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Valkyrie
Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1299 Year 2008
Length 2:01 Director Bryan Singer
Category War
Other Repack
At the absolute height of World War II, German generals hatch a daring plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler and effectively render the German war machine impotent. Directed by Bryan Singer, Valkyrie stars Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the real-life mastermind behind the elaborate plot known as Project Valkyrie: a plan to assassinate Hitler and overthrow his government from the inside. Stauffenberg has been a loyal soldier and an asset to the Reich for his entire military career, but after losing an eye, a hand, and three fingers in an Allied bombing, he reaches a breaking point. The destructive madness that his country is unleashing on the world has become too terrible for the...
Watchmen
Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1300 Year 2009
Length 2:42 Director Zack Snyder
Category Science Fiction
300's Zack Snyder brings Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' critically acclaimed comic book Watchmen to the big screen, courtesy of DC Comics and Warner Bros. Pictures. Set in an alternate universe circa 1985, the film's world is a highly unstable one where a nuclear war is imminent between America and Russia. Superheroes have long been made to hang up their tights thanks to the government-sponsored Keene Act, but that all changes with the death of The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a robust ex-hero commando whose mysterious free fall out a window perks the interest of one of the country's last remaining vigilantes, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley). His investigation leads him to caution many of his...
Fifty Dead Men Walking
Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1301 Year 2008
Length 1:57 Director Kari Skogland
Category Drama
Other Screener
Inspired by the remarkable true story of the British undercover agent who successfully infiltrated the IRA, writer/director Kari Skogland's fact-based thriller takes it's title from author Martin McGartland's best-selling novel of the same name. Set at the absolute height of the Irish civil conflict, Fifty Dead Men Walking begins as twenty-two year old Martin McGarland is recruited by the British police to infiltrate the IRA and report back with intelligence. It's an extremely dangerous job that could result in death or worse should his true identity be revealed, yet McGartland realizes that the information he's gathering will save countless lives. At first the prospect of being discovered provided something of a rush for McGartland, though...
Frost/Nixon
Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1302 Year 2008
Length 2:02 Director Ron Howard
Category Drama
Hollywood heavyweight Ron Howard adapts playwright Peter Morgan's West End hit for the silver screen with this feature focusing on the 1977 television interviews between journalist David Frost (Michael Sheen) and former president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella). At the time Nixon sat down with Frost to discuss the sordid details that ultimately derailed his presidency, it had been three years since the former commander in chief had been forced out of office. The Watergate scandal was still fresh in everyone's minds, and Nixon had remained notoriously tight-lipped until he agreed to sit down with Frost. Nixon was certain that he could hold his own opposite the up-and-coming British broadcaster, and even Frost's own people weren't...
Let the Right One In
Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1303 Year 2008
Length 1:55 Director Tomas Alfredson
Category Horror, Drama
A 12-year-old boy befriends a mysterious young girl whose appearance in town suspiciously coincides with a horrifying series of murders in director Tomas Alfredson's adaptation of the book by author John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the screenplay. Oskar is a young boy who can't seem to shake off the local bullies, but all of that begins to change when a new neighbor moves in next door. After striking up an innocent friendship with his eccentric next-door neighbor, Oskar realizes that she is the vampire responsible for the recent rash of deaths around town. Despite the danger, however, Oskar's friendship with the girl ultimately takes precedence over his fear of her. ...
Surveillance
Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1304 Year 2008
Length 1:37 Director Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Category Thriller
Other Eng/Pol Sub
An FBI agent on the trail of a serial killer attempts to capture the madman with a little assistance from his would-be victims in director Jennifer Chambers Lynch's supernatural police thriller. ...
What Doesn't Kill You
Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1305 Year 2008
Length 1:40 Director Brian Goodman
Category Drama
Other NL
Inspired by his own tough childhood on the unforgiving streets of South Boston, director/co-screenwriter (along with Paul T. Murray and Donnie Wahlberg) Brian Goodman's tough-talking crime drama follows the journey of two childhood friends as they attempt to sever their powerful underworld ties. Ever since they were just young kids, Brian (Mark Ruffalo) and Paulie (Ethan Hawke) have always watched out for one another. From the petty crimes and misdemeanors of childhood to more serious criminal endeavors as they take their tenuous first steps into adulthood, the two sworn friends do their best to survive in the dog-eat-dog neighborhood while gradually falling under the sway of powerful crime boss Pat Kelly (Goodman). Fifteen years later,...
