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The Marine
Date Added 2007-01-14 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 709 Year 2006
Length 1:31 Director John Bonito
Category Action, Action Thriller
Other Unrated
AMG SYNOPSIS: WWE Smackdown star and self-proclaimed "Doctor of Thuganomics" John Cena makes his explosive action feature debut as John Triton, an injured U.S. Marine who returns home from duty against his will, only to have his wife kidnapped by a ruthless criminal. Robert Patrick co-stars as the villainous Rome -- who is more than willing to kill if it means staying one step ahead of the law -- and Nip/Tuck star Kelly Carlson appears as the endangered object of the vengeful veteran's affections. With nothing left to lose and enough training to take down a small army, the hard-fighting Triton sets out to rescue his wife, and ensure that the psychotic Rome receives a...
The Untouchables
Date Added 2007-01-14 Rating 9.0 / 10.0
Number 711 Year 1987
Length 1:59 Director Brian De Palma
Category Crime, Crime Thriller, Police Detective Film, Gangster Film, Period Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: Like the TV series that shared the same title, The Untouchables (1987) was an account of the battle between gangster Al Capone and lawman Eliot Ness, this time in the form of a feature film boasting big stars, a big budget, and a script from respected playwright David Mamet. Kevin Costner stars as Ness, a federal agent who has come to Chicago during the Prohibition Era, when corruption in the local police department is rampant. His mission is to put crime lord Capone (Robert DeNiro) out of business, but Capone is so powerful and popular that Ness is not taken seriously by the law or the press. One night, discouraged, he meets a...
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Date Added 2007-01-14 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 717 Year 2006
Length 1:32 Director Chris Paine
Category Science & Technology [nf], Inventions & Innovations, Vehicles & Transportation [nf]
Other Limited
AMG SYNOPSIS: Filmmaker Chris Payne explores the many factors that played into the ultimate failure of the electric car to catch on with consumers, even as gas prices began to skyrocket, in a thoughtful meditation on the increasingly important role that renewable energy plays in modern society. Introduced as a means of providing an alternative to increasing oil consumption and reducing pollution in 1996, the electric car was all but a forgotten memory only a decade later -- but why? Though interviews with consumer advocacy experts, automotive industry experts, and oil industry heavyweights, Payne paints a though-provoking picture of a culture whose aversion to change and reliance on dwindling resources may be rooted in the...
Dreamgirls
Date Added 2007-01-12 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 680 Year 2006
Length 2:10 Director Bill Condon
Category Musical, Showbiz Drama, Musical Drama, Period Film
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Bill Condon brings Tom Eyen's Tony award-winning Broadway musical to the big screen in a tale of dreams, stardom, and the high cost of success in the cutthroat recording industry. The time is the 1960s, and singers Effie (Jennifer Hudson), Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose), and Deena (Beyonc...
Flyboys
Date Added 2007-01-12 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 682 Year 2006
Length 2:19 Director Tony Bill
Category War, War Adventure, War Drama
Other Region 5
AMG SYNOPSIS: As World War I rages in Europe and Allied forces in France, Italy, and England find their resolve quickly diminishing due to the overwhelming force of the German juggernaut, a handful of brave American soldiers volunteer to join their French counterparts in learning to fly and fighting for freedom from above as the true story of the legendary Lafayette Escadrille comes to the screen in a breathtaking war adventure from Academy Award-winning director Tony Bill and famed producer Dean Devlin. They have come from all over the United States, ready and willing to put their lives on the line despite their country's initial pledge to not get involved with the all-consuming war that...
Idiocracy
Date Added 2007-01-12 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 686 Year 2006
Length 1:24 Director Mike Judge
Category Comedy, Sci-Fi Comedy
Other Limited
AMG SYNOPSIS: Mike Judge wrote and directed this offbeat sci-fi comedy which gives a new meaning to the expression "people are getting dumber all the time." Pvt. Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is a soldier chosen to take part in a secret military scientific experiment in which he will be put into induced hibernation for one thousand years. Bowers is chosen for the assignment because he is statistically the most average man in the Army; however, Bowers is forgotten a few decades into the experiment, and when he wakes up in the year 3001, he finds himself living in a society where intelligence has taken such a landslide he's now the smartest man in the world....
