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	State of Play Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1324 Year 2009 Length 2:07 Director Kevin Macdonald Category Drama The Last King of Scotland director Kevin McDonald teams with screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan for this American adaptation of the hit British miniseries concerning the suspicious circumstances that set a rising congressman and a dogged reporter on a dangerous collision course. U.S. congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck) is handsome, unflappable, and ascending the ladder of power with unprecedented speed. He's the future of his political party, and as the chairman of a committee assigned to oversee defense spending, he's got all the right connections. As the presidential race draws near, Washington insiders begin to speculate that Collins will earn his party's nomination for the country's top job. The prospect of Collins becoming president seems less...
	What Doesn't Kill You Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1305 Year 2008 Length 1:40 Director Brian Goodman Category Drama Other NL Inspired by his own tough childhood on the unforgiving streets of South Boston, director/co-screenwriter (along with Paul T. Murray and Donnie Wahlberg) Brian Goodman's tough-talking crime drama follows the journey of two childhood friends as they attempt to sever their powerful underworld ties. Ever since they were just young kids, Brian (Mark Ruffalo) and Paulie (Ethan Hawke) have always watched out for one another. From the petty crimes and misdemeanors of childhood to more serious criminal endeavors as they take their tenuous first steps into adulthood, the two sworn friends do their best to survive in the dog-eat-dog neighborhood while gradually falling under the sway of powerful crime boss Pat Kelly (Goodman). Fifteen years later,...
	Defiance Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 7.0 / 10.0 Number 1283 Year 2008 Length 2:17 Director Edward Zwick Category War Other Screener Inspired by a true story, director Edward Zwick's epic World War II drama Defiance tells the tale of three Jewish Eastern European brothers (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, and Jamie Bell) who narrowly escape certain death at the hands of the Nazis, subsequently vowing to avenge the deaths of their loves ones by launching a desperate battle against the forces that seek to exterminate their entire race. The year is 1941, and the setting is Nazi-occupied Poland. The Final Solution is in full effect, and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being slaughtered wholesale. Tuvia (Craig), Zus (Schreiber), and Asael (Bell) have miraculously managed to escape into the dense surrounding forest. Having played in these woods...
	Gran Torino Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 7.0 / 10.0 Number 1285 Year 2008 Length 1:56 Director Clint Eastwood Category Drama Other Proper A racist Korean War veteran living in a crime-ridden Detroit neighborhood is forced to confront his own lingering prejudice when a troubled Hmong teen from his neighborhood attempts to steal his prized Gran Torino. Decades after the Korean War has ended, ageing veteran Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is still haunted by the horrors he witnessed on the battlefield. The two objects that matter most to Kowalski in life are the classic Gran Torino that represents his happier days working in a Ford assembly plant, and the M-1 rifle that saved his life countless times during combat. When Kowalski's teenage neighbor (Bee Vang) attempts to steal his Gran Torino as part of a gang initiation rite,...
	Body of Lies Date Added 2009-03-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1278 Year 2008 Length 2:08 Director Ridley Scott Category Action | Drama | Thriller Roger Ferris is a CIA operative in the Middle East; Ed Hoffman is his control at Langley. Cynicism is everywhere. In Amman, Roger works with Hani Salaam, Jordan's head of security, whose only dictum is "Don't lie to me." The Americans are in pursuit of a cleric who leads a group placing bombs all over Europe. When Hani rebukes Ed's demand that Jordan allow the Americans to use one of Jordan's double agents, Roger and Ed hatch a plan to bring the cleric to them. The plan is complicated by its being a secret from Hani and by Roger's attraction to a local nurse. Satellites and cell phones, bodies and lies: modern warfare....
	RocknRolla Date Added 2009-02-14 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1279 Year 2008 Length 1:54 Director Guy Ritchie Category Crime, Caper, Action Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director Guy Ritchie heads back to the London underworld for this hyperkinetic crime comedy concerning a shady land deal that leaves every schemer in the city determined to get rich or die trying. When a Russian mobster orchestrates a lucrative real estate scam, every criminal in London wants a piece of the action. Greed is the universal language, and everyone from unrelenting crime boss Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson) to street-smart criminal One Two (Gerard Butler), corrupt accountant Stella (Thandie Newton), and unpredictable punk rocker Johnny Quid (Toby Kebbell) seem to speak it fluently. As the bullets start to fly and the double crosses multiply, there's no telling...
	Appaloosa Date Added 2009-01-19 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1271 Year 2008 Length 1:55 Director Ed Harris Category Western, Traditional Western Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Upon drifting into a troubled Western outpost and discovering that the helpless locals are being terrorized by a ruthless rancher and his brutish hired hands, two rugged, straight-shooting peacemakers decide to stick around and put things right in this Western adapted from the novel by Robert B. Parker, and directed by Ed Harris. Bragg (Jeremy Irons) is a rancher who believes himself to be above the law, a stance that's forever cemented when he guns down the town sheriff and his deputy in cold blood. Horrified, the defenseless townspeople pray for the day a savior will arrive in town to free them from Bragg's suffocating grasp. Soon thereafter, Virgil (Harris) and Everett (Viggo...
	Burn After Reading Date Added 2009-01-19 Rating 7.0 / 10.0 Number 1274 Year 2008 Length 1:36 Director Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Category Comedy, Farce, Ensemble Film, Spy Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: A CIA agent who is currently in the process of writing a book loses the disc containing his only manuscript in this comedic tale of espionage that reunites filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen with Intolerable Cruelty and O Brother, Where Art Thou? star George Clooney. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	Religulous Date Added 2009-01-19 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1275 Year 2008 Length 1:41 Director Larry Charles Category Comedy, Spirituality & Philosophy [nf], Satire, Religions & Belief Systems Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Borat director Larry Charles follows host Bill Maher as he travels the continents interviewing various subjects about God and religion. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	Out of Time Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1256 Year 2003 Length 1:45 Director Carl Franklin Category Thriller, Crime Thriller, Police Detective Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Carl Franklin and actor Denzel Washington team up again (following 1995's Devil in a Blue Dress) for the crime thriller Out of Time. Washington stars as Matt Lee Whitlock, the well-respected chief of police in a quiet Florida community. While in the process of getting a divorce from fellow detective Alexandra (Eva Mendez), Matt engages in an affair with his high school sweetheart Anne (Sanaa Lathan). Unfortunately, Anne is married to the extremely jealous Chris (Dean Cain), a former pro football player who works as a security guard. After a major murder occurs in the community, Matt finds himself the main suspect. With the help of his medical examiner pal Chae (John...
	Taken Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 7.9 / 10.0 Number 1262 Year 2008 Length 1:34 Director Pierre Morel Category Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller The film follows an ex-CIA "Preventer", who is faced with recovering his daughter after she is kidnapped by human trafficking|sex-traffickers in Paris, France. Bryan (Liam Neeson), a former secret agent living in the US. He is skilled in hand to hand combat, divorced; and loves his 17-year-old daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) who lives with his ex-wife and her new husband Stuart (Xander Berkeley). Kim wants to take a vacation in Europe with her friend Amanda (Katie Cassidy), and together follow U2's European tour. Kim's mother allows this, but Kim also needs permission from her father. Since Kim fears that Bryan will not consent, she pretends that they will only stay in Paris. Reluctantly, Bryan agrees....
	Taxi to the Dark Side Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1263 Year 2007 Length 1:46 Director Alex Gibney Category Culture & Society [nf], Law & Crime, Military & War, Social Issues, Politics & Government AMG SYNOPSIS: From the producer of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Who Killed the Electric Car? comes a documentary that takes a critical look at the Bush administration's policy on torture by investigating the death of an Afghan taxi driver who, after being taken into the custody of American soldiers at Bagram Air Force Base, suffered fatal injuries at the hands of U.S. soldiers. In 2002, American soldiers accused an Afghan taxi driver of taking part in a deadly rocket attack. Five days after being handed over to the U.S. military for questioning, the man was found dead -- the victim of a brutal bout of torture and abuse according to the...
	The Siege Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1264 Year 1998 Length 1:56 Director Edward Zwick Category Action, Action Thriller, Political Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: Edward Zwick directed this action thriller about Islamic militants unleashing terrorism in New York City. As FBI Terrorism Task Force-chief Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington) investigates, a false-alarm bomb threat is followed by a legit bomb, with many killed when a Brooklyn bus explodes. Agents track a suspect through Brooklyn, while Hub teams with Middle East expert and NSA operative Elise Kraft (Annette Bening). After the FBI wipes out three Arabs in a Brooklyn apartment, an explosion in a Broadway theater is followed by attacks on a school and FBI headquarters. When the President declares martial law, neo-fascist Army General William Devereaux (Bruce Willis) swings into action, deploying tanks through Brooklyn, capturing Arab-American males,...
	Training Day Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1265 Year 2001 Length 2:00 Director Antoine Fuqua Category Crime, Thriller, Police Drama, Crime Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: The Fast and the Furious (2001) screenwriter David Ayer follows up that fast-paced action hit with this gritty cop drama from director Antoine Fuqua. Ethan Hawke stars as Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced Los Angeles Police Department rookie anxious to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington). Harris has agreed to give Hoyt a shot at joining his team with a one-day ride-along during which Hoyt must prove his mettle. As the day wears on, however, it becomes increasingly clear to the greenhorn that his experienced mentor has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own morally compromised code...
	Wanted Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1269 Year 2008 Length 1:50 Director Timur Bekmambetov Category Action, Action Thriller, Fantasy Adventure AMG SYNOPSIS: Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov helms his first English-language feature film with this big-screen adaptation of Mark Millar's action-packed graphic novel. Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a cube-dwelling hypochondriac whose uneventful life has become a mundane blur of terminal boredom. Repeatedly humiliated by his boss and constantly cuckolded by his cheating girlfriend, weakling Wes seems to be living right down to everyone's expectations that he would never amount to anything in life. However, upon discovering that the father he never knew has been brutally murdered, the spineless, clock-punching pushover is recruited into a secret society of assassins known as the Fraternity. During the course of his training, the man who was once an...
	Mongol Date Added 2008-10-12 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1246 Year 2007 Length 2:06 Director Sergei Bodrov Category Epic, Historical Epic, Biopic [feature] AMG SYNOPSIS: Based on the controversial writings of Russian historian Lev Gumilyov, director Sergei Bodrov's look at the early years in the life of the Mongol conqueror stars Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano as Temudgin (as he was then known), Honglei Sun as Mongol chieftain Jamukha, who was both Temudgin's close friend and mortal enemy, and newcomer Khulan Chuluun as his wife, Borte. Born in the year 1162, Temudgen's childhood was marred by tragedy and peril. But a great battle would seal Temudgen's fate forever, and though history often paints him as a brute, the truth is much more complex. Few historians make mention of the role Temudgen's wife, Borte, played in advising her husband and...
	Iron Man Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1230 Year 2008 Length 2:06 Director Jon Favreau Category Action, Sci-Fi Action, Superhero Film AMG SYNOPSIS: From Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures comes Iron Man, an action-packed take on the tale of wealthy philanthropist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), who develops an invulnerable robotic suit to fight the throes of evil. In addition to being filthy rich, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark is also a genius inventor. When Stark is kidnapped and forced to build a diabolical weapon, he instead uses his intelligence and ingenuity to construct an indestructible suit of armor and escape his captors. Once free, Stark discovers a deadly conspiracy that could destabilize the entire globe, and dons his powerful new suit on a mission to stop the villains and save the world. Gwyneth Paltrow co-stars as...
	L.A. Confidential Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1232 Year 1997 Length 2:18 Director Curtis Hanson Category Crime, Mystery, Police Detective Film, Post-Noir (Modern Noir) AMG SYNOPSIS: Based on the best-selling novel by James Ellroy and directed by Curtis Hanson, this award-winning crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los Angeles police force and Southern California's criminal underbelly in the early '50s, when Hollywood was still seen as America's capital of sophistication, glitter, and glamour. Dudley Smith (James Cromwell) is the head of the LAPD and is loyal to his officers and eager to turn a blind eye to violence or corruption within his department, as long as it's the "bad guys" who are getting hurt. Bud White (Russell Crowe) is a police detective whose violent and cynical nature is often at war with his basic sense of...
	Street Kings Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1236 Year 2008 Length 1:49 Director David Ayer Category Drama, Police Detective Film Other Repack AMG SYNOPSIS: In the wake of the L.A. riots, an LAPD vice detective who always went above and beyond the call of duty to keep the streets safe receives a startling wake-up call that leaves him convinced he can no longer employ the tactics that made him so effective in his work. LAPD veteran Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) has borne personal witness to the worst that the streets have to offer, and when his partner, Detective Terrance Washington (Terry Crews), is killed the violence strikes a bit too close to home. Now Ludlow is on a mission to bring his partner's killer to justice, though Captain Walker (Forest Whitaker) is concerned that the hotheaded detective...
	The Dark Knight Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1237 Year 2008 Length 2:32 Director Christopher Nolan Category Crime, Fantasy, Crime Drama, Superhero Film Other Screener, Proper AMG SYNOPSIS: Christopher Nolan steps back into the director's chair for this sequel to Batman Begins, which finds the titular superhero coming face to face with his greatest nemesis -- the dreaded Joker. Christian Bale returns to the role of Batman, Maggie Gyllenhaal takes over the role of Rachel Dawes (played by Katie Holmes in Batman Begins), and Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger dons the ghoulishly gleeful Joker makeup previously worn by Jack Nicholson and Cesar Romero. Just as it begins to appear as if Batman, Lt. James Gordon (Gary Oldman), and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) are making headway in their tireless battle against the criminal element, a maniacal, wisecracking fiend plunges the...
	Cloverfield Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1209 Year 2008 Length 1:25 Director Matt Reeves Category Science Fiction, Monster Film, Sci-Fi Horror, Sci-Fi Disaster Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Producer J.J. Abrams teams with writer Drew Goddard and director Matt Reeves for this frenetic tale of a powerful destructive force that descends upon New York City, and the four desperate people who put their lives on the line to embark on a perilous rescue mission. Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David) is a young American professional who has recently been offered a coveted new job in Japan. Eager to send his older sibling off in style, Rob's younger brother, Jason (Mike Vogel), and his girlfriend, Lily (Jessica Lucas), organize a surprise going-away party to take place the night before Rob boards his Eastern-bound flight. As the party gets underway, Rob's longtime friend and current...
	Natural Born Killers Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1212 Year 1994 Length 2:02 Director Oliver Stone Category Crime, Crime Drama, Road Movie, Media Satire Other Directors Cut AMG SYNOPSIS: A frenetic, bloody look at mass murder and the mass media, director Oliver Stone's extremely controversial film divided critics and audiences with its mixture of over-the-top violence and bitter cultural satire. At the center of the film, written by Stone and Quentin Tarantino, among others, are Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory (Juliette Lewis), a young couple united by their desire for each other and their common love of violence. Together, they embark on a record-breaking, exceptionally gory killing spree that captivates the sensation-hungry tabloid media. Their fame is ensured by one newsman, Wayne Gale (Robert Downey, Jr.), who reports on Mickey and Mallory for his show, American Maniacs. Even the duo's eventual capture...
	The Bank Job Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1219 Year 2008 Length 1:51 Director Roger Donaldson Category Crime, Caper, Docudrama, Crime Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows star in director Roger Donaldson's cinematic account of the true-life 1971 London bank robbery that baffled the authorities and fascinated the public. Terry Leather (Statham) was a small-time car dealer who was trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Though he'd never been involved in any major crimes, he wasn't exactly on the straight and narrow his whole life either. Martine Love (Burrows) is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighborhood who knows that her former neighbor is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a Baker Street bank, Terry recognizes the danger but realizes this may be the opportunity of...
	The Thin Red Line Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1127 Year 1998 Length 2:50 Director Terrence Malick Category War, War Drama, Ensemble Film, Combat Films, Anti-War Film AMG SYNOPSIS: The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man's destruction of nature and himself, based on James Jones' semi-autobiographical novel, his follow-up to From Here to Eternity. James Caviezel stars as Private Witt, a deserter living in peace and harmony with the natives of a Pacific island paradise. Captured by the Navy, Witt is debriefed by a senior officer (Sean Penn) and returned to an active duty unit preparing for what will be the Battle of Guadalcanal. As Witt goes ashore in the company of his fellow soldiers, they meet diverse fates. Sergeant Keck (Woody Harrelson) is...
	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 1041 Year 1969 Length 1:50 Director George Roy Hill Category Western, Buddy Film, Revisionist Western, Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Opening with a silent "movie" of Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall Gang, George Roy Hill's comically elegiac Western chronicles the mostly true tale of the outlaws' last months. Witty pals Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) join the Gang in successfully robbing yet another train with their trademark non-lethal style. After the pair rests at the home of Sundance's schoolmarm girlfriend, Etta (Katharine Ross), the Gang robs the same train, but this time, the railroad boss has hired the best trackers in the business to foil the crime. After being tailed over rocks and a river gorge by guys that they can barely identify save for a white hat, Butch and...
	Michael Clayton Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1077 Year 2007 Length 1:59 Director Tony Gilroy Category Thriller, Paranoid Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: Michael Clayton (Clooney) handles all of the dirty work for a major New York law firm: Arranging top-flight legal services and skirting through loopholes for ethically questionable clients. But when a fellow "fixer" decides to turn on the very firm they were hired to clean up for, Clayton finds himself at the center of a conspiratorial maelstrom. Once an ambitious D.A., Clayton is now a shell of his former dynamic self, thanks to a divorce, an unfortunate business venture, and astronomical debt. Though he longs to leave the cutthroat, ethically dubious world of corporate law behind, Clayton's poor financial situation and devotion to firm head Marty Bach (Sydney Pollack) leave him little choice...
	Platoon Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1087 Year 1986 Length 2:00 Director Oliver Stone Category War, Combat Films, Anti-War Film, War Drama AMG SYNOPSIS: Oliver Stone's breakthrough as a director, Platoon is a brutally realistic look at a young soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a college student who quits school to volunteer for the Army in the late '60s. He's shipped off to Vietnam, where he serves with a culturally diverse group of fellow soldiers under two men who lead the platoon: Sgt. Barnes (Tom Berenger), whose facial scars are a mirror of the violence and corruption of his soul, and Sgt. Elias (Willem Dafoe), who maintains a Zen-like calm in the jungle and fights with both personal and moral courage even though he no longer believes in the war. After...
	Chinatown Date Added 2008-03-03 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 1042 Year 1974 Length 2:11 Director Roman Polanski Category Mystery, Post-Noir (Modern Noir), Detective Film AMG SYNOPSIS: "You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't," warns water baron Noah Cross (John Huston), when smooth cop-turned-private eye J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) starts nosing around Cross's water diversion scheme. That proves to be the ominous lesson of Chinatown, Roman Polanski's critically lauded 1974 revision of 1940s film noir detective movies. In 1930s Los Angeles, "matrimonial work" specialist Gittes is hired by Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) to tail her husband, Water Department engineer Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling). Gittes photographs him in the company of a young blonde and figures the case is closed, only to discover that the real Mrs. Mulwray had nothing to do with...
	There Will Be Blood Date Added 2008-03-03 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1128 Year 2007 Length 2:38 Director Paul Thomas Anderson Category Drama, Family Drama, Period Film Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson steps outside his contemporary world of dysfunctional Angelenos to explore a very different dysfunctional man -- an oil pioneer whose trailblazing spirit is equaled only by his murderous ambition. There Will Be Blood is Anderson's loose adaptation of the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair, and it focuses its attentions on Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a failed silver miner who happens upon black gold during a disastrous excavation that ends in a broken leg. Pulling himself up from the bowels of the earth, both literally and metaphorically, Plainview embarks on a systematic and steadfast approach to mastering the oil business. Using plain-spoken and straightforward language, and accompanied by his young...
	Viva La Bam: Season 1 [1/2] Date Added 2008-03-03 Rating 6.5 / 10.0 Number 1129 Year 2006 Length 0:00 Director Category Comedy, Candid Reality Show, Bloopers & Candid Camera A show that follows Bam Margera (of Jackass and CKY fame) in his attempts to anger his parents. Unlike CKY or Jackass, Viva La Bam focuses mainly on the torture of Bam's parents and less on harmful stunts....
	Viva La Bam: Season 1 [2/2] Date Added 2008-03-03 Rating 6.5 / 10.0 Number 1130 Year 2006 Length 0:00 Director Category Comedy, Candid Reality Show, Bloopers & Candid Camera A show that follows Bam Margera (of Jackass and CKY fame) in his attempts to anger his parents. Unlike CKY or Jackass, Viva La Bam focuses mainly on the torture of Bam's parents and less on harmful stunts....
	Viva La Bam: Season 2 Date Added 2008-03-03 Rating 6.5 / 10.0 Number 1131 Year 2006 Length 0:00 Director Category Comedy, Candid Reality Show, Bloopers & Candid Camera A show that follows Bam Margera (of Jackass and CKY fame) in his attempts to anger his parents. Unlike CKY or Jackass, Viva La Bam focuses mainly on the torture of Bam's parents and less on harmful stunts....
	Viva La Bam: Season 3 Date Added 2008-03-03 Rating 6.5 / 10.0 Number 1132 Year 2006 Length 0:00 Director Category Comedy, Candid Reality Show, Bloopers & Candid Camera A show that follows Bam Margera (of Jackass and CKY fame) in his attempts to anger his parents. Unlike CKY or Jackass, Viva La Bam focuses mainly on the torture of Bam's parents and less on harmful stunts....
	Sleuth Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1100 Year 2007 Length 1:27 Director Kenneth Branagh Category Mystery, Whodunit, Psychological Thriller Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: The Anthony Shaffer play originally brought to the screen in 1972 gets the remake treatment in this updating that finds Michael Caine stepping into the role of the brilliant thriller writer portrayed by Laurence Olivier in the original, and Jude Law following in Caine's footsteps as the young hairdresser who steals the literary giant's wife, only to find himself subsequently swallowed up in an elaborate revenge scheme. Kenneth Branagh directs a script adapted from Shaffer's original play by screenwriter Harold Pinter. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1104 Year 2007 Length 2:40 Director Andrew Dominik Category Western, Psychological Western AMG SYNOPSIS: Brad Pitt stars as legendary Wild West outlaw Jesse James in Chopper director Andrew Dominik's cinematic rendering of the events that would eventually bring about the death of the man rumored be the "fastest gun in the West." An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw. When Robert and his brother Charlie sense an opportunity to kill James, their murderous action elevates their target to near mythical status. Casey Affleck stars as Robert Ford and Sam Shepard co-stars as Frank James -- Jesse's devoted sibling and partner in crime. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	Family Guy: Blue Harvest Date Added 2008-01-07 Rating Number 1050 Year 2007 Length 0:00 Director Dominic Polcino Category Other STV ...
	3:10 to Yuma Date Added 2008-01-05 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1024 Year 2007 Length 2:02 Director James Mangold Category Western, Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film, Psychological Western AMG SYNOPSIS: Russell Crowe plays a desperado whose accomplices stage an ambush after he is taken into custody by a determined local sheriff in this remake of the 1957 film starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. James Mangold directs a script based on the Elmore Leonard short story and penned by Stuart Beattie, Michael Brandt, and Derek Haas. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	No Country for Old Men Date Added 2008-01-05 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1080 Year 2007 Length 2:02 Director Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Category Thriller, Crime Thriller Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: When a Vietnam veteran discovers two million dollars while wandering through the aftermath of a Texas drug deal gone horribly awry, his decision to abscond with the cash sets off a violent chain reaction in a stripped-down crime drama from Joel and Ethan Coen. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) has just stumbled into the find of a lifetime. Upon discovering a bullet-strewn pickup truck surrounded by the corpses of dead bodyguards, Moss uncovers two million dollars in cash and a substantial load of heroin stashed in the back of the vehicle. Later, as an enigmatic killer who determines the fate of his victims with the flip of a coin sets out in pursuit of...
	War Date Added 2008-01-05 Rating 6.3 / 10.0 Number 1133 Year 2007 Length 1:43 Director Phillip Atwell Category Action, Martial Arts, Action Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: An FBI agent whose partner and family were killed by a notorious assassin sets out for revenge as the elusive trigger-man sparks a sprawling gang war between the Triads and the Yakuza in the feature debut from prolific music video director Phillip Atwell. FBI Agent Jack Crawford (Jason Statham) is a man driven by vengeance. After his partner Tome Lone (Terry Chen) and his family fell to bullets fired by infamous hit-man Rogue (Jet Li), Crawford makes it his life mission to ferret out the slippery killer. Complications arise when it begins to appear as if Rogue has a mission of his own to carry out, and as Triad boss Chang (John Lone)...
	Eastern Promises Date Added 2007-12-16 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1047 Year 2007 Length 1:40 Director David Cronenberg Category Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Vincent Cassel star in this David Cronenberg's thriller concerning a London midwife who unwittingly stumbles into a clandestine Russian sex trafficking ring. An unidentified Russian teen has been rushed to a London hospital after going into labor. Though midwife Anna Khitrova (Watts) does manage to deliver a healthy baby girl, the newborn's mother dies tragically during delivery. But the deceased mother's secrets did not die with her, because she has left behind a diary. Determined to ensure the newborn is placed with her rightful family, Anna attempts to read the diary and discovers a business card for a local restaurant therein. Upon visiting the restaurant Anna...
	American Gangster Date Added 2007-11-11 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1029 Year 2007 Length 2:37 Director Ridley Scott Category Crime, Crime Drama, Gangster Film Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Ridley Scott spins this yarn concerning a Harlem drug kingpin (Denzel Washington) who smuggles heroin into the country by hiding it in the bodies of U.S. soldiers killed during battle in Vietnam. There was a time when no one noticed reserved driver Frank Lucas (Washington), but when the criminal kingpin he was charged with transporting through the city streets suddenly dies, Lucas seizes the opportunity to build his own criminal empire. In the following months, Lucas solidifies his status as Harlem's most innovative drug dealer by delivering a product that is purer than the competitors' and cheaper, as well. When innovative businessman Lukas attempts to go semi-legit by becoming one of the...
	Rescue Dawn Date Added 2007-11-11 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1093 Year 2006 Length 2:00 Director Werner Herzog Category War, POW Drama, Escape Film, Docudrama AMG SYNOPSIS: Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog returns to direct his first feature since 2001's Invincible with this dramatic action film inspired by his own 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly and detailing the escape efforts of a German-American pilot who was taken as a prisoner-of-war after being shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War. When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) escaped death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were only beginning. Subsequently taken captive by the enemy and forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp, Dengler and his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape that...
	The Bourne Ultimatum Date Added 2007-11-09 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1106 Year 2007 Length 1:55 Director Paul Greengrass Category Action, Spy Film, Action Thriller, Unglamorized Spy Film, Paranoid Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) races to solve the mystery of his past while being hunted by members of the very organization he was hired into as director Paul Greengrass brings author Robert Ludlum's popular character back to the big screen for his third feature outing. David Strathairn, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen, and Paddy Considine co-star. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Date Added 2007-11-04 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1031 Year 1997 Length 1:29 Director Jay Roach Category Spy Film, Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Absurd Comedy, Spy Comedy, Master Criminal Films AMG SYNOPSIS: Less a parody of the early James Bond film than a parody of the films that parodied the early James Bond films, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery stars Mike Myers as Austin Powers, by day a hipster fashion photographer in mid-'60s swingin' London and by night a crime-fighting secret agent. Austin's wardrobe is pure Carnaby Street at its most outrageous, his vocabulary is crowded by the cool lingo of the day ("Groovy, baby! Yeah!!"), and he's irresistible to women, despite the fact that he can be charitably described as "stocky" and has teeth that strike fear into any practicing dentist. When his nemesis, the arch-enemy Dr. Evil (also played by Myers), has...
	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Date Added 2007-11-04 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1032 Year 1999 Length 1:35 Director Jay Roach Category Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Spy Comedy, Absurd Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: Austin Powers -- fashion photographer, denizen of Swingin' London, international espionage agent, and bane of dental hygienists everywhere -- returns in his second screen adventure. Powers (once again played by Mike Myers), a 1960s superspy stranded in the 1990s, discovers that his nemesis, criminal genius Dr. Evil (also Mike Myers), has somehow stolen his "mojo" (the secret to his otherwise inexplicable sex appeal) and traveled back in time to the 1960s as part of his latest fiendish scheme. Powers must also travel back in time to retrieve it, but if Austin doesn't quite fit into 1998, he's been there just long enough not to fit in in 1968 anymore, either. Powers also discovers...
	Death Proof Date Added 2007-09-23 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 822 Year 2007 Length 1:54 Director Quentin Tarantino Category Thriller, Slasher Film, Chase Movie Other Unrated AMG SYNOPSIS: In Death Proof -- director Tarantino's take on such peddle-to-the-metal shockers as White Line Fever -- Kurt Russell stars as an engine-revving psychopath who prefers to take out his beautiful victims at 200 mph. Originally released into theaters on a double bill with Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror under the Grindhouse banner, Death Proof finds a group of ladies out on the town pitted against a mysterious figured named Stuntman Mike (Russell), whose vintage Dodge Charger has been partially modified to withstand even the most extreme auto collision. Though the maniacal driver himself always comes out relatively unscathed, the same certainly can't be said for the poor young lass in his passenger seat --...
	Se7en Date Added 2007-09-23 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 872 Year 1995 Length 2:05 Director David Fincher Category Thriller, Police Detective Film, Crime Thriller Other This one works AMG SYNOPSIS: Director David Fincher's dark, stylish thriller ranks as one of the decade's most influential box-office successes. Set in a hellish vision of a New York-like city, where it is always raining and the air crackles with impending death, the film concerns Det. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a homicide specialist just one week from a well-deserved retirement. Every minute of his 32 years on the job is evident in Somerset's worn, exhausted face, and his soul aches with the pain that can only come from having seen and felt far too much. But Somerset's retirement must wait for one last case, for which he is teamed with young hotshot David Mills (Brad Pitt), the...
	Transformers Date Added 2007-09-23 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 917 Year 2007 Length 2:20 Director Michael Bay Category Action, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Action, Alien Invasion Films AMG SYNOPSIS: The interstellar battle between the Autobots and Decepticons rains destruction down on planet Earth as director Michael Bay adapts Hasbro and Takara's popular Transformers franchise into a big-budget, live-action summer tentpole extravaganza in this ambitious sci-fi action feature starring Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Bernie Mac, John Turturro, Jon Voight, and, of course, Optimus Prime and Megatron. Long ago, on the planet of Cybertron, a massive, powerful alien race divided into two factions, the noble Autobots, and the devious Decepticons. They fought for the sole access to a talisman known as the Allspark, a cube with the capacity to grant infinite power, and eventually the Autobots smuggled it off the planet's surface, hiding it...
	Blades of Glory Date Added 2007-08-10 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 811 Year 2007 Length 1:33 Director Will Speck, Josh Gordon Category Comedy, Sports Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, and Will Arnett headline this high-concept comedy concerning two male figure-skating rivals aching to compete despite having been banned from the sport. Their medals stripped after getting into a highly publicized fight at the World Championships, star figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Heder) are barred from ever competing in the sport again. Upon discovering a loophole that will allow them to perform together in the pairs figure skating category, the two athletes determine to put their differences aside in order to pursue their gold medal aspirations. Amy Poehler, Jenna Fischer, Craig T. Nelson, and Rob Corddry co-star. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	The Simpsons Movie Date Added 2007-08-10 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 913 Year 2007 Length 1:26 Director David Silverman Category Comedy, Satire, Domestic Comedy Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: They've kept television viewers laughing for nearly 20 years, and now the most popular animated family on the small screen makes the leap into theaters as Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, ad Maggie embark on their first-ever feature-length adventure. Directed by David Silverman and written by a whole host of Simpsons veterans including Matt Groening and James L. Brooks, The Simpsons Movie also features special guest appearances by Albert Brooks among others. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	Batman Begins Date Added 2007-07-22 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 806 Year 2005 Length 2:20 Director Christopher Nolan Category Fantasy, Action, Comic-Book Superhero Film AMG SYNOPSIS: The origins of the Caped Crusader of Gotham City are finally brought to the big screen in this new adaptation of the perennially popular comic-book series. The young Bruce Wayne (Gus Lewis) leads a privileged life as the son of wealthy, philanthropist parents, both of whom stress their commitment to improving the lives of the citizens of crime-ridden Gotham City. After his mother and father are murdered by a mugger, however, Wayne grows into an impudent young man (Christian Bale), full of rage and bent on retribution until encouraged by his childhood sweetheart, Rachel Dawes (Katie Holmes), to search for answers beyond his own personal vendettas. Wayne eventually finds discipline in the Far...
	Das Boot Date Added 2007-07-22 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 821 Year 1981 Length 2:25 Director Wolfgang Petersen Category War, Sea Adventure, War Drama AMG SYNOPSIS: Das Boot is one of the most gripping and authentic war movies ever made. Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, the film follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean in search of Allied vessels, taking turns as hunter and prey. There's very little plot, so the movie's power comes from both its riveting, epic battle scenes and its details of the boring hours spent waiting for orders or signs of the enemy. With the exception of one staunch Hitler Youth lieutenant, none of the crew is particularly loyal to the Nazis, and...
	Fargo Date Added 2007-07-22 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 828 Year 1996 Length 1:37 Director Joel Coen Category Crime, Crime Comedy, Black Comedy, Americana AMG SYNOPSIS: Filmmaking siblings Joel Coen and Ethan Coen both embraced and poked satirical fun at their rural Minnesota roots with this comedy-drama-thriller that earned seven Oscar nominations, winning for Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant police chief whose affable, folksy demeanor masks a whip-smart mind. When a pair of motorists are found slain not far from the corpse of a state trooper, Marge begins piecing together a case involving a pair of dopey would-be kidnappers, Carl (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear (Bergman stock player Peter Stormare). They've been hired by Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy), a car salesman under the thumb of his wealthy, overbearing boss and...
	The Downfall Date Added 2007-07-19 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 896 Year 2004 Length 2:30 Director Oliver Hirschbiegel Category Drama, Docudrama, Biography [feature] Other German Audio, English Subtitles AMG SYNOPSIS: The last ten days of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime are seen through the eyes of a young woman in his employ in this historical drama from Germany. Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) was 22 years old when, in the fall of 1942, she was hired to be personal secretary to Adolf Hitler (Bruno Ganz). In April of 1945, Junge was still working for Hitler as Allied forces were bearing down on Germany and the leader retreated to a secret bunker in Berlin for what would prove to be the last ten days of his life, as well as that of the Third Reich. As Hitler's mistress Eva Braun (Juliane K...
	The Shawshank Redemption [1/2] Date Added 2007-07-18 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 910 Year 1994 Length 2:22 Director Frank Darabont Category Drama, Prison Film, Buddy Film, Escape Film Other 2-Disc Special Edition, Complete AMG SYNOPSIS: In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most likely to crack under the pressure. The ugly realities of prison life are quickly introduced to Andy: a corrupt warden (Bob Gunton), sadistic guards led by Capt. Byron Hadley (Clancy Brown), and inmates who are little better than animals, willing to use rape or beatings to insure their dominance. But Andy does not crack: he has the hope of the truly innocent, which...
	The Shawshank Redemption [2/2] Date Added 2007-07-18 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 911 Year 1994 Length 2:22 Director Frank Darabont Category Drama, Prison Film, Buddy Film, Escape Film Other 2-Disc Special Edition, Complete AMG SYNOPSIS: In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most likely to crack under the pressure. The ugly realities of prison life are quickly introduced to Andy: a corrupt warden (Bob Gunton), sadistic guards led by Capt. Byron Hadley (Clancy Brown), and inmates who are little better than animals, willing to use rape or beatings to insure their dominance. But Andy does not crack: he has the hope of the truly innocent, which...
	Breach Date Added 2007-07-15 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 814 Year 2007 Length 1:50 Director Billy Ray Category Spy Film, Docudrama, Unglamorized Spy Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Shattered Glass director Billy Ray directs Chris Cooper and Ryan Philippe in this fact-based drama concerning the FBI traitor who carried out what many historians refer to as the most notable national security breach in U.S. history. A key member of the FBI's elite Soviet Analytical Unit, Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper) would, for 15 years beginning in 1985, sell thousands of pages of classified documents to the Soviets. After making roughly 600,000 dollars on his clandestine endeavor and compromising everything from the identities of KGB spies working for the American government to nuclear war contingency plans, Hanssen was eventually transferred to a newly created position at the FBI's Washington headquarters and assigned the...
	Silent Rage Date Added 2007-07-11 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 1005 Year 1982 Length 1:40 Director Michael Miller Category Action, Martial Arts AMG SYNOPSIS: The sheriff of a small Texas town is pitted against a genetically engineered super-villain. -- All Movie Guide ...
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Original Series (Vol. 1) Date Added 2007-07-07 Rating 8.2 / 10.0 Number 881 Year 2004 Length 0:00 Director Category Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy The 1987 debut season of the wildly popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' first animated TV series finally arrives in its entirety on this single disc. And while it's a pleasure to have these long-unavailable episodes in DVD format, the set's lackluster presentation and paltry extras also make it a disappointment for those hoping for a more expansive release. Volume One contains the five-episode "miniseries" that comprised the debut season and explained the Turtles' origins; the episodes are presented with opening and closing credits, though offered as single chapters on the disc. The "bonus" material is four episodes from the series' tenth and final season, which were largely unseen in the U.S. (though some U.K. viewers...
	On Deadly Ground Date Added 2007-07-05 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 941 Year 1994 Length 1:41 Director Steven Seagal Category Thriller, Action, Message Movie, Action Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: Jennings (Michael Caine), a corrupt company owner will stop at nothing to open a new refinery in Alaska. Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal), a disgruntled former employee is chosen by an Eskimo chief as savior of his people. Forrest's mission is to prevent the new refinery from beginning work before the land rights are returned to the Eskimos. -- Linda Rasmussen ...
	Commando Date Added 2007-07-05 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 953 Year 1985 Length 1:30 Director Mark L. Lester Category Action, Action Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: Shortly after The Terminator wrote his name in bold neon lights across box-office grosses, this action thriller took advantage of the hitherto (almost) unexploited comic side of star Arnold Schwarzenegger and paired him with Rae Dawn Chong. Colonel Matrix (Schwarzenegger) is retired and living peaceably with his 10-year-old daughter when she is kidnapped by the henchmen of an exiled Latin American dictator. The dictator's plan is to reinstate himself in power by eliminating the president of his country, using Matrix to kill him (or he will kill the kidnapped daughter). Matrix escapes from the plane that is supposed to be carrying him to his mission and then proceeds to go from one violent...
	The Aviator Date Added 2007-07-04 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 889 Year 2004 Length 2:46 Director Martin Scorsese Category Drama, Biography [feature], Period Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Martin Scorsese directed this fast-moving, epic-scale biopic documenting the life and loves one of the most colorful Americans of the 20th century, Howard Hughes. The Aviator follows Hughes (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) as the twentysomething millionaire, having already made a fortune improving the design of oil-drilling bits, comes to Hollywood with an interest in getting into the picture business. It doesn't take long for Hughes, with his passion for airplanes, to jump from producer to director of his first major film project, a World War I air epic called Hell's Angels, which took three years to complete thanks to the shift from silent to sound filming and Hughes' relentless perfectionism. However, the film...
	Shaun of the Dead Date Added 2007-06-17 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 783 Year 2004 Length 1:39 Director Edgar Wright Category Comedy, Horror, Horror Comedy, Romantic Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: It's often said that the true character of a man is only revealed in times of dire crisis, and for likable, lovelorn loser Shaun (Simon Pegg), that moment of reckoning came when the dead rose from their slumber to feast on the flesh of the living. A hapless electronics store employee who spends most of his spare time downing pints at the local pub with his roommate, Ed (Nick Frost), Shaun's life seems to fall apart when he is dumped by his girlfriend, Liz (Kate Ashfield), and his obnoxious stepfather, Philip (Bill Nighy), shows up to berate him for not being more attentive to his caring mother Barbara (Penelope Wilton) -- especially since...
	Shooter Date Added 2007-06-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 784 Year 2007 Length 2:06 Director Antoine Fuqua Category Thriller, Political Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: A top Army sniper who previously abandoned the military after a routine mission gave way to tragedy is double-crossed by the government after reluctantly being pressured back into service in Training Day director Antoine Fuqua's adaptation of Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact. There was a time when Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) was the best trigger-man in the military, but after growing disillusioned with the system, he disappeared without a trace. After being located at his remote mountain retreat by high-profile government officials following an extensive search, Swagger is coerced back into service in order to stop a determined assassin from taking out the President of the United States. In the process...
	Hot Fuzz Date Added 2007-06-16 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 747 Year 2007 Length 2:01 Director Edgar Wright Category Comedy, Action Comedy, Police Comedy Other Repack, Fixed AMG SYNOPSIS: A top London cop who is so good at his job that he makes his fellow officers look like slackers by comparison is "promoted" to serve in the sleepy village of Sandford in this contemporary action comedy from the creators of Shaun of the Dead. Police constable Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) always gets his man, but these days his impeccable record seems to be more indicative of his fellow officers' shortcomings than his own formidable skills as a keeper of the peace. Loathe to stand idly by as their once respectable track record is steadily soiled by the hyper-competent actions of one lone overachiever, Sergeant Angel's superiors at the Met soon determine to...
	A Bronx Tale Date Added 2007-06-04 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 724 Year 1993 Length 2:02 Director Robert De Niro Category Drama, Coming-of-Age, Urban Drama, Gangster Film Other NL AMG SYNOPSIS: Robert De Niro made his directorial debut with this expanded adaptation of Chazz Palminteri's one-character play. DeNiro's role of Lorenzo Anello, an Italian-America bus driver, is secondary to the part of his son Calogero, played by young Francis Capra. The top dog in Calogero's Bronx neighborhood is flashy "wiseguy" Sonny (Chazz Palminteri). When the boy witnesses Sonny commit a murder, he honors the code of the streets and refuses to tell the cops. Sonny befriends him and introduces the impressionable youngster to the creature comforts that mob connections can bring. But though he idolizes Sonny, the boy loves and respects his decent, honest father. It takes a major tragedy for the 17-year-old boy...
	Clear and Present Danger Date Added 2007-06-04 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 730 Year 1994 Length 2:21 Director Phillip Noyce Category Action, Thriller, Action Thriller, Political Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: This is the third film based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first go-round in 1992's Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug investigation after a close friend of the President (a Reaganesque Donald Moffat) is murdered by a Colombian drug cartel. When Ryan discovers that the President's wealthy friend was in league with the cartel, the President's devious national security adviser (Harris Yulin) and an ambitious CIA deputy director (Henry Czerny) send a secret paramilitary force into Colombia to wipe out the drug lords. The force is captured and then abandoned by the President's lackeys. It...
	Once Upon a Time in America [1/2] Date Added 2007-06-04 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 767 Year 1984 Length 3:49 Director Sergio Leone Category Crime, Gangster Film, Ensemble Film, Period Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone's final film is also a cinematic masterpiece. Spanning four decades, the film tells the story of David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and his Jewish pals, chronicling their childhoods on New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s, through their gangster careers in the 1930s, and culminating in Noodles' 1968 return to New York from self-imposed exile, at which time he learns the truth about the fate of his friends and again confronts the nightmare of his past. The acting, the re-creation of the time period, the cinematography, and the music are all superb....
	Once Upon a Time in America [2/2] Date Added 2007-06-04 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 768 Year 1984 Length 3:49 Director Sergio Leone Category Crime, Gangster Film, Ensemble Film, Period Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone's final film is also a cinematic masterpiece. Spanning four decades, the film tells the story of David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and his Jewish pals, chronicling their childhoods on New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s, through their gangster careers in the 1930s, and culminating in Noodles' 1968 return to New York from self-imposed exile, at which time he learns the truth about the fate of his friends and again confronts the nightmare of his past. The acting, the re-creation of the time period, the cinematography, and the music are all superb....
	The Sum of All Fears Date Added 2007-06-04 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 797 Year 2002 Length 1:58 Director Phil Alden Robinson Category Thriller, Spy Film, Political Thriller, Action Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: The successful franchise of Paramount motion pictures based on novelist Tom Clancy's techno-thrillers featuring heroic CIA intelligence analyst Jack Ryan stages a much-publicized "do-over" with this action-adventure that recasts the character of Ryan as a rookie to the complex game of geopolitical warfare. Ben Affleck takes the reins from Harrison Ford as Ryan, a greenhorn CIA historian and analyst who finds himself thrust front and center into the spy community's spotlight when Nemerov (Ciaran Hinds), a Russian politician on whom Ryan is an expert, suddenly becomes the leader of the former Soviet Union upon the current president's unexpected demise. Attached to the director of the CIA, Cabot (Morgan Freeman), Ryan insists -- contrary...
	Top Gun Date Added 2007-06-04 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 799 Year 1986 Length 1:49 Director Tony Scott Category Drama, Romantic Drama, Buddy Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Devil-may-care navy pilot Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is sent to Miramar Naval Air Station for advanced training. Here he vies with Tom Kasansky (Val Kilmer) for the coveted "Top Gun" award. When not so occupied, Mitchell carries on a romance with civilian consultant Charlotte Blackwood (Kelly McGillis). Shaken up by the death of a friend, Mitchell loses the Top Gun honor to Kasansky. Worried that he may have lost his nerve, Mitchell is given a chance to redeem himself during a tense international crisis involving a crippled US vessel and a flock of predatory enemy planes. The story wasn't new in 1986, but Top Gun scored with audiences on the strength of its...
	Mad Max Date Added 2007-06-03 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 759 Year 1979 Length 1:33 Director George Miller Category Action, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Action, Biker Film, Chase Movie AMG SYNOPSIS: This stunning, post-apocalyptic action thriller from director George Miller stars Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky, a policeman in the near future who is tired of his job. Since the apocalypse, the lengthy, desolate stretches of highway in the Australian outback have become bloodstained battlegrounds. Max has seen too many innocents and fellow officers murdered by the bomb's savage offspring, bestial marauding bikers for whom killing, rape, and looting is a way of life. He just wants to retire and spend time with his wife and son but lets his boss talk him into taking a peaceful vacation and he starts to reconsider. Then his world is shattered as a gang led by the...
	Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Date Added 2007-06-03 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 760 Year 1981 Length 1:34 Director George Miller Category Action, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Action Other CustomDK Nordic AMG SYNOPSIS: Director George Miller's follow-up to his own 1979 hit Mad Max is proof that not all sequels are inferior to their originals. If anything, this brutal sci-fi action film is even more intense and exciting than its predecessor, although the state of its post-apocalyptic world has only become worse. Several years after the deaths of his wife and child, Max (Mel Gibson) has become an alienated nomad, wandering an Australian outback that has fallen into tribal warfare conducted from scattered armed camps. After a road battle with psychotic villain Wez (Vernon Wells), Max meets up with the odd Gyro Captain (Bruce Spence), who takes him to the camp of a sympathetic group led...
	Pulp Fiction Date Added 2007-06-03 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 776 Year 1994 Length 2:40 Director Quentin Tarantino Category Crime, Crime Comedy, Ensemble Film, Gangster Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious violence of American gangster movies, crime movies, and films noirs mixed up with the wacky violence of cartoons, video games, and Japanese animation; and the fragmented story-telling structures of such experimental classics as Citizen Kane, Rashomon, and La jet...
	The Shawshank Redemption Date Added 2007-06-03 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 796 Year 1994 Length 2:22 Director Frank Darabont Category Drama, Prison Film, Buddy Film, Escape Film AMG SYNOPSIS: In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most likely to crack under the pressure. The ugly realities of prison life are quickly introduced to Andy: a corrupt warden (Bob Gunton), sadistic guards led by Capt. Byron Hadley (Clancy Brown), and inmates who are little better than animals, willing to use rape or beatings to insure their dominance. But Andy does not crack: he has the hope of the truly innocent, which...
	Deja Vu Date Added 2007-04-09 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 737 Year 2006 Length 2:06 Director Tony Scott Category Thriller, Sci-Fi Action, Paranoid Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: Adrenaline-loving director Tony Scott teams with iconic action producer Jerry Bruckheimer for this high-flung sci-fi action thriller concerning a New Orleans-based maverick ATF agent named Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) who is brought in on a top-secret government program to catch the terrorist (Jim Caviezel) responsible for a ferry bombing that kills hundreds. Able to do what most law enforcement officers only dream of, Carlin is now able to look back in time at the perpetrator's movements, and at the life of the innocent woman whose death would set the events into motion. Carlin's instincts tell him that something is amiss, however, and while the government agent who tapped him for the job (Val...
	300 Date Added 2007-03-17 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 723 Year 2007 Length 1:56 Director Zack Snyder Category Action, Historical Epic, War Epic Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Sin City author Frank Miller's sweeping take on the historic Battle of Thermopylae comes to the screen courtesy of Dawn of the Dead director Zack Snyder. Gerard Butler stars as Spartan King Leonidas and Lena Headey plays Queen Gorgo. The massive army of the Persian Empire is sweeping across the globe, crushing every force that dares stand in it path. When a Persian envoy arrives in Sparta offering King Leonidas power over all of Greece if he will only bow to the will of the all powerful Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), the strong-willed leader assembles a small army comprised of his empire's best fighters and marches off to battle. Though they have virtually no...
	Smokin' Aces Date Added 2007-03-17 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 786 Year 2007 Length 1:49 Director Joe Carnahan Category Crime, Ensemble Film, Crime Thriller, Action Thriller, Gangster Film Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: When a shifty magician turns state's evidence against a Las Vegas underworld heavy, the high price placed on his head sparks a fevered race to rub the snitch out and collect a tidy paycheck in Narc director Joe Carnahan's dark action comedy. Buddy "Aces" Israel (Jeremy Piven) is a small time scammer who has somehow managed to get the goods on big time mobster Primo Sparazza. Upon discovering that Buddy is about to deliver the evidence needed to get him thrown in jail for life, Primo takes out a sizable contract on Buddy that entices every two-bit thug, grizzled bounty hunter, deadly vixen, skilled assassin, and ladder-climbing Mafioso within a hundred mile radius...
	Trailer Park Boys: The Movie Date Added 2007-03-17 Rating 7.4 / 10.0 Number 800 Year 2006 Length 0:00 Director Mike Clattenburg Category Comedy, Mockumentary, Comedy of Manners Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Booted from the hoosegow just days before the eagerly anticipated guards-versus-inmates ball hockey championship, Ricky (Rob Wells), Julian (John Paul Tremblay), and Bubbles (Mike Smith) hatch a plan to pull off the biggest heist of their criminal career as Sunnyvale Trailer Park's most incompetent criminals make their way to the big screen. Christened "The Big Dirty," the trio's ambitious plan to steal large quantities of untraceable change soon hits a hitch when sidetracked Ricky prepares to make the ultimate commitment to longtime girlfriend Lucy and Julian crosses her new boss with disastrous results. It seems that in addition to having her bust-size upgraded while the trio was incarcerated, Lucy also landed a job...
	Borat Date Added 2007-03-07 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 726 Year 2006 Length 1:22 Director Larry Charles Category Comedy, Satire, Mockumentary, Comedy of Manners AMG SYNOPSIS: Master of disguise Sacha Baron Cohen hits the road to explore America as the crude Kazakstani reporter Borat in a feature mockumentary that brings one of the Da Ali G Show star's most popular characters to life on the big screen. Sent by the Kazakh Ministry of Information to gain a better understanding of American culture and bring his findings back home, Borat and faithful producer Azamat (Ken Davitian) set their sights in New York City. When the citizens and interview subjects of the Big Apple seem less than receptive to Borat's distinctively unrestrained approach and the curious Kazakh television personality stumbles across an episode of Baywatch while channel-surfing in his hotel room,...
	James Bond 21: Casino Royale Date Added 2007-02-18 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 729 Year 2006 Length 2:24 Director Martin Campbell Category Spy Film, Action, Action Thriller, Glamorized Spy Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Actor Daniel Craig assumes the role formerly occupied by such screen greats as Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Timothy Dalton to set out on the character's very first 007 mission. James Bond has earned his "00" status by masterfully executing a pair of death-defying professional assassinations. Now assigned the task of traveling to Madagascar to spy on notorious terrorist Mollaka (Sebastien Foucan) for his maiden voyage as a 007 agent, Bond boldly goes against MI6 policy to launch an independent investigation that finds him traversing the Bahamas in search of Mollaka's notoriously elusive terror cell. Subsequently led into the company of the mysterious Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian) and his exotic girlfriend, Solange (Caterina Murino),...
	Blade Runner Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 674 Year 1982 Length 1:54 Director Ridley Scott Category Science Fiction, Tech Noir, Sci-Fi Action Other DC Digitally Remastered Multisubs AMG SYNOPSIS: A blend of science fiction and noir detective fiction, Blade Runner (1982) was a box office and critical bust upon its initial exhibition, but its unique postmodern production design became hugely influential within the sci-fi genre, and the film gained a significant cult following that increased its stature. Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard, a retired cop in Los Angeles circa 2019. L.A. has become a pan-cultural dystopia of corporate advertising, pollution and flying automobiles, as well as replicants, human-like androids with short life spans built by the Tyrell Corporation for use in dangerous off-world colonization. Deckard's former job in the police department was as a talented blade runner, a euphemism for detectives...
	Heat Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 685 Year 1995 Length 2:52 Director Michael Mann Category Crime, Thriller, Crime Thriller, Police Detective Film AMG SYNOPSIS: A successful career criminal considers getting out of the business after one last score, while an obsessive cop desperately tries to put him behind bars in this intelligent thriller written and directed by Michael Mann. Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is a thief who specializes in big, risky jobs, such as banks and armored cars. He's very good at what he does; he's bright, methodical, and has honed his skills as a thief at the expense of his personal life, vowing never to get involved in a relationship from which he couldn't walk away in 30 seconds. Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) is an L.A.P.D. detective determined to catch McCauley, but while McCauley's personal...
	King of New York Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 688 Year 1990 Length 1:46 Director Abel Ferrara Category Crime, Crime Thriller, Gangster Film AMG SYNOPSIS: The gritty underbelly of New York's complex, ethnically divided criminal world is exposed in this dark drama from director Abel Ferrara. Christopher Walken stars as Frank White, a drug lord who's just been released from a long stint in prison. Aware that feeding off of society's depravity has made him a wealthy man, Frank has become determined to give something back to the city, and he hatches a scheme to build a multimillion-dollar public hospital in one of Brooklyn's worst ghetto neighborhoods. Needing the assistance of his fellow criminals to pull it off, Frank and his adjutant Jimmy Jump (Laurence Fishburne) encounter a wall of resistance from every faction, including drug-trade partner Lance...
	Mean Streets Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 692 Year 1973 Length 1:50 Director Martin Scorsese Category Crime, Urban Drama, Crime Drama, Coming-of-Age, Gangster Film AMG SYNOPSIS: "You don't make up for your sins in church; you do it in the streets; you do it at home. The rest is bulls--t, and you know it." Returning to the autobiographical milieu of his 1968 debut Who's That Knocking at My Door? for his third feature, Martin Scorsese examined the daily struggles of a wannabe hood to keep his morals straight on the streets of Little Italy. Driven equally by his wish to become a respectable gangster like his uncle (Cesare Danova) and his desire to live his life like St. Francis, Charlie (Harvey Keitel) takes on his energetically unhinged friend Johnny Boy (Robert De Niro) as his own personal penance, intervening...
	Schindler's List [1/2] Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 700 Year 1993 Length 3:20 Director Steven Spielberg Category Drama, War, War Drama, Biography [feature] AMG SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who've been herded into Krakow's ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a dependable unpaid labor force. For Stern, a job in a war-related plant could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow's...
	Schindler's List [2/2] Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 701 Year 1993 Length 3:20 Director Steven Spielberg Category Drama, War, War Drama, Biography [feature] AMG SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who've been herded into Krakow's ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a dependable unpaid labor force. For Stern, a job in a war-related plant could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow's...
