Home Media Magazine - February 23-March 1, 2009 - (Page 18) REVIEWS I GPS: THE MOVIE phenomenon of Geocaching. For those not in the know, GeoPrebook 2/24; Street 3/31 caching is a treasure-hunting game Channel Sources, Thriller, $24.95 DVD, ‘R’ for some in which participants use GPS violence. Stars Daniel Magill, Nicola Anderson, Artine Brown, trackers to locate hidden boxes of goodies. A film about the craze Paul Proios, DJ Perry. could easily become this generaooking at the catchy box art of tion’s Gotcha!, the 1985 film about a DVD called GPS: The Movie, college-campus paintball wars turnone might get an immediate ing all too real. Instead, GPS turns out to be a deimpression the film focuses on the www.homemediamagazine.com cent horror-film throwback that uses a GPS hunt as a plot device to set up the slasher scenario. Bob (Paul Proios) and Andrew (Daniel Magill) are avid Geocachers who receive a mysterious message from an old buddy named Shep, who has disappeared after stealing $2 million. The pair have reason to believe Shep is sending them on a GPS search for the cash, and since it coincides with a camping trip they have planned, they enlist their friends to help. All goes well until they find the first clue, consisting of Polaroid pics of a bound and gagged woman tagged with a message to not let her die. Soon after, members of the expedition are knocked off one by one. The Blair Witch meets “Amazing Race” format gives director/co-writer Eric Colley plenty of opportunities to have fun with horror movie clichés. Colley displays a lot of talent behind the camera in what IMDb indicates is his first feature-length directorial effort. He makes good use of his Washington-state surroundings and keeps the action moving nicely. His efforts earned GPS the Without a Box Best Action Film award at the Action on Film International Film Festival, as well as Best Local Film at the Tacoma Film Festival. The DVD includes bonus footage from Colley’s short film Mistaken, starring Twilight’s Cam Gigandet. – John Latchem L COLIN NOMINEE Best Actor Film Critics Circle of Australia FRIELS NOMINEE Best Original Screenplay Film Critics Circle of Australia WINNER Project Greenlight Australia Scriptwriting Competition “KNOCKABOUT DRY WIT… – VARIETY CHARM AND SOLID” HARD-BOILED ENGROSSING… DRILY FUNNY” “ORIGINAL… AND – THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD FOR A MOB HIT MAN, DEATH IS THE ONLY WAY OUT Contract killer Jack Barrett (Colin Friels – Dark City ) has decided to retire from the gangster business – except the Down Under underworld does not want him to leave… and they have their ways of proving it. With racketeers, crooked cops and one investigative reporter putting both their lives in danger, Jack is about to find out that his employers’ idea of a pension includes a couple of bullets and a shallow grave. Cat. #30909-D approx. 98 mins. col. WIDESCREEN UPC 0-66805-30909-0 TO VIEW THE TRAILER http://www.bfsent.com/trailer/solo Q U I C K TAK E $ 24 98 SRP (Code R) © 2005 tw Movie Ne ork Prod uctions Pt y Ltd Reliving the Ride he best part about Universal Studios Home Entertainment releasing individual DVDs of the “Back to the Future” trilogy ($19.98 each) is that the new two-disc version of the first film contains a spectacular re-creation of Back to the Future: The Ride. This theme park attraction was a staple of Universal Studios theme parks in Florida and California from the early 1990s to 2007 (it has since been replaced by The Simpsons Ride) and was a lot of fun for “Back to the Future” fans. This bonus disc also includes a great new retrospective about the making of the first film. A tweak in the timeline could have resulted in the film starring Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly and Jeff Goldblum as Doc Brown, using a refrigerator as a time machine. Yikes! © In Your Dr eams Ltd 20 07 All rights T DEXTER PARMINDER LINDA SUSAN FLETCHER NAGRA HAMILTON GEORGE Albert Ross (Dexter Fletcher – Band of Brothers, Layer Cake) can see the future in his dreams: misfortunes, torrid love affairs, even death. He also gets a glimpse into his own future, where a sexy bombshell named Olivia (Elize du Toit – The Devil’s Chair) is going to offer him freedom from a dull life and a stepmother from hell (as well as grant him unlimited sex). First, however, Albert must enlist the aid of an amateur sleuth (Linda Hamilton – Terminator 2: Judgment Day) to figure out not only why his dreams are coming true, but also to prevent a vision that keeps popping up in his sleep: someone is going to die. 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