Enemies Among Us - May 2010

From what I have been able to follow, and it sure is difficult, Govenor Chip Majors (James DuMont) hopes to be the running mate for presidential candidate Senator Edmonds (Steven Bauer) At the motel where a campaign party is taking place at he meets a prostitute arranged for him upstairs in one of the rooms at the hotel. She took money to assassinate him and after getting information from her he strangles her.

He offers his two security guards 4 million dollars to keep it hush so it doesn't ruin his white house chances and his marriage. Devin (played by Griffin Hood) needs the money to help his sister whose husband is out of work, with 2 twins and a lump found on her breast with no insurance. The other guard Thomas Cobbs (Eric Roberts) just wants it cause he is dirty and wants the money. Cobbs extracts info from his CIA ex wife Gloria (Robin Givens) on the vice candidate.

Billy Zane plays Intelligence agent Graham who unearths a plot to take out the candidates

Easy A - Sept 2010

Olive (played by Emma Stone) is a nobody at school except to her best friend Rhianna (played by Alyson Michalka) Rhi invites her to go camping her family one weekend and Olive doesn't want to. She can't stand Rhi's crazy family so she makes up the excuse that she has a date. After the weekend she accidently puts the idea into Rhi's head that she lost her virginity over the weekend and doesn't really care. Marianne, (Amanda Byne) A holy rolling bible thumper was in one of the bathroom stalls as they talked and over heard. She spreads it to everyone.

Olive then does a favor for a gay friend and sets a stage to look like they had sex which gains her a bad reputation and soon everyone is paying her to say she had sex with them. They are reading the Scarlet Letter at school and since she is being treated in like manner she sews a red A on her outfits and runs with it.

Dinner for Schmucks - July 2010

Tim ( Paul Rudd) wants to climb the corporate ladder at work to have a higher position with better pay and a better office on the coveted 7th floor. Part of the reason is because he wants to be worthy of his girlfriend, Julie (Stephanie Szostak), who he keeps asking to marry him but she feels is not the right time. She is successful museum owner in her own right doing a job with a very successful and very handsome artist named Kieren ( Jemaine Clement)

Getting on the good side of his bosses by securing a successful rich guy's business (The Swedish Mueller, played by David Williams) he gets invited to his boss Lance's (Bruce Greenwood) monthly dinner where he must bring a talented idiot so they can make fun of them and reward the best idiot. Tim of course has a car accident on his way home and meets none other than Barry (played by Steve Carroll)who makes art scenes with dead stuffed mice.

Detention - Jan 2010

In 1976 a group of kids went down into the boiler room of their school to steal some of the things in boxes being kept in storage down there. Gabriel (Greg Mikurak), who had the hots for one of his friend's exgirlfriends was locked into the heating vent and warned away from her by the friend. While he was locked in there lightning hit the school traveled the system and set the boy on fire. It was ruled an accident, a prank gone bad, and the others were not punished.

Fast forward to present day. Those kids are all grown up and now have high school kids of their own who wind up in detention together. The coach in head of detention (Coach Litic played by Thomas Calabro) disappears and the students are locked in the detention room when they begin to see the ghosts out for revenge against their parents by killing them.

Principal Hoskins is played by the late David Carradine, T-loc by Lil J, Mimi by Rachel Sterling, Sara by Zelda Williams, Sam by Michael Mitchell, Paul by Preston Jones, Jackson by Black Thomas, Lisa by Maitland McConnell, Ms Cipher by Alexa Jago, Rachel by Katie Condidorio, and Brad by Anthony Chute

Dantes Inferno - December 2010

In cartoon form, Dante goes off to war in the Crusades after proposing to his lady before leaving. On return he is surrounded by wild maneating beasts and has the premonition that something happened on his estate where his family and his betrothed live. Hurrying to his home he finds his family and his servants slaughtered. His woman, Beatrice is yet alive long enough to speak to but then she too passes on and as he watches demons arise from the ground and steal her soul as it flights to heaven, dragging it down into the depths of hell.

