Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 66% (Audience)
Directed By: Andrew Goth
Written By: Andrew Goth and Joanne Reay
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Kevin Howarth, Riley Smith and Tanit Phoenix
Studio: LionsGate Entertainment
Synopsis:A cursed gunman (Snipes) whose victims come back from the dead recruits a young warrior to help in the fight against a gang of zombies. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 67% (Critics) / 81% (Audience)
Directed By: James Mangold
Written By: Mark Bomback and Scott Frank
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Svetlana Khodchenkova and Famke Janssen
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Synopsis:Hugh Jackman returns as Wolverine in this sequel to the member of the X-Men’s first solo outing. Mark Bomback and The Usual Suspects’ Christopher McQuarrie penned the script, which takes its inspiration from the Chris Claremont/Frank Miller Marvel miniseries from the 1980s dealing with the character’s adventures in Japan as he fights ninjas in the ceremonial garb of the samurai. Knight and Day’s James Mangold directs. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: Peter Wellington
Written By: Jeremy Boxen
Starring: Tyler Labine, Malin Akerman, Lucy Punch, Sabrina Grdevich and Dan Petronijevic
Studio: Whizbang Films
Synopsis:Todd (Labine) wants everything to be just perfect at the family cottage where he plans to propose to Cammie (Akerman). But things go awry with the arrival of Todd’s slacker brother Salinger (Petronijevic) and his free-spirited girlfriend Masha (Punch). When Todd accidentally dispatches his irksome sibling with an axe, Cammie is determined not to let murder stand in the way of their happiness. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 88% (Audience)
Directed By: Jeff Renfroe
Written By: Jeff Renfroe, Svet Rouskov, Patrick Tarr and Pascal Trottier
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Zegers, Charlotte Sullivan and Bill Paxton
Studio: RLJ Entertainment/Image Entertainment
Synopsis:Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix), Bill Paxton (Aliens) and Kevin Zegers (Dawn of the Dead), headline an all-star cast in this savage and unrelenting thriller about mankind’s greatest enemy: himself. As an endless winter engulfs Earth, humans struggle to survive in remote underground outposts. When Colony 7 receives a distress call from a nearby settlement, Sam (Zegers) and Briggs (Fishburne) race through the snow on a dangerous rescue mission. What they find at the desolate base could mean mankind’s salvation-or its total annihilation. Terrifying discoveries will unfold that will change the rules of survival forever. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA% (Critics) / 59% (Audience)
Directed By: Spencer Parsons
Written By: Jory Balsimo, Kat Candler, Aaron Leggett, Jonny Mars and Jason Wehling
Starring: Ashley Spillers, Josephine Decker, Adam Tate and Jonny Mars
Studio: Xlrator Media
Synopsis:Four professional ghost hunters, who travel in a vintage van accompanied by their canine companion (sound familiar?), get far more than they bargained for when they investigate an abandoned schoolhouse with a mysterious past. – (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 85% (Critics) / 90% (Audience)
Directed By: James Wan
Written By: Chad and Carey Hayes
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor and Ron Livingston
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Synopsis:Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville. “The Conjuring” tells the true story of Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga), world renowned paranormal investigators, who were called to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 86% (Audience)
Directed By: Jay Oliva
Written By: James Krieg
Starring: Kevin McKidd, Justin Chambers, Michael B. Jordan, Ron Perlman, Nathan Fillion and C. Thomas Howell
Studio: Warner Home Video
Synopsis:Time travel rights a past wrong for Flash but creates a fractured reality where the Justice League never formed & the world is ravaged by war between Wonder Woman & Aquaman. Flash must team with a grittier Batman & Cyborg to restore the original timeline. – (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 13% (Critics) / 30% (Audience)
Directed By: Mark Steven Johnson
Written By: Evan Daugherty
Starring: Robert De Niro, John Travolta, Milo Ventimiglia
Studio: Milennium Entertainment
Synopsis:Deep in the Appalachian Mountains, a reclusive American military veteran (Robert De Niro) and a European tourist (John Travolta) strike up an unlikely friendship. But when the tourist’s true intentions come to light, what follows is a tense battle across some of America’s most forbidding landscape proving the old adage: the purest form of war is one-on-one. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 69% (Critics) / 95% (Audience)
Directed By: Sebastián Cordero
Written By: Philip Gelatt
Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Embeth Davidtz, Christian Camargo and Sharlto Copley
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Synopsis:A unique blend of documentary, alternative history and science fiction thriller, EUROPA REPORT follows a contemporary mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa to investigate the possible existence of alien life within our solar system. When unmanned probes suggest that a hidden ocean could exist underneath Europa’s icy surface and may contain single-celled life, Europa Ventures, a privately funded space exploration company, sends six of the best astronauts from around the world to confirm the data and explore the revolutionary discoveries that may lie in the Europan ocean. – (Source)
Created By: Jenji Cohan
Starring: Taylor Schilling, Jason Biggs, Michelle Hurst and Kate Mulgrew
Studio: Netflix
Synopsis:From the creator of “Weeds” comes a heartbreaking and hilarious new series set in a women’s prison. Piper Chapman’s wild past comes back to haunt her, resulting in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates. (Source)
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Synopsis:As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: Christopher Roosevelt
Written By: Christopher Roosevelt
Starring: Kayla Ewell, Richard Kohnke, Ashlee Brian and Sarah Butler
Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Synopsis:Six college friends unite for a weekend getaway where they find themselves fighting for their lives after a terrorist attack turns the local residents into rage infused zombies. – (Source)
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