Meshuggah - Nothing
Date Added 2007-01-12 Rating
Number 694 Year 2006
Length 0:00 Director
Category Music
Other Bonus DVD
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School for Scoundrels
Date Added 2007-01-12 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 702 Year 2006
Length 1:41 Director Todd Phillips
Category Comedy, Comedy of Manners
Other BMB's AVI Screener Converted to NTSC DVD
AMG SYNOPSIS: Old School director Todd Phillips takes the reins for an updated remake of the 1960 comedy, this time starring Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder as a lovelorn meter reader who enrolls in a confidence-building class in order to win the love of his dream girl, and Billy Bob Thornton as the scheming teacher who has designs of his own for the attractive young female. -- Jason Buchanan ...
The Guardian
Date Added 2007-01-12 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 706 Year 2006
Length 2:19 Director Andrew Davis
Category Action
AMG SYNOPSIS: A decorated Coast Guard search and rescue specialist still haunted by the death of his teammates during a disastrous mission off the coast of Alaska is charged with the task of training the next generation of Coast Guard rescue swimmers in director Andrew Davis' ocean-bound adventure drama. Ben Randall (Kevin Costner) was the best swimmer of his graduating class, but upon surfacing as the sole survivor of an Alaskan rescue mission attempted during a Category Three storm, his outlook on life has grown increasingly jaded. Now, as hotshot young swimmer Jake Fischer (Ashton Kutcher) arrives at Coast Guard rescue school looking to accomplish something meaningful with his life, he will be forced to...
The Illusionist
Date Added 2007-01-12 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 707 Year 2006
Length 1:49 Director Neil Burger
Category Drama, Romance, Supernatural Drama, Romantic Drama, Period Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: A supernaturally talented magician attempts to undermine the rigid social structure of turn-of-the-century Vienna by using his powers to win the love of his upper-class, childhood sweetheart in director Neil Burger's cinematic adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steven Millhauser's short story. Though the ill-fated childhood romance between cabinetmaker's son Eisenheim (Edward Norton) and upper-class Sophie von Teschen (Jessica Biel) eventually resulted in the heartbroken young man leaving Austria to explore the world, his dreams of one day reuniting with the beautiful duchess never faded. Upon returning to Vienna fifteen years later as a talented and renowned illusionist, Eisenheim's hopes of a reunion seem dashed when he learns that Sophie is currently engaged to...
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Date Added 2007-01-12 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 712 Year 2005
Length 1:37 Director Kirby Dick
Category Film, TV & Radio [nf], Film & Television History, Media Studies
Other Limited
AMG SYNOPSIS: In a rare and refreshing reversal of roles, filmmakers put the powerful Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA for short) under the microscope for inspection in Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick's incisive look at stateside cinema's most notorious non-censoring censors. Compelled by the staggering amount of power that the MPAA ratings board wields, the filmmaker seeks out the true identities of the anonymous elite who control what films make it to the multiplex. He even goes so far as to hire a private investigator to stake out MPAA headquarters and expose Hollywood's best-kept secret. Along the way, Dick speaks with numerous filmmakers whose careers have been affected by the seemingly random and sexual-content...
Apocalypto
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 630 Year 2006
Length 2:17 Director Mel Gibson
Category Action, Epic, Chase Movie, Historical Epic
Other Screener, Proper
AMG SYNOPSIS: As the foundation of the Mayan civilization begins to crumble, one man's previously idyllic existence is forever changed when he is chosen as the sacrifice needed to appease the gods in director Mel Gibson's mythic, end-times adventure. The Mayan kingdom is at the absolute height of opulence and power, but leaders are convinced that unless more temples are constructed and more human sacrifices made, the crops, and ultimately the people, will suffer. Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood) is a peaceful hunter from a remote forest tribe whose life is about to be changed forever. When Jaguar Paw's village is raided and he is prepared as the sacrifice that the Mayan deities have demanded, the...
