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The Last Song (2010)

2010-04-20T06:37:00.001-07:00

Seventeen-year-old Veronica ‘Ronnie’ Miller’s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Tybee Island, Georgia. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father …until her mother decides it would be in everyone’s best interest if she spent the summer on Tybee Island with him. Ronnie’s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story about love in its myriad forms – first love, the love between parents and children – that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts …and heal them.

Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1294226/synopsis

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

2010-04-20T06:35:00.001-07:00

Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) is the daughter of Charles Kingsleigh (Marton Csokas), a wealthy man who planned to find profitable shipping routes through the world in the 19th century. When she tells him of her adventures in Wonderland (later to be revealed as ‘Underland’), he declares her mad, but that all the best people are. However, many years afterward, Charles has passed away, and Alice misses his playful attitude.
Now feeling trapped in a world of proper etiquette for one such as herself, Alice is taken to a garden party, where it is hoped that she will accept a marriage proposal from Hamish (Leo Bill), the son of one of her father’s business partners. However, Alice soon grows distracted seeing a rabbit with a waistcoat nearby, and rushes after the strange creature.
Following it, she finds her way to the trunk of an old tree some ways off, and falls down a hole. The hole leads her to a strange room, of which she finds a key, as well as a drink that makes her smaller, and a cake that increases her size. After getting the key and shrinking down to use a small door, she soon finds herself in an enormous garden area.
Soon after, she comes across the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), as well as the Dormouse (Barbara Windsor), a Dodo bird (Michael Gough), and the Tweedles (Matt Lucas). The White Rabbit explains that is sure he has found the right Alice this time, while the Dormouse believes he is mistaken. Alice explains that her name is Alice, but feels they are looking for another “Alice.” They take her to Abosolom the Caterpillar (Alan Rickman), who consults a scroll, which contains details regarding the history of Wonderland, from it’s birth onward. The scroll claims that on the Frabjous Day, Alice will return to slay the Jabberwocky. Alice sees this, and adamants that she is not the person in the scroll, when a commotion breaks out, and the Knave of Hearts (Crispin Glover) appears, along with some red-carded soldiers and a creature called a Bandersnatch. Everyone scatters, as the Knave takes the scroll, and captures the Dodo bird. Alice, when confronted with the Bandersnatch, stands her ground, convinced that it is just a dream. However, the creature scratches her, and Alice takes off running, but not before the Dormouse plucks out one of the creature’s eyes.
Some ways off, Alice encounters the Tweedles again, who attempt to help her, but are soon captured by a giant bird that takes them to the Red Queen’s castle. At the castle, the Knave of Hearts informs the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) about the scroll, and the prophecy of Alice killing the Jabberwocky (of which she possesses). The Red Queen orders Alice to be found, and the Knave utilizes a bloodhound named Bayard (Timothy Spall) to track her down, promising freedom for Bayard’s wife and pups (a lie, meant as a way to get the dog to help the Red Queen).
Meanwhile, Alice encounters the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), who leads her to the Mad Hatter’s place, where she encounters the Dormouse again, as well as the March Hare (Paul Whitehouse). The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) is pleased to see Alice, and is in rapture over the coming Frabjous day in which she will slay the Jabberwocky. Alice again insists she is not ‘that Alice,’ when the Knave of Hearts and Bayard close in. The Hatter stuffs Alice into a teapot, to hide her from the Knave. In secret, the Dormouse scolds the dog for bringing the Knave there, but Bayard explains why he came. He then attempts to lead the Knave off in a different direction.
After they have left, the Hatter walks Alice through the nearby woods, where they come across the burned ruins of a small village. The Hatter then explains to Alice about how in the time she was gone, the Red Queen has taken over Wonderland, banishing the White Queen (Anne Hathaway) to her own domain, and taking her vorpal sword.
As they talk, the Knave again approaches, and the Hatter places Alice on his hat, and flings it across a river, giving himself up to the Knave, who takes him to the Red Queen. Later on, Bayard finds the hat and Alice. Alice manages to convince Bayard to take her to the Red Queen’s castle, to rescue the Hatter. Along with the hat, they find their way there, where Alice encounters the White Rabbit assisting with a game of croquet with the Red Queen. Alice requests to be made larger (she is still the size of a gerbil), and the rabbit gives her a cake. However, she eats too much and ends up almost 10 feet tall, disrupting the croquet game. The Queen does not recognize Alice, who says she is ‘Um’ from Umbridge, and wishes to help the Queen. The Queen, impressed by the size of Alice’s head, declares her to be made part of her royal court.
The Hatter is brought before the Queen and Alice, and is at first intended to be beheaded. However, the Hatter manages to stall for time, by requesting that he make the Queen a hat for her enormous head. Flattered by the attention, she gives into this request. Alice soon after finds out that the vorpal sword is on the grounds of the castle, but is locked away in a chest in the quarters of the Bandersnatch. After procuring the plucked eye from the Dormouse (who has broken into the castle to free the Hatter), Alice manages to return the eye to the creature. This allows her to gain access to the sword. Alice goes to the Hatter’s room, and finds the Dormouse there. However, the Knave of Hearts shows up shortly, and when the Dormouse lets slip Alice’s true name, he attempts to kill her. Alice manages to escape into the courtyard, where the Bandersnatch helps her escape from the castle. Bayard also accompanies her, as they head for the White Queen’s castle.
The Red Queen then orders that the Hatter and the Dormouse be executed the next day. However, the Cheshire Cat uses his trickery to take on the guise of the Hatter, and allows the Hatter, Dormouse, the White Rabbit, the Tweedles, and Bayard’s family to escape. They all soon meet up at the White Queen’s castle, where the Queen has used her potions knowledge to shrink Alice to normal size.
The next day then dawns…the Frabjous day. Almost everyone is willing to take up arms for the White Queen. However, she hopes that Alice will fulfill the prophecy, but Alice rushes off to the Queen’s garden, still upset over everyone pushing her into this task. It is there she encounters Absolom, cocooning himself. It is here that Absolom explains to Alice how she had been to Wonderland before, and suddenly, it all comes back to her, that what she thought originally was a dream was real. After her revelation, Alice dons the armor prepared for her by the White Queen, and takes up the vorpal sword.
Both the White Queen and the Red Queen meet on a checkerboard field. Both Queens meet first, with the White Queen asking her sister to not do battle, but the Red Queen refuses to give into the pacification of her sister’s plea. The White Queen brings forth Alice as their ‘champion,’ as the Red Queen’ summons the Jabberwocky. As Alice faces off with the creature, the rest of the armies go to war. Alice plays a mind-game with herself, talking of 6 impossible things, as it is claimed her father would do before breakfast. In her mind-game, she manages to find the strength to slay the Jabberwocky. The Red Queen demands that her subjects kill Alice, but as the White Queen’s champion has slayed that of the Red Queen, the Red Queen’s subjects will no longer follow her commands.
The White Queen orders the Red Queen banished to the Outlands, for the crimes that she has committed (due to a the White Queen’s vow not to harm a living creature, she will not kill her sister), with noone to offer her sympathy. The Knave of Hearts is also chained to her, as punishment as well. However, the thought of being alone with the Queen causes him to try to kill her, before his dagger is taken from him by the Hatter.
After the Red Queen and the Knave are taken away, the White Queen’s army rejoices, with the Hatter doing a Fudderwupping dance, much to the delight of everyone. The White Queen then collects some of the Jabberwocky’s blood, and gives it to Alice. The blood of the Jabberwocky allows Alice to return to her world, and she returns to the Garden Party.
Alice then explains to Hamish that she cannot accept his proposal, as well as speaks her mind to a number of different relatives and acquaintances. Her forthright attitude catches the eye of Hamish’s father, and soon, the two discuss plans to expand the shipping routes to China, a land that has not yet been opened to the west.
Alice is then made an apprentice to the company, and sets off with a crew to open the shipping route to China, aboard a ship titled “Wonder”. The last thing shown is a bright blue butterfly, none other than Abosolom.

Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014759/synopsis

The Square

2010-04-20T06:33:00.000-07:00

Escaping the monotony of a loveless marriage, Raymond Yale becomes entangled in an affair with the beautiful and troubled Carla. Ray’s moral limits are tested when Carla presents him with the proceeds of her controlling husband’s latest crime. This is their chance: Take the money and run… If only it were that simple.

Temptation turns a man’s life upside down in this noir-influenced thriller from Australia. Ray Yale (David Roberts) is a construction worker who is married to Martha (Lucy Bell) and is helping to build an upscale resort hotel just outside Sydney. Ray isn’t entirely happy in his marriage, and his roving eye has become focused on Carla (Claire van der Boom), a hairdresser who lives next door. Carla is married to a low-level mobster, Greg (Anthony Hayes), but she craves excitement and is soon having a torrid affair with Ray. Carla knows that Greg has a large bundle of cash hidden in their home, and she hatches a scheme she shares with Ray — they steal they money, set fire to the house, and run off together, with Greg imagining the cash was lost in the blaze. While Ray isn’t interested in a life of crime, he can’t say no to Carla, but when he develops cold feet at the last minute, his attempts to reach Billy (Joel Edgerton), who was hired to torch the house, are unsuccessful, and things take a turn for the worse when he learns that Greg’s aged mother was in the house when it burned to the ground. Ray quickly realizes he’s been implicated in a murder, and Billy doesn’t hesitate to use this knowledge to his advantage. The Square was the first directorial project for Nash Edgerton, who previously was one of the leading stuntmen in the Aussie film industry.

Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1085507/synopsis

The Wolfman

2010-02-26T06:14:00.000-08:00

Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother... and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate. Written by Anonymous

source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780653/plotsummary

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

2010-02-26T06:10:00.000-08:00

It's the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters have walked out of the pages of high school student Percy Jackson's Greek mythology texts and into his life. And they're not happy: Zeus' lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Even more troubling is the sudden disappearance of Percy's mother. As Percy finds himself caught between angry and battling gods, he and his friends embark on a cross-country adventure to catch the true lightning thief, save Percy's mom, and unravel a mystery more powerful than the gods themselves. Written by 20th Century Fox

source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814255/plotsummary

Valentine's Day

2010-02-26T06:04:00.000-08:00

February 14th, Valentines Day, is not a national holiday, but it is one of those days that must be celebrated. There are "special someones" in your life who expect to receive romantic gifts from their lovers. Commercialism has put a tremendous amount of pressure on men to give their lovers a romantic day with all the trimmings. Women are under pressure to have a man, or they feel desperate and unloved. Valentines Day follows the lives of several couples during this day. Their stories are told through the interconnections they have with each other. Some will find romance in their relationship, and others will feel the heartbreak of ending a relationship. In this Russian roulette world of finding love, everyone in the film is asking for advice on how to find and keep true love. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)

source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0817230/synopsis

Avatar

2010-02-26T06:02:00.000-08:00

In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na'vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture. Written by Giorgio_C

When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge's intentions of driving off the native humanoid "Na'vi" in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na'vi people with the use of an "avatar" identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand - and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora. Written by The Massie Twins

source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/plotsummary

Shutter Island

2010-02-26T05:59:00.000-08:00

In 1954, U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) are assigned to investigate the escape of a patient at the federal maximum security hospital/prison for the criminally insane located on Shutter Island. Once on the island, they find that the hospital and prison staffs aren't really cooperating with their investigation. It seems that the staff is hiding a big secret and Teddy is going to uncover it. Teddy believes that if he can see the records that he would break the case. In the meantime, the island is hit by a hurricane, and more dangerous patients escape and must be captured. This gives Teddy and Chuck the opportunity to check out some of the buildings that they were denied to go. What Teddy finds is the answer he was looking for. Remember, things aren't always what they seem to be. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)

source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130884/synopsis

Top 10 Romantic Comedies

2010-02-06T17:22:00.000-08:00

What are the top 10 romantic comedies of all time? That's something most romantics would surely love to know so here is list which has been prepared by combining the box office earnings of these films
from both domestic and international sources. How many have you seen?

Romantic comedy movies are a sub-group of romantic movies and are notable for being light-hearted and having plots that are often humorous. The path of true love may be thwarted, temporarily, by errors, accidents and coincidences, or by differences in social standing. 'Notting Hill' and 'Pretty Woman' are examples of romantic comedies.

The romantic comedies are contrasted with romantic drama, a further sub-group of romance films in which the main premise of the movie is concerned with the romantic attraction between the leading characters but not in a funny or humorous way. The attraction often causes them to struggle with significant questions about their lives, such as "should I remain with my current partner?" and "what am I doing with my life?" Dramatic impact is created by the emotional expression of those involved. 'Titanic' and 'The Notebook' are examples of romantic drama.

The listing below differs slightly from those top domestic earners as some which did well at home performed poorly at theaters in other countries. Others boosted their earnings considerably in the overseas market and greatly improved their ranking.

For instance, Pretty Woman, whilst 4th in domestic earnings, at $178 million, also pulled in a whopping $285 million in the foreign market to grab the top spot overall.

The Top 10 Romantic Comedies - based on gross earnings (U.S. domestic + international):

1. Pretty Woman (1990) - $463 million
2. Sex And The City (2008) - $415 m
3. What Women Want ((2000) - $374 m
4 There's Something About Mary ((1998) - $370 m
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) - $369 m
6. Hitch (2005) - $368 m
7. Notting Hill (1999) - $364 m
8. The Proposal (2009) - $315 m
9. Runaway Bride (1999) - $309 m
10. My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) - $299 m

The queen of romantic comedies is clearly Julia Roberts. She starred in four of the top 10 movies listed above - Pretty Woman (1990), Notting Hill (1999), Runaway Bride (1999) and My Best Friend's Wedding (1997). The 90s were clearly good for her. Cameron Diaz managed to star in two - There's Something About Mary (1998) and My Best Friend's Wedding (1997).

A high production budget is clearly not a guarantee of success, nor is it a good indicator as Pretty Woman had a budget of only $14 million - Julia Roberts was relatively unknown at the time and her fee for that movie was only $300,000, being mainly known for her role in Steel Magnolias (1989). She was not the first choice for the lead in Pretty Woman, gaining the role only after a number of other, better known, actresses had turned it down as 'too sexist' or 'degrading to women'.

Another movie which far surpassed expectations was My Big, Fat Greek Wedding (2002). It had a budget of only $5 million and earned $241 million at the U.S. box office alone (far surpassing Pretty Woman on $178 million), more than any other romantic comedy. It also earned a respectable $127 million in overseas sales. While not as successful internationally as Pretty Woman (which managed $285 million), it allowed MBFGW to secure the number 5 spot for a modest outlay.

Overseas sales were also extremely important for Notting Hill (with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts) as it earned 'only' $116 on the U.S. domestic market but more than double that ($248 million) internationally to leap up to 7th place.

source:
http://www.articlesbase.com/movies-articles/top-10-romantic-comedies-1829511.html

Download Movies Free Online

2010-02-06T17:13:00.000-08:00

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films (also referred to as movies or motion pictures) are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects.

Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating — or indoctrinating — citizens. The visual elements of cinema give motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles that translate the dialogue.

Films are made up of a series of individual images called frames. When these images are shown rapidly in succession, a viewer has the illusion that motion is occurring. The viewer cannot see the flickering between frames due to an effect known as persistence of vision, whereby the eye retains a visual image for a fraction of a second after the source has been removed. Viewers perceive motion due to a psychological effect called beta movement.

The origin of the name "film" comes from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) has historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photo-play and flick. A common name for film in the United States is movie, while in Europe the term cinema is preferred. Additional terms for the field in general include the big screen, the silver screen, the cinema and the movies.

Preceding film by thousands of years, plays and dances had elements common to film: scripts, sets, costumes, production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, and scores. Much terminology later used in film theory and criticism applied, such as mise en scene (roughly, the entire visual picture at any one time). Moving visual and aural images were not recorded for replaying as in film.

The camera obscura was pioneered by Alhazen in his Book of Optics (1021),[1][2][3] and later near the year 1600, it was perfected by Giambattista della Porta. Light is inverted through a small hole or lens from outside, and projected onto a surface or screen, creating a moving image, but it is not preserved in a recording.

In the 1860s, mechanisms for producing two-dimensional drawings in motion were demonstrated with devices such as the zoetrope, mutoscope and praxinoscope. These machines were outgrowths of simple optical devices (such as magic lanterns) and would display sequences of still pictures at sufficient speed for the images on the pictures to appear to be moving, a phenomenon called persistence of vision. Naturally the images needed to be carefully designed to achieve the desired effect, and the underlying principle became the basis for the development of film animation.

With the development of celluloid film for still photography, it became possible to directly capture objects in motion in real time. An 1878 experiment by Eadweard Muybridge in the United States using 24 cameras produced a series of stereoscopic images of a galloping horse, arguably the first "motion picture," though it was not called by this name. This technology required a person to look into a viewing machine to see the pictures which were separate paper prints attached to a drum turned by a handcrank. The pictures were shown at a variable speed of about 5 to 10 pictures per second, depending on how rapidly the crank was turned. Commercial versions of these machines were coin operated.

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http://www.articlesbase.com/movies-articles/download-movies-free-online-1829225.html

My Bloody Valentine On Dish Network Pay Per View

2010-02-06T17:12:00.000-08:00

So you won’t have the 3D aspect that made My Bloody Valentine somewhat forgivable, that is unless you buy the DVD (which comes with 4 free pairs of 3D glasses). But trust me when I tell you that the 3D on the DVD nowhere near compares to the Real-D technology that you get when you see a 3D movie in the theater.

I saw this flick when it was released back in January, and it was a passable horror flick (and I’m a huge horror fan so my standards are high.) The movie is available now on Dish Network Pay-Per-View and it’s a 24 hour rental, though most likely you’re not going to watch this more than once. It’s also available in 1080P, so if you have a high-definition TV, and a Dish HD receiver or Plus HD DVR receiver, make sure to watch this in all it’s hi-def glory. The movie is a remake of the Canadian slasher import from 1981.

The original has become somewhat of a cult hit over the years, despite being chopped and edited heavily by the MPAA. It is considered today to be one of the horror classics (maybe not so much so as Halloween, for example, but it’s still on a few lists). The new film begins with a cave-in at a mine that leaves six miners trapped. One of the miners, a man by the name of Harry Warden, survives by killing the other five with a pickaxe, and when rescue crews find him he tries to escape and is injured.

As a result, Harry Warden goes into a coma. Tom Hanniger, the son of the mine owner, is deemed responsible for the cave-in because he forgot to vent the methane lines. We then jump to the following year on Valentine’s Day, when Harry Warden wakes up from his coma and goes on a killing spree. He spares young Tom’s life, and Tom leaves town as a result. Ten years later, Tom returns to town after his father dies and he inherits the mine. He hopes to sell the mine, though the townspeople do not appreciate his decision and incidentally blame him for all the deaths that occurred years earlier.

Not long after Tom has returned, the killings start up again and bodies are piling up. We begin to see that Tom is slowly losing his mind, but is he the killer? Or could the killer be the husband of Tom’s ex-girlfriend Sarah, who is also the town sheriff? Or is Harry Warden, believed to be dead, back from the grave? Jensen Ackles plays Tom, and he gave a ho-hum performance, which, until the end of the movie, left a lot to be desired. I understand Ackles is a big hit on his CW show “Supernatural,” but as actor he’s nothing to write home about. He’s kind of bland, and maybe that’s what he was going for here, but I wasn’t impressed.

His “Supernatural” costar Jared Padalecki fared so much better in the Friday the 13th remake that was released a month after this. Jaime King played Tom’s old girlfriend, and Kerr Smith played the other man of the side of the love triangle – Sarah’s husband Axel. Smith has been around for a while, and back in 2000 he acted in the first of one of my favorite horror series, Final Destination (coincidentally, the fourth Destination movie gets released August 28th, and I couldn’t be more excited about that!) The highlight of this movie was easily Betsy Rue. Playing the requisite doomed blonde, Rue only has about two scenes but she definitely makes her time in the movie memorable. She is completely nude for about 10 minutes straight – running from the killer, fighting off the killer, etc.

It was completely over-the-top and hilarious and one can only imagine how comfortable Rue must be as an actress to have agreed to this. She obviously doesn’t take herself too seriously and went for broke and it worked here. Brava to her. Overall, My Bloody Valentine was a fun but slightly forgettable exercise in slasher fare. Compared to all the “torture porn” in horror we have been subjected to the last several years (take the Saw and Hostel series for example, which I despise), it is nice to see horror getting back to its fun, slasher routes. And before you ask how a slasher can be fun, I will tell you this - as a horror movie buff, I do NOT find it entertaining to watch somebody slowly be disemboweled for an hour. I much prefer horror movies in the vein of Scream and Final Destination, which poke fun at themselves as well as being thrilling. As long as we get more of those I’ll be a happy camper (though I’m not planning to set up camp at Crystal Lake anytime soon, I’ve seen enough Friday the 13th movies to know better).

source:
http://www.articlesbase.com/movies-articles/my-bloody-valentine-on-dish-network-pay-per-view-1828846.html

Tintin Movie

2010-02-06T17:09:00.000-08:00

The Tintin Movie that is to be directed by both Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson has led to many wild rumours flying about. The creative duo is planning to film three Tintin movies back to back and the budget rumoured to be in excess of $100 million. Spielberg has been connected to the project for nearly 25 years as he was approached by Herge the creator of Tintin back in the early 1980’s.

Herge believed that Spielberg was the only one in Hollywood who could do his comic hero justice on the big screen. Spielberg though never was able to commit totally to the project because he believed that he would never be capable enough to translate the ligne claire style of action adventure books to the big screen with the technology available. It is only no with Peter Jackson on board who using his Weta workshop that the Belgium boy detective can now come to life.

The big question and one that has Tintin forums are in a tizzy is the question if who will play the lead? Is it going to be an unknown such as Kristen Myburgh (has been one named linked) who may like Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter go on to become a household name. Well the newest name liked is a more established actor and British cinematic hero Simon Pegg. Simon Pegg first came to the attention of British People in his self-penned TV series Spaced that became a cult hit. Along with his team of Nick Frost (Co-star) and Edgar Wright (Director) he went onto make the hugely successful Shaun of the Dead (2004) which along with Hot Fuzz (2007) brought him to the attention of Hollywood. He has made several films this year including his first role as lead in a film that he hasn’t written called Run, Fat Boy, Run (directed by David Schwimmer) and he also pops up in Grindhouse too. The role of Tintin will be huge and will take up a lot of time for which ever actor accepts the lead with the films being shot back to back as Lord of the Rings was.

It may not suit Simon Pegg who is always inventive and throwing himself into new projects. Simon though is a known comic book fan and has admitted to loving Tintin in several interviews that has only fuelled the debate. The question though is whether he has the right look for the film. This maybe not as much of problem as previously thought. Simon Pegg maybe older that Tintin (Estimated to be in his late teens) but the technique that will be used in the films is similar to those used to bring Gollum to life in Lord of the Rings. The character Gollum was created by Weta using motion capture techniques on actor Andy Serkis then using key frame animation and subsurface scattering rendering techniques enabled the first completely convincing portrayal of an animated humanoid in a feature film. This technology would make it easy for Simon Pegg to play Tintin. The debate is set to rage on and with the first film not scheduled to be finished in production till 2009 there will not be any answer soon.

source:
http://www.articlesbase.com/movies-articles/tintin-movie-1827993.html

Ipod Movies

2010-02-06T17:07:00.000-08:00

Free iPod Movies for your iPod, iPhone or iPod Touch
Have you ever asked: Where can I download free iPod Movies?

Are you searching for a website where you can download free iPod movies? We get many people asking how can I download iPod Movies for FREE?

iTunes is still a very expensive website to purchase iPod movies from. $14.99 for a movie download is not a good value at all. Especially when you can purchase the DVD for about $9.99. By selling downloads, iTunes has virtually no product expense. They do not have to pay to manufacture a DVD or DVD Case. Nor do they have to ship it to stores for retail sales. Sure they may have to pay for servers and bandwidth but that is a far cry from the cost of manufacturing a DVD and shipping it to a retail store.

No wonder so many people are searching for free iPod movies nowadays. If iTunes would make the price more reasonable then perhaps people would be willing to pay a small free for these iPod movies instead of searching for websites that offer free iPod Movie Downloads!
Why you should avoid websites that offer free iPod movies

There are many websites out there today that claim to offer free iPod movies to download but in reality when you get to their website you are redirected to a checkout page where you are required to sign up for a membership and pay a membership fee in order to download free iPod movies for your iPod, iPhone or iPod Touch
(iTouch). This is the old switch and bait method of promising something and when you get there you realize that it is not at all what you though you were getting. These websites that offer free iPod movies prey on naive web browsers that are no educated on how file sharing actually works. Most of these websites that offer you a venue to download free iPod movies are actually trying to sell you software that allows you to connect to other web browsers' computers and download "shared" files from their computer. When you are done downloading the movie then it becomes available for other web browsers to download from your computer to other people who have pay a fee to these sites to download "FREE iPod Movies." Moreover, these free iPod movies take up to 3 days to download!

If you have fallen prey to one of these websites do not feel bad. Many people have. They are very good at misleading users into believing that they are getting free iPod movies. Most of the time you can just contact your credit card company and dispute the charges and you will receive a full refund for your membership fee that you were tricked into paying.

Free iPod Movies are not secure or safe

The main reason someone should not download from a website that claims to have free iPod movie downloads is because it is a major risk of security to your computer and to your identity. With al the identity theft there is today hackers make a good living at selling information that they obtain from web browsers by hiding malicious scripts in files and then offering these files to be downloaded for free. A web browser thinks that they hit the jackpot and found a great site where they can download free iPod movies but in reality they are downloading infested software that contains a small script which allows the person offering the free iPod movie download to spy on the computer users activities. If you log in to a secure web site, such as your bank account or Paypal account, they will see it all and will be privy to your user name and passwords along with other pertinent detail used to steal your identity.

There are many different scripts that a person offering free downloads can implement. It can be something as installing a virus on your hard drive that create havoc for you, but is no harmful for a long term and is something can can eventually be repaired after paying a computer store hundreds of dollars to restore your system and files contained on your hard drive. Or, it can be more criminal, by stealing your identity which is virtually unrepairable.

So, in sum, download free iPod movies can be very expensive. Sure there are anti-virus software programs that you can run but I find that the hackers are always one step ahead of the people trying to stop them!

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http://www.articlesbase.com/movies-articles/ipod-movies-1826240.html

Pixar Movies

2010-02-06T17:05:00.000-08:00

PIxar is an animation studio with the purpose of is nearly all well acknowledged in place of it's critically acclaimed CGI movies. They were the ones behind the number one yet satisfied time-span CGI motion picture, Toy Story in 1995. CGI stands in place of Computer Generated Imagery and while about films had been using this skill in place of years formerly, it had on no account been used to create an whole motion picture.

This was revolutionary as formerly this, animated films had been give drawn and using computers ushered in a brand new era of skill in movie-making. This brand new skill was able to attempt somewhere animation on no account might formerly. For the number one moment in time yet, after animating an innate, you might guarantee all stirring facial hair on the innate, making it look more realistic but still cartoon-like.

Pixar animation plus has the lead of giving its animated lettering more emotions and realistic tick. Using computers to record prevented how the voice actor is really speaking the ranks, in its place of in a minute recording the voice, these facial expressions can be transferred to the CGI lettering. Gives them a more expressive deportment and this makes them seem more realistic.

Another utter occurrence as regards Pixar is with the purpose of they are very selective in their motion picture making. They comprise released many dumpy films but simply eight attribute time-span animated films, all of which comprise been standard by the Academy Awards either by nominations or wins. They are really sympathetic as regards come again? Stories will be up to par to translate to Pixar's CGI animation. From searching Nemo, to the newest Oscar winner, Ratatouille, you know you're getting a quality film after Pixar is behind it.

While other animation studios give birth to ongoing using CGI such as Animal Logic, which was reliable intended for Happy Feet, you know the quality of the show is a warrant with Pixar. Pixar films are all the time hilarious and heartrending and fun intended for kids as well as their parents. They are knowledgeably crafted in each way and all the time live up to the Pixar specify.

According to Pixar's chief creative policewoman, John Lasseter, the strategic to Pixar films' accomplishment might sit in their story format with the intention of by no means changes. According to him all Pixar films are roughly the core character's self restitution, and how he grows and changes. This is the rationalize why their films are so horrible intended for children. It's a fun CGI joy ride with a moral behind it.

While Pixar's films now and again create us skip the tender drawn movies of the old days, it is irrefutable with the intention of this is an extraordinary tools with the intention of is unparalleled.

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Grown Ups Trailer – How Marketing Can Change A Film

2010-02-06T17:02:00.000-08:00

In mid-2010, Sony Pictures will be releasing a highly anticipated comedy film entitled “Grown Ups.” Seemingly a sort of “The Big Chill” for the 21st century, “Grown Ups” is the story of five people who knew each other in high school who reunite, along with their families, when their childhood basketball coach passes away.

The film stars, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, Kevin James, and David Spade in the sort of comedy that will probably surprise no one who has seen any of these actors before. Sony's trailer for the film makes it perfectly clear that this is a comedy starring some well-known American comedic actors, and the trailer
features prominent gags that include those actors, who are, in fact, the stars of the film.

The international trailer, however, is completely different, and could lead viewers outside the United States to think that they are going to see an entirely different film from the one shown domestically. While the trailer shows many of the same gags that are shown in the U.S. version, the foreign trailer prominently features Mexican actress Salma Hayek, who isn't even mentioned by name in the U.S. trailer. The foreign version, on the other hand, omits any mention of David Spade by name.

Why the changes? American comedies often fare poorly at the box office in foreign countries, and actors such as Adam Sandler and David Spade are not well known abroad. Salma Hayek, on the other hand, is a major international star and does have the ability to draw viewers to the theater. So Sony decided to edit the trailer to feature Hayek and give their foreign viewers the impression that the film actually stars Salma Hayek and that everyone else in the cast is merely supporting her.

It isn't all that unusual for studios to create trailers with content that differs greatly from the film they promote. The trailers for the 2004 film “Sideways” presented the film as “one of the funniest movies of the year” when it was actually a tragic drama with a few comedic scenes. The trailer featured virtually all of the comedy from the film in an attempt to draw comedy fans to the theater. Although the film was successful, countless viewers were baffled to discover that they hadn't bought tickets to see a comedy after all.

Honest trailer or not, “Grown Ups” features a proven cast with a history of selling a lot of tickets to American theatergoers. Perhaps foreign viewers, lured by the idea of a Salma Hayek comedy, will enjoy it, too.

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Movie Maker 2

2009-12-25T12:00:00.000-08:00

Windows Movie Maker 2 is popular software used by amateur movie makers who enjoy making home movies for themselves and their families, with the use of their personal computers. Using the facility of downloading video programs from the Internet, many people use this software to create their own 'art pieces' by collecting the necessary 'ingredients' of movie making, like

Music
Animation
Sound effects, and
Serial video titles

People are so obsessed with 'movie making' that they put to use their creative best for their 'personal' movie collection - something they created on their own! Over the past few years, filmmaking at home has been a slow, costly succession from silent home videos to modern web cameras. Today, computer technologies, in the form of Movie Maker 2, and Internet speed, have together placed quality movie making at the disposal of almost any person.

Depending on your needs and interests, you can use the software to help you in streamlining the audio and visual effects of you home movie. When it comes to creativity, the sky is the limit! Your movie will definitely captivate the hearts and minds of the family, encouraging you to venture further into the field. With time and expertise, you can use your Movie Maker 2 to its maximum ability. Although it may be just as likely as winning the lottery, the next big movie craze may just appear on a free website like YouTube, and be created by someone in their own home, and on their own computer.

Developed by the software giant, Microsoft, Movie Maker 2 can perform a wide range of functions, like the following

Creating, editing and sharing home movies on your computer
Eliminating poor shots and accommodating only the best scenes
Producing your own movie
Sharing the movie via the Web, e-mail, or CD
Transferring your masterpiece on to a DVD

This software can give you the advantage of saving your movie back to videotape in your camera, so as to play it back on a television or in the camera. Movie Maker 2.1 has great special effects, music and narration. It not only offers a greater degree of flexibility, but is also easy to use. With a few clicks of the mouse, you can create the effects of a muggy summer day on a frigid winter evening.

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Movie Maker 2 is one of the numerous other movie editors that can easily be downloaded from Internet sites, like - PCWorld.com, freedownloadcenter.com and download.com

What Are Free Movie Downloads?

2009-12-25T11:55:00.000-08:00

Getting your favorite movies through free movie downloads is becoming popular day by day. The best part about downloading movies this way is that they are absolutely free. There are no charges involved and all that you need to get a free movie download is an internet connection and enough space on your hard disk drive. With the advent of free movie downloads the days of renting out movies are becoming passé day by day. Downloading movies from the internet is by far the most convenient and comfortable method of catching a movie. No going to the movie theaters, no standing in lines, no paying for overpriced tickets or rentals and no waiting for your favorite movie DVD to become available at your local rental store.

There are a large number of web sites that offer free movie downloads. But the best way of getting your free movies is through file sharing programs and websites because they have the largest collection of movies. On the other hand, these file sharing programs have been especially designed to facilitate faster sharing of files, so you end up getting your movie sooner this way. Searching for your favorite movies is also quite easy on most of these websites.

Most of the websites and programs that offer free movie downloads will provide you with at least two options. The first one is that you can download the whole movie to your computer and save it to your hard disk. The advantage of doing this is that you can watch the movie at your own time, whenever you feel like it. You can also write a CD or a DVD and then play the movie on your DVD player. This is a great method of adding to your movie library.

The other option that free movie download and file sharing websites offer you is that you can open the movie and view it on your computer without loading it on your hard disk. Instead of choosing the option of downloading the movie to your PC, you will have to select the option of opening the file from source and you can start watching your movie instantly. The advantages of viewing your movie this way is that you do not have to wait for hours for the movie to download but can start watching it the moment you feel like it. You can watch a movie this way even if you do not have too much space on your hard disk drive or if you do not like the idea of crowding your hard disk with audio video files. This is also the best method of watching a movie for people who have to pay their internet service providers based on the amount of stuff downloaded, since downloading a movie definitely shoots up your internet bill if you have to pay per every MB of download. This is also a better option for people who do not have a very high connection and transfer speed, since a movie would take quite long to download to your computer in such cases.

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Unlimited Movie Downloads - Even My Grandma Downloads Movies

2009-12-25T11:49:00.000-08:00

You may wonder what’s the big deal about being able to access unlimited movie downloads. After-all, your VCD and DVDs are working well and not giving you problems right? Let’s see what you are missing out as your neighbor next door is quietly downloading his favorite TV show.

1. Convenience of Movie Downloads

Buying a VCD or DVD is easy if you know what title you are looking for. However, if you are like me who simply want to grab a good show so that you can relax and watch it during the weekend, imagine with me then that you could be doing a little searching at the movie store reading reviews and thinking which movie is good and worth your bucks. You cannot be buying everything you like because they are costly right? Next, you would be queuing with the rest of the folks for your turn to make your payment. Compress that image and envisage you sitting in front of the computer, and with a few clicks, the movie is ready for viewing. Isn’t that cool?

Whether you want to watch a movie or TV show at 4am, or on an off day, the movie sites are there round the clock, ready to serve you with unlimited movie downloads.

2. Cheaper Alternative

Movie VCD and DVD prices have dwindled over time owing to lower costs of production. If you have studied economics, you would understand about fixed capital costs and why mass manufacturing would eventually bring costs down. Nevertheless, to cough out $10 or more for a VCD/DVD is still too expensive to me. Well, after all, you probably would only watch it once and then chuck it aside to collect dust. Download sites however run on a lifetime membership model where you can gain access to virtually unlimited movie downloads. And the best part is you don’t pay for per movie download, but one low payment for lifetime access. We are not even talking about thousands or hundreds of dollars, but the cost of one or two good DVDs.

3. Movie Downloads Are Safe & Legal

People are concerned about downloading movies online. That is totally understandable for two reasons. Downloading a file online can expose your computer to harmful adware or spyware. Worse still, if you are downloading a movie illegally, this could land you in big trouble with the law. But these two problems are well taken care of at these unlimited movie downloads sites. Firstly, they ensure secured downloading and protection against attacks of adware and spyware. Secondly, many of these sites have made agreements with the original producers of those movies such as studios, etc to release those movies online for downloading. With these two worries behind us, it becomes clear that having access to unlimited movie downloads is a strong proposition for us not to ignore these download sites.

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Determine if Online Movie Rental is Right For You

2009-12-25T11:47:00.000-08:00

How do you decide whether or not online movie rental is right for you? Every time I log onto my computer, in every delivery of mail I get, and at nearly every commercial television break I see something about online movie rental. It seems like a good idea, but it is hard to know if it is right for me, or even to know how it works.

There are basically two types of online movie rentals. One kind offers you the chance to do your rental selecting online, but you have to eventually go to the store and pick up your rental movie. On the other hand, there are the online movie rentals that have you choose your movie and rent it online, then it is mailed to you. There are advantages and disadvantages with both.

