Sorority Row
Year: 2009
Director: Stewart Hendler
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Stars: Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Carrie Fisher
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 101 Mins





Another week, another remake as this week is “Sorority Row”. This film is based on the 1983 film, “The House on Sorority Row”. This film is one of those films, where it could have easily turned into a very bad experience.

The film is about six girls who are having the time of their live, as they throw a party at their sorority house known as “Theta Pi”. They decide to play a prank on one of the sorority girl’s brothers, by having Megan fake her own death. After that happened, they all drive to an isolated road, where they plan to dump the body. But the prank turns deadly, when the brother thinking that Megan is really dead, actually kills her with a tire-iron. Soon, the sisters decide to dump her body in an abandoned well and move on with their lives.

Eight months later, the remaining five sisters are having one last week of fun together, before moving on after graduating. Everything is fine, until they receive a mysterious picture on their cell phones containing a picture of Megan’s dead body. Soon the killer starts stalking and killing the girls. Has Megan come back from the dead or is the killer someone that wants the girls dead for some other reason.

To read the rest of this review, you can goto: http://www.filmarcade.net/2009/09/sorority-row-review-written-by-anthony.html

Wedding Bros
Year: 2009
Directors: Michael Canzoniero, Marco Ricci
Studio: Screen Media Films
Stars: Brenden Sexton III, Dan Fogler, Zoe Lister-Jones
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 83 Mins
Official Website: http://www.screenmediafilms.net/WeddingBros




“Wedding Bros” is a film that played at 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival. This film is the feature film debut from Michael Canzoniero and Marco Ricci, who directed a couple of shorts, prior to this.

The film is about Anthony (Brenden Sexton III) and Carmine (Dan Fogler), who for the past five years have been working at their family’s carpeting business. Working for their father has been boring; as he doesn’t want to change the way that he runs the family business. Then one day, while putting in the carpeting for a playboy and Long Island’s number one wedding video producer (Jon Polio). The brothers join his company and get into the wonderful world of wedding videography. While working there, Anthony meets a young photographer’s assistant (Zoe Lister-Jones). He tries to strike up a relationship with her, while Carmine is making mistakes with the equipment that has consequences for the two, as their boss is mentally unstable.

To read the rest of this review, you can goto: http://www.filmarcade.net/2009/09/wedding-bros-review-written-by-anthony.html

Halloween 2
Year: 2009
Director: Rob Zombie
Studio: Dimension Films
Stars: Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 104 Mins





I’m one of a very few horror fans that have been looking forward to the day that “Halloween 2” came out, as I enjoyed Rob Zombie’s first “Halloween” film. Going into this film, I was hoping that yet again that some major horror critics were wrong about this film and Rob Zombie’s vision as a whole.

The film takes place after the first film, where Laurie Strode is still struggling to come to grips with Michael Myers’ death. She’s transported to a hospital thinking that the nightmare of the first film is over. However Michael reappears very much alive in the hospital trying to finish her off for good but is unsuccessful.

A year later, Laurie is still haunted by those events, as she tries to come to terms with her past and forget about it. But soon two things will happen that might drive her insane. Dr Loomis has written a tell-all book that exposes everything including her dark secret and the events that caused the massacre and Michael is very much alive and in hiding. He plans his revenge, as he returns to Haddonfield for deadly reunion with Laurie, his sister.

To read the rest of this review, you can goto: http://www.filmarcade.net/2009/09/halloween-2-review-written-by-anthony-t.html

Dod Sno
Aka: Dead Snow
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Studio: IFC Films
Stars: Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Running Time: 91 Mins








2009 has been a very good year for the horror genre. There has been a lot great horror out there, like “I Sell the Dead”, “Drag Me to Hell”, “Martyrs”, and “Rec” to name a few. Well you can add “Dead Snow” to that list of great horror films of 2009.

The film starts with eight medical students, as they are on vacation on the ski slopes near Olsfjord. They stop at a small cabin to drink and party all night long. They soon meet an old man that interrupts their night of fun. . He tells them the history of how the Nazis were torturing and abusing the locals. Soon the medical students find a box of gold that belonged to them back in that era. Now, a group of Nazi zombies want that gold back, which leads to a showdown between them and the medical students.

