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Snow White and the Huntsman

A darker fantasy without all the Disney happy-go-lucky, warrior princess', aggressive dwarves and a darkly delicious queen rule this land of far, far away. Much like always Snow finds herself in the clutches of evil yet beautiful on the outside stepmother Ravenna, on hearing from a magic mirror that young miss white could surpass her beauty and take back her families castle she sends her brother to bring forth the child and eat her heart to obtain everlasting beauty. Outsmarting the Queens brother, Snow manages to free herself from captivity and away to gain back her fathers honor and her peoples trust. Enraged the Queen sends for a huntsman to go and bring back Snow's heart but can the Huntsman really obey such a wicked ruler? Can Snow regain her namesake and castle? Will the mirror ever be polished to perfection? Kristen Stewart brings Snow White to life (and back again after snacking on a rotten apple) though the charms aren't really as blaring as the animated...

Men in Black 3

Here come the Men in Black, The boys are back in town or at least one of them is with the other looking considerably younger and dare i say peppy. On a secret moon prison far above the earth, the menacing alien threat Boris the Animal finds a way to break free and exact his revenge on the MIB agent responsible for his stint in LunarMax, K. Meanwhile J and K are up to the usual MIB day-to-day business of bringing galactic menaces to judgment this time in a Chinese restaurant, when Boris turns up to goad K with his freedom the two agents find themselves at a difference of opinion and split off K reminiscing other past mistakes and J broading over his incomprehensible partner once again. On arrival at MIB HQ the next day J finds that K has vanished from everyone's memories and informed by Agent O that K died in 1969, confused by the apparent change to the time space continuum J soon comes to the conclusion that...

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...