There are movie stores that are now offering online movie rental where you come into the store to pick up the movie. Their inventory is electronically linked to their website. You simply log on and browse for the movie you want. Once you find what you want and see that the store has it in, you go to a screen where you can check out. Then, once it is all taken care of, you go to the store and just pick up the movie that is ready for you. It works well because you can get the movie right away, but as online movie rentals go it does have the drawback of limiting you to the inventory of your local store with online capability.

There is also a plethora of online movie rental that is based on national online rental companies or large movie rental stores. That trend is to allow you to choose a number of movies you want to see. The company sends you the movies a few at a time, and you can watch them at your leisure. Most of these online movie rental companies then do not require you to send them back at any certain time. Once you do send a movie back, though, you are immediately sent another movie off of your list. With this method, you are in a possession of a new online movie rental at any given time. These types of online movie rentals are good only if you are someone who rents movies often. That is because you are charged a monthly fee to do it.

The internet is good for many things and for creating convenience in your life. One of the most recent advances it online movie rentals. There are, of course, a couple of different types of online movie rental. Each has its own pros and cons, but they both also have positives to them as well. The best thing to do to help you determine if online movie rental is right for you is to look over both options. You will also want to take some time figuring out how much you spend on rentals each month. Do your homework and you will know which type of online movie rental is right for you.

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Free Movie Clips

2009-12-25T11:44:00.000-08:00

Movie clips are vignettes that clue viewers in to the story, artistry, and action of a movie. They are enticements to attract the viewer to watch the entire feature film. Clips may show background scenes, set design, action cuts, director’s introductions, technicians and actors discussing the movie, or they may be used to create hype about a new movie.

Movie clips are mostly free, financed by the studios that produce the movie. They appear at a carefully planned time in selected media building up hype reaching a peak around the movie’s premier date. Advertising agencies or movie companies themselves design the movie clips, sorting out the best moments of a movie to woo the filmgoer to come to the theatre and spend his precious dollars to watch the film.

Movie clips centered on a particular theme are also common. This includes short movie clips, children’s movie clips, Disney movie clips, and funny movie clips. Fans of certain actors also organize movie clips like James Bond movie clips and Mae West movie clips. Film based movie clips are free unlike some other clips.

Who can forget the clips from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho when he takes us on a trip around Norman Bates mansion and zeroes into the bathing scene of a screaming Janet Leigh? This clip sets the tone for the movie and made it the classic that it eventually became. Sometimes editors of movies may show scenes in clips that they may not show in the movie but include merely for curiosity value.

Free movie clips are available on television, theatres, and on the Internet. Very often, studios like to showcase their upcoming features by showing clips before or after a full-length movie playing in a theatre. Movie clips are also repeatedly shown on television with interviews of cast and directors. Fans can also download favorite clips free from the Internet.

Some of the Internet sites showcasing free movie clips include The Internet Movie Database, AltaVista Video Search, Turner Classic Movies, Hollywood.com, Singingfish, and Netbroadcaster.com.

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Nintendo DS Movie Player Plays Movies and Music On Your Nintendo DS and GBA

2009-12-25T11:43:00.000-08:00

I'm always searching for the latest gadgets and game accessories. Be they from third party manufacturers or from the system creators themselves. But I have to admit that when I first heard about Nintendo's Movie Player add on for the Nintendo DS, I was very surprised.

The reason for my surprise was quite simple. You see, I've been watching movies on my Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS, well, since their release date, with a really fantastic little accessory called the NDS / GBA Movie player.

After doing some searching on Google, I am equally surprised that more Nintendo DS (or Gameboy Advance) owners have not heard of this truly unexampled accessory for their Nintendo DS. It seems that perhaps with all the hype around the Sony PSP and it's movie playing capabilities, we've all neglected to take a look at the less expensive Nintendo DS as anything other than a handheld game system.

What really made this accessory a must buy for myself, was the fact that in addition to movies, I was also able to listen to my MP3 music on my Nintendo DS too - just like Sony PSP owners can. I won't go into the debate as to which handheld system is better, or offers more... That's would negate the real reason for this article, which is simply to show Nintendo DS and Gameboy Advance owners that their fun little handheld game system is capable of playing all types of media files too.

The GBA/NDS Movie Player enables you to use your Nintendo DS, Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Advance SP, or Gameboy Micro to play video and audio files and read e-books from standard Compact Flash cards. And before you think that you'll only be able to watch movie clips or short films, let me be clear in stating that you can watch an entire full length movie with the Movie Player. You can use your PC and a normal Compact Flash card reader to transfer and convert your media files to the Compact Flash cards. The included software even converts files directly from DVD to the proper movie Player format.

And before you think that it'll take a rocket scientist to convert their DVD movie to the proper file type - think again! The software is so very easy to use, that it requires you to do nothing more than insert the DVD movie you wish to convert, or the digital file if you have it. While this is not any special format so to speak, as the UMD movie discs are for Sony PSP. You can actually take any DVD movie you own, and convert it with the included software to be played back on your Nintendo DS system. What this means is that you're not stuck buying multiple versions of the same movie to watch that movie on the go.

One of the most common question that I'm asked is whether or not the movie player can actually store and play back a full length movie from a compact flash card. I can completely understand why this would be confusing. I mean, let's face it, DVD movies are several GIGABYTES in size, how could these possibly fit on a small 256 Megabyte CF card.

I always answer that question with the very same answer. It can play full length movies just fine. But in case you're wondering just how that may be possible, let me explain. It has a lot to do with the screen size of the GBA and Nintendo DS. Because the screen is much smaller, the file size of the full length movie can be much smaller too, simply because it does not have to maintain a very high resolution the same way it would if you were to watch that movie on your TV set. In essence, it "down converts" the DVD movie, to make it fit right onto the GBA or Nintendo DS screen, otherwise you would have to scrool left to right and up and down in order to see the whole video.

For those of you wondering just how how big your Compact Flash card has to be to enjoy a full movie, here's a breakdown of the amount of video you can store on common compact flash card sizes. And I have to remind you to take into consideration that most movies are no more than 95 - 110 minutes long. This will give you a real indication of just how much you can stare on each card.

The following is a list of the amount of storage you can have on various compact flash cards. 960 minutes on a 1GB Compact Flash, 480 minutes on a 512MB Compact Flash, 240 minutes on a 256MB Compact Flash, and 120 minutes on a 128MB Compact Flash. As you can see, even a 128M compact flash card is adequate to store a full length movie.

In order to watch a movie on the GBA Movie Player, you'll first have to use your PC to convert the DVD movie to the proper file format for the player itself. This can be done quite easily with the included software that comes with the GBA Movie Player itself. And don't forget. You can do a whole lot more than just watch movies. You can actually listen to MP3 music, read e-books, and even load PDA type software onto the Compact Flash card which will essentially turn your Nintendo DS into a very functional PDA.

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Collecting Movie Posters Today

2009-12-25T11:42:00.000-08:00

Just like collecting stamps, collecting movie posters is a fabulous way to either decorate a place or keep a piece of the movie with you for a long time to come. There are really no set rules as to what kind of movie posters to collect. Some people collect movie posters only from a certain genre, e.g. comedies and romance flicks only. And some people collect movie posters of movies from a certain period of time. Some people who are fans of all types of movies collect movie posters of ALL kinds! And then the movie posters are filed according to the time they were released or genre that the movie belongs to.

The basic general rule of thumb is that you should just collect whatever movie poster that you like. Apart from movie posters, some people collect souvenirs, lobby cards, tickets, or CDs. There’s no limit as to what you can collect apart from movie posters.

One of the most difficult thing to master about collecting movie posters is…how to keep the movie poster from disintegrating over time! Like all other types of art work, the quality of the movie posters will deteriorate. One way to preserve the movie poster is to use the ‘linen-backing’ method. You mount the movie poster onto a treated canvas and then place a sheet of rice paper on top of the movie poster. So, the movie poster is actually safely sandwiched between the canvas and the rice paper.

If you intend to keep the movie posters for a long period of time, you should take proper care of the movie posters and keep them away from direct sunlight. When the movie posters are exposed to direct sunlight for a long time, the colors on the movie poster will start to fade and the paper will start turning yellow. Be warned, the yellowing process is not reversible. Therefore, keep the movie posters in a safe place, away from the sun and at room temperature.

The biggest problem about having a large collection of movie posters is the space. While you may choose to frame and display some of your favorite movie posters on the walls of your office or home, you can’t possibly find enough space to display all three thousand over movie posters in your possession! A filing cabinet is the best way to file and keep the movie posters safe.

If you have children, keep the cabinets locked if you don’t want them tearing into your movie posters collections. And keep the key somewhere safe.

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Kid Movie Party - Lights, Camera, Action

2009-12-25T11:39:00.000-08:00

Now your child can star in their very own movie

And you can share their movie with family and friends all over the world.

How?

Glad you asked

Because it's so easy, lots of fun and your child and all their friends will have a wonderful time (and so will you).

Everyone has dreamed of starring in a movie -- and now you can have a super fun, one-of-a-kind movie making adventure.

"The Great Birthday Treasure Hunt" and "The Lost Treasure of Billy Bones" are free mini-movie scripts available exclusively from Fun Kid Birthday Parties.com

Not Just For Birthdays

You'll be happy to learn that you can use these two movie scripts as a fun activity anytime! Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall, holidays or -- any other time, just think -- kid movie party.

Imagine the fun

With your free movie script, you'll also receive our easy to follow Movie Production Tips that help you have even more fun producing your movie.

Your "World Premiere Movie"

Share your completed movie with the word. That's right, you'll also get your very own Movie web page so you can put your movie on the Internet. You can also list your "Cast Credits" and tell everyone all about your fun movie making adventure. And don't forget to tell everyone about those fun Behind the Scenes moments.

Get your free script now

At the end of this article you'll find a link where you can get your free movie adventure script and your free Movie web page.

Fun Kid Movie Party Ideas

Invite everyone to your party with a Movie Star Contract invitation. You can word it like this:

"(Your family name) Productions is producing a movie and we want you to be one of our stars in our blockbuster movie titled "The Great Birthday Treasure Hunt" (change the title as needed, like "The Great Treasure Hunt", or "(first name of your child)'s Great Treasure Hunt Adventure."

"Please arrive at the front gate of (Your family name) Productions movie studios at (time) on (day), (date) to begin filming your scenes."

"The Great Birthday Treasure Hunt" will be filmed on location, in and around our movie studio located at (address of your home),"

"Please sign this Movie Star Contract and call our director (name of director) at (phone number) to let us know that you are available to star in our movie production."

"P.S. "The Great Birthday Treasure Hunt" will have a World Premiere shortly after our production has wrapped (ended)."

If you want your actors in costume, be sure and mention that in your invitation.

You can send your movie by mail or have some fun and have a "movie star" deliver the invitations in person. You might even give everyone a little autograph book to bring to the "set."

During your production you can set up a table with movie style props and decorations and snacks. Chips and dip, gummy bears, M&Ms, Pretzel Sticks, Fruit Roll Ups, and something to drink. Your snack table will keep everyone happy during production.

Kid Movie Party -- Screen Your Dailies

Immediately after your production is over, let everyone see your unedited footage. In the movie industry, "dailies" are the scenes that were shot the day before. Your cast will have a lot of fun watching the footage and seeing all the "bloopers" and other fun takes.

Your Private Movie Screening

Follow your movie party with a fun private movie screening for cast and crew and invited guests.

Send out some movie ticket invitations, roll out the red carpet, have some "paparazzi" (photographers) shooting pictures as your Stars arrive -- shoot some video too.

Enjoy some popcorn and watch your movie

Kid Movie Party -- Academy Awards Style Party

After your private movie screening, it's time for a fun Academy Awards style presentation. Be sure to give everyone in your cast a "best actor award." And of course everyone gets to make their acceptance speech. You'll have so much fun.

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African American Movies and DVD's

2009-10-27T10:25:00.000-07:00

African American movies have often focused on the troubling history of blacks in America. As most people know, Africans were taken from their homeland and transported to the United States where they were forced to work as unpaid laborers and were frequently abused and subjected to inhumane treatment. It was not until Abraham Lincoln composed his famous Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 that slaves were officially set free.

Although African Americans were considered free under the law, many US states (most of them in the south) continued to discriminate against black people and treated them as second-class citizens. In fact, Jim Crow laws were established in many southern states with the tacit intention of keeping whites separate from blacks.

This meant that whites and blacks were forced to attend separate schools, drink from different water fountains and even had to eat in different restaurants. This unequal treatment was not seriously challenged until Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. This single seminal event put in motion the civil rights movement, which was spearheaded by exceptional human beings like the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

Many African American movies have chronicled the experiences of blacks in American and have attempted to make sense of the discrimination that they have suffered. One of the most popular African American movies was called Roots. The movie was actually one of the first miniseries to appear on network television and it remains one of the highest-rated programs in network history. The program would go on to win nine Emmy awards as well as a number of Golden Globes and Peabody Wards.

The movie tells the story of an African warrior named Kunta Kinte who is taken from his home and forced to work on an American plantation. The series follows the protagonist for several generations until his great grandchildren finally gain their independence after the Civil War.

To this day Roots ranks as one of the most respected African American DVDs. Perhaps that is because it centers on an oppressed group of people fighting for their freedom, which is clearly a universal theme. The miniseries was based on a book by renowned author and journalist Alex Haley

Nowadays, however, most African American movies no longer focus on slavery or even on the civil rights movement. Rather, they concern themselves with the plight of blacks in urban environments. These movies tend to portray characters that are surrounded by drugs and crimes and are desperately trying to fight their way out of the ghetto.

One of the most powerful African American DVDs of the past twenty years was the film "Boyz n the Hood". This movie tells the story of a young man who is trying to survive on the violent streets of South Central, Los Angeles. The film is set in the early Nineteen Nineties when violent gangs roamed the streets of the city and young men frequently turned up dead for no other reason than that they were wearing the wrong color clothes. The movie remains a powerful example of the seemingly intractable problems in the African American community.
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He is the Sexiest Male Alive in the World

2009-10-27T10:23:00.000-07:00

He has superb body, great style, unique life style, very innocent face, big black eyes, awesome talking and dressing style, above all very kind heart. The Dream Man of every women, he is the sexiest male alive in the world. He has the art of seducing most beautiful women of the world therefore most beautiful women like Sangeeta Bijlani, Somy Ali, Aishwarya Rai, Katrina Kaif have been his girlfriends. He gives others millions without knowing them. Oh! What a man he is.

Still there are millions of women in the world who are ready to marry to him though he is 44 years old now. Many women have sent him love letters written with their blood. From the whole world people come to see his glimpse in front of his home and many wait for many days to get his glimpse. His fans are ready to die for him. He is also running very famous charitable trusts "Being Human" for the poor and needy people. I'm talking about the great "Salman Khan" a very famous bollywood actor.

He was born on December 27th 1965 at Indore, Madhya Pradash (India). He is the super star of bollywod. He has worked in many films and given many blockbusters movies. Salman Khan has helped many people restart their film carrier like: Somy Ali, Aishwarya Rai, Govinda, Himesh Reshammiya, Katrina Kaif, Jackie Shroff, Satish Kaushik and many more. He has also given financial help to many people. Last year in "Dus Ka Dum" one contestant started crying for being disqualified then Salman Khan gave him 1 lakh rupees from his account for his poor family. There are so many examples of Salman's greatness like this.

He is not only on screen Hero but off screen Hero also and the most handsome superstar.
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Movie-Script Transcription Services

2009-10-27T10:22:00.000-07:00

How technicians use movie transcripts for different processes?

Time was when movie makers used hand-written scripts for movies, but times have changed and screen writing has become an organized profession, it is a creative process. The movie screenplays need formatting, so that actors are able to read the script and play their part assigned to them.

Many talented people, the technicians, artists, production executive's work as a team for making a movie, all of them require a properly formatted script, a screenplay cannot be used for movie making unless a formatted script is not available. The process of converting a screenplay into a formatted script begins with first breaking down the screenplay into a time schedule that includes the number of days and nights of filming required.

The film may have different sequences, a formula that experts use is one film script page will require one minute of film, and this calculation helps them to schedule the filming accordingly. The movies have a rhythm of story telling that have a blend of action, camera techniques, music and sound effects and dialogue. The formatted movie script allows the professionals involved in the production to foresee the direction the movie will follow.

The screenplays consist of 110 to 130 pages when formatted, and after filming the script, the running time of the movie is close to two hours, this is where formatted scripts play an important role in movie making. The standardized script formatting allows movie makers to handle multiple projects simultaneously.

The formatted screenplay printed copies are on white paper with black ink. The fonts used are 12 point Draft Courier or 12 Point Courier New. The rewritten parts of the printed script are on colored paper, and every time new content added to the scripts is on a different colored paper, the transcripts start with white followed by blue, pink, green, yellow, goldenrod, and salmon. There are transcription companies that specialize in preparing formatted movie scripts.
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Movie Clips Can Leave You Wanting For More

2009-10-27T10:21:00.000-07:00

The price of movie tickets is so exorbitant these days. That is why I always make sure that the money I spend will not go to waste by watching a bland movie. I usually base this from the movie clips and from the ratings and feedback of the movie from those who have already watched it.

Although, there are some movies that get me all excited just from watching the movie clips. This is probably the reason why producers make sure that they release great movie clips. One that will be able to build the interest of moviegoers and at the same time it will keep them all hanging for more. They should be able to do it in less than 5 minutes. If the director of the movie will be able to do just that, then it somehow already ensures the success of the movie itself. Movie clips or movie trailers are the best form of advertisement for the movie. It is like giving a taste test without the food.

Movie clips are usually shown in between movies that are already showing in movie theaters. They are also shown during commercial breaks. Some are uploaded in YouTube where people get to watch them over and over again. One of the great medium for medium clips is the World Wide Web. It can reach millions of people without having to spend much which is the opposite of paying for airtime on TV or having a billboard which will not only cost the movie producer hundreds of dollars but thousands of it.
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Famous Dynamics and Famous Duos

2009-10-27T10:20:00.000-07:00

Laurel and Hardy

If you're naming famous duos in comedy, who could supplant Laurel and Hardy? By the time Stanley Laurel and Oliver Hardy produced their first real Laurel and Hardy film, Ollie was thirty-five years old, and Stan was thirty-seven. Here are some interesting tidbits of information that even the most avid fan might not know:

Stan's daughter Lois was once under consideration for the orphan girl role in "Pack up Your Troubles". When they began filming, it was decided that she looked too old for the part. Lois disliked Hardy when she was young, since he was a bully to her dad in their films.

Jerry Lewis wanted Laurel to write for him part time. Stan was too busy with his own work with one of the comedy world's most famous duos to accept the offer.

Ollie's favorite sport was golf. He often golfed with such celebrities as Chico Marx, Babe Ruth, W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby. Stan loved fishing, particularly salmon fishing. Stan also enjoyed gardening, and raising ducks.

Laurel was married a total of four times. He had only the one daughter, Lois, whose mother was actress Lois Neilson. Stan's first wife occasionally served as his business manager. His most embattled wife was Illiana Shuvalova, who was a Russian opera star. That marriage only lasted one year.

Hardy was married three times, himself. His last marriage was to a script girl that he met when he was filming The Flying Deuces. That marriage lasted 17 years, until he passed away in 1957.

A monkey played the role of Mickey Mouse in the Laurel and Hardy film "Babes in Toyland". This is one of the very few times that any Disney® character was seen in a film not produced by Disney®. Walt Disney loved watching Laurel and Hardy.

Laurel was an integral part of the career of Marcel Marceau. He saw Marceau perform in Paris, and he thought he was an unsung genius, so he helped him get attention from the French press of the time.

Hardy played the role of the Tin Man in a 1925 silent-film version of "The Wizard of Oz".

Stan and Ollie first appeared together in a film entitled "The Lucky Dog", but were not teamed together permanently until they met Hal Roach. Their first film together that was similar to the work they are famous for was "Duck Soup".

The movie "The Music Box", in 1932, brought Laurel and Hardy an Oscar award. If you include guest appearances, the duo made 106 movies together. This is not including films in which one directed the other, or newsreels, TV or home movies.

Laurel and Hardy appeared together on TV as well. As one of TV's most famous duos, they were guests on a show presented by the BBC and hosted by Henry Hall, in 1953. They also did an insert for "The Music Hall", another BBC show, in 1955 - in what would be their last work as a team.
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Michael Scofield of Prison Break

2009-10-27T10:19:00.000-07:00

I was really fascinated and amazed by the character of Michael Scofield. Michael Scofield was a structural engineer and graduated as a magna cum laude. Actually in the series, he was considered as a genius. Michael and his brother Lincoln were abandoned by their father when they were both very young. And soon after that, their mother died. That's why Lincoln became Michael's guardian at a very young age. But Michael amd Lincoln tackled different path as they grow up.

While Michael finished his studies and got a decent job, Lincoln on the other hand often gets into trouble until he was imprisoned at the fox river state penitentiary and sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing the US vice president's brother (which discovered later in the series that everything was just a set up).Michael eventually discovered his brother's sacrifice so that he would have a better future. That's why Michael decided to help his brother break out of prison because he believes that his brother was innocent. He was ready to do everything it takes to break his brother Lincoln out of prison that he even had himself imprisoned in the same penitentiary.

In the process, Michael gained himself trusted friends including Fernando Sucre played by Amaury Nolasco, his cellmate and whom he could consider as his most trusted friend. And his love interest in the character of Sara Tancredi the jail doctor played by Sarah Wayne Callies. But he also gained his worst enemies, including the meanest and most villainous character in the series, Theodore Bagwell or also known as T-Bag which was played by Robert Knepper.

What was so interesting about Michael's character was how his mind works. All the tactics and techniques that he used in the series were really amazing. Maybe it's because of the fact that Michael's character was a genius. Michael seems to be able to read people's mind based on their personalities that he even knows how these people would think and act. And this ability of his has helped him a lot because he was able to make and plan a counteractions ahead that worked and were proven effective most of the time. Michael's intelligence was really amazing that he even got a commentary from one of the villains in season four that his brain was one in a million.

Although Michael was very intelligent, he has one characteristic that I can consider as neither strength or a weakness. And this characteristic of his was always an advantage to his enemies. And that is Michael is incapable of killing even if it's his own life that is at stake. He couldn't even kill the person that was about to kill him.

But the series for me was really great, not just because of Michael's character but also because of the whole cast and its interesting story.
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Advertising Abandons TV Host's Show

2009-10-27T10:18:00.000-07:00

Diageo, the drinks giant, became the latest major UK company last night, to pull its advertising from the controversial Fox News commentator Glenn Beck's show. Diageo, who makes Guinness and Johnnie Walker, followed a similar move by Waitrose, a major grocer, who stopped advertising on in the time slot of the outspoken television show's host, which airs on the Sky TV platform in Britain. This removal of advertising by both companies has put pressure on Tesco who as of last night still refuses to cancel involvement in the show. Kellogg's, the famous cereal maker also still promotes its brands during that television show's time slot; however, this may not last as they have stated they are going to be coming to a decision regarding their advertising in the near future. Advertisers pulled their advertising in a show of anger over statements made by Mr. Beck during the course of his television show. This statement was that Barack Obama was a racist and that the U.S. President has a "deep-seated hatred for white people". His comments to that effect incensed the pressure group called 'Color of Change', who in turn, called for advertisers to "exercise corporate responsibility" and to boycott his show in Britain as well as the United States. Since Mr. Beck's attack on President Obama, more that 60 major US companies which includes Wal-Mart, Campbell's Soups, Capital One and Bank of America have stopped advertising during Mr. Beck's time slot in response to the call.

Waitrose, which is owned by John Lewis Partnership, said yesterday that it had taken action after having received complaints from their customers; though the company declined to state how many complaints they had received. A Waitrose spokeswoman said "This is not a politically motivated act, it was simply listening to customers' views and responding to them" Waitrose has withdrawn all of its advertising from the Fox News Channel effective immediately and for all future television advertising campaigns.

Tesco took its stance saying that their advertising is not a statement of support for or against any content on the channel. As with many other businesses, Tesco buys its advertising space as a package that includes many different channels and time slots. Kellogg's is currently in discussions concerning its advertising and will probably be coming up with a decision in the next few days. They have already said they are aware of the issue and that they are looking at it closely. Time will tell if they decide to pull their advertising as a statement of support for those that oppose the comments made by Mr. Beck. Advertisers have much to consider when it comes to the question of removing advertising. They have contracts to consider as well as popularity of time slots. It's a foregone conclusion that these companies will take a good look at their advertising dollar and how it is spent, before making a move to cancel any commercial advertising contracts containing time slots within the period Mr. Beck's show airs.
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Why MMA Fights Are So Exciting For Men and Women Alike

2009-10-27T10:17:00.000-07:00

Most men have been involved in some form of bar fight. Most men have either wrestled or played football in high school. Most of us have watched any or all of these things take place and gotten some kind of rush out of it. It's the nature of humanity to be easily engulfed in a dangerous and aggressive spectacle where anything can happen in a moments notice. This is the nature of MMA fights. Men love MMA fights because it helps them connect with something they view as inspirational. Most men dream of being a championship fighter of some kind. It used to be that men dreamed of being a prize fighter. To imagine the crafty skills of the oh, so sweet science flowing through them as they shadow box in the ring. What it felt like to day dream of that one punch knock out to win a world title. Today, MMA fights attract a wider audience and they continue to decrease the popularity of boxing. Women love the sport too, because no other sport on Earth contains more well defined and in shape men than MMA.

Looking back to MMA fights of the past when there were no to few rules, giant 400lb men would fight skinny little men and would actually lose. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belts would win multi fight tournaments against much larger opponents because of skills never before seen by the mainstream public. Now, BJJ is as common in MMA fights as air is to the global population. Combining the arts of boxing, muai thai, wrestling and BJJ has created what we today know and love as mixed martial arts.

On the internet you can find an endless number of MMA fights ending in horrible knock outs. We watch them and can't get enough of them. It's like watching a train wreck. We feel bad but wow, what a rush. We are intrigued by that which we can't control. A quick jab sending someone to their slumber is something one cannot control. It's also devastating though exciting.

Another reason women love MMA fights is because they get the best of both worlds in men. Most MMA fighters though devastating in the cage are often very bright and sensitive outside of the cage. Many are highly motivated self starters and even entrepreneurs, and they are in chiseled shape ta boot! Now, women get the bad boy with a sensitive side able to keep them safe from harm and have the stamina...well, you get the idea.

Overall, a night of MMA fights at someones house or the local pub bring people together and is always entertaining. I've been a fight promoter for 3 years and have seen just about everything you can imagine happen inside the cage. I've paid attention to my audiences and how they respond to whats going on during an event and ultimately find that men and women both are just addicted to good MMA fights and they are all willing to pay to see them happen right before their eyes.
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The Controversy About Julia and Julie

2009-10-27T10:16:00.000-07:00

I don't think many of the comments I read on the web about the Julia/Julie controversy slice through clean. They usually swing off-tangent as highly biased praise or near-defamatory critique, depending on whether it is about their favorite or not.

I usually choose to fault circumstances rather than persons. And in my opinion, the words "protocol" (as applied to our actions) and "ADD/ADHA" (which I distinctly heard in the movie), together, cut to the marrow. When the need for protocol meets up with ADHA, there is certainly going to be a problem.

These are my insights after seeing the movie.

Ms Julia Child is a public icon, a star in her own right, an institution. She personified feminine goal-setting and achievement, points which scored zero stars for Ms Powell who was intensely aware of her being a habitual "half-way-through." The movie suggests the cause to be ADHA, a neurosis associated with attention deficiency, hyperactivity and possibly emotional fits. Julie's first cubicle scene is not just humorous local color. Distracted, fidgety and emotional is the picture we get of her, barely listening to client after client and finally settling on one whose complaints meant enough to make her teary-eyed. This shows just this peculiarity of hers. She couldn't focus on things with her mind unless her heart helped out. But when she did focus, it was with all her heart.

On the other hand, it would probably have seemed to Ms Child, as it would have to most celebrities, that her life and fame were being involved by Julie in an unprofessional, inelegant and unflattering setting. The more so because the Julie/Julia project was really a log meant to monitor and self-comment on Julie's personal progress rather than a practical methodology for bringing out the excellence of the Julia Child recipes. To someone unaware of Julie's real intentions, the project would have seemed like a clumsy caricature on the art of cooking. No wonder Ms Child thought the business "rude"; her initial impression is summed up by "She isn't even a cook!" And all this without her explicit approval. And we do need the permission of people, famous or not, to use them or anything they own for purposes other than plain citation, and even then, some people like to know "content and context" before they endorse.

Given her condition, Ms Powell could not be motivated to accomplishment by strangers and hence couldn't have just picked up and cooked from any cook book. She chose Ms Child, the patron saint of French cooking in America and a virtual member of every American household, as the angel to help her focus and resist her neurosis, by "completing something" within a schedule. The need for protocol is mentally imposed and her heart was unaware of it. She instead gave in to literary outbursts of familiar fondness and admiration which to the nervous is an expression of supreme good will...sadly, Ms Child felt differently.

Underlying this tension between the two, the basic goodness in both persons prevented anything more harmful than media gossip from making the scene. The fact that Ms Child didn't pursue deeper into her rights regarding her publicity in Ms Powell's literary efforts(which she might have done...and then this entire controversy: book, movie and all would never have been), just goes to show that she had understood the situation. Might she not have read up on Ms Powell and fallen into a maternal silence when she discovered that besides not being a cook, Ms Powell was working to overcome a handicap? Ms Powell, on the other hand, never lost faith in her "angel" and interpreting Ms Child's disdain as simple disinterestedness, reveals that she is a child at heart, neither giving nor taking malice, believing everything to be obtainable or excusable by loving fondness.

Needless to say, the acting is finely nuanced, with such a fineness that I didn't realize what I had just seen until later, after research and reflection. As for the intrigues which have grown around this topic, including my own premature opinions, I found them generally reactive, tangential but stimulating!

Strange how we are moved by circumstances. Julie Powell's handicap leads us to focus on a life and career which peaked a generation ago. Perhaps life is telling us to slow down and look back a bit. Maybe it's time for someone to make a movie on Julia Child alone and what she has to tell this generation?

Conclusion: The famous blog isn't really about cooking at all, strictly speaking it isn't even just about blogging your experiences either. It is a brave young girl's effort to overcome her handicap, an effort that has been rewarded but not fully so. Here's to the eventual complete transformation of handicap to talent. Bonne Chance!!
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The Problems of a King Kong Vs Godzilla Remake

2009-10-27T10:15:00.000-07:00

King Kong vs Godzilla remake updates are met with various reactions from monster cinema fans. The possibility of a King Kong vs Godzilla remake is a dream match and sounds too good to be true. Some sci-fi fans are skeptical of a sequel or remade version because Toho Company practices the tradition of using live actors in rubber costumes stomping on miniatures, as opposed to modern day CGI. Of course there are movie fans who do not want to see another version of this movie because the original 1963 movie featuring these two icons was so poorly received in the West.

All of that being said this movie would do well in the box office depending on which special effects method Toho and Universal agreed upon, and how the production's marketing campaign would be handled. With the success of the big gorilla in 2005 and Cloverfield in 2008, audiences are open-minded about a modern take of giant monsters. Monster forums and streaming video websites show that there is an underground push for a rematch between these two behemoths.

Although Toho's mutated dinosaur is a Japanese cultural icon, the big G's United States film translations have always been less than spectacular; from bad dubbing and poor special effects to cultural differences between the United States. and Japan, mainstream movie going audiences in America just don't get the cult phenomena. Much of that has to do with the costumes and mini cities. If Universal and Toho are going to invest money in a King Kong vs Godzilla remake, this must be addressed. The big question is: should both monsters be rendered in CGI?

The box office success of TriStar's 1998 version of the radioactive green lizard was because of two things: a very expensive marketing campaign and the fact that Big G was CGI instead of a man in a suit. Although this success may lead us to believe that it is a no-brainer to use CGI in the future, this is not the case. The TriStar monster had none of the unique features of the Japanese dinosaur, and long time fans disliked that version. The Japanese protested the movie, and this stopped talk about a King Kong vs Godzilla remake using CGI.

Toho is very well aware of the market for a King Kong vs Godzilla remake, and if they do join together with Universal there will pressure to appeal to broad audiences to create a blockbuster mega event. Toho did a test run with another movie and a CGI version of their beast and it went over well with test audiences. Toho does not want to offend their loyal Japanese fan base who respect the hard work the production crews perform to create the miniaturized sets and monster choreography, so they will do the market research before giving their blessing for CGI. Universal would not accept rubber costumes, so this will be a major debate for both parties.
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Film Review - My Best Friend's Girl (2008)

2009-10-27T10:14:00.000-07:00

BOTTOM LINE: Vulgar, disgusting, offensive and occasionally funny, "My Best Friend's Girl" does not actually fall down on these points but rather its inconsistent, stupid and implausible plotting and execution.

THE GOOD: Tank (Dane Cook) has a talent for being the ultimate bad boy, so much so that men hire him to take their ex-girlfiends out on dates that are so terrible that when Tank is finished, the ex-girlfriend goes running back in to their ex-boyfriend's arms. Things go pear-shaped when Tank's cousin Dustin (Jason Biggs) hires him to take his would-be love Alexis (Kate Hudson) on a lousy date. However, Tank gets more than he bargained for as Alexis is in the mood for 'experimenting' and 'living life', making it almost impossible for him to succeed. The scenario in this film leads to some funny sequences, least of all being the date Tank has with a conservative religious girl, or the scene where Tank picks up Alexis for the first time and his first bad-boy moment does not work. The cast are quite likeable, leading with Dane Cook and Kate Hudson who do their best with the material. The most enjoyable aspect to the film would have to belong to Alec Baldwin's supporting role as Tank's pig of a father Professor Turner who is so self-obsessed and clinically funny in his appraisal and treatment of women that it is very funny to watch in its extremity (his A-Z ranking system is hilarious).

THE BAD: The film falls down in that it is inconsistently plotted and completely implausible. Tank's character is the worst guy you could come across, which makes the obligatory happy ending where he ends up together with Alexis all the more unbelievable. His behaviour at Alexis' sister's wedding is so detestable (complete with propositioning her mother for oral sex), despite it being funny on its own, that one cannot find any sort of justification for how Alexis would in the end decide to be with him. The film also gravitates back and forth between Tank being the bad boy and Tank learning how to be the good guy again which never really comes off as both are executed from such extremely radical positions that he is almost playing two different characters. "My Best Friend's Girl" would have been better served if it stayed completely in the vulgar and offensive camps rather than trying to toe the line between that and a traditional romantic comedy.
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Hip Hop DVD Reviews - The Best Hip Hop DVDs

2009-10-23T12:21:00.000-07:00

A hip hop DVD can take many forms: a mixtape collection, freestyle battles, abdominal workouts, etc. Here, we're taking a look at the best movies based on hip hop; from gritty street dramas to stories of making it in the music business, here's the best hip hop DVD releases ever:

Wild Style - A great reflection of hip hop when it was still growing up and a must see for any aspiring rapper. You get to see what freestyles in the park were like and how rappers used to perform (e.g. more call and response, crowd rocking, etc.).

Breakin' - This movie did for breakdancing what 8 Mile did for freestyle battles; it really brought dancing into the mainstream, resulting in countless new kids trying to learn breaking, popping and locking.

Beat Street - The best all around hip movie, period. Unlike other DVD releases in this list, Beat Street successfully displayed the four elements: Rappers, DJs, B-Boys and Graffiti. This is the Holy Grail of movies, and one of my favorites.

Boyz In The Hood - OK, so technically this isn't a true hip hop DVD release, but with Ice CUbe as a leading man, it counts. Cuba Gooding Jr's role is dead on, and director John Singleton turned in his best effort with this hard edge, gritty urban drama about getting out of a bad situation with the gifts you were given. While not my favorite on this list, it is perhaps the best film overall, in terms of writing, acting and directing.

8 Mile - Freestyle battles used to draw dozens of people in most places. After this movie came out, those same battles drew hundreds and brought a new level of respect for freestyle MCs. The story of B. Rabbit (Eminem) fighting for his dream of rap success is a lot better than most critics give it credit for. Sure, the final battle scene seemed a bit contrived, but overall, you cannot deny the positive impact this had on hip hop in general.

Juice - Tupac's best acting performance, hands down. His character Bishop was scarier than any guy in Boyz In The Hood (which is saying a lot). Many would argue that Poetic Justice was his best film, but Juice really hit home with me as a solid, well crafted story of growing up in the ghetto.
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The "Doctor Who" Exhibition

2009-10-23T12:20:00.000-07:00

The "Doctor Who" Exhibition at the Red Dragon Centre, Cardiff Bay, Wales, United Kingdom (near Cardiff Studios) is a great holiday getaway for fans of the United Kingdom's favourite Time Lord. Cardiff Studios is working with BBC in broadcasting the rejuvenated "Doctor Who" series, as well as spinoffs like "Torchwood". This is a great destination full of great Doctor Who memories.

From 1963 to 1989, the BBC ran the ground-breaking Doctor Who series; it was cancelled and then relaunched in 2005. If you have ever wondered how producers of the show succeeded in providing such "before-their-time" special effects - like making an invading UFO (that vaguely resembled an old tea cup) - find out at the "Doctor Who" Exhibition. Discover the secrets by examining the props, costumes, special effects and other memorabilia.

View the most dangerous enemies of the Doctor, like the hated Daleks. Remember K9, how could you forget? Test your friends: "What is written on the front of the TARDIS?" Answer: Police Box - Public Call. See Cassandra's brain, Absorbaloff and the sonic screw driver. Search for your favourite episode; maybe you can get it on a DVD for your own personal collection. Find Halloween costumes so you can dress up as your favourite "Doctor Who" character. Gather these classic items together, grab your friends together in one of the hotels in Cardiff and restage episodes.

Who is your favourite actor who played "Doctor Who" - William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston or David Tennant? Listen to the intense "space-travelling" music. Laugh at all of the interesting creatures the Doctor came across. Hotels in Cardiff are filled with Doctor Who fans - make sure you get a room before they are taken.

The Doctor Who series has always been a bit "dated"; early episodes resemble dated home decorating styles. Just look at Doctor Who's clothing to discover the latest fashions of Oxford professors. This "dated" element led to its cancellation in 1989. In 2005, the series was modernised and added such spinoffs as "Torchwood" and the "Sarah Jane Adventures". "Torchwood" follows Captain Jack Harkness on adventures which begin from the nearby Cardiff Bay - Roald Dahl Pass - which happens to be a rift in space. Cardiff hotels have a rich history, from the nineteenth century coal industry to these modern entertainment stages. The Torchwood set resembles Stonehenge with its half-circle arrangement. Nearby stone quarries offer numerous options for the terrain of distant planets.
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Hand Signed Autographs

2009-10-23T12:19:00.000-07:00

These days, autographs and signed photos are becoming more and more popular, for the young and old alike. But why has it become so popular? The truth is, celeb memorabilia has always been popular, because everybody out there would love a genuine piece of fame in the form of a signed photograph, especially from their favourite celebs or sports legend.

Recently, there has been a rise in genuine memorabilia being purchased. One of the main reasons for this is because in the past year, we unfortunately lost some of our most adored celebs, including Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson, Patrick Swayze and most recently Stephen Gately. Due to the loss of these stars, there has been a rush to snap up the last remaining autographs still in circulation by avid fans, so as to have a lasting tribute to them of their own, which means prices are soaring!

But it's also today's living legends that are being idolised. Top A-Lister's like Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig and George Clooney have a band of fans and followers the size of their bank balance, and those who aren't lucky enough to meet their idols can now own their own hand signed signature thanks to sites that offer genuine hand-signed autographs and photographs.

And how do sites get hold of these pictures? Well most sites have a dedicated team, who go out there and track down celebrities for you, or obtained by trusted and reliable sources, to save you the trouble! It's revolutionized the way we stalk celebs, literally by having somebody else do it for us! And at the end of it we get a piece of genuine memorabilia.

There's such a large range of memorabilia out there nowadays, it's hard to know where to stat. From Actors, to Musicians, to TV Personalities to Sports Legends, so you're bound to find a genuine article of memorabilia from your favourite celebrity nowadays, and why stop at one? There's so much choice out there, you could create an amazing collection without even leaving the house, and that's the appeal! Because lets face it, in today's economic climate, it's becoming harder and harder to even go on holiday, let alone commit some time off to track down your favourite celebrity, and now you can get hold of something amazing without needing to spend the earth.

So I know now you're sitting there now wondering where you can get a piece of the action and get your own hand signed, genuine piece of celebrity memorabilia. Well it's always important to use a trusted site, some sites nowadays are taking advantage of soaring memorabilia sales and selling fakes. But you needn't get scammed.
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The Tao of the Easy Rider

2009-10-23T12:18:00.000-07:00

The very title Easy Rider (1969) suggests a Taoist theme, for the movie wasnt titled, Struggling Rider, but Easy Rider. Rather than struggling against Nature and the world, the motorcyclists were flowing with the Tao, the Way of Nature. This concept of ease and effortless action by going with the flow of Nature was called by Taoists, wu-wei. Certainly Easy Rider was a post-modern critique of commercialized, commoditized, sloganized America. Yes, it was a road-trip film, a buddy film, a motorcycle film, a gang film, as Roger Ebert points out in his review. It was all of those. But all true Journey myths --- from Homers Odyssey to Tolkiens Lord of the Rings Trilogy --- achieve a timeless quality by making the journey not merely a journey across space but a journey into Self. The motorcycles of Billy (Dennis Hopper) and Captain America (Peter Fonda) were not merely taking them on a journey to discover America, as is suggested by our textbook, but were taking them on the journey from the level of the ego to the level of the id and ultimately the collective unconscious.

Easy Rider tapped into an Aquarian Age zeitgeist that revolted against the artificiality and rampant commercialism of modern society. As Laurence Boldt explains in The Tao of Abundance, the Wests concept of nature as being separate from Man keeps him constantly in the mode of ego consciousness. Because we view ourselves as engaged in a willful struggle against nature --- which we view as separate from ourselves --- we therefore create an artificial society as a means to insulate ourselves from contact with nature. Mass production, advertising, and mass consumption conspire to keep modern man in a constant lack consciousness which Taoists and Buddhists would call ego-attachments. Taoists, however, had a concept of being in harmony with nature because they considered themselves as part of the same cosmic river, the Tao. Whereas the western concept of wealth centered on hoarding things, the eastern or Taoist concept of wealth centers on having an abundance of leisure time time to enjoy nature. By throwing off his wristwatch at the start of his journey, Captain America symbolizes his attunement with the Taoist concept of abundance --- free time.

The Hippie movement was in large part a back-to-nature zeitgeist --- fueled by a Taoist spirit. Captain America had definitely tapped into that zeitgeist when he said to the rancher: Its not every man who can live off the land, you know. You should be proud. It was also why he admired the Hippie commune. Easy Rider essentially makes the argument that when we lost our connection with the land we lost Thomas Jeffersons concept of the American Dream. This is reflected in the ACLU-attorney (Nicholson) George Hansons fireside critique of superficial people whose very lives are nothing more than a commodity bought and sold in the marketplace. To be freed from the metallic breast-milk of an artificial society is to return to the life-giving bosom of Mother Nature. The theme song of Steppenwolfs Born to Be Wild echoes this: Like a true natures child, we were born, born to be wild. The highway that returns the traveler to Nature is the same highway that leads to Natures most primal drives, buried within our unconsciousness.

Lacking any guru (for Yogi Bhajan would only arrive in L.A. in 1969), the bikers turned to drugs as their psychopomp to guide their souls into the underworld of the psyche. The progression of their choice of drugs represents the layers of the psyche. Cocaine, with its wiry energy, merely amplified their ego-consciousness, tying them to the physical world, the basis of the ego and its obligations of money and the endless rat-race. Marijuana, their favorite drug, however, opened them up to some of the layers of the id, the unconscious. It freed their minds from the limitations of the left-brained, rational, separative ego-consciousness and brought them to the right-brained, non-rational, whole-istic shores of the id. As a result of reminding them of their personal unconscious, the bikers were reawakened to their forgotten drives, the primal instincts of the libido, the sexual/creative life force. The unconscious material surfacing also allowed them to transcend the Herd Instinct and sublimate the fears associated with conformity. In The Psychedelic Experience, Dr. Timothy Leary advocated using LSD according to the method outlined in the Tibetan Book of the Dead as a means of exploring and mapping the far reaches of the inner world. In Easy Rider, the graveyard LSD trip opened up the other two primal instincts of the unconscious: the Survival Instinct and the Religious Instinct, along with the previously awakened Sexual Instinct.
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How to Avoid Buying Fake Autographs

2009-10-23T12:17:00.000-07:00

Autograph Collecting is a fantastic hobby, as your collection grows, it accumulates value, until you have a fantastic collection of genuine autographs which you can one day either sell, or even pass it down your family for future generations to continue! But fake autographs are becoming a serious problem on the internet, so it's important you know how to spot them, and avoid purchasing. The leading autograph authenticator in the Celebrity Signed Memorabilia Industry, PSA-DAN, states that only 33% of Tiger Woods autographs it put under scrutiny were actually a genuine piece of memorabilia. The rest were forged by scam artists in order to sell to avid fans to make money.

eBay is one of the main places fake memorabilia is found, mainly as people go looking to buy cheap autographs, but little do they know, they're paying for fake. And why pay for fake when you want genuine? Typically the seller on the site provides an image and a description of the product, and to the buyer, it looks real, and no questions get asked.
Some seller even provide a phony Certificate of Authenticity, and a 100% satisfaction guarantee, but the certificates provided are often from their own company! Which should really set alarm bells ringing straight away. And the guarantee? Most people don't want to send their product back because they don't feel completely sure if their product is actually fake, so tend to just keep quiet. This is wrong, and you have any suspicions whatsoever, you should always contact the seller right away, and if you bought the item on eBay, contact them and they will try to resolve the matter for you. You can also report suspicious memorabilia to the UACC (Universal Autograph Collectors Club).

Always ask the seller if you are not 100% confident in buying the item. Remember that the seller should be proving the authenticity, not you, and should be more than happy to help you. If they avoid questions or can't state where and when it was signed, then you should know right there and then that this is a fake, and it's not worth your investment, at all. Some sellers may say that they purchased the autograph from a registered UACC dealer. If this is the case then ask them to produce a name and a membership number. This can be checked on the UACC website.
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Lindsay Lohan - A Short Biography

2009-10-23T12:16:00.000-07:00

When you think of Lindsay Lohan, do you think of her role in The Parent Trap, or who can forget her portrayal of teen angst in Mean Girls. If you are a fan of Lindsay Lohan, let me give you a quick biography of her life.

She started off her successful career as a child model at the age of 3. She started modeling for popular companies like Toys R Us, Calvin Klein Kids, and Abercrombie Kids. In 1996, she starred in Another World, a popular day time soap opera. Lindsay Lohan became famous when she took on her first movie role, The Parent Trap. She played the role of twins who are trying to reunite their divorced parents.

She starred in Freaky Friday with Jamie Lee Curtis, and this film was a smashing success around the world earning over 160 million dollars worldwide. She did a few more films with Disney after this, but she really became a star and followed by the paparazzi when she starred in Mean Girls.

Afterwards, she starred in Herbie: Fully Loaded and several other roles. Lindsay Lohan took a hiatus due to personal issues, but she recently has gone back to acting full force. She also appeared in several episodes of Ugly Betty to everyone's surprise. She is considered one of the most talented actresses in all of Hollywood, and she is going to star in the Robert Rodriguez film Machete in April 2010. She will play the role of a savvy arm's dealer.
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Iconic Beach Girl Number 2 - Jennifer O'Neill

2009-10-23T12:15:00.000-07:00

Ah, the summer of '42.

No matter what year of your birth, who hasn't fallen head over dunes in love with that film, that haunting score by Michel Legrand, and that tousled haired brunette bride, Jennifer O'Neill?

The film was made in 1971 and follows the typical 'coming of age' genre of a young man facing adult experiences that transform him. Autobiographical in nature, the story tells of a summer spent on Nantucket island during WWII (re-named Patchett island for the film), when the author Herman Raucher was 14. The central character 'Hermie' embarks on an unrequited infatuation with an older recently-married woman Dorothy whose new husband has gone off to war.

Hermie and his teen-aged pals see the newly-weds as the groom carries his lovely new Mrs. into their honeymoon cottage. Hermie is love-struck, and despite unsuccessful fumbling and bumbling along with other teen-aged girls on the island, at the cinema and on the beach, Hermie develops deep romantic feelings for Dorothy. She befriends him and he does odd-jobs for her, moving boxes up into her attic, when he learns her husband has been deployed.

Hermie ignores his friends, and visits Dorothy one night, finding her home dark and quiet, a telegram on the downstairs table stating Dorothy's husband has been shot down and killed over France an hour earlier. Dorothy appears, turns on the film's theme score on her phonograph and they dance, slowly and embracing and begin to kiss. You can guess the rest...

Hermie dresses afterwards, while Dorothy, now in her bathrobe smokes a cigarette out on her porch, staring out into the night sky--all she can say is 'good night' and Hermie leaves, never to see her again. He wanders all night in shock. When he returns the next day the cottage is empty, Dorothy is gone and has left him a hand-written note on the door expressing her regrets and hoping that Hermie can forgive her.

Hermie is depleted and sorrowful but has made the journey from teenhood to adulthood all in the space of one night.

The real Herman Raucher wrote this story some 30 years later after that apotheosis, and after its rousing success at the box-office, a book soon followed with equal clamor.

After an appearance on television, no less than 12 women claiming to be the 'real' Dorothy wrote in. Raucher recognized the handwriting from Dorothy who again exressed her apologies, mentioning details only she could have known, hoping that the event had not traumatised him, and asked him to leave the matter in the past with no further contact.
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How I Met Your Mother - Marshall Erikson

2009-10-23T12:14:00.000-07:00

How I Met Your Mother is a great sitcom on CBS about a group of five young adults and their escapades through their social and work lives. Ted Mosby is the featured character while Barney Stinson steals the show with his antics and crazy theories. But the remaining male character, Marshall Erikson is a favorite among female fans of the show.

Marshall is the husband of Lily and he is essentially whipped by her and pretty much any female who tells him what to do. He is a big guy, but more like a teddy bar and is kind of lovable. He went to Law School, got a great job at a top law firm, then quit and got fired at the same time. He didn't seem cut out to work at a big law firm and was very happy to be out of that office. Nevertheless, he now works at Barney's firm, Goliath National Bank, which happens to ironically be a big firm.

Marshall seems like the perfect husband, always trying to please Lily. At times, he can become a lot more emotional than even Lily and he feels deeply about a lot of things. When he had to get rid of his barrel that he used as a nightstand in college, he looked like he was about to cry. Marshall is one of those characters on television that you laugh at as much as you laugh with him. He is an integral part of the show and complements the rest of the group nicely. You can check out How I Met Your Mother on Monday nights.
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My Sister's Keeper

2009-06-30T09:25:00.000-07:00

Sara (Cameron Diaz) and Brian Fitzgerald (Jason Patric) have just been informed that their young daughter Kate (Sofia Vassilieva) has leukemia, and that she only has a few years to live. The doctor suggests to the parents that they try an unorthodox medical procedure of producing another child in a test-tube that would be a perfect match as a donor for Kate. Sara will try anything to save Kate, and they have a new baby Anna (Abigail Breslin) to be used as a donor for Kate. The first thing they use is blood from the umbilical cord for Kate. As years go on, the doctors must take bone marrow from Anna to give to Kate. At age 11, the next thing Anna must give to her sister is a kidney. Anna has had enough of all of these medical procedures, and she decides to sue her parents for medical emancipation and the right to decide how her body will be used. The whole family is being torn apart by Anna's decision because everyone knows what will happen to Kate if she doesn't get a new kidney.

Anna will hire a maverick lawyer, Campbell Alexander (Alec Baldwin), who would look only onto Anna's interest, and nobody else's. Anna has paid a small initial fee with the money she obtained at a pawn shop. The judge orders Anna's parents not to pressure her at home anymore. Sara is the one who can't take that anymore, and she doesn't understand Anna at all.

The judgement goes on, and everybody has to take sides one way or another. Later on, the audience learns that the idea about emancipation was not Anna's, in fact it was Kate, the always-sick one, who asked her to put a stop to her endless suffering.

After the judge DeSalvo (Joan Cusack) has given her veredict, Anna has a car accident right outside the hospital. She is beyond hope, and she had donated all her organs. She loses and dies so that her sister can make an almost miraculous recovery.

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Up

2009-06-30T09:21:00.000-07:00

A young Carl Fredrickson meets a young adventure spirited girl named Ellie. They both dream of going to a Lost Land in South America. 70 years later, Ellie has died. Carl remembers the promise he made to her. Then, when he inadvertently hits a construction worker, he is forced to go to a retirement home. But before they can take him, he and his house fly away. However he has a stowaway aboard. An 8 year old boy named Russell, whose trying to get an assisting the elderly badge. Together, they embark in an adventure, where they encounter talking dogs, an evil villain and a rare bird named Kevin. Written by Garfield2710

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Alice in Wonderland

2009-06-30T09:14:00.000-07:00

Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice) attempts to work his gothic magic over one of the best loved stories of all time... Lewis Carroll's 'Alice In Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There', which first told the story of a young girl, who after following a rabbit down a hole, is transported to a strange world. Whilst the disney version of the tale relied on sweetness and light to delight the audience, Burton fans can be sure to look out for the same cartoon traits as earlier masterpiece 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'.

