In this third entry in the series, Blade (Wesley Snipes) joins up with a vampire hunting band (Jessica Biel, Ryan Reynolds) to stop Dracula (Dominic Purcell) and perhaps to end the vampire race forever. With big, shiny, action films, it’s easy to ignore the skill level of the director. This isn’t Shakespeare after all, so anyone
Cursed by the jealous Witch of the Waste (Lauren Bacall), Sophie (Emily Mortimer) is aged to an old crone (Jean Simmons). With limited options, she travels to the wastes, and is picked up by the giant walking “castle” of the dashing wizard, Howl (Christian Bale), who is said to have no heart. Accepting her new
Five years after the events of Final Fantasy VII (that’s the video game; yes, this is a sequel to a video game) a disease with almost no symptoms ravages (well, not really) the land, hitting orphans and Cloud Strife, a man given no back-story unless you’ve played the game. While Cloud bemoans his state, three
Dragons appear on Earth and destroy the castle of corrupt King Fastrad (John Rhys-Davies). Fastrad takes the opportunity to impose on the hospitality of King Wednesbury (John Hansson) and secretly plans to overthrow him and take his castle. Overtly, Fastrad works with Wednesbury, preparing a team of dragon slayers that include the woodsmen, Silas (Maxwell
Craig and Samantha Howard (James Purefoy, Heather Graham), desperate for a baby, go to a fertility clinic that artificially inseminates Samantha, adding the blood of The Devil. Businessman and Satanist Earl Sidney (David Hemmings) aids the couple, while Father Carlo (Andy Serkis) attempts to kill the unborn twins to stop a child of Lucifer being
Yumi Nakamura (Kou Shibasaki) and her friends are having a more or less pleasant evening out (that’s as good as it gets for Yumi, who has never completely recovered from her childhood abuse) when one of Yumi’s friends checks her voice mail to find she’s gotten a call from the future—from herself—indicating the time of
When an archaeological team discovers a note from Professor E.A. Johnston (Billy Connolly), written six hundred years earlier, they demand answers from Robert Doniger (David Thewlis), the CEO of the company backing their dig. Doniger informs them that he has accidentally discovered time travel and the professor is now trapped in the past. He agrees
Directed/Written by: Jan Schomburg Produced by: Corinna C. Poetter This critique contains spoilers – if you have not seen the film yet, go to the Best Shorts page. The Park City 2005 Festival season was an exercise in mediocrity. Whether it was the grandmaster Sun Dance or the supposedly edgy Slamdance, “average” was the watchword.
A group of teens hire a captain (Jürgen Prochnow) to take them on his boat to a rave on a mysterious island. Unfortunately, most of the party-goers have already been killed by zombies. Luckily, the captain has a chest of high caliber pistols, shotguns, machine guns, and hand weapons that they can all use to
Realtor Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy), his partner and wife Sara (Marsha Thomason), and their kids, stop off to check out the Gracy Mansion. Marooned due to a storm, they meet the overly formal butler, Ramsley (Terence Stamp), the master of the house, Edward Gracey (Nathaniel Parker), and a lot of ghosts. To save his wife,
Julia Lund (Laura Regan), a psychology student, is called to meet a childhood friend at night. He tells her that monsters from their childhood, that come out of the darkness, are coming for him, and then kills himself. Billy had night terrors as a child, as did Julia and two of Billy’s friends. She begins to suspect