He gives chase and follows them into hell in the ultimate rescuse attempt, traveling through the various stages and levels of hell seeing the untold horrors in the name of love.

voice overs:

Dante - Eric Roberts
Beatrice -Jenn Gotzon
Virgil - Vincent Spano
Francesca - helene Cardona
Fury - Nia Pebbles
Count Ugolino - Jose Rosete
Vanni Fucci - Chris Muto

Centurion - August 2010 (April in Greece)

In a time when the Roman legions tried to take over the north england and Ireland (where we spanked their ass and sent them home -- grins to my Italian husband from his Irish wife) The Picts attack stealthily and on one run captured a Centurion. The Picts attack a post and the lonely survivor was taken captive and tortured in an attempt to extract information. His name is Quintas Dias (played by Michael Fassbender.) Right as he is to be executed he is rescued by another group of soldiers, the 9th legion, marching in that direction. He is extremely angry and vengeful and joins the group under the General Virilus (played by Dominic West)
When the general is taken after a battle which left only a handful of soliders alive, and after watching several captives be slain by the lovely warrioress Etaine (played by Olga Kurylenko) they launch a rescue attempt which fails leaving Quintas in charge of the legion. After killing the king's young son the chase is on, trying to get home with the Picts hot on their ass for revenge.

CA$H - April 2010

Sam (Chris Hemsworth) and Leslie (Victoria Profeta) Phelan are flat broke in a bad economy with the bank breathing down their neck for their mortgage payment under threat of forclosure when Sam has a caseful of money thrown onto his car as he is driving under a bridge by a criminal element who tosses the money away right before getting caught and arrested. Using the money to pay their bill they go on a shopping spree to buy buy and buy while Pyke Kubic (Sean Bean) seeks for them. After he finds them they run around trying to get the money back.

When they get all they can from where they stashed it, barring what they spent, they are then forced to rob banks and corner stores to return the money.

Adventures of a Teenage Dragonslayer - April 2010

Arthur (played by ), Natalie (played by Abigail Victor) and Tim(played by Ryan Bradley Norris) are fantasy lovers who enjoy collecting game cards very similar to pokemon and yu gi oh. They also roleplay while exploring the sewer system. Arthur is also experienced problems at home as his mom Laura (Lea Thompson) and his dad Art (Andrew Lauer) and future stepmom Annie ( Amy Pietz) are going through a custody battle. The principal of Arthur's school, Mrs. Metz (Wendy Malick) sides with dad as Laura actively defends her son against Metz's son who is a bully.

Bart is a blue goblin who lives in the sewers held slave by a dragon (Bart played by Burt Sellers) He is about the same age as the kids and he rescues Arthur when Arthur goes down alone and is followed by the bullies. They befriend either other. They discovered that an orange potion not listed in their game cards is a transfiguration potion allowing the dragon to take the shape of anything or anyone else. So they now try to figure out who the dragon is before it takes over the world and wrecks destruction on all.

Abandoned - August 2010

Mary Walsh (played by the late Brittany Murphy) drops her boyfriend, Kevin Peterson (played by Dean Cain) off at the hospital where he is going to have orthopedic surgery. She parks the car then joins him in his room to see him off. When booted from the room so the nurse can prep the patient she is told it will be an hour so she goes downstairs and has breakfast. On finishing she goes back up to wait and after several hours finally approaches the desk where she learns there is no record of anybody checking in with that name and the doctor supposed to do the surgery is on vacation. The nurse who was to prep her, there is no such employee with that name.

She gets a detective involved who searches around and questions employees but is unable to find anyone who has seen him. After discovering she is on antidepressants they begin to think she is having a bout of nuttiness and force her talk to a psychologist who deems her crazy and places her under a involuntary 72 hour observation for mental illness. she has to try to prove she is not nuts and save her man after receiving a ransom demand

Dark House

When Claire (Meghan Ory) was a child she lived through the murder of orphan children by their foster mother. It was a massacre. Fast forward to high school and she is still dealing with the tramua,, seeing a shrink and weaning herself off medication that she really does need to be on. The shrink makes the suggestion that she go back to the house and face her demons. So to speak which turns out to be more real then he imagined.

She is in the advanced high school drama club and a haunted house director with houses country wide comes in to hire 6 of them as actors for his new project he is getting underway...turning the house into a haunted house attraction with realistic looking holograms. When the holograms really start physically killing instead of just scaring they scramble to figure out whats going on and how to get out of the locked house.

Camp Hell - 2010

Tommy is played by Will Denton and he is a teenager coming of age and just beginning to recognize that ~ hey girls are pretty. His grandfather just passed away and he is grief stricken and he begins to be oppressed by a demon who follows him to Camp Hope which is a camp run by a cultist sect of Catholicism to which their parents belong called The Community. They really take the Catholic Christian teachings and run wild with them turning it very much into a cult like segragated colony.

The demon haunts the boys while he is trying to fit in and the attacks get worse and worse, it turns out there was another boy the former year who this exact same thing happened to that ended up trying to kill himself and his sister and is now in a mental ward. Will this happen to Tommy? It was a good flick the only thing I DIDNT like was the ending where he is offered communion wafer and he refuses saying he doesn't believe.

