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Monkey Warfare
Date Added 2007-07-18 Rating 6.4 / 10.0
Number 846 Year 2006
Length 1:17 Director Reginald Harkema
Category Comedy
Other Limited
AMG SYNOPSIS: A pair of pot-smoking Toronto bohemians whose dealer has just been busted are shaken from their stoned complacency by a mysterious young radical in director Reginald Harkema's contemporary urban comedy. Dan (Don McKellar) and Linda (Tracy Wright) spend their days scavenging the local garbage dumps and garage sales for undervalued curiosities, and the nights smoking weed and gazing at the stars. When their usually-reliable dealer is suddenly, and unwillingly forced out of business by the authorities, the pair's momentary panic is soon placated by the arrival Susan (Nadia Litz), an enigmatic drifter with some especially potent British Columbia bud. It's not long before Susan becomes a familiar fixture around Don and Linda's home,...
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Date Added 2007-07-18 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 849 Year 1996
Length 1:13 Director Jim Mallon
Category Comedy, Science Fiction, Parody/Spoof, Satire, Sci-Fi Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: The cult television series Mystery Science Theatre 3000 transfers its brand of science-fiction wisecracking to the big screen with relatively few changes. The concept is the same in series and film: an innocent man (Michael J. Nelson, playing Mike Nelson) is stranded in outer space by a mad scientist, who subjects the poor slob to "experiments" that involve watching the worst movies ever made. In order to survive this cinematic torture, Mike and his two companions, sarcastic robots Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot, mercilessly heckle the film in self-defense. In this case, the target is This Island Earth, a 1950s sci-fi opus that, despite its silly makeup effects and stilted dialogue, actually...
The Astronaut Farmer
Date Added 2007-07-18 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 888 Year 2006
Length 1:44 Director Michael Polish
Category Drama, Americana, Rural Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: An aspiring astronaut who was forced to forsake his dream of exploring space in order to save the family farm begins building his own personal rocket as a means of reaching the stars in this quirky rural drama starring Billy Bob Thornton. There once was a time when Charlie Farmer (Thornton) seemed like a shoo-in for NASA's esteemed astronaut training program. An Air Force pilot who held a degree in aerospace engineering, Charlie was well on his way to blasting off when a family crisis grounded his celestial aspirations. Of course Charlie's feet may be firmly planted on terra firma these days, but his thoughts are constantly ascending into the clouds and beyond....
The Bridge
Date Added 2007-07-18 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 891 Year 2006
Length 1:35 Director Eric Steel
Category Culture & Society [nf], Biography [nf], Psychology [nf], Social Issues, Illnesses & Disabilities
Other Limited
AMG SYNOPSIS: Inspired by a New Yorker story, "Jumpers," written by Tad Friend, director Eric Steel decided to train cameras on the Golden Gate Bridge over the course of 2004 to capture the people who attempted to leap off the famed structure, the site of more suicides than anywhere else in the world. He also tracked down and interviewed the friends, family members, and eyewitnesses to further recreate the events leading up to the incident and to try to explain what led these people to want to kill themselves, especially at this specific site. The documentary's primary subjects all struggled with mental illness, including severe depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorders, and the documentary struggles to...
The Incredibles
Date Added 2007-07-18 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 900 Year 2004
Length 1:55 Director Brad Bird
Category Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure, Comic-Book Superhero Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: Directed by Brad Bird, The Incredibles revolves around former high-profile superhero Bob Parr (aka Mr. Incredible), who has not-so-successfully settled into suburban life along with his wife and kids under the watchful eye of the Superhero Protection Program. A far cry from the "glory days" during which "supers" were a welcome addition to society, the Parrs' living situation was brought on after a series of superhero-related lawsuits forced them into hiding. When not trying to fight small-time crime undercover with fellow former superhero Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson), Parr (voice by Craig T. Nelson) is muddling through the corporate world as a paunchy, emotionally unsatisfied insurance claims adjuster. His family is...
The Shawshank Redemption [1/2]
Date Added 2007-07-18 Rating 9.0 / 10.0
Number 910 Year 1994
Length 2:22 Director Frank Darabont
Category Drama, Prison Film, Buddy Film, Escape Film
Other 2-Disc Special Edition, Complete
AMG SYNOPSIS: In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most likely to crack under the pressure. The ugly realities of prison life are quickly introduced to Andy: a corrupt warden (Bob Gunton), sadistic guards led by Capt. Byron Hadley (Clancy Brown), and inmates who are little better than animals, willing to use rape or beatings to insure their dominance. But Andy does not crack: he has the hope of the truly innocent, which...
