Watchmen (2009)Friday, May 1st, 2009 |
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A crime/conspiracy story based on the influential comic by Alan Moore. Watchmen focuses on the every day life of out of work superheroes. Costumed superheroism has been outlawed, and most groups have been abandoned. But as a new threat presents itself, the paranoid masked detective/vigilante Rorschach uncovers a conspiracy to destroy all masked heroes. |
Valkyrie (2008)Monday, April 27th, 2009 |
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Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII. |
Where Art Thou? O Brother (2000)Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 |
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Loosely based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bankrobber George ‘Babyface’ Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that “the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find.” |
Cube Zero (2004)Sunday, August 19th, 2007 |
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A young man whose job is to watch over the Cube endeavours to rescue an innocent woman trapped in one of its rooms. |
