Fourth film in the series

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	Alien 4 Fourth film in the series, and set on a large starship heading for Earth. 200 years after the events in the last film, and the galaxy has become a different place. A team of bounty hunters have been hired to kidnap people in cryosleep and take them aboard a giant starship. Scientists onboard use the bodies to grow the Alien creatures inside and keep the specimens locked up. In a bold experiment, they create a clone of Ripley and remove the alien queen from inside her. The clone, complete with Ripley's memories, tries assessing her humanity as the experiment has merged some of the alien DNA with her own, giving her a sixth sense about the creatures. Trouble strikes when the aliens break out of their captivity and overrun the ship, causing the scientists to panic and set the ship's course for Earth hoping the military will stop it. Ripley teams up with a group of bounty hunters, scientists and military men to reach the mercenaries shuttle which is on the other side of the alien-infested starship, and somehow destroy it before it reaches Earth. Cast Sigourney Weaver Winona Ryder Marks: .
		Scream A crowd pleasing smash hit with a sizzling cast- critics are calling SCREAM the hippest thriller of the year! After a series of mysterious deaths, a seemingly peaceful community becomes a place where no one is safe.....and everyone is suspect! Thats when an offbeat group of friends rally to unlock the towns deadly secrets....and get caught up in a mix of thrills, chills and surprises! Featuring all star talent, including Drew Barrymore, Courteney Cox, Neve Campbell, and David Arquette, this strikingly original and entertaining motion picture delivers nonstop edge of your seat excitement and fun The young people he targets can only survive if they have the presence of mind to follow the movie rules: Don't answer the door. Don't hide in the closet. Don't just stand there. Don't go back into the house. Don't trip. Don't ask "Who's There". Don't answer the phone. Don't drink. Don't do drugs. Don't have sex,never say "I'll be right back" but whatever you do, never, ever ever under any circumstances, S C R E A M! This movie will get her to hold your hand. Markks:
	The Fifth Element Every 5,000 years a crack appears between dimensions. On one side lies our own frail universe, on the other poised to strike lives a dark and powerful force of evil lying in wait to extinguish all life and all light. The time has come, the universe needs a hero, but in New York City in the year 2259 a good hero is hard to find. The Fifth Element as a whole is an impressive movie, full of the by now expected excellent effects, and with some good performances and a rip-roaring story. At times shoving tongue into cheek a little too often, it is nevertheless a hugely enjoyable trip of a film and one with a future view and design that is quite unlike anything to have gone before. Cast Bruce Willis (Korben Dallas) Milla Jovovich (Leeloo ) Marks: .
		Last Man Standing LAST MAN STANDING takes Akira Kurosawa's YOJIMBO (which itself was remade as A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS ) into the thickest days of Prohibition. The familiar story has a drifter caught between two bootlegging factions who struggle for a deserted border town called Jericho. Bruce Willis (minus the expected wisecracks) is well-cast as the loner who manipulates the two warring clans against each other. The supporting cast is peppered with familiar faces. Bruce Dern appears as a laid-back lawman. Christopher Walken, playing his umpteenth psychotic, is a scarred goon. But something is wrong here. I kept expecting a let up in the film's oppressive tone that never happened. Willis's raspy (and pointless) narration doesn't help matters. After a while it all gets downright wearisome. Still, this movie has its good points. Dern registers best in an otherwise ineffectual supporting cast as the crooked sherriff. Lloyd Ahern's cinematography is great. Ry Cooder's music is dynamic, if somewhat loud. But, unfortunately, LAST MAN STANDING is a film that is only interesting (probably more so to those who have seen the films that inspired it), not entertaining. It's well-packaged and stylishly directed, but it just doesn't know when to quit. CAST: Bruce Willis Christopher Walken Bruce Dern Alexandra Powers David Patrick Kelly Marks:
	Mars Attacks The martians have landed in this hillarous Tim Burton movie. Before entering the cinema, I was initially a little bit nervous about what this film would be like. Many people were saying that this film was silly rubbish, and there was no point to it all. How wrong they were. I left this film feeling much happier than I was before I entered the cinema. The story is about Martians attacking Earth. Using ray guns (hooray!) they generally cause havoc around the U.S and other countries. Nicholson plays the president who must try to stop invasion, and also taking advice from his loopy officials. But, basically, its a load of set pieces showing the Martians destroying Earth. The way people are killed by the ray guns is great, they is a hillarous (and mildly disturbing scene) involving a Martian lady, a mad general who just wants to nuke the aliens away, (and ends up getting squashed by an aliens foot) and a gory finale involving lots of alien heads exploding. But, most of all, this film is fun. The Martians are full of character, the performances are spot on, and the all star cast help make the film more enjoyable. The film is a million times better then the dire INDEPENDANCE DAY, and is a real tribute to the tacky '50s invasion movies. They are is a great score by Danny Elfman, and lots of laughs. This has to be the best invasion I've seen for a long time. CAST Natalie Portman Jack Nicholson Pierce Brosnan Rod Steiger Tom Jones Danny DeVito Marks:
		Seven This is one of those dark movies, where it's constantly raining and wet and where the light always seems to be dim. Appropriately enough, this changes to bright and shimmering heat in the very end. As a kid, I hated dark movies. But perhaps it is appropriate in this case, because Seven attempts to be a statement about humanity: no one is without sin. The seven deadly sins are gluttony, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and wrath. Prime examples of people committing these are being punished one by one, brutally and efficiently, by a psycopathic killer. Detectives, and reluctant partners, William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and David Mills (Brad Pitt) are assigned to track down the killer. Needless to say, the job gets accomplished. While some might argue it is done surprisingly, I'd argue otherwise. For once, I wasn't impressed with Pitt's acting. I thought Freeman did a great job. As usual, the villain, John Doe played by Kevin Spacey, provides a chilling performance, even though he is not given as much center stage as, say, Anthony Hopkins was in Silence of the Lambs. In fact, the whole movie seems to hurry through without giving key characters enough time to build up their emotional worth, particularly Mills' wife Tracy (played by Pitt's real-life wife, Gwyneth Paltrow). In the end, Seven does manage to get its point across effectively. While watching the movie itself, I thought it a bit anti-climatic, but when mulling it over later, the images echo very strongly in my mind. Cast Brad Pitt Morgan Freeman Gwyneth Paltrow R. Lee Ermey Marks: