Berkeley 2007 R, 87 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Bobby Roth Cast: Nick Roth, Laura Jordan, Henry Winkler, Bonnie Bedelia, Tom Morello, Jake Newton, Sebastian Tillinger, Wade Allain-Marcus, Sarah Carter, Sarah Bibb, Ruby Roth, Tracey Walter, Thomas Gibson, Reed Diamond, Henry G. Sanders
Eighteen-year-old Ben Sweet (Nick Roth) enrolls at UC Berkeley in 1968 to study accounting and as a means of avoiding the draft in the midst of the anti-war movement. While at Berkeley, Ben learns to party '60s' style–including sex, drugs, and rock and roll. He joins a rock band and goes through a number of life changes discovering by story's end that his "true self" lies in writing.
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DOA: Dead or Alive 2006 PG-13, 87 min. Genre: Action / Adventure / Romance
Director: Corey Yuen Cast: Jaime Pressly, Holly Valance, Devon Aoki, Sarah Carter, Natassia Malthe, Kane Kosugi, Matthew Marsden, Eric Roberts, Steve Howey, Brian J. White, Kevin Nash, Collin Chou
Based on the popular video game, DOA, this story begins when Tina Armstrong (Jaime Pressly), Christie Allen (Holly Valance), Kasumi (Devon Aoki), and Helena Douglas (Sarah Carter) are invited to participate in DOA, a secret, invitational-only martial arts contest on a remote Asian island. They are flown in by private jet and then to qualify must bail out, swim to shore, and check in at DOA headquarters. With a $10 million prize at stake, fights come in quick succession in this action-filled story.
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Final Destination 2 2003 R, 90 min. Genre: Horror / Thriller / Fantasy
Director: David R. Ellis Cast: Ali Larter, A.J. Cook, Michael Landes, Terrence "T.C." Carson, Jonathan Cherry, Keegan Connor Tracy, Sarah Carter, Lynda Boyd, David Paetkau, James Kirk, Tony Todd, Justina Machado, Shaun Sipos, Andrew Airlie, Sarah Carter
Like the original "Final Destination" (2000), this film also uses the subject of premonitions as its focus. This time around, Kimberly (A.J. Cook) is on the entrance ramp to the freeway when she experiences a premonition about an impending crash. She stops and watches a terrible accident take place. Kimberly and others escape Death, or do they? It isn't long before the "survivors" begin dropping dead, one-by-one.
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Skinwalkers 2007 PG-13, 110 min. Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: James Isaac Cast: Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, Kim Coates, Natassia Malthe, Matthew Knight, Sarah Carter, Tom Jackson, Rogue Johnston, Barbara Gordon, Shawn Roberts, Lyriq Bent, Todd Schroeder, Scott Anderson
Bad skinwalkers (werewolves)–Varek (Jason Behr), Zo (Kim Coates), and Sonja (Natassia Malthe)–converge on the town of Huguenot where Timothy (Matthew Knight) is preparing to celebrate his 13th birthday. Timothy is being raised by his widowed mother Rachel (Rhona Mitra) and her husband's family (Sarah Carter, Elias Koteas, and Barbara Gordon). Katherine is unaware that the family members are werewolves and that they protect Timothy because the family knows that Timothy holds the power to control the good skinwalkers' destiny. But, those bad skinwalkers know of the prophecy and, having just learned of where Timothy lives, are determined to kill him.
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| 1. Berkeley (2007)
2. DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)
3. Final Destination 2 (2003)
4. Skinwalkers (2007)
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