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Monthly Archives: December 2014

Dark Skies

A normal family begins having strange experiences. They have unexplained injuries, display inexplicable behavior, and have episodes of missing time. They try to understand and combat the issues they have in any way they can. Gradually a clearer understanding comes to them and they resolve to fight. Read more of this post

Get Santa

Get Santa is a brand new British Christmas movie from Warner Brothers. Santa is testing a new sleigh when he hits wire and is thrown out and knocked out, his sleigh crashes and his confused reindeer get free in the city. Very soon the police have Santa locked up and the reindeer penned up. The only people who can save Christmas are a young boy and his ex-con father… Read more of this post

36 Saints

New York City police detectives have to investigate murders that turn out to be the work of a serial killer. The killer is picking people who together recently survived a plane crash. Then there is something about a demon and some Lilith person and saints that don’t do anything saintly. It is really hard to put it all together.

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Stakeland

A pandemic of vampirism has gripped the world. The afflicted prowl the nights looking to feed. One night a family is attacked and only a young boy named Martin survives and is taken in by a hunter called Mister. Mister teaches Martin to survive and together they travel toward New Eden which is rumored to be a safe, vampire free area. The trip turns out to have even greater challenges than the vampires… Read more of this post

Mystery Road

Mystery Road is a gritty western-like murder and suspense movie. The main character is Jay Swan, a new detective who returns to his home in the Australian outback town of Winton, Queensland. His first case is a the death of a young girl found in a culvert along a well-used highway. The girl is found to have been murdered. As the investigation progresses a trail of more crime is revealed. Jay must follow the trail to the end… Read more of this post

Dexter

Dexter is a blood splatter analyst in his regular job for the Miami police, Dexter is also secretly a serial killer who hunts bad people who evade normal prosecution. Normal relationships are difficult for Dexter since he feels little to nothing as far as emotions but he has a strong sense of justice and acts upon it.  Read more of this post

Broadchurch Season 1

Detective Ellie Miller(Olivia Coleman) returns from vacationing to the town of Broadchurch expecting to move directly into a promised promotion just to find that her promised promotion has been given to a detective from out of town named Alec Hardy(David Tennent). Soon after meeting they respond to the suspicious death of an 11 year old boy on a beach below a cliff. The childs’ death is soon found to be murder and the whole town and the media, local and national, get involved in the investigation. Read more of this post

Dark Space

This movie is basic low end science fiction, but hey, it’s out there and I gave it a try. The story is about a group of college kids who rent a spaceship and plan some fun on a distant resort planet. The rental ship is too slow so they con their tech savy friend into trying to speed up the ship. In tampering with the ship a mistake is made and they fly into an asteroid field and damage their ship. They are forced to attempt a landing on an unidentified earth-like planet. Once on the planet things get rough, obviously. Read more of this post

Tomorrow, When the War Began

A group of Australian teenagers take a remote camping trip and when they return they find their country has been invaded. They decide the only thing they can do is fight back any way they can. Read more of this post

The Colony (science fiction movie)

Scientists created machines to counteract global warming but something went wrong and the Earth was plunged into perpetual winter. A few lucky people found refuge where there were supplies and warmth but without mining, farming, or methods of distribution food and fuel supplies began to running out for those groups less well stocked. Some took extreme measures in their search for food.
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