Solomon Kane has a respect for its source material and a willingness to balance its money shots with proper story-telling that transcend its genre limitations.
A pirate who forfeits his soul to the Devil renounces evil but is forced to take up arms again to protect a Puritan family.
Shelton has to do a lot as Peggy, the camera rarely leaves her and she is called on to convey complex emotions with little dialogue - and she does a good job.
A sudden tragedy leads a newlywed to abandon her life.
The plot may sound familiar romcom territory, but the intellectual issues and a promising script with words of more than two syllables aim it slightly higher.
A black woman and a white man meet on a blind date and try to make a go of things despite the disapproval of their friends.
Kevin Corrigan holds it all together with a brooding, anxious performance.
Released from an asylum, a young man struggles to rebuild his life, but he's still threatened by the high school bullies who caused his breakdown. It's time to make them pay.
The character of Moira is woefully underwritten, wasting a lot of interesting potential, but McCormick gives her humanity, showing us the pain we need to see to understand her.
A bullied boy summons the spirit of a girl who killed herself after facing the same problem, and she sets out to wreak bloods vengeance on his tormentors.
The main problem is that the end result feels just a bit too glossy, aimed at the MTV generation who can't cope with watching something serious unless they're treated to a pop video every 10 minutes.
Andersson's film offers a dystopian vision of the new millennium, where misery, pain, guilt and despair are the universal condition, where escape is impossible, and where, no matter how much anyone tries to turn their back on the past, somehow it always r
Wry examination of the human condition told through a series of vignettes.
There's often a question mark over how involved a documentarian has become with their subject and here Ghaemmaghami confronts the issue head on, showing how she becomes not just a recorder of what happens but a catalyst for change.
The story of an aspirational young Afghan rapper whose family plan to sell her into marriage.
The road trip device may be a familiar one but it is a choice that broadens the appeal and accessibility of the film and takes it away from more political machinations into the realm of simpler storytelling.
In the days following the fall of Saddam, a Kurdish grandmother takes her grandson on the search for his father.
Disney always has a tendency to err on the side of caution, choosing the established and familiar route over more crazy - and, let's face it, fun - ideas every time.
A young sorceror finds himself embroiled in an ancient battle between good and evil in modern New York.
Empathy with a victim is the key to scaring the living daylights out of an audience. Carpenter fails to do this, because his heroine spends the entire movie as confused as everyone else.
Weird, ghostly things happen to Melissa Sagemiller after her boyfriend is killed in a car crash.
Though films about psychic investigations are fairly common, The Sound manages to find a path of its own.
A skeptic of the supernatural sets off to debunk paranormal sightings using low frequency sound-waves in an abandoned subway station and is met with unforeseen evil and eerie memories.
With a slightly-too-long runtime and an unsatisfactory ending, this is more a curio than a classic, but one that can boast impressive technical feats and good production values, as well as wonderful performances from its seasoned cast.
Troubled attempts at breaking the sound barrier and the turmoil caused for the wife of the test pilot.
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