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Fallen
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1251 Year 1998
Length 2:03 Director Gregory Hoblit
Category Thriller, Supernatural Thriller, Detective Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: Directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear), Fallen is a blend of the police drama and supernatural thriller genres. Homicide detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) narrates, taking the audience back to "the time I almost died." This sets a flashback in motion, beginning at the prison cell of serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas), who grabs Hobbes' hand and sings the Rolling Stones' "Time Is on My Side." After Reese is executed, Hobbes and his partner, Jonesy (John Goodman), find a seeming copycat killer, committing murders in a manner not unlike Reese. Hobbes is drawn into the occult after he meets theology professor Gretta Milano (Embeth Davidtz), the daughter of a dead police officer....
Ghost Town
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1252 Year 2008
Length 1:42 Director David Koepp
Category Comedy, Fantasy Comedy, Romantic Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear star in director David Koepp's fantasy comedy concerning Bertram Pincus, a dentist who gains the ability to communicate with the dead after momentarily dying during a routine medical procedure. When the dearly departed begin requesting favors from Dr. Pincus, the self-absorbed dentist finds that living with ghosts isn't easy. Fortunately, recently deceased businessman Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) agrees to keep the dead at bay if Dr. Pincus will just agree to prevent his widow, Gwen (T...
John Q.
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1253 Year 2002
Length 1:56 Director Nick Cassavetes
Category Drama, Crime Drama, Medical Drama
Other Int
AMG SYNOPSIS: A national health care crisis in the United States yields this tense drama from screenwriter James Kearns and director Nick Cassavetes, who experienced a real-life dilemma with his daughter's congenital heart disease that mirrors the one in this film. Denzel Washington stars as John Q. Archibald, a factory worker facing financial hardship as a result of reduced hours in his workplace. When his young son, Michael (Daniel E. Smith), is stricken during a baseball game, John and his wife, Denise (Kimberly Elise), discover that their child is in need of an emergency heart transplant. Although the Archibalds have health insurance, they are informed by hospital administrator Rebecca Payne (Anne Heche) that their policy...
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1254 Year 2008
Length 1:33 Director Eric Brevig
Category Fantasy, Adventure, Fantasy Adventure, Prehistoric Fantasy
AMG SYNOPSIS: Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Eric Brevig makes his feature directorial debut with this adaptation of the classic Jules Verne fantasy starring Brendan Fraser. When an ambitious science professor (Fraser) develops a decidedly unconventional hypothesis, the mere mention of his name is enough to elicit laughter within the academic community. However, during a subsequent excursion to Iceland, the professor and his nephew make a major scientific discovery that sends them miles beneath the surface of the Earth, where they discover not only strange new worlds, but also encounter creatures so alien they appear to be from another world entirely. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Kung Fu Panda
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1255 Year 2008
Length 1:32 Director John Stevenson, Mark Osborne
Category Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Comedy, Martial Arts
AMG SYNOPSIS: A clumsy panda bear becomes an unlikely kung fu hero when a treacherous enemy spreads chaos throughout the countryside in this animated martial arts adventure featuring the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, and Jackie Chan. On the surface, Po (voice of Black) may look like just another portly panda bear, but beneath his fur he bears the mark of the chosen one. By day, Po works faithfully in his family's noodle shop, but by night he dreams of becoming a true master of the martial arts. Now an ancient prophecy has come to pass, and Po realizes that he is the only one who can save his people from certain...
Out of Time
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1256 Year 2003
Length 1:45 Director Carl Franklin
Category Thriller, Crime Thriller, Police Detective Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Carl Franklin and actor Denzel Washington team up again (following 1995's Devil in a Blue Dress) for the crime thriller Out of Time. Washington stars as Matt Lee Whitlock, the well-respected chief of police in a quiet Florida community. While in the process of getting a divorce from fellow detective Alexandra (Eva Mendez), Matt engages in an affair with his high school sweetheart Anne (Sanaa Lathan). Unfortunately, Anne is married to the extremely jealous Chris (Dean Cain), a former pro football player who works as a security guard. After a major murder occurs in the community, Matt finds himself the main suspect. With the help of his medical examiner pal Chae (John...