The Shawshank Redemption [2/2]
Date Added 2007-07-18 Rating 9.0 / 10.0
Number 911 Year 1994
Length 2:22 Director Frank Darabont
Category Drama, Prison Film, Buddy Film, Escape Film
Other 2-Disc Special Edition, Complete
AMG SYNOPSIS: In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most likely to crack under the pressure. The ugly realities of prison life are quickly introduced to Andy: a corrupt warden (Bob Gunton), sadistic guards led by Capt. Byron Hadley (Clancy Brown), and inmates who are little better than animals, willing to use rape or beatings to insure their dominance. But Andy does not crack: he has the hope of the truly innocent, which...
Zathura
Date Added 2007-07-18 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 929 Year 2005
Length 1:41 Director Jon Favreau
Category Children's/Family, Fantasy, Children's Fantasy, Space Adventure
Other Repack
AMG SYNOPSIS: An old and forgotten game develops magical powers in this fantasy for the whole family. Twelve-year-old Walter Budwing (Josh Hutcherson) and his younger brother, Danny (Jonah Bobo), figure they're going to be in for a boring time when their father (Tim Robbins), who was supposed to spend the day with them, is suddenly called away on business, and gives them strict orders not to leave the house. Walter, who doesn't have much use for Danny, is motivated by boredom more than anything else when he agrees to play a board game Danny has found in the basement during a round of hide-and-seek. However, the boys quickly discover the space-themed game Zathura has some...
Breach
Date Added 2007-07-15 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 814 Year 2007
Length 1:50 Director Billy Ray
Category Spy Film, Docudrama, Unglamorized Spy Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: Shattered Glass director Billy Ray directs Chris Cooper and Ryan Philippe in this fact-based drama concerning the FBI traitor who carried out what many historians refer to as the most notable national security breach in U.S. history. A key member of the FBI's elite Soviet Analytical Unit, Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper) would, for 15 years beginning in 1985, sell thousands of pages of classified documents to the Soviets. After making roughly 600,000 dollars on his clandestine endeavor and compromising everything from the identities of KGB spies working for the American government to nuclear war contingency plans, Hanssen was eventually transferred to a newly created position at the FBI's Washington headquarters and assigned the...
Brutal
Date Added 2007-07-15 Rating
Number 815 Year 2007
Length 1:29 Director Ethan Wiley
Category Horror
A young Sheriff's Deputy, Zoe Adams (Sarah Thompson), investigates a series of murders and soon realizes a serial killer is on the loose. As she and her boss, Sheriff Jimmy Fleck (Jeffrey Combs), feel the pressure of finding the killer, their love affair begins to falter. Meanwhile, Zoe teams up with the autistic bloodhound trainer, Leroy Calhoun (Michael Berryman), and together they start connecting the dots between the killer's mysterious clues. With Zoe's determination and Leroy's amazing mathematical talents, they eventually solve the riddle and track down the ingenious murderer. But when Zoe learns that she is the ultimate object of the killer's obsession, will the dysfunctional Leroy be able to save her before it's...
Free Jimmy
Date Added 2007-07-15 Rating 6.5 / 10.0
Number 831 Year 2006
Length 1:26 Director Christopher Nielsen
Category
Other Multi
AMG SYNOPSIS: A drug-addled elephant is on the run from people who either want to help him or kill him in this dark computer-animated comedy for adults. Jimmy is a performing elephant who travels with a third-rate Russian circus run by ringmaster Stromowski (voice of Jim Broadbent). Jimmy's minder is a sleazy American expatriate, Roy Arnie (voice of Woody Harrelson), who keeps the nervous beast pacified with regular doses of heroin. Roy has also hidden a large stash of the drug under Jimmy's skin, but Roy's decided he wants out of circus life and plans to sell the dope and go his own way. However, in order to do that he has to put Jimmy...
