Monday 29 August 2011

June 9

No, before we start...this is not a belated blog...June 9 is the title of the movie!

The oldest village in northeast Ohio, Boston Mills is steeped in legend and lore, earning the nickname Helltown.  Since the early 1970s, Boston Mills remains the perfect playground for unsupervised teens, thrill-seekers and ultra-naturalists.

The movie follows a group of teenagers armed with nothing but a video camera and minds full of annoying pranks to the sleepy town of Boston Mills...but they discover that the the stories that made Boston Town famous are not the stories to be afraid of.

The teens vanished, and nobody knows what happened on June 9...nobody saw the events of that day, the gruesome truth...until now.

This movie...it's quite cheesy to be honest and feels like they were trying to replicate the greatness of The Blair Witch Project in some ways, and failing.  That's not saying this is a bad movie, although it is not a good movie either.  I did enjoy the ending as these teenagers were so damn annoying that they pretty much deserved everything that happened to them.

If you want to check this movie out, you can watch the full movie for free on YouTube!  CLICK HERE to watch it now.

This movie is unrated and available now also on DVD in the US if you want to purchase it.

Friday 19 August 2011

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Teaser Poster

The movie hits cinemas early 2012, and here is the first teaser poster...


Well, it doesn't give away much...but should get the fans interested!  Let's just hope that this is better than the previous movie.

Thursday 11 August 2011

Red Riding Hood

Today I downloaded Red Riding Hood from iTunes (US)

Pretty girl Valerie is torn between 2 men...Peter, a brooding outsider and Henry, a wealthy man her parents have arranged for her to marry. Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they hear Valerie's sister has been killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest that surrounds the village.
The villagers had an uneasy true with the werewolf for years and offered it monthly animal sacrifices but under a blood red moon the beast has upped the stakes by taking a human life.
Wanting revenge, the village calls upon Father Solomon, a famed werewolf hunter, to kill the beast but Solomon's arrival has unintended consequences when he warns that the werewolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them.
As the death toll rises at every moon, Valerie has suspicions that the werewolf could be someone she loves and discovers she has a unique connection to the beast...making her suspect...and bait.

If you were expecting a story based on the fairy tale, don't get this movie, it's not what you'd expect...it's not quite the horror that some people tried to make it out to be either but more of a thriller with romantic overtones..  It has some interesting twists and turns and is a rather good movie, although I think it could have been a little better.

Red Riding Hood is rated 12 in the UK and will be available on BluRay, DVD and download on 22 August.

Tuesday 9 August 2011

Captain America: The First Avenger

Yesterday I saw Captain America: The First Avenger 3D at Vue Cinema Basingstoke.

The year is 1942 and America has joined the war, and a weedy and sickly Steve Rogers wants to join the armed forces to help win the war, but gets rejected on more then one occasion to his frustration, until a doctor sees something in him and enlists him as part of Project Rebirth, which is an experiment to create super soldiers, thus transforming Rogers from weakling to a man of maximum human potential.  He is initially misused as a propaganda tool, but he changes that when he risks his life and saves many prisoners of war and shows he is a hero.

If you have been watching the recent Marvel superhero movie you will know that they are all building up to the Avengers movie which is out May 2012 in the UK, and this is a good part of the story explaining the creation of Cap and what happened during the war, and his discovery in present day.

The 3D was reasonable considering this wasn't filmed in 3D, although could have been better...although the images behind the credit at the end were well done....and speaking of the credits, stay right until the end of the of them, yet again Marvel have added something that you might like to watch at the end!

Captain America is rated 12A, also available to view in 2D and is in cinemas in the UK now.

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon

I recently went and saw Transformers: Dark Of The Moon 3D at Vue Cinema Basingstoke.

The third movie in the franchise finds the Autobots battling the Decepticons once more.  Both sides are in a race to uncover secrets of a Cybertronian craft that crashed on the Moon.
The movie is kind of ok, with a few twists and turns and Sam has a new love interest (because Megan Fox kinda sealed her fate with Michael Bay, silly girl) which is kinda good.
This movie is better than Revenge Of The Fallen...but only just.  If you like the turn you brain off explosion-fests that Michael Bay does, you will absolutely love this, but I personally think there should have been more to this movie (and the previous 2 also).
I hope that this is the end of the Transformer movies, but with the money they will pull in this is highly unlikely and  there will probably be more on the way.
I saw the movie in 3D, and to be honest it didn't really justify it...to be honest a movie has to be shot in 3D for it to be effective, so it felt like this was just another movie attempting to jump on the 3D bandwagon and failing.

Transformers:Dark Of The Moon is rated 12A and is still in UK cinemas now.
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