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	Observe and Report Date Added 2009-11-01 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1318 Year 2009 Length 1:26 Director Jody Hill Category Comedy Other Screener The Foot Fist Way director Jody Hill takes the helm for this Seth Rogen comedy concerning an ambitious mall cop who competes with a seasoned detective to bust an elusive flasher. Make a wrong move at Forest Ridge Mall, and you'll have to answer to no-nonsense security head Ronnie Barnhardt (Rogen). Ronnie sees skateboarders as the blight of society, and any shoplifter unfortunate enough to summon his wrath will be promptly busted and booked. Sure, Ronnie may suffer delusions of grandeur when it comes to his job, but perhaps with a little effort he'll eventually get to trade in his flashlight and patch for a gun and a badge. When a flasher begins tormenting the...
	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,...
	Terminator Salvation Date Added 2009-07-19 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1296 Year 2009 Length 1:55 Director McG Category Science Fiction Other Screener The fourth installment of the Terminator series follows an adult John Connor (played by Christian Bale) as he attempts to organize a human resistance force which could prove to be mankind's last true hope in the war against the machines. Opening in the year 2018, Terminator Salvation finds John Connor's certainty about the future shaken by the sudden appearance of a mysterious stranger named Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), whose last memory is of sitting on death row and awaiting execution. Unable to determine whether Marcus was sent from the future or rescued from the past, Connor begins to wonder whether there is still any hope left for the human race as the robots grow more...
	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...
	Defiance Date Added 2009-06-07 Rating 7.0 / 10.0 Number 1283 Year 2008 Length 2:17 Director Edward Zwick Category War Other Screener Inspired by a true story, director Edward Zwick's epic World War II drama Defiance tells the tale of three Jewish Eastern European brothers (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, and Jamie Bell) who narrowly escape certain death at the hands of the Nazis, subsequently vowing to avenge the deaths of their loves ones by launching a desperate battle against the forces that seek to exterminate their entire race. The year is 1941, and the setting is Nazi-occupied Poland. The Final Solution is in full effect, and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being slaughtered wholesale. Tuvia (Craig), Zus (Schreiber), and Asael (Bell) have miraculously managed to escape into the dense surrounding forest. Having played in these woods...
	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...
	Blindness Date Added 2009-01-19 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1273 Year 2008 Length 2:00 Director Fernando Meirelles Category Drama, Disaster Film Other Screener, Proper AMG SYNOPSIS: Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Jos...
	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 ...
	Pineapple Express Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1257 Year 2008 Length 1:51 Director David Gordon Green Category Comedy, Stoner Comedy, Action Comedy, Buddy Film Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Critically acclaimed director David Gordon Green takes a break from the brooding drama that defined such early efforts as George Washington and Undertow for this action-flavored buddy comedy concerning two pot-smoking friends (Seth Rogen and James Franco) who unwittingly become involved with a vicious gang of drug dealers. Judd Apatow and Shauna Robertson produce a script co-penned by star Rogen and Evan Goldberg. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	Quantum of Solace Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 1258 Year 2008 Length 1:46 Director Marc Forster Category Spy Film, Action, Glamorized Spy Film, Action Thriller Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: A devastating betrayal sends James Bond from Australia to Italy and South America on a mission of vengeance that pits the suave super-spy against a powerful businessman with diabolical intentions. Betrayed by Vesper, 007 (Daniel Craig) suppresses the urge to make his latest mission personal as he teams with M (Judi Dench) to interrogate Mr. White (Jesper Christensen). It soon becomes apparent that the organization behind the blackmailing of Vesper is more powerful than Bond and M had previously anticipated, and after discovering forensic evidence that links an MI6 traitor to a bank in Haiti, Bond immediately sets out to gather more intelligence. Once in Haiti, a case of mistaken identity leads Bond...
