Movie Reviews - A brief overview of movies. This will be extensively updated when it is managed in a database.

Movie Reviews
A brief overview of movies. This will be extensively updated when it is managed in a database.

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16 Blocks (M)
For a New York cop and his witness, the distance between life and death just got very short. (Rating: M Moderate violence, Infrequent moderate coarse language)

Amityville Horror
A family moves into a home that was the scene of a gruesome crime one year earlier and soon begins to experience bizarre and inexplicable events that suggest an evil presence still inhabits the house.

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Be Cool (M)
Chili Palmer (John Travolta) – the cool mobster from Get Shorty – is back, and this time he sets his sights on the music industry when he partners up with the wife of a recently deceased friend to operate a record label.

Blade 2
Wesley Snipes is back as Blade, a half-man / half-vampire. Blade has returned in this action sequel to take on a vicious new breed of vampires. We are told that you had better get your popcorn and go to the loo before the film starts. It's non stop action.

Bride & Prejudice (PG)
A spectacular and unusual Bollywood-style interpretation of Pride & Prejudice, from the director of Bend It Like Beckham, blends dazzling song and dance with the classic story of romance and misunderstandings.

Confetti (M)
A sharp and affectionate comedy, Confetti is a “mockumentary” that features an ensemble of UK comedic talents and follows three couples as they duke it out to win a bridal magazine contest for “Most Original Wedding of the Year”. (Rating: M Moderate coarse language, frequent nudity)

Constantine (M)
John Constantine is a man who has been to hell and back after an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Now, as a supernatural detective, he patrols the earthly border between heaven and hell, waging war on otherworldly creatures.

Cellular (M)
A kidnapped woman is told that her son will be killed unless her husband gives her abductors something they want. Her only hope is a stranger she is able to make a connection with through a smashed phone.

Footy Legends (PG)
Footy Legends tells the story of Luc Vu, a young man with an obsession about football. Out of work, and with welfare authorities threatening to take away his little sister, Luc re-unites his old high school football team to win a competition that could change all their lives. (Rating: PG Mild coarse language, Mild sexual references)

Hide and Seek (M)
After the recent death of his wife, a man and his young daughter attempt to recover from the trauma. The girl invents an imaginary friend, but her increasingly bizarre behaviour begins to terrify her father.

Hitch
Will Smith is Hitch - a New York “date doctor” who helps men to win over the girl of their dreams, but shies away from any deep involvement himself. When he falls for a beautiful gossip columnist, it looks like he might have met his match. Official Website

Hoodwinked (G)
Everyone knows the story of Little Red Riding Hood . . . or so they think. That’s all about to change because no one has ever seen their favorite fairy tale quite like this -- turned upside-down, inside-out and reinvented as a computer-animated caper comedy that at last reveals the shocking true-crime investigation behind the legend. (Rating: G )

Hostage
When three men take a family hostage, an ex-hostage negotiator and now chief of police in a small town (Bruce Willis) is forced back into a situation far more terrifying and unpredictable than he could have imagined.

Hotel Rwanda (M)
Oscar-nominated, Don Cheadle, stars in the true story of a hotel manager who saved more than 1,000 refugees from massacre during a campaign of genocide in Rwanda in 1994. More...

House of Flying Daggers (M)
The Oscar-nominated new film from the director of Hero is a breathtaking blend of martial arts action, drama and spectacle set in China in 859AD. Be swept away by this jaw-dropping movie.

I, Robot
Based on the works of acclaimed sci-fi author, Isaac Asimov, I, Robot is set in the year 2035AD when it is commonplace for robots to work for their human owners. Will Smith plays a Chicago cop who investigates the murder of a scientist in which a robot is implicated, suggesting that it has broken the 3 Laws of Robotics, which ensure the safety of humans.

