Director: Nimród Antal
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Studio: Sony Pictures
Rated: R

David and Amy Fox find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere when their car breaks down. Luckily, they come across a motel with a TV to entertain them during their overnight stay. However, there's something very strange and familiar about the Grade-Z slasher movies that the motel broadcasts for its guests' enjoyment. They all appear to be filmed in the very same room they occupy! Realizing that they are trapped in their room with hidden cameras now aimed at them filming their every move, David and Amy desperately find a means of escape through locked doors, crawlspaces and underground tunnels before they too become the newest stars of the mystery filmmaker's next cult classic!

Director: John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Studio: BenderSpink
Rated: R

Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, an adult Rusty Griswold takes his wife and two sons on a cross-country road trip to Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.

Director: John Webb (IV)
Genre: Horror
Studio: Lions Gate
Rated: R

This movie (as described in other reviews) wasn't extremely accurate with the details of what had actually happened but does give you a basic understanding. In real life Rod was a gangly teen with long hair not a manipulating hottie. But Drew Fuller who played Rod did do a great job of how they wanted to depict the leader of the group. When watching this movie people have to remember that this is a MOVIE not a documentary and is only based on what really happened. If you rent this movie hoping to see what actually went one during the murder in 1996, you will be sadly disappointed, although pleased by the acting. If you want to get only the facts then get a book from the library, if you want the facts but also to be entertained and wowed by how gorgeous Drew Fuller is...then get this movie.

Director: Pete Travis
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Studio: Sony Pictures
Rated: PG-13

The President of the United States is in Salamanca, Spain, about to address the city in a public square. We see a plain-clothes cop, his girlfriend with another man, a mother and child, an American tourist with a video camera, and a Secret Service agent newly returned from medical leave. Shots ring out and the President falls; a few minutes later, we hear a distant explosion, then a bomb goes off in the square. Those minutes are retold, several times, emphasizing different characters' actions. Gradually, we discover who's behind the plot. Is the Secret Service one step ahead, or have the President's adversaries thought of everything?

Director: Todd Haynes
Genre: Drama
Studio: Miramax
Rated: R

Todd Haynes, ever unpredictable, follows up his experimental trilogy "Poison" and his restrained "Safe" with this flamboyant study in glam rock through the kaleidoscopic lens of "Citizen Kane". Christian Bale plays Arthur Stuart, a reporter sent to investigate the legend of rock legend and bisexual pop icon Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as a not-so-thinly veiled David Bowie), who disappeared a decade ago after staging his own mock assassination. But Arthur is flooded with memories of his own adolescence as he interviews Slade's friends and business associates, peeling back the layer of makeup and spangles that was the model of rebellion for a generation of middle-class British kids and discovering a hollow center. Ewan McGregor almost steals the film as the punk pioneer Curt Wild (equal parts Iggy Pop and Kurt Cobain), the genuine article to Slade's calculated, coifed image of glitter stardom. Haynes's film lacks nothing in capturing the flamboyance and spectacle of the era with flashy filmmaking and kitschy costumes, and if the plot seems lost in the preening and visual fireworks, perhaps that's the point: behind the façades and manufactured fronts is nothing but glitter, energy, and a beat. "--Sean Axmaker"

Director: Eric DelaBarre
Genre: Action & Adventure
Studio: Lions Gate
Rated: R

Faced with an election year, Captain John Sullivan (Ed Lauter) faces enormous pressure to fix the city of Venice’s crime problem. To help him with this he enlists the help of highly decorated Sgt. Frank Mills (Randall Batinkoff) who comes up with the idea of using cadets from the police academy, who are not bound by "police codes" to fight an unconventional battle between rival gangs. As this high octane thriller heats up, it becomes harder to tell who is playing for which team.

Director: Jim Gillespie
Genre: Drama
Studio: Dimension
Rated: R

Thank good for the swamp and the back ground because it helped alot to make this movie scarey...but other than that on my review meter the arrow is between fair/ok can't complain just watch wolf creek then you'll see venom isn't really bad...

Director: Ruben Fleischer
Studio: Avi Arad Productions
Rated: for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and for language

When Eddie Brock acquires the powers of a symbiote, he will have to release his alter-ego "Venom" to save his life.

Director: Arlene Sanford
Genre: Television
Studio: Paramount
Rated: PG-13

This second ironic send-up of the old Sherwood Schwartz sitcom is even funnier than "The Brady Bunch Movie". Shelley Long and Gary Cole return as the married heads of the merged family known as the Bradys, and Christopher Daniel Barnes and Christine Taylor reprise their roles as eldest stepsiblings Greg and Marcia. As with the first film, the clever premise finds the Brady clan caught in a kind of '70s time warp, while the rest of the world has moved well into the '90s. Greg is still looking for a "groovy girlfriend," Mr. Brady thinks the idea of a cable that sends 50 channels to one's TV set must be a joke, and Mrs. Brady spends hours at the beauty shop only to look exactly the same as she went in. There's a plot involving an imposter (Tim Matheson) who claims to be Carol's long-lost husband, but the real charge in this comedy comes from the way these pseudohip characters deal with sexual taboos (is there any real reason that Greg and Marcia shouldn't get it on?) and the incredulous reactions of other people. "--Tom Keogh"

Director: Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert
Genre: Adventure, Family, Mystery
Studio: FunDeMental Studios
Rated: PG

When Victor and his family move into his grand-uncle's mysterious - and seemingly haunted - mansion, the young boy detective makes it his mission to solve the case of a girl who died there forty years earlier.