	Step Brothers Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1261 Year 2008 Length 1:38 Director Adam McKay Category Comedy, Farce, Slapstick, Domestic Comedy, Buddy Film Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby co-stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly re-team with that film's director, Adam McKay, to tell the tale of two pampered best friends whose single parents fall in love and decide to marry. McKay and Ferrell share screenwriting credits, and Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller produce. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	Tropic Thunder Date Added 2008-12-11 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 1268 Year 2008 Length 1:47 Director Ben Stiller Category Comedy, Action Comedy, Showbiz Comedy Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Ben Stiller's satirical look at Hollywood, Tropic Thunder concerns the production of an epic Vietnam War film that quickly derails thanks to the giant egos of everyone involved in the production. Stiller stars as Tugg Speedman, an action hero trying to segue out of that genre. Jack Black plays Jeff Portnoy, a drug-addicted fat comic also attempting to change his image by taking on such a serious film. They star alongside Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), one of the world's most awarded actors, and a man who insists on immersing himself totally in a role. In this case, that means Lazarus has had his skin dyed in order to portray an African-American soldier....
	Death Race Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 1228 Year 2008 Length 1:45 Director Paul W.S. Anderson Category Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Action Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: The Transporter star Jason Statham takes the wheel in director Paul W.S. Anderson's remake of the Roger Corman classic about a hyper-violent cross-country race that breaks all of the traditional rules of the road. The time is the not-so-distant future, and as America's prisons begin overflowing with violent criminals, the powers that be devise a grisly game that will free up space in the cells and entertain the masses at the same time. Jensen Ames (Statham) is a three-time speedway champion with a dark past. A survival expert and ex-con whose sordid history comes back to haunt him when he is framed for a murder he didn't commit, Ames is forced to choose...
	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...
	The Dark Knight Date Added 2008-09-25 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1237 Year 2008 Length 2:32 Director Christopher Nolan Category Crime, Fantasy, Crime Drama, Superhero Film Other Screener, Proper AMG SYNOPSIS: Christopher Nolan steps back into the director's chair for this sequel to Batman Begins, which finds the titular superhero coming face to face with his greatest nemesis -- the dreaded Joker. Christian Bale returns to the role of Batman, Maggie Gyllenhaal takes over the role of Rachel Dawes (played by Katie Holmes in Batman Begins), and Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger dons the ghoulishly gleeful Joker makeup previously worn by Jack Nicholson and Cesar Romero. Just as it begins to appear as if Batman, Lt. James Gordon (Gary Oldman), and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) are making headway in their tireless battle against the criminal element, a maniacal, wisecracking fiend plunges the...
	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...
	27 Dresses Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 1023 Year 2008 Length 1:47 Director Anne Fletcher Category Comedy, Romantic Comedy Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: A single woman who has served as a bridesmaid a shocking 27 times wrestles with the prospect of supporting her sister at the altar on number 28, despite having fallen helplessly in love with her smitten sibling's handsome husband-to-be. Jane (Katherine Heigl) has the kind of altruistic traits that everyone looks for in a friend, yet lately the perennial bridesmaid has begun to feel as if something is missing in her life. One night, local newspaper reporter Kevin (James Marsden) spots the devoted bridal attendant racing between receptions in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and quickly surmises that her quirky tale may be just the story to get him off the bridal beat and into...
	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 ...
	Lars and the Real Girl Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1071 Year 2007 Length 1:46 Director Craig Gillespie Category Comedy Drama, Romantic Comedy, Psychological Drama Other Screener, Limited AMG SYNOPSIS: Lars (Ryan Gosling) and Gus (Paul Schneider) are the grown children of a father who died recently and a mother who died giving birth to Lars. But as brothers, they couldn't be more different. While Gus lives in the family home and has a loving wife (Emily Mortimer) and a child on the way, Lars leads a more reclusive existence in the family's garage, hiding in plain sight of his small, wintry hometown. Painfully shy and eccentric, Lars fails to recognize that his co-worker Margo (Kelli Garner) has a major crush on him, and he picks up on a casual reference made by his cubicle mate, who mentions a website where you can...
	Outpost Date Added 2008-03-18 Rating Number 1083 Year 2007 Length 1:30 Director Steve Barker Category Horror, Monster Film Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: A wealthy businessman hires a crack team of seasoned soldiers to accompany him on a perilous journey into no man's land, only to come face to face with an otherworldly enemy more vicious and powerful than any mortal foe. It was supposed to be an easy, forty-eight hour mission: Move in, scope out an abandoned military bunker, and move out. Once in the bunker, however, the fearless mercenaries begin to quake in their boots after happening across the remnants of some gruesome World War II experiments carried out by Nazi soldiers on their own men. Sifting through the carnage, the men are horrified to discover that one of the unfortunate test subjects is...
	There Will Be Blood Date Added 2008-03-03 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 1128 Year 2007 Length 2:38 Director Paul Thomas Anderson Category Drama, Family Drama, Period Film Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson steps outside his contemporary world of dysfunctional Angelenos to explore a very different dysfunctional man -- an oil pioneer whose trailblazing spirit is equaled only by his murderous ambition. There Will Be Blood is Anderson's loose adaptation of the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair, and it focuses its attentions on Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a failed silver miner who happens upon black gold during a disastrous excavation that ends in a broken leg. Pulling himself up from the bowels of the earth, both literally and metaphorically, Plainview embarks on a systematic and steadfast approach to mastering the oil business. Using plain-spoken and straightforward language, and accompanied by his young...
	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...
	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 Golden Compass Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1110 Year 2007 Length 1:53 Director Chris Weitz Category Fantasy, Fantasy Adventure Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: A young girl ventures into a perilous parallel universe to rescue her best friend and fight the forces of darkness in director Chris Weitz's adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman's best-selling fantasy trilogy. Screen newcomer Dakota Blue Richards stars as young heroine Lyra Belacqua, Casino Royale star Daniel Craig appears as Lyra's ruthless adventurer uncle, Lord Asriel, and Nicole Kidman assumes the glamorous guise of the villainous Mrs. Coulter. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	The Great Debaters Date Added 2008-02-08 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 1111 Year 2007 Length 2:03 Director Denzel Washington Category Drama, Inspirational Drama, Period Film Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Drawing inspiration from the true story of a temperamental debate coach who molded the students of a small East Texas college into a formidable team that gave even Harvard's elite squad a run for their money, Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters features the director himself as the ambitious educator, and Forest Whitaker as the resentful father of a student whose loyalties now lie almost exclusively with his coach. Melvin B. Tolson (Washington) is the kind of educator who truly recognizes the remarkable power of knowledge. An outspoken Wiley College professor who boldly challenged the discriminatory Jim Crow laws of the 1930s, Tolson's recognizes that his young debate students possess the spark of a...
	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 ...
	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...
	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...
	Shoot 'Em Up Date Added 2007-12-16 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 1098 Year 2007 Length 1:26 Director Michael Davis Category Action, Action Thriller Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Clive Owen stars in this gritty, over the top action thriller as Mr. Smith, a gun-toting badass with a hair trigger and an unknown past. He's far from a doctor and farther from a parent, but when he unwittingly discovers an innocent woman delivering a baby right in the middle of a gunfight, Smith enters the fray to save her and though the woman expires, he is the one left in care of the orphaned child. He thinks that the killers were after the woman, but soon he realizes that they had a far more unlikely target: the baby. Smith's regular company is a seedy underworld full of unsavory characters, so he takes...
	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...
