Repo Man
	Cast
	Jude Law	Remy
	Forest Whitaker	Jake
	Liev Schreiber	Frank
	Alice Braga	Beth
Directed by	Miguel Sapochnik
Running time	111 minutes

The operations of Union Incorporated take degenerate capitalism to the lowest depths. This is a company that finances the purchase of organs for transplants by sick patients at an interest rate of 19%. These organs are bought with loans from Union Inc just like homes, cars and other household goods. And they are treated just the same in the case of default in the loan repayments. The body organs are repossessed. Union Inc employs men to extract livers, kidneys, pancreas, corneas and other ‘purchased’ organs from the bodies of the hapless defaulters.

This commerce is the theme of the dystopian futuristic Repo Men. Jude Law plays Remy, one of the Corporation’s ace operatives, a cold callous butcher who comes calling to repossess the goods. When he suffers a heart attack on the job, Frank (Leiv Schreiber), the ruthless head of Union Inc, authorises the implantation of a state of the art heart replacement for him. Remy now owes his heart to the Corporation and he must pay like any other client. When he fails, Jake (Forest Whitaker), his former partner is sent to track him down and reclaim the goods.

In 1984, Emilio Estevez played Otto, a young repo-man who repossessed cars in the action comedy Repo Man. There are no laughs in this week’s film. Jude Law and Forest Whitaker remove body parts in gruesome, bloody on the spot surgery, without anaesthetic.

Slasher films like Saw and Hostel have their own faithful market that laps up the gore. Repo Men treats a serious, thankfully fictitious, subject very crudely and revels in rivers of blood and brutality with sequences definitely not for the squeamish.

Death at a Funeral
	Cast
	James Marsden	Oscar
	Regina Hall	Michelle
	Loretta Devine	Cynthia
	Danny Clover	Uncle Russell
	Martin Lawrence	Ryan
	Chris Rock	Aaron
Directed by	Neil LaBute
Running time	92 minutes

Weddings and funerals in comedies are occasions where Murphy’s Law is proved right most of the time. In Death at a Funeral it is proved right all the way.

Aaron (Chris Rock) is responsible for the organization of his father’s funeral and things start going bad the minute the coffin is brought inside the family house for mourning and funeral service. The coffin has the wrong body. Aaron has to cope with the hawk eyed attention of his distraught newly widowed mother Cynthia (Loretta Devine) and handle with care the sexual biological urge of his wife Michelle (Regina Hall) Aaron’s only brother Ryan (Martin Lawrence), a successful writer in New York arrives for the funeral but his presence and attitude only add to Aaron’s woes.

Cousin Elaine (Zoe Saldana) comes along with her fiancé Oscar (James Marsden) who by mistake swallows some mind tripping stuff from her brother’s ‘medicine’ marked valium. There is also the cantankerous wheelchair bound Uncle Russell (Danny Clover) taken to the funeral by Norman (Tracy Morgan) the family idiot and Derek (Luke Wilson) Elaine’s former fiancé who is still chasing her. And finally there is Peter a particular friend of the dear departed who holds some very embarrassing secrets waiting to be revealed. With a crowd like this things cannot go right, in fact they go totally bad.

Chris Rock and Martin Lawrence are two of the best and most popular African American comedians in the business. They play two characters who, although they live on two different planets, complement each other very well. In support they have a very good practically all black cast including veteran Danny Clover, who is shmelessly wasted.

Death at a Funeral written by Dean Craig first appeared on the screen in 2007. The story was set in England and the bereavment is in a typical British upper middle class family. In this film, Craig’s British humour is transposed to California and acted in African-American English. A heavy dose of slapstick was injected for added appeal

Furry Vengeance
	Cast
	Brendan Fraser	Dan Sanders
	Brooke Shields	Tammy Sanders
	Matt Prokop	Tyler Sanders
Directed by	Roger Kumble
Running time	91 minutes

There is an old show business belief that actors are very wary of working with children and animals. Their hang up is more than justified. Children and animals always steal the limelight and actors are relegated to play second fiddle to furry beasts and angelic or devilish tots. But the actors cannot help it. Children and animals are crowd pullers and family films cannot do without them.


Brendan Fraser who starred in The Mummy blockbusters and the recently seen dramatic Extraordinary Measures had none of the children/animals inhibitions to do this film. He plays the role of Dan Sanders, a construction manager who must face the fury of racoons, skunks and other animals, hell bent to defend their environment. Dan, his wife Tammy (Brooke Shields) and son Tyler (Matt Prokop) move from their comfortable suburban home to spend five years in the middle of an Oregon forest where he is in charge of a property development project. The unspoilt territory is a welcome challenge for Dan but leaves wife and son very much unimpressed. Much more unimpressed are the animals that have lived their lives in peace and harmony with their habitat. They feel threatened and they react by declaring a total, no holds barred war against Dan and the development project.


Live animals were used for this film marked as family entertainment. Enhanced by computer generated images, the 101 pranks devised by the animal resistance front to teach Dan a sound lesson about environment protection are the film’s major fun element.



1. SEX AND THE CITY 2
2. PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME
3. LETTERS TO JULIET
4. ROBIN HOOD
5. STREET DANCE
6. COP OUT
7. IRON MAN 2
8. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
9. THE BLIND SIDE
10. NANNY MCPHEE AND THE BIG BANG


Films released by KRS Film Distributors Ltd.