Category Archives: 2006

Black Christmas

IMDB Rating: 4.40
3450 votes

from $1.99

Storyline
Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she'd come to despise when she looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his beloved father's brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the attic for good, to hold his silence of what he'd witnessed that night. His only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and starting a "new" family. As Billy's mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic on Christmas Eve 1991, taking a rolling pin to his mother's head, and a pointed tree ornament to her lovers eye before leaving his sister as disfigured as he was by blinding her. Before he could finish the job police forced there way in and dragged him off to mental institution and his sister a foster home, whose eye sight was saved in one eye... but not the other. Cut to the present where a security guard has been monitoring Billy's progress since he came into his care, back in 1991. Knowing full well that during this time for fifteen years, Billy has made a break from this asylum, but never succeeding... until now. Far away, his childhood home is now a sorority house, where nine sisters and their house-mother are celebrating the holiday season together ...but tonight they're about to get a surprise visitor... and it's not Santa.
Actors
Kelli PresleyKatie Cassidy
Melissa KittMichelle Trachtenberg
Dana MathisLacey Chabert

UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine

IMDB Rating: 2.70
223 votes

from $1.99

Storyline
Waylon and Buddy decide to join the army as it appears to be their best option. But when they realize that they are part of a group that have been thrown into a medical experiment facility with a doctor who plans on turning them into ultimate killing machines, they must fight to destroy his other creations and save themselves.
Actors
WaylonMak Fyfe
Zoe SnowVictoria Nestorowicz
Major BlevinsMichael Madsen

The Fox and the Hound 2

IMDB Rating: 5.30
144 votes

from $1.99

Storyline
This family animation movie tells about the difficulties of foxes' and hounds' lives
Actors
Additional VoicesJeff Bennett
TodJonah Bobo
Waylon/FloydJim Cummings

Skinwalkers

IMDB Rating: 7.30
105 votes

from $1.99

Storyline
Creatures, bound by the blood of the wolf, that can kill with curses and move at lightening speed, watching the night sky for the rise of the blood-red crescent moon. They are SKINWALKERS. They feed on our flesh and thirst for the taste of human blood. The red moon signals each pack, divided by principles, hell bent to survive an ancient prophecy.
Actors
VarekJason Behr
JonasElias Koteas
RachelRhona Mitra

Macbeth

IMDB Rating: 5.10
188 votes

from $1.99

Storyline
A contemporary retelling of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" set in the ganglands of Melbourne.
Actors
MacbethSam Worthington
Lady MacbethVictoria Hill
MacduffLachy Hulme

Jindabyne

IMDB Rating: 7.10
752 votes

from $1.99

Storyline
Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they continue fishing and report their gruesome find days later. Stewart's wife Claire is the last to find out. Deeply disturbed by her husband's action, her faith in her relationship with Stewart is shaken to the core. She wants to understand and tries to make things right. In her determination to help the victim's family Claire sets herself not only against her own family and friends but also those of the dead girl. Her marriage is taken to the brink and her peaceful life with Stewart and their young son hangs in the balance. The story of a murder and a marriage. A powerful and original film about the things that haunt us.
Actors
Claire KaneLaura Linney
Stewart KaneGabriel Byrne
GregoryChris Haywood

Infamous

IMDB Rating: 7.30
3020 votes

from $1.99

Storyline
On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arrests, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote is implacable, wanting the story, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?
Actors
Truman CapoteToby Jones
Babe PaleySigourney Weaver
Kitty DeanGwyneth Paltrow

Civic Duty

IMDB Rating: 6.50
1116 votes

from $1.99

Storyline
An American accountant bombarded with cable news and the media's obsession with terrorist plots in the post 9-11 world, receives a jolt when an unattached Islamic graduate student moves in next door.
Actors
Terry AllenPeter Krause
Gabe HassanKhaled Abol Naga
Agent HillaryRichard Schiff

Failure to Launch

IMDB Rating: 5.70
8725 votes

from $1.99

Storyline
Tripp is a thirty-five years old bachelor man that still lives with his parents, Al and Sue. Al and Sue hire the manipulative interventionist Paula to play Tripp's girlfriend and seduce him, convincing Tripp to move out of their home. Paula and Tripp fall in love for each other, but Tripp's best friends Ace and Demo accidentally find the truth about Paula and Demo discloses to Tripp, spoiling the plan and their relationship. When Tripp and Paula miss each other, their friends plot a scheme trying to arrange an encounter to fix the situation.
Actors
TrippMatthew McConaughey
PaulaSarah Jessica Parker
KitZooey Deschanel

The Namesake

IMDB Rating: 7.80
1975 votes

from $1.99

Storyline
While traveling by train to visit his grandfather in Jamshedpur, Calcutta born, Bengali-speaking Ashoke Ganguli meets with fellow-traveler, Ghosh, who impresses upon him to travel, while Ashoke is deep into a book authored by Nicholai Gogol. The train meets with an accident, and after recuperating, Ashoke re-locates to America, settles down, returns home in 1977 to get married to aspiring singer, Ashima, and returns home to New York. Shortly thereafter they become parents of a boy, who they initially name Gogol, and a few years later both give birth to Sonia. The family then buy their own house in the suburbs and travel to India for the first time after their marriage. The second time they travel to India is when Gogol and Sonia are in their late teens, and after a memorable visit to Kolkata and then to the Taj Mahal, they return home. Gogol falls in love with Maxine Ratliff and moves in with her family, while Ashoke spends time traveling, and Sonia moves to California, leaving Ashima all her by herself. The Ganguli family will be destined to travel to India again soon - this time under very different circumstances - and after all have endured life-changing events.
Actors
Ashoke GanguliIrfan Khan
Gogol GanguliKal Penn
GhoshJagannath Guha