	The Condemned Date Added 2007-08-10 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 892 Year 2007 Length 1:53 Director Scott Wiper Category Action, Escape Film Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: WWE superstar "Stone Cold" Steve Austin stars as a death row inmate who gets a rare second shot at life in director Scott Wiper's adrenaline-charged action thriller. Jack Conrad (Austin) is a dangerous convict currently awaiting execution in a corrupt Central American prison. "Purchased" by a wealthy television producer and transported to a deserted island, the formidable inmate is offered the opportunity to avoid capital punishment and win back his freedom by fighting to the death against nine other condemned criminals in an illegal game to be broadcast uncensored over the Internet. Rick Hoffman and Vinnie Jones co-star in a brutal battle royal of non-stop carnage. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	The Simpsons Movie Date Added 2007-08-10 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 913 Year 2007 Length 1:26 Director David Silverman Category Comedy, Satire, Domestic Comedy Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: They've kept television viewers laughing for nearly 20 years, and now the most popular animated family on the small screen makes the leap into theaters as Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, ad Maggie embark on their first-ever feature-length adventure. Directed by David Silverman and written by a whole host of Simpsons veterans including Matt Groening and James L. Brooks, The Simpsons Movie also features special guest appearances by Albert Brooks among others. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	28 Weeks Later Date Added 2007-07-22 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 803 Year 2007 Length 1:39 Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Category Horror, Sci-Fi Horror Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: The devastating rage virus that annihilated the British Isles mysteriously resurfaces in Goya Award-winning director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's sequel to the Danny Boyle-directed horror hit that terrified audiences worldwide by offering a breathless new take on the familiar zombie mythos. Six months has passed since the rage virus caused British residents to indiscriminately murder and destroy everything in their paths, and now the U.S. military has declared victory in the war against the rapidly spreading infection. As the reconstruction process gets underway and the first wave of refugees return to British shores, a family separated by the devastation is happily reunited. During the initial outbreak, Don Harris (Robert Carlyle) and his wife Alice...
	Bickford Schmeckler's Cool Ideas Date Added 2007-07-22 Rating 5.9 / 10.0 Number 807 Year 2006 Length 1:15 Director Scott Lew Category Comedy, Teen Movie Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Reclusive college freshman Bickford Schmeckler (Patrick Fugit) is a virtual fountain of cool ideas, and he records every single one of them in his prized, steel-bound notebook. When the notebook is stolen by hedonistic sorority girl Sarah (Olivia Wilde) during a toga party and subsequently comes into the possession of schizophrenic campus eccentric Spaceman (Matthew Lillard), the desperate Bickford embarks on a frantic quest to recover his most prized possession and prevent his life's work from being credited to someone else. John Cho and Ken Franz star in a cinematic labor of love from writer/director Scott Lew - an ambitious first-time feature filmmaker who worked for eight years to bring his creative vision...
	Mr. Bean's Holiday Date Added 2007-07-14 Rating 6.2 / 10.0 Number 847 Year 2007 Length 1:28 Director Steve Bendelack Category Comedy, Slapstick Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Mr. Bean -- the stick-legged goofball man-child created by Rowan Atkinson on television in the early '90s, and in the 1997 feature Bean -- undertakes his second cinematic adventure in the comic romp Mr. Bean's Holiday. Growing thoroughly sick of the wet, cold, and clammy London weather, Mr. Bean (Atkinson) finds just the right tonic when he wins a trip to sunny southern France, all expenses paid, with a new digital video camera to accompany him. However, he runs headfirst into a series of outrageous and unpleasant situations, such as winding up in a French restaurant where a ma...
	Wind Chill Date Added 2007-07-14 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 926 Year 2007 Length 1:31 Director Greg Jacobs Category Horror, Supernatural Horror, Road Movie Other Screener, Filmed in BC AMG SYNOPSIS: Two college students heading home for the holidays break down on a lonesome stretch of highway, only to find themselves targeted by the malevolent spirits of other travelers who met their end on the same road in a supernatural road movie directed by Greg Jacobs, and produced by Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney. All she (Emily Blunt) wanted was to make it back home to Delaware for the holidays. Though her classmate (Ashton Holmes) has a working car and is happy to oblige by offering a ride, it quickly becomes apparent that the boy has been admiring her from afar for the entire semester. After hours of traveling on the lonesome snow swept...
	Reign Over Me Date Added 2007-07-02 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 868 Year 2007 Length 2:08 Director Mike Binder Category Drama, Buddy Film, Psychological Drama Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: A chance run-in with an old college roommate becomes the catalyst for healing in writer/director Mike Binder's tale of friendship and understanding in post-9/11 New York. When the airplanes went down on that fateful morning in 2001, Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) lost everything that he had to live for. Five years have passed since Charlie lost his family, and now the once-successful and sociable man has become a withdrawn shadow of his former self. When fate brings Charlie and his former college roommate Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle) together once again on a Manhattan street corner, Alan is shocked to see just how far his old friend has fallen. Though on the surface it...
	Bridge to Terabithia Date Added 2007-06-03 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 727 Year 2007 Length 1:34 Director Gabor Csupo Category Children's/Family, Fantasy Adventure, Children's Fantasy Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: From the producers of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and mind of author Katherine Paterson comes a rousing fantasy adventure about family, friendship, and the wondrous power of imagination. A perpetual outsider both at home and at school, Jess Aarons (Josh Hutcherson) just never seems to fit in no matter how hard he tries. When his goal to become the fastest runner in middle school is unexpectedly thwarted by newly arrived classmate Leslie Burke (AnnaSophia Robb), who enters in an "all boys" race and leaves her competitors in the dust, Jess soon strikes up a friendship with the imaginative outsider. Their bond is soon cemented thanks to Leslie's love for storytelling...
	The Hoax Date Added 2007-06-03 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 795 Year 2007 Length 1:55 Director Lasse Hallstr Category Comedy Drama, Docudrama, Period Film Other Screener, Custom, NL AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Lasse Hallstr...
	Seraphim Falls Date Added 2007-04-09 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 781 Year 2006 Length 1:55 Director David Von Ancken Category Western, Revisionist Western, Action Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Period Film Other Screener, Limited AMG SYNOPSIS: Frequent television director David Von Ancken (Oz and The Shield) offers a thrilling meditation on the true nature of revenge with this post-Civil War era tale of a one man's quest to put his nemesis in the ground, and another man's struggle to survive at any cost. Deep in the snowy mountains of the American West, a lone man named Gideon (Pierce Brosnan) basks, lost in thought, in the warm glow of a small fire. When a shot suddenly rings out and a bullet whizzes just inches from his head, Gideon is suddenly pulled from his repose. His reaction is too slow, however, to save him from the impact of a second bullet...
	The Fountain Date Added 2007-04-09 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 792 Year 2006 Length 1:35 Director Darren Aronofsky Category Drama, Psychological Sci-Fi, Romantic Drama Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky switches gears from drug-induced urban malaise to abstract science fiction with this time-tripping symbolic tale of a man's thousand-year quest to save the woman he loves. Moving between representational stories and images, this meditation on life and death focuses on the concept of the mythical Tree of Life that is said to bestow immortality to all who drink of its sap. In one of the film's allegorical timelines, a 16th century Spanish conquistador played by Hugh Jackman sets out to find the tree in order to save his queen (Rachel Weisz) from the Inquisition. Another conceptual story finds Jackman centuries later, struggling with mortality as a...
	300 Date Added 2007-03-17 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 723 Year 2007 Length 1:56 Director Zack Snyder Category Action, Historical Epic, War Epic Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Sin City author Frank Miller's sweeping take on the historic Battle of Thermopylae comes to the screen courtesy of Dawn of the Dead director Zack Snyder. Gerard Butler stars as Spartan King Leonidas and Lena Headey plays Queen Gorgo. The massive army of the Persian Empire is sweeping across the globe, crushing every force that dares stand in it path. When a Persian envoy arrives in Sparta offering King Leonidas power over all of Greece if he will only bow to the will of the all powerful Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), the strong-willed leader assembles a small army comprised of his empire's best fighters and marches off to battle. Though they have virtually no...
	Smokin' Aces Date Added 2007-03-17 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 786 Year 2007 Length 1:49 Director Joe Carnahan Category Crime, Ensemble Film, Crime Thriller, Action Thriller, Gangster Film Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: When a shifty magician turns state's evidence against a Las Vegas underworld heavy, the high price placed on his head sparks a fevered race to rub the snitch out and collect a tidy paycheck in Narc director Joe Carnahan's dark action comedy. Buddy "Aces" Israel (Jeremy Piven) is a small time scammer who has somehow managed to get the goods on big time mobster Primo Sparazza. Upon discovering that Buddy is about to deliver the evidence needed to get him thrown in jail for life, Primo takes out a sizable contract on Buddy that entices every two-bit thug, grizzled bounty hunter, deadly vixen, skilled assassin, and ladder-climbing Mafioso within a hundred mile radius...