Director: Paul McGuigan
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Studio: Davis Entertainment
Rated: PG-13

James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe star in a dynamic and thrilling twist on a legendary tale. Radical scientist Victor Frankenstein (McAvoy) and his equally brilliant protégé Igor Strausman (Radcliffe) share a noble vision of aiding humanity through their groundbreaking research into immortality. But Victor's experiments go too far, and his obsession has horrifying consequences. Only Igor can bring his friend back from the brink of madness and save him from his monstrous creation.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Genre: Horror
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Rated: PG-13

Even when his trademark twist-ending formula wears worrisomely thin as it does in "The Village", M. Night Shyamalan is a true showman who knows how to serve up a spookfest. He's derailed this time by a howler of a "surprise" lifted almost directly from "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim," an episode of "The Twilight Zone" starring Cliff Robertson that originally aired in 1961. Even if you're unfamiliar with that Rod Serling scenario, you'll have a good chance of guessing the surprise, which ranks well below "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs" on Shyamalan's shock-o-meter. That leaves you to appreciate Shyamalan's proven strengths, including a sharp eye for fear-laden compositions, a general sense of unease, delicate handling of fine actors (alas, most of them wasted here, save for Bryce Dallas Howard in a promising debut), and the cautious concealment of his ruse, which in this case involves a 19th-century village that maintains an anxious truce with dreadful creatures that live in the forbidden woods nearby. Will any of this take anyone by genuine surprise? That seems unlikely, since Emperor Shyamalan has clearly lost his clothes in "The Village", but it's nice to have him around to scare us, even if he doesn't always succeed. "--Jeff Shannon"

Director: Wolf Rilla, Anton Leader
Genre: Horror
Studio: Warner Home Video
Rated: Unrated

What's scarier than scary kids? "Village of the Damned" is the definitive scary-kid classic, a truly unsettling film drawn from John Wyndham's novel "The Midwich Cuckoos". The brilliant opening sequence depicts the sudden and temporary paralysis of a small English hamlet, which is followed by the town's women becoming mysteriously pregnant. The spawn of this occurrence are a dozen eerie, blond-headed children, who are either gifted, evil, or "the world's new people." A splendid outing, not least in the way it catches parental anxiety about this small new stranger in one's home. (It was remade by John Carpenter in 1995.)
"Children of the Damned" follows up with a story about six more creepy kids, brought from all over the globe to huddle in a old church in London. An excellent opening half-hour gets bogged down in the movie's global-political ambitions (it's very much a cold war offering), but it has its share of shivery moments--the sight of the six youngsters striding down a London street as though they controlled the world is a chiller. But where's the blond hair? The two films are different in tone; "Village" feels like a fifties sci-fi offering, with an old-school star (George Sanders) and classical style; "Children" is a film of the sixties, with hipper techniques, urban setting, and young actors Ian Hendry and Alan Badel. But both have those damned kids. "--Robert Horton"

Director: John Bruno
Genre: Horror
Studio: Universal Studios
Rated: R

In this fast-paced, sci-fi/horror shoot-'em-up based on the "Dark Horse" comic book, Jamie Lee Curtis plays the navigator of an ocean-going tug. When a typhoon cripples their boat, the crew sails into the eye of the storm, where they discover a high-tech Russian communications and research vessel adrift. Only one Russian crewmember is still alive, raving about "intelligent lightning." They soon discover that an alien life form has taken over the ship's computers and is churning out biomechanical warriors. With their own boat destroyed, the crew must battle the creature as the ship reenters the storm. If the basic story and characters all sound familiar, it may not surprise you that producer Gale Anne Hurd's other films include "The Terminator" and "Aliens". This movie and its derivative screenplay aren't nearly as good as those were, and director John Bruno (who won an Oscar for best visual effects for "The Abyss") seems more skilled at action choreography and special effects than character and story. Curtis plays another variation on her "scream queen" persona, while Donald Sutherland gives a deliciously hammy performance as the tug captain (in his words, "the dominant life form") who smells salvage money if he can claim the Russian ship for his own. For all the picture's flaws, the effects are good (and gory) and it moves at top speed for a brisk 100 minutes. A trivia factoid: at one point on this troubled production, film footage was seized at the airport because the shipping box was prominently marked with the film's title! "--Geof Miller"

Director: Robby Henson
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Rated: PG-13

The true face of terror is revealed in this supernatural thriller based on Frank Peretti?s best-selling novel. Miracles are happening in the sleepy town of Antioch, and everyone is talking about the mysterious drifter with the incredible powers. But who is this charismatic stranger ? the true messiah, a false prophet or something far more sinister? The townspeople are soon divided, and when happenings at the stranger?s revival tent take on a bizarre and frightening twist, it?s up to an ex-minister to confront his own inner demons and unlock the shocking secret of THE VISITATION.

Director: David DeCoteau
Genre: Horror
Studio: CULT VIDEO
Rated: R

While I am fully aware that this movie lacks all the criteria that make up a good movie: comprehensible plot, intriguing characters, exotic location, and ultimate believablity, this movie will henceforth be placed on the top sheft of my movie collection. I have been a fan of these B movie homo-erotic movies since their inception but this movie takes the cake, the plate the cake was served on, and the table cloth and table. I would have paid 50 dollars for this movie so give it a try and I guarantee you wont be disappointed. Kudos to the alternate sound cut. Drew Fuller is amazing in this film!