	American Psycho Date Added 2007-01-15 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 673 Year 2000 Length 1:37 Director Mary Harron Category Comedy, Thriller, Satire, Black Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: Bret Easton Ellis' dark and violent satire of America in the 1980s is brought to the screen in this unsettling drama with black comic overtones. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy Wall Street financier, is pursuing his own lucrative career with his father's firm. Bateman is the prototypical yuppie, obsessed with success, fashion, and style. He is also a serial killer who murders, rapes, and mutilates both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or reason. Donald Kimble (Willem Dafoe), a police detective, questions Bateman about the disappearance of Paul Allen (Jared Leto), whom Patrick murdered several days earlier. As Kimble stays on Bateman's trail, Bateman's mask of studied, distant cool begins...
	Jackie Brown Date Added 2007-01-15 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 687 Year 1997 Length 2:35 Director Quentin Tarantino Category Crime, Crime Thriller Other Dutch AMG SYNOPSIS: Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1995 Rum Punch, switching the action from Miami to LA, and altering the central character from white to black. Ruthless arms dealer Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson), who lives with perpetually stoned beach-babe Melanie (Bridget Fonda), teams with his old buddy Louis Gara (Robert De Niro), just released from prison after serving four years for armed robbery. ATF agent Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) and cop Mark Dargus (Michael Bowen) bust stewardess Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), who was smuggling money into the country for Ordell. Ordell springs Jackie, but when middle-aged bail bondsman Max Cherry (Robert Forster) picks her up at the jail, he's...
	Sexy Beast Date Added 2007-01-15 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 703 Year 2000 Length 1:28 Director Jonathan Glazer Category Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: Gary (Ray Winstone) is a former gangster who has made a modest amount of money from his criminal career. Happy to put his life of crime behind him, he has retired with his wife Deedee (Amanda Redman) to the sunny bliss of rural Spain, where he lives an idyllic life with his family and a few close friends. But Gary's contentment is ruptured by an unwelcome visitor from his past -- Don (Ben Kingsley), a former associate who has been hired to assemble a team of criminals to rob a heavily guarded bank. Don wants Gary in on the job, and is less than pleased by Gary's unwillingness to volunteer his services. What...
	The Score Date Added 2007-01-15 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 710 Year 2001 Length 2:03 Director Frank Oz Category Crime, Caper, Crime Thriller Other Dutch AMG SYNOPSIS: Three generations of method acting giants unite for this crime thriller written by Kario Salem and directed by Frank Oz. Robert De Niro stars as Nick Wells, an aging thief whose specialty is safecracking and who is on the verge of retiring to a life of ease, running his jazz club and romancing his girlfriend Diane (Angela Bassett). But before he can ride off into the sunset, Nick is pressured to do one last job by his mentor and business partner, a flamboyant and extravagant upscale fence named Max (Marlon Brando). Max is plotting the heist of the Montreal Customs House, and he's got a man on the inside, Jackie Teller (Edward Norton),...
	Last Action Hero Date Added 2007-01-14 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 690 Year 1993 Length 2:11 Director John McTiernan Category Comedy, Action, Fantasy, Action Thriller, Buddy Film, Fantasy Comedy Other Superbit AMG SYNOPSIS: Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as a pumped-up Shakespearian hero while an announcer bellows, "Something is rotten in Denmark -- and Hamlet is taking out the trash!" This gag sets the stage for the post-modernist action epic The Last Action Hero. The film concerns Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien), a lonely eleven-year-old boy who escapes from his bleak New York City reality by glorying in the action adventure movies of his favorite film character, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Danny's friend is an elderly movie projectionist, Nick (Robert Prosky), who lets Danny into the shabby Times Square movie theater where he works so Danny can see Slater's new movie. He hands Danny a magic ticket given to...
	The Untouchables Date Added 2007-01-14 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 711 Year 1987 Length 1:59 Director Brian De Palma Category Crime, Crime Thriller, Police Detective Film, Gangster Film, Period Film AMG SYNOPSIS: Like the TV series that shared the same title, The Untouchables (1987) was an account of the battle between gangster Al Capone and lawman Eliot Ness, this time in the form of a feature film boasting big stars, a big budget, and a script from respected playwright David Mamet. Kevin Costner stars as Ness, a federal agent who has come to Chicago during the Prohibition Era, when corruption in the local police department is rampant. His mission is to put crime lord Capone (Robert DeNiro) out of business, but Capone is so powerful and popular that Ness is not taken seriously by the law or the press. One night, discouraged, he meets a...
	Batman & Robin Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 633 Year 1997 Length 2:10 Director Joel Schumacher Category Fantasy, Action, Comic-Book Superhero Film, Master Criminal Films, Buddy Film AMG SYNOPSIS: This was the third follow-up to Tim Burton's Batman (1989), the original revisionist look at the Gotham City legend, as well as the second in the Batman series directed by Joel Schumacher and the first featuring George Clooney as the Caped Crusader; it features not one but two super-villains, and a new heroine to fight crime alongside Bruce Wayne (aka Batman) and Dick Grayson (aka Robin) (Chris O'Donnell). The experiments of Dr. Victor Fries (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to preserve his late wife cryogenically have gone horribly wrong, turning him into the evil genius Mr. Freeze, who must keep his body at sub-zero temperature in order to say alive -- and he wants to put...
	Blood Diamond Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 634 Year 2006 Length 2:23 Director Edward Zwick Category Drama, Message Movie, Adventure Drama Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: A South African mercenary and a Mende fisherman find their fates forever intertwined as they embark on a quest to obtain a rare and highly coveted pink diamond in director Edward Zwick's frantic adventure drama. Ripped from his family farm and forced to toil away in the sweltering South African diamond fields, Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) discovered an extraordinary rough stone of immeasurable value. Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a hired gun who specializes in the sale of so-called "blood diamonds" that are used to finance rebellions and terrorist organizations, and is currently serving time for smuggling. As a bloody civil war rages in Sierra Leone and Archer learns that Vandy has safely...
	Kindergarten Cop Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 644 Year 1990 Length 1:51 Director Ivan Reitman Category Comedy, Thriller, Police Comedy, Comedy Thriller AMG SYNOPSIS: Arnold Schwarzenegger sheds his action image in Ivan Reitman's police comedy Kindergarten Cop, where he plays an undercover cop teaching a class of hyperactive six-year-olds. As the film begins, John Kimble (Schwarzenegger) and his partner Phoebe O'Hara (Pamela Reed) are in pursuit of notorious drug dealer Cullen Crisp (Richard Tyson) and his scabrous mother Eleanor (Carroll Baker). John learns Cullen is searching for his ex-wife and his little boy, and Kimble plans to nail them when they find the former wife, who is believed to have $3 million of Cullen's drug profits. John and Phoebe follow the trail to Astoria, Oregon, where they believe Cullen's son is attending kindergarten. Although the child and...
	Police Squad! The Complete Series Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 646 Year 1982 Length 0:30 Director Joe Dante, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker Category Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Sitcom Other Retail Marginally a "straight" police drama in the Jack Webb/Quinn Martin school, Police Squad occurs in a strange universe where everything is taken literally (when a name "rings a bell" we here bells go off everytime someone mentions it), non sequiturs occur (a mime tries to spell out a ransom note, and Officer Nordberg guesses "Theme From a Summer Place") and sight gags abound (while looking for a corpse, someone wants to know the time and the dead man's hand drops out of a tree)....
	The Naked Gun Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 662 Year 1988 Length 1:25 Director David Zucker Category Comedy, Anarchic Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Slapstick, Police Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: We know we're in a 1988 film when we're invited to laugh at O.J. Simpson in an opening slapstick sequence. We can also pinpoint the year of production when hardnosed cop Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), during a scuffle with the world's leading dictators, wipes the wine-colored birthmark off the head of Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Those wacky ZAZ boys -- David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker -- serve up a feature-length spinoff of their cult favorite TV show Police Squad!. Seeking vengeance when his partner (Simpson) is shot full of holes by drug dealers, dead-pan and dead-brained Lt. Frank Drebin searches for the Mister Big behind it all. Drebin suspects above-reproach shipping...
	The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 663 Year 1991 Length 1:25 Director David Zucker Category Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Anarchic Comedy, Slapstick AMG SYNOPSIS: Leslie Nielsen returns as the intrepid (and accident-prone) Lt. Frank Drebin in Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, "un film de David Zucker." This second feature film from the "Police Squad!" series finds Drebin as a guest at a White House dinner, receiving an award for shooting his 1,000th drug dealer, although he admits to shooting only 998 -- he ran over the last two in his car. ("Luckily, they turned out to be drug dealers"). Also at the White House dinner is energy czar Dr. Albert S. Meinheimer (Richard Griffiths), whom President George Bush (John Roarke) has chosen to start a new national energy policy. Since Meinheimer believes in...
	The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 664 Year 1994 Length 1:30 Director Peter Segal Category Comedy, Police Comedy, Anarchic Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Crime Comedy AMG SYNOPSIS: The further misadventures of bumbling Los Angeles police Lieutenant Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) are chronicled in this third installment in the popular Naked Gun comedy series. This by-the-numbers entry begins with Drebin as a happily retired house-husband called back into action when an evil terrorist organization threatens Los Angeles. As in the other Naked Gun films, this plot is merely an excuse for an unhinged, rapid-fire succession of gags, ranging from satirical lampoons of cop movies to broad slapstick, all played with a perfectly straight face. Nielsen provides his familiar combination of complete witlessness and oblivious dignity as Drebin, and the film attempts to match the earlier Naked Gun films -- and the...
	True Lies Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 667 Year 1994 Length 2:21 Director James Cameron Category Action, Spy Film, Action Comedy, Action Thriller, Glamorized Spy Film Other DTS AMG SYNOPSIS: Borrowing liberally from the French film La Totale, this is an action picture, domestic comedy, and political thriller rolled into a crowd-pleasing ball of entertainment. Producer James Cameron wrote and directed the film. Henry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a workaholic computer salesman neglecting his mousy wife Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis), a legal secretary. Simon (Bill Paxton) seduces Helen with the lie that he is a secret agent; he's really a used car salesman. Harry suspects that Helen is cheating on him, and he sends a few colleagues to kidnap them. Helen then discovers that Harry is a secret agent by night, working for a shadowy group called the Omega Sector. Harry and his...
	Any Given Sunday Date Added 2006-12-24 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 1201 Year 1999 Length 2:42 Director Oliver Stone Category Drama, Sports Drama, Ensemble Film Other Dutch AMG SYNOPSIS: Oliver Stone takes on professional football, a sport whose grace and delicacy are a good match for his filmmaking style. Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino), the head coach of the Miami Sharks, won back-to-back championships four years ago. But new team owner Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz) has little enthusiasm for the finer points of the game and is concerned only with the bottom line. The longtime strongman of Tony's team has been "Cap" Rooney (Dennis Quaid), a 39-year-old quarterback, but Christina balks at renewing his contract. When Cap is injured during a game, third-string rookie quarterback Willie Beaman (Jamie Foxx) goes on in his place and becomes a major star. But Beaman is mostly...
	Attack Force Date Added 2006-12-17 Rating 2.6 / 10.0 Number 631 Year 2006 Length 1:30 Director Michael Keusch Category Action, Action Thriller Other STV AMG SYNOPSIS: When the leader of a fallen strike team sets out to uncover the source of the attack that decimated his crew, he soon finds himself facing off against a psychotic drug dealer who appears to have been covertly funded by a renegade arm of the United States military in this guns and glory bullet ballet starring action icon Steven Seagal. Marshall Lawson (Seagal)'s team has been viciously cut down in a seemingly-random attack, and now Marshall is looking for answers. The deeper he delves into the case, however, the more suspicious circumstances become. After discovering evidence of a covert operation named "CTX Majestic," Marshall's own military comes gunning for him. Never one to...
