Reviews

I'm a big fan of Joan Jett and her hit singles Bad Reputation and I love Rock n Roll. I do have to admit I had no idea that she was in a band called the runaways early on on in her career. When I first began researching the origin of the group I became fascinated who the idea of a big screen movie based of the band's story.

The Runaways got my attention because it was about one of the first all girl rock band's assembled. Dakota Fanning plays the band's lead singer, Dakota is always good but I have to say that in this film she was overshadowed by actress Kristen Stewart who plays Joan Jett. When I heard that Kristen Stewart would be playing Joan I was very disappointed, we have to admit that she's not one of best new actresses we have, but in this film she definitely proved me wrong.

Overall, Runaways is a good film with a little bit of The Doors mixed in with a teen movie all rolled into one.

I've been tracking the progress of this movie ever since it was announced as a possible project in the late 90's. When the studio signed on director Joe Carahan, the man who created the action films Narc and Smoking Aces I knew that the film would be superior in quality especially with the Scott Brothers producing.

The film starts off as an origin story with Hannibal and Face in the middle of a mission in Mexico when they bump into another ex-army ranger B.A. Baracus. After the introduction they find Murdock and the film begins with a bang. A-Team has a very interesting plot that rivals the Mission:Impossible films, in fact this film is what the Mission:Impossible franchise should have been like.

Liam Nesson and Bradley Cooper do an excellent job as the two leads. Rampage Jackson and Sharpo Copely as B.A. and Capt. Murdock are also great actors who go scene for scene with Nesson and Cooper. The films supporting cast is rounded out by Jessica Biel and Patrick Wilson who keep the story line going as agents pursuing the four guys.

Overall, A-Team is a non-stop action packed thrilled ride with explosions and plot twists that blows Iron Man 2 and any other movie this year out of the water.

Watch it, you wont be disappointed.

I have to admit when I first heard about this film I was very skeptical, seeing as Edgar Allen Poe's story was one of my favorites growing up. Tell Tale takes the original Poe idea and successfully expands on it, giving it a modern day twist.

The film follows a man who has recently received a heart transplant from a person who was brutally murdered for their organs. The story's main character soon begins an investigation that challenges his very sanity.

Josh Lucas as the lead does an excellent job. Lucas who has a background of starring in indie horror films like Session 9, delivers yet again with a solid performance the viewer can identify with.

Tell Tale does have some weaknesses like most indie horror films do, mainly do to budget restrictions but its a decent effort.

Overall, Tell Tale is worth watching.

I've read the other comments about this film and many people just didn't get it. I do admit this film is not for everyone, which is probably why it was made as an indie film rather than a main stream picture.

Dark Country was a very well directed and well acted film. Now saying that, I do have to say it would have done better as a twilight zone episode or an episode of The Outer Limits. The film's star Thomas Jane does a great job acting and I don't know if many people know this but he also directed the movie. Seeing that Dark Country was his first directing gig I have to say I think he has great potential to be an excellent director. Not many people can make a film this interesting on their first time out.

Some people are comparing Dark Country to a David Lynch film, that's ridicules. Lynch movies rarely have a coherent story line you can follow, Dark Country does.

Overall, Dark Country may be a little strange but if you're a person who likes challenging mysteries, you'll really enjoy this.

This film is strictly for people who are fans of bloody slasher films like Hostel and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Train's plot revolves around a group of teenagers who take a train ride and start to get systematically taken out for their body parts.

The movie does have many elements that it seems to have taken from Hostel and Turistas, both films are very much the same, yet are far superior in quality to Train. The only thing that keeps you watching is to see someone get brutally murdered. Like I said before you have to be a fan of slasher films, if you're not, this film is not for you.

Thora Birch takes the lead as the film's heroine and does a decent job of it. As far as talent goes she is probably the best actress in the film.

Overall, Train is a mildly entertaining horror film that gives you a few thrills here and there.

24 was a very unique series, it had a perfect mix of action and mystery that kept us watching every week. Very few shows were able to do what this series did. One basic story line was presented at the beginning of each season, but due to great writing and acting we never really knew how it would end.

The greatest thing about 24 was that it was like watching one hour installments each week, of a well crafted movie studio quality action film, that can be compared to The Bourne Franchise and any Tom Clancy novel.

The greatest thing about this last season was how raw it was. It had many shocking moments I did not see coming, most notably President Hassan's brutal execution. Another great element was Jack Bauer's rampage of bloody justice. It was great seeing him take out the bad guys, it was reminiscent of a 1970's action film kind of like Death Wish. The scene when he storms President Logan's limo was probably the greatest sequence in the show's recent history.

I have to admit that the last season did have some very predictable twists, like the Dana Walsh story line. But given that, the show was on it's eighth season and I do understand that after all that time it would be hard to come up with something that hadn't already been done on the show.

Overall, the 24 series finale was so much more satisfying then the Lost series finale, which I have to say was very disappointing. At least with 24 we got to see the show end on a good note.

The best thing about this show being over is that now we get to see Jack Bauer on the big screen, a full feature length film is in the works.

First off I have to say I'm a big fan of the show. When I saw the pilot six years ago I was instantly sucked in, and every Tuesday since than I've watched the show. Lost is probably the most well written, well directed and well acted show in television history.

As far as the entire sixth season and the finale goes I was extremely disappointed. First off nothing was answered. I do understand that it wasn't possible to give us all the answers, but they honestly didn't give us any, at all. The only thing the audience was given was the answer to the flash sideways presented in season six, which I've said already was the weakest season in the show's history. Even the story line concerning the character Jacob was weak. The writers had so much potential to finish the show the right way and they decided to go the fast easy route and call it artistic, which in my opinion is ridicules.

Now I've read the other comments on this page, and I have to say that no REAL Lost fan in their right mind would give this finale a good review, there's no way. The show's writers should have been thinking more about the fans that made the show a hit than just finishing the show because they had to.

Overall, I truly feel cheated for investing so much in a show that never paid off.