him and settle with the love of his life Josette, Angelique puts her own wicked twist into play pushing Josette to take her own life and cursing Barnabus to an eternity of hellish life as a vampire. Barnabus is forced to slumber within in a coffin yet accidentally he is one day awoken 200 years later in 1972 to find the Collins family struggling and Angelique still plauging his family. Barnabus must step up, adjust to the new era and his own 'drinking' problem long enough to cease the curse forced upon his descendants and bring the Collins name back to its wealthy routes. Johnny Depp takes to the cloak of Barnabus Collins with vampiric thirst and with his usual quirk of character he...

The Avengers

If the Avengers could make a statement on what it has done to the genre of superhero-films it would most likely  quote Peter Venkmen 'We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!'. After five films building up to it, the Avengers assemble to defeat the pesky God of mischief, Loki who with the cosmic cube(Tesseract) plans to invade planet Earth and proclaim himself king with the help of his lovable friends the alien race of Chitauri. Though that doesn't sit right with some people, one person being Nick Fury who decides it's time to reboot the Avengers initiative and calls together his super group to try and put a stop to the madness Loki brings forth. However, with a group of unique individuals like these guys they have a few creases to iron out, anger issues to resolve and come to terms with how society has changed in 70 years. Can this bunch of super powered and godly individuals put their differences aside for the sake of the planet? Can they assemble in time to bring ...

The Cabin in the Woods

You know the drill, Five stereotypical teens, One dark and scary closed of forest with a creepy cabin... Oh, well you think you know the drill as while this may be how the film begins but things soon take a bizarre new route through the genre. So the group head to the charmingly rustic old cabin and get up to the usual promiscuous things young teens do, however miles under the floorboards the cabin has even more than the eye can see. Two hapless office workers meanwhile go about their daily business, hanging around the water cooler, chatting about their marriages and keeping an ancient god at bay through torturing and manipulating innocent groups of teens to their deaths, see how things start to intertwine? Will the teens find their way out of the predicament they face and obtain salvation or more importantly what will salvation cost if they do find it? Kristen Connolly heads up the teens as Dana, the cute and innocent gal of the group who eventually turns out to be a bit more of a ...

Battleship

It's a game of skill and honour, the stakes are raised and the planet is in peril... Lets play Battleship? Alex Hopper is pushed by his brother into a life of servitude to his country, though even the navy can't tame his brash and arrogant nature something his commanding officer Admiral Shane sees only too well. Unfortunately for Alex, not only is Admiral Shane in charge of his budding career but he also just so happens to be the unwilling giver of consent and father to his girlfriend Samantha. So after roughing around and causing a ruckus, being denied the hand of his love and threatened that his career may be swiftly sinking, Alex has to pull out all the stops in the the annual RIMPAC battle exercise to save his neck. While else where over the years good ol' NASA have been sending out a signal to attract intelligent life to pay humanity a visit, however the two events collide as the receivers of the signal land ships in the vicinity of the training exercise and enclose th...

Wrath of the Titans

Perseus is fresh from his previous clash with a kraken only to find some wrathful titans waiting on the horizon. When pesky Kronos threatens to come back to the world of existence, the gods rise to the occasion and head to his prison to restore order. The trio arrive Ares, Poseidon and Zeus to find Hades waiting with an army of under dwellers to entrap his brothers, Aries betrays his father Zeus (angered by Zeus' favoring of Perseus) and joins forces with Hades to awaken Kronos. Poseidon manages to escape the clutches of Hades just barely with only enough life left in him to appear before Perseus and revealing that he is the last hope of  both the mortal world and the realms above. Perseus sets out to save the world for his son's future joining forces with another demigod, Agenor and the Queen Andromeda. Once again Perseus must go the distance against his loving uncle Hades, prove himself against his treasonous half-brother Ares and stop Kronos fr...

The Hunger Games

Fresh from the Capitol and pages of Suzanne Collins is the 74th annual Hunger Games! Katniss Everdeen, our leading heroine lives in the twelfth district of those that surround and make up the nation of Panem and has to deal with the hardships of poverty in her district hunting with her best friend Gale Hawthorne for food to survive while those in the Capitol live in luxury. 74 years ago when the districts tried to rebel against the tyrannical Capitol and lost, the Hunger Games came into existence as a means of punishment. Now every year two children from the ages 12 - 18, one boy and one girl, are picked out from each district to fight amongst one another to the death in the arena as both a punishment for the districts and entertainment for the Capitol. When Katniss' sister Prim is selected for their district she frantically volunteers in her sister's place to face the games alongside the local baker's son Peeta Mellark. Soon Katniss finds herself preparing...

21 Jump Street

Fresh out of training, two drastically failing cops are pushed into an undercover program for and to quote 'Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus looking motherf******' which means Jenko and Schmidt apparently fit right in. So the two head back to school to bring down a new drug on the rise, though soon things start to get mixed up with Schmidt finding himself better off than his previous journey through high school while Jenko realizes the times they are a changing. Both get caught up in the hectic new lives of undercover students to the point where they'll have to get over personal issues, allegiance and where their priorities really lie to bring the case to a close and save the day. A journey of self discovery, romance and thrilling conspiracies... is drop kicked out the window as this is all about the laughs of two idiots returning to the wild world of high school, who just happen to be police officers who really don't give a crap about how the job gets done as...