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New Release Review - Paranormal Activity 4

Directed by: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Starring: Katie Featherston, Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively, Brady Allen

Fourth installment in the found footage series.

New Release Review - Ruby Sparks

Directed by: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Starring: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening, Chris Messina, Antonio Banderas, Elliot Gould, Steve Coogan, Deborah Ann Woll

Author Dano conjures up his dream girl Ruby Sparks (Kazan) and finds he can magically control her every whim with his typewriter.

New Release Review - On the Road

Directed by: Walter Salles
Starring: Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Steve Buscemi, Alice Braga, Terrence Howard, Elisabeth Moss

Big screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's semi-autobiographical 1957 novel.

Waffleween - Halloween 2 (2009)

Directed by: Rob Zombie
Starring: Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Brad Dourif, Danielle Harris, Margot Kidder

Follow-up to the 2007 remake of John Carpenter's original.

Waffleween: Halloween (2007)

Directed by: Rob Zombie
Starring: Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Daeg Faerch, Sheri Moon Zombie, William Forsythe, Danielle Harris, Kristina Klebe, Danny Trejo, Bill Moseley, Tom Towles

Rob Zombie reimagines Carpenter's classic.

Waffleween - Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Directed by: Rick Rosenthal
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Busta Rhymes, Brad Loree, Tyra Banks, Bianca Kajlich, Katee Sackhoff

A group of students spend a night in the Myer's house as part of an online event.

Waffleween - Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)

Directed by: Steve Miner
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, LL Cool J, Adam Hann-Byrd, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Janet Leigh, Nancy Stephens, Chris Durand

Twenty years after his original attempt to kill her, Michael Myers has finally tracked down his sister (Curtis).

Dark Shadows Blu-Ray Winner

Waffleween - Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

Directed by: Joe Chappelle
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Paul Rudd, Marianne Hagan, Mitch Ryan, Kim Darby, George P Wilbur

Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield to kill the new-born son of his niece.

Waffleween - Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

Directed by: Dominique Othenin-Girard
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, Beau Starr, Don Shanks

A year after he was thought to have been killed in a mine-shaft explosion, Michael Myers awakes from a coma and returns to Haddonfield.

Waffleween - Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)


Directed by: Dwight H Little
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, George P Wilbur, Beau Starr, Kathleen Kinmont, Sasha Jenson

Ten years after committing the original massacre, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield in search of his niece, Harris.

Waffleween - Halloween 3: Season of the Witch (1982)


Directed by: Tommy Lee Wallace
Starring: Tom Atkins, Dan O'Herlihy, Stacey Nelkin, Nancy Kyes, Michael Currie
Evil mastermind O'Herlihy plans to use Halloween masks as a way of sacrificing children to the ancient Gods.

Waffleween - Halloween 2 (1981)

Directed by:: Rick Rosenthal
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Dick Warlock, Charles Cyphers, Lance Guest, Leo Rossi, Pamela Susan Shoop, Hunter Von Leer, Ana Alicia, Nancy Stephens

Immediately following the events of the first movie, Curtis has been taken to Haddonfield hospital but Michael Myers is still on the loose.

Retro Review - Maverick (1994)

Directed by: Richard Donner
Starring: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Alfred Molina, James Coburn

During the 1990's, film-makers loved to take classic TV shows and try to make them into full-length movies.  The results were real hit and miss, so when "Maverick" came out in 1994, one didn't know whether the film would prove to be comic genius or whether James Garner would disown it.

New Release Review - Liberal Arts

Directed by: Josh Radnor
Starring: Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, Zac Efron, Richard Jenkins, Alison Janney, Kate Burton

Thirty-something Radnor returns to his old college to honor retiring professor Jenkins. Once there he succumbs to nostalgia and embarks on a relationship with student Olsen.

New Release Review - Sinister

Directed by: Scott Derrickson
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, James Ransone, Fred Dalton Thompson, Vincent D'Onofrio

Unbeknownst to his long suffering family, true crime writer Hawke has moved them into a house whose previous residents were brutally murdered. 

New Release Review - Stolen

Directed by: Simon West
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Josh Lucas, Danny Huston, Sami Gayle, Malin Akerman, Mark Valley, MC Gainey

Following his release from an eight year prison term, former bank robber Cage is blackmailed by an old member of his crew (Lucas) who is holding his daughter captive in the trunk of his taxi.

Waffleween - Halloween (1978)


Directed by: John Carpenter
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasance, Nick Castle, Tony Moran, PJ Soles, Nancy Loomis, Charles Cyphers

Fifteen years after brutally murdering his sister, Michael Myers escapes his sanitarium and returns to his home town of Haddonfield.

New Release Review - Frankenweenie

Directed by: Tim Burton
Starring: Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau, Christopher Lee, Charlie Tahan

New Release Review - Taken 2

Directed by: Olivier Megaton
Starring: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Rade Serbedzija 

While vacationing in Istanbul, Neeson and family are stalked by the Albanian mob who kidnapped his daughter in the first movie.