Nine Lives

In Scotland, the wealthy Tim (Patrick Kennedy) invites eight friends from school to celebrate his twenty-first anniversary in his isolated mansion. After a dinner party, his friend Tom (Lex Shrapnel) finds an old book written by an old Scottish that has... Full review

Nine friends celebrate at a mansion in Scotland. After a little dinner and drinking and too much conversation, one friend stumbles upon a curse and one by one the guests are faced with the threat of death. This film has so... Full review

and I've seen a lot. I rented this last winter as part of a 50 movie+ horror fest that contained enjoyable films like Don't Look Now, Valentine, and Suspiria. I had recently rented two lousy films titled Junior and S.I.C.K.(Serial Insane... Full review

This movie was terrible, but I enjoyed myself. Because it is unintentionally HILARIOUS!!! I'm going to list all of the things I loved, in no particular order. The things that made me laugh hysterically. If you've seen it, you'll probably know... Full review

Whilst staying at my cousin's house recently, he showed me a film starring Paris Hilton that left me overwhelmed by her talent. What a performance! From start to finish she was totally convincing, and she certainly had feelings for the, err,... Full review

I've seen LOADS of slasher films in my time. I've also seen loads of low budget British films. This is the worst example of either that I've ever seen! First off, there was a HUGE picture of Paris Hilton on the... Full review

Stereotypic characters which made me ashamed to be British (I was watching the film abroad), hackneyed premise, unbelievable plot. Horror films work when you want people to survive. My final regret, therefore, was that they didn't all die. Only good news... Full review

I saw this at a film festival, with the director (and apparently, the cast) in attendance - and I can't have been the only person who wondered how they felt, having the entire audience laughing their heads off at the acting... Full review

Video: The movie may be horrendous, but at least it looks good on DVD, certainly better than the night vision cam quality people usually associate with a Paris Hilton project. Conclusion: Clumsily crafted and relentlessly, soul-crushingly dull, Nine Lives isn't worth a rental or even bothering to stay up till 3:45 AM to watch on Showtime. ... Full Review

The story of Marion Barry is far more than one of a sketchy videotape of a hotel room and a crack pipe. The onetime Mayor of Washington D.C. began his career as an outspoken and effective African-American leader in the... ... Full Article

The city's Storyville district may have been named after Sidney Story - an alderman who made it a legal refuge for brothels, jazz clubs and other houses of ill repute back in the 1890s - yet it could just as... ... Full Article

Criticism, H.L. Mencken said, is "prejudice made plausible." That's why, reading the first 50 pages of Dan Baum's new book about Katrina and New Orleans, I tried to puzzle out exactly what I disliked about it. ... Full Article

From its inception the horror film has proven itself the most reliably cyclic of all film genr?s. Each decade has had its own individual stylistic tone - one that by decade's end, be it due to technical advancement or some... ... Full Article

Nine Lives (February 25/09) While it'd be silly to expect anything spectacular from a horror effort starring Paris Hilton, Nine Lives quickly establishes itself as an uncommonly tedious piece of work in which Hilton's less-than-engaging performance proves to be its... ... Full Article

While it'd be silly to expect anything spectacular from a horror effort starring Paris Hilton, Nine Lives quickly establishes itself as an uncommonly tedious piece of work in which Hilton's less-than-engaging performance proves to be its least problematic attribute. ... Full Article