	Trailer Park Boys: The Movie Date Added 2007-03-17 Rating 7.4 / 10.0 Number 800 Year 2006 Length 0:00 Director Mike Clattenburg Category Comedy, Mockumentary, Comedy of Manners Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Booted from the hoosegow just days before the eagerly anticipated guards-versus-inmates ball hockey championship, Ricky (Rob Wells), Julian (John Paul Tremblay), and Bubbles (Mike Smith) hatch a plan to pull off the biggest heist of their criminal career as Sunnyvale Trailer Park's most incompetent criminals make their way to the big screen. Christened "The Big Dirty," the trio's ambitious plan to steal large quantities of untraceable change soon hits a hitch when sidetracked Ricky prepares to make the ultimate commitment to longtime girlfriend Lucy and Julian crosses her new boss with disastrous results. It seems that in addition to having her bust-size upgraded while the trio was incarcerated, Lucy also landed a job...
	The Last King of Scotland Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 708 Year 2006 Length 2:01 Director Kevin MacDonald Category Drama, Docudrama Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Kevin MacDonald teams with screenwriter Jeremy Brock to adapt Giles Foden's novel detailing the brutal reign of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin as seen through the eyes of his personal physician. James McAvoy stars as the doctor who slowly realizes that he is trapped in an inescapable nightmare, and Forest Whitaker assumes the role of the notorious despot. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	The Good German Date Added 2007-01-14 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 705 Year 2006 Length 1:47 Director Steven Soderbergh Category Mystery, Drama, War Drama, Period Film Other Screener, Limited AMG SYNOPSIS: A U.S. Army war correspondent is drawn into a deadly mystery in post-war Berlin as he seeks out his wartime mistress in this adaptation of author Joseph Kanon's best-selling novel. The war is over, and Jake Geismar (George Clooney) is an American journalist assigned the task of covering the peace in Berlin -- but he was once lovers with a mysterious woman named Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett). Lena is a lady with many secrets to hide, however, and now that the fighting has ceased, she has every intention of burying her sins and escaping her dark past. As Jake searches for Lena in war-torn Berlin with the assistance of American Army motor pool...
	Dreamgirls Date Added 2007-01-12 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 680 Year 2006 Length 2:10 Director Bill Condon Category Musical, Showbiz Drama, Musical Drama, Period Film Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Bill Condon brings Tom Eyen's Tony award-winning Broadway musical to the big screen in a tale of dreams, stardom, and the high cost of success in the cutthroat recording industry. The time is the 1960s, and singers Effie (Jennifer Hudson), Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose), and Deena (Beyonc...
	School for Scoundrels Date Added 2007-01-12 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 702 Year 2006 Length 1:41 Director Todd Phillips Category Comedy, Comedy of Manners Other BMB's AVI Screener Converted to NTSC DVD AMG SYNOPSIS: Old School director Todd Phillips takes the reins for an updated remake of the 1960 comedy, this time starring Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder as a lovelorn meter reader who enrolls in a confidence-building class in order to win the love of his dream girl, and Billy Bob Thornton as the scheming teacher who has designs of his own for the attractive young female. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	Apocalypto Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 630 Year 2006 Length 2:17 Director Mel Gibson Category Action, Epic, Chase Movie, Historical Epic Other Screener, Proper AMG SYNOPSIS: As the foundation of the Mayan civilization begins to crumble, one man's previously idyllic existence is forever changed when he is chosen as the sacrifice needed to appease the gods in director Mel Gibson's mythic, end-times adventure. The Mayan kingdom is at the absolute height of opulence and power, but leaders are convinced that unless more temples are constructed and more human sacrifices made, the crops, and ultimately the people, will suffer. Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood) is a peaceful hunter from a remote forest tribe whose life is about to be changed forever. When Jaguar Paw's village is raided and he is prepared as the sacrifice that the Mayan deities have demanded, the...