Coraline
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1281 Year 2009
Length 1:40 Director Henry Selick
Category Fantasy
Other Fixed
A young girl walks through a secret door and discovers a parallel reality that is eerily similar to the life she already knows, yet deeply unsettling in a number of ways, in director Henry Selick's animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's international best-seller. Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones (voice of Dakota Fanning) is fearlessly courageous, and perhaps far too adventurous for her own good. Coraline and her parents (Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman) have recently relocated to Oregon from Michigan. Bored in her new home since her parents are distracted by work and she has yet to make any new friends, Coraline passes the time by exploring her new neighborhood with an annoying local boy named Wybie Lovat...
Crossing Over
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1282 Year 2009
Length 1:53 Director Wayne Kramer
Category Drama
Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, and Sean Penn star in Running Scared writer/director Wayne Kramer's harrowing look at life amongst illegal immigrants and the immigration enforcement agents whose job it is to ensure that the U.S. borders remain secure. Every day, a new batch of immigrants comes flooding into Los Angeles in search of the American dream -- and every day the price of that dream rises exponentially. As the desperation of these newcomers continually tests the humanity of Los Angeles immigration enforcement officers, the face of a 21st century L.A. gradually begins to take form. ...
Defiance
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1283 Year 2008
Length 2:17 Director Edward Zwick
Category War
Other Screener
Inspired by a true story, director Edward Zwick's epic World War II drama Defiance tells the tale of three Jewish Eastern European brothers (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, and Jamie Bell) who narrowly escape certain death at the hands of the Nazis, subsequently vowing to avenge the deaths of their loves ones by launching a desperate battle against the forces that seek to exterminate their entire race. The year is 1941, and the setting is Nazi-occupied Poland. The Final Solution is in full effect, and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being slaughtered wholesale. Tuvia (Craig), Zus (Schreiber), and Asael (Bell) have miraculously managed to escape into the dense surrounding forest. Having played in these woods...
Driven to Kill
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 5.2 / 10.0
Number 1284 Year 2009
Length 1:38 Director Jeff F. King
Category Action
A former Russian mobster named Ruslan (Steven Seagal) sets out to avenge his daughter's death by taking on the entire Eastern underworld. Back in the day, the mere mention of the name Ruslan was enough to make mob bosses tremble with fear. But these days Ruslan has put down his gun and picked up a pen; he's a best-selling author, and he's given up his violent ways. That all changes the day that Ruslan returns home for his daughter's wedding, only to discover that she has been murdered in a violent home invasion. Now, in order to ensure that justice is served, the grieving father will return to the world he thought he had left...
Gran Torino
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1285 Year 2008
Length 1:56 Director Clint Eastwood
Category Drama
Other Proper
A racist Korean War veteran living in a crime-ridden Detroit neighborhood is forced to confront his own lingering prejudice when a troubled Hmong teen from his neighborhood attempts to steal his prized Gran Torino. Decades after the Korean War has ended, ageing veteran Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is still haunted by the horrors he witnessed on the battlefield. The two objects that matter most to Kowalski in life are the classic Gran Torino that represents his happier days working in a Ford assembly plant, and the M-1 rifle that saved his life countless times during combat. When Kowalski's teenage neighbor (Bee Vang) attempts to steal his Gran Torino as part of a gang initiation rite,...
Nothing But the Truth
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 7.5 / 10.0
Number 1286 Year 2008
Length 1:48 Director Rod Lurie
Category Drama
A tense political drama ripped straight from the headlines, Rod Lurie's Nothing But the Truth tells the tale of a Washington, D.C. reporter who is targeted by the government after refusing to reveal her source for a story that identified an undercover CIA operative. Rachel Armstrong (Kate Beckinsale) is an ambitious young reporter working at the Capitol Sun-Times, one of Washington, D.C.'s biggest newspapers. When the paper published Rachel's incendiary story revealing the identity of covert CIA agent Erica Van Doren (Vera Farmiga), charismatic special prosecutor Patton Dubois (Matt Dillon) demands that she reveal her source for the story. With the support of her husband, Ray (David Schwimmer); her editor, Bonnie (Angela Bassett); and the...
Powder Blue
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 6.7 / 10.0
Number 1287 Year 2009
Length 1:46 Director Timothy Linh Bui
Category Drama
Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, and Jessica Biel topline this ensemble drama regarding intersecting lives on Christmas Eve from writer/director Timothy Linh Bui (Green Dragon). Liotta plays an ex-convict who tracks down his estranged daughter (Biel) after serving a 25-year jail sentence. ...
