Kris Deering

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Faster—TriStar Pictures
Kris Deering  |  Feb 17, 2011  |  0 comments
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 2.5/5
After 10 years in prison, Driver has a singular focus - to avenge the murder of his brother during the botched bank robbery that led to his imprisonment. Now a free man with a deadly to-do list in hand, he's finally on his mission... but with two men on his trail - a veteran cop just days from retirement, and a young egocentric hitman with a flair for the art of killing and a newfound worthy opponent. The hunter is also the hunted. It's a do or die race to the list's finish as the mystery surrounding his brother's murder deepens, and new details emerge along the way hinting that Driver's list may be incomplete.
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Get Low—Sony Pictures Classics
Kris Deering  |  Feb 13, 2011  |  0 comments
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 2.5/5
For years, townsfolk have been terrified of the backwoods recluse known as Felix Bush. People say he's done all manner of unspeakable things - that he's killed in cold blood, that he's in league with the Devil; that he has strange powers - and they avoid him like the plague. Then, one day, Felix rides to town with a shotgun and a wad of cash, saying he wants to buy a funeral. It's not your usual funeral for the dead that Felix wants. On the contrary, he wants a living funeral, in which anyone who ever heard a story about him will come to tell it, while he takes it all in. Sensing a big payday in the offing, fast-talking funeral home owner Frank Quinn enlists his gentlemanly young apprentice, Buddy Robinson, to win over Felix's business.
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Memento—Lionsgate
Kris Deering  |  Feb 13, 2011  |  0 comments
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Guy Pearce stars as Leonard, a man with a bizarre disorder: the inability to form new memories. Ever since that fateful night when his wife was murdered, anyone Leonard has met, or anything he has done, simply vanishes from his mind. Who are his friends? Who are his enemies? What is the truth? The answers change from second to second as Leonard seeks vengeance for his wife's murder... and sinks into an abyss of uncertainty and danger.
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Thelma & Louise—MGM
Kris Deering  |  Feb 13, 2011  |  0 comments
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis star as accidental outlaws on a desperate flight across the Southwest after a tragic incident at a roadside bar. With a determined detective on their trail, a sweet-talking hitchhiker in their path and a string of crimes in their wake, their journey alternates between hilarious, high-speed thrill ride and empowering personal odyssey even as the law closes in.
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The Last Unicorn—Lionsgate
Kris Deering  |  Feb 13, 2011  |  0 comments
Video: 2.5/5
Audio: 3/5
Extras: 3.5/5
In this whimsical, animated film, a lone unicorn seeks out others like herself through a mystical land of talking cats and spellbinding magicians. In her search for other unicorns, the last unicorn encounters a cast of delightful characters as well as dangers she never imagined. Throughout the fantastic adventure, she learns of friendship, love, and most importantly, her true self.
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I Spit On Your Grave Unrated (2010)—Anchor Bay
Kris Deering  |  Feb 08, 2011  |  0 comments
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2.5/5
An unrated remake of the controversial 1978 cult horror film. A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon a group of local lowlifes subject Jennifer to a nightmare of degradation, rape and violence. Left for dead, she returns for vengeance. Trapping her male attackers one-by-one, she inflicts acts of physical torment upon them with a ferocity that surpasses her own ordeal. When the carnage clears, victim has become victor.
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You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger—Sony Pictures Classics
Kris Deering  |  Feb 08, 2011  |  0 comments
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 0/5
One night, Alfie wakes up with a sudden wave of panic over thoughts of mortality. Abandoning Helena, his wife of forty years, Alfie sets out to relive the pleasures of his youth. Devastated, Helena tries to kill herself, and then, finding no consolation from medicine and therapy, seeks out the help of a fortune teller, Cristal. Before long, Helena finds the tranquility she seeks by surrendering all her thoughts and actions to Cristal's guidance. Helena's daughter Sally encourages her mother's pacifying visits to the charlatan fortune teller, as she is weary of dealing with her mother's trauma, and has marital problems of her own. Her novelist husband Roy is unable to hold a paying job and the couple lives off of Helena's support and Sally's earnings as an assistant to a prominent gallery owner, Greg Clemente. Years ago, Roy produced an acclaimed first novel, but his subsequent books haven't lived up to his initial promise. Roy's fears that he may be a flash in the pan make him hard to live with and they clash over Sally's desire to have a child.
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Paranormal Activity 2—Paramount
Kris Deering  |  Feb 08, 2011  |  0 comments
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Just as Dan and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare. Security cameras capture the torment, making every minute horrifyingly real.
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Never Let Me Go—Fox Searchlight
Kris Deering  |  Feb 02, 2011  |  0 comments
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2/5
Kathy, Tommy and Ruth live in a world and a time that feel familiar to us, but are not quite like anything we know. They spend their childhood at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. When they leave the shelter of the school and the terrible truth of their fate is revealed to them, they must also confront the deep feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to pull them apart.
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Red Hill—Sony Pictures
Kris Deering  |  Feb 01, 2011  |  0 comments
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: .5/5
Constable Shane Cooper arrives in the small town of Red Hill in search of a quieter life. But, on Cooper's first day with the Red Hill Police Department, a convicted murderer escapes from prison and heads straight for Red Hill to kill the men who put him there. One by one, the townsmen fall until Cooper discovers the shocking truth about the convict, and must challenge everything he believes in order to stop the massacre and bring justice to "Red Hill".
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