Now we've arrived at Saw 4, it's fair to suggest that most will be familiar with the conventions of the franchise. The dastardly, and really quite sick, Jigsaw (played, as usual, by Tobin Bell) has once again been devising a series of testing, intricate traps to test his human subjects, and naturally when these go off, there's a fair slice of the film's budget set aside for the requisite ...
Manufacturer: Lions Gate Home EntertainmentStarring: Tobin BellDirected By: Darren Lynn Bousman
Manufacturer: Lions Gate Home EntertainmentStarring: Danny Glover, Costas Mandylor, Cary Elwes, Monica Potter, Leigh WhannellDirected By: James Wan, Darren Lynn Bousman
If you've been following the devilish puzzles of the dastardly Jigsaw in the Saw series thus far, then you'll know what to expect from this formulaic, yet agreeable third entry in the burgeoning franchise. Once again, we're introduced to characters who initially appear to be random victims, who find themselves caught in ingenious, deadly traps. And once more, again, those traps come with ...
Manufacturer: Lions Gate Home Ent. UK LtdStarring: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen, Bahar Soomekh, Donnie WahlbergDirected By: Darren Lynn Bousman
Given the haste in which this sequel followed the original, hopes may not have been particularly high for Saw 2. Yet the film itself proves to be a welcome surprise. For while it has moments where it needlessly attempts to out-gore the original, and while it's not as clever, there's plenty here to lift it above the status of lazy cash-in. The premise, once again, contrives to put a ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Tobin Bell, Beverly Mitchell, Tony Nappo, Glenn Plummer, Shawnee SmithDirected By: Darren Lynn Bousman
Adam (Leigh Whannell) wakes up in a dank room across from Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) and the body of a guy who has blown his own brains out. Not a happy place, obviously, and it gets worse when both men realize that they've been chained and pitted against one another by an unseen but apparently omniscient maniac who's screwing with their psyches as payment for past sins. Director James Wan, ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Tobin Bell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung, Dina MeyerDirected By: James Wan
This first film adaptation of a John Grisham novel is a crackerjack popcorn movie that satisfies even though it radically changes the last half of the book. The novel's dynamic setup is intact: Mitch McDeere, a hot law graduate (a well-suited Tom Cruise), finds a dream job in a luxurious Memphis law firm. His superiors (Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook) provide Mitch and his young wife, Abby (Jeanne ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry KinneyDirected By: Sydney Pollack
Manufacturer: Lions Gate Home EntertainmentStarring: Angus MacFadyen, Tobin Bell, Shawnee SmithDirected By: Darren Lynn Bousman
In its third foray into animated features, The Road to El Dorado, Dreamworks came up with something unfortunate: the routine animated picture. Plagued with production problems (it was originally conceived as a mould-breaking 12-rated adventure), the likable film is a Hope/Crosby-style road picture about two scallywags who stumble upon the Latin American paradise of El Dorado, the mythical ...
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Home EntertainmentStarring: Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Armand Assante, Edward James OlmosDirected By: Bibo Bergeron, David Silverman, Don Paul, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Will Finn
