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Five Card Stud


Produced by Hal Wallis and directed by Henry Hathaway. A fairly basic 98 minutes run time with little else, although Dean Martin sings the title song.The StarsDean Martin plays the “hero”, a card-playing drifter who keeps coming back to the little town of Rincon. He is gambling with Roddy McDowall and four others the night […]

8 Mile


Starring: Eminem, as Jimmy”Rabbit”Smith, Brittany Murphy, Kim Basinger.
Story:
This is a film I had heard a lot about and did not get to see at the cinema. So, as you can imagine I had been eagerly anticipating this films release to DVD. I was not disappointed. I am writing this several days after watching the preview […]

8 Mile


Starring: Eminem, as Jimmy”Rabbit”Smith, Brittany Murphy, Kim Basinger.
Story:
This is a film I had heard a lot about and did not get to see at the cinema. So, as you can imagine I had been eagerly anticipating this films release to DVD. I was not disappointed. I am writing this several days after watching the preview […]

My Bloody Valentine


This is a classic B-grade horror with no well-known stars and amazingly is available in thirteen different languages. It consists of a light plot with very light characters, surprisingly there aren’t your average number of big breasted women and not one of them gets naked, sorry boys. The story is set in a small American […]

Scream, the Collector’s Edition


Directed by Wes Craven. Synopsis. Scream is a great modern day thriller starting off with a big bang directed by the horror master Wes Craven. Set in a small town called Woodsboro it’s based around a teenage high school student called Sidney (played by Neve Campbell from Party of Five). One year after Sidney’s Mother […]

Beneath Clouds


STARS: Dannielle Hall, Damian Pitt.
STORY:
Two personal journeys intersect as Lena and Vaughan meet at a bus stop in the middle of rural NSW, with the common goal of heading toward Sydney. Lena is of mixed race, searching for her Irish father, Vaughn is an indigenous teen who has escaped a minimum-security prison to get […]

Car Wash


STARS: The Pointer Sisters, Richard Pryor.
STORY:
Well, there’s not much of a story here, but it certainly has potential for cult status. I wanted to review this DVD as I hadn’t ever seen this film, but had heard the name crop up all over the place. There must’ve been lots of these disco jive movies […]

The Odd Angry Shot


Principal Cast: Graham Kennedy (Harry); Graeme Blundell (Dawson); Bryan Brown (Rogers); John Hargreaves (Bung); John Jarrett (Bill) and a host of many other well-known Australian TV and character actors; Director: Tom Jeffrey
SYNOPSIS
Before commencing to write my review of this film I decided to watch it for a second time. My first (cynical?) impression was that […]

Blood Work


STARS: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus, Paul Rodriguez, Tina Lifford.
STORY:
Terry McCaleb (Clint Eastwood) is a retired FBI profiler who reluctantly takes on one last case - the unsolved murder of a woman in a convenience store. In the process he discovers deeper connections between himself and those around him. I […]

The Swarm


Produced and directed by Irwin Allen (Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure). 150 minutes run time with the bonus of the movie trailer plus a documentary on how some of the movie was made, including interviews with some of the stars. The StarsThe sleeve says there are enough major stars for five movies and it’s just […]