	Children of Men Date Added 2006-12-17 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 635 Year 2006 Length 1:49 Director Alfonso Cuar Category Science Fiction, Psychological Sci-Fi, Action Thriller Other Screener, Repack AMG SYNOPSIS: Y Tu Mam...
	Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Date Added 2006-12-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 659 Year 2006 Length 1:47 Director Adam McKay Category Comedy, Satire, Farce, Sports Comedy Other Unrated AMG SYNOPSIS: When America's number one NASCAR speed-demon is issued a direct challenge from a gay, French Formula One racer with a hunger for the top spot and a mean talent for tight-cornering, the race is on to become the number one man in all of NASCAR in a full throttle comedy starring Will Ferrell and directed by Anchorman cohort Adam McKay. Ricky Bobby (Ferrell) is a national hero with a "smokin' hot" trophy wife, pair of borderline-abusively precocious sons, and an endless line of endorsement deals filling his mansion with toys and driveway with sports cars and Hummers. His racing partner and lifelong friend Cal Naughton, Jr. (John C. Reilly), never fails to provide...
	Don't Try This at Home: The Steve-O Video, Vol. 1 Date Added 2006-11-19 Rating 6.1 / 10.0 Number 586 Year 2001 Length 0:00 Director Category Comedy, Extreme Sports, Bloopers & Candid Camera AMG SYNOPSIS: Jackass alumni and former circus clown Stephen Glover continues to redefine gross-out humor with self-injury in the name of comedy for the uncensored torture-fest Don't Try This at Home: The Steve-O Video. Collecting footage deemed too extreme for television, he incorporates the usual brand of disgusting talents for segments like "Windshield Dive," "Human Dartboard," and "Vodka I.V." The frequently nude Steve-O is joined by fellow Jackass boys Johnny Knoxville, Chris Pontius, Ryan Dunn, and Preston Lacy. -- Andrea LeVasseur ...
	Gremlins Date Added 2006-11-19 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 598 Year 1984 Length 2:00 Director Joe Dante Category Horror, Comedy, Horror Comedy, Monster Film AMG SYNOPSIS: "Don't expose him to bright light. Don't ever get him wet. And don't ever, ever feed him after midnight." This sage advice is ignored midway through Gremlins, with devastating results. This comic Joe Dante effort is set in a Norman Rockwell-esque small town at Christmastime. Seeking a unique gift for his son an erstwhile inventor (Hoyt Axton) purchases a cute, fuzzy little "Mogwai" from a Chinatown shopkeeper's (Keye Luke) grandson (John Louie), who dispenses the above-mentioned warning before closing the deal. Meanwhile, young bank clerk Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan) must suffer such antagonists as rich-bitch Mrs. Deagle (Polly Holliday) and priggish Gerald (Judge Reinhold) while pursuing his romance with Kate (Phoebe Cates). These...
	Rammstein: Volkerball [1/2] Date Added 2006-11-19 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 613 Year 2003 Length 0:00 Director Category Music Other 2.1 PCM Audio Only Limited Edition three disc (CD + two PAL/Region 0 DVDs) pressing in a DVDdigipak of the 2006 live album from German Metal merchants Rammstein. The CD features 16 tracks including 'Reise Reise', 'Du Hast', 'Ich Will' and 'Keine Lust' while the first bonus DVD features 27 tracks recorded at shows in Tokyo, UK, Russia and Germany. The second DVD features two documentaries. Rammstein's fan base know that although their studio albums are powerful, there's nothing like a Rammstein live experience to dull the senses and Valkerball brings this mind-numbing experience straight to you. The only thing to fear is Rammstein itself! Universal....
	Rammstein: Volkerball [2/2] Date Added 2006-11-19 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 614 Year 2003 Length 0:00 Director Category Music Other Bonus Limited Edition three disc (CD + two PAL/Region 0 DVDs) pressing in a DVDdigipak of the 2006 live album from German Metal merchants Rammstein. The CD features 16 tracks including 'Reise Reise', 'Du Hast', 'Ich Will' and 'Keine Lust' while the first bonus DVD features 27 tracks recorded at shows in Tokyo, UK, Russia and Germany. The second DVD features two documentaries. Rammstein's fan base know that although their studio albums are powerful, there's nothing like a Rammstein live experience to dull the senses and Valkerball brings this mind-numbing experience straight to you. The only thing to fear is Rammstein itself! Universal....
	Layer Cake Date Added 2006-11-18 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 601 Year 2004 Length 1:45 Director Matthew Vaughn Category Crime, Crime Drama, Gangster Film AMG SYNOPSIS: A mechanic in the British drug trade finds himself caught in the middle of some dangerous circumstances in this crime thriller. XXXX (Daniel Craig) is a nameless go-between in the British mob who buys drugs from underground wholesalers and them sells them to street dealers, keeping the system flowing and making a tidy profit in the process. XXXX is looking forward to getting out of the game, and has displayed both smarts and caution in how he's handled his business, but before his overseer Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) will let him go, he has a couple of favors that need to be done. First, Eddie Temple (Michael Gambon) is a mob boss whose...
	Boiler Room Date Added 2006-11-13 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 583 Year 2000 Length 2:00 Director Ben Younger Category Drama, Crime, Psychological Drama, Crime Drama, Ensemble Film In this drama that explores greed and corruption in American business, Giovanni Ribisi plays Seth Davis, an intelligent and ambitious college dropout who runs a casino in his apartment. Eager to show his father that he can succeed, Seth lands a job with a small stock brokerage firm. He is given a space in the company's "boiler room," where he makes cold calls to prospective clients. As it turns out, Seth has a genuine talent for cold calling, which gains him the approval of his superiors, the admiration of his father, and the attentions of one of his co-workers, Abby Hilliard (Nia Long). However, the higher up the ladder Seth rises, the deeper he sinks...
	The Fugitive Date Added 2006-11-12 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 627 Year 1993 Length 2:07 Director Andrew Davis Category Thriller, Action Thriller, Chase Movie Other Note: Stutters a bit near the end This 1993 box-office smash partly adheres to the 1960s TV series on which it is based and partly goes off on several tangents of its own. Harrison Ford stars as Dr. Richard Kimble, convicted of murdering his wife. While being transferred to prison by bus, Kimble is involved in a spectacular bus-train collision (one of the best of its kind ever filmed). Surviving the disaster, Kimble escapes, vowing to track down the elusive professional criminal whom he holds responsible for the murder. Dogging the fugitive every foot of the way is U.S. marshal Sam Gerard (an Oscar-winning turn by Tommy Lee Jones), who announces his intention to search "every whorehouse, doghouse, and outhouse" to bring...
	The Departed Date Added 2006-11-10 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 533 Year 2006 Length 2:31 Director Martin Scorsese Category Crime, Gangster Film, Police Drama Other Retail Legendary director Martin Scorsese takes the helm for this tale of questionable loyalties and blurring identities set in the South Boston organized crime scene and inspired by the wildly popular 2002 Hong Kong crime film Infernal Affairs. As the police force attempts to reign in the increasingly powerful Irish mafia, authorities are faced with the prospect of sending in an undercover agent or seeing their already frail grip on the criminal underworld slip even further. Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a young cop looking to make a name for himself in the world of law enforcement. Collin Sullivan (Matt Damon) is a street-smart criminal who has successfully infiltrated the police department with the sole intention...
	Face/Off Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 443 Year 1997 Length 2:18 Director John Woo Category Action, Action Thriller, Chase Movie The third of John Woo's American-made feature films, Face/Off stars John Travolta as Sean Archer, an FBI agent obsessed with capturing Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), a criminal genius who years before killed Archer's son while trying to assassinate the agent. Archer's single-minded pursuit of Troy has caused serious harm to his marriage, but Archer thinks the light may have appeared at the end of the tunnel when a seriously wounded Troy is captured in a bloody shootout. However, it turns out that Troy has planted a time bomb, with a biological payload that could destroy the entire city of Los Angeles -- and Troy isn't about to say where it is. The only other person...
	In the Line of Fire Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 453 Year 1993 Length 2:07 Director Wolfgang Petersen Category Action, Thriller, Action Thriller, Political Thriller Clint Eastwood delivers one of his finest performances, as a secret service agent haunted by his past in Wolfgang Petersen's taut thriller In the Line of Fire. Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as an agent hand-picked by President Kennedy, he became one of the few agents to have lost a president to an assassin. Decades later, psychotic Mitch Leary (John Malkovich) is stalking another president (Jim Curley) running for re-election. He has spent long hours studying the psyche of Frank Horrigan, and he taunts Horrigan (feeling that there is a bond between them), telling him of his plans to kill the president. After...
	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 454 Year 1989 Length 2:06 Director Steven Spielberg Category Action, Adventure, Adventure Comedy, Costume Adventure The third installment in the widely beloved Spielberg/Lucas Indiana Jones saga begins with an introduction to a younger Indy (played by the late River Phoenix), who, through a fast-paced prologue, gives the audience insight into the roots of his taste for adventure, fear of snakes, and dogged determination to take historical artifacts out of the hands of bad guys and into the museums in which they belong. A grown-up Indy (Harrison Ford) reveals himself shortly afterward in a familiar classroom scene, teaching archeology to a disproportionate number of starry-eyed female college students in 1938. Once again, however, Mr. Jones is drawn away from his day job after an art collector (Julian Glover) approaches him with...
	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 455 Year 1984 Length 1:58 Director Steven Spielberg Category Action, Adventure, Costume Adventure The second of the George Lucas/Steven Spielberg Indiana Jones epics is set a year or so before the events in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1984). After a brief brouhaha involving a precious vial and a wild ride down a raging Himalyan river, Indy (Harrison Ford) gets down to the problem at hand: retrieving a precious gem and several kidnapped young boys on behalf of a remote East Indian village. His companions this time around include a dimbulbed, easily frightened nightclub chanteuse (Kate Capshaw), and a feisty 12-year-old kid named Short Round (Quan Ke Huy). Throughout, the plot takes second place to the thrills, which include a harrowing rollercoaster ride in an abandoned mineshaft and...
	Monty Python and the Holy Grail Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 510 Year 1974 Length 1:29 Director Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones Category Comedy, Anarchic Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Slapstick From its opening multi-language titles (that sure looks like Swedish) to the closing arrest of the entire Dark Ages cast by modern-day bobbies, Monty Python & the Holy Grail has "comedy cult classic" written all over it. This time the Pythonites savage the legend of King Arthur, juxtaposing some excellently selected exterior locations with an unending stream of anachronistic one-liners, non sequiturs, and slapstick set pieces. The Knights of the Round Table set off in search of the Holy Grail on foot, as their lackeys make clippety-clop sounds with coconut shells. A plague-ridden community, ringing with the cry of "bring out your dead," offers its hale and hearty citizens to the body piles. A wedding...
