Bellboy, The (1960)
IMDB rating: 6.20
Plot: Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach. It is there that he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All that he displays are facial expressions and a comedic slapstick style. And anything that can go wrong – does go wrong when Stanley [...]
Painted Veil, The (2006)
IMDB rating: 7.60
Plot: This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed too. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discover’s [...]
Spider-Man (2002)
IMDB rating: 7.40
Plot: Based on Marvel Comics’ superhero character, this is a story of Peter Parker who is a nerdy high-schooler. He was orphaned as a child, bullied by jocks, and can’t confess his crush for his stunning neighbourhood girl Mary Jane Watson. To say his life is “miserable” is an understatement. But one [...]
Last Drop, The (2005)
IMDB rating: 4.60
Plot: In a daring attempt to end the war by Christmas, Winston Churchill and the British High Command hatch an extraordinary plan – Operation Market Garden. 35,000 British troops are dropped behind enemy lines in German occupied Holland. In the midst of the largest airborne invasion in history, one small [...]
Cake Eaters, The (2007)
IMDB rating: 7.70
Plot: ‘The Cake Eaters’ is a quirky, small town, ensemble drama that explores the lives of two interconnected families coming to terms with love in the face of loss. Living in rural America, The Kimbrough family is a normally odd bunch; Easy, the patriarch and local butcher, is grieving over [...]
Nailed (2006)
IMDB rating: 4.60
Plot: “Nailed” is a thriller about two men who break into a house looking for valuables, and find instead a man lying on a bed, covered in bandages, whose caretaker may have intentions that are less than honorable. All is not as it seems as things begin to go wrong for the [...]
Mortuary (2005)
IMDB rating: 7.00
Plot: Deerhaven has been burdened by disappearances for more than two decades and local officials have come up empty as no trace of the missing have ever been found. An eccentric psychiatrist with questionable credentials comes to town implicating the local mortician, Henry Parks. Claiming to be Henry’s former doctor from a [...]
Sand Serpents (2009)
IMDB rating: 4.30
Plot: Jason Gedrick and a small group of Marines are stranded in the remote Afghan desert. But it ain’t the Taliban that’s worrying them, it’s these giant refugees from Tremors. In fact the big worms prove to be an ally of sorts by doing better against the Taliban than themselves but [...]
Creepshow 2 (1987)
IMDB rating: 5.20
Plot: Three more stories told from a comic book are presented by the Creep. The first is about a dime-store Native American that seeks vengeance on those who killed the store’s owners. The second is about a carnivorous mass of pond scum that attacks four people on a raft. The final [...]
One Night with the King (2006)
IMDB rating: 5.80
Plot: “One Night With The King” chronicles the life of the young Jewish girl, Hadassah, who goes on to become the Biblical Esther, the Queen of Persia, and saves the Jewish nation from annihilation at the hands of its arch enemy while winning the heart of the fiercely [...]