Notes on a Scandal
Date Added 2007-07-15 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 856 Year 2006
Length 1:31 Director Richard Eyre
Category Drama, Melodrama, Psychological Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: Lust, jealousy, and revenge come cloaked in the guise of friendship in this psychological drama. Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) is a history teacher at a high school in London; while elderly Barbara is very bright, she's also severe and domineering, with a strong personality that tends to put people off. Barbara also takes a voyeuristic delight in recording the actions of those around her in her diary in the most minute detail. When Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett), a bright and attractive woman in her mid-thirties, is hired as the school's new art teacher, Barbara believes she may have found someone worthy of her friendship, though she's soon disappointed to discover that Sheba has...
Survivorman: Surviving Urban Disasters
Date Added 2007-07-15 Rating
Number 878 Year 2007
Length 0:45 Director Les Stroud
Category docu-reality
Surviving Urban Disasters is a reality television program broadcast in the United States on The Science Channel. Host Les Stroud demonstrates survival methods for urban disasters such as flood. Surviving Urban Disasters is similar to Survivorman, a series also starring Stroud which focuses on wilderness survival techniques....
The Contract
Date Added 2007-07-15 Rating 5.6 / 10.0
Number 893 Year 2006
Length 1:36 Director Bruce Beresford
Category Thriller, Action Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer in director Bruce Beresford's forest-bound thriller. Ray Keene (John Cusack) has lost his wife, and now the grieving father is looking to reconnect with his young son (Jamie Anderson) with a much-needed hike into the wilderness. But Ray and his son aren't alone in nature, because high profile assassin Frank Cardin (Morgan Freeman) has ventured into nature with the malevolent intentions of fulfilling a contract to kill an extremely powerful businessman. When Frank's hit goes awry and he ends up in the custody...
The Hitcher
Date Added 2007-07-15 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 899 Year 2007
Length 1:30 Director Dave Meyers
Category Horror, Slasher Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: A lonely stretch of highway leads to a date with terror in this thriller. Jim Halsey (Zachary Knighton) and Grace Andrews (Sophia Bush) are a young couple in the midst of a long-distance road trip when, during a rainstorm, they take pity on a hitchhiker, John Ryder) (Sean Bean), and give him a lift. Jim and Grace soon come to regret their benevolence when Ryder reveals himself as a violent madman determined to see them dead. Luck is with Jim and Grace, and they're able to throw off Ryder and get back on the road, but as it happens their troubles are just beginning. Ryder has already killed a handful of people and...
Yo-Yo Girl Cop
Date Added 2007-07-15 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 928 Year 2006
Length 1:39 Director Kenta Fukasaku
Category Action
Other AKA "Sukeban Deka: K
AMG SYNOPSIS: A female delinquent detective discovers an apocalyptic plot by a nefarious underground website in director Kenta Fukasaku's take on the popular serious previously adapted for the screen in film, television, and anime form. Asamiya (Aya Matsuura) is a tough New York City street kid who doesn't take kindly to authority figures. When Japanese officials discover a cryptic but undoubtedly sincere threat from a website known for offering tips on committing suicide and constructing bombs, they immediately have Asamiya whisked back to Tokyo, trained by the police force's special operatives unit, and placed under the care of stern Kazutoshi Kira (Riki Takeuchi). With few clues to go by and only 72 hours to spare,...
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Date Added 2007-07-14 Rating 6.2 / 10.0
Number 847 Year 2007
Length 1:28 Director Steve Bendelack
Category Comedy, Slapstick
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Mr. Bean -- the stick-legged goofball man-child created by Rowan Atkinson on television in the early '90s, and in the 1997 feature Bean -- undertakes his second cinematic adventure in the comic romp Mr. Bean's Holiday. Growing thoroughly sick of the wet, cold, and clammy London weather, Mr. Bean (Atkinson) finds just the right tonic when he wins a trip to sunny southern France, all expenses paid, with a new digital video camera to accompany him. However, he runs headfirst into a series of outrageous and unpleasant situations, such as winding up in a French restaurant where a ma...
Wind Chill
Date Added 2007-07-14 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 926 Year 2007
Length 1:31 Director Greg Jacobs
Category Horror, Supernatural Horror, Road Movie
Other Screener, Filmed in BC
AMG SYNOPSIS: Two college students heading home for the holidays break down on a lonesome stretch of highway, only to find themselves targeted by the malevolent spirits of other travelers who met their end on the same road in a supernatural road movie directed by Greg Jacobs, and produced by Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney. All she (Emily Blunt) wanted was to make it back home to Delaware for the holidays. Though her classmate (Ashton Holmes) has a working car and is happy to oblige by offering a ride, it quickly becomes apparent that the boy has been admiring her from afar for the entire semester. After hours of traveling on the lonesome snow swept...