Push
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1288 Year 2009
Length 1:51 Director Paul McGuigan
Category Thriller
Lucky Number Slevin director Paul McGuigan takes the helm for this action thriller concerning a group of telekinetic American ex-patriots who band together in an attempt to take down the clandestine government agency that's genetically transforming normal citizens into powerful psychic warriors. The Division is a shadowy government operation devoted to making humankind the ultimate weapon. Those who accept this transformation have the power to move objects with the mind, see the future before it happens, create new realities, and dispense of their enemies without so much as a single touch; those who are unwilling to participate are immediately terminated. Nick Gant (Chris Evans) is a "mover," a second-generation telekinetic who went into hiding after...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1289 Year 2008
Length 2:46 Director David Fincher
Category Drama
David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in reverse. This sweeping film follows the character's unusual life into the 21st century as he experiences joy and sadness, loves lost and found, and the meaning of timelessness. Cate Blanchett co-stars along with Tilda Swinton, Elias Koteas, and Julia Ormond. ...
The International
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1290 Year 2009
Length 1:58 Director Tom Tykwer
Category Thriller
Clive Owen and Naomi Watts star in Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer's action thriller concerning an ambitious Interpol agent who targets corruption at the top levels of the world's largest banking institutions. The world's most powerful banks have become hopelessly corrupt, prompting Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Owen) and Manhattan assistant district attorney Eleanor Whitman (Watts) to follow a dangerous money trail from Berlin to Milan to New York and Istanbul. But as determined as Agent Salinger and ADA Whitman are to ensure that justice is served, their targets are equally determined to ensure that war and terror continue to propagate so the powers that be can continue to profit. John Woo, Terence Chang, and...
Transporter 3
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1291 Year 2008
Length 1:44 Director Olivier Megaton
Category Action
Strong-armed into transporting the kidnapped daughter of the head of the Environmental Agency for the Ukraine from Marseilles to Odessa, skilled wheelman Frank Martin (Jason Statham) enlists the aid of Inspector Tarconi (Fran...
Slumdog Millionaire
Date Added 2009-03-20 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1280 Year 2008
Length 2:00 Director Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan (co-director: India)
Category Crime | Drama | Romance
Accused of cheating and desperate to prove his innocence, an eighteen-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai reflects back on his tumultuous life while competing to win 20 million rupees on India's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in Danny Boyle's inspirational drama. Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) may not have a penny to his name, but that could all change in a matter of hours. He's one question away from taking the top prize on India's most popular television game show, but as with everything else in Jamal's life, it isn't going to be easy. Arrested by police under suspicion of cheating, Jamal is interrogated by the authorities. The police simply can't believe that a...
Body of Lies
Date Added 2009-03-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1278 Year 2008
Length 2:08 Director Ridley Scott
Category Action | Drama | Thriller
Roger Ferris is a CIA operative in the Middle East; Ed Hoffman is his control at Langley. Cynicism is everywhere. In Amman, Roger works with Hani Salaam, Jordan's head of security, whose only dictum is "Don't lie to me." The Americans are in pursuit of a cleric who leads a group placing bombs all over Europe. When Hani rebukes Ed's demand that Jordan allow the Americans to use one of Jordan's double agents, Roger and Ed hatch a plan to bring the cleric to them. The plan is complicated by its being a secret from Hani and by Roger's attraction to a local nurse. Satellites and cell phones, bodies and lies: modern warfare....
RocknRolla
Date Added 2009-02-14 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1279 Year 2008
Length 1:54 Director Guy Ritchie
Category Crime, Caper, Action Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director Guy Ritchie heads back to the London underworld for this hyperkinetic crime comedy concerning a shady land deal that leaves every schemer in the city determined to get rich or die trying. When a Russian mobster orchestrates a lucrative real estate scam, every criminal in London wants a piece of the action. Greed is the universal language, and everyone from unrelenting crime boss Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson) to street-smart criminal One Two (Gerard Butler), corrupt accountant Stella (Thandie Newton), and unpredictable punk rocker Johnny Quid (Toby Kebbell) seem to speak it fluently. As the bullets start to fly and the double crosses multiply, there's no telling...
An American Carol
Date Added 2009-01-19 Rating 4.8 / 10.0
Number 1270 Year 2008
Length 1:23 Director David Zucker
Category Comedy, Holiday Film, Parody/Spoof
AMG SYNOPSIS: Ebenezer Scrooge gets the parody treatment from veteran writer/director David Zucker (Airplane!, Scary Movie 4) with this comedy starring Kevin Farley as a derisive documentarian (...
