Hilary Swank annoys me for 107 minutes.

But really, this film is like a poor made for television drama. Hilary Swank is front row, she's annoying, her performance is terrible. Sam Rockwell tries to salvage what he can from such a poorly written script. Some cool cameo's, but nothing really here. Skip the film, read the real story.

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Saw II is a great follow up to the original film, this is a sequel which could have easily failed. But thanks to a great director in Darren Lynn Bousman, who also wrote the script with the original’s Leigh Whannell, this film is a success. It takes place I assume not long after the first one, it doesn’t mess around and our opening scene is a trap, a nasty trap. The victim here we find out is an informant of police officer Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) and ‘Jigsaw’ leaves him a message at the scene. Eric and Kerry (Dina Meyer from the first film) get to investigating, and they soon actually find ‘Jigsaw’ (Tobin Bell). But he is still playing a game as Eric’s son is among a group of people (which includes trap survivor Amanda from the first film) in a house set with traps. They have a visual to the house, as ‘Jigsaw’ is recording, and in order to get his son back ‘Jigsaw’ wants Eric to play his game and follow his rules...[more]...

I had not seen Saw since back in early 2005 as a new release DVD, and at the time I loved it. I thought it was such a unique horror film, and I lapped it all up. Usually when I love a film I do not just watch it only once, so why has it taken me so long to revisit Saw? I have no idea, but I am happy I did! I think I loved it even more the second time around, and knowing the outcome this time around I think I picked a lot more up. For those of you reading this review that have not seen Saw, the plot is actually quite simple. Two men Dr Gordon (Cary Elwes) and Adam (Leigh Whannell) wake up in a scummy looking room (a bathroom maybe), both have their ankle’s locked up to a chain. They have no idea how they got there, or why they are there. After finding some audio tapes, they get a tape player off a body that is also in the room, and they hear a message from someone known as ‘Jigsaw’. Dr Gordon works out what might be going on, as he has a connection with ‘Jigsaw’. While these two are trapped, we also see the police investigation of ‘Jigsaw’ and the games that he plays. It doesn’t take long for this to get personal between Det. Tapp (Danny Glover) and ‘Jigsaw’, as he investigates things with his partner Det. Sing (Ken Leung). Slowly...[more]...

When I watch a film for the first time, not knowing what to expect, the thing I really want the most is to be surprised and discover something fantastic. This is what happened when I watched The Ugly, what a gem this turned out to be. This is a strange one film, it is about a serial killer (Simon played by Paolo Rotondo) who has spent the last six years in a psychiatric facility, requests to be interviewed by a media hungry psychologist (Karen Schumaker played by Rebecca Hobbs). His past and murders are revealed through flashbacks, but not everything is what it seems. The more Karen finds out about things from Simon, the stranger things begin to get...[more]...

Black Christmas or Black XMas is a remake of the 1974 film, however these two films do not have much in common. While they both take place around Christmas time and in a sorority house, with the girls receiving weird phone calls and girls going missing, that is about all they have in common. This film does it’s own thing for the most part, going in a completely different direction, and borrowing heavily from a lot of other films. The film seemed to be missing something, and other things were a bit of a mess, I felt the cold hand of studio interference all over this one. While I didn’t think this was the disaster many people have said it was, it wasn’t all that good either. This film sits in the middle of good and bad, while it had somethings going for it, other things were really terrible...[more]...

I am going to go right off and say it, this film was a blast, no 3-D needed! I am so glad I didn’t see this in 3-D and I went for the 2-D version, it really didn’t need it to start off with and I honestly didn’t need the headache. Unless a film was actually filmed for 3-D using that technology (you know like Avatar), I could hardly careless to see how awful it looks after a post conversion. With that bit out of the way, I shall tell you a little about what this film is about and why I had such a great time with it. So we start off our film off on a lake (well it looked like one) and some kind of under water tremor has unleashed some nasty and very hungry piranha fish. This event decided to happen on one of the busiest weeks for the town of Lake Victoria, as thousands of teens and young adults have come for Spring Break. The town Sheriff (Elizabeth Shue) has already found one body, and scientists (the main one played by Adam Scott) have come to investigate the tremor. Meanwhile Jake (Steven R. McQueen) and his friend Kelly (Jessica Szohr) agree to go on board a boat with Derrick (An hilarious Jerry O’Connell) who hosts a Girls Gone Wild type show. Jake also happens to be the Sheriff’s son, and in sneaky fashion leaves his younger siblings at home, who decide...[more]...

Frailty is easily one of my top 30 favourite films of all time, make no mistake I love this film. I decided to re-watch this for October the horror month as I actually haven’t re-watched this for a few years and I thought it was about time I visited one of my favourites again. Even though I haven’t seen this for awhile, the film loses nothing, in fact with every watch this film just seems to get better. Upon it’s original release here, I saw this twice in the cinema. My first viewing I was in love with this film, and I wanted to see it again, and after that I found myself watching it every few months. So what is it exactly that has me in love with this film? A lot of things actually, although I would say it starts with Bill Paxton. This film marked his feature film debut as director, and this just seemed like the right fit for him as director. The story was something unique and I actually loved how it fit in religion in such a strange way. You see Frailty starts off with Fenton Meiks (played as an adult by Matthew McConaughey), he walks into a police station and confronts FBI Agent Doyle (Powers Boothe), and confesses to him he knows who the ‘God’s Hand Killer’ is. As the audience we figure out there must be a serial killer known as ‘God’s Hand’, however as Doyle admits they were told...[more]...

Frozen surprised me, I wasn’t sure what to expect, all I knew was that this was about three people stuck on a chairlift. Who knew that that could make for compelling and at times very frightening viewing? The quote on the poster from bloody-disgusting is correct, this film certainly does for skiing what Jaws did for swimming . I have never been skiing, and I’ve been on a chairlift twice, and after seeing this film I really don’t care to do either of those! As I said the premise is simple, three friends go skiing and they get onto the chair lift as the last ones, and they get forgotten about. The chairlift gets stopped, and no one is going to be around for five days. The three characters are left with impossible choices and decisions as they are stuck, clinging to life. It is a lose-lose situation, they are stuck high up, it’s freezing cold, and the wolves are around. What would you do...[more]...

This is one awfully strange film, and it took me sometime to think about how I felt. I think the advertisements for this have been very wrong, yes on the surface it is a lover story, but deep down it is about a disturbed man. Jim Carrey plays Steven Russell, he is a local police officer, with a loving family. All is not what it seems as Steven is actually gay and after some incidents he decides he is going to be himself. However that lifestyle turns out to be rather expensive and he turns to conning to get by. He still finds himself lying and being a con man even when he gets put into prison where he meets the love of his life Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor...[more]...

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Undisputed 3 picks up some time after Undisputed 2, we find Boyka (Scott Adkins) is recovering from the knee injury suffered at the hands of Chambers. He isn't the man he once was, he is almost unrecognisable, from his attitude to the way he looks. He's become a toilet cleaner, and it is pretty much the way he prefers to be in prison. But he soon finds that bug, he wants to fight again and he wants to be the best. This leads to him getting transferred to a different prison where a tournament of the best fighters is to take place with the winner told they will receive their freedom. Of course this is not true, the tournament is there for people to make money without a second thought to the fighters. Boyka has to over come the odds, and we're behind him the entire way...[more]...

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