Are We Done Yet?
Date Added 2007-07-12 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 805 Year 2007
Length 1:32 Director Steve Carr
Category Comedy, Domestic Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: Having decided to ditch the city in favor of the suburbs, a newly formed family purchases a quaint "fixer-upper" that proves to be more trouble than they could have ever anticipated in a rollicking family comedy that's half sequel to Are We There Yet?, and half remake of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Nick (Ice Cube) and Suzanne (Nia Long) have tied the knot, and now the couple is looking for a suitable home in which to raise their family. What better place to bring up adolescents Lindsey (Aleisha Allen) and Kevin (Philip Daniel Bolden) than a quiet house in the suburbs? Despite their outward excitement at the prospect of moving into...
The Number 23
Date Added 2007-07-12 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 905 Year 2007
Length 1:37 Director Joel Schumacher
Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller
Other Unrated
AMG SYNOPSIS: Upon acquiring a mysterious book in which the number 23 seems to take on powerful cosmic significance, a once-sane man gradually becomes obsessed with the idea that the frequently recurring number may in fact hold a deadly secret in this intense mystery-thriller starring Jim Carrey and Virginia Madsen, and directed by Joel Schumacher. Walter Sparrow (Carrey) is a middle-aged dogcatcher whose wife Agatha (Madsen) has bestowed him with an obscure mystery novel detailing the investigation launched by a tough-talking gumshoe named Fingerling (also Carrey) whose every move seems to be overshadowed by the enigmatic eponymous number. After noting a series of alarming parallels shared between the fictional detective and himself, Walter is quickly...
Zodiac
Date Added 2007-07-12 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 930 Year 2007
Length 2:36 Director David Fincher
Category Mystery, Police Detective Film, Docudrama
AMG SYNOPSIS: The true story behind the murders that many crime scholars believe to be the most perplexing series of unsolved crimes in modern history comes to the screen in chilling detail as Fight Club and Seven director David Fincher steps behind the camera to tell the mysterious tale of the infamous Zodiac killer. A relentless serial killer is stalking the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area, leaving citizens locked into a constant state of panic, and baffled authorities scrambling for clues. Though the killer sadistically mocks the detectives by leaving a series of perplexing ciphers and menacing letters at the crime scenes, the investigation quickly flatlines when none of the evidence yields any...
James Bond 14: A View to a Kill
Date Added 2007-07-11 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 836 Year 1985
Length 2:11 Director John Glen
Category Spy Film, Action, Glamorized Spy Film, Action Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Secret Agent 007 must stop a megalomaniacal technology mogul from destroying Silicon Valley in this unexceptional entry in the James Bond series. Computer baron Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) is planning to trigger a major California earthquake in order to wipe out his competitors. Bond is assigned to stop him, but first he must do battle with Zorin's statuesque partner in crime, May Day (Grace Jones). The expected high-wire confrontations ensue, as Bond battles the villains at international landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and takes the occasional break to romance an attractive geologist. Unfortunately, nothing fresh is brought to the familiar formula, and even the well-staged action sequences prove less than exciting. Indeed, this...
Delta Force
Date Added 2007-07-11 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 959 Year 1986
Length 2:05 Director Menahem Golan
Category Action, Action Thriller, Disaster Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: Menahem Golan melds a Chuck Norris action spectacle with the disaster film genre in The Delta Force. The story is based upon the June, 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet, where passengers were held at gun-point by terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon. The film re-enacts various real life incidents from the crisis -- an American serviceman is beaten to death, a terrorist holds a gun to the pilot's head as the pilot is being questioned by reporters -- while depicting the tension aboard the plane and the agony of the passengers, held under the threat of death by the terrorists. The Delta Force, a crack anti-terrorist commando group, is preparing to rescue the passengers....
Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold
Date Added 2007-07-11 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 960 Year 1990
Length 1:50 Director Aaron Norris
Category Action, Action Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: This confused sequel -- bearing many names in the credits: Delta Force 2, Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold, Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection -- to the first Delta Force movie lacks the nightmarish collection of guest stars gracing the first film, i.e. Hanna Shygulla, Martin Balsam, Shelley Winters, George Kennedy, and Joey Bishop. Chuck Norris, however, returns as Col. Scott McCoy, a man in a blue funk because notorious drug dealer Ramon Cota (Billy Drago) arranged to have McCoy's partner and his partner's wife and baby brother killed. Cota has also kidnapped three DEA agents to boot. Even without Lee Marvin, Col. McCoy wants to enact biblical vengeance upon Cota and his...
