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In this world, there are people who are rescuers and those who need rescuing, and rarely do they stray from either of these natural inclinations. But, in an unexpectedly intriguing twist on this idea, first-time writer-director Kate Beecroft has served up a debut feature that showcases a colorful cast of characters who ultimately explore both sides of this question, and they do so in a setting that few of us ever get to see up close. This quasi-biographical tale tells the story of a passel of South Dakota cowgirls who struggle to learn the ropes of getting by in this fundamentally hard way of …

Back in the days of three-channel telly in Britain, this was one of the regular sci-fi staples that I really quite enjoyed as I grew up. It features “Messala” himself - Stephen Boyd, only this time he is being placed into a submarine with “Cora” (Raquel Welch) and “Michaels” (Donald Pleasence) and then shrunk. They are to be injected into the bloodstream of a scientist with a view to navigating his internal system, arriving at his brain and the using their laser to zap away a life-threatening blood clot. It appears that miniaturisation itself is no big deal, but after an hour the shrunken obje…

“Troy” (Nicolas Cage) is a nasty piece of work, and his latest bombing plot has attracted the attention of FBI man “Archer” (John Travolta). Now he has some personal skin in the game, as his nemesis was responsible for the death of his young son - an event both he and wife, physician “Eve” (Joan Allen) are still coming to terms with. When they apprehend him, though, the boffins come up with an unique plan that will enable "Archer" to infiltrate the terrorist gang and bring them all to justice whilst saving the city of Los Angeles from a grizzly fate. The trick? Well that involves some groundbr…

I’ve seen loads of road movies over the years, but never one that involved an elderly gent travelling from Iowa to the adjacent Wisconsin driving his lawnmower! “Alvin” (Richard Farnsworth) is a curmudgeonly seventy-something whose health and mobility are failing and who lives with his daughter “Rose” (Sissy Spacek) - a lady without her own problems to seek, too! When he learns that his estranged brother “Lyle” has had a stroke, he determines to visit him after a ten year hiatus. The bus, the train, a plane? Nope. He hitches a trailer to his grass cutter and off he goes. Unsurprisingly, he doe…

When best friend “Lilian” (Maya Rudolph) announces that she is to marry, “Annie” (Kristen Wiig) is determined to be her maid of honour. Problem? Well her life is a shambles. She is having a relationship with the wealthy Porsche driver, her job isn’t exactly going well and she hasn’t two cents to rub together. Everyone knows that getting married is an expensive business and with the bachelorette party amongst the myriad of responsibilities she is vying to take, she is going to have to improvise! Just to add to her problems, she is pulled over by policeman “Rhodes” (Chris O’Dowd) for having dodg…

good + Some scenes are memorable and well executed + Vilain/superpower looks cool + acting is ok/good bad - overall treatment of characters is flat as they don't look far enough from already existing characters - ending is very usual - no real tension as the treatment of Bob character could never show a growing supervilain menace - fight scenes / talking scene are not good enough (FX, speech,...)…

While not terribly shot compared with other of these shot-on-shiteo movies, this is just as dull and boring as those along with terrible dialogue. At least Stephanie Beaton was easy on the eyes. Clocking in at 99-minutes, it's also too long by a good 20 minutes. Yawn. **1.25/5**…

This series took a huge nose dive right near the end. The basic premise was kinda ludicrous, but interesting enough to keep me watching. And as it played out, this agency that supposedly monitors all other spy agencies? ends up using their operative - who they know has been 'hacked' - to lure out the devious masterminds behind this plot to take their super secret agency down. Interesting enough but the show didn't have any huge dramatic moments to make me care about the why of what these people were doing, and instead tried to make the plot feel dense by adding on dumb layers of subterfuge tha…

49/100 Basically, a "Grave Encounters" clone with a pinch of "Blair Witch" mythos about a paranormal research group investigating an old, deserted sanatorium. Found footage format which is just like watching an episode of "Ghost Hunters", except the ghosts bite back in a big way. Well made with some good scares and a lot of 'out-of-the-corner-of-your-eye' stuff but nothing really new to add to the genre. -- DrNostromo.com…

68/100 A man, whose spirit is jumping around from one person to another every 12 hours, is trying to find out who he is, what's going on and how to save his girlfriend. Likable characters, good pacing and great action highlight this incredibly intriguing story that leaves one wondering what's going to happen next. It is a bit confusing at times, they did sort of lose me on a couple points, but once the reveal is made, things gelled together quite well and the John Wickish style climax was a real treat. Good exciting fun well worth a bag a popcorn and a hot dog. -- DrNostromo.com…