A plucky, rather than passive, Oliver and a kosher Fagin are just two of the novel twists in this 2007 adaptation of Charles Dickens’s oft-filmed tale. Oliver’s closest family are the workhouse board, and their plans for Oliver’s future does not stretch much beyond starving him to death with pitiful rations of gruel. But Oliver’s a fighter, and after a courageous rebellion when he dares to ask for more, Oliver is cast out and forced to make his own way in the world.
When a serial killer interrupts the fun at the swanky Coconut Pete’s Coconut Beach Resort–a hedonistic island paradise for swingers–it’s up to the club’s staff to stop the violence…or at least hide it.
Everyone’s favorite mad scientist Herbert West is currently in jail after having state’s evidence turned against him by his former assistant, Dan Cain. While being led away, some re-agent falls from his pocket where it is picked up by a young man who was camping nearby. The young man finds Herbert down in his jail cell and learns for himself just what the re-agent is capable of.
After his partner Tom Lone and family are killed apparently by the infamous and elusive assassin Rogue, FBI agent John Crawford becomes obsessed with revenge as his world unravels into a vortex of guilt and betrayal. Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own, setting off a bloody crime war between Asian mob rivals Chang of the Triad’s and Yakuza boss Shiro. When Jack and Rogue finally come face to face, the ultimate truth of their pasts will be revealed.
Youth Pastor David Bauer has the “greatest job in the world” and can’t wait to bring his youth group to Bible Camp. He’s positive that this is the year he wins the camp competitions. But David’s plans are derailed by the sudden arrival of a new co-worker, an equally competitive church, and surly teenage rebellion.
An American woman spends more than ten years tracking down her daughter who was abducted and taken to the Middle East by the child’s father.
A woman who has been dumped eleven times in a row, discovers (to her dismay) that she has a loser in love gene.
Gary, and his friends who are into gaming, renaissance fairs and various unsavory vices, stumble across a rare, medieval board game called “13 Demons.” They discover the game has a dark history and was banned from most countries long ago for strange and mysterious reasons including unexplained deaths attributed to the game. The object is to free the Realm of Darkhaven from the 13 Demons of the Apocalypse. They chalk it up to urban legend and decide to play, what they don’t know is that the 13 Demons presently walk the Earth disguised as humans. Slowly, the game consumes them, seducing them into believing they are “The Golden Paladins,” and are on a holy mission to save the world. But when the news reveals a number of local deaths caused by tree branches, baseball bats, hammers, etc. from assailants adorned in body armor, the thin line between reality and fantasy is shattered and the horrific realization that they are in way over their heads sets in. “Exhilarating, this ain’t no …
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Clemence returns home after dropping out of college with a newly diagnosed mental illness.
While delivering an award to her humanitarian father Ben Feld, the stylish wealthy Jewish Caucasian Marci Feld is surprised by the attack of the conservative senator Mary Ellen Spinkle to her father in the media. The motive is the lyrics of the rap “Shoot Ya’ Teacha ” sing by Dr. S and released by the hip-hop record label Felony Assault that belongs to Ben. He has a heart attack, and his daughter decides to assume the problem and negotiate a public excuse of Dr. S in the MTV Award. However, the bad boy sings a polemic song on television to humiliate Merci that gives senator Sprinkle the chance to promote the “Buttgate”.
Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead, with the assistance of the evil Sprit that has also come back, come back from ages past, to claim his prize. The final standoff between Light and Dark has never been so cunning, so brutal and so deadly. This is where old Japanese Samurai mysticism meets the new world of the gangster and the gun. Gruesome, bloody and positively bold