Batman & Robin
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 633 Year 1997
Length 2:10 Director Joel Schumacher
Category Fantasy, Action, Comic-Book Superhero Film, Master Criminal Films, Buddy Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: This was the third follow-up to Tim Burton's Batman (1989), the original revisionist look at the Gotham City legend, as well as the second in the Batman series directed by Joel Schumacher and the first featuring George Clooney as the Caped Crusader; it features not one but two super-villains, and a new heroine to fight crime alongside Bruce Wayne (aka Batman) and Dick Grayson (aka Robin) (Chris O'Donnell). The experiments of Dr. Victor Fries (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to preserve his late wife cryogenically have gone horribly wrong, turning him into the evil genius Mr. Freeze, who must keep his body at sub-zero temperature in order to say alive -- and he wants to put...
Blood Diamond
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 634 Year 2006
Length 2:23 Director Edward Zwick
Category Drama, Message Movie, Adventure Drama
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: A South African mercenary and a Mende fisherman find their fates forever intertwined as they embark on a quest to obtain a rare and highly coveted pink diamond in director Edward Zwick's frantic adventure drama. Ripped from his family farm and forced to toil away in the sweltering South African diamond fields, Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) discovered an extraordinary rough stone of immeasurable value. Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a hired gun who specializes in the sale of so-called "blood diamonds" that are used to finance rebellions and terrorist organizations, and is currently serving time for smuggling. As a bloody civil war rages in Sierra Leone and Archer learns that Vandy has safely...
Hell Is for Heroes
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 636 Year 1962
Length 1:30 Director Don Siegel
Category War, Combat Films, War Drama, Anti-War Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: Don Siegel's only war film and unfortunately his only teaming with Steve McQueen, an actor whose rebellious persona jibed well with the director's vision, it puts the star in the familiar role of antihero. His character, Reese, is an embittered G.I. who has just been sent back to join his war-weary unit holding down a position opposite a pillbox on the Siegfried Line in Belgium. Recently demoted back to private from staff sergeant for drinking, he chafes under all authority, and is a pariah to fellow grunts, despite their awareness of his extraordinary courage in battle. A natural leader, he persuades his sergeant (Harry Guardino) to implement a plan he's formulated to keep...
Conan the Barbarian
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 637 Year 1982
Length 2:09 Director John Milius
Category Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sword-and-Sorcery, Fantasy Adventure
AMG SYNOPSIS: John Milius's jingoistic direction and pulpy screenplay fit perfectly into this film version of the Robert E. Howard fantasy story of the sword and sorcery hero, Conan the Barbarian. Complementing Mulius's heavy metal production is Arnold Schwarzenegger's leaden acting, which in any other context would be deadly, but here (as in The Terminator) corresponds nicely with the whole sonorous project. The story begins when a horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. The Wheel of Pain seems to have as its only purpose the building up of Conan's muscles, so it's no surprise that one day Conan grows...
DOA: Dead or Alive
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 638 Year 2006
Length 0:00 Director Corey Yuen
Category Action, Martial Arts
Other Limited
AMG SYNOPSIS: Legendary Hong Kong action director and choreographer Corey Yuen brings Tecmo's best-selling video-game franchise to the big screen in a martial arts extravaganza featuring an impressive quartet of female fighters including Devon Aoki, Sarah Carter, Jaime Pressly, and Holly Valance. Tina (Pressly), Christie (Valance), Kasumi (Aoki), and Helena (Carter) are four skilled martial artists whose outwardly sexy appearances betray their true, lethal natures. When the fearsome females each receive an invitation to take part in an illegal martial arts competition to be staged on a remote Asian island, the prospect of a ten-million-dollar top prize is only sweetened by the fact that they will be facing off against some of the toughest fighters...
Flags of Our Fathers
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 639 Year 2006
Length 2:11 Director Clint Eastwood
Category War, Drama, War Drama
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the non-fiction book Flags of Our Fathers concerns the lives of the men in the famous picture of soldiers raising the American flag over Iwo Jima during that historic WWII battle. Battle scenes are intercut with footage of three of the soldiers - played by Ryan Phillipe, Jesse Bradford, and Adam Beach -- who survived the battle going on a goodwill tour of the United States in order to sell war bonds. Many evening they are forced to reenact their famous pose, something each of them finds more and more difficult to do as they suffer from survivor's guilt. Eastwood frames the story by having one of the men's...
