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	Quarantine Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1321 Year 2008 Length 1:29 Director John E. Dowdle Category Horror Other Rerip Jay Hernandez, Jennifer Carpenter, and Johnathon Schaech star in this remake of Jaume Balaguer...
	Fast & Furious Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1293 Year 2009 Length 1:47 Director Justin Lin Category Action Vin Diesel and Paul Walker return to the film franchise that helped to launch each of their respective careers as the Fast and the Furious series winds to a close under the creative eye of Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift director Justin Lin. Fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto (Diesel) is back in Los Angeles to seek out the truth behind a high-profile crime, but his presence in town doesn't sit well with Agent Brian O'Conner (Walker). These two rivals are forced to unite in the cause of fighting a common enemy, however, when convoy heists and precision tunnel crawls lead them out of Los Angeles and into the Mexican desert. Now, in order to take...
	In the Loop Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 7.9 / 10.0 Number 1294 Year 2008 Length 1:46 Director Armando Iannucci Category Comedy The run-up to war makes for curious rivalries and uneasy alliances in this political satire from director and co-screenwriter Armando Iannucci. Simon Foster (Tom Hollander) is a minor minister of international development with the British government who, in the midst of a radio interview, casually tells a reporter "war is unforeseeable." However, the prime minister is being pressured to commit British troops to support American forces in the Middle East, and communications director Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) goes into a tirade when the press turns Foster's passing comment into a major news story. Foster becomes an unwitting media figure, and he and his personal communications director, Judy (Gina McKee), are joined by political damage control...
	Sunshine Cleaning Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 7.3 / 10.0 Number 1295 Year 2008 Length 1:42 Director Christine Jeffs Category Comedy Drama A thirtysomething single mother whose boundless potential was squandered through a series of failed relationships and a misguided effort to help her younger sister succeed in life finds the fruits of her labors finally coming together in director Christine Jeffs' dark family comedy. Back in high school, the future looked pretty bright for Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams); not only was she the cheerleading captain, but she was also dating the star quarterback. Flash forward a little over a decade, and Rose is working overtime in hopes of getting her son into a better school. Her sister, Norah (Emily Blunt), is still living at home with their father, Joe (Alan Arkin), a failed salesman whose penchant...
	Terminator Salvation Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1296 Year 2009 Length 1:55 Director McG Category Science Fiction Other Screener The fourth installment of the Terminator series follows an adult John Connor (played by Christian Bale) as he attempts to organize a human resistance force which could prove to be mankind's last true hope in the war against the machines. Opening in the year 2018, Terminator Salvation finds John Connor's certainty about the future shaken by the sudden appearance of a mysterious stranger named Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), whose last memory is of sitting on death row and awaiting execution. Unable to determine whether Marcus was sent from the future or rescued from the past, Connor begins to wonder whether there is still any hope left for the human race as the robots grow more...
	The Great Buck Howard Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 7.0 / 10.0 Number 1297 Year 2008 Length 1:30 Director Sean McGinly Category Comedy Drama A young man on his way up hitches his wagon to a middle-aged star on his way down in a comedy from writer and director Sean McGinly. Troy Gable (Colin Hanks) is a guy in his early twenties who has dropped out of law school and is pondering his next move. Troy has an interest in working in the entertainment business, and when he learns that a "celebrity performer" is looking for a personal assistant, Troy thinks he's found the ideal entry-level position. Troy soon discovers he's landed a job as a glorified gofer for Buck Howard (John Malkovich), a once-famous mentalist who appeared on The Tonight Show 61 times during Johnny Carson's reign as...
	The Soloist Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 7.0 / 10.0 Number 1298 Year 2008 Length 1:57 Director Joe Wright Category Drama Academy Award-nominated Atonement director Joe Wright teams with screenwriter Susannah Grant to tell the true-life story of Nathaniel Ayers, a former cello prodigy whose bouts with schizophrenia landed him on the streets after two years of schooling at Juilliard. Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) is a disenchanted journalist stuck in a dead-end job. His marriage to a fellow journalist having recently come to an end, Steve is wandering through Los Angeles' Skid Row when he notices a bedraggled figure playing a two-stringed violin. The figure in question is Ayers (Jamie Foxx), a man whose promising career in music was cut short due to a debilitating bout with mental illness. The more Lopez learns about Ayers,...
	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...
	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. ...
	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...
	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...
	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 (...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	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 ...
	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....
	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...
	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...
	Bigger, Stronger, Faster Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1227 Year 2008 Length 1:45 Director Christopher Bell Category Culture & Society [nf], Biography [nf], Social Issues Other Limited AMG SYNOPSIS: In the hopes of exploring American culture's increased obsession with winning, documentary filmmaker Christopher Bell examines the anabolic steroid use of his two brothers. After setting the stage with a look at the cultural backdrop of the 1980s -- in which hulky stars like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were the ideal -- Bell illustrates how he and his brothers became involved in the bodybuilding subculture, eventually discovering the brutal truth that success in the lifestyle of pumping iron demanded the use of steroids. -- Cammila Albertson ...
	Death Race Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 1228 Year 2008 Length 1:45 Director Paul W.S. Anderson Category Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Action Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: The Transporter star Jason Statham takes the wheel in director Paul W.S. Anderson's remake of the Roger Corman classic about a hyper-violent cross-country race that breaks all of the traditional rules of the road. The time is the not-so-distant future, and as America's prisons begin overflowing with violent criminals, the powers that be devise a grisly game that will free up space in the cells and entertain the masses at the same time. Jensen Ames (Statham) is a three-time speedway champion with a dark past. A survival expert and ex-con whose sordid history comes back to haunt him when he is framed for a murder he didn't commit, Ames is forced to choose...
	Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1229 Year 2008 Length 1:40 Director Hayden Schlossberg, Jon Hurwitz Category Comedy, Stoner Comedy, Buddy Film Other Unrated AMG SYNOPSIS: After successfully seeking out the ultimate slider in the 2004 stoner comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, the cannabis-craving twosome returns in this high-flying sequel that finds them labeled terrorists for attempting to sneak a marijuana-smoking implement on a flight to Amsterdam. Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) have just finished gorging themselves on savory White Castle hamburgers when they return to their apartment and hatch a plan for Harold to win the heart of his crush, Maria (Paula Garc...
	Kabluey Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1231 Year 2007 Length 1:26 Director Scott Prendergast Category Comedy, Domestic Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: A slacker tries to do the right thing for his family with unexpectedly chaotic results in this independent comedy. Salman (Scott Prendergast) is an out-of-work twentysomething who has few skills and fewer prospects. However, things are significantly worse for his older brother -- his National Guard unit has been called back to Iraq, and his wife, Leslie (Lisa Kudrow), needs to go back to work in order to support their children. However, Leslie doesn't have anyone to look after her two sons, so when Salman learns of her sad situation, he volunteers to move in and help mind the kids. Salman quickly discovers the boys are nearly psychotic and will stop at nothing...
	Redbelt Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1233 Year 2008 Length 1:39 Director David Mamet Category Thriller, Martial Arts, Action Thriller, Sports Drama Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Tim Allen and Chiwetel Ejiofor co-star in writer/director David Mamet's martial arts drama Redbelt. Ejiofor plays Mike Terry, a jujitsu master who co-runs a very modest martial arts studio in Los Angeles with his bossy wife, Sondra (Alice Braga). Mike demonstrates an unwavering commitment to his craft and draws a cadre of defiantly loyal pupils including Joe (Max Martini), an LAPD cop. All told, it appears that he has chosen a peaceful and conflict-free path in life. The dedicated martial artist's fate takes an unanticipated turn, however, one evening when a young woman named Laura (Emily Mortimer) bursts into the academy, reaches for a gun, and accidentally shatters the front window. One thing...