Firewalker
Date Added 2007-07-11 Rating 2.0 / 10.0
Number 961 Year 1986
Length 1:46 Director J. Lee Thompson
Category Action, Adventure, Comedy, Adventure Comedy, Action Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: Firewalker stars Chuck Norris as Max Donigan, an ex-Marine, and Louis Gossett, Jr. as his buddy, Leo Porter. Both set out to help Patricia Goodwyn (Melody Anderson) find a lost Aztec city and a temple filled with gold. After a few misadventures, their nemesis "El Coyote" (Sonny Landham) comes into view for awhile to make it clear that they are not without serious competition. Barroom brawls and a capture by hostile Native Americans throw roadblocks in their path, but the fearless trio forge onward toward the temple and their destiny. -- Eleanor Mannikka ...
Hero and the Terror
Date Added 2007-07-11 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 962 Year 1988
Length 1:36 Director William Tannen
Category Thriller, Action Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: O'Brien (Chuck Norris) is a detective who captured the psychotic maniac Simon Moon (Jack O'Halloran), aka the Terror, by mistake. When the obese 6' 6'' villain fell from a ladder trying to escape, he was knocked cold and the lucky O'Brien got the credit for his collar. With his psychiatrist sweetheart Kay (Brynn Thayer), pregnant with their first child, the Terror escapes. Although he is large and unforgettable, the terrible Titan manages to evade the police, and no one even notices him when he carts cadavers on his massive shoulders. This routine actioner provides a view of several historic sights in Santa Monica, California. -- Dan Pavlides ...
Missing in Action
Date Added 2007-07-11 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 1003 Year 1984
Length 1:41 Director Joseph Zito
Category Action, Action Thriller, War Adventure
AMG SYNOPSIS: One of a string of Ramboesque films dashed off in the '80s, Missing in Action is yet another entry that attempts to exploit the lingering public bitterness over the outcome of the war in Vietnam. Colonel Braddock (karate champion Chuck Norris) travels to Vietnam on a mission to recover lost POWs. A former POW himself, Braddock has the saavy and bad temper to kill droves of communists at a time, not to mention the inclination. Together with former war comrade M. Emmet Walsh, he sets off for the POW camp where Americans are supposedly still held. Of course, there are lots of nameless, faceless Asian communists, and of course, every one of...
Sidekicks
Date Added 2007-07-11 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1004 Year 1993
Length 1:40 Director Aaron Norris
Category Action, Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: A teenager daydreams of getting some payback from the bullies who menace him in this hybrid of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and The Karate Kid (1984). Barry Gabrewski (Jonathan Brandis) is an asthmatic schoolboy who can't participate in sports, much to the delight of a bullying classmate (John Buchanan) and his sadistic gym teacher (Richard Moll). Miserably unhappy, Barry escapes into a world of fantasy, where he imagines himself the tough, karate-proficient sidekick of action movie hero Chuck Norris. Trying to turn his dreams into reality, Barry visits dojo master Kelly Stone (Joe Piscopo), but Stone only mocks his aspirations. A supportive teacher introduces Barry to her uncle, Mr. Lee...
Silent Rage
Date Added 2007-07-11 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1005 Year 1982
Length 1:40 Director Michael Miller
Category Action, Martial Arts
AMG SYNOPSIS: The sheriff of a small Texas town is pitted against a genetically engineered super-villain. -- All Movie Guide ...
The President's Man
Date Added 2007-07-11 Rating 4.1 / 10.0
Number 1006 Year 2000
Length 1:35 Director Eric Norris, Michael Preece
Category Action, Martial Arts, Action Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Chuck Norris stars in this made-for-TV thriller as Joshua McCord, a Presidential secret agent. Though still quite virile and limber, McCord feels that he is getting too old for his job, thus he begins training a younger man named Deke Slater (Dylan Neal) as his replacement, using Zen and proper nutrition as primary teachings tools. But McCord springs back into action -- and kicks plenty of serious butt in the process -- when the First Lady is kidnapped by a terrorist organization. First telecast by CBS on April 2, 2000, The President's Man was followed two years later by a sequel, The President's Man: A Line in the Sand. -- Hal Erickson ...
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