Appaloosa
Date Added 2009-01-19 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1271 Year 2008
Length 1:55 Director Ed Harris
Category Western, Traditional Western
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Upon drifting into a troubled Western outpost and discovering that the helpless locals are being terrorized by a ruthless rancher and his brutish hired hands, two rugged, straight-shooting peacemakers decide to stick around and put things right in this Western adapted from the novel by Robert B. Parker, and directed by Ed Harris. Bragg (Jeremy Irons) is a rancher who believes himself to be above the law, a stance that's forever cemented when he guns down the town sheriff and his deputy in cold blood. Horrified, the defenseless townspeople pray for the day a savior will arrive in town to free them from Bragg's suffocating grasp. Soon thereafter, Virgil (Harris) and Everett (Viggo...
Bad Lieutenant
Date Added 2009-01-19 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1272 Year 1992
Length 1:36 Director Abel Ferrara
Category Drama, Police Drama, Crime Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: If police lieutenant Harvey Keitel's life could get any more sordid, he could probably sell tickets. The least of his vices is gambling, which has gotten him in Dutch with the mob. He abuses his body with drugs and his soul with hookers, and now he's turned to exploiting teenage girls for sex. Keitel is forced to reassess his life while investigating the rape of a nun. Director Abel Ferrara co-wrote the screenplay with Zoe Lund, who as Zoe Tamerlis starred in Ferrara's cult classic Ms. 45. A soundtrack tune by rapper Schoolly D, which was included in the initial release of Bad Lieutenant, featured a sample from Led Zeppelin which was used...
Blindness
Date Added 2009-01-19 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1273 Year 2008
Length 2:00 Director Fernando Meirelles
Category Drama, Disaster Film
Other Screener, Proper
AMG SYNOPSIS: Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Jos...
Burn After Reading
Date Added 2009-01-19 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1274 Year 2008
Length 1:36 Director Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Category Comedy, Farce, Ensemble Film, Spy Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: A CIA agent who is currently in the process of writing a book loses the disc containing his only manuscript in this comedic tale of espionage that reunites filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen with Intolerable Cruelty and O Brother, Where Art Thou? star George Clooney. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Religulous
Date Added 2009-01-19 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1275 Year 2008
Length 1:41 Director Larry Charles
Category Comedy, Spirituality & Philosophy [nf], Satire, Religions & Belief Systems
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Borat director Larry Charles follows host Bill Maher as he travels the continents interviewing various subjects about God and religion. -- Jason Buchanan ...
The Alphabet Killer
Date Added 2009-01-19 Rating 5.6 / 10.0
Number 1276 Year 2007
Length 1:40 Director Rob Schmidt
Category Horror, Psychological Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Wrong Turn director Rob Schmidt takes the helm for this thriller inspired by the grim true-life exploits of an alphabet-obsessed New York serial killer and starring Timothy Hutton, Cary Elwes, Eliza Dushku, and Michael Ironside. When Rochester, NY-based police investigator Megan Paige (Dushku) discovers that ten year old Carla Castillo was brutally raped and murdered in nearby Churchville, she becomes convinced that the department is dealing with a serial killer. Paige is a driven detective whose devotion to her job often crosses the border into obsession. Her fianc...
The Wackness
Date Added 2009-01-19 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1277 Year 2008
Length 1:39 Director Jonathan Levine
Category Comedy, Romantic Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: A psychiatrist (Ben Kingsley) is put into a moral quandary when a young drug dealer who's been supplying him with pot in exchange for clinical treatment ends up dating his daughter in this comedy from All the Boys Love Mandy Lane's writer/director Jonathan Levine. Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, Mary-Kate Olsen, and Method Man co-star in the Occupant Films production. -- Jeremy Wheeler ...
Eagle Eye
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1250 Year 2008
Length 1:58 Director D.J. Caruso
Category Thriller, Sci-Fi Action, Chase Movie, Paranoid Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan star in Disturbia director D.J. Caruso's race-against-time thriller concerning two strangers thrust together by a mysterious telephone call, and their frantic efforts to discover why they have inexplicably become the nation's most wanted fugitives. Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Monaghan) were complete strangers at the beginning of the day, but that changed the instant a strange woman called to threaten both their lives and the lives of their loved ones. Suddenly forced into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, Jerry and Rachel must now take orders from a woman who's using everyday technology to track and control their every move. As the situation intensifies and the hapless...
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