Posts Tagged ‘Adventure’

Balthazar Blake (Nicolas Cage) has spent centuries after the death of his master, Merlin, keeping the evil sorcerers at bay and searching for the chosen one – i.e. The Prime-Merlinian or the magically inclined descendant to Merlin.  One afternoon Balthazar finally finds him in a nerdy ten-year-old boy, Dave.  Dave (Jay Baruchel) becomes the physics geek that learns that he needs to become the next greatest sorcerer since Merlin. (more…)

Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a poor homeless child wandering the streets of Persia that’s been adopted into the royal family of Persia.  After information comes to the knowledge of Tus (Richard Coyle) that a sacred city is arming Persian enemies secretly Persia attacks and holds the city.  There Dastan finds the mystical dagger that can turn back time for a short period, but this only happens in the eyes of the one who’s holding the dagger.  After being ousted by the royal family Dastan must solve this conspiracy plot that’s taking place in the Persian royal family while on this adventure film through the sands of the Arabian Desert and more. (more…)

This is a new weekly review each Tuesday where I pick a film coming out on DVD that I haven’t reviewed before and highlight it.  This week that pick is Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

Doctor Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) is a man who’s been alive for centuries playing with Mr. Nick (Tom Waits), the corporeal form of The Devil, at games for souls.  Parnassus is worried because he’s in the next three days going to have to make good on one of his deals with the devil and turn over his daughter, Valentina (Lily Cole), on her sixteenth birthday.  However, Mr. Nick comes by and decides to give Parnassus a second chance to win his daughter’s freedom with one last bet for a race to five souls before her birthday.  Along with a new recruit, Tony (Heath Ledger), the Doctor takes this opportunity to try and win this final wager. (more…)

In this small village of Vikings there is always the one guy who just doesn’t cut it, that is Hiccup (Jay Baruchel).  Hiccup is one of the worst Vikings ever, he’s never been physically inclined, but he has ideas.  While being under pressure from his father Stoick (Gerard Butler) to try and be a better Viking he decides to test out his new device.  He ends up catching one of the most dangerous of dragons.  However, he can’t bring himself to kill it.  Eventually he ends up befriending the dragon and learning that sometimes being different isn’t the same as being wrong. (more…)

We meet Sherlock Holmes [Robert Downey Jr.] as he has caught Lord Blackwood [Mark Strong] in the act of attempting to murder his very next victim.  Lord Blackwood is then sent to jail and hanged.  However, shortly after there are words of Lord Blackwood being back from the dead and powerful men are being murdered all across London.  Holmes must solve this mystery along with his friend Dr. Watson [Jude Law]. (more…)

Max [Max Records] lives with his single mother, Mom [Catherine Keener], and has some rage and anger issues.  After one evening where he is feeling ignored by his mother he runs away from home and on a journey to a far away land where he finds wild creatures and becomes their king. (more…)

Jake Sully [Sam Worthington] is a crippled Marine that has been brought to Pandora to work in the Avatar program to try and get into the indigenous people of Pandora off of some really expensive rock.  Jake gets lost in the woods and brought into the clan with Neytiri [Zoe Saldana] and he is made to learn their ways and understand them until he becomes one of them. (more…)

In the year 2009 a scientist, Adrian Helmsley [Chiwetel Ejiofor], discovers that something odd is happening with the earth and figures out that the world as we know it is going to end in the year 2012.  As the day of reckoning comes a regular everyday guy, Jackson Curtis [John Cusack], takes it upon himself to save him and his family from this end of days event. (more…)