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The Departed

The rat symbolizes obviousness

Reviewed Feb 12, 2010

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them. Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Saw VI

A steam cage maze? Remember the good old days when it was...

Reviewed Dec 11, 2009

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood. Genres: Horror, Thriller

Saw V

Thank GOD he had a ballpoint pen handy!

Reviewed Dec 4, 2009

Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Detective Mark Hoffman is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm is suspicious, and delves into Hoffman's past. Meanwhile, another group of people are put through a series of gruesome tests. Genres: Crime, Horror, Thriller

Saw IV

Jigsaw puts a New Kid on the Ice Block!

Reviewed Nov 27, 2009

Despite Jigsaw's death, and in order to save the lives of two of his colleagues, Lieutenant Rigg is forced to take part in a new game, which promises to test him to the limit. Genres: Crime, Horror, Thriller

Saw III

Jigsaw's brain is exposed in a room THAT dirty? Even if i...

Reviewed Nov 20, 2009

Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard. Genres: Crime, Horror, Thriller

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

Nobody doesn't like Jamie Lee!

Reviewed Oct 9, 2009

Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers her whereabouts. As Halloween descends upon Laurie's peaceful community, a feeling of dread weighs upon her -- with good reason. Genres: Horror, Thriller

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Michael Myers is going after his niece. Will she cry uncle?

Reviewed Sep 18, 2009

Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece. Genres: Horror, Thriller

Halloween

It's a nice 3-bedroom, 2-bath. A bit of a fixer-upper. Th...

Reviewed Aug 28, 2009

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again. Genres: Horror, Thriller

Terminator Salvation

If I only had a heart!

Reviewed May 24, 2009

All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

When playing with your Terminatrix, always remember the s...

Reviewed May 21, 2009

It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Time for a Pepsi and a five-dollar footlong!

Reviewed May 18, 2009

Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

The Terminator

The only things that can make it through the time machine...

Reviewed May 14, 2009

In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine? Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Star Trek: Nemesis

Begun the clone war has

Reviewed May 1, 2009

En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Star Trek: Insurrection

Warning - firmer breasts do not make effective flotation ...

Reviewed Apr 24, 2009

When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to defend the planet's people as well as the very ideals upon which the Federation itself was founded. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Star Trek: First Contact

That'll do, Geordi. That'll do.

Reviewed Apr 17, 2009

The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Star Trek: Generations

Holodecks, warp drives and human replicant androids they ...

Reviewed Apr 10, 2009

Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

The Klingon doth quotes Shakesphere too much, methinks

Reviewed Apr 3, 2009

After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Enterprise. Both worlds brace for what may be their deadliest encounter. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Ok, Bill, fine. You can direct.

Reviewed Mar 27, 2009

A renegade Vulcan with a startling secret hijacks the U.S.S. Enterprise in order to find a mythical planet. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Hey - you're not Kirstie Alley!

Reviewed Mar 13, 2009

A surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Waiter, I'll have the Kobayashi Maru

Reviewed Mar 6, 2009

The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Friday the 13th

If your friends suggest camping out near Crystal Lake.......

Reviewed Feb 14, 2009

A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions. Genres: Horror, Thriller

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

Hell looks an awful lot like Connecticut

Reviewed Feb 6, 2009

Jason Voorhees is tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches. Genres: Horror, Thriller

Brown Arrow

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

Toxic Waste in the sewers is so cliché. Right, Master Sp...

Reviewed Feb 4, 2009

Jason ships out aboard a teen-filled "love boat" bound for New York, which he soon transforms into the ultimate voyage of the damned. Genres: Horror, Thriller

Friday the 13th Part VII – The New Blood

Psychic powers meets psycho killer. Discuss.

Reviewed Jan 30, 2009

Tina Shepard, a telekinetic teenage girl, accidentally unchains Jason from his watery grave, allowing him to go on another killing spree in the area. Genres: Horror, Thriller