Pineapple Express
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1257 Year 2008
Length 1:51 Director David Gordon Green
Category Comedy, Stoner Comedy, Action Comedy, Buddy Film
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Critically acclaimed director David Gordon Green takes a break from the brooding drama that defined such early efforts as George Washington and Undertow for this action-flavored buddy comedy concerning two pot-smoking friends (Seth Rogen and James Franco) who unwittingly become involved with a vicious gang of drug dealers. Judd Apatow and Shauna Robertson produce a script co-penned by star Rogen and Evan Goldberg. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Quantum of Solace
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1258 Year 2008
Length 1:46 Director Marc Forster
Category Spy Film, Action, Glamorized Spy Film, Action Thriller
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: A devastating betrayal sends James Bond from Australia to Italy and South America on a mission of vengeance that pits the suave super-spy against a powerful businessman with diabolical intentions. Betrayed by Vesper, 007 (Daniel Craig) suppresses the urge to make his latest mission personal as he teams with M (Judi Dench) to interrogate Mr. White (Jesper Christensen). It soon becomes apparent that the organization behind the blackmailing of Vesper is more powerful than Bond and M had previously anticipated, and after discovering forensic evidence that links an MI6 traitor to a bank in Haiti, Bond immediately sets out to gather more intelligence. Once in Haiti, a case of mistaken identity leads Bond...
Quench
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating
Number 1259 Year 2007
Length 0:00 Director Zack Parker
Category Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: A young man grieving the death of a loved one turns to the best friend he hasn't seen in three long years, only to find that sometimes people change in ways you could never expect in this contemporary gothic tragedy from director Zack Parker. Derik is devastated. After losing one of the people he cared about most in this world, he has no one to turn to but his old friend Jason. Back in school, Derik and Jason were the best of friends, but it's been three years since Jason left for college and they haven't seen or spoken to one another since. The moment they are reunited, Derik begins to sense that...
Righteous Kill
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1260 Year 2008
Length 1:41 Director Jon Avnet
Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Jon Avnet's thriller Righteous Kill stars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as a pair of Big Apple police officers investigating a series of murders committed by a serial killer. Carla Gugino co-stars as a crime-scene investigator who has romantic ties to De Niro. 50 Cent, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy, and John Leguizamo co-star. -- Perry Seibert ...
Step Brothers
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1261 Year 2008
Length 1:38 Director Adam McKay
Category Comedy, Farce, Slapstick, Domestic Comedy, Buddy Film
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby co-stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly re-team with that film's director, Adam McKay, to tell the tale of two pampered best friends whose single parents fall in love and decide to marry. McKay and Ferrell share screenwriting credits, and Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller produce. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Taken
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 7.9 / 10.0
Number 1262 Year 2008
Length 1:34 Director Pierre Morel
Category Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
The film follows an ex-CIA "Preventer", who is faced with recovering his daughter after she is kidnapped by human trafficking|sex-traffickers in Paris, France. Bryan (Liam Neeson), a former secret agent living in the US. He is skilled in hand to hand combat, divorced; and loves his 17-year-old daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) who lives with his ex-wife and her new husband Stuart (Xander Berkeley). Kim wants to take a vacation in Europe with her friend Amanda (Katie Cassidy), and together follow U2's European tour. Kim's mother allows this, but Kim also needs permission from her father. Since Kim fears that Bryan will not consent, she pretends that they will only stay in Paris. Reluctantly, Bryan agrees....
Taxi to the Dark Side
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1263 Year 2007
Length 1:46 Director Alex Gibney
Category Culture & Society [nf], Law & Crime, Military & War, Social Issues, Politics & Government
AMG SYNOPSIS: From the producer of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Who Killed the Electric Car? comes a documentary that takes a critical look at the Bush administration's policy on torture by investigating the death of an Afghan taxi driver who, after being taken into the custody of American soldiers at Bagram Air Force Base, suffered fatal injuries at the hands of U.S. soldiers. In 2002, American soldiers accused an Afghan taxi driver of taking part in a deadly rocket attack. Five days after being handed over to the U.S. military for questioning, the man was found dead -- the victim of a brutal bout of torture and abuse according to the...