To read the rest of this review, you can goto: http://www.filmarcade.net/2009/08/dod-sno-dead-snow-review-written-by.html

Nuestrod Desaparecidos (Our Disappeared)
Year: 2009
Director: Juan Mandelbaum
Studio: Geovision
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Running Time: 99 Mins.
Official Website: http://www.ourdisappeared.com/





"Nuestrod Desaparecidos (Our Disappeared)” is a film that I caught recently at the 2009 Rhode Island International Film Festival. It’s a film that I originally didn’t plan on reviewing, but this is a documentary that is so powerful that I wanted to share my thoughts on it, before it’s upcoming showing on PBS’s Independent Lens on September 21st.

The film is about director Juan Mandelbaum’s search to find out what happened to his friends and loved ones that were caught up in the vise of the military and suddenly vanished during the period of 1976 –1983, where Argentina was ruled by a military dictatorship. He also goes there to revisit some of the dreams that he and his long lost girlfriend (who is one of the people that went missing) shared that transformed Argentina and makes his examine every choice that he’s made. He tells this story through rare archival footage, television interviews, and stories that are told from parents, friends, and other relatives of the disappeared.

You can read the rest of the review at: http://www.filmarcade.net/2009/08/nuestrod-desaparecidos-our-disappeared.html

The Hurt Locker
Year: 2009
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 130 Mins.





There’ve been many great war films that I’ve seen my lifetime. They include “Letters From Iwo Jima”, “Three Kings”, “Saving Private Ryan”, Apocalypse Now”. But none of them had made such an impact emotionally, like this film that I’m about to review.

“The Hurt Locker” is latest film from Kathryn Bigelow, who has directed films such as “Strange Days”, “Point Break”, and “Near Dark”. Her latest film focuses on three members, of an Army elite Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) squad unit in Iraq.

The film is about a new staff sergeant (Jeremy Renner) who takes over a bomb disposal team after the previous one was killed in the line of duty. He takes over the team that has a sergeant (Anthony Mackie) that follows the rules, by the book and a specialist (Brian Geraghty) who is insecure and worried that a mistake could kill an innocent person or another of his fellow colleagues. They have thirty-nine days left in their deployment. They don’t get along at first because of the sergeant has a reckless style, but the three will soon have depend on each other. They will struggle through internal and personal issues, as the streets of Iraq are filled with bombers. These experiences will change their lives forever, as the soldiers try to survive the remaining days they have left before they are deployed back home. The film also features appearances from Guy Pearce (L.A Confidential, Memento), Ralph Fiennes (“The Reader”, “The English Patient”), and David Morse (“The Green Mile”, “Disturbia”).

To read the rest of this review, you can goto: http://www.filmarcade.net/2009/08/hurt-locker-review-written-by-anthony-t.html

The Collector
Year: 2009
Director: Marcus Dunstan
Studio: Freestyle Releasing
Stars: Josh Stewart, Michael Reilly Burke, Andrea Roth
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 88 Mins.
Official Website: http://www.thecollector-movie.com/




2009 will be known in horror genre, as the year of the independent horror film. There have been some great films like “I Sell the Dead”, “Martyrs”, “Laid To Rest”, “The Burrowers”, and “Rec”. Now, you can add “The Collector” to the list.

The film is about, an ex-con, who is working as a handyman for a jewelry broker and his family. Unknown to the family, he’s planning to rob them into order to repay his ex-wife debt. His robbery is going to plan, until he hears screams in the house. Unfortunately, there’s also another person, who has also laid claim to the house. That person carries around with him an old trunk and wears a mask. As the ex-con tries to leave the house, he finds out that the masked man has set up booby traps around the house that makes it impossible for him to escape. Now he faced with a dilemma, escape and flee the scene or try to save the family and stop this demented madman, known as “The Collector”.

To read the rest of the review, you can goto: http://www.filmarcade.net/2009/08/collector-review-written-by-anthony-t.html