	Son of Rambow Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1234 Year 2007 Length 1:36 Director Garth Jennings Category Comedy Drama, Childhood Drama, Slice of Life, Period Film, Coming-of-Age AMG SYNOPSIS: As the summer sun shines down on England in the early 1980s, two boys who couldn't be more different are brought together by a mutual love of cinema and a desire to emulate their favorite action movie icon. Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is a well-mannered schoolboy being raised in an ultra-religious community that deplores such corruptive distractions as television and seeks to maintain its purity by severely limiting contact with the outside world. In order to exorcise his creative inner demons, Will has taken to sketching imaginative drawings and complex illustrations. Lee Carter (Will Poulter) is the school terror, a rampaging hellion whose overaggressive behavior has made him an endless source of frustration...
	Speed Racer Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 1235 Year 2008 Length 2:15 Director Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski Category Adventure, Adventure Comedy, Chase Movie AMG SYNOPSIS: The Matrix masterminds Andy and Larry Wachowski usher anime icon Tatsuo Yoshida's classic 1960s-era hit into the new millennium with this family-friendly story of a young racecar driver who takes on the mysterious Racer X in a custom-made, gadget-loaded speed machine named the Mach 5. Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is the kind of driver that every wheelman wishes he could be: a born winner whose unbeatable combination of aggression, instinct, and fearlessness always finds him crossing the checkered flag with a comfortable lead. In Speed Racer's mind, the only driver who could present him with any real challenge is his late brother -- the legendary Rex Racer. Rex died in a heated cross-country...
	The Incredible Hulk Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1238 Year 2008 Length 1:54 Director Louis Leterrier Category Action, Superhero Film, Sci-Fi Action, Creature Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Mild-mannered scientist Bruce Banner has been traveling the globe in search of the antidote that will allow him to break free from his primal alter ego, but both the warmongers who long to exploit him for their own gain and a horrific creature known as The Abomination are determined to stop him from achieving his noble goal in Transporter 2 director Louis Leterrier's take on the classic Marvel Comics superhero tale. For years, Bruce (Edward Norton) has been living in the shadows, pursued by the military and haunted by the rage within. But traveling the world in secrecy isn't easy, and as hard as he tries Bruce can't get Betty Ross (Liv Tyler)...
	WALL-E Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1239 Year 2008 Length 1:38 Director Andrew Stanton Category Science Fiction, Adventure Comedy, Sci-Fi Adventure Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Disney and Pixar join forces for this computer-animated tale about a wide-eyed robot who travels to the deepest reaches of outer space in search of a newfound friend. The year is 2700, and planet Earth has long been uninhabitable. For hundreds of years, WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) has been taking out the trash, and collecting precious knick-knacks in order to stave off the boredom of his dreary routine. Little does WALL-E realize that he has recently stumbled onto a secret that could save planet Earth, and once again make the ravaged planet safe for all humankind. When highly advanced search robot EVE makes friends with WALL-E and realizes the value of...
	21 Date Added 2008-07-19 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1207 Year 2008 Length 2:03 Director Robert Luketic Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller Other Real Proper AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Robert Luketic adapts Ben Mezrich's best-seller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions to tell the true-life tale of six genius students who used their brains to beat considerable odds. Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) may be shy, but his wallflower reputation betrays his inner brilliance. As smart as Ben may be, however, if he can't pay his tuition he'll be kicked out of M.I.T. Fortunately, the answer to all of Ben's problems is right there in the cards. Recruited to join a team of extremely gifted students who have used their mastery of numbers to beat the odds at blackjack, Ben procures a...
	Doomsday Date Added 2008-07-19 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 1210 Year 2008 Length 1:53 Director Neil Marshall Category Action, Sci-Fi Action Other Unrated AMG SYNOPSIS: Three decades after a major country is quarantined in hopes of containing a lethal and highly contagious virus nicknamed "Reaper," signs that the super-bug has resurfaced in a major city prompt desperate specialists to race back into the infected zone to find a cure in director Neal Marshall's (The Descent) miasmic speculative sci-fi thriller. Few could have foreseen the terror that the microorganism known as "Reaper" would unleash upon the unsuspecting population, and when terrified authorities quarantined the entire country in hopes of saving the human race, the streets immediately descended into chaos. Thirty years later, the inhabitants of planet Earth think that they've seen the last of the merciless killer disease, but...
	Rambo Date Added 2008-07-19 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 1213 Year 2008 Length 1:31 Director Sylvester Stallone Category Action, Action Thriller, War Adventure AMG SYNOPSIS: When a group of missionary aid workers in Myanmar disappear into the vast green inferno, vigilante Vietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) leaves his job as a Salween River boatman behind to accompany a group of mercenaries on a daring rescue mission. It's been 20 years since Rambo helped mujahedeen rebels fend off Soviet invaders in Afghanistan, and these days the former soldier lives a simple life in northern Thailand. Meanwhile, the world's longest-running civil war rages into its 60th year on the nearby Thai-Burma border. One day, human rights missionaries Sarah Miller (Julie Benz) and Michael Burnett (Paul Schulze) show up asking Rambo to guide them up the Salween so they...
	Shotgun Stories Date Added 2008-07-19 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1217 Year 2007 Length 1:32 Director Jeff Nichols Category Drama, Americana, Psychological Drama, Family Drama AMG SYNOPSIS: Two families linked by the same father explode into a violent rivalry in this independent Southern gothic drama, the first feature from director Jeff Nichols. Cleaman Hayes lived and died in Little Rock, AR, where he had seven sons by two different women. After wedding Nicole (Natalie Canerday), Cleaman sired three sons, and his lack of concern for their future was reflected in the fact he barely gave them names -- they were dubbed Son (Michael Shannon), Kid (Barlow Jacobs) and Boy (Douglas Ligon). One day, Cleaman abandoned his wife and sons, and left them to survive in deep poverty that has trapped them to this day. Eventually Cleaman cleaned up his act,...
	The Machinist Date Added 2008-07-19 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1220 Year 2003 Length 1:42 Director Brad Anderson Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: Brad Anderson directs the psychological thriller The Machinist, a production of Spain's Filmax company. Christian Bale plays Trevor Reznik, a factory lathe operator who has developed a serious case of insomnia. Lack of sleep has already started to wear down on his brain and his body. When he's involved in an accident at work, his co-workers turn against him. He starts to find strange notes in his apartment and see people that apparently aren't there. Jennifer Jason Leigh stars as call girl Stevie. The Machinist premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004. -- Andrea LeVasseur ...
	Young People Fucking Date Added 2008-07-19 Rating 6.9 / 10.0 Number 1225 Year 2007 Length 1:30 Director Martin Gero Category Comedy, Romantic Comedy Other DK Sub AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Martin Gero turns his knowing lens on five different archetypal relationships in a caustic romantic comedy highlighting the amusing similarities and bizarre differences in human relationships. Sexually frustrated blonde Abby (Kristin Booth) is stuck in a domestic rut with her hyper sensitive boyfriend Andrew (Josh Dean); will the pair be able to smooth things out or could it be that their relationship was actually doomed from the very beginning? Yet while folks like Abby and Andrew are currently locked in to relationships, others like longtime friends Matt (Aaron Abrams) and Kristen (Carly Pope) just got out of them. Perhaps a quick round of casual sex between old friends is just the thing...