Flushed Away
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 640 Year 2006
Length 1:24 Director David Bowers, Sam Fell
Category Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: A previously pampered society mouse must fight his way back to the comforts of Kensington after he is sent spiraling into an underground world filled with scavenger rats and villainous toads in a fun-filled family adventure produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features and featuring the voices of Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, and Jean Reno. Roddy (Jackman) was living the high life when he first met Sid the sewer rat (Shane Richie), but that's all about to change when Sid decides to send the hapless mouse down the pipes and stealthily take his place in the lap of luxury. Though the bustling sewer city of Ratropolis isn't without its fair share...
Happy Feet
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 641 Year 2006
Length 1:48 Director Judy Morris, Warren Coleman, George Miller
Category Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Comedy, Adventure Comedy
Other Screener, Repack
AMG SYNOPSIS: In the world of the emperor penguin, a simple song can mean the difference between a lifetime of happiness and an eternity of loneliness. When a penguin named Mumble is born without the ability to sing the romantic song that will attract his soul mate, he'll have to resort to some fancy footwork by tap dancing his way into the heart of the one he loves. Directed by Babe mastermind George Miller, Happy Feet tells the tale of one penguin's quest for love, and features an all-star cast of vocal talent that includes Robin Williams, Hugh Jackman, Elijah Wood, Nicole Kidman, and Brittany Murphy. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Harsh Times
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 642 Year 2006
Length 1:55 Director David Ayer
Category Crime, Police Drama
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: An unstable Gulf War veteran with a savior complex receives a shocking wake-up call upon returning stateside and accepting a position with the Department of Homeland Security in the directorial debut of Training Day screenwriter David Ayer. Jim (Christian Bale) is a Gulf War veteran who believes his sworn duty to protect his fellow Americans extends to the streets of Los Angeles, and he longs to fulfill his destiny by joining the LAPD. Rejected by the force and left to ponder his future with his impoverished Mexican paramour -- whom he had intended on bringing to the city after joining the police -- the dejected and unemployed veteran is offered a second shot...
Kindergarten Cop
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 644 Year 1990
Length 1:51 Director Ivan Reitman
Category Comedy, Thriller, Police Comedy, Comedy Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Arnold Schwarzenegger sheds his action image in Ivan Reitman's police comedy Kindergarten Cop, where he plays an undercover cop teaching a class of hyperactive six-year-olds. As the film begins, John Kimble (Schwarzenegger) and his partner Phoebe O'Hara (Pamela Reed) are in pursuit of notorious drug dealer Cullen Crisp (Richard Tyson) and his scabrous mother Eleanor (Carroll Baker). John learns Cullen is searching for his ex-wife and his little boy, and Kimble plans to nail them when they find the former wife, who is believed to have $3 million of Cullen's drug profits. John and Phoebe follow the trail to Astoria, Oregon, where they believe Cullen's son is attending kindergarten. Although the child and...
Police Squad! The Complete Series
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 646 Year 1982
Length 0:30 Director Joe Dante, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker
Category Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Sitcom
Other Retail
Marginally a "straight" police drama in the Jack Webb/Quinn Martin school, Police Squad occurs in a strange universe where everything is taken literally (when a name "rings a bell" we here bells go off everytime someone mentions it), non sequiturs occur (a mime tries to spell out a ransom note, and Officer Nordberg guesses "Theme From a Summer Place") and sight gags abound (while looking for a corpse, someone wants to know the time and the dead man's hand drops out of a tree)....
Red Dawn
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 647 Year 1984
Length 1:54 Director John Milius
Category Action, Action Thriller, War Adventure
AMG SYNOPSIS: Set at an indeterminate point in the future, this drama with an overt anti-communist message begins as an ostensible war movie: Russian and Cuban forces have invaded the U.S. and are viciously eliminating the inhabitants of a small town, when a group of teens escapes and plans a counterattack. Jed (Patrick Swayze), Robert (C. Thomas Howell) and six of their friends watch in amazement as soldiers parachute into their town and start shooting. The teens grab a pick-up truck, stock up on supplies at the local store, and head for the hills. Meanwhile, the men in the town -- after a minimal resistance -- are rounded up and held at a drive-in theater...
