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Adventureland
Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1308 Year 2009
Length 1:47 Director Greg Mottola
Category Comedy Drama
Inspired by writer/director Greg Mottola's own true-life job-from-hell experience, Adventureland stars The Education of Charlie Banks' Jesse Eisenberg as an uptight recent college graduate who discovers that he'll have to get a degrading minimum-wage job at a local amusement park instead of spending his summer drinking German beer, visiting world-class museums, and flirting with cute French girls. It's the summer of 1987, and James Brennan (Eisenberg) has just graduated college. James is all set to embark on his dream tour of Europe when his parents (Wendie Malick and Jack Gilpin) suddenly announce that they won't be able to subsidize the trip. Now the only things James has to look forward to this summer are sugar-fueled...
Aliens in the Attic
Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1309 Year 2009
Length 1:26 Director John Schultz
Category Children's/Family
A group of kids defend their Maine vacation home from knee-high alien invaders in this adventure comedy for the entire family. When Michigan native Bethany Pearson (Ashley Tisdale) arrives home after a secret outing with her boyfriend (Robert Hoffman), her father, Stuart (Kevin Nealon), decides that it's high time for a family vacation. Packing up the car with wife Hannah (Ashley Boettcher), teenage son Tom (Carter Jenkins), and big sister Bethany in tow, Stuart invites the extended family to join them at the vacation home for some much-needed R&R and sets his sights on Maine. Much to Tom's dismay, Bethany's stuck-up boyfriend, Ricky (Hoffman), even manages to wrangle an overnight visit. Shortly after the Pearsons...
Away We Go
Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1310 Year 2009
Length 1:38 Director Sam Mendes
Category Comedy Drama
When slacker thirtysomething couple Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) discover that his parents are moving overseas, the duo -- who expect their first child in a few months -- set off on a cross-country tour to figure out where they should lay down some roots in Sam Mendes' poignant comedy Away We Go. They visit a number of different cities, and meet with a different friend or family member's family at each stop. Their hosts include a set of emotionally detached parents (Allison Janney and Jim Gaffigan), a pair of overprotective new-age parents (Maggie Gyllenhaal and Josh Hamilton), and old college pals (Chris Messina and Melanie Lynskey), who have adopted a number of...
Changeling
Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1312 Year 2008
Length 2:21 Director Clint Eastwood
Category Thriller
Inspired by actual events that occurred in 1920s-era Los Angeles, Clint Eastwood's The Changeling tells the story of a woman driven to confront a corrupted LAPD after her abducted son is retrieved and she begins to suspect that the boy returned to her is not the same boy she gave birth to. The year was 1928, and the setting a working-class suburb of Los Angeles. As Christine (Angelina Jolie) said goodbye to her son, Walter, and departed for work, she never anticipated that this was the day her life would be forever changed. Upon returning home, Christine was distressed to discover that Walter was nowhere to be found. Over the course of the following months,...
Crank: High Voltage
Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1313 Year 2009
Length 1:36 Director Mark Neveldine
Category Action
Other Proper
The indestructible hopped-up hitman Chev Chelios, played to the hilt once again by Jason Statham, returns in Crank High Voltage, picking up where the first film left off -- except this time, Chelios is chasing a Chinese gangster who hijacked his heart and substituted it with a mechanical one that needs to be jolted with an electric charge to stay pumping. Back for the fun is Chev's girlfriend Eve (my Smart) and his physician Doc Miles (Dwight Yoakam), who, as luck has it, turns out to be an ex-heart surgeon. As Chelios delves deeper into the mystery surrounding his stolen heart, he discovers that the answers to his questions lie within the chest of a...
Green Lantern: First Flight
Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 7.3 / 10.0
Number 1315 Year 2009
Length 1:17 Director Lauren Montgomery
Category Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Test pilot Hal Jordan finds himself recruited as the newest member of the intergalactic police force, The Green Lantern Corps....
I Love You, Man
Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1316 Year 2009
Length 1:45 Director John Hamburg
Category Comedy
Engaged to the woman of his dreams yet uncomfortable with the prospect of not having a best man for his upcoming wedding, a successful real estate agent with no male friends schedules a series of "man dates" in hopes of finding a suitable candidate for the big day. Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) is just like most other guys, only when it comes to making friends he's always been a bit withdrawn. After proposing to his girlfriend, Zooey (Rashida Jones), however, Peter quickly realizes that he doesn't even have any friends close enough to qualify for the role of best man. And what better method to find the perfect best man than to spend some time...
Pirate Radio
Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 7.6 / 10.0
Number 1319 Year 2009
Length 2:15 Director Richard Curtis
Category Comedy
Other AKA The Boat That Rocked
In mid- to late-'60s Britain, an unusual yet colorful subculture sprang up and thrived as a product of the upswing in British pop music, only to meet its doom within a few short years. Though the BBC functioned as the country's main source of news and music, its programmers offered very little airtime to rock & roll -- which left an overwhelming need unfulfilled. In response, small bands of "pirate" radio enthusiasts set up broadcasting towers on boats just outside of English boundary waters, and transmitted signals to an estimated 25 million listeners, 24 hours a day and seven days per week. Unsurprisingly, the DJs who took charge of these broadcasts could rival just about...
Shrink
Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 6.8 / 10.0
Number 1322 Year 2008
Length 1:44 Director Jonas Pate
Category Drama
A jaded psychiatrist takes on a pro bono case that puts his professionalism to the ultimate test in director Jonas Pate's knowing expos...
Star Trek
Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1323 Year 2009
Length 2:06 Director J.J. Abrams
Category Science Fiction
Other Proper
Mission: Impossible III director and Alias creator J.J. Abrams resurrects the classic science fiction franchise created by Gene Roddenberry with this feature film that embraces the rich history of the influential television and film series while also exploring some uncharted territory. Heroes star Zachary Quinto assumes the role of the Federation Starfleet lieutenant and Vulcan made famous in the original series by Leonard Nimoy (who also appears in an older incarnation of his original role), Spock, with Anton Yelchin stepping into the role of USS Enterprise navigator Pavel Chekov, Zoe Saldana assuming the role of communications officer Uhura, Simon Pegg keeping the ship in top shape as chief engineer Montgomery Scott (aka "Scotty"), and Eric...
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...
The Crew
Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1325 Year 1994
Length 1:39 Director Carl Colpaert
Category Drama
This melodrama explores class differences, bigotry, and alternative lifestyles aboard a pleasure cruise that is anything but. The five main characters all eagerly anticipate their upcoming cruise through the Bahamas on a small yacht. The hero, Bill, still devastated by his alcoholic mother's suicide, is accompanying his wife Jennifer. Her brother Phillip, an anal-retentive and bigoted lawyer, owns the yacht. Included on the trip are Alex, a rock musician and his date Catherine who possesses a secret. Their smooth sailing is disrupted when they are boarded by two passengers whose boat met with disaster. The first, Tim, is a man who recently had a sex-change. The second is Camilla, a South American whom he is...
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1326 Year 2009
Length 1:29 Director Neal Brennan
Category Comedy
A smooth-talking jack-of-all-trades attempts to save a struggling car dealership from certain bankruptcy in this comedy starring Jeremy Piven, directed by Chappelle's Show creator Neal Brennan, and produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Gary Sanchez Productions. Don Ready (Piven) takes sales seriously; he's always up for a challenge, and he parties as hard as he works. Approached to help an ailing car dealership from falling into the red, Ready recruits a crew of his best men and descends upon the quiet town of Temecula determined to succeed. Before long the dealership is flourishing and Ready's crew are kings of the roost, but what happens when the man who made his mint by hustling cars...
The Hangover
Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 9.0 / 10.0
Number 1327 Year 2009
Length 1:39 Director Todd Phillips
Category Comedy
Other Screener
A blowout Las Vegas bachelor party turns into a race against time when three hung-over groomsmen awaken after a night of drunken debauchery to find that the groom has gone missing, and they must attempt to get him to the alter before his wedding day. In 48 hours, Doug is scheduled to walk down the aisle, effectively ending his reign as a rowdy bachelor. Realizing that this is their last blowout with their best friend, Doug's groomsmen organize a Sin City bachelor bash he'll never forget. The next morning, the groomsmen come to in their Caesar's Palace suite to find a tiger in the bathroom and a six-month-old baby tucked away in the closet. Unfortunately,...
The Taking of Pelham 123
Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1329 Year 2009
Length 1:46 Director Tony Scott
Category Thriller
A New York City subway dispatcher draws on his extensive knowledge of the subway system in order to outsmart a dangerous criminal mastermind who's hijacked a subway train in this remake of the 1974 thriller inspired by John Godey's best-selling book. Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) is drifting through his daily routine when he receives word that a heavily armed gang of four has hijacked a subway train and is holding all of the passengers hostage. Led by cunning master thief Ryder (John Travolta), the gunmen will begin executing everyone aboard should the authorities fail in delivering ten million dollars in the space of just one hour. With the tension in the tunnels rising, Walter races...
Fast & Furious
Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1293 Year 2009
Length 1:47 Director Justin Lin
Category Action
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker return to the film franchise that helped to launch each of their respective careers as the Fast and the Furious series winds to a close under the creative eye of Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift director Justin Lin. Fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto (Diesel) is back in Los Angeles to seek out the truth behind a high-profile crime, but his presence in town doesn't sit well with Agent Brian O'Conner (Walker). These two rivals are forced to unite in the cause of fighting a common enemy, however, when convoy heists and precision tunnel crawls lead them out of Los Angeles and into the Mexican desert. Now, in order to take...
The Great Buck Howard
Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1297 Year 2008
Length 1:30 Director Sean McGinly
Category Comedy Drama
A young man on his way up hitches his wagon to a middle-aged star on his way down in a comedy from writer and director Sean McGinly. Troy Gable (Colin Hanks) is a guy in his early twenties who has dropped out of law school and is pondering his next move. Troy has an interest in working in the entertainment business, and when he learns that a "celebrity performer" is looking for a personal assistant, Troy thinks he's found the ideal entry-level position. Troy soon discovers he's landed a job as a glorified gofer for Buck Howard (John Malkovich), a once-famous mentalist who appeared on The Tonight Show 61 times during Johnny Carson's reign as...
The Soloist
Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1298 Year 2008
Length 1:57 Director Joe Wright
Category Drama
Academy Award-nominated Atonement director Joe Wright teams with screenwriter Susannah Grant to tell the true-life story of Nathaniel Ayers, a former cello prodigy whose bouts with schizophrenia landed him on the streets after two years of schooling at Juilliard. Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) is a disenchanted journalist stuck in a dead-end job. His marriage to a fellow journalist having recently come to an end, Steve is wandering through Los Angeles' Skid Row when he notices a bedraggled figure playing a two-stringed violin. The figure in question is Ayers (Jamie Foxx), a man whose promising career in music was cut short due to a debilitating bout with mental illness. The more Lopez learns about Ayers,...
Valkyrie
Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1299 Year 2008
Length 2:01 Director Bryan Singer
Category War
Other Repack
At the absolute height of World War II, German generals hatch a daring plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler and effectively render the German war machine impotent. Directed by Bryan Singer, Valkyrie stars Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the real-life mastermind behind the elaborate plot known as Project Valkyrie: a plan to assassinate Hitler and overthrow his government from the inside. Stauffenberg has been a loyal soldier and an asset to the Reich for his entire military career, but after losing an eye, a hand, and three fingers in an Allied bombing, he reaches a breaking point. The destructive madness that his country is unleashing on the world has become too terrible for the...
Watchmen
Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1300 Year 2009
Length 2:42 Director Zack Snyder
Category Science Fiction
300's Zack Snyder brings Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' critically acclaimed comic book Watchmen to the big screen, courtesy of DC Comics and Warner Bros. Pictures. Set in an alternate universe circa 1985, the film's world is a highly unstable one where a nuclear war is imminent between America and Russia. Superheroes have long been made to hang up their tights thanks to the government-sponsored Keene Act, but that all changes with the death of The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a robust ex-hero commando whose mysterious free fall out a window perks the interest of one of the country's last remaining vigilantes, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley). His investigation leads him to caution many of his...
Fifty Dead Men Walking
Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1301 Year 2008
Length 1:57 Director Kari Skogland
Category Drama
Other Screener
Inspired by the remarkable true story of the British undercover agent who successfully infiltrated the IRA, writer/director Kari Skogland's fact-based thriller takes it's title from author Martin McGartland's best-selling novel of the same name. Set at the absolute height of the Irish civil conflict, Fifty Dead Men Walking begins as twenty-two year old Martin McGarland is recruited by the British police to infiltrate the IRA and report back with intelligence. It's an extremely dangerous job that could result in death or worse should his true identity be revealed, yet McGartland realizes that the information he's gathering will save countless lives. At first the prospect of being discovered provided something of a rush for McGartland, though...
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,...
Coraline
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1281 Year 2009
Length 1:40 Director Henry Selick
Category Fantasy
Other Fixed
A young girl walks through a secret door and discovers a parallel reality that is eerily similar to the life she already knows, yet deeply unsettling in a number of ways, in director Henry Selick's animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's international best-seller. Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones (voice of Dakota Fanning) is fearlessly courageous, and perhaps far too adventurous for her own good. Coraline and her parents (Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman) have recently relocated to Oregon from Michigan. Bored in her new home since her parents are distracted by work and she has yet to make any new friends, Coraline passes the time by exploring her new neighborhood with an annoying local boy named Wybie Lovat...
Nothing But the Truth
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 7.5 / 10.0
Number 1286 Year 2008
Length 1:48 Director Rod Lurie
Category Drama
A tense political drama ripped straight from the headlines, Rod Lurie's Nothing But the Truth tells the tale of a Washington, D.C. reporter who is targeted by the government after refusing to reveal her source for a story that identified an undercover CIA operative. Rachel Armstrong (Kate Beckinsale) is an ambitious young reporter working at the Capitol Sun-Times, one of Washington, D.C.'s biggest newspapers. When the paper published Rachel's incendiary story revealing the identity of covert CIA agent Erica Van Doren (Vera Farmiga), charismatic special prosecutor Patton Dubois (Matt Dillon) demands that she reveal her source for the story. With the support of her husband, Ray (David Schwimmer); her editor, Bonnie (Angela Bassett); and the...
Powder Blue
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 6.7 / 10.0
Number 1287 Year 2009
Length 1:46 Director Timothy Linh Bui
Category Drama
Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, and Jessica Biel topline this ensemble drama regarding intersecting lives on Christmas Eve from writer/director Timothy Linh Bui (Green Dragon). Liotta plays an ex-convict who tracks down his estranged daughter (Biel) after serving a 25-year jail sentence. ...
Push
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1288 Year 2009
Length 1:51 Director Paul McGuigan
Category Thriller
Lucky Number Slevin director Paul McGuigan takes the helm for this action thriller concerning a group of telekinetic American ex-patriots who band together in an attempt to take down the clandestine government agency that's genetically transforming normal citizens into powerful psychic warriors. The Division is a shadowy government operation devoted to making humankind the ultimate weapon. Those who accept this transformation have the power to move objects with the mind, see the future before it happens, create new realities, and dispense of their enemies without so much as a single touch; those who are unwilling to participate are immediately terminated. Nick Gant (Chris Evans) is a "mover," a second-generation telekinetic who went into hiding after...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1289 Year 2008
Length 2:46 Director David Fincher
Category Drama
David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in reverse. This sweeping film follows the character's unusual life into the 21st century as he experiences joy and sadness, loves lost and found, and the meaning of timelessness. Cate Blanchett co-stars along with Tilda Swinton, Elias Koteas, and Julia Ormond. ...
Transporter 3
Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1291 Year 2008
Length 1:44 Director Olivier Megaton
Category Action
Strong-armed into transporting the kidnapped daughter of the head of the Environmental Agency for the Ukraine from Marseilles to Odessa, skilled wheelman Frank Martin (Jason Statham) enlists the aid of Inspector Tarconi (Fran...
Slumdog Millionaire
Date Added 2009-03-20 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1280 Year 2008
Length 2:00 Director Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan (co-director: India)
Category Crime | Drama | Romance
Accused of cheating and desperate to prove his innocence, an eighteen-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai reflects back on his tumultuous life while competing to win 20 million rupees on India's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in Danny Boyle's inspirational drama. Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) may not have a penny to his name, but that could all change in a matter of hours. He's one question away from taking the top prize on India's most popular television game show, but as with everything else in Jamal's life, it isn't going to be easy. Arrested by police under suspicion of cheating, Jamal is interrogated by the authorities. The police simply can't believe that a...
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...
Bad Lieutenant
Date Added 2009-01-19 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1272 Year 1992
Length 1:36 Director Abel Ferrara
Category Drama, Police Drama, Crime Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: If police lieutenant Harvey Keitel's life could get any more sordid, he could probably sell tickets. The least of his vices is gambling, which has gotten him in Dutch with the mob. He abuses his body with drugs and his soul with hookers, and now he's turned to exploiting teenage girls for sex. Keitel is forced to reassess his life while investigating the rape of a nun. Director Abel Ferrara co-wrote the screenplay with Zoe Lund, who as Zoe Tamerlis starred in Ferrara's cult classic Ms. 45. A soundtrack tune by rapper Schoolly D, which was included in the initial release of Bad Lieutenant, featured a sample from Led Zeppelin which was used...
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 ...
The Alphabet Killer
Date Added 2009-01-19 Rating 5.6 / 10.0
Number 1276 Year 2007
Length 1:40 Director Rob Schmidt
Category Horror, Psychological Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Wrong Turn director Rob Schmidt takes the helm for this thriller inspired by the grim true-life exploits of an alphabet-obsessed New York serial killer and starring Timothy Hutton, Cary Elwes, Eliza Dushku, and Michael Ironside. When Rochester, NY-based police investigator Megan Paige (Dushku) discovers that ten year old Carla Castillo was brutally raped and murdered in nearby Churchville, she becomes convinced that the department is dealing with a serial killer. Paige is a driven detective whose devotion to her job often crosses the border into obsession. Her fianc...
The Wackness
Date Added 2009-01-19 Rating 7.0 / 10.0
Number 1277 Year 2008
Length 1:39 Director Jonathan Levine
Category Comedy, Romantic Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: A psychiatrist (Ben Kingsley) is put into a moral quandary when a young drug dealer who's been supplying him with pot in exchange for clinical treatment ends up dating his daughter in this comedy from All the Boys Love Mandy Lane's writer/director Jonathan Levine. Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, Mary-Kate Olsen, and Method Man co-star in the Occupant Films production. -- Jeremy Wheeler ...
Eagle Eye
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1250 Year 2008
Length 1:58 Director D.J. Caruso
Category Thriller, Sci-Fi Action, Chase Movie, Paranoid Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan star in Disturbia director D.J. Caruso's race-against-time thriller concerning two strangers thrust together by a mysterious telephone call, and their frantic efforts to discover why they have inexplicably become the nation's most wanted fugitives. Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Monaghan) were complete strangers at the beginning of the day, but that changed the instant a strange woman called to threaten both their lives and the lives of their loved ones. Suddenly forced into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, Jerry and Rachel must now take orders from a woman who's using everyday technology to track and control their every move. As the situation intensifies and the hapless...
Ghost Town
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1252 Year 2008
Length 1:42 Director David Koepp
Category Comedy, Fantasy Comedy, Romantic Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear star in director David Koepp's fantasy comedy concerning Bertram Pincus, a dentist who gains the ability to communicate with the dead after momentarily dying during a routine medical procedure. When the dearly departed begin requesting favors from Dr. Pincus, the self-absorbed dentist finds that living with ghosts isn't easy. Fortunately, recently deceased businessman Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) agrees to keep the dead at bay if Dr. Pincus will just agree to prevent his widow, Gwen (T...
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1254 Year 2008
Length 1:33 Director Eric Brevig
Category Fantasy, Adventure, Fantasy Adventure, Prehistoric Fantasy
AMG SYNOPSIS: Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Eric Brevig makes his feature directorial debut with this adaptation of the classic Jules Verne fantasy starring Brendan Fraser. When an ambitious science professor (Fraser) develops a decidedly unconventional hypothesis, the mere mention of his name is enough to elicit laughter within the academic community. However, during a subsequent excursion to Iceland, the professor and his nephew make a major scientific discovery that sends them miles beneath the surface of the Earth, where they discover not only strange new worlds, but also encounter creatures so alien they appear to be from another world entirely. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Kung Fu Panda
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1255 Year 2008
Length 1:32 Director John Stevenson, Mark Osborne
Category Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Comedy, Martial Arts
AMG SYNOPSIS: A clumsy panda bear becomes an unlikely kung fu hero when a treacherous enemy spreads chaos throughout the countryside in this animated martial arts adventure featuring the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, and Jackie Chan. On the surface, Po (voice of Black) may look like just another portly panda bear, but beneath his fur he bears the mark of the chosen one. By day, Po works faithfully in his family's noodle shop, but by night he dreams of becoming a true master of the martial arts. Now an ancient prophecy has come to pass, and Po realizes that he is the only one who can save his people from certain...
Quantum of Solace
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1258 Year 2008
Length 1:46 Director Marc Forster
Category Spy Film, Action, Glamorized Spy Film, Action Thriller
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: A devastating betrayal sends James Bond from Australia to Italy and South America on a mission of vengeance that pits the suave super-spy against a powerful businessman with diabolical intentions. Betrayed by Vesper, 007 (Daniel Craig) suppresses the urge to make his latest mission personal as he teams with M (Judi Dench) to interrogate Mr. White (Jesper Christensen). It soon becomes apparent that the organization behind the blackmailing of Vesper is more powerful than Bond and M had previously anticipated, and after discovering forensic evidence that links an MI6 traitor to a bank in Haiti, Bond immediately sets out to gather more intelligence. Once in Haiti, a case of mistaken identity leads Bond...
Quench
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating
Number 1259 Year 2007
Length 0:00 Director Zack Parker
Category Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: A young man grieving the death of a loved one turns to the best friend he hasn't seen in three long years, only to find that sometimes people change in ways you could never expect in this contemporary gothic tragedy from director Zack Parker. Derik is devastated. After losing one of the people he cared about most in this world, he has no one to turn to but his old friend Jason. Back in school, Derik and Jason were the best of friends, but it's been three years since Jason left for college and they haven't seen or spoken to one another since. The moment they are reunited, Derik begins to sense that...
Righteous Kill
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1260 Year 2008
Length 1:41 Director Jon Avnet
Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Jon Avnet's thriller Righteous Kill stars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as a pair of Big Apple police officers investigating a series of murders committed by a serial killer. Carla Gugino co-stars as a crime-scene investigator who has romantic ties to De Niro. 50 Cent, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy, and John Leguizamo co-star. -- Perry Seibert ...
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...
Traitor
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1266 Year 2008
Length 1:54 Director Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Category Thriller, Unglamorized Spy Film, Action Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: An undercover CIA agent within a terrorist cell is marked as a terrorist suspect by the FBI in Overture Films' upcoming thriller Traitor. Don Cheadle produces and stars in the film as the operative under Guy Pearce's investigation. Based on an idea by Steve Martin, the film is written and directed by Day After Tomorrow screenwriter Jeffrey Nachmanoff. -- Jeremy Wheeler ...
Transsiberian
Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1267 Year 2008
Length 1:51 Director Brad Anderson
Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: When an American couple (Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer) traveling from China to Moscow on the Trans-Siberian Railway meets an outwardly friendly couple (Eduardo Noriega and Kate Mara) traveling the same route, deception soon gives way to murder in The Machinist director Brad Anderson's tense tale of international intrigue. Ben Kingsley and Thomas Kretschmann co-star as a pair of Russian police officers striving to solve the case and stop the rising body count. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Get Smart
Date Added 2008-10-12 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1242 Year 2008
Length 1:50 Director Peter Segal
Category Comedy, Spy Comedy, Action Comedy, Parody/Spoof
AMG SYNOPSIS: 40-Year-Old Virgin star Steve Carell steps into the telephonic shoes of television's most beloved bumbling detective in this big-screen adaptation of the hit 1960s-era comedy series created by Mel Brooks. The evil geniuses at KAOS have hatched a diabolical plot to dominate every living man, woman, and child on the planet, and their plot gets under way as they attack the headquarters of the U.S. spy agency Control. As a result of the attack, the identity of every agent working for Control has been compromised. Realizing that the only way to thwart KAOS' evil plan is to promote eager but inexperienced Control analyst Maxwell Smart (Carell) to the rank of special agent, the...
Hancock
Date Added 2008-10-12 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1243 Year 2008
Length 1:32 Director Peter Berg
Category Comedy, Superhero Film, Action Comedy
Other Unrated
AMG SYNOPSIS: A hard-drinking lush finds himself thrust into superhero mode in director Peter Berg's unconventional look at the private life of a crime-fighter. Will Smith stars as the embittered do-gooder whose lifestyle is more akin to a rock star than a role model, and who has grown as disillusioned with his once-admiring public as they have of him. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Date Added 2008-10-12 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1244 Year 2008
Length 2:02 Director Steven Spielberg
Category Action, Adventure, Adventure Comedy, Costume Adventure
Other Proper
AMG SYNOPSIS: Everyone's favorite archeologist adventurer dusts off his hat and trusty whip for yet another globetrotting trek as Indiana Jones returns to the big screen nearly 20 years after racing for the Holy Grail alongside his father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Harrison Ford reprises his role as the iconic, snake-loathing screen hero in a sequel that also finds Karen Allen returning to the series for the first time since 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark. Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent, and Shia LaBeouf round out a cast that also features Cate Blanchett in the role of villainous Russian operative Agent Irina Spalko. Steven Spielberg calls the shots on a...
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...
Red
Date Added 2008-10-12 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1248 Year 2008
Length 1:38 Director Trygve Allister Diesen, Lucky McKee
Category Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: After his 14-year-old dog, Red, is senselessly murdered by three thrill-seeking teenagers, an aging recluse sets out seeking justice for his four-legged companion and finds himself gradually pushed to take extreme measures. Brian Cox and Tom Sizemore star in this adaptation of the Jack Ketchum novel scripted by Stephen Susco, and co-directed by Trygve Allister Diesen and Lucky McKee. -- Jason Buchanan ...
10,000 B.C.
Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1226 Year 2008
Length 1:49 Director Roland Emmerich
Category Epic, Prehistoric Fantasy
AMG SYNOPSIS: A young outcast from a primitive tribe is forced to defend his people from a brutal onslaught in Independence Day director Roland Emmerich's fast-paced period adventure. Despite the fact that he is low man on the totem pole in his tribe of fearless hunters, a brave young boy (Steven Strait) longs to win the heart of a beautiful princess (Camilla Belle) who is well above his station in life. When an overwhelming horde of powerful invaders forces the hunters into slavery and abducts the princess, the once-aimless boy suddenly finds his destiny taking an unexpected turn. Now, if he has any hope of saving his tribe from certain extinction, this young boy will...
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1227 Year 2008
Length 1:45 Director Christopher Bell
Category Culture & Society [nf], Biography [nf], Social Issues
Other Limited
AMG SYNOPSIS: In the hopes of exploring American culture's increased obsession with winning, documentary filmmaker Christopher Bell examines the anabolic steroid use of his two brothers. After setting the stage with a look at the cultural backdrop of the 1980s -- in which hulky stars like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were the ideal -- Bell illustrates how he and his brothers became involved in the bodybuilding subculture, eventually discovering the brutal truth that success in the lifestyle of pumping iron demanded the use of steroids. -- Cammila Albertson ...
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1229 Year 2008
Length 1:40 Director Hayden Schlossberg, Jon Hurwitz
Category Comedy, Stoner Comedy, Buddy Film
Other Unrated
AMG SYNOPSIS: After successfully seeking out the ultimate slider in the 2004 stoner comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, the cannabis-craving twosome returns in this high-flying sequel that finds them labeled terrorists for attempting to sneak a marijuana-smoking implement on a flight to Amsterdam. Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) have just finished gorging themselves on savory White Castle hamburgers when they return to their apartment and hatch a plan for Harold to win the heart of his crush, Maria (Paula Garc...
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...
Kabluey
Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1231 Year 2007
Length 1:26 Director Scott Prendergast
Category Comedy, Domestic Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: A slacker tries to do the right thing for his family with unexpectedly chaotic results in this independent comedy. Salman (Scott Prendergast) is an out-of-work twentysomething who has few skills and fewer prospects. However, things are significantly worse for his older brother -- his National Guard unit has been called back to Iraq, and his wife, Leslie (Lisa Kudrow), needs to go back to work in order to support their children. However, Leslie doesn't have anyone to look after her two sons, so when Salman learns of her sad situation, he volunteers to move in and help mind the kids. Salman quickly discovers the boys are nearly psychotic and will stop at nothing...
Redbelt
Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1233 Year 2008
Length 1:39 Director David Mamet
Category Thriller, Martial Arts, Action Thriller, Sports Drama
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Tim Allen and Chiwetel Ejiofor co-star in writer/director David Mamet's martial arts drama Redbelt. Ejiofor plays Mike Terry, a jujitsu master who co-runs a very modest martial arts studio in Los Angeles with his bossy wife, Sondra (Alice Braga). Mike demonstrates an unwavering commitment to his craft and draws a cadre of defiantly loyal pupils including Joe (Max Martini), an LAPD cop. All told, it appears that he has chosen a peaceful and conflict-free path in life. The dedicated martial artist's fate takes an unanticipated turn, however, one evening when a young woman named Laura (Emily Mortimer) bursts into the academy, reaches for a gun, and accidentally shatters the front window. One thing...
Speed Racer
Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 1235 Year 2008
Length 2:15 Director Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Category Adventure, Adventure Comedy, Chase Movie
AMG SYNOPSIS: The Matrix masterminds Andy and Larry Wachowski usher anime icon Tatsuo Yoshida's classic 1960s-era hit into the new millennium with this family-friendly story of a young racecar driver who takes on the mysterious Racer X in a custom-made, gadget-loaded speed machine named the Mach 5. Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is the kind of driver that every wheelman wishes he could be: a born winner whose unbeatable combination of aggression, instinct, and fearlessness always finds him crossing the checkered flag with a comfortable lead. In Speed Racer's mind, the only driver who could present him with any real challenge is his late brother -- the legendary Rex Racer. Rex died in a heated cross-country...
The Incredible Hulk
Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1238 Year 2008
Length 1:54 Director Louis Leterrier
Category Action, Superhero Film, Sci-Fi Action, Creature Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: Mild-mannered scientist Bruce Banner has been traveling the globe in search of the antidote that will allow him to break free from his primal alter ego, but both the warmongers who long to exploit him for their own gain and a horrific creature known as The Abomination are determined to stop him from achieving his noble goal in Transporter 2 director Louis Leterrier's take on the classic Marvel Comics superhero tale. For years, Bruce (Edward Norton) has been living in the shadows, pursued by the military and haunted by the rage within. But traveling the world in secrecy isn't easy, and as hard as he tries Bruce can't get Betty Ross (Liv Tyler)...
WALL-E
Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 9.0 / 10.0
Number 1239 Year 2008
Length 1:38 Director Andrew Stanton
Category Science Fiction, Adventure Comedy, Sci-Fi Adventure
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Disney and Pixar join forces for this computer-animated tale about a wide-eyed robot who travels to the deepest reaches of outer space in search of a newfound friend. The year is 2700, and planet Earth has long been uninhabitable. For hundreds of years, WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) has been taking out the trash, and collecting precious knick-knacks in order to stave off the boredom of his dreary routine. Little does WALL-E realize that he has recently stumbled onto a secret that could save planet Earth, and once again make the ravaged planet safe for all humankind. When highly advanced search robot EVE makes friends with WALL-E and realizes the value of...
21
Date Added 2008-07-19 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1207 Year 2008
Length 2:03 Director Robert Luketic
Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller
Other Real Proper
AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Robert Luketic adapts Ben Mezrich's best-seller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions to tell the true-life tale of six genius students who used their brains to beat considerable odds. Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) may be shy, but his wallflower reputation betrays his inner brilliance. As smart as Ben may be, however, if he can't pay his tuition he'll be kicked out of M.I.T. Fortunately, the answer to all of Ben's problems is right there in the cards. Recruited to join a team of extremely gifted students who have used their mastery of numbers to beat the odds at blackjack, Ben procures a...
Doomsday
Date Added 2008-07-19 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1210 Year 2008
Length 1:53 Director Neil Marshall
Category Action, Sci-Fi Action
Other Unrated
AMG SYNOPSIS: Three decades after a major country is quarantined in hopes of containing a lethal and highly contagious virus nicknamed "Reaper," signs that the super-bug has resurfaced in a major city prompt desperate specialists to race back into the infected zone to find a cure in director Neal Marshall's (The Descent) miasmic speculative sci-fi thriller. Few could have foreseen the terror that the microorganism known as "Reaper" would unleash upon the unsuspecting population, and when terrified authorities quarantined the entire country in hopes of saving the human race, the streets immediately descended into chaos. Thirty years later, the inhabitants of planet Earth think that they've seen the last of the merciless killer disease, but...
Rambo
Date Added 2008-07-19 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1213 Year 2008
Length 1:31 Director Sylvester Stallone
Category Action, Action Thriller, War Adventure
AMG SYNOPSIS: When a group of missionary aid workers in Myanmar disappear into the vast green inferno, vigilante Vietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) leaves his job as a Salween River boatman behind to accompany a group of mercenaries on a daring rescue mission. It's been 20 years since Rambo helped mujahedeen rebels fend off Soviet invaders in Afghanistan, and these days the former soldier lives a simple life in northern Thailand. Meanwhile, the world's longest-running civil war rages into its 60th year on the nearby Thai-Burma border. One day, human rights missionaries Sarah Miller (Julie Benz) and Michael Burnett (Paul Schulze) show up asking Rambo to guide them up the Salween so they...
Shotgun Stories
Date Added 2008-07-19 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1217 Year 2007
Length 1:32 Director Jeff Nichols
Category Drama, Americana, Psychological Drama, Family Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: Two families linked by the same father explode into a violent rivalry in this independent Southern gothic drama, the first feature from director Jeff Nichols. Cleaman Hayes lived and died in Little Rock, AR, where he had seven sons by two different women. After wedding Nicole (Natalie Canerday), Cleaman sired three sons, and his lack of concern for their future was reflected in the fact he barely gave them names -- they were dubbed Son (Michael Shannon), Kid (Barlow Jacobs) and Boy (Douglas Ligon). One day, Cleaman abandoned his wife and sons, and left them to survive in deep poverty that has trapped them to this day. Eventually Cleaman cleaned up his act,...
Charlie Wilson's War
Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1208 Year 2007
Length 1:42 Director Mike Nichols
Category Drama, Political Drama, Docudrama
AMG SYNOPSIS: Produced by Tom Hanks, written by Aaron Sorkin, and directed by Mike Nichols, this adaptation of George Crile III's incendiary bestseller tells the remarkable story of the Texas congressman whose efforts to prevent the Red Army from overtaking Afghanistan eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet Union while simultaneously fueling the rise of radical Islam. In the early 1980s, a hastily assembled army of Afghan "freedom fighters" achieved the remarkable feat of fending off Soviet invaders despite the fact that the odds were overwhelmingly stacked against them. At the time, Texas congressman Charlie Wilson (Hanks) was a key member of the hugely powerful House Appropriations Committee. Illuminated to the specifics of this...
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...
Flawless
Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1211 Year 2007
Length 1:48 Director Michael Radford
Category Thriller, Crime Drama, Caper, Period Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: Michael Radford (Il Postino and The Merchant of Venice) directs screenwriter Edward Anderson's script about an aging janitor and an American executive who form an unlikely alliance in order to carry out an elaborate jewel heist. Set in 1960s-era London and based on actual events, the tense crime thriller stars Michael Caine as the scheming maintenance man who longs to relieve his employers at the London Diamond Corporation of their valuable inventory, and Demi Moore as the savvy executive who is completely perplexed by the wealthy diamond magnates. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Resurrecting the Champ
Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 7.1 / 10.0
Number 1215 Year 2006
Length 1:52 Director Rod Lurie
Category Drama, Inspirational Drama, Sports Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: Director and co-screenwriter (along with Chris Gerolmo, Allison Burnett, and Michael Bortman) Rod Lurie tells the uplifting tale of a sports writer who almost lost it all before stumbling into the story of a lifetime in this uplifting sports-themed drama starring Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Jackson. Erik (Hartnett) is a Denver-based sports writer whose prose is dull and whose marriage is failing. Not only is Erik having a difficult time dealing with his stubborn editor Metz (Alan Alda) - who refuses to take the suffering scribe off of the boxing beat - but the pain of being separated from his young son has weighed heavier on Erik's conscience than he could have...
Semi-Pro
Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1216 Year 2008
Length 1:31 Director Kent Alterman
Category Comedy, Period Film, Sports Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: The American Basketball Association is on the verge of collapse, and when a former NBA benchwarmer returns to his hometown of Flint, MI, to whip his former team into shape for the playoffs, redemption is just a free throw away in this period sports comedy starring Will Ferrell and Woody Harrelson. Penned by Old School scribe Scot Armstrong, Semi-Pro tells the tale of a 1970s-era basketball player who doesn't have much luck in the NBA, but vows to leave his mark on the sport by coaching the Flint Tropics. When the upstart ABA league agrees to be absorbed by the NBA, only four teams will be allowed in. Jackie Moon (Ferrell) must orchestrate...
The Savages
Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 9.0 / 10.0
Number 1221 Year 2007
Length 1:54 Director Tamara Jenkins
Category Comedy Drama, Family Drama, Medical Drama, Domestic Comedy
Other Limited
AMG SYNOPSIS: A pair of siblings are forced to set aside their discomfort with one another for the sake of their father in this low-key comedy drama from writer/director Tamara Jenkins. Wendy Savage (Laura Linney) is a struggling playwright living in New York City who works a day job to support herself and can't shake the feeling that she's failed as an artist. Wendy isn't especially happy about her love life either, gaining little self-esteem from her on-and-off affair with oversexed, married neighbor Larry (Peter Friedman). Wendy's anxieties about her writing career are intensified by the success of her brother, Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who teaches theater history at a college in Buffalo, NY, and...
Vantage Point
Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1222 Year 2008
Length 1:30 Director Pete Travis
Category Thriller, Political Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Forest Whitaker, Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, and Matthew Fox star in director Pete Travis' Rashomon-style thriller in which an assassination attempt on the president of the United States is detailed from five unique perspectives. As the president arrives in Salamanca, gunshots ring out. An American tourist (Whitaker) has captured footage of the would-be assassin on videotape, and now, as the stories of the other four witnesses unfold, each essential piece of the puzzle quickly falls into place. Only when all of the stories are told will the chilling truth to this shocking crime finally emerge. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Walk All Over Me
Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 5.8 / 10.0
Number 1223 Year 2007
Length 1:38 Director Robert Cuffley
Category Thriller, Crime Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: A trouble-prone teen navigates a treacherous world of witless gangsters and latex fetish wear in director/screenwriter Robert Cuffley's quirky comic noir. When Alberta (Leelee Sobieski)'s boyfriend is assaulted by thugs, the frightened teen flees to Vancouver in hopes of hiding out at the house of her good friend Celine (Tricia Helfer) - an aspiring dominatrix and wannabe actress currently planning her big move to Los Angeles. While Celine knows that helping out her old friend Alberta can only mean trouble, her kind heart eventually overpowers her better judgment. Celine soon remembers just why she was so hesitant to help her old friend, however, when Alberta ruins her best SS uniform. Later, Alberta tries...
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Date Added 2008-07-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1224 Year 2007
Length 1:36 Director Jake Kasdan
Category Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Musical Comedy
Other DC
AMG SYNOPSIS: Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan team up to take the swagger out of the traditional music biopic with this look at the troubled life of fictional music legend Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly). Apatow and Kasdan both write and produce, while Freaks and Geeks and Orange County director Kasdan steps into the director's chair. Dewey Cox is a rock & roll legend whose songs have the power to shake a nation. Despite the fact that Cox's career has been something of a roller coaster ride, the fact remains that he never went out of style in the eyes of his many adoring fans. He's rubbed elbows with everyone from Elvis Presley to the...
A Midnight Clear
Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1025 Year 1992
Length 1:47 Director Keith Gordon
Category War, Anti-War Film, War Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: Based on a novel by William Wharton, A Midnight Clear is set in the Adriennes Forest in December of 1944. A group of American GIs, all of whom have been together a bit too long, cling to the vestiges of their peacetime interests to remain sane. None are brilliant soldiers, though Will Knot Ethan Hawke is the one who exhibits the strongest leadership qualities. Billeted at a chateau, the soldiers begin hearing strange noises emanating from a graveyard, the handiwork of a group of mischievous German soldiers. The two enemy camps draw closer to one another as Christmas approaches, due in great part to the influence of GI Vince "Mother" Wilkins Gary Sinise....
Awake
Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating
Number 1033 Year 2007
Length 1:24 Director Joby Harold
Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Jessica Alba, Hayden Christenson, and Terrence Howard star in first-time director/screenwriter Joby Harold's nerve-jangling psychological thriller about a man who experiences the frighteningly common surgical phenomenon known as "anesthetic awareness," in which those laid out on the operating table remain acutely aware of what is going on around them despite remaining completely paralyzed and unable to cry out for help. When a successful young man (Christenson) goes under the knife and realizes that the anesthesia hasn't quite done its job, the horror quickly sets in as his worried wife (Alba) waits anxiously and a terrifying drama unfolds in the operating room. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Becoming Jane
Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1036 Year 2007
Length 2:00 Director Julian Jarrold
Category Drama, Period Film, Romantic Drama, Biography [feature]
AMG SYNOPSIS: Events from the life of the author Jane Austen inspired this romantic historical drama, which speculates of a romance that may have had a significant impact on her life and work. Twenty-year-old Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) is the daughter of Rev. Austen (James Cromwell), a minister who looks after a flock in a small rural community in Southern England with his wife (Julie Walters). While her older sister, Cassandra (Anna Maxwell Martin), is engaged to be married, Jane resists her family's efforts to match her up with Mr. Wisley (Laurence Fox), the wealthy but dull nephew of Lady Gresham (Maggie Smith), a minor member of the British nobility. Jane has the heart of...
Dan in Real Life
Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1043 Year 2007
Length 1:38 Director Peter Hedges
Category Comedy Drama, Romantic Comedy, Domestic Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: A widower and father of three who also writes a parenting advice column for his local newspaper falls for the girlfriend of his younger brother during a family vacation in director Peter Hedges' offbeat love triangle laugher. Steve Carell stars as the writer who finds his widely-known convictions put to the ultimate test, with Dane Cook and Juliette Binoche respectively assuming the roles of the younger sibling and his radiant girlfriend. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Gone Baby Gone
Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1057 Year 2007
Length 1:54 Director Ben Affleck
Category Thriller, Detective Film
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Ben Affleck's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Gone, Baby, Gone stars Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie, a private investigator from working-class Boston who takes on a case involving a kidnapped girl. The girl's aunt begs Patrick to take the case because he has connections to criminal Boston that the police do not. He agrees and along with his partner, Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan), they uncover a web of corruption that threatens the relationship between the two. Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman co-star as members of the Boston Police Department. -- Perry Seibert ...
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Date Added 2008-03-10 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1028 Year 2007
Length 1:32 Director Tim Hill
Category Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are back in director Tim Hill's computer-animation/live-action hybrid following the further adventures of the world's most adorable singing trio. Songwriter Dave Seville (Jason Lee) has been struggling to gain recognition in the music industry for some time, and despite the fact that his former college roommate (David Cross) is now a high-profile powerbroker at Jett Records, Dave still can't manage to get a break. Things soon start to look up, however, when Dave discovers three singing chipmunks hiding out in the branches of a Christmas tree in Jett Records' world headquarters. Realizing that these woodland crooners cold prove to be his ticket to the big time, Dave does his...
August Rush
Date Added 2008-03-10 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 1030 Year 2007
Length 1:53 Director Kirsten Sheridan
Category Drama, Musical Drama, Childhood Drama, Romantic Fantasy
AMG SYNOPSIS: Estranged from his parents by circumstance and nudged toward a foster family, a young boy seeks out his long-lost folks and discovers prodigious musical talent in this family-oriented drama from Disco Pigs director Kirsten Sheridan. In the aftermath of a passionate night together above New York's Washington Square, a charismatic Irish guitarist named Louis (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) and a reserved cellist named Lyla (Keri Russell) are forced apart by fate. Despite the fact that they do not remain together, however, their fleeting union created something amazing that neither could have ever anticipated - a baby. Unfortunately, just after the child's birth, the mother is misinformed that the infant has died. Cut to 11 years...
Enchanted
Date Added 2008-03-10 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1048 Year 2007
Length 1:47 Director Kevin Lima
Category Comedy, Fairy Tales & Legends, Family-Oriented Comedy
Other Fixed
AMG SYNOPSIS: Classic Disney animation meets contemporary urban chaos when a frightened princess is banished from her magical animated homeland to modern-day New York City in a romantic comedy penned by Bill Kelly (Blast from the Past), directed by Kevin Lima (Tarzan), and featuring music by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz. Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) lives in the blissful cartoon world of Andalasia, where magical beings frolic freely and musical interludes punctuate every interaction. Though Princess Giselle is currently engaged to be married to the handsome Prince Edward (James Marsden), her fate takes a turn for the worse when the villainous Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) banishes her to the unforgiving metropolis of New...
Hitman
Date Added 2008-03-10 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1062 Year 2007
Length 1:40 Director Xavier Gens
Category Action, Action Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: An international assassin known only as Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) carries out high-profile hits for a mysterious organization known only as "The Agency" in this adaptation of the popular Eidos Interactive video-game series. Agent 47 is an elite, genetically engineered assassin who takes great pride in his work. His lethal grace, steady shot, and unparalleled precision have all served to make him one of the most sought after assassins in the world. But when the killer without a conscious is faced with an unanticipated series of developments, his entire perception of reality begins to shift. On assignment to take out a Russian head of state Bellicoff (Ulrich Thomsen, Agent 47 is caught off...
Southland Tales
Date Added 2008-03-10 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 1101 Year 2006
Length 2:40 Director Richard Kelly
Category Comedy Drama, Thriller, Black Comedy, Paranoid Thriller, Ensemble Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama, dystopian science fiction, and music from writer and director Richard Kelly, his first film after gaining a cult following with Donnie Darko. In the year 2005, a nuclear attack wipes out part of the state of Texas, and three years later America is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives, supposedly for their own good. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology...
The Great Escape
Date Added 2008-03-10 Rating 9.0 / 10.0
Number 1112 Year 1963
Length 2:52 Director John Sturges
Category War, Escape Film, POW Drama, Ensemble Film, War Adventure
AMG SYNOPSIS: The Great Escape is based on the true story of a group of Allied prisoners of war who managed to escape from an allegedly impenetrable Nazi prison camp during World War II. At the beginning of the film, the Nazis gather all their most devious and troublesome POWs and place them at a new prison camp, which was designed to be impervious to escapes. Immediately, the prisoners develop a scheme where they will leave the camp by building three separate escape tunnels. Richard Attenborough is the British soldier who masterminds the whole plan, and who commands his motley squad--featuring Charles Bronson as a Polish trench-digging expert, James Garner as an American with a...
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...
Infernal Affairs
Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1067 Year 2002
Length 1:41 Director Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
Category Crime, Gangster Film, Police Drama
Other Chinese Audio
AMG SYNOPSIS: As Infernal Affairs opens, Ming (Andy Lau of Full-time Killer) is being initiated into the criminal underworld by triad boss Sam (Eric Tsang of The Accidental Spy), who ends his speech to his young charges by wishing them success in the police department. Ming enters the police academy, where he excels, but sees his classmate, Yan (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai of In the Mood for Love), expelled for "breaking the rules." It turns out that Yan wasn't actually drummed out of the force, but recruited by Superintendent Wong (Anthony Wong of Hard-Boiled) as an undercover operative. Just as Ming is achieving success in the police department while secretly working for Sam, Ming is gaining...
Oldboy
Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1082 Year 2004
Length 2:00 Director Park Chan-wook
Category Thriller, Psychological Drama, Paranoid Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook directed this violent and offbeat story of punishment and vengeance. Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is a husband and father whose reputation for womanizing is well known. One day, for reasons he doesn't understand, Oh Dae-su finds himself locked up in a prison cell, with no idea of what his crime was or whom his jailers may be. With a small television as his only link to the outside world and a daily ration of fried dumplings as his only sustenance, Oh Dae-su struggles to keep his mind and body intact, but when he learns through a news report that his wife has been killed, he begins a long...
The Kite Runner
Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1119 Year 2007
Length 2:02 Director Marc Forster
Category Drama, Psychological Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: Finding Neverland director Marc Forster adapts author Khaled Hosseini's critically acclaimed novel about two childhood best friends forever torn apart as their country is ravaged by endless war and bitter strife. As children, Amir (Khalid Abdalla) and Hassan were inseparable; their long days under azure Kabul skies often spent getting into innocent mischief or preparing for the highly anticipated kite-fighting tournament. When the day of the tournament arrives, however, a glorious victory is quickly offset by a timorous act of betrayal that ultimately serves as the catalyst for catastrophe. Not long after that fateful day, Amir moves away to America, leaving his old friend behind just as the ominous specter of war turns...
The Mist
Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1121 Year 2007
Length 2:07 Director Frank Darabont
Category Horror, Monster Film, Ensemble Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: Frequent Stephen King collaborator Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) teamed with the celebrated horror author once again for this tale of terror concerning a small town engulfed by a malevolent mist, based on a story originally published in King's 1985 horror anthology Skeleton Crew. When a thick fog descends upon a rural community and claims the lives of anyone unfortunate enough to be caught outside, a small band of survivors seeks refuge in a local grocery store. Now trapped in a darkened cloud of pure horror, the frightened denizens of the town are forced to fend off an advancing horde of murderous monsters. Punisher star Thomas Jane heads up an ensemble cast that...
The Prestige
Date Added 2008-03-09 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1125 Year 2006
Length 2:10 Director Christopher Nolan
Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Period Film
Other NL
AMG SYNOPSIS: Obsession, jealousy, and deceit define the tense relationship shared between two turn-of-the-century magicians in Memento and Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan's dizzying tale of sleight of hand. Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) are London-based magicians of the highest order, both blessed with spectacular powers of deception and both cursed with unrelenting envy for one another's skills. When Alfred performs an awe-inspiring trick for which there seems no logical explanation, the friendly competition shared between the pair turns to deadly rivalry as the enraged Rupert determines to uncover his rival's deepest secrets. In the world of illusion, however, nothing is ever quite as it seems, and the rules of the...
Raging Bull
Date Added 2008-03-03 Rating 10.0 / 10.0
Number 1089 Year 1980
Length 2:09 Director Martin Scorsese
Category Drama, Biography [feature], Sports Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: Martin Scorsese's brutal character study incisively portrays the true rise and fall and redemption of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, a violent man in and out of the ring who thrives on his ability (and desire) to take a beating. Opening with the spectacle of the over-the-hill La Motta (Robert De Niro) practicing his 1960s night-club act, the film flashes back to 1940s New York, when Jake's career is on the rise. Despite pressure from the local mobsters, Jake trusts his brother Joey (Joe Pesci) to help him make it to a title bout against Sugar Ray Robinson the honest way; the Mob, however, will not cave in. Jake gets the title bout,...
Bee Movie
Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1037 Year 2007
Length 1:30 Director Stephen Hickner, Simon J. Smith
Category Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Comedy
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Barry B. Benson (voice of Jerry Seinfeld) is your average honeybee. Despite having recently received his diploma from bee college and being virtually guaranteed a bright future in honey, Barry feels he has the skills to pursue a number of different career paths and resents the fact that his employment opportunities are strictly limited to producing the sweet nectar. Upon breaking away from the hive and developing a friendship with an insect-loving New York florist (voice of Ren...
Juno
Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 9.0 / 10.0
Number 1069 Year 2007
Length 1:36 Director Jason Reitman
Category Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Domestic Comedy, Ensemble Film
Other Screener, Repack
AMG SYNOPSIS: When a teenage girl is faced with an unexpected pregnancy, she enlists the aid of her best friend in finding the unborn child a suitable home in this coming-of-age comedy drama from Thank You for Smoking director Jason Reitman. Juno (Ellen Page) may seem wise beyond her years, but after sleeping with classmate Bleeker (Michael Cera), the pregnant teen quickly realizes how little she really knows about life. Thankfully, Juno has been blessed with parents (J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney) who trust their daughter's judgment, and a best friend named Leah (Olivia Thirlby), who's always willing to help out in a pinch. With a little help from Leah, Juno soon comes into contact...
Martian Child
Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1075 Year 2007
Length 1:48 Director Menno Meyjes
Category Comedy Drama, Melodrama, Family Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: Adapted from a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novelette by author David Gerrold, Menno Meyjes's Martian Child stars John Cusack as a widowed science fiction writer who adopts a boy (Bobby Coleman) who claims to be from the Red Planet. The writer believes the child acts strangely in order to process the difficulty he has had in his young life, but soon both he and his sister (Joan Cusack) begin to wonder if the boy might be telling the truth. Amanda Peet co-stars as the woman who becomes a mother figure for the boy. -- Perry Seibert ...
Rendition
Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1092 Year 2007
Length 2:00 Director Gavin Hood
Category Thriller, Political Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: The director of the Academy Award-winning 2006 crime drama Tsotsi returns to the helm with this tale of a Middle East CIA operative who begins to have doubts about his latest assignment after witnessing the interrogation of a suspected suicide bomber by secret police. When Egyptian-born chemical engineer Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwalli) mysteriously vanishes on a routine flight from South Africa to Washington, his wife Isabella (Reece Witherspoon) embarks on a frantic international search for her missing husband. At the same time, a CIA analyst (Jake Gyllenhaal) arrives at a clandestine detention facility outside of United States. As the interrogation of El-Ibrahimi gets underway, the CIA analyst is profoundly shaken by the unorthodox...
Rocket Science
Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1095 Year 2007
Length 1:41 Director Jeffrey Blitz
Category Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Teen Movie
AMG SYNOPSIS: Jeffrey Blitz's inspirational drama Rocket Science proves that many a handicap can be overcome, no matter how daunting the obstacle at hand may initially seem. Newcomer Reece Thompson plays Hal Hefner, a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route -- he joins the school debating team, which sends him on a headfirst plunge into breakneck speech competitions -- and offers a much-needed boost toward correcting the problem. Blitz, like his onscreen alter ego, struggled with a stammer as a young man -- a disability he eventually surmounted -- which imparted him with a...
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 ...
The Great Debaters
Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1111 Year 2007
Length 2:03 Director Denzel Washington
Category Drama, Inspirational Drama, Period Film
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Drawing inspiration from the true story of a temperamental debate coach who molded the students of a small East Texas college into a formidable team that gave even Harvard's elite squad a run for their money, Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters features the director himself as the ambitious educator, and Forest Whitaker as the resentful father of a student whose loyalties now lie almost exclusively with his coach. Melvin B. Tolson (Washington) is the kind of educator who truly recognizes the remarkable power of knowledge. An outspoken Wiley College professor who boldly challenged the discriminatory Jim Crow laws of the 1930s, Tolson's recognizes that his young debate students possess the spark of a...
The Hunting Party
Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1115 Year 2007
Length 1:41 Director Richard Shepard
Category Thriller, Political Thriller, Tragi-comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: An emerging journalist (Jesse Eisenberg), an experienced cameraman (Terrence Howard), and a discredited reporter (Richard Gere) find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad in a light-hearted thriller inspired by Scott Anderson's popular Esquire article. The Weinstein Company provides stateside distribution for a film written and directed by Richard Shepard (The Matador). -- Jason Buchanan ...
The Nines
Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1123 Year 2007
Length 1:39 Director John August
Category Comedy Drama, Psychological Drama, Fantasy Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: Writer/director John August ponders the metaphysical aspects of life and art in an episodic allegory that follows three artists as they embark on a soul searching journey of fate versus free will. When a troubled actor is placed under house arrest in "The Prisoner," his imagination begins to run wild due to the fact that his spirited publicist and cynical neighbor provide his only link to the outside world. Later, after the planes of reality fold in on themselves during the production of a Project Greenlight-style show which documents the filming of a popular sitcom in "Reality Television," "Knowing" follows a successful video game designer and his family as they become stranded in...
We Own the Night
Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1134 Year 2007
Length 1:57 Director James Gray
Category Drama, Crime Drama, Period Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: Set against the backdrop of the bloody battle waged between New York City cops and the Russian mafia in the 1980s, director James Gray's period drama tells the tale of an emerging club manager whose family ties to law enforcement make him a target for the city's most dangerous criminals. Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) manages one of Gotham's hottest clubs - but being in the club scene often means turning a blind eye to blatant criminal activities. Realizing that his career - and perhaps his life - could come to a sudden end if anyone discovers that his father Burt (Robert Duvall) is the deputy chief of police and his brother Joseph (Mark...
Family Guy: Blue Harvest
Date Added 2008-01-07 Rating
Number 1050 Year 2007
Length 0:00 Director Dominic Polcino
Category
Other STV
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He Was a Quiet Man
Date Added 2008-01-07 Rating 8.2 / 10.0
Number 1061 Year 2006
Length 1:35 Director Frank Cappello
Category Drama, Psychological Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: A man at the end of his emotional rope finally explodes, but not in a way anyone would have expected in this offbeat independent drama. Bob Maconel (Christian Slater) is a middle-aged nebbish working in an office building where few people know who he is and fewer still care. Bob has developed a seething hatred and resentment of those around him, and has taken to carrying a gun to work in the hope that one day he'll have the courage to take down some of his co-workers. However, one day another man working in the office snaps and opens fire; Bob grabs his weapon and kills the shooter, but not before the gunman...
The Brave One
Date Added 2008-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1107 Year 2007
Length 2:02 Director Neil Jordan
Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Neil Jordan's The Brave One stars Jodie Foster as a happy woman whose life changes irrevocably after a brutal assault leaves her partner (Naveen Andrews) dead. The woman, feeling that the police investigation will be unable to catch the perpetrators, begins to live in constant fear. This outlook results in the woman eventually dispatching vigilante justice. Terrence Howard co-stars as the officer in charge of the investigation. -- Perry Seibert ...
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 ...
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Date Added 2008-01-05 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1039 Year 2007
Length 1:57 Director Sidney Lumet
Category Crime, Crime Thriller, Family Drama
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, and Marisa Tomei star in director Sidney Lumet's thriller concerning two brothers who hatch a plan to rob their parent's jewelry store. When the job goes awry, the entire family is set on a collision course with tragedy. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Futurama: Bender's Big Score
Date Added 2008-01-05 Rating
Number 1051 Year 2007
Length 1:28 Director Dwayne Carey-Hill
Category Comedy, Sci-Fi Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: Matt Groening's cult hit series Futurama takes its killer wit to DVD with this full length movie consisting of a brand new story with all new animation and the complete, original voice cast. As the crew of Planet Express prepares for Xmas 3007, a race of evil, nudist, internet scammers launches an attack on Earth, discovering the secret of time travel tattooed on Fry's butt. Using their sinister hacking skills to control Bender, the aliens seize control of the robot and send him back in time to loot ancient Earth of its treasures. The crew encounter true love, a hostile takeover, and Al Gore before their race against time to save the world...
I Am Legend
Date Added 2008-01-05 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1065 Year 2007
Length 1:41 Director Francis Lawrence
Category Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi Disaster Film
Other Screener, Fixed
AMG SYNOPSIS: Adapted from acclaimed author Richard Matheson's influential novelette of the same name, Constantine director Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend follows the last man on Earth as he struggles to survive while fending off the infected survivors of a devastating vampiric plague. A brilliant scientist who raced to discover a cure for the man-made virus as humanity came crumbling down all around him, Robert Neville (Will Smith) was inexplicably immune to the highly contagious superbug. Now the entire population of New York City -- and perhaps the world -- has been transformed into carnivorous bloodsuckers that fear the light and live solely to spread their contagion to any remaining living creature that crosses their...
Jackass 2.5
Date Added 2008-01-05 Rating 6.7 / 10.0
Number 1068 Year 2007
Length 1:04 Director Jeff Tremaine
Category Documentary, Comedy
...
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...
The Invasion
Date Added 2008-01-05 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1117 Year 2007
Length 1:39 Director Oliver Hirschbiegel
Category Thriller, Alien Invasion Films, Psychological Sci-Fi, Sci-Fi Horror
AMG SYNOPSIS: A mysterious, mind-altering epidemic has infected mankind, and when a Washington, D.C. psychiatrist discovers that the outbreak seems to be extraterrestrial in origin, she struggles to save her son from infection in this sci-fi thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, and directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (Das Experiment). The space shuttle has crashed, and investigators assigned to explore the wreckage have found something unimaginable in the debris - something from the deepest reaches of outer space. Everyone who comes into contact with it soon begins to transform in ways that can't be explained by modern science. While their physical appearance remains completely unaltered, their emotions seem to be drained and their actions become...
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)...
Balls of Fury
Date Added 2007-12-16 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1034 Year 2007
Length 1:30 Director Robert Ben Garant
Category Comedy, Sports Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: A disgraced former ping pong champion is drawn back into the world of high-stakes table tennis to carry out a top-secret mission in the feature directorial debut of Reno 911! writer/director Ben Garant. Far removed from the rigidly regulated world of professional sports, clandestine ping pong tournaments offer thrilling competition where only the strong survive. There was a time when the mere mention of the name Randy Daytona (Dan Fogler) was enough to make even those most hardened ping pong player cower in fear, but these days Randy has fallen out of favor with ping-pong fans. The former champ soon receives a much-needed shot at redemption, however, when he is recruited by a...
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...
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Date Added 2007-12-16 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1085 Year 2007
Length 2:48 Director Gore Verbinski
Category Adventure, Fantasy, Adventure Comedy, Sea Adventure, Swashbuckler, Fantasy Adventure
AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Gore Verbinski and the crew set sail once again for this, the third chapter in the swashbuckling Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is hopelessly trapped in Davy Jones' locker after a harrowing encounter with the dreaded Kracken, and now Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) must align themselves with the nefarious Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) if they hold out any hope of saving their old friend from a fate worse than death. The East India Trading Company and it's fearsome leader Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) have taken control of the ghostly Flying Dutchman and it's Captain Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), and now the...
Resident Evil: Extinction
Date Added 2007-12-16 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1094 Year 2007
Length 1:33 Director Russell Mulcahy
Category Horror, Sci-Fi Horror
AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Russell Mulcahy takes over for the third and final chapter in the Resident Evil film trilogy that finds genetically altered Alice (Milla Jovovich) joining forces with Carlos (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps) to take down the Umbrella Corporation once and for all. Upon emerging from her hideout in the Nevada desert, Alice is quickly joined by old friends Carlos and L.J., as well as survivors Claire (Ali Larter), K-Mart (Spencer Locke), and Nurse Betty (Ashanti). Now instilled with super-human strength, senses, and dexterity as a result of the biogenetic experimentation conducted on her by the Umbrella Corporation, Alice and the rest of the survivors set out to eliminate a virus that...
Rush Hour 3
Date Added 2007-12-16 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 1096 Year 2007
Length 1:31 Director Brett Ratner
Category Action, Action Comedy, Odd Couple Film, Buddy Film, Martial Arts
AMG SYNOPSIS: In this third installment of the popular action comedy franchise, LAPD Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) and Chinese Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) discover that Chinese Triads have extended their criminal influence to the City of Lights. They book a flight for Europe and prepare to clean up the Paris streets. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Superbad
Date Added 2007-12-16 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1102 Year 2007
Length 1:54 Director Greg Mottola
Category Comedy, Sex Comedy, Teen Movie, Buddy Film
Other Unrated
AMG SYNOPSIS: Operating under the assumption that by procuring alcohol for an upcoming party they will finally be able to break their longstanding losing streak with the fairer sex, socially inept high school seniors Evan (Michael Cera) and Seth (Jonah Hill) set out to secure the adult beverages that could get them off of the geek list before they even attend college orientation. Evan is a bright young student whose outward sweetness belies his suffocating fear of heading off to college without his lifelong best friend Seth -- a hormone-driven mischief-maker who wasn't accepted to the same school as Evan. But Evan and Seth both know that college is a place of personal reinvention, and...