	Charlie Wilson's War Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1208 Year 2007 Length 1:42 Director Mike Nichols Category Drama, Political Drama, Docudrama AMG SYNOPSIS: Produced by Tom Hanks, written by Aaron Sorkin, and directed by Mike Nichols, this adaptation of George Crile III's incendiary bestseller tells the remarkable story of the Texas congressman whose efforts to prevent the Red Army from overtaking Afghanistan eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet Union while simultaneously fueling the rise of radical Islam. In the early 1980s, a hastily assembled army of Afghan "freedom fighters" achieved the remarkable feat of fending off Soviet invaders despite the fact that the odds were overwhelmingly stacked against them. At the time, Texas congressman Charlie Wilson (Hanks) was a key member of the hugely powerful House Appropriations Committee. Illuminated to the specifics of this...
	Flawless Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1211 Year 2007 Length 1:48 Director Michael Radford Category Thriller, Crime Drama, Caper, Period Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Michael Radford (Il Postino and The Merchant of Venice) directs screenwriter Edward Anderson's script about an aging janitor and an American executive who form an unlikely alliance in order to carry out an elaborate jewel heist. Set in 1960s-era London and based on actual events, the tense crime thriller stars Michael Caine as the scheming maintenance man who longs to relieve his employers at the London Diamond Corporation of their valuable inventory, and Demi Moore as the savvy executive who is completely perplexed by the wealthy diamond magnates. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	Resurrecting the Champ Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 7.1 / 10.0 Number 1215 Year 2006 Length 1:52 Director Rod Lurie Category Drama, Inspirational Drama, Sports Drama AMG SYNOPSIS: Director and co-screenwriter (along with Chris Gerolmo, Allison Burnett, and Michael Bortman) Rod Lurie tells the uplifting tale of a sports writer who almost lost it all before stumbling into the story of a lifetime in this uplifting sports-themed drama starring Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Jackson. Erik (Hartnett) is a Denver-based sports writer whose prose is dull and whose marriage is failing. Not only is Erik having a difficult time dealing with his stubborn editor Metz (Alan Alda) - who refuses to take the suffering scribe off of the boxing beat - but the pain of being separated from his young son has weighed heavier on Erik's conscience than he could have...
	Semi-Pro Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1216 Year 2008 Length 1:31 Director Kent Alterman Category Comedy, Period Film, Sports Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: The American Basketball Association is on the verge of collapse, and when a former NBA benchwarmer returns to his hometown of Flint, MI, to whip his former team into shape for the playoffs, redemption is just a free throw away in this period sports comedy starring Will Ferrell and Woody Harrelson. Penned by Old School scribe Scot Armstrong, Semi-Pro tells the tale of a 1970s-era basketball player who doesn't have much luck in the NBA, but vows to leave his mark on the sport by coaching the Flint Tropics. When the upstart ABA league agrees to be absorbed by the NBA, only four teams will be allowed in. Jackie Moon (Ferrell) must orchestrate...
	St. Trinian's Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 5.6 / 10.0 Number 1218 Year 2007 Length 1:37 Director Barnaby Thompson, Oliver Parker Category Comedy, Crime Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: The uniformed but rebellious students of a distinguished all-girls school get an unexpected chance to raise a little hell as directors Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson set out to revive the characters created by comic artist Ronald Searle and made popular in the British film series that began with 1954's The Belles of St. Trinian's. When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless painting and use the profits to pull St. Trinian's out of the black. Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, and Mischa Barton star in a mischievous comedy penned by Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft....
	The Savages Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1221 Year 2007 Length 1:54 Director Tamara Jenkins Category Comedy Drama, Family Drama, Medical Drama, Domestic Comedy Other Limited AMG SYNOPSIS: A pair of siblings are forced to set aside their discomfort with one another for the sake of their father in this low-key comedy drama from writer/director Tamara Jenkins. Wendy Savage (Laura Linney) is a struggling playwright living in New York City who works a day job to support herself and can't shake the feeling that she's failed as an artist. Wendy isn't especially happy about her love life either, gaining little self-esteem from her on-and-off affair with oversexed, married neighbor Larry (Peter Friedman). Wendy's anxieties about her writing career are intensified by the success of her brother, Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who teaches theater history at a college in Buffalo, NY, and...
	Vantage Point Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 1222 Year 2008 Length 1:30 Director Pete Travis Category Thriller, Political Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: Forest Whitaker, Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, and Matthew Fox star in director Pete Travis' Rashomon-style thriller in which an assassination attempt on the president of the United States is detailed from five unique perspectives. As the president arrives in Salamanca, gunshots ring out. An American tourist (Whitaker) has captured footage of the would-be assassin on videotape, and now, as the stories of the other four witnesses unfold, each essential piece of the puzzle quickly falls into place. Only when all of the stories are told will the chilling truth to this shocking crime finally emerge. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	Walk All Over Me Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 5.8 / 10.0 Number 1223 Year 2007 Length 1:38 Director Robert Cuffley Category Thriller, Crime Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: A trouble-prone teen navigates a treacherous world of witless gangsters and latex fetish wear in director/screenwriter Robert Cuffley's quirky comic noir. When Alberta (Leelee Sobieski)'s boyfriend is assaulted by thugs, the frightened teen flees to Vancouver in hopes of hiding out at the house of her good friend Celine (Tricia Helfer) - an aspiring dominatrix and wannabe actress currently planning her big move to Los Angeles. While Celine knows that helping out her old friend Alberta can only mean trouble, her kind heart eventually overpowers her better judgment. Celine soon remembers just why she was so hesitant to help her old friend, however, when Alberta ruins her best SS uniform. Later, Alberta tries...
	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1224 Year 2007 Length 1:36 Director Jake Kasdan Category Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Musical Comedy Other DC AMG SYNOPSIS: Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan team up to take the swagger out of the traditional music biopic with this look at the troubled life of fictional music legend Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly). Apatow and Kasdan both write and produce, while Freaks and Geeks and Orange County director Kasdan steps into the director's chair. Dewey Cox is a rock & roll legend whose songs have the power to shake a nation. Despite the fact that Cox's career has been something of a roller coaster ride, the fact remains that he never went out of style in the eyes of his many adoring fans. He's rubbed elbows with everyone from Elvis Presley to the...
	27 Dresses Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 1023 Year 2008 Length 1:47 Director Anne Fletcher Category Comedy, Romantic Comedy Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: A single woman who has served as a bridesmaid a shocking 27 times wrestles with the prospect of supporting her sister at the altar on number 28, despite having fallen helplessly in love with her smitten sibling's handsome husband-to-be. Jane (Katherine Heigl) has the kind of altruistic traits that everyone looks for in a friend, yet lately the perennial bridesmaid has begun to feel as if something is missing in her life. One night, local newspaper reporter Kevin (James Marsden) spots the devoted bridal attendant racing between receptions in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and quickly surmises that her quirky tale may be just the story to get him off the bridal beat and into...
	A Midnight Clear Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1025 Year 1992 Length 1:47 Director Keith Gordon Category War, Anti-War Film, War Drama AMG SYNOPSIS: Based on a novel by William Wharton, A Midnight Clear is set in the Adriennes Forest in December of 1944. A group of American GIs, all of whom have been together a bit too long, cling to the vestiges of their peacetime interests to remain sane. None are brilliant soldiers, though Will Knot Ethan Hawke is the one who exhibits the strongest leadership qualities. Billeted at a chateau, the soldiers begin hearing strange noises emanating from a graveyard, the handiwork of a group of mischievous German soldiers. The two enemy camps draw closer to one another as Christmas approaches, due in great part to the influence of GI Vince "Mother" Wilkins Gary Sinise....
	Awake Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating Number 1033 Year 2007 Length 1:24 Director Joby Harold Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: Jessica Alba, Hayden Christenson, and Terrence Howard star in first-time director/screenwriter Joby Harold's nerve-jangling psychological thriller about a man who experiences the frighteningly common surgical phenomenon known as "anesthetic awareness," in which those laid out on the operating table remain acutely aware of what is going on around them despite remaining completely paralyzed and unable to cry out for help. When a successful young man (Christenson) goes under the knife and realizes that the anesthesia hasn't quite done its job, the horror quickly sets in as his worried wife (Alba) waits anxiously and a terrifying drama unfolds in the operating room. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	Bat 21 Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1035 Year 1988 Length 1:45 Director Peter Markle Category War, Docudrama, War Adventure, Combat Films Other Complete AMG SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, Bat 21 follows the harrowing adventures of Lt. Colonel Iceal Hambleton (Gene Hackman), whose plane is shot down over enemy territory while on reconnaissance behind enemy lines in Vietnam. Because Hambleton used to call the shots from behind a desk, he lacks combat survival experience and is forced to adapt while the enemy surrounds him on all sides. As the Air Force plans a risky rescue mission, he is befriended by pilot Bartholomew Clark (Danny Glover), who can't land to pick up Hambleton due to the enemy activity but keeps him company by radio. Hambleton's plight takes a turn for the worse once the brass decide...
	Becoming Jane Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1036 Year 2007 Length 2:00 Director Julian Jarrold Category Drama, Period Film, Romantic Drama, Biography [feature] AMG SYNOPSIS: Events from the life of the author Jane Austen inspired this romantic historical drama, which speculates of a romance that may have had a significant impact on her life and work. Twenty-year-old Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) is the daughter of Rev. Austen (James Cromwell), a minister who looks after a flock in a small rural community in Southern England with his wife (Julie Walters). While her older sister, Cassandra (Anna Maxwell Martin), is engaged to be married, Jane resists her family's efforts to match her up with Mr. Wisley (Laurence Fox), the wealthy but dull nephew of Lady Gresham (Maggie Smith), a minor member of the British nobility. Jane has the heart of...
	Beetlejuice Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1038 Year 1988 Length 1:32 Director Tim Burton Category Fantasy, Black Comedy, Fantasy Comedy, Haunted House Film, Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies AMG SYNOPSIS: Thanks to the carelessness of a cute little dog, newlyweds Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin are killed in a freak auto accident. Upon arriving in the outer offices of Heaven, the couple finds that, thanks to a century's worth of bureaucratic red tape, they're on a long celestial waiting list. Before they can earn their wings, Davis and Baldwin must occupy their old house as ghosts for the next fifty years. Alas, the house is now owned by insufferable yuppies Catherine O'Hara and Jeffrey Jones. Horrified at the prospect of sharing space with these obnoxious interlopers, Davis and Baldwin do their best to scare O'Hara and Jones away, but their house-haunting skills are...
	Dan in Real Life Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1043 Year 2007 Length 1:38 Director Peter Hedges Category Comedy Drama, Romantic Comedy, Domestic Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: A widower and father of three who also writes a parenting advice column for his local newspaper falls for the girlfriend of his younger brother during a family vacation in director Peter Hedges' offbeat love triangle laugher. Steve Carell stars as the writer who finds his widely-known convictions put to the ultimate test, with Dane Cook and Juliette Binoche respectively assuming the roles of the younger sibling and his radiant girlfriend. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	Ghost Rider 3 - Goes Crazy in Europe Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating Number 1052 Year 2004 Length 0:00 Director Category Action, Documentary With the Swedish police on his tail, the Ghost Rider takes to the streets for another insane mission. Reaching speeds of over 200 mph, the authorities have little hope of catching him. Over three hours of pure adrenaline! Bonus Material: Ghost Rider Rally Day 3 Rotterdam to Amsterdam Run Linkoping Run (full version) Uppsala Run (full version) World Stunt Riding Championship Bomber Weekend Motorcycle Festiva Wheelies, Minimoto, Burnouts and Drag Racing...
	Ghost Rider 4 - Goes Undercover Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating Number 1053 Year 2005 Length 0:50 Director Category Action, Documentary Der Ghost Rider ist fr...
	Ghost Rider 5 - Back to Basics Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating Number 1054 Year 2008 Length 1:10 Director Category Action, Documentary Other Repack Ghostrider is back! This time he is more extreme then ever, more police chases and hardcore riding. There are more police chases in this movie then ever before, insane car chases with GIS (Ghostrider in Subaru) and the whole police force in Stockholm including a helicopter, High Speed Challenge throughout Stockolm, Murder Attempt on Ghostrider by the Swedish Police, Uppsala Run - The Way Back Home, Supermotofun and much much more. ...
	Gone Baby Gone Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1057 Year 2007 Length 1:54 Director Ben Affleck Category Thriller, Detective Film Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Ben Affleck's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Gone, Baby, Gone stars Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie, a private investigator from working-class Boston who takes on a case involving a kidnapped girl. The girl's aunt begs Patrick to take the case because he has connections to criminal Boston that the police do not. He agrees and along with his partner, Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan), they uncover a web of corruption that threatens the relationship between the two. Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman co-star as members of the Boston Police Department. -- Perry Seibert ...
	Good Night, and Good Luck. Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1058 Year 2005 Length 1:33 Director George Clooney Category Drama, Docudrama, Political Drama, Period Film AMG SYNOPSIS: George Clooney pays homage to one of the icons of American broadcast journalism, Edward R. Murrow, in this fact-based drama, which was Clooney's second feature film as a director. In 1953, Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn) was one of the best-known newsmen on television as host of both the talk show Person to Person and the pioneering investigate series See It Now. Joseph McCarthy, a U.S. senator from Wisconsin, was generating no small amount of controversy in the public and private sectors with his allegations that Communists had risen to positions of power and influence in America, and an Air Force pilot, Milo Radulovich, had been drummed out of the service...
	Lars and the Real Girl Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1071 Year 2007 Length 1:46 Director Craig Gillespie Category Comedy Drama, Romantic Comedy, Psychological Drama Other Screener, Limited AMG SYNOPSIS: Lars (Ryan Gosling) and Gus (Paul Schneider) are the grown children of a father who died recently and a mother who died giving birth to Lars. But as brothers, they couldn't be more different. While Gus lives in the family home and has a loving wife (Emily Mortimer) and a child on the way, Lars leads a more reclusive existence in the family's garage, hiding in plain sight of his small, wintry hometown. Painfully shy and eccentric, Lars fails to recognize that his co-worker Margo (Kelli Garner) has a major crush on him, and he picks up on a casual reference made by his cubicle mate, who mentions a website where you can...
	Outpost Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating Number 1083 Year 2007 Length 1:30 Director Steve Barker Category Horror, Monster Film Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: A wealthy businessman hires a crack team of seasoned soldiers to accompany him on a perilous journey into no man's land, only to come face to face with an otherworldly enemy more vicious and powerful than any mortal foe. It was supposed to be an easy, forty-eight hour mission: Move in, scope out an abandoned military bunker, and move out. Once in the bunker, however, the fearless mercenaries begin to quake in their boots after happening across the remnants of some gruesome World War II experiments carried out by Nazi soldiers on their own men. Sifting through the carnage, the men are horrified to discover that one of the unfortunate test subjects is...
	Raising Arizona Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 1090 Year 1987 Length 1:34 Director Joel Coen Category Comedy, Crime Comedy, Domestic Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: Combining influences from Tex Avery cartoons to Sam Raimi horror movies to 1940s B-movies, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen followed up the stylish film noir of their debut, Blood Simple (1984), with this frantic screwball comedy. H.I. "Hi" McDonnough (Nicholas Cage) is a philosophical but slightly dim career criminal who has been arrested so often that he gets to know "Ed," short for Edwina (Holly Hunter), the officer who takes his mug shots. Hi takes a shine to Ed and promises to go straight if she marries him. She accepts, and they move to the Arizona desert, where Hi holds down a factory job and blissfully watches the sunsets with Ed. Their serenity...
	The Darjeeling Limited Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1108 Year 2007 Length 1:31 Director Wes Anderson Category Comedy, Sophisticated Comedy, Road Movie AMG SYNOPSIS: Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited stars Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and Adrien Brody as three brothers who, at the insistence of the oldest, take a train ride through India together in order to strengthen their bond. Even though the vacation goes wrong in ways they do not anticipate, the strangeness of their setting and some revealing honesty produces some surprising changes between them all. -- Perry Seibert ...
	The Insider Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1116 Year 1999 Length 2:37 Director Michael Mann Category Drama, Docudrama, Psychological Drama AMG SYNOPSIS: The Insider tells the true story of a man who decided to tell the world what the seven major tobacco companies knew (and concealed) about the dangers of their product. Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) was a scientist employed in research for a tobacco firm, Brown and Williamson. Not long after he was fired by Brown and Williamson, Wigand came into contact with Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino), a producer for 60 Minutes who worked closely with journalist Mike Wallace (played here by Christopher Plummer). Bergman arranged for Wigand to be interviewed by Wallace for a 60 Minutes expose on the cigarette industry, though Wigand was still bound by a confidentiality agreement not to discuss...
	Alvin and the Chipmunks Date Added 2008-03-10 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 1028 Year 2007 Length 1:32 Director Tim Hill Category Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are back in director Tim Hill's computer-animation/live-action hybrid following the further adventures of the world's most adorable singing trio. Songwriter Dave Seville (Jason Lee) has been struggling to gain recognition in the music industry for some time, and despite the fact that his former college roommate (David Cross) is now a high-profile powerbroker at Jett Records, Dave still can't manage to get a break. Things soon start to look up, however, when Dave discovers three singing chipmunks hiding out in the branches of a Christmas tree in Jett Records' world headquarters. Realizing that these woodland crooners cold prove to be his ticket to the big time, Dave does his...
	August Rush Date Added 2008-03-10 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 1030 Year 2007 Length 1:53 Director Kirsten Sheridan Category Drama, Musical Drama, Childhood Drama, Romantic Fantasy AMG SYNOPSIS: Estranged from his parents by circumstance and nudged toward a foster family, a young boy seeks out his long-lost folks and discovers prodigious musical talent in this family-oriented drama from Disco Pigs director Kirsten Sheridan. In the aftermath of a passionate night together above New York's Washington Square, a charismatic Irish guitarist named Louis (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) and a reserved cellist named Lyla (Keri Russell) are forced apart by fate. Despite the fact that they do not remain together, however, their fleeting union created something amazing that neither could have ever anticipated - a baby. Unfortunately, just after the child's birth, the mother is misinformed that the infant has died. Cut to 11 years...
	Enchanted Date Added 2008-03-10 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1048 Year 2007 Length 1:47 Director Kevin Lima Category Comedy, Fairy Tales & Legends, Family-Oriented Comedy Other Fixed AMG SYNOPSIS: Classic Disney animation meets contemporary urban chaos when a frightened princess is banished from her magical animated homeland to modern-day New York City in a romantic comedy penned by Bill Kelly (Blast from the Past), directed by Kevin Lima (Tarzan), and featuring music by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz. Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) lives in the blissful cartoon world of Andalasia, where magical beings frolic freely and musical interludes punctuate every interaction. Though Princess Giselle is currently engaged to be married to the handsome Prince Edward (James Marsden), her fate takes a turn for the worse when the villainous Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) banishes her to the unforgiving metropolis of New...
	Hitman Date Added 2008-03-10 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 1062 Year 2007 Length 1:40 Director Xavier Gens Category Action, Action Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: An international assassin known only as Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) carries out high-profile hits for a mysterious organization known only as "The Agency" in this adaptation of the popular Eidos Interactive video-game series. Agent 47 is an elite, genetically engineered assassin who takes great pride in his work. His lethal grace, steady shot, and unparalleled precision have all served to make him one of the most sought after assassins in the world. But when the killer without a conscious is faced with an unanticipated series of developments, his entire perception of reality begins to shift. On assignment to take out a Russian head of state Bellicoff (Ulrich Thomsen, Agent 47 is caught off...
	Pistol Whipped Date Added 2008-03-10 Rating Number 1086 Year 2008 Length 1:36 Director Category ...
	Southland Tales Date Added 2008-03-10 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 1101 Year 2006 Length 2:40 Director Richard Kelly Category Comedy Drama, Thriller, Black Comedy, Paranoid Thriller, Ensemble Film AMG SYNOPSIS: California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama, dystopian science fiction, and music from writer and director Richard Kelly, his first film after gaining a cult following with Donnie Darko. In the year 2005, a nuclear attack wipes out part of the state of Texas, and three years later America is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives, supposedly for their own good. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology...
	The Great Escape Date Added 2008-03-10 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1112 Year 1963 Length 2:52 Director John Sturges Category War, Escape Film, POW Drama, Ensemble Film, War Adventure AMG SYNOPSIS: The Great Escape is based on the true story of a group of Allied prisoners of war who managed to escape from an allegedly impenetrable Nazi prison camp during World War II. At the beginning of the film, the Nazis gather all their most devious and troublesome POWs and place them at a new prison camp, which was designed to be impervious to escapes. Immediately, the prisoners develop a scheme where they will leave the camp by building three separate escape tunnels. Richard Attenborough is the British soldier who masterminds the whole plan, and who commands his motley squad--featuring Charles Bronson as a Polish trench-digging expert, James Garner as an American with a...
	Big Fish Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1040 Year 2003 Length 2:05 Director Tim Burton Category Comedy Drama, Fantasy Comedy, Family Drama Other Dutch AMG SYNOPSIS: Tim Burton directs the fantasy drama Big Fish, based on the book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Southern writer/illustrator Daniel Wallace. Billy Crudup plays William Bloom, a young man who never really knew his dying father, Edward (Albert Finney) outside of the tall tales he told about growing up, making his way, and meeting his mother (played as a young woman by Alison Lohman and in older age by Jessica Lange). During Edward's last days, William and his wife Josephine (Marion Cotillard) hold bedside vigil as the old man recollects elaborate memories of his youth (in which he is played by Ewan McGregor). Still doubting the the legends and folklore,...
	Dog Day Afternoon Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 1045 Year 1975 Length 2:04 Director Sidney Lumet Category Crime, Crime Drama, Urban Drama, Docudrama AMG SYNOPSIS: Based on a true 1972 story, Sidney Lumet's 1975 drama chronicles a unique bank robbery on a hot summer afternoon in New York City. Shortly before closing time, scheming loser Sonny (Al Pacino) and his slow-witted buddy, Sal (John Cazale), burst into a Brooklyn bank for what should be a run-of-the-mill robbery, but everything goes wrong, beginning with the fact that there is almost no money in the bank. The situation swiftly escalates, as Sonny and Sal take hostages; enough cops to police the tristate area surround the bank; a large Sonny-sympathetic crowd gathers to watch; the media arrive to complete the circus; and police captain Moretti (Charles Durning) tries to negotiate with...
	Donnie Darko Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1046 Year 2001 Length 1:53 Director Richard Kelly Category Fantasy, Comedy Drama, Psychological Drama, Coming-of-Age AMG SYNOPSIS: Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a bright and charming high-school student who also has a dark and willfully eccentric side; he does little to mask his contempt for many of his peers and enjoys challenging the authority of the adults around him. Donnie is also visited on occasion by Frank, a monstrous six-foot rabbit that only Donnie can see who often urges him to perform dangerous and destructive pranks. Late one night, Frank leads Donnie out of his home to inform him that the world will come to an end in less than a month; moments later, the engine of a jet aircraft comes crashing through the ceiling of Donnie's room, making him think...
	Glory Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1056 Year 1989 Length 2:02 Director Edward Zwick Category Historical Film, Historical Epic AMG SYNOPSIS: Glory is a celebration of a little-known act of mass courage during the Civil War. Simply put, the heroes involved have been ignored by history due to racism. Those heroes were the all-black members of the 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, headed by Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick), the son of an influential abolitionist (played by an uncredited Jane Alexander). Despite the fact that the Civil War is ostensibly being fought on their behalf, the black soldiers are denied virtually every privilege and amenity that is matter of course for their white counterparts; as in armies past and future, they are given the most menial and demeaning of tasks. Still,...
	Hotel Rwanda Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1064 Year 2004 Length 2:01 Director Terry George Category Drama, Docudrama, Political Drama AMG SYNOPSIS: Hotel Rwanda tackles one of the most horrifically ugly events in recent history, when the Hutu extremists of Rwanda initiated a terrifying campaign of genocide, massacring hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsis (who had been given power by the departed Belgian colonists), while the rest of the world looked on and did nothing. Don Cheadle stars as Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager at the fancy Les Milles Collines hotel in Kigali. Paul is a Hutu, and a very successful businessman who smoothly greases the wheels, making powerful connections in all strata of Rwandan life. His wife, Tatiana (Sophie Okonedo of Aeon Flux), is a Tutsi. She urges Paul to use his influence to...
	Infernal Affairs Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1067 Year 2002 Length 1:41 Director Andrew Lau, Alan Mak Category Crime, Gangster Film, Police Drama Other Chinese Audio AMG SYNOPSIS: As Infernal Affairs opens, Ming (Andy Lau of Full-time Killer) is being initiated into the criminal underworld by triad boss Sam (Eric Tsang of The Accidental Spy), who ends his speech to his young charges by wishing them success in the police department. Ming enters the police academy, where he excels, but sees his classmate, Yan (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai of In the Mood for Love), expelled for "breaking the rules." It turns out that Yan wasn't actually drummed out of the force, but recruited by Superintendent Wong (Anthony Wong of Hard-Boiled) as an undercover operative. Just as Ming is achieving success in the police department while secretly working for Sam, Ming is gaining...
	Life of Brian Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1073 Year 1979 Length 1:34 Director Terry Jones Category Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Absurd Comedy, Religious Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: On a midnight clear 2,000 years ago, three wise men enter a manger where a babe is wrapped in swaddling clothes. It is an infant called Brian...and the three wise men are in the wrong manger. For the rest of his life, Brian (Graham Chapman) finds himself regarded as something of a messiah -- yet he's always in the shadow of this other guy from Galilee. Brian is witness to the Sermon of the Mount, but his seat is in such a bad location that he can't hear any of it ("Blessed are the cheesemakers?"). Ultimately, he is brought before Pontius Pilate and sentenced to crucifixion, which takes place at that crowded, nonexclusive...
	Mystic River Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1079 Year 2003 Length 2:17 Director Clint Eastwood Category Drama, Mystery, Psychological Thriller, Urban Drama, Police Detective Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Directed by Clint Eastwood, the mysterious drama Mystic River is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane and adapted by screenwriter Brian Helgeland. Set in an Irish neighborhood in Boston, Jimmy, Sean, and Dave are three childhood friends who are reunited after a brutal murder takes place. Reformed convict Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn) and his devoted wife Annabeth (Laura Linney) find out that their teenage daughter Katie (Emmy Rossum) has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon) is the homicide detective assigned to the case, along with partner Whitey Powers (Laurence Fishburne). Jimmy also gets his relatives, the Savage brothers (Adam Nelson and Robert Wahlberg), to conduct...
	Oldboy Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1082 Year 2004 Length 2:00 Director Park Chan-wook Category Thriller, Psychological Drama, Paranoid Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook directed this violent and offbeat story of punishment and vengeance. Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is a husband and father whose reputation for womanizing is well known. One day, for reasons he doesn't understand, Oh Dae-su finds himself locked up in a prison cell, with no idea of what his crime was or whom his jailers may be. With a small television as his only link to the outside world and a daily ration of fried dumplings as his only sustenance, Oh Dae-su struggles to keep his mind and body intact, but when he learns through a news report that his wife has been killed, he begins a long...
	The Elephant Man Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1109 Year 1980 Length 2:04 Director David Lynch Category Drama, Biography [feature], Medical Drama, Period Film Other Dutch AMG SYNOPSIS: John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as "The Elephant Man". Treated as a sideshow freak, Merrick is assumed to be retarded as well as misshapen because of his inability to speak coherently. In fact, he is highly intelligent and sensitive, a fact made public when one Dr. Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) rescues Merrick from a carnival and brings him to a hospital for analysis. Alas, even after being recognized as a man of advanced intellect, Merrick is still treated like a freak; no matter his station in life, he will forever be a prisoner of his own malformed body. Unable to secure rights for the famous...
	The Green Mile Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1113 Year 1999 Length 3:08 Director Frank Darabont Category Drama, Fantasy, Prison Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Frank Darabont, who made an acclaimed feature film debut with The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based on a Stephen King novel set in a prison, returns for a second feature, based on King's 1996 serialized novel set in a prison. In 1935, inmates at the Cold Mountain Correctional Facility call Death Row "The Green Mile" because of the dark green linoleum that tiles the floor. Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) is the head guard on the Green Mile when a new inmate is brought into his custody: John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), convicted of the sadistic murder of two young girls. Despite his size and the fearsome crimes for which he's serving time, Coffey...
	The Kite Runner Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1119 Year 2007 Length 2:02 Director Marc Forster Category Drama, Psychological Drama AMG SYNOPSIS: Finding Neverland director Marc Forster adapts author Khaled Hosseini's critically acclaimed novel about two childhood best friends forever torn apart as their country is ravaged by endless war and bitter strife. As children, Amir (Khalid Abdalla) and Hassan were inseparable; their long days under azure Kabul skies often spent getting into innocent mischief or preparing for the highly anticipated kite-fighting tournament. When the day of the tournament arrives, however, a glorious victory is quickly offset by a timorous act of betrayal that ultimately serves as the catalyst for catastrophe. Not long after that fateful day, Amir moves away to America, leaving his old friend behind just as the ominous specter of war turns...
	The Mist Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1121 Year 2007 Length 2:07 Director Frank Darabont Category Horror, Monster Film, Ensemble Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Frequent Stephen King collaborator Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) teamed with the celebrated horror author once again for this tale of terror concerning a small town engulfed by a malevolent mist, based on a story originally published in King's 1985 horror anthology Skeleton Crew. When a thick fog descends upon a rural community and claims the lives of anyone unfortunate enough to be caught outside, a small band of survivors seeks refuge in a local grocery store. Now trapped in a darkened cloud of pure horror, the frightened denizens of the town are forced to fend off an advancing horde of murderous monsters. Punisher star Thomas Jane heads up an ensemble cast that...
	The Prestige Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1125 Year 2006 Length 2:10 Director Christopher Nolan Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Period Film Other NL AMG SYNOPSIS: Obsession, jealousy, and deceit define the tense relationship shared between two turn-of-the-century magicians in Memento and Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan's dizzying tale of sleight of hand. Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) are London-based magicians of the highest order, both blessed with spectacular powers of deception and both cursed with unrelenting envy for one another's skills. When Alfred performs an awe-inspiring trick for which there seems no logical explanation, the friendly competition shared between the pair turns to deadly rivalry as the enraged Rupert determines to uncover his rival's deepest secrets. In the world of illusion, however, nothing is ever quite as it seems, and the rules of the...
	Alien Date Added 2008-03-03 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 1027 Year 1979 Length 1:57 Director Ridley Scott Category Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Horror, Monster Film AMG SYNOPSIS: "In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas' (Tom Skerritt) rescue team discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even stranger when a face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to Kane (John Hurt). Over the objections of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), science officer Ash (Ian Holm) lets Kane back on the ship....
	Metropolis Date Added 2008-03-03 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1076 Year 2001 Length 1:48 Director Rintaro Category Adventure, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Action, Anime AMG SYNOPSIS: Playing like a candy-colored hybrid of Fritz Lang's film of the same name and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis borrows its plot liberally from numerous legendary sci-fi sources (despite the fact that the original manga was released in 1945, certain cinematic aspects can't help but appearing overly familiar), all the while dazzling viewers on the same cutting-edge visual level as such anime classics as Akira and Ghost in the Shell. The common anime practice of combining amazingly rendered backdrops and more traditionally hand-drawn characters continues here, though with such nuances as beautifully flowing hair and soulfully expressive faces, it becomes obvious that painstaking detail was paid to making the characters both...
	North by Northwest Date Added 2008-03-03 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 1081 Year 1959 Length 2:16 Director Alfred Hitchcock Category Thriller, Spy Film, Chase Movie, Romantic Mystery Other Nordic While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) has the bad luck to call for a messenger just as a page goes out for a "George Kaplan." From that moment, Thornhill finds that he has stepped into a nightmare -- he is quietly abducted by a pair of armed men out of the hotel's famous Oak Room and transported to a Long Island estate; there, he is interrogated by a mysterious man (James Mason) who, believing that Roger is George Kaplan, demands to know what he knows about his business and how he has come to acquire this knowledge. Roger, who knows nothing about who any...
	Psycho Date Added 2008-03-03 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 1088 Year 1960 Length 1:49 Director Alfred Hitchcock Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Slasher Film AMG SYNOPSIS: In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime liaison in a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major studio film in 1960), Psycho announced that it was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that score what followed would hardly disappoint. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job at a Phoenix, Arizona real estate office and frustrated in her...
	Raging Bull Date Added 2008-03-03 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 1089 Year 1980 Length 2:09 Director Martin Scorsese Category Drama, Biography [feature], Sports Drama AMG SYNOPSIS: Martin Scorsese's brutal character study incisively portrays the true rise and fall and redemption of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, a violent man in and out of the ring who thrives on his ability (and desire) to take a beating. Opening with the spectacle of the over-the-hill La Motta (Robert De Niro) practicing his 1960s night-club act, the film flashes back to 1940s New York, when Jake's career is on the rise. Despite pressure from the local mobsters, Jake trusts his brother Joey (Joe Pesci) to help him make it to a title bout against Sugar Ray Robinson the honest way; the Mob, however, will not cave in. Jake gets the title bout,...
	The Lives of Others Date Added 2008-03-03 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1120 Year 2006 Length 2:17 Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Category Drama, Political Thriller, Period Film Other AKA "Das Leben Der Anderen" (w/English Subs) AMG SYNOPSIS: A man who has devoted his life to ferreting out "dangerous" characters is thrown into a quandary when he investigates a man who poses no threat in this drama, the first feature from German filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. It's 1984, and Capt. Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich M...
	The Pianist Date Added 2008-03-03 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1124 Year 2002 Length 2:30 Director Roman Polanski Category Drama, War Drama Other Retail AMG SYNOPSIS: Filmmaker Roman Polanski, who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his country during World War II, directed this downbeat drama based on the true story of a privileged musician who spent five years struggling against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is a gifted classical pianist born to a wealthy Jewish family in Poland. The Szpilmans have a large and comfortable flat in Warsaw which Wladyslaw shares with his mother and father (Maureen Lipman and Frank Finlay), his sisters Halina and Regina (Jessica Kate Meyer and Julia Rayner), and his brother, Henryk (Ed Stoppard). While Wladyslaw and his family are aware of the looming...
	Bee Movie Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1037 Year 2007 Length 1:30 Director Stephen Hickner, Simon J. Smith Category Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Comedy Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Barry B. Benson (voice of Jerry Seinfeld) is your average honeybee. Despite having recently received his diploma from bee college and being virtually guaranteed a bright future in honey, Barry feels he has the skills to pursue a number of different career paths and resents the fact that his employment opportunities are strictly limited to producing the sweet nectar. Upon breaking away from the hive and developing a friendship with an insect-loving New York florist (voice of Ren...
	Juno Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1069 Year 2007 Length 1:36 Director Jason Reitman Category Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Domestic Comedy, Ensemble Film Other Screener, Repack AMG SYNOPSIS: When a teenage girl is faced with an unexpected pregnancy, she enlists the aid of her best friend in finding the unborn child a suitable home in this coming-of-age comedy drama from Thank You for Smoking director Jason Reitman. Juno (Ellen Page) may seem wise beyond her years, but after sleeping with classmate Bleeker (Michael Cera), the pregnant teen quickly realizes how little she really knows about life. Thankfully, Juno has been blessed with parents (J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney) who trust their daughter's judgment, and a best friend named Leah (Olivia Thirlby), who's always willing to help out in a pinch. With a little help from Leah, Juno soon comes into contact...
	Martian Child Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 1075 Year 2007 Length 1:48 Director Menno Meyjes Category Comedy Drama, Melodrama, Family Drama AMG SYNOPSIS: Adapted from a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novelette by author David Gerrold, Menno Meyjes's Martian Child stars John Cusack as a widowed science fiction writer who adopts a boy (Bobby Coleman) who claims to be from the Red Planet. The writer believes the child acts strangely in order to process the difficulty he has had in his young life, but soon both he and his sister (Joan Cusack) begin to wonder if the boy might be telling the truth. Amanda Peet co-stars as the woman who becomes a mother figure for the boy. -- Perry Seibert ...
	Persepolis Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating Number 1084 Year 2007 Length 1:35 Director Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud Category Drama, Biography [feature], Coming-of-Age Other French AMG SYNOPSIS: Filmmakers Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi collaborated to co-write and co-direct this adaptation of Satrapi's bestselling autobiographical graphic novel detailing the trials faced by an outspoken Iranian girl who finds her unique attitude and outlook on life repeatedly challenged during the Islamic revolution. The English-language version features the voice talents of Sean Penn, Gena Rowlands, and Iggy Pop, with Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni reprising their roles from the original French-language version. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	Rendition Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1092 Year 2007 Length 2:00 Director Gavin Hood Category Thriller, Political Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: The director of the Academy Award-winning 2006 crime drama Tsotsi returns to the helm with this tale of a Middle East CIA operative who begins to have doubts about his latest assignment after witnessing the interrogation of a suspected suicide bomber by secret police. When Egyptian-born chemical engineer Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwalli) mysteriously vanishes on a routine flight from South Africa to Washington, his wife Isabella (Reece Witherspoon) embarks on a frantic international search for her missing husband. At the same time, a CIA analyst (Jake Gyllenhaal) arrives at a clandestine detention facility outside of United States. As the interrogation of El-Ibrahimi gets underway, the CIA analyst is profoundly shaken by the unorthodox...
	Rocket Science Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1095 Year 2007 Length 1:41 Director Jeffrey Blitz Category Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Teen Movie AMG SYNOPSIS: Jeffrey Blitz's inspirational drama Rocket Science proves that many a handicap can be overcome, no matter how daunting the obstacle at hand may initially seem. Newcomer Reece Thompson plays Hal Hefner, a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route -- he joins the school debating team, which sends him on a headfirst plunge into breakneck speech competitions -- and offers a much-needed boost toward correcting the problem. Blitz, like his onscreen alter ego, struggled with a stammer as a young man -- a disability he eventually surmounted -- which imparted him with a...
	The Best of Borat Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 7.8 / 10.0 Number 1105 Year 2001 Length 0:25 Director Category Comedy, Short ...
	The Golden Compass Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1110 Year 2007 Length 1:53 Director Chris Weitz Category Fantasy, Fantasy Adventure Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: A young girl ventures into a perilous parallel universe to rescue her best friend and fight the forces of darkness in director Chris Weitz's adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman's best-selling fantasy trilogy. Screen newcomer Dakota Blue Richards stars as young heroine Lyra Belacqua, Casino Royale star Daniel Craig appears as Lyra's ruthless adventurer uncle, Lord Asriel, and Nicole Kidman assumes the glamorous guise of the villainous Mrs. Coulter. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	The Great Debaters Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1111 Year 2007 Length 2:03 Director Denzel Washington Category Drama, Inspirational Drama, Period Film Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Drawing inspiration from the true story of a temperamental debate coach who molded the students of a small East Texas college into a formidable team that gave even Harvard's elite squad a run for their money, Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters features the director himself as the ambitious educator, and Forest Whitaker as the resentful father of a student whose loyalties now lie almost exclusively with his coach. Melvin B. Tolson (Washington) is the kind of educator who truly recognizes the remarkable power of knowledge. An outspoken Wiley College professor who boldly challenged the discriminatory Jim Crow laws of the 1930s, Tolson's recognizes that his young debate students possess the spark of a...
	The Hunting Party Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1115 Year 2007 Length 1:41 Director Richard Shepard Category Thriller, Political Thriller, Tragi-comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: An emerging journalist (Jesse Eisenberg), an experienced cameraman (Terrence Howard), and a discredited reporter (Richard Gere) find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad in a light-hearted thriller inspired by Scott Anderson's popular Esquire article. The Weinstein Company provides stateside distribution for a film written and directed by Richard Shepard (The Matador). -- Jason Buchanan ...
	The Nines Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1123 Year 2007 Length 1:39 Director John August Category Comedy Drama, Psychological Drama, Fantasy Drama AMG SYNOPSIS: Writer/director John August ponders the metaphysical aspects of life and art in an episodic allegory that follows three artists as they embark on a soul searching journey of fate versus free will. When a troubled actor is placed under house arrest in "The Prisoner," his imagination begins to run wild due to the fact that his spirited publicist and cynical neighbor provide his only link to the outside world. Later, after the planes of reality fold in on themselves during the production of a Project Greenlight-style show which documents the filming of a popular sitcom in "Reality Television," "Knowing" follows a successful video game designer and his family as they become stranded in...
	We Own the Night Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1134 Year 2007 Length 1:57 Director James Gray Category Drama, Crime Drama, Period Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Set against the backdrop of the bloody battle waged between New York City cops and the Russian mafia in the 1980s, director James Gray's period drama tells the tale of an emerging club manager whose family ties to law enforcement make him a target for the city's most dangerous criminals. Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) manages one of Gotham's hottest clubs - but being in the club scene often means turning a blind eye to blatant criminal activities. Realizing that his career - and perhaps his life - could come to a sudden end if anyone discovers that his father Burt (Robert Duvall) is the deputy chief of police and his brother Joseph (Mark...
	He Was a Quiet Man Date Added 2008-01-07 Rating 8.2 / 10.0 Number 1061 Year 2006 Length 1:35 Director Frank Cappello Category Drama, Psychological Drama AMG SYNOPSIS: A man at the end of his emotional rope finally explodes, but not in a way anyone would have expected in this offbeat independent drama. Bob Maconel (Christian Slater) is a middle-aged nebbish working in an office building where few people know who he is and fewer still care. Bob has developed a seething hatred and resentment of those around him, and has taken to carrying a gun to work in the hope that one day he'll have the courage to take down some of his co-workers. However, one day another man working in the office snaps and opens fire; Bob grabs his weapon and kills the shooter, but not before the gunman...
	King of California Date Added 2008-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1070 Year 2007 Length 1:33 Director Michael Cahill Category Comedy Drama, Family Drama AMG SYNOPSIS: Michael Douglas stars as a treasure-hunting eccentric in this Alexander Payne-produced comedy from director Michael Cahill. Recently released from a mental institution and reunited with his teenage daughter, Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood), Charlie (Douglas) decides there's century's old gold buried near their lower-middle-class neighborhood, and sets out on an obsessive quest to find it. Along the way, the estranged parent and child rekindle a long-lost bond with each other. Featuring a score by David Robbins, King of California screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. -- Matthew Tobey ...
	The Brave One Date Added 2008-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1107 Year 2007 Length 2:02 Director Neil Jordan Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: Neil Jordan's The Brave One stars Jodie Foster as a happy woman whose life changes irrevocably after a brutal assault leaves her partner (Naveen Andrews) dead. The woman, feeling that the police investigation will be unable to catch the perpetrators, begins to live in constant fear. This outlook results in the woman eventually dispatching vigilante justice. Terrence Howard co-stars as the officer in charge of the investigation. -- Perry Seibert ...
	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Date Added 2008-01-05 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1039 Year 2007 Length 1:57 Director Sidney Lumet Category Crime, Crime Thriller, Family Drama Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, and Marisa Tomei star in director Sidney Lumet's thriller concerning two brothers who hatch a plan to rob their parent's jewelry store. When the job goes awry, the entire family is set on a collision course with tragedy. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	Death Sentence Date Added 2008-01-05 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1044 Year 2007 Length 1:46 Director James Wan Category Crime, Crime Thriller, Psychological Drama AMG SYNOPSIS: Part vigilante drama and part psychological thriller, the James Wan-directed Death Sentence stars Kevin Bacon