Director: Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor Notable Cast: Gerard Butler, Amber Valletta, Michael C. Hall, Kyra Sedgwick, Logan Lerman, Alison Lohman, Terry Crews, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges With the advent of “reality” television has come the sort of realization...

Lionsgate released their action,drama,thriller film this weekend entitled, “Gamer.” It starred Gerard Butler as the real life gaming hero, Kable. The movie was pretty interesting and different,and I do mean different as it explored a weird world of mind control...

Sorry for the short hiatus, but here we go again. Today's selection is none other than the Death Race/Crank-esque film, Gamer. Gamer stars Gerard Butler(300) and Michael C. Hall(Dexter). This movie for me, was a much needed adrenaline pumping, action film with over...

I think the title says it all. Gerard Butler puts in a scarily good performance. At some points in the movie, you don't know if he's being controlled or being himself. The direction is especially good for a movie like this. Action movies can leave lots of plot holes...

[i Gamer is a futuristic tale where the video icons are real people.[/i The question of what to do with the cutthroats and murderers who occupy American prisons was solved years ago by the movies: you make them run for their lives for the amusement of TV game show...

Lionsgate | USA | 95 minutes With a depiction of a distant future that seems all too possible and enough explosions and mayhem to make even Michael Bay blush, Gamer provides its audience with a brilliantly executed scifi/action/thriller, not to mention some really...

PLOT: In the distant future, video games have advanced to the point where players begin controlling actual people. The newest game to feature this technology is called “Slayers”, where players control death row inmates, who are forced to battle each other to the...

The awesomeness of exploitation flick Gamer is going to surprise you. Packed with insane violence, decadent sex, and (yes!) musical numbers, the movie is a blood-dark satire of futuristic videogame culture that will push all your buttons. Spoilers ahead! Made by...

The problem with the realistic visions of the future coming out of Hollywood is that they're all such a downer. Even when the plot involves giant insect-like aliens and a spaceship hovering over South Africa, the gritty details tend to hit close to home. "Gamer" is a...

A colleague of mine once observed that the very manner by which Chev Chelios had to keep himself alive in the Crank films respectively represented the approach that writing/directing team Neveldine/Taylor took for each of them, which is to say that Crank 1 was all...

Starring Gerard Butler, Amber Valletta, Michael C. Hall, Kyra Sedgwick, Terry Crews, Ludacris Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor It's the future. A future that could very possibly happen in our lifetime. A future we've largely seen in movies already. Most of...

It's hard to have any active dislike for a movie like Gamer, because it really doesn't try very hard to be much more than an excuse to get some really cool blood spatter effects on screen and occasionally feature topless women. Naturally, for the target market, which...

[i Picturenose.com's Jeremy Slater is pleased to discover a 'movie of a video game' that doesn't insult the intelligence…[/i Most grown-ups and many moviegoers would shy away, these days, from films that appear to be based on PC games, and who can blame them? The...