Rollerball (1975)

By Zentilack

Summary

In a future where there are no nations, only corporations, a game is played for the amusement and distraction of the population of the world: Rollerball.  Jonathan E. (James Caan) is the best, most popular player to ever enter the ring.  But when mysterious forces try to drive him out of the game, Jonathan wonders who is against him.  Little does he know that this is the first of many dangerous questions that lie before him.

The Woman in Black (1989)

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

An old widow dies and a young lawyer is sent to her estate to settle her affairs. When the lawyer arrives in the seaside town he discovers that everyone is hesitant to discuss the woman, her house, or the woman in black that he keeps seeing. Deciding that he needs to do his job, he goes to the house and soon discovers its history...and becomes obsessed with finding the truth.

The Man From Nowhere

By Zentilack

Summary

Cha Tae-sik (Won Bin) is the owner of a small pawn shop and prefers to keep to himself.  A young neighbor girl named Jeong So-mi (Kim Sae-ron) is intent on spending time with him and he quietly tolerates her presence.  But when So-mi's mother gets in trouble with drug dealers, and the young girl gets kidnapped, Tae-sik will let nothing stop him from bringing her back.

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

By Mr. Tropnevad and Zentilack

Summary

Tucker and Dale are on vacation at their rundown cabin in the mountains where they are trying to have a peaceful vacation of fishing, drinking beer, and fixing the cabin. Their peaceful vacation turns into a nightmare after saving a beautiful college student from drowning in a lake in the woods. Tucker and Dale are accused of kidnapping (and possibly murdering) the girl by her friends and a series of misunderstandings leads to a turn for the worst.

Burke and Hare (2010)

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

When a man in Burke (Simon Pegg) and Hare’s (Andy Serkis) boarding house dies, the two decide they can earn some money selling the body to a medical school. They get the idea to sell more bodies for money, but there is a lack of fresh cadavers and the men are forced to murder people.

Fantastic Four (1994)

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Four friends travel into space and are exposed to a comet's radiation. They soon discover they have super powers and now have to fight an old friend, who is trying to destroy a city.

Vigilante

By Zentilack

Summary

Eddie Marino (Robert Forster) is a family man who lives and works in the big city.  His friends, including Nick (Fred Williamson), are fed up with the criminals taking over their streets and begin to fight back.  Eddie is not supportive of their extra-legal efforts, but when his family is attacked and the perps walk free, Eddie decides that becoming a vigilante is the only way to see justice done.

Night of the Lepus

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Arizona rancher, Cole (Rory Calhoun) is plagued with rabbits, and he wants to find a humane way to eliminate them. A zoologist,Roy(Stuart Whitman) is called upon to do experiments on a few rabbits to stop their reproductive system. One of the rabbit’s escapes and breeds with others to create giant man eating rabbits.

Them!

By Zentilack

Summary

New Mexico policeman Ben Peterson (James Whitmore) stumbles onto a series of curious events which end in several deaths.  FBI agent Robert Graham (James Arness) is called in to assist, but things turn really bad when they discover the true threat of Them!

The Stuff

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Two men find goo erupting from the ground, decide to eat it, discover how addicting it is and decide to sell it. The American public falls in love with the Stuff which is marketed as ice cream, but a small boy named Jason (Grant Morris) soon discovers that it is alive and turning people into zombie-like creatures that always seem to need more of the Stuff. Rival ice cream companies want to know what the Stuff is and hire ex-FBI agent Mo Rutherford (Michael Moriarty) to find out what the secret ingredient is. Mo and Jason team up to stop the Stuff from changing all Americans into zombies.

Porco Rosso

Why did Disney make the DVD cover so boring?

By Zentilack

Summary

Set sometime in the 1920's, Porco Rosso is the tale of a WW I Italian flying ace who takes jobs fighting against air pirates and happens to have the head of a pig.  The titular Porco (voiced by Michael Keaton) drives the pirates to band together, hiring an American ace named Curtis (Cary Elwes) to shoot him down.

The Help

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

The Help stars Emma Stone as Skeeter, Viola Davis as Aibleen, and Octavia Spencer as Minny. They are three different women in Mississippi during the 1960’s who create a friendship over a book writing project that eventually breaks society’s rules and puts them at risk of jail time, loss of property, and even death. Their friendship eventually causes problems with Hilly (Bryce Dallas Howard), the social leader of the city. These friends show Hilly and the rest of the townspeople that not all secrets are safe.

The Replacement Killers

By Zentilack

Summary

John Lee (Chow Yun-Fat) is an assassin being compelled to perform three jobs for a Chinese mob boss.  Unable to go through with the final task, he goes on the run.  Seeking a passport to China, John goes to forger Meg Coburn (Mira Sorvino).  His betrayal quickly catches up to him, however, and Meg is caught up in his struggle against his former boss.

Warrior

By. Mr. Tropnevad


Plot Summary

The youngest son (Tom Hardy) of an alcoholic former boxer (Nick Nolte) returns home from the war to fight in a MMA tournament to win money for his fallen comrade’s family. The oldest brother (Joel Edgerton), a physics teacher and a family man, learns he will lose his house in ninety days if he does not earn some money fast. Two brothers eventually start training to fight again only to be reunited in the ring together for the grand prize.

Dead Heat

Plot Summary

We are going to try to not spoil things for you, because for all we know someone might end up wanting to watch this movie after reading our review. Dead Heat is the story of two detectives, Roger (Treat Williams) and Doug (Joe Piscopo), who respond to a jewelry store heist and stumble onto a conspiracy to resurrect the dead.