Jindabyne (M)
Outside the town of Jindabyne, local man, Stewart is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a dead woman. What follows will change their lives forever and it is Stewart’s wife who must undertake a redemptive journey to lay the dead girl to rest. (Rating: M Moderate coarse language; Moderate violence)

Little Man (M)
Darryl Edwards is so eager to become a father that he mistakes a short, baby-faced thief on the lam for an abandoned toddler. He and his wife take the “baby” into their home while the thief’s partner tries to help him recover a stolen diamond (Rating: M MODERATE SEXUAL REFERENCES)

Minority Report
In Steven Spielberg's futuristic sci-fi thriller, Minority Report; Tom Cruise goes on the run after being accused of a murder that will happen in the future - Confused yet? This movie is good to watch and also delves deeper for those who like the added intellectual debate. Reported earnings figures in the US suggested around $US35.7 million turnover on the opening weekend.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (M)
When a guy tries to break up with his girlfriend who becomes overly possessive, it’s not going to be easy. The girl also happens to be a super hero who sets out on a mission to humiliate and torment him! (Rating: M Moderate sexual references)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (M)
Johnny Depp returns as Captain Jack Sparrow and is caught in yet another tangled web of supernatural intrigue. (Rating: M Moderate Violence, Supernatural Themes)

Signs
Bucks County, Pennsylvania: A Five-Hundred-Foot crop circle appears in the paddock of a farm owned by Reverend Graham Hess (Mel Gibson). A media blitz ensures, testing Graham Hess with his beliefs as he struggles to find the truth about the mysterious crop circles. It's not a prank, it's something much greater. What is really behind the patterns will slowly unfold.

Sione's Wedding (M)
Four partying best friends - who cause chaos at every event they attend - are given an ultimatum when the younger brother of one of them announces his wedding and is determined not to have his big day spoiled by their idiotic antics. (Rating: M Moderate sexual references, moderate coarse language)

Spanglish (M)
When a single Mexican mother is hired as housekeeper for an affluent, totally dysfunctional Los Angeles family she is unprepared for the emotional turmoil she encounters in this comedy/drama from the director of As Good As It Gets. Special Advanced Screenings on Valentine's Day.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Released in 1991, was the follow up to the 1984 cult classic The Terminator. Both films were produced and directed by Academy Award Winner James Cameron, and stared Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800. T2 quickly became a worldwide success, establishing a new paradigm for action films. The film opens with the arrival of the Terminator in a deserted part of the city. Flexing his muscles as if to test for mobility, he goes in search of clothing and transportation necessary to his mission. This time the deadly T-800, developed in the future by Cyberdine as the ultimate killing machine, has been reprogrammed by John Connor, and sent back in time as protector of both he and his mother, Sarah Connor. In another part of the city a more advanced Terminator appears from the future sent to thwart the T-800's mission. Quickly overpowering a police officer, he assumes his identity, and takes his weapon and car. A T-1000 Terminator model, the Terminator is composed of liquid metal and able to take the shape and identity of anything it physically samples. These two machines will do deadly battle over the course of the film, each fighting to preserve a future world; a world of war or peace, decided by the surviving machine.

The Aviator (M) 2004
Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Martin Scorsese’s film tells the story of billionaire aviation pioneer and moviemaker, Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) from the late 1920s to the 1940s and his relationship with Hollywood greats like Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett).

The Interpreter
Nicole Kidman stars in this political thriller about an interpreter at the United Nations who overhears an assassination plot and is assigned a federal agent (Sean Penn) to protect her when she becomes a target herself.

The Lake House (PG)
A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, a frustrated architect. When they discover that they're actually living two years apart, they must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late. (Rating: PG Mild themes; Mild coarse language)

The Sentinel (M)
A Special Agent suspects that the neo-Nazi Aryan Disciples have positioned one of their own in the White House, but his investigation is cut short by a blackmailer who knows of his affair with the First Lady and tries to frame him for murder. (Rating: M Moderate violence).

War of the Worlds
In 1953 you may have seen the original alien invasion (created by H.G. Wells) entitled The War of the Worlds. The film was made for $2 million and was a huge hit. The 'New' War of the Worlds was 50 years old in 2003 and has been remade by Paramount Pictures. Tom Cruise is the star.

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You Me and Dupree (M)
When his oldest friend loses his job and his home, a newly married man invites him to live in his house – temporarily. But soon the friend becomes a permanent fixture and he turns the newlyweds’ efforts to make their marriage work into a hilarious catastrophe. (Rating: M Moderate sexual references, infrequent moderate coarse language)