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Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014)

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Review by CJ

Sharknado 2

Director:
Anthony C. Ferrante

Starring:
Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Mark McGrath, Kari Wuhrer, Vivica A. Fox, Courtney Baxter, Dante Palminteri

Other notable appearances:
Kelly Osbourne, Wil Wheaton, Anne Wheaton, Naked Cowboy, Andy Dick, Billy Ray Cyrus, Judd Hirsch, Richard Kind, Jared Fogle (the Subway guy), Biz Markie, and probably lots more that I missed or didn’t recognise

Running time:
100 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Sharknado, Sharktopus, Deep Blue Sea, Bait, Dinoshark etc

 

The tagline for this much anticipated film is ‘shark happens’ and does it ever.

Fin Shepard (Ziering) and his ex-wife now girlfriend April Wexler (Reid) are flying to their childhood home, New York City. As they are flying their plane encounters a storm. A storm filled with airborne sharks.

With sharks causing havoc to the plane, its passengers, and the pilots, it falls to Fin to land the plane. As he does this though, April has her hand bitten off by a shark. Once he has landed the plane and made sure April pulls through her surgery, Fin must brave the storm to reunite his brother-in-law (McGrath) and nephew (Palminteri) with their family.

Of course, it is also up to Fin to stop the three sharknadoes that are on courses to collide before they merge into a super-mega-sharknado. A storm of ‘biblical proportions’.

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R.I.P.D. (2013)

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Review by CJ

RIPD

Director:
Robert Schwentke

Starring:
Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Bacon, Mary-Louise Parker

Other notable appearances:
Mike O’Malley, Larry Joe Campbell

Running time:
96 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Men in Black, Ghostbusters, The Frighteners

 

Nick Walker is a cop who has had a pretty rough day. He has struggled with his conscience over stealing gold from a drug bust; been shot in the face by his dirty cop partner; and been given the choice of Hell or a 100 year stint in the R.I.P.D.

Nick chooses the latter – it would have been a short and very boring film otherwise – and is partnered with veteran R.I.P.D. officer Roycephus Pulsipher. Their mission is to round up the souls of those who didn’t ascend and bring them in for judgement.

In the line of duty, the deceased dynamic duo uncover a plot to bring about an apocalypse that will destroy the living world. It falls to Nick and Roy to stop the people responsible for the plot and not kill each other in the process.

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They (2002)

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Review by CJ

They

Director:
Robert Harmon

Starring:
Laura Regan, Marc Blucas, Ethan Embry, Dagmara Dominczyk, Jon Abrahams, Jay Brazeau

Other notable appearances:
Acting and story that makes Tara Reid and Sharknado look eligible for Oscars

Running time:
89 minutes

 

Julia (Regan), Billy (Abrahams), Sam (Embry), and Terry (Dominczyk) are early twenty-somethings who were all plagued with horrific childhood night terrors. When Billy commits suicide in front of Julia, he is rambling about creatures who only exist in the darkness. Soon Julia, Sam, and Terry are confronted by the same creatures who haunted their childhood. The remaining three embark on a struggle for their lives against creatures who exist in every shadow.

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Deliver Us From Evil (2014)

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Deliver Us From Evil

Director:
Scott Derrickson

Starring:
Eric Bana, Édgar Ramírez, Joel McHale, Sean Harris

Running time:
118 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The Exorcist, The Conjuring

 

“Inspired by a true story.”

Ralph Sarchie (Bana) is an officer of the NYPD who gets hunches when a case is going to be particularly challenging. With his adrenaline-junkie partner (McHale) in tow, Sarchie requests these cases to feed his curiosity.

When a series of cases involving doors (or in some cases The Doors), painters, and certifiable insanity appear within a few days of each other, Sarchie begins to see a clean connection. Though the further Sarchie investigates, the less it seems he can protect his family and hold onto his own sanity in the face of a paranormal and religious experience he never expected.

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Director:
Matt Reeves

Starring:
Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Kodi Smit-McPhee

Other notable appearances:
Talking monkeys

Running time:
130 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Godzilla, King Kong

 

Following the events of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, most of humanity has died from a laboratory engineered virus known as Simian Flu. Ten years after the event that wiped out a majority of the human race, a small group of humans stumble across the home of the genetically enhanced apes led by Caesar. Conflicts, misunderstandings and pre-existing prejudices on both sides reach a boiling point as the apes and humans try to work together in restoring power to the human city. The two cities take up arms against each other, but it’s up to a small group of humans and apes to save both sides from destroying each other.

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