The Siege
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1264 Year 1998
Length 1:56 Director Edward Zwick
Category Action, Action Thriller, Political Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Edward Zwick directed this action thriller about Islamic militants unleashing terrorism in New York City. As FBI Terrorism Task Force-chief Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington) investigates, a false-alarm bomb threat is followed by a legit bomb, with many killed when a Brooklyn bus explodes. Agents track a suspect through Brooklyn, while Hub teams with Middle East expert and NSA operative Elise Kraft (Annette Bening). After the FBI wipes out three Arabs in a Brooklyn apartment, an explosion in a Broadway theater is followed by attacks on a school and FBI headquarters. When the President declares martial law, neo-fascist Army General William Devereaux (Bruce Willis) swings into action, deploying tanks through Brooklyn, capturing Arab-American males,...
Training Day
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1265 Year 2001
Length 2:00 Director Antoine Fuqua
Category Crime, Thriller, Police Drama, Crime Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: The Fast and the Furious (2001) screenwriter David Ayer follows up that fast-paced action hit with this gritty cop drama from director Antoine Fuqua. Ethan Hawke stars as Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced Los Angeles Police Department rookie anxious to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington). Harris has agreed to give Hoyt a shot at joining his team with a one-day ride-along during which Hoyt must prove his mettle. As the day wears on, however, it becomes increasingly clear to the greenhorn that his experienced mentor has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own morally compromised code...
Traitor
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1266 Year 2008
Length 1:54 Director Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Category Thriller, Unglamorized Spy Film, Action Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: An undercover CIA agent within a terrorist cell is marked as a terrorist suspect by the FBI in Overture Films' upcoming thriller Traitor. Don Cheadle produces and stars in the film as the operative under Guy Pearce's investigation. Based on an idea by Steve Martin, the film is written and directed by Day After Tomorrow screenwriter Jeffrey Nachmanoff. -- Jeremy Wheeler ...
Transsiberian
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1267 Year 2008
Length 1:51 Director Brad Anderson
Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: When an American couple (Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer) traveling from China to Moscow on the Trans-Siberian Railway meets an outwardly friendly couple (Eduardo Noriega and Kate Mara) traveling the same route, deception soon gives way to murder in The Machinist director Brad Anderson's tense tale of international intrigue. Ben Kingsley and Thomas Kretschmann co-star as a pair of Russian police officers striving to solve the case and stop the rising body count. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Tropic Thunder
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1268 Year 2008
Length 1:47 Director Ben Stiller
Category Comedy, Action Comedy, Showbiz Comedy
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Ben Stiller's satirical look at Hollywood, Tropic Thunder concerns the production of an epic Vietnam War film that quickly derails thanks to the giant egos of everyone involved in the production. Stiller stars as Tugg Speedman, an action hero trying to segue out of that genre. Jack Black plays Jeff Portnoy, a drug-addicted fat comic also attempting to change his image by taking on such a serious film. They star alongside Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), one of the world's most awarded actors, and a man who insists on immersing himself totally in a role. In this case, that means Lazarus has had his skin dyed in order to portray an African-American soldier....
Wanted
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1269 Year 2008
Length 1:50 Director Timur Bekmambetov
Category Action, Action Thriller, Fantasy Adventure
AMG SYNOPSIS: Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov helms his first English-language feature film with this big-screen adaptation of Mark Millar's action-packed graphic novel. Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a cube-dwelling hypochondriac whose uneventful life has become a mundane blur of terminal boredom. Repeatedly humiliated by his boss and constantly cuckolded by his cheating girlfriend, weakling Wes seems to be living right down to everyone's expectations that he would never amount to anything in life. However, upon discovering that the father he never knew has been brutally murdered, the spineless, clock-punching pushover is recruited into a secret society of assassins known as the Fraternity. During the course of his training, the man who was once an...