How the hell can you NOT believe after coming face to face with demonic forces? you would think the effect would be the exact opposite, it would drive him toward belief in the lighter half as well. Where there is one there is the other as well. wierd.

Charlie St Cloud - July 2010

Zac Efron plays Charlie St. Cloud. He is a sailing champion in high school who had everything going for him. One night while babysitting he got into a car accident with his little 9 year old brother in the passenger seat. They both died but Charlie was brought back by the ambulance tech, now with the ability to interact with the dead. He plays with his brother and talks with his high school buddy who died in a war while visiting his own grave.

Charlie begins falling in love with a girl he met at his caretaker job at the graveyard and starts to want to live again picking his life back up.

Nanny McPhee Returns

A dose of round 2 with Nanny McPhee set about 60 - 70 years after the first and not aged abit and recognized by grown children she had nannied and loved. Baby Aggie is there from the first movie now an old lady and still has that rattle.

A mother whose husband has gone to first in the ongoing world war tries to manage the farm by herself while also working a job off the farm and yet try to raise her own 3 children and her nephew and niece who has come to stay with them for countryside safety in case their london home gets hit. the cousins are spoiled rotten and the fighting with her 3 just won't stop. Nanny comes to bring order to the household and save the day in her no nonsense witchscraft type fashion.

Black Death - June 2010

The setting is in England during the initial breakout of the bubonic plague. A young novice monk named Osmund voluteers to lead a group of witch hunters to where a necromancer has taken over a village and is reigning with evil, killing Christians unless they recant their faith, raising dead bodies to life and casting curses that drive people insane.

Sean Bean plays Ulric, Eddie Redmayne is Osmund, John Lynch is Wolfstan, Johnny Harris is Mold, Edmun Elliot is Swire, and Ivo is played by Tygo Gernandt.

Beatdown - August 2010

Brandon is a streetfighter who is darned good. After his last win his brother went to pay off some gansters who he took a loan from and was murdered on his way there. Well they are not about to swear off the loan and they look to the next of kin for responsibility - Brandon. He was given 1 week to come up with the money. Not having it he jetted out of town to his dad's and took a construction job.
His construction job isn't cutting it so he finds out about an underground fighting group and makes arrangments to get in.

Basement 2010

A group of college students are on a trip together when they stop to use the woods on a piddle break. Two of them skip down a hole in the ground they find for some "alone" time and the others go down into it looking for them. The entry way is then shut by someone and locked leaving them to wander around trying to find a way out. While trying to escape they find a hospital like room with blood everywhere and one of them is not as innocent as they are claiming as they begin to die off one by one.

Danny Dyer is Gary, Jimmy Mistry is Derek, Kierston wareing is Sarah, Emily Beecham is Pru and Lois Winston is Saffron. The ending was kind of dumb but the meat of the movie was exciting and kept you waiting to see what happens next.

Base Line 2010

I wasn't really able to get into the movie. After about 20 minutes I gave up and moves to the next movie. Basically Danny (freddy connor) is a bouncer for a UK night club and he saves the life of Terry (Jamie Foreman) his boss and owner. He then gets welcomed into the boss's inner circle which is filled with crime.

Bare Knuckles - 2010

Jeanette Roxborough plays Samantha Rogers. A widowed mother of a disabled child who is struggling to makes ends meet. Sonny cool (Martin Kove) is a manager for a Ladies bare knuckles fighting group. He watches Sam bounce a rowdy woman out of a bar she is serving as a waitress at and takes an interest in her. He takes her under his wing, fine touches her natural skill and turns her into a darned good fighter who enters competitions winning enough to support her and her child.

Barbie in a Mermaid Tale - March 2010

Barbie is girl named Merleah who loves to surf. While in a contest her hair turned pink and she wiped out. While she was down in the water she found that she was able to breath and talk to the sealife. When talking to her grandfather about it she finds her mother was a Queen mermaid who was seeing her father before he died.

Now that she has come of age the people of Oceana want her to come back and defeat her evil aunt who ursupped the crown. After some reluctant convincing, down she goes to the deep to save the day.

Ballistica - 2010

This is a cheesy 3rd rate film about a man trained in the rare artform of ballistica. This form combines martial arts and the use of handguns for some pretty good moves. On an operation he rescues an american woman who inadvertently helped make a bomb for terrorists. They then spend the movie trying to find the bomb and disarm it. passable if you're bored. Nice ending twist. I give it a C +

It stars Martin Kove as Riley, Paul Logon as Damian, and Alexa is played by CB Spencer