The following movies are available on DVD beginning today at retail stores and rental outlets throughout the Valley. Click any title for a full review. 'Held Hostage' Based on victims' advocate Michelle Renee's memoir, this dramatic thriller stars Julie Benz as a single mother and bank manager who is taken hostage by a group of masked gunmen who then force her to rob her own bank or watch her daughter die. (Nr – 86 minutes) 'Necromentia' This horror flick tells the tales of three desperate men who will do anything for the ones they love - even it that means...
- 9/14/2010
- by joseph.airdo
- Examiner Movies Channel
If it were not for the sappy, message-laden ending, "Held Hostage" would have been quite the spectacular thriller. After all, the movie hits the ground running with an action-packed first act that draws you into the story followed by a second act that knows how to tug on your emotions. However, the third act threatens to destroy everything, first by abruptly disregarding many of those aforementioned emotional tugs, then by cheapening the experience with a moral. Based on victims' advocate Michelle Renee's memoir of the same title, "Held Hostage" stars Julie Benz...
- 9/14/2010
- by joseph.airdo
- Examiner Movies Channel
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