A Beautiful Mind
Date Added 2008-10-12 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1240 Year 2001
Length 2:15 Director Ron Howard
Category Drama, Biopic [feature], Psychological Drama, Marriage Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: The true story of prominent mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. is the subject of this biographical drama from director Ron Howard. Russell Crowe stars as the brilliant but arrogant and conceited professor Nash. The prof seems guaranteed a rosy future in the early '50s after he marries beautiful student Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) and makes a remarkable advancement in the foundations of "game theory," which carries him to the brink of international acclaim. Soon after, John is visited by Agent William Parcher (Ed Harris), from the CIA, who wants to recruit him for code-breaking activities. But evidence suggests that Nash's perceptions of reality are cloudy at best; he is struggling to maintain his...
Felon
Date Added 2008-10-12 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1241 Year 2008
Length 1:44 Director Ric Roman Waugh
Category Thriller, Prison Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: A loving husband and father finds his promising future transformed into a waking nightmare when he's convicted of involuntary manslaughter after accidentally killing the burglar who broke into his home in this gritty prison drama starring Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer. Wade Porter (Dorff) would have done anything to protect his family, and when they were threatened he did what any caring family man would have done. But somehow everything went wrong, and now Wade has been sentenced to spend three years in a maximum-security prison. It's a place where the rules of society have been all but forgotten, and in addition to sharing a cell with a notorious mass murderer (Kilmer), Wade...
Get Smart
Date Added 2008-10-12 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1242 Year 2008
Length 1:50 Director Peter Segal
Category Comedy, Spy Comedy, Action Comedy, Parody/Spoof
AMG SYNOPSIS: 40-Year-Old Virgin star Steve Carell steps into the telephonic shoes of television's most beloved bumbling detective in this big-screen adaptation of the hit 1960s-era comedy series created by Mel Brooks. The evil geniuses at KAOS have hatched a diabolical plot to dominate every living man, woman, and child on the planet, and their plot gets under way as they attack the headquarters of the U.S. spy agency Control. As a result of the attack, the identity of every agent working for Control has been compromised. Realizing that the only way to thwart KAOS' evil plan is to promote eager but inexperienced Control analyst Maxwell Smart (Carell) to the rank of special agent, the...
Hancock
Date Added 2008-10-12 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1243 Year 2008
Length 1:32 Director Peter Berg
Category Comedy, Superhero Film, Action Comedy
Other Unrated
AMG SYNOPSIS: A hard-drinking lush finds himself thrust into superhero mode in director Peter Berg's unconventional look at the private life of a crime-fighter. Will Smith stars as the embittered do-gooder whose lifestyle is more akin to a rock star than a role model, and who has grown as disillusioned with his once-admiring public as they have of him. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Date Added 2008-10-12 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1244 Year 2008
Length 2:02 Director Steven Spielberg
Category Action, Adventure, Adventure Comedy, Costume Adventure
Other Proper
AMG SYNOPSIS: Everyone's favorite archeologist adventurer dusts off his hat and trusty whip for yet another globetrotting trek as Indiana Jones returns to the big screen nearly 20 years after racing for the Holy Grail alongside his father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Harrison Ford reprises his role as the iconic, snake-loathing screen hero in a sequel that also finds Karen Allen returning to the series for the first time since 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark. Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent, and Shia LaBeouf round out a cast that also features Cate Blanchett in the role of villainous Russian operative Agent Irina Spalko. Steven Spielberg calls the shots on a...
