Telekinesis. Clairvoyance. Telepathy. For decades, governments around the globe have investigated the possibility of using paranormal abilities as covert weapons against their enemies – and even their friends. In 1945, the Nazis launched the first effort to develop psychic warriors. Soon after, the Soviets and...
Author: John Daly
Cadillac Records
Cadillac Records
Chronicling the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists in Chicago of the 1950s and 60s, the film follows the early, turbulent lives of some of America’s greatest musical legends. How the blues gave birth to rock ‘n’ roll at a dingy bar on the rough South Side of Chicago in 1947 follows an...
Valkyrie
Valkyrie
During the darkest days of World War Two, not all Germans were bad. As the Nazi jackboot marched across Europe, there were some who saw the madness that the Aryan state had become – and tried to stop it. One of those was Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise). “The outrages committed by...
Milk
Milk
As a politician and activist, Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) was an aggressive populist. He believed in the service of government to meet the needs of all members of society, encouraged gay men and women to come out of the closet, inspired different communities and unions to pool their resources, and rallied everyone...
The Wrestler
The Wrestler
Back in the 1980s, Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a champion professional wrestler. Now, 20 years later, he ekes out a living stacking shelves in a supermarket and performing fights for handfuls of diehard wrestling fans in high school gyms around New Jersey. However, it soon becomes clear...
Seven Pounds
Seven Pounds
From the director of The Pursuit of Happyness and starring two-time Academy Award nominee Will Smith comes an emotional tale of a man with a haunting secret who sets out to redeem himself by changing the lives of seven total strangers. Once his plan is set in motion, nothing can alter it. Or so he thinks. But what...
Sex Drive
Sex Drive
At 18, Ian Lafferty (Josh Zuckerman) is struggling through his last summer before college, and life is tough. Taunted by his cocksure older brother Rex, shown up in the romance department by his 14-year-old younger brother, and humiliated by his job at the donut shop in the mall. But Ian’s biggest problem is...
Role Models
Role Models
The renewed popularity of the R-rated comedy over the past several years has been marked by performances from two men who play seemingly irredeemable characters you just can’t help but root for. Bringing their complementary comic styles-withering commentary and acid tongue-lashings to meet bawdy humour mixed...
2009 Movie blockbusters
2009 Movie blockbusters
Cinemas thrive in hard times, or so it was during our last recession. As an uncertain 2009 dawns, we can at least look to the silver screen as a sacred place, somewhere to engage in exactly what the joy of celluloid was invented for – pure and unadulterated escape. The lineup of eagerly expected blockbusters in...
Australia
Australia
This epic from visionary filmmaker Baz Luhrmann is a romantic action adventure, set in ‘the Big Country’ on the explosive brink of World War II. At the farthest end of the world, a woman sets out in search of her husband and finds herself plunged into upheaval and adventure beyond her wildest imagination. Icy...
Four Christmases
Four Christmases
Having missed their flight to Fiji for that perfect holiday vacation, Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) are forced to visit their families in a tradition they’d both rather avoid. Though their relationship is three years old, neither Brad nor Kate has met the other’s parents. As all of them...
Twilight
Twilight
Director Catherine Hardwicke brings a worldwide literary phenomenon to life in this story of an unusual romance between a teenage girl and a mysterious vampire. Based on the best-selling novel by Stephenie Meyer, Twilight focuses on two young lovers, swept away by destiny, who tamper with the delicate balance between...