Rocky Balboa
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 648 Year 2006
Length 1:41 Director Sylvester Stallone
Category Drama, Sports Drama
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Sylvester Stallone returns to the director's chair for Rocky Balboa, the fifth sequel to the film that made him a superstar 30 years before. The movie begins with Rocky (Stallone) still mourning the death of his loyal and beloved wife, Adrian, who died three years previously after losing a battle against cancer. Rocky owns an Italian restaurant and spends his days living in his working-class Philadelphia neighborhood, visiting with his customers, and telling stories about his past. His grown son has a job as a business professional, but the relationship between the two is strained. Rocky's growing dissatisfaction leads him to attempt to purge the feelings of frustration and loss by applying for...
Saw III
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 649 Year 2006
Length 1:48 Director Darren Lynn Bousman
Category Horror, Psychological Drama
Other Unrated
AMG SYNOPSIS: Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) is back, and this time he's concocted his deadliest set of traps yet in this gore-soaked sequel written by James Wan and Leigh Whannell, and directed by Saw II's Darren Lynn Bousman. Picking up directly where its predecessor left off, Saw III finds Jigsaw near death and fighting to stay alive for one final game. Determined to show his prot...
Severance
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 650 Year 2006
Length 1:35 Director Christopher Smith
Category Horror, Action Thriller, Horror Comedy
Other Proper
AMG SYNOPSIS: When a high-profile international arms dealer takes his six best employees to an Easter European mountain retreat as a means of rewarding them for all of their hard work, their relaxing getaway turns into a life-or-death game of kill or be killed in Creep director Christopher Smith's suspenseful comedy thriller. Palisade Defense is a company that truly cares about its employees. When the company's European sales division exceeds expectations, the president decides that his dedicated employees deserve a relaxing, corporate team-building retreat. The trip takes a turn for the worst, however, when a deadly enemy infiltrates the retreat with the singular goal of ensuring that no one gets out alive. -- Jason Buchanan ...
The Good Shepherd
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 661 Year 2006
Length 2:47 Director Robert De Niro
Category Spy Film, Drama, Unglamorized Spy Film, Period Film, Political Drama
Other Screener, Proper
AMG SYNOPSIS: One man bears witness to the secret history of America during the Cold War in this drama directed by celebrated actor Robert De Niro. In early 1939, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is a man with a bright future ahead of him -- he's a top student at Yale, he has been accepted into the college's powerful and influential secret society Skull and Bones, and is widely regarded as a man of intelligence, principles, and discretion. Wilson begins traveling in influential circles, and before long he's dating Clover Russell (Angelina Jolie), the daughter of a powerful U.S. senator; Clover becomes Wilson's wife after he discovers she's pregnant. Through his Skull and Bones connections, Wilson...
The Naked Gun
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 662 Year 1988
Length 1:25 Director David Zucker
Category Comedy, Anarchic Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Slapstick, Police Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: We know we're in a 1988 film when we're invited to laugh at O.J. Simpson in an opening slapstick sequence. We can also pinpoint the year of production when hardnosed cop Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), during a scuffle with the world's leading dictators, wipes the wine-colored birthmark off the head of Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Those wacky ZAZ boys -- David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker -- serve up a feature-length spinoff of their cult favorite TV show Police Squad!. Seeking vengeance when his partner (Simpson) is shot full of holes by drug dealers, dead-pan and dead-brained Lt. Frank Drebin searches for the Mister Big behind it all. Drebin suspects above-reproach shipping...
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 663 Year 1991
Length 1:25 Director David Zucker
Category Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Anarchic Comedy, Slapstick
AMG SYNOPSIS: Leslie Nielsen returns as the intrepid (and accident-prone) Lt. Frank Drebin in Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, "un film de David Zucker." This second feature film from the "Police Squad!" series finds Drebin as a guest at a White House dinner, receiving an award for shooting his 1,000th drug dealer, although he admits to shooting only 998 -- he ran over the last two in his car. ("Luckily, they turned out to be drug dealers"). Also at the White House dinner is energy czar Dr. Albert S. Meinheimer (Richard Griffiths), whom President George Bush (John Roarke) has chosen to start a new national energy policy. Since Meinheimer believes in...
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