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Date Added 2008-10-12 Rating 9.0 / 10.0
Number 1245 Year 2003
Length 2:18 Director Peter Weir
Category Adventure, Costume Adventure, Sea Adventure, Adventure Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Peter Weir's first turn behind the camera since 1998's critically acclaimed The Truman Show, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is based on two Napoleanic War-era adventure novels in author Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, Master and Commander and The Far Side of the World. Russell Crowe stars as Captain Jack Aubrey, a high-seas adventurer who maintains a strong bond with ship-surgeon Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany). After conquering much of Europe already, Napoleon's forces have set their sights on taking Britain, so Aubrey and the crew of his ship, the HMS Surprise, take to the Pacific to intercept any attacking ships from the French fleet. When Aubrey eyes a renegade...
Mongol
Date Added 2008-10-12 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1246 Year 2007
Length 2:06 Director Sergei Bodrov
Category Epic, Historical Epic, Biopic [feature]
AMG SYNOPSIS: Based on the controversial writings of Russian historian Lev Gumilyov, director Sergei Bodrov's look at the early years in the life of the Mongol conqueror stars Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano as Temudgin (as he was then known), Honglei Sun as Mongol chieftain Jamukha, who was both Temudgin's close friend and mortal enemy, and newcomer Khulan Chuluun as his wife, Borte. Born in the year 1162, Temudgen's childhood was marred by tragedy and peril. But a great battle would seal Temudgen's fate forever, and though history often paints him as a brute, the truth is much more complex. Few historians make mention of the role Temudgen's wife, Borte, played in advising her husband and...
Proof of Life
Date Added 2008-10-12 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1247 Year 2000
Length 2:15 Director Taylor Hackford
Category Drama, Thriller, Romantic Drama, Political Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: A woman whose marriage is in trouble finds herself falling for a new man as her husband's life hangs in the balance in this thriller. Peter Bowman (David Morse) and his wife Alice (Meg Ryan) have relocated to a small Latin American nation called Tecala; Peter works for an American engineering and construction firm, and his latest assignment has him building a dam that is intended to bring power to the developing nation. The ELT is a radical Marxist faction gearing up for political revolution in Tecala that has turned to kidnapping as a way to raise capital, and Peter is chosen as its next target. When Peter is ambushed on his way...
Red
Date Added 2008-10-12 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1248 Year 2008
Length 1:38 Director Trygve Allister Diesen, Lucky McKee
Category Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: After his 14-year-old dog, Red, is senselessly murdered by three thrill-seeking teenagers, an aging recluse sets out seeking justice for his four-legged companion and finds himself gradually pushed to take extreme measures. Brian Cox and Tom Sizemore star in this adaptation of the Jack Ketchum novel scripted by Stephen Susco, and co-directed by Trygve Allister Diesen and Lucky McKee. -- Jason Buchanan ...
The Quick and the Dead
Date Added 2008-10-12 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1249 Year 1995
Length 1:47 Director Sam Raimi
Category Western, Revisionist Western
AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Sam Raimi brings his trademark comic book-influenced visual panache to this post-modern Western. Sharon Stone stars as Ellen, a mysterious female gunslinger who arrives in the frontier hamlet of Redemption for a contest pitting quick-draw artists against each other. The event is the brainchild of Redemption's evil, corrupt mayor, Herod (Gene Hackman), a criminal who has taken over the town and charges a 50% tax on local businesses. The pot for Herod's deadly game has swollen, attracting numerous colorful gunfighters from around the territory. As each battle thins the ranks of players, the pasts of several participants are revealed. Ellen is seeking revenge on Herod for a heinous past injustice. The fast-talking...
10,000 B.C.
Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1226 Year 2008
Length 1:49 Director Roland Emmerich
Category Epic, Prehistoric Fantasy
AMG SYNOPSIS: A young outcast from a primitive tribe is forced to defend his people from a brutal onslaught in Independence Day director Roland Emmerich's fast-paced period adventure. Despite the fact that he is low man on the totem pole in his tribe of fearless hunters, a brave young boy (Steven Strait) longs to win the heart of a beautiful princess (Camilla Belle) who is well above his station in life. When an overwhelming horde of powerful invaders forces the hunters into slavery and abducts the princess, the once-aimless boy suddenly finds his destiny taking an unexpected turn. Now, if he has any hope of saving his tribe from certain extinction, this young boy will...
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