The Heartbreak Kid
Date Added 2007-12-16 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1114 Year 2007
Length 1:56 Director Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Category Comedy, Gross-Out Comedy, Romantic Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: When 40-year-old San Francisco bachelor Eddie Cantrow (Ben Stiller) attends the wedding of his ex-fianc...
The Kingdom
Date Added 2007-12-16 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 1118 Year 2007
Length 1:50 Director Peter Berg
Category Drama, Political Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: In the aftermath of a deadly attack on American forces in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, diplomats are slow to act, but meanwhile, FBI special agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) assembles a secret team of U.S. counter-terrorism investigators to enter the city and find the criminal behind what has quickly become an international incident. The crew, however, finds their attempt to capture the perpetrators stalled by bureaucracy and their presence unwelcome. Desperate to gain the trust they need to accomplish their mission in just five days, the team enlists the aid of a Saudi Arabian police officer (Ashraf Barhoum), but as the agents infiltrate the dark and complex world of the Saudi crime scene, they...
The Nanny Diaries
Date Added 2007-12-16 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1122 Year 2007
Length 1:46 Director Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Category Comedy, Workplace Comedy, Urban Comedy, Romantic Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: Adapted from the bestselling novel, the whimsical, heartwarming comedy The Nanny Diaries concerns Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson), a recent college graduate from New Jersey whose nurse mother makes an unsuccessful bid to pressure her into a white-collared business career. Sidetracking this path for more colorful pursuits, Annie accepts a position as nanny and domestic servant for a wealthy couple on the upper east side of Manhattan, known only as "The Xs" (Paul Giamatti) and a heavily coiffed and accoutred Laura Linney). Annie has her first real taste of servant life when she arrives at the family's residence and promptly sinks into Mrs. X's luxury tub, but is soon shuttled off to her own...
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...
Hot Rod
Date Added 2007-11-11 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 1063 Year 2007
Length 1:23 Director Akiva Schaffer
Category Comedy, Sports Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: The comedy trio known as Lonely Island attempt their first feature-length comedy with Hot Rod. Andy Samberg stars as Rod Kimble, an inept would-be stuntman who believes his dad worked for daredevil Evel Knievel. His stepfather abuses him at every opportunity, but Rod keeps attempting tricks on his moped. After the stepfather becomes very ill, Rod gets the brilliant idea to attempt a stunt more dangerous that Knievel ever considered in order to raise the money to cure him. His master plan being that, after the stepfather improves, Rod will finally get his revenge and beat him in a fight. -- Perry Seibert ...
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
Date Added 2007-11-11 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 1066 Year 2007
Length 1:55 Director Dennis Dugan
Category Comedy, Comedy of Errors, Buddy Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: When two testosterone-fueled firemen attempt to register as domestic partners in order to bypass the bureaucratic red tape preventing one of them from naming his own two children as his life-insurance beneficiaries, their low-key ruse turns into headline news in this quirky matrimonial comedy starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James. Chuck Levine (Sandler) and Larry Valentine (James) are two New York City firefighters whose longtime friendship has endured many a five-alarm fire. All that widower Larry wants is to ensure that his two children will be taken care of if anything should happen to him on the job, and all that single blaze-battler Chuck wants is to carry on with his carefree life...
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...
Sicko
Date Added 2007-11-11 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1099 Year 2007
Length 1:53 Director Michael Moore
Category Culture & Society [nf], Medicine, Social Issues, Politics & Government
AMG SYNOPSIS: After exploring the predominance of violence in American culture in Bowling for Columbine and taking a critical look at the September 11th attacks in Fahrenheit 9/11, activist filmmaker Michael Moore turns his attentions toward the topic of health care in the United States in this documentary that weighs the plight of the uninsured (and the insured who must deal with abuse from insurance companies) against the record-breaking profits of the pharmaceutical industry. Moore interviews a number of people who have been left broke by medical bills even though they were fully insured, and explains how the corporate drive for profits has left numerous people in financial and medical disarray. After hearing that detainees...
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Date Added 2007-11-09 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 827 Year 2007
Length 1:31 Director Tim Story
Category Action, Science Fiction, Comic-Book Superhero Film, Sci-Fi Action
AMG SYNOPSIS: The world's most famous team of astronauts-cum-superheroes returns in the effects-heavy sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. As the story opens, Sue Storm, AKA The Invisible Girl (Jessica Alba), and Reed Richards, AKA Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd) prepare for their upcoming, superhero-studded wedding celebration. But Reed cannot stay focused on the nuptials - he's distracted by wire reports of a bizarre, comet-like object hurtling toward the Earth with tremendous force, triggering brownouts, blackouts, tropical storms and various other climatological disasters. When the said object hits the island of Manhattan, destroying much of the city in its wake, its identity becomes resoundingly clear: "it" is actually a "he" - a psychotic villain...
Spider-Man 3
Date Added 2007-11-09 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 875 Year 2007
Length 2:19 Director Sam Raimi
Category Fantasy, Action, Action Thriller, Comic-Book Superhero Film, Sci-Fi Action
AMG SYNOPSIS: Your friendly neighborhood web-slinger is back, only this time his sunny outlook has become partially overcast in the third chapter of director Sam Raimi's Spider-Man saga. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco return to reprise their roles from the previous two installments, with Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, and Bryce Dallas Howard making their first appearances in the series as Flint Marko (aka Sandman), Eddie Brock (aka Venom), and Gwen Stacy, respectively. Peter Parker (Maguire) has finally leaned to walk the middle ground between being the superhero that his city needs, and the man that Mary Jane (Dunst) loves. All is well in New York City until one night, as Peter and...
A Mighty Heart
Date Added 2007-11-09 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1026 Year 2007
Length 1:43 Director Michael Winterbottom
Category Drama, Docudrama
AMG SYNOPSIS: Angelina Jolie stars as Mariane Pearl, wife of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, in director Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Mariane's memoir recounting the abduction and murder of her husband (played in the film by Dan Futterman) by Pakistani militants. It was on January 23, 2002, that Mariane Pearl's life took a grim and unanticipated turn that no one could have seen coming. The South Asia Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearl, was in Pakistan with his pregnant wife, Mariane, when he set out to conduct one last interview for an upcoming article; the pair were due to fly back home to the U.S. shortly thereafter. By all accounts, it was the...
Evan Almighty
Date Added 2007-11-09 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 1049 Year 2007
Length 1:35 Director Tom Shadyac
Category Comedy, Fantasy, Heavenly Comedy, Fantasy Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: 40-Year-Old Virgin star Steve Carell reprises his role as preening newscaster Evan Baxter in this heavenly sequel to the 2003 Jim Carrey comedy hit. Shortly after television anchorman-turned-U.S. congressman Evan Baxter (Carell) relocates his family from Buffalo to Northern Virginia, God (Morgan Freeman) reveals to him that a devastating flood is coming and the planet is about to be cleansed once again. Later, when Baxter accepts the responsibility of building a great ark and his rapidly changing physical appearance begins to draw media attention, his skeptical family attempts to discern if his actions are driven by delusion or divine intervention. John Goodman, Wanda Sykes, Jonah Hill, and Molly Shannon co-star in a divine...
Hairspray
Date Added 2007-11-09 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1059 Year 2007
Length 1:55 Director Adam Shankman
Category Musical, Rock Musical, Musical Comedy, Teen Movie, Period Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: Adam Shankman's adaptation of the stage musical Hairspray, itself an adaptation of the non-musical John Waters film of the same name, stars Nikki Blonsky as Tracy Turnblad, an overweight high-school student whose only dream is to be on a local Baltimore teen dance program. While her father (Christopher Walken) tells her to follow her dreams, her mother Edna (John Travolta in drag) reminds her that she doesn't look like the girls on that show. After impressing the show's host (James Marsden), Tracy earns a coveted spot on the program, but when she becomes a popular addition to the cast, she earns the wrath of the prettiest girl in school -- a girl whose...
License to Wed
Date Added 2007-11-09 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 1072 Year 2007
Length 1:31 Director Ken Kwapis
Category Comedy, Romantic Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: An engaged young couple finds their lifetime of happiness unexpectedly compromised by a pushy minister who insists they successfully complete his comprehensive marriage-prep course before exchanging wedding vows in a matrimonial comedy starring John Krasinski, Mandy Moore, and Robin Williams. Sadie Jones (Moore) has always longed to marry the man of her dreams in her family church. Though she found her lifetime companion in Ben Murphy (Krasinski), Sadie is distressed to learn that St. Augustine's has only one wedding slot available over the next two years. While Sadie and Ben do qualify for the slot, charismatic St. Augustine's minister Reverend Frank (Williams) won't wed the couple until they agree to attend his two-week...
Live Free or Die Hard
Date Added 2007-11-09 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 1074 Year 2007
Length 2:09 Director Len Wiseman
Category Action, Action Thriller
Other Unrated, Proper
AMG SYNOPSIS: An old-fashioned cop emerges to foil a high-tech attack on the country's computer infrastructure as Bruce Willis brings back one of the biggest action franchises in screen history. It's been over a decade since audiences last saw New York cop John McClane (Willis), but now, as the world's greatest criminal mastermind (Timothy Olyphant) attempts to cripple the entire country with an innovative act of technological terrorism, only one cop can insure that the integrity of the system stays intact. In this, the fourth installment of the long-running action series, Underworld director Len Wiseman picks up the torc