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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

2009-06-30T09:10:00.000-07:00

When the Museum of Natural History is closed for upgrades and renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Washington Museums. The centerpiece of the film will be bringing to life the Smithsonian Institution, which houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections, ranging from the plane Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's (Jon Bernthal) rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby slippers, Fonzie's jacket from Happy Days, the still from M*A*S*H and Archie Bunker's lounge chair from All in the Family. After stealing a security guard's ID badge, Larry (Ben Stiller) slips into the Archives of the Smithsonian, where Kahmunrah, an evil Pharaoh will come to life with the reestablishing of a tablet as a magical force in the museum bringing the old exhibits (Such as Theodore Roosevelt and Dexter) and new exhibits (like General Custer and Al Capone) back to life, and in conflict with each other. Larry enlists the help of Amelia Earheart, who he develops a romantic interest in, and together they try to put everything back in order. -sunshine-161

Two years after Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) defeated the three night guards plotting to steal The Tablet, he is now head of Daley Devices, a company that he founded to manufacture his inventions. These inventions, including the Glow-in-the-Dark Flashlight, were created from his experiences as a former night guard. He finds that the American Museum of Natural History is closed for upgrades and renovations, and some of the museum pieces are being replaced by interactive holograms. The actual exhibits are moved to the Federal Archives at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. On the last night, Larry meets the museum pieces such as Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Rexy the Tyrannosaurus Skeleton, and Dexter the Capuchin Monkey (Crystal the Monkey) and finds out that several exhibits, including Teddy, Rexy, the Easter Island Head (Brad Garrett), and good Pharoah Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek) and his Tablet are not moving to The Smithsonian Institution - without the Tablet of Ahkmenrah, the other exhibits will no longer be animated. The next night, Larry gets a call from Jedediah (Owen Wilson), saying that Dexter stole the tablet last midnight and evil Pharaoh Kahmunrah (Hank Azaria), Ahkmenrah's older brother, is attacking them. Larry goes to Washington and visits the National Air and Space Museum, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Castle to find the Federal Archives with the help of his son Nick (Jake Cherry). Larry sneaks into the archives and locates the exhibits, frozen in the middle of a battle with Kahmunrah and his troops, who are trying to lock the exhibits in a crate. Larry gets hold of the Tablet of Ahkmenrah, which had been stolen by Dexter, just when the sun sets and all the exhibits come alive again. Kahmunrah and his troops lock the crate and take the Tablet from Larry, and he tells Larry that bringing the exhibits to life is just one of the tablet's powers - he intends to use it to raise an army from the underworld and conquer the world. Larry escapes with the help of General George Armstrong Custer (Bill Hader), who gets captured, and meets Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams), who is thrilled at the prospect of adventure and accompanies Larry.Larry and Amelia then go through an assortment of paintings and trap Kahmunrah's men in one. Meanwhile, Kahmunrah is able to recruit black and white agent Al Capone (Jon Bernthal), evil Russian emperor Ivan The Terrible (Christopher Guest) and French Ruler/General Napoleon Bonaparte (Alain Chabat) to help him capture Larry in return for sharing the world with him when he conquers it. Custer is locked up with the other exhibits from the American Museum of Natural History, and while he conceives a poor plan of attack (he will scream "Attack!" and the exhibits will jump out and attack), Jedediah and Octavius (Steve Coogan) sneak out to help Larry. Larry and Amelia are captured and taken to Kahmunrah. Kahmunrah then attempts to activate the tablet to open the gates of the underworld by pressing the symbols on the tablet, only to find out that the combination has been changed. He orders Larry to decipher the tablet's riddle and figure out the new combination before sunrise, and traps Jedediah in an hourglass to hasten his attempts. Larry and Amelia consult a bust of Teddy who says that the answer is in the heart of the pharaoh's tomb. The duo then consult The Thinker, but he gets distracted by a beautiful statue of a woman. Finally, at the National Air and Space Museum, they consult a group of Albert Einstein bobbleheads who tell them that the answer to the riddle (and hence the new combination) is pi. Larry and Amelia fly the Wright Flyer back to the Museum of Natural History, and Amelia goes for help while Larry delays Kahmunrah. Capone, Napoleon and Ivan arrive and tell him the code, and he opens the gates of the underworld and summons an army of bird-men. Suddenly, the statue of Abraham Lincoln from the Lincoln Memorial bursts through the window, frightening the bird-men back to the underworld. Amelia arrives, having freed the other exhibits, and Custer orders them to attack. Larry duels Kahmunrah with his flashlight, defeating him and then pushing him through the gate, which banishes him to the underworld forever. Amelia flies Larry and the other exhibits back to the American Museum of Natural History, where Teddy welcomes him back, and Larry assures him he has a way for them to remain there. Larry and Amelia say goodbye and kiss before Amelia flies away, leaving Larry outside the museum. Some time later, it is revealed that Larry sold his company and donated the money to the museum to pay for Audio-Animatronics exhibits - since the museum now opens late, the exhibits can come to life under the guise of animatronically animated exhibits, including Teddy as a tour guide, Ahkmenrah and Dexter displaying the Tablet, and Attila as a storyteller. Larry is rehired at the museum as the night guard, and meets a young woman who looks just like Amelia. The film concludes as they talk and walk off as Larry guides her toward the hall of miniatures. During the credits, a man from a black and white photo of V-J day in Times Square is seen examining Larry's Blackberry cell phone, which Larry left in the photo, and makes a new discovery (for his time period). His mother calls him, and it is revealed that his name is Joey Motorola. [D-Man2010]

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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

2009-06-30T09:04:00.000-07:00

Tony Scott directs this remake of the original Palomar Production/Walter Matthau-starring thriller from 1974 with this Columbia Pictures production that pits Denzel Washington and John Turtorro against a group of hijackers, lead by John Travolta, who take over a subway train in order to rake in a hefty ransom. David Koepp (War of the Worlds) is adapting the book by author John Godey.

This version of The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 splits the Walther Matthau character of Walter Garber into two persons (Denzel Washington as MTA Dispatcher Walter Garber, and John Tutorro as NYPD Hostage Negotiator Detective Camonetti), both of whose ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train that is in Garbers charge. John Turtorro plays the chief Hostage Negotiator who finds he is a fish out of water without Garber.

John Travolta co-stars as Ryder, the criminal mastermind who, as leader of a highly-armed gang of four, including a subway-knowledgeable henchman, (played by Luis Guzman), threatens to execute the train's passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet, Garber employs his vast knowledge of the subway system in a battle to outwit Ryder and save the hostages.

Camonetti starts the movie taking charge of the situation, suspecting Garbers complicity, but realizes his mistake when his actions cause the death of a hostage. Realizing that only Garber can solve the problem, he spends the rest of the movie making Garbers job easier by becoming the Liaison between his SWAT Team and Garber. In the end, it is Garber who solves the riddle of how the criminals intend to get away with the money.

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The Hangover

2009-06-30T09:02:00.000-07:00

Angelenos Doug Billings and Tracy Garner are about to get married. Two days before the wedding, the four men in the wedding party - Doug, Doug's two best buddies Phil Wenneck and Stu Price, and Tracy's brother Alan Garner - hop into Tracy's father's beloved Mercedes convertible for a 24-hour stag party to Las Vegas. Phil, a married high school teacher, has the same maturity level as his students when he's with his pals. Stu, a dentist, is worried about everything, especially what his controlling girlfriend Melissa thinks. Because she disapproves of traditional male bonding rituals, Phil has to lie to her about the stag, he telling her that they are going on a wine tasting tour in the Napa Valley. Regardless, he intends on eventually marrying her, against the advice and wishes of his friends. And Alan seems to be unaware of what are considered the social graces of the western world. The morning after their arrival in Las Vegas, they awaken in their hotel suite each with the worst hangover. None remembers what happened in the past twelve or so hours. The suite is in shambles. And certain things are in the suite that shouldn't be, and certain things that should be in the suite are missing. Probably the most important in the latter category is Doug. As Phil, Stu and Alan try to find Doug using only what little pieces of information they have at hand, they go on a journey of discovery of how certain things got into the suite and what happened to the missing items. However they are on a race for time as if they can't find Doug in the next few hours, they are going to have to explain to Tracy why they are not yet back in Los Angeles. And even worse, they may not find Doug at all before the wedding. Written by Huggo

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2009-06-30T09:00:00.000-07:00

Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts turns out to be quite the exciting year. First off is the arrival of a new teacher at Hogwarts, Horace Slughorn, who is a bit more useful to Harry than he realizes. Next, Harry obtains a Potions book which used to be belong to the very mysterious Half-Blood Prince. Harry finds that the Half-Blood Prince's ancient scribbles are written along the margins of almost every page, giving Harry advice on how to improve greatly on his Potions work, and also teaching him a few helpful (and dangerous) spells along the way.

Amidst this, Harry is starting private lessons with Professor Dumbledore, during which Harry learns the dark secrets of Voldemort's past, hoping that they could use these secrets to find a way to defeat him.

Harry's year gets even more stressful with the suspicious actions of Draco Malfoy, who has been sneaking around the school doing, so Harry assumes, Voldemort's bidding. Harry quickly becomes determined, and slightly obsessed, to find out exactly what Malfoy has been up to and putting and end to it.

Yet, during this time, Harry and his friends go through daily life, busy with school work, Quidditch, (in which Harry has been made captain of the team) and of course, romance. Ron has found a new girlfriend, Lavender Brown, a perky (if not obnoxious) Gryffindor student, and Hermione is not happy about it. Ron and Hermione's friendship takes a toll throughout the school year and Harry, as usual, is stuck in the middle. Harry, meanwhile, is facing a romantic dilemma of his own: he realizes he is falling for his best friend's sister, Ginny Weasley, who is unfortunately dating Harry's classmate, Dean Thomas. Harry's pining for Ginny and Ron's hilarious relationship with Lavender give this story a large dose of reality.

Throughout all the school drama, however, the obvious darkness of Voldemort's impending rise to power is always apparent. The incredible action-packed climax is sure to leave the audience stunned and, inevitably, prove that you shouldn't trust everybody who you think is good and also prove that not everyone can manage to survive.

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Public Enemies

2009-06-30T08:59:00.000-07:00

In the action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard in the incredible and true story of legendary Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger (Depp), the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale), and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public. No one could stop Dillinger. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Cotillard), to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang (later including the sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham)) thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaw's capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI. He made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One and sent in Purvis, the dashing "Clark Gable of the FBI". However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis' men in wild chases and shootouts. Only after importing a crew of Western ex-lawmen (newly baptized as agents), who were real gunfighters, and orchestrating epic betrayals, from the infamous "Lady in Red" to the Chicago crime boss Frank Nitti, were Purvis and the FBI able to close in on Dillinger.

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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

2009-06-30T08:57:00.000-07:00

After the events of "Ice Age: The Meltdown", life begins to change for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and Ellie, having since become an item, are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives. Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back. Sid begins to wish for a family of his own, and so steals some dinosaur eggs which leads to Sid ending up in a strange underground world where his herd must rescue him, while dodging dinosaurs and facing danger left and right, and meeting up with a one-eyed weasel known as Buck who hunts dinosaurs intently. Written by Theshapeshifter

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Away We Go

2009-06-30T08:54:00.002-07:00

Verona (Maya Rudolph) and Burt (John Krasinski) are an unmarried couple in their thirties, who are expecting their first child. They live in Denver close to Burt's parents, since Verona's parents had passed away. They thought their life was going great until they found out that Burt's parents were leaving the country for two years and would not be there for the birth of their grandchild. Verona and Burt decide to go on a road trip and travel around the U.S. and Canada to find the perfect place to live to call home and bring up their child. They travel to Phoenix, Tucson, Madison, Montreal, and Miami where they either have relatives or friends living. Along the way, they are also looking for the perfect family as a role model for them to follow in raising their daughter. As with all new families, they discover their own way. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)

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Away We Go

2009-06-30T08:54:00.000-07:00

The Proposal

2009-06-30T08:50:00.000-07:00

Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is the executive editor-in-chief of a book publishing company, Colden Books, who forces her assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her in order to avoid being deported to Canada. He grudgingly accepts, under the condition that he is promoted to the position of editor. When the government investigates, the two are forced to spend the weekend with his parents in Alaska in order to sell the lie. The family suggest they could marry the same weekend, and they reluctantly accept. They start to fall genuinely in love as they spend more and more time together. Because of this, during the wedding ceremony, Margaret decides she cannot do this to Andrew and confesses the business arrangement in front of everyone--including the immigration officer handling their case. She is then told that she has 24 hours to get back to Canada, and thus goes back to New York to pack her things. Upon doing so, however, Andrew shows up at the office and confesses his love for her in front of the entire office staff, proposing marriage all over again. [D-Man2010]

When high-powered book editor Margaret faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she's actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew, who she's tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences. [D-Man2010]

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1041829/synopsis

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

2009-06-30T08:45:00.000-07:00

The battle for Earth has ended but the battle for the universe has just begun. After returning to Cybertron, Starscream assumes command of the Decepticons, and has decided to return to Earth with force. The Autobots believing that peace was possible finds out that Megatron's dead body has been stolen from the US Military by Skorpinox and revives him using his own spark. Now Megatron is back seeking revenge and with Starscream and more Decepticon reinforcements on the way, the Autobots with reinforcements of their own, may have more to deal with then meets the eye.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1055369/synopsis

JFK

2009-05-30T10:25:00.000-07:00

Details the actions of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who takes it upon himself to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Garrison is extremely suspicious of the official story presented by the FBI, and what he already knows and what he subsequently learns lead him to suspect that there is more to the story than the public is being told. Written by Murray Chapman {muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au}

A mixture of fact and speculation surrounding the death of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on 22nd November, 1963. New Orleans District Attorney, Jim Garrison, re-opens the files on the investigation and takes a critical look at the facts given by the F.B.I. His persistent questioning and poking his nose where it shouldn't be causes his and his family's lives to be at risk. But he keeps on the trail and soon uncovers a lead which points to the war in Vietnam. Written by Graeme Roy {gsr@cbmamiga.demon.co.uk}

Part fact and part opinion, mainly of Jim Garrison and director Oliver Stone, as to the events surrounding the proposed conspiracy of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison began a probe into the actions of the F.B.I. and other officials of whom he suspected where covering up information that could lead to evidence of multiple shooters. The motive is believed to be to escalate the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. President Kennedy was attempting to prevent any further involvement in this situation, but which Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson supposedly promised the United States government that he would "give them the war". Thus, the motive for eliminating President Kennedy. The movie also details the events of many people involved in the assassination, from Lee Harvey Oswald to Clay Shaw, a prominent figure in New Orleans. Written by David Landers {dml@gwis.com}

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison is highly suspicious of the official story presented by the FBI to explain JFK's assassination. When he takes it upon himself to investigate, he unearths a deadly conspiracy that may go deeper than he could have ever imagined. Written by Anonymous

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102138/plotsummary

Australia

2009-05-30T10:24:00.000-07:00

In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

In 1939, the aristocratic Lady Sarah Ashley travels from Great Britain to Australia to meet her husband Maitland Ashley in northern Australia. The husband's drover comes to the city of Darwin to bring Sarah to their farm; however, when they reach Faraway Downs Farm, they find that Maitland was murdered. Sarah befriends Nullah, who tells her that the administrator Neil Fletcher is stealing her cattle; has killed her husband; and is working for the cattle baron King Carney. Sarah fires Fletcher and his men and together with Drover, Nullah and a group of loyal employees, they ride together to take the cattle to supply the army and win a tender in times of war. But the ambitious Fletcher has other intentions and uses Nullah to press Sarah. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455824/plotsummary

Entrapment

2009-05-30T10:22:00.000-07:00

Following the theft of a highly-secured piece of artwork, an agent convinces her insurance agency employers to allow her to wriggle into the company of an aging but active master thief. Connery's burglar takes her on suspiciously and demands rigorous training before their first job together--stealing a highly-valued mask from a chichi party. Their deepening attraction and distrust could tear apart their partnership but the promise of a bigger prize (some eight billion odd dollars) by Zeta-Jones keeps the game interesting. Only, who's playing with whom? Written by Lordship {lordship@juno.com
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/plotsummary

The Others

2009-05-30T10:21:00.001-07:00

A woman named Grace retires with her two children to a mansion on Jersey, towards the end of the Second World War, where she's waiting for her husband to come back from battle. The children have a disease which means they cannot be touched by direct sunlight without being hurt in some way. They will live alone there with oppressive, strange and almost religious rules, until she needs to hire a group of servants for them. Their arrival will accidentally begin to break the rules with unexpected consequences. Written by David Villalmanzo

A woman named Grace (Kidman) is living with her two children Anne and Nicholas (Mann and Bentley) on an almost empty island in their huge mansion. Grace's husband is a soldier in WWII and Grace has given her husband up for dead. Everything seems peaceful for her, but when three mysterious servants are given jobs at the house, terrifying secrets are unlocked that even Grace cannot handle. Written by Morticon

It's nearing the end of the Second World War and Grace Stewart lives with her photosensitive children in a large and silent house. After her previous servants went missing, Grace accepted the offers of work from three new servants. Since these three have entered the home, strange events occur, and Grace begins to wonder if it's her sanity getting the better of her or if there is something much more in the house with them. Written by FilmFanUk

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230600/plotsummary

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

2009-05-30T10:19:00.000-07:00

Zohan Dvir works as a Special Agent and lives with his orthodox parents in Israel. He wants to give up this life full of dangerous encounters with Palestinians. While in the process of apprehending a Palestinian activist known simply as the Phantom, he fakes his death, hides in a dog-kennel on a plane bound for New York, and decides to try his hand as a hair-stylist. He is refused employment initially, but when he offers to work for free, Dahlia hires him as a cleaner. When a hair-stylist named Debbie quits, Zohan replaces her, winning over elderly female clientèle, and falling in love with Dahlia herself. Before Zohan could propose to her, Dahlia's landlord, Walbridge, who has been raising rents regularly, hires skinhead goons to terrorize the neighborhood, creates misunderstandings between Jews, Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians, and drives them out, so as to enable him to construct a new building which is topped by a roller coaster. When Zohan decides to confront these skinheads, he does not realize that he is in for quite a few surprises himself. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0960144/plotsummary

The Vampire Chronicles

2009-05-30T10:15:00.000-07:00

It hadn't even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis had lost his wife in childbirth, both his wife and the infant died and now he had lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire. Louis accepts, and Lestat drains Louis' mortal blood and then replaces it with his own turning Louis into a vampire. Louis must learn from Lestat the ways of the vampire. Written by {VincentVga@aol.com}

In 1791, plantation owner Louis outside New Orleans has lost his courage to live. He gets bitten by the vampire Lestat and is himself turned into one. He hates being a vampire and refuses to kill humans. Louis and Lestat turn a little girl, Claudia, into a vampire, and together they live on through the centuries. Written by Mattias Thuresson {mattias.thuresson@mbox300.swipnet.se}

This movie centers around two vampires. One longs for a companion, while the other cannot bare to kill humans to satisfy its hunger. It's about a vampire who gives a down-on-his-luck man a choice to either live eternally or die. The man's decision causes him to regret many of the things that he does in his life to come. Written by thexotherxchris

A night in San Francisco, during our time: A young journalist follows a man through the streets and they end up in an anonymous room. When the journalist starts to interview the man, the stranger tells him that he is a vampire, being over 200 years old. The journalist doesn't believe him, but after the man proves it's true, he tells his story: His name is Louis and in 18th century New Orleans he was 24, by this time owner of an estate and a widower already. One night, when he once again was destroying himself by drinking and other things, he was found by Lestat, a vampire, who bit him. But even after becoming a vampire, life wasn't fun for Louis until one night he met a little girl, Claudia, who should change his existance forever. Written by smoothhoney1265

In 1791, plantation owner Louis De Pointe Du Lac is unhappy with the life he has, until Lestat De Lioncourt comes into his life. Lestat, a vampire, allows Louis to make the decision of either death or life as a vampire forever. And until his decision is already made, does Louis realize what he has become. He refuses to take human life and is about to leave when Lestat, being the clever being that he is, turns a little orphan girl into a vampire to make Louis stay. The story is told by Louis in 1991 to an interviewer about the lives of himself, Lestat and Claudia through trouble, death, curse and love over the past 200 years. Written by Brittany G

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110148/plotsummary

Jumper

2009-05-30T10:13:00.000-07:00

David Rice is a high school student in Ann Arbor, abandoned by his mother at five, enamored with Millie, a fellow student, and picked on by at least one classmate. On a winter's day, while about to drown, he discovers he can transport himself instantaneously to anyplace on earth. He leaves town, goes to New York City, robs a bank vault, and comes to the attention of a shadowy group of government hunters. Eight years later, the hunters, led by the murderous Roland, get a fix on David. He heads home, searches out Millie, invites her to travel with him, and only later realizes that Roland and his crew are seriously deadly. Is everyone close to David in danger? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}