	Blood Diamond Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 634 Year 2006 Length 2:23 Director Edward Zwick Category Drama, Message Movie, Adventure Drama Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: A South African mercenary and a Mende fisherman find their fates forever intertwined as they embark on a quest to obtain a rare and highly coveted pink diamond in director Edward Zwick's frantic adventure drama. Ripped from his family farm and forced to toil away in the sweltering South African diamond fields, Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) discovered an extraordinary rough stone of immeasurable value. Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a hired gun who specializes in the sale of so-called "blood diamonds" that are used to finance rebellions and terrorist organizations, and is currently serving time for smuggling. As a bloody civil war rages in Sierra Leone and Archer learns that Vandy has safely...
	Flags of Our Fathers Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 639 Year 2006 Length 2:11 Director Clint Eastwood Category War, Drama, War Drama Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the non-fiction book Flags of Our Fathers concerns the lives of the men in the famous picture of soldiers raising the American flag over Iwo Jima during that historic WWII battle. Battle scenes are intercut with footage of three of the soldiers - played by Ryan Phillipe, Jesse Bradford, and Adam Beach -- who survived the battle going on a goodwill tour of the United States in order to sell war bonds. Many evening they are forced to reenact their famous pose, something each of them finds more and more difficult to do as they suffer from survivor's guilt. Eastwood frames the story by having one of the men's...
	Flushed Away Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 640 Year 2006 Length 1:24 Director David Bowers, Sam Fell Category Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: A previously pampered society mouse must fight his way back to the comforts of Kensington after he is sent spiraling into an underground world filled with scavenger rats and villainous toads in a fun-filled family adventure produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features and featuring the voices of Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, and Jean Reno. Roddy (Jackman) was living the high life when he first met Sid the sewer rat (Shane Richie), but that's all about to change when Sid decides to send the hapless mouse down the pipes and stealthily take his place in the lap of luxury. Though the bustling sewer city of Ratropolis isn't without its fair share...
	Happy Feet Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 641 Year 2006 Length 1:48 Director Judy Morris, Warren Coleman, George Miller Category Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Comedy, Adventure Comedy Other Screener, Repack AMG SYNOPSIS: In the world of the emperor penguin, a simple song can mean the difference between a lifetime of happiness and an eternity of loneliness. When a penguin named Mumble is born without the ability to sing the romantic song that will attract his soul mate, he'll have to resort to some fancy footwork by tap dancing his way into the heart of the one he loves. Directed by Babe mastermind George Miller, Happy Feet tells the tale of one penguin's quest for love, and features an all-star cast of vocal talent that includes Robin Williams, Hugh Jackman, Elijah Wood, Nicole Kidman, and Brittany Murphy. -- Jason Buchanan ...
	Harsh Times Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 642 Year 2006 Length 1:55 Director David Ayer Category Crime, Police Drama Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: An unstable Gulf War veteran with a savior complex receives a shocking wake-up call upon returning stateside and accepting a position with the Department of Homeland Security in the directorial debut of Training Day screenwriter David Ayer. Jim (Christian Bale) is a Gulf War veteran who believes his sworn duty to protect his fellow Americans extends to the streets of Los Angeles, and he longs to fulfill his destiny by joining the LAPD. Rejected by the force and left to ponder his future with his impoverished Mexican paramour -- whom he had intended on bringing to the city after joining the police -- the dejected and unemployed veteran is offered a second shot...
	Rocky Balboa Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 648 Year 2006 Length 1:41 Director Sylvester Stallone Category Drama, Sports Drama Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: Sylvester Stallone returns to the director's chair for Rocky Balboa, the fifth sequel to the film that made him a superstar 30 years before. The movie begins with Rocky (Stallone) still mourning the death of his loyal and beloved wife, Adrian, who died three years previously after losing a battle against cancer. Rocky owns an Italian restaurant and spends his days living in his working-class Philadelphia neighborhood, visiting with his customers, and telling stories about his past. His grown son has a job as a business professional, but the relationship between the two is strained. Rocky's growing dissatisfaction leads him to attempt to purge the feelings of frustration and loss by applying for...
	The Good Shepherd Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 661 Year 2006 Length 2:47 Director Robert De Niro Category Spy Film, Drama, Unglamorized Spy Film, Period Film, Political Drama Other Screener, Proper AMG SYNOPSIS: One man bears witness to the secret history of America during the Cold War in this drama directed by celebrated actor Robert De Niro. In early 1939, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is a man with a bright future ahead of him -- he's a top student at Yale, he has been accepted into the college's powerful and influential secret society Skull and Bones, and is widely regarded as a man of intelligence, principles, and discretion. Wilson begins traveling in influential circles, and before long he's dating Clover Russell (Angelina Jolie), the daughter of a powerful U.S. senator; Clover becomes Wilson's wife after he discovers she's pregnant. Through his Skull and Bones connections, Wilson...
	The Pursuit of Happyness Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 665 Year 2006 Length 1:57 Director Gabriele Muccino Category Drama, Family Drama Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: The rousing, true-life story of a single dad who went from living on the streets to owning his own brokerage firm is brought to the big screen by superstar Will Smith, appearing for the first time opposite his real-life son Jaden Smith. Set in early-'80s San Francisco, the film charts the hard times and eventual comeback of Chris Gardner, a suddenly single salesman who has custody of his son, but finds that providing for the two of them is a challenge in the increasingly unstable economic climate. He struggles to work his way from unpaid intern at Dean Witter to something more substantial, even as life continues to offer him setbacks. Making his...
	We Are Marshall Date Added 2007-01-07 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 668 Year 2006 Length 2:11 Director McG Category Drama, Sports Drama, Docudrama Other Screener AMG SYNOPSIS: A true story of tragedy, hope, and resilience comes to the screen in this sports drama. Huntington, WV, is home to Marshall University, a school where college football is a way of life. Huntington is also a town that learned to deal with tragedy in the fall of 1970 when Marshall's "Thundering Herd" boarded an airliner to return home after a football game in North Carolina. The jet crashed into a hill due to bad weather, and 75 members of Marshall's football squad and athletic staff died that night. The accident dealt a crippling blow to the city of Huntington, as well as Marshall's faculty and student body, and university president Donald Dedmon...
	Children of Men Date Added 2006-12-17 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 635 Year 2006 Length 1:49 Director Alfonso Cuar Category Science Fiction, Psychological Sci-Fi, Action Thriller Other Screener, Repack AMG SYNOPSIS: Y Tu Mam...
	Farce of the Penguins Date Added 2006-11-13 Rating 4.2 / 10.0 Number 592 Year 2007 Length 0:00 Director Bob Saget Category Comedy Other Screener (Xanax AVI Converted to DVD) A mockumentary the illuminates penguin survival and mating rituals, as well as one bird's search for love while on a 70-mile trek with his hedonistic buddies....
	The Black Dahlia Date Added 2006-10-20 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 540 Year 2006 Length 2:01 Director Brian De Palma Category Crime, Period Film, Post-Noir (Modern Noir), Police Drama Other Screener Director Brian De Palma returns to the helm for the first time since 2002's Femme Fatale with this stylish screen adaptation of James Ellroy's novel detailing one of the most notorious unsolved murders in Hollywood history. Elizabeth Short (Mia Kirshner) was a struggling actress looking to make a name for herself in 1940s-era Tinseltown. Unfortunately for Elizabeth, it was her grim fate that would ultimately overshadow anything she would accomplish during her short and tragic career. When police discover Elizabeth's body cut clean in half and with all of her organs missing, ex-pugilist detectives Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) are the men charged with cracking the case and apprehending the killer....
	Munich Date Added 2006-03-10 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 163 Year 2005 Length 2:44 Director Steven Spielberg Category Drama, Docudrama, Period Film, Political Thriller Other Screener Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, Schindler's List, in 2005 after tearing up the box office with War of the Worlds the director closed out the year with a powerful and thoughtful drama about the human costs of international terrorism. The 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, were supposed to be a peaceful gathering of outstanding athletes from around the world, but on September 5, the games took a sinister turn when eight masked Palestinian terrorists invaded the Olympic village, killing two Israeli athletes and abducting nine others. The kidnappers demanded safe passage out of Germany in addition to the...