	Predator Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 522 Year 1987 Length 1:47 Director John McTiernan Category Action, Horror, Monster Film, Alien Invasion Films, Sci-Fi Action Other Dutch Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has a code of honor which he will not violate, even when his life depends on it. Paradoxically, his code of honor gives him the backbone to survive as a military special forces operative when he is sent on a covert mission to rescue another group which was sent in to assist some nefarious U.S. government plan in a Latin American country. Once there, he encounters an old army buddy (Carl Weathers) who has gotten too deep in the CIA's good graces for Dutch's comfort. When he and his team go into the jungle to rescue the others, they get involved in a pitched battle with local guerillas, but they are more...
	Ronin Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 529 Year 1998 Length 1:58 Director John Frankenheimer Category Action, Spy Film, Action Thriller, Chase Movie, Unglamorized Spy Film Other Semi-Forced Subtitles John Frankenheimer directed this $20 million international action thriller from a screenplay by Richard Weisz (pseudonym for David Mamet) and J.D. Zeik. In Paris, Irish organizer Deidre (Natascha McElhone) assembles a team to grab a mysterious briefcase from criminals. They are never told who hired them or the true identity of their targets. The hired specialists: Former CIA officer Sam (Robert De Niro), former Euro intelligence agent Vincent (Jean Reno), German electronics expert Gregor (Stellan Skarsgard), driver Larry (Skip Sudduth), and British weapons wrangler Spence (Sean Bean). After a Seine shootout, the action moves to the South of France, with a recon mission in Cannes, and a chase that brings everyone to Nice. Inevitable betrayals...
	Shanghai Noon Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 534 Year 2000 Length 1:50 Director Tom Dey Category Action, Western, Comedy, Comedy Western, Action Comedy, Buddy Film, Hybrid Western Jackie Chan has often played a fish out of water, but he's rarely found himself so far upstream as in this comic adventure, in which he puts his fighting skills to the test in the Old West of the 1850s. Lo Fong (Roger Yuan), onetime captain of the Chinese Imperial Guard, has traded upholding the law for smuggling opium. Needing some operating capital, Lo Fong kidnaps the Emperor's daughter, Princess Pei Pei (Lucy Liu), and takes her to America. When the Emperor sends his best men to find her, Chon Wang (Chan), one of the Emperor's less distinguished guards, insists on joining them; he feels at fault for Lo Fong's capturing the Princess, and he...
	The French Connection Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 545 Year 1971 Length 1:44 Director William Friedkin Category Crime, Action, Police Detective Film, Action Thriller, Chase Movie This gritty, fast-paced, and innovative police drama earned five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (written by Ernest Tidyman), and Best Actor (Gene Hackman). Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Hackman) and his partner Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) are New York City police detectives on narcotics detail, trying to track down the source of heroin from Europe into the United States. Suave Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) is the French drug kingpin who provides a large percentage of New York City's dope, and Pierre Nicolli (Marcel Bozzuffi) is a hired killer and Charnier's right-hand man. Acting on a hunch, Popeye and Buddy start tailing Sal Boca (Tony LoBianco) and his wife Angie (Arlene Faber), who live pretty...
	Under Siege Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 568 Year 1992 Length 1:40 Director Andrew Davis Category Action, Action Thriller Andrew Davis directed this exciting thriller starring Steven Seagal, sans ponytail, and featuring electric, over-the-top performances by Gary Busey and Tommy Lee Jones. This action saga takes place on the battleship USS Missouri, about to be decommissioned from service after a visit from George Bush. When Bush departs the vessel, a band of terrorists overcome the remaining skeleton crew and take over the ship, under the ruse of holding a surprise birthday party for the ship's commander, Captain Adams (Patrick O'Neal). The band is led by Strannix (Jones), a disgruntled ex-CIA operative, and his right-hand man, the psychotic Krill (Busey). The terrorists plan to steal the ship's store of nuclear warheads, transfer them to a...
	Who Framed Roger Rabbit Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 573 Year 1988 Length 1:44 Director Robert Zemeckis Category Comedy, Fantasy Comedy, Parody/Spoof In Robert Zemeckis's trailblazing combination of animation and live-action, Hollywood's 1940s cartoon stars are a subjugated minority, living in the ghettolike "Toontown" where their movements are sharply monitored by the human power establishment. The Toons are permitted to perform in a Cotton Club-style nightspot but are forbidden to patronize the joint. One of Toontown's leading citizens, whacked-out Roger Rabbit, is framed for the murder of human nightclub owner Marvin Acme (Stubby Kaye). Private detective Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), whose prejudice against Toons stems from the time that his brother was killed by a falling cartoon piano, reluctantly agrees to clear Roger of the accusation. Most of the sociopolitical undertones of the original novel were weeded...
	Full Metal Jacket Date Added 2006-10-20 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 449 Year 1987 Length 1:56 Director Stanley Kubrick Category War, Anti-War Film, Combat Films, War Drama Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, this film crystallizes the experience of the Vietnam War by concentrating on a group of raw Marine volunteers. Based on Gustav Hasford's novel The Short Timers, the film's first half details the volunteers' harrowing boot-camp training under the profane, power-saw guidance of drill instructor Sgt. Hartman (R. Lee Ermey, a real-life drill instructor whose performance is one of the most terrifyingly realistic on record). Part two takes place in Nam, as seen through the eyes of the now thoroughly indoctrinated marines. Ironically, Full Metal Jacket was filmed almost entirely in England. -- Hal Erickson ...
	The Land Before Time Date Added 2006-10-19 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 552 Year 1988 Length 1:10 Director Don Bluth Category Children's/Family, Fantasy, Children's Fantasy, Prehistoric Fantasy Animation producer Don Bluth's fondness for overly cutesy characters and muddy color compositions work to the benefit of his feature-length cartoon The Land Before Time. Littlefoot, a brontosaurus child, must fend for himself when his mother is killed (shades of Bambi). With several other orphaned dinosaurs, Littlefoot seeks out the fabled Great Valley, where food and shelter is plentiful. Along the way, the kiddie dinos learn several vital (and politically correct) life lessons, all the while keeping themselves scarce whenever the fierce tyrannosauri gallumph into view. The cuteness of the characters (emphasized by the voice work) takes some of the harsh edges off the story, which makes the film eminently suitable for younger children; and...
	Black Sheep Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 414 Year 1996 Length 1:27 Director Penelope Spheeris Category Comedy, Slapstick, Buddy Film Unfunny slapstick and lowbrow humor abounds in this weak comedy featuring Saturday Night Live alumni Chris Farley and David Spade. Handsome, smooth-talking Al Donnelly has everything going for him. A politician, he is engaged in a heated gubernatorial race with the feisty Governor Tracy, a tough old bird who doesn't hesitate to play hardball with opponents. Unfortunately for her, things are looking good for Donnelly. Fortunately she finds his Achilles Heel with his young brother Mike Donnelly, a fat slob gym teacher and hopeless imbecile who only wants to win his more successful sibling's respect. Unfortunately all he does is embarrass poor Al to death. In desperation, Al assigns the sardonic and prissy Steve Dodds...
	Inside Man Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 457 Year 2006 Length 2:08 Director Spike Lee Category Crime, Crime Thriller, Master Criminal Films The volatile showdown between a determined cop and a perfectionist bank robber is sent spiraling toward disaster when a scheming power broker steps in to take control of the situation in this hair-raising heist flick directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, and Jodie Foster. Dalton Russell (Owen) is a bank robber with a difference. In his quest to execute the perfect heist, Dalton has taken every possible factor into consideration. Dalton's uncanny ability of staying one step ahead of the law thwarts even-tempered Detective Keith Frazier's (Washington) best efforts. But there's another factor at play. The bank president (Christopher Plummer) has requested the services of high-profile negotiator Madeline White (Foster). Despite...
	The Jungle Book Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 549 Year 1967 Length 1:18 Director Wolfgang Reithermann Category Adventure, Musical, Children's/Family, Animated Musical, Coming-of-Age, Family-Oriented Adventure, Jungle Film, Children's Fantasy The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a lively neo-swing musical, loosely based upon the tales of Rudyard Kipling. The story takes place in a tropical jungle where people are conspicuously absent. But one day Bagheera the Panther (voice of Sebastian Cabot) discovers a baby in the wreck of a boat. Feeling pity on the child, Bagheera takes him to be raised with the wolves. Ten years later, the child has grown into Mowgli (voice of Bruce Reitherman). Mowgli discovers that his life is in danger because of the return to the area of Shere Khan the Tiger (voice of George Sanders), whose hatred of humans is such that Mowgli...
	The Little Mermaid 1/2 Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 553 Year 1989 Length 1:25 Director Ron Clements, John Musker Category Children's/Family, Fantasy, Animated Musical, Fairy Tales & Legends, Children's Fantasy Other Platinum Edition Disney's The Little Mermaid was the first in a series of blockbusters that restored the venerable firm's reputation as the world's premiere animated-feature factory. The title character is a precocious teenager named Ariel, the daughter of Triton, king of the Sea. Against her dad's wishes, Ariel journeys beyond her own world to the surface, where she falls in love with Prince Eric, a handsome human. Foolishly, the little mermaid enters into an agreement with evil sea witch Ursula in order to become human herself. The wistfully melancholy ending of the original Hans Christian Andersen story is dispensed with in favor of a joyously happy ending-but not before a spectacular climactic confrontation between Ursula and Triton....
	The Little Mermaid 2/2 Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 554 Year 1989 Length 1:25 Director Ron Clements, John Musker Category Children's/Family, Fantasy, Animated Musical, Fairy Tales & Legends, Children's Fantasy Other Platinum Edition Disney's The Little Mermaid was the first in a series of blockbusters that restored the venerable firm's reputation as the world's premiere animated-feature factory. The title character is a precocious teenager named Ariel, the daughter of Triton, king of the Sea. Against her dad's wishes, Ariel journeys beyond her own world to the surface, where she falls in love with Prince Eric, a handsome human. Foolishly, the little mermaid enters into an agreement with evil sea witch Ursula in order to become human herself. The wistfully melancholy ending of the original Hans Christian Andersen story is dispensed with in favor of a joyously happy ending-but not before a spectacular climactic confrontation between Ursula and Triton....
	A Scanner Darkly Date Added 2006-10-15 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 405 Year 2006 Length 1:40 Director Richard Linklater Category Science Fiction, Psychological Sci-Fi Other Limited The war on drugs has been lost, and when a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to spy on those he is closest to, the toll that the mission takes on his sanity is too great to comprehend in director Richard Linklater's rotoscoped take on Philip K. Dick's classic novel. With stratospheric concern over national security prompting paranoid government officials to begin spying on citizens, trust is a luxury and everyone is a suspected criminal until proven otherwise. Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) is a narcotics officer who is issued an order to spy on his friends and report back to headquarters. In addition to being a cop, though, Arctor is also an addict. His drug of...
	To Live and Die in L.A. Date Added 2006-10-15 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 567 Year 1985 Length 1:54 Director William Friedkin Category Thriller, Crime Thriller, Police Detective Film, Action Thriller Other Semi-Forced Subtitles William Friedkin's crime thriller, based on a book by U.S. Secret Service agent Gerald Petievich, concerns an arrogant Secret Service official who wants to get his man at any price. Willem Dafoe plays Eric Masters, an ultra-smooth counterfeiter who has managed to sidestep the police for years. He is so up-front about his dealings, in fact, that when some undercover agents try to make a deal with him at his health club, Eric tells them, "I've been coming to this gym three times a week for five years. I'm an easy guy to find. People know they can trust me." But when young and eager Secret Service agent Richard Chance (William L. Petersen) finds out...
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