David Rice lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was left by his mother when he was five years old. The teenaged David does not have a good relationship with his father; and he has a crush on his schoolmate Millie Harris. When David gives a snow globe with the Eiffel Tower to Millie, the bully Mark Kobold throws it onto a frozen river. David tries to retrieve the object, but the ice shatters and David fall under the ice. Suddenly he teleports himself to a library and discovers that he has the ability to jump anywhere he wants. He decides to run away from home, moving to New York, and uses his power to rob a bank vault. Eight years later, David is living in a fancy apartment in New York and having a life full of adventure, traveling to the most exotic places in the world. He decides to visit Millie in Ann Arbor and invites her to visit Rome. While in the Coliseum, David meets the jumper Griffin that explains to him that the dangerous Roland Cox and his team of paladins are chasing him and his family and friends are in danger. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489099/plotsummary

Con Air

2009-05-30T10:11:00.000-07:00

Cameron Poe, who is a highly decorated United States Army Ranger came to his home of Alabama to his wife, Tricia. only to run into a few drunken regulars at where Tricia works. Cameron unknowingly kills one of the drunks and was sent to a federal penitentiary for involuntary manslaughter for seven years. Then, Cameron became eligible for parole and can now go home to his wife and daughter, Casey. Unfortunately, Cameron has to share a prison airplane with some of the most dangerous criminals in the country, who somehow took control of the plane and are now planning to escape the country with the plane. Cameron has to find a way to stop them while playing along. Meanwhile, United States Marshal Vincent Larkin is trying to help Cameron get free and stop the criminals including, Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom. Written by John Wiggins

Cameron Poe, a highly decorated US ranger, is convicted of manslaughter after protecting his wife in a drunken brawl. Finally, after eight years, he's being paroled and going home to his wife and daughter. His ride home: the Jailbird, which is also transporting society's vicious murderers to Feltham Penitentiary, Lousiana's toughest maximum security prison. A surprising escape is made on board the plane as the cons seize control of the plane, and head it towards Las Vegas. The officials on the ground want to blow it out of the sky, but three people know an alternative... US Marshal Vince Larkin, Cameron Poe's wife, and his daughter. Written by Cameron Poe {sprintcs@idirect.com}

Cameron Poe is a highly decorated military officer who is sent to prison because of killing a man while defending his wife. Seven years later, he is granted a parole. He is put on a plane with many other convicts. Everything looks smooth until one of the convicts, Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom breaks out of his restraints and takes control of the plane. The D.E.A quickly learns of the event and plans on shooting the plane down, but U.S. Marshall Vince Larkin sees Poe as an ally and tries to work with him before his superiors shoot down the plane. Written by Ridley Lavine

When Cameron Poe, of the US Army, is found guilty of manslaughter after killing a drunk man while protecting his wife outside a bar, he is sent to jail for eight years. During that time his daughter is born, but he waits patiently in his cell until his release date. He is flown home on board the Jailbird, which also transports some very dangerous convicts to a maximum-security prison in Louisiana. The convicts manage to escape directed by Cyrus "The Virus", who also leads the plane's take-over and re-routes it to an abandoned airfield to catch another plane which will take them to a foreign country. With Poe's help, the authorities learn where the convicts are headed for and manage to get there before they take off again. After the police and army are killed in an ambush at the airfield, the convicts take off again toward Las Vegas, but a US Marshal, Vince Larkin, with the help of Poe on board gets there again in time to finally stop the convicts. Written by Marcos Eduardo Acosta Aldrete

Cameron Poe is an Army Ranger who was going to go home to his pregnant wife when he got into a fight with three men. He would kill one of them and the other two ran away with the knife they had and because of that he would be convicted of manslaughter. After eight years he would be paroled. He would be part of a group that's being transferred to another prison and flown in a special plane. While in flight a fight breaks out and two of the most dangerous criminals, Diamond Dog and Cyrus the Virus Grissom, would break out from their restraints and take over the plane. When the plane makes it's first stop Poe and friend who's a diabetic and who wasn't given his shot, and all the syringes were destroyed, try to get off but Grissom wouldn't let them. He then tries to alert the authorities but got away. Now the government is considering shooting the plane down but U.S. Marshall Vince Larkin thinks that it's a little hasty and believes that Poe is an ally. When Grissom leads them on a wild goose chase, Poe alerts them to where they are going. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118880/plotsummary

Constantine

2009-05-30T10:10:00.000-07:00

The story of irreverent supernatural detective John Constantine, who has literally been to Hell and back. When Constantine teams up with skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldly events, the two become inextricably involved and seek to find their own peace at whatever cost. Written by unit publicist/WB

John Constantine is the exorcist who has been to Hell and back, and whose soul is sentenced to hell. He has been deporting demons to get on good terms with God, yet God wants self-sacrifice. After the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, detective Angela Dodson goes out in search of the truth. Together, Constantine and Angela battle the demons on Earth. Written by wknieper

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360486/plotsummary

Journey to the Center of the Earth

2009-05-30T10:01:00.000-07:00

Professor Trevor Anderson receives his teenager nephew Sean Anderson. He will spend ten days with his uncle while his mother, Elizabeth, prepares to move to Canada. She gives a box to Trevor that belonged to his missing brother, Max, and Trevor finds a book with references to the last journey of his brother. He decides to follow the steps of Max with Sean and they travel to Iceland, where they meet the guide Hannah Ásgeirsson. While climbing a mountain, there is a thunderstorm and they protect themselves in a cave. However, a lightening collapses the entrance and the trio is trapped in the cave. They seek an exit and falls in a hole, discovering a lost world in the center of the Earth. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373051/plotsummary

The Mask of Zorro

2009-05-30T09:59:00.000-07:00

The original Zorro, Don Diego de la Vega, is captured and imprisoned just as Spain concedes California to Santa Anna. 20 years go by and his mortal enemy, Don Rafael Montero, returns to California with a plan to become wealthy at the expense of the peasants. The original Zorro escapes from prison and trains a new Zorro to take his place. Much swashbuckling and derring-do ensues. Written by Afterburner {aburner@erols.com}

Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro returns from exile to avenge the death of his wife, who was killed by his enemy, Don Rafael Montero. Montero took de la Vega's daughter, Elena, and raised her as Elena Montero. The older Zorro takes it upon himself to train his successor, Alejandro Murrieta, who had once helped Zorro escape. Alejandro is cocky and comical, but shows some talent with sword play. What happens when the daughter and the protégé of Zorro meet? Sparks! Written by Kathy Clark {kemoore@cyberramp.net}

Zorro saves three men from the fleeing Spanish Governor but is followed to his home where his wife is killed and his infant daughter taken and is imprisoned. Twenty years later he escapes and finds his daughter has been raised as the governor's child. Vowing revenge he takes a young thief who is also seeking revenge as his apprentice, who will become the new wearer of the Mask of Zorro. Written by John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}

In early 19th century California the masked swordsman hero Zorro was a champion of the people against the tyranny of Spanish rule, represented by the ruthless Governor Montero. Unfortunately, on the eve of his greatest triumph, the liberation of California, Montero learns of Zorro's secret identity as Don Diego de la Vega and attacks the rebel in his home leaving him imprisoned, his wife dead and his daughter abducted to be claimed as the child of Montero. Twenty years pass, and Montero returns to California intent on a foul plan to bring it under his total control. Upon learning of his return, Don Diego escapes from his long imprisonment and prepares for his revenge. Part of it involves the training of an orphan who helped him as a boy to become his successor. Together, the two must prepare to do battle with Montero and his American henchman to save California and reunite with Diego's lost daughter. So once again, the enemies of freedom and justice in California must fear of the man who leaves the mark of the Z. Written by Kenneth Chisholm {kchishol@execulink.com}

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120746/plotsummary

Unbreakable

2009-05-30T09:58:00.000-07:00

This suspense thriller unfolds as the audience is introduced to David Dunn. Not only is he the sole survivor of a horrific train-crash that killed 131 people he doesn't have a scratch on him. Elijah Price is an obscure character who approaches Dunn with a seemingly far fetched theory behind it all. Written by Filmtwob {webmaster@filmfreak.co.za}

Security Guard David Dunn miraculously survives a catastrophic train crash outside Philadelphia. Not only is he the sole survivor out of 132 passengers, he also is completely unharmed. A little later, comic book specialist Elijah Price contacts him to confront David with an incredible theory: Elijah, who has been nicknamed "Mr. Glass" due to his more than fragile bones, thinks that David has got all which he himself lacks. The two of them "seem to be linked by a curve, but sitting on opposite ends". First, David does not believe the strange man, but every single thing he had said proves to be true: David has never ever been hurt or sick in his life, his physical strength is larger than normal and he has a skill which others don't. Slowly, David begins to discover the shocking truth behind Mr. Price's assumptions. But after all, David's fate is not only to find his real place in the world. It also is about proving Elijah's theory of his own existence. Written by Julian Reischl {julianreischl@mac.com}

David Dunn's marriage is crumbling, and he's thinking of moving to New York. Then when he's coming home from a job interview, his train derails and he is the only survivor. More than that, he doesn't have a scratch on him. David is contacted by Elijah Price, who runs a comic book art gallery and suffers from a genetic condition that makes his bones very easy to break. Elijah has been a comic book fan all his life, and has developed a theory that they are what remains of an ancient system of storytelling, and the superheroes they are about are based on real people. Elijah believes David may be one of these people. He has hardly ever been injured or sick, and he has tremendous strength, plus an uncanny ability to tell if someone is about to or has done something bad. David doesn't know what to think about the theory, or Elijah himself. However, events soon conspire to convince him he may be a superhero after all. Written by rmlohner

A security guard named David Dunn is coming home from work, when the train he is on is suddenly derailed, the train crashes, and he is the sole survivor, out of 132 people. Without a scratch on his body. Soon he is contacted by comic-book store owner Elijah Price whose bones are easily breakable, who claims David is a superhero. Written by neo101

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217869/plotsummary

Robots

2009-05-30T09:56:00.000-07:00

Even in a world populated entirely by mechanical beings Rodney Copperbottom is considered a genius inventor. Rodney dreams of two things, making the world a better place and meeting his idol, the master inventor Bigweld. On his journey he encounters Cappy, a beautiful executive 'bot with whom Rodney is instantly smitten, the nefarious corporate tyrant Ratchet who locks horns with Rodney, and a group of misfit 'bots known as the Rusties, led by Fender and Piper Pinwheeler. Written by IMDb Editors

In a world of robots, the young Rodney decides to move to the metropolis of Robot City, to meet the powerful inventor and his idol Bigweld, trying to get a position in his corporation. However, the new president Ratchet manages the company for profit with new parts only, leaving the old robots fated to become scrap in the mill of Ratchet's mother. Rodney, with the support of his old robots friends, convinces Bigweld to fight for his position back. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Life isn't that great in the Copperbottom family. Rodney keeps failing in getting his ideas noticed, and his father, Herb struggles with work and himself. In order to get his idea noticed and to make his parents proud, Rodney sets out to Robot City to showcase his idea to Bigweld. Once at Robot City, Bigweld is nowhere to be seen, as Rodney and his new friends start to suspect a terrible reason why. Written by Film_FanUk

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358082/plotsummary

Face/Off

2009-05-30T09:53:00.000-07:00

Sean Archer, a very tough, rugged FBI Agent. Who is still grieving for the dead son Michael. Archer believes that his son's killer is his sworn enemy, a very powerful criminal, Castor Troy. One day, Archer has finally cornered Castor, however, their fight has knocked out Troy cold. As Archer finally breathes easy over the capture of his enemy, he finds out that Troy has planted a bomb that will destroy the entire city of Los Angeles and all of its inhabitants. Unfortunately the only other person who knows its location is Castor's brother Pollux, and he refuses to talk. The solution, a special operation doctor that can cut off people's faces, and can place a person's face onto another person. Archer undergoes one of those surgeries to talk to Pollux. However, Castor Troy somehow regains consciousness and now wants revenge on Archer for taking his face. Not only is Troy ruining Archer's mission, but his personal life as well. Archer must stop Troy again. This time, it's personal. Written by John Wiggins

Sean Archer is a government agent who for six years has been trying to apprehend terrorist, Caster Troy, who tried to kill him but ended up killing Archer's son instead. When Archer corners Troy, Troy tells Archer that he has planted a bomb that will go off, unless he lets him go but Archer thinks that Troy is bluffing so a fight erupts that leaves Troy comatose. But later when they go through some of his brother, Pollux's things, they discover that Troy was telling the truth. All what they need now is to find out where it is and the only person who knows is Pollux. And the only person that he will talk to about it, is his brother, Caster but unfortunately he is a vegetable. A government official then suggests to Archer that he assume Caster's identity and ask Pollux about the bomb. So she brings him to a doctor who has perfected a method wherein the face of one individual is removed from him and placed on another. Archer agrees. The operation is a success so Archer as Troy goes to the prison where Pollux is being held and successfully gets him to tell him where the bomb is. Meanwhile, Troy who was believed to be comatose awakens and forces the doctor who operated on Archer to place Archer's face on him. He then goes to the prison as Archer and taunts Archer by telling him that he has destroyed all documentation of the operation and eliminated everyone who knew about it. He then takes his brother out and leaves Archer in prison. But Archer somehow manages to escape and is now trying to find someone who will believe and help him, while Troy is plotting something. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com

An undercover agent takes the physical appearance of an assumed dead terrorist. The terrorist was only in a coma, and he takes the form of the undercover agent. Written by Robert Krzanowski {stonedpsycho@hotmail.com}

FBI Special Agent Sean Archer tries to find a biological weapon placed in Los Angeles by a sadistic terrorist-for-hire and criminal mastermind named Castor Troy. Archer has hunted Troy for the last 8 years, and is consumed by revenge because Troy is responsible for the death of Archer's son. To do this, Archer must "borrow" Troy's face using a surgical procedure to go undercover as Troy, but things go wrong when Troy assumes the identity of Archer. Written by Nick Hawkins {hawkins@aureate.com}

Sean Archer has been chasing Castor Troy to avenge his son's death by the hands of the psychotic terrorist for six years. Now that he killed Castor, Sean must find a biological bomb by assuming the identity of Castor Troy by taking his face and being brought in prison. But Troy, who awakes from his coma, takes Archer's face in order to take revenge on him. Now, Troy turns Archer's life upside down by assuming his identity. Will Archer break free from his prison and get his face back, or will Troy have the last laugh ? Written by Ali Nasser

Sean Archer is a government agent whose son was killed in a terrorist act by Castor Troy. Sean takes on the face of Castpr in a plot to bring down a terrorist group. However, Castor, who was believed dead but merely in a coma, wakes up and does the same. Soon, they are pitted against one another. Written by Laurence Mixson {jarls@datasync.com}

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119094/plotsummary

The Truman Show

2009-05-30T09:50:00.000-07:00

In this movie, Truman is a man whose life is a fake one... The place he lives is in fact a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere, and all his friends and people around him, are actors who play their roles in the most popular TV-series in the world: The Truman Show. Truman thinks that he is an ordinary man with an ordinary life and has no idea about how he is exploited. Until one day... he finds out everything. Will he react? Written by Chris Makrozahopoulos {makzax@hotmail.com}

Truman Burbank lives a happy life. However, what he doesn't know is that his life is actually the focus of a reality TV show aired since his birth, that he's the star, his hometown is a giant set piece, and everyone around him is an actor going by a script. Written by Skip4591

Truman Burbank is a normal man, living in a normal town. He grew up to be a desk clerk for a insurance company, living an ordinary life, having an ordinary wife, an ordinary neighbour and an ordinary bud, who pops in from time to time with a sixpack. But Truman is not happy with his life. He wants to see the world. He wants to get away from his happy-happy, ever tidy, nice'n'shiny little island town at the seaside. In reality, Truman was an unwanted pregnancy. His "father", Christof, a reckless TV-Producer whom he never met, made up the Truman Show - the greatest show on earth - a show in which life is live. So, everyone around poor Truman is an actor with a little headphone in the ear. One day, Truman accidentally bumps into a catering area backstage and gets pretty suspicious. His plan now is: Pretend to be sleeping and steal away... Written by Julian Reischl {julianreischl@mac.com}

Truman Burbankis happy with his life. He is a successful business man, he has a nice wife and many friends. However, Truman finds his life is getting very repetitive. Actually every moment of his life is being filmed, being watched by millions, and that his world is limited in a small Hollywood film set. Truman decides to follow his discovery no matter how hard and how much it pains him. Written by Christian

He's the star of the show--but he doesn't know. Truman Burbank is a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn't realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator, that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually, Truman gets wise. And what he does about his discovery will have you laughing, crying and cheering. Written by Robert Lynch {docrlynch@yahoo.com}

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/plotsummary

Hercules

2009-05-30T09:48:00.000-07:00

Hercules, son of the Greek God, Zeus, is turned into a half-god, half-mortal by evil Hades, God of the Underworld, who plans to overthrow Zeus. Hercules is raised on Earth and retains his god-like strength, but when he discovers his immortal heritage Zeus tells him that to return to Mount Olympus he must become a True Hero. Hercules becomes a famous hero with the help of his friend Pegasus and his personal trainer, Phil the satyr. Hercules battles monsters, Hades and the Titans, but it is his self-sacrifice to rescue his love Meg which makes him a True Hero. Written by Kristi Connolly {kristic@nlc.net.au}

After Zeus fights and sends the Titans to the underworld, he becomes the ruler of Mount Olympus, home of all greek gods. Hades is sent to rule the underworld, but he makes plans to throw Zeus out of Mount Olympus with the Titans' help. The three Fates warn him that his plans would be endangered if Hercules, Zeus newborn child, is still around by the time he tries to take over Mount Olympus. Hades sends Pain and Panic to turn Hercules into a mortal and kill him, but they fail in their attempt and leave him on earth with his divine strength to be raised as a human. Hercules grows up but later learns he is the son of gods, and in order to return to Mt. Olympus he must turn into a "true hero". He is trained by Phil the satyr and becomes the most famous hero in ancient Greece after battling monsters of all kinds. He even saves Mt. Olympus from Hade's take-over, but he only becomes a god again after he offers to exchange his life in order to save Meg, his love, from Hades' underworld and shows that a true hero must have a strong heart and not only physical strength. Written by Marcos Eduardo Acosta Aldrete

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119282/plotsummary

Waterworld

2009-05-30T09:47:00.000-07:00

The polar ice caps have melted, and the earth is covered by water. The remaining people travel the seas, in search of survival. Several different societies exist. The Mariner falls from his customary and solitary existence into having to care for a woman and a young girl while being pursued by the evil forces of the Deacon. Written by Robbie Smith {robsmith@u.washington.edu}

In the future, the Earth is engulfed with water when the polar ice caps melts, leaving the lands and civilization beneath the sea. In "Waterworld" drifters sail across the waters of the world on their man-made ships, trading for supplies and salvaging what is left of civilization, communities of survivors lives in towns called "Atolls" and a force of evil pirates "The Smokers" travel across Waterworld in search of a mythical island called "Dryland". Arriving at a Atoll, a mysterious drifter without a name called The Mariner is sentenced to death when the community discover he is a mutant. When the Atoll is attacked by The Smokers led by their evil leader Deacon, a woman named Helen and her adopted daughter Enola bribes The Mariner to take them to Dryland, believing The Mariner has been there. But the Mariner, Helen and Enola are pursued by Deacon and the Smokers, when The Mariner learns the tattoo on Enola's back is in reality a map that will lead them to Dryland... Written by Daniel Williamson

Sometime in the future, the polar ice caps have melted and the world's oceans and seas have covered the land. People are few and far between, living in small communities at sea or sailing from one to another as traders. All the people seek dry land.. something nobody has seen. Written by Rob Hartill

The world is flooded. Civilisation is lost under the sea. The Mariner sails his trimoran over the seas, drinking his own Urine and visits a floating atoll of "Drifters". When they find the Mariner to be a mutant they sentence him to death. Meanwhile, a girl with supposedly a map to get to dry land tattoo-ed on her back, is the objective for an attack by a gang of smokers who attack the atoll. Written by Anonymous

In the future, the Greenhouse Effect has taken place on a now ravaged Earth covered in water, and a mysterious drifter aids a mother and daughter in seeking Dryland, a mythical place that a group of savage bandits seek out as well. Written by MonkeyKingMA

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114898/plotsummary

Charlie's Angels

2009-05-30T09:44:00.000-07:00

The captivating crime-fighting trio who are the masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts. When a devious mastermind embroils them in a plot to destroy individual privacy the Angels, aided by their loyal sidekick Bosley, set out to bring down the bad guys. But when a terrible secret is revealed it makes the Angels targets for assassination. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

Based on the popular 70's TV show, three cute chicks work for the mysterious "Charlie". They are the female 'James Bonds'' of our time. They get to blow stuff up, kick the cr*p out of people, and wear really tight clothing, all whilst trying to retrieve stolen software and balance in high heels. Written by Filmtwob {webmaster@filmfreak.co.za}

The Angels Natalie, Dylan, and Alex are sent to place a bug in the voice-recognition system that bitter rival Roger Corwin has stolen. The Angels & Bosley must save Charlie's life. See them kick the sh*t out of people with high-tech martial arts! Written by Corey Semple (AdamSandler's8SexyNights)

Charlie's private investigation company is addressed by programmer Eric Knox, owner of Knox Technologies, whose revolutionary voice-recognition software has been stolen. Charlie's Angels Natalie, Dylan and Alex are sent to place a bug in the system of bitter rival Roger Corwin, who is under strong suspicion. But after the deed is done, the Angels and their boss Bosley face the fact of a destroyed home base as well as Charlie's life in immediate danger. But how do you protect someone you never met? Written by Julian Reischl {julianreischl@mac.com}

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160127/plotsummary

Scary Movie

2009-05-30T09:43:00.000-07:00

A group of teenagers including Cindy Campbell and Bobby Prinze, accidentally hit a man when driving, and dispose of the body, but now they are being stalked by a very recognisable masked killer. The victim count increases, whilst Cindy must survive the carnage that has she has seen in so many films before. Written by simon

Six friends - Cindy Campbell, Bobby Prinze, Buffy Gilmore, Greg Phillipe, Ray Wilkins, and Brenda Meeks - are being stalked by a serial killer. A serial killer that is after them because of an accident that they caused last Halloween. A serial killer that seems to have come out of every other scary movie. The body count has already started with Drew Decker, the local town slut, and it's starting to build up. The friends are going to have to escape from both the killer's clutches and annoying news reporter Gail Hailstorm if they plan on living to the sequel... Written by Will

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175142/plotsummary

The Nutty Professor

2009-05-30T09:40:00.000-07:00

Sherman Klump is an incredibly fat and good-hearted man. He is a college professor on the verge of a breakthrough in DNA restructuring when he meets an admirer of his, named Carla, who is a teacher new to Klump's college. He is enamored of her, but is frustrated by his tremendous bulk. He then decides to test a formula on which he's been working on himself. He is then transformed into the lecherous swinger, Buddy Love, and romantic complications ensue. Written by Philip Brubaker {coda@nando.net}

Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) is a brilliant and a very fat man. One day he meets a beautiful and charming woman named Carla Purty (Jada Pinkett), and he falls in love with her. He aware to the fact, though, that he is a clumsy fat guy, while she is a young gorgeous lady. This makes his depressed, but just until he finds the solution for his problem. He decides to drink a potion which he invented himself in his lab. The potion makes him look very good, and behave romantically. The new him, named Buddy Love, is the perfect solution for Klump, in his opinion. But is that what Carla really wants? Written by rsilberman

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117218/plotsummary

Casper

2009-05-30T09:38:00.000-07:00

Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden (Moriarty) is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the rickety mansion to seek her claim, she is frightened away by a wicked wave of ghosts. Determined to get her hands on this hidden fortune, she hires afterlife therapist Dr. James Harvey (Pullman) to exorcise the ghosts from the mansion. Harvey and his daugh- ter Kat (Ricci) move in, and soon Kat meets Casper, the ghost of a young boy who's "the friendliest ghost you know." But not so friendly are Casper's uncles--Stretch, Fatso and Stinkie--who are determined to drive all "fleshies" away. Ultimately, it is up to Harvey and Kat to help the ghosts cross over to the other side. Written by Joshua Davis {xtnb64a@prodigy.com}

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112642/plotsummary

Shakespeare in Love

2009-05-30T09:37:00.000-07:00

Romantic comedy set in London in the late 16th century: Young playwright William Shakespeare struggles with his latest work "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter". A great fan of Shakespeare's plays is young, wealthy Viola who is about to be married to the cold-hearted Lord Wessex, but constantly dreams of becoming an actress. Women were not allowed to act on stage at that time (female roles were played by men, too), but dressed up as a boy, Viola successfully auditions for the part of Romeo. Soon she and William are caught in a forbidden romance that provides rich inspiration for his play. Written by Armin Ortmann {armin@sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de}

La storia, un pò realtà e molta fantasia, ci riporta indietro ai tempi in cui William Shakespeare, dopo aver scritto il "Tito Andronico", è in crisi di ispirazione. Fra l'altro, è afflitto anche da problemi finanziari e sentimentali. Il grande William si muove in strade buie e sporche di una Londra del 1593, in cerca di compagnia femminile e di soldi da scroccare. Ha promesso a due produttori lo stesso dramma ("Romeo ed Ethel, la figlia del pirata"); ma Cristopher Marlowe, poeta molto in voga, gli consiglia invece di parlare di due innamorati che non possono amarsi a causa delle loro famiglie: nasce così "Romeo e Giulietta"! Alla finzione teatrale, si unisce quella reale, quando Shakespeare conosce Viola de Lesseps, ricca ed affascinante promessa sposa di un nobile. Per i due è il colpo di fulmine! Si amano alla follia e lei è disposta anche a travestirsi da uomo pur di recitare in teatro affianco all'uomo che ama. Alla fine, l'opera andrà in scena con enorme successo, ma la ragazza dovrà sposare il nobile e partire con lui per le Americhe. Written by rosebud6

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138097/plotsummary

Doctor Dolittle

2009-05-30T09:35:00.000-07:00

Dr. John Dolittle has the world in his hands: A beautiful wife at his side, two adorable daughters and a career that could not go better. One night, he nearly runs over a dog with his car. The dog yells "bonehead" and disappears. From then on, his childhood ability is back: To communicate with animals. Unfortunately, the word of Dolittle's ability is spreading quickly. Soon, many animals from rat to horse flock to his place to get medical advice. But his colleagues suspect he's going mad, and as the clinic Dolittle used to work for is about to being taken over for a huge amount of money, many decisions have to be made. Believe him? Put him into a mental institution? Sell the clinic? But also his family is close to breaking apart. Until a circus tiger falls seriously ill. Written by Julian Reischl {julianreischl@mac.com}

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118998/plotsummary

Bolt

2009-05-30T09:32:00.001-07:00

Bolt, an American White Shepherd, has lived his whole life on the set of his action TV show, where he believes he has superpowers. When separated from the studio by accident, he meets a female alley cat named Mittens and a hamster named Rhino. Along the way, he learns that he doesn't have superpowers and that the show is not real. Written by jcsmarchesi

Bolt tells the story a dog who plays a heroic dog in a hit TV show and has some trouble recognizing that he doesn't even have superpowers. This becomes something of a hindrance when he is accidentally shipped from Hollywood to New York City. From there he has to make his way home with the help of a manky old cat and an overweight hamster in a plastic ball. Written by wolf_stoned

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397892/plotsummary

Bolt

2009-05-30T09:32:00.000-07:00

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397892/plotsummary

GoldenEye

2009-05-30T09:28:00.000-07:00

James Bond has a mission to recover the 'Goldeneye' access key. A Russian computer programmer called Natalya Siminova survives a murder spree by Xenia Onatopp and General Ourumov. Bond must work with Natalya to find this key and uncovers a sinister secret. His fellow agent, Alec Trevelyan who was believed to have been shot and killed 9 years ago re-surfaces. Bond soon realizes that Trevelyan is behind everything. Bond must now battle his former friend, in order to stop him from destroying London with the Goldeneye satellite. Written by simon

Bond, while on holiday, meets the beautiful but deadly Xenia Onatopp, a member of a Russia mafia group and attempts to stop Xenia and another person taking the 'Tiger' helicopter, a new design and protected against any form of jamming. Meanwhile, Natalya Siminova, a Russian computer programmer is shocked when her team is wiped out by Xenia and Natalya's boss General Ourumov who steals the top secret space weapon Goldeneye, a satellite which triggers a nuclear pulse in the target area which destroys all electronic equipment. Bond is sent to discover who's got control of the weapon and teaming up with Natalya finds that the real villain is someone who knows Bond of old. An old friend of Bond, Alec Trevelyan, plans to destroy London using Goldeneye to gain revenge on Britain and he is even more dangerous as Alec is an ex-00 agent himself... Written by Lee Horton {Leeh@tcp.co.uk}

When a deadly satellite weapon system falls into the wrong hands, only Agent 007 can save the world from certain disaster. Armed with his license to kill, Bond races to Russia in search of the stolen access codes for "Goldeneye," an awesome space weapon that can fire a devastating electromagnetic pulse toward Earth. But 007 is up against an enemy who anticipates his every move: Alec Trevelyan, a.k.a. Agent 006, a mastermind motivated by years of simmering hatred. As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Trevelyan's stunning ally, Xenia Onatopp, an assassin who used pleasure as her ultimate weapon. When the horrifying extent of Trevelyan's plan is revealed, Bond must call upon his sharp wits and killer instincts. Written by Robert Lynch {docrlynch@yahoo.com}

1986 - Soviet Russia has been arming international terrorists with chemical weapon technology, and a chemical weapons plant in the mountains is the target of James Bond and his closest compatriot, Alec Trevelyan. Infiltrating the compound, they are spotted and Alec is captured. When a ruthless Soviet officer, Oromov, executes Trevelyan, James pulls off a spectacular escape and succeeds in blowing up the compound. Now in 1995, he is assigned to tail former Red Air Force jet jockey Xenia Onatopp, who is working for a Russian crime syndicate known as Janus, but he is unable to stop her from stealing a powerful helicopter - a theft initially dismissed as a possibility by MI6's new leader, a woman who is a bureaucratic bean counter who, despite her acidic responses to grumbling from her ticked-off men, is having to learn her job as she goes, and who has to trust James Bond's instincts after a nuclear accident occurs over a Russian region housing the tracking station for a weapons satellite known as Goldeneye. James must track down the stolen gunship and all leads to a second Goldeneye system, and along the way he is horrified to find the true identity of the Janus syndicate, which leads to a spectacular running pursuit from the stolen gunship through a Soviet army prison to a wild street chase involving a tank and confrontation with a Soviet missile train, and eventually a showdown in the jungles of Cuba. Written by Michael Daly

9 years after infiltrating a chemical weapons facility in Russia, where friend and fellow M:I-6 agent Alec Trevelyan 006 was killed by corrupt Russian military officer General Ourumov. Seductive British secret agent James Bond 007 is assigned by his new boss, a female 'M' to recover "GoldenEye" the access key to a top secret space weapon orbiting the Earth which fires a electromagnetic pulse which shuts down all electronic equipment. The "GoldenEye" has been stolen from the Severnya space research station by General Ourumov and the lethal and deadly Xenia Onatopp and slaughtered everyone at Servernya. Helped by Russian computer programmer Natalya Siminova, who was the sole survivor of the Servernya massacre and witnessed Ourumov and Xenia steal the "GoldenEye", Bond learns Ourumov and Xenia are working for Alec Trevelyan, now a renegade M:I-6, and 006 plans on using GoldenEye to wipe out London. 007 and Natalya set out to Cuba where Bond faces Trevelyan in a thrilling showdown as 007 sets out to save London from destruction. Written by Daniel Williamson

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113189/plotsummary

Alvin and the Chipmunks

2009-05-30T09:26:00.000-07:00

In a tree farm, three musically inclined chipmunks, Alvin, Simon and Theodore, find their tree cut down and sent to Los Angeles. Once there, they meet the frustrated songwriter David Seville, and despite a poor house wrecking first impression, they impress him with their singing talent. Seeing the opportunity for success, both human and chipmunks make a pact for them to sing his songs. While that ambition proves a frustrating struggle with the difficult trio, the dream does come true after all. However, that success presents its own trials as their unscrupulous record executive, Ian Hawke, plans to break up this family to exploit the boys. Can Dave and the Chipmunks discover what they really value amid the superficial glamor around them? Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0952640/plotsummary

The Golden Compass

2009-05-30T09:25:00.000-07:00

It was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford's motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra's greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust- found only in the vast Artic expanse of the North -was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it. Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from clans, gyptians, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle... Written by Krista

In a parallel world ruled by The Magisterium where people's souls have animal shapes, the orphan Lyra Belaqua is educated in the Jordan College, and her uncle and Professor Lord Asriel is her tutor. Lyra accidentally overhears a conversation about a research of Lord Asriel in the North Artic and the existence of a powerful Dust that unites different worlds. When her best friend Roger is kidnapped by the evil Gobblers, Lyra promises to rescue him. She is invited to go to the North with the influent Mrs. Coulter and the Jordan's Vice-Chancellor secretly gives her a magic golden compass capable of revealing the truth. When Lyra finds that Mrs. Coulter is the leader of the Gobblers, she escapes from her house and the runaway girl begins an amazing adventure in a war to save her friend and other missing children with her allied Gyptians, Witches and the strong Armored Bear Iorek Byrnison. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Lyra Belaqua, living in Oxford's Jordan College, is not but a young girl living among scholars. Her world may seem diverse, from physical embodiments of souls that take the shape of an animal, but similar with people around you to become friends and enemies. She is thrown into a perilous adventure when she overhears a conversation of an extraordinary microscopic particle, Dust. This particle is said to unite different worlds, and is feared by many who want to destroy it forever. As Lyra is flung into the middle of this horrible struggle, she meets wondrous creatures both big and small, and villains who are not what they seem. Gobblers, that kidnap children, will turn out in the most unexpected places. And a magical compass of gold that will answer any question if one is skilled enough to read it. Lyra's adventure continues throughout these three books, and the first is about to be told. Written by Reaz

In a parallel Oxford, young Lyra Belacqua begins a dimension-crossing odyssey that builds from a merely atypical children's adventure into a complex (and frequently quite dark) philosophical epic. Written by Tom Aylward-Nally

This is the story of Lyra Belaqua, an orphan living in a mighty fantastical parallel universe in which a dogmatic theocracy called the Magisterium threatens to dominate the world. When Lyra's friend is kidnapped, she travels to the far North in an attempt to rescue him and rejoin her uncle. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385752/plotsummary

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

2009-05-30T09:23:00.000-07:00

"Prince Caspian" finds the Pevensie siblings pulled back into the land of Narnia, where a thousand years have passed since they left. The children are once again enlisted to join the colorful creatures of Narnia in combating an evil villain who prevents the rightful Prince from ruling the land. Written by Max Davison {RockyHexorcist2785}

The four Pevensie children return to Narnia, only to discover that hundreds of years have passed since they ruled there, and the evil King Miraz has taken charge. With the help of a heroic mouse called Reepicheep, and the exiled heir to the throne, Prince Caspian, they set out to overthrow the King, once again with Aslan's help. Written by comicfan

A year after their first adventure in Narnia, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are pulled back in by Susan's magic horn. They find that hundreds of years have passed, and Narnia is now ruled by the bloodthirsty General Miraz, uncle to the true heir, Prince Caspian, now in exile. Now the children must find Caspian and help him depose Miraz...but how will they get home after it's done? Written by rmlohner

The movie begins where King Miraz's wife gets a baby and Telmarine soldiers are out to kill Prince Caspian. Caspian blows his horn and Peter, Edmund, Susan, and Lucy are summoned to Narnia. They team up with Caspian to take down the Telmarines. They search for Aslan, the only one who can help them. The action and adventure awaits you in the Chronicles of Narnia Prive Caspian. Written by joeb154

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499448/plotsummary

Tarzan

2009-05-30T09:21:00.000-07:00

The movie is about the life of Tarzan. Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to... Written by Extron

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120855/plotsummary

The Last Samurai

2009-05-30T08:49:00.000-07:00

In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren, a cynical veteran of the American Civil war who will work for anyone, is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing imperial army in modern warfare using firearms. The imperial Omura cabinet's first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai -hereditary warriors- who remain devoted to the sacred dynasty but reject the Westernizing policy and even refuse firearms. Yet when his ill-prepared superior force sets out too soon, their panic allows the sword-wielding samurai to crush them. Badly wounded Algren's courageous stand makes the samurai leader Katsumoto spare his life; once nursed to health he learns to know and respect the old Japanese way, and participates as advisor in Katsumoto's failed attempt to save the Bushido tradition, but Omura gets repressive laws enacted- he must now choose to honor his loyalty to one of the embittered sides when the conflict returns to the battlefield... Written by KGF Vissers

In Japan, Civil War veteran Captain Nathan Algren trains the Emperor's troops to use modern weapons as they prepare to defeat the last of the country's samurais. But Algren's passion is swayed when he is captured by the samurai and learns about their traditions and code of honor. Written by Anonymous

Set in Japan during the 1870s, The Last Samurai tells the story of Capt. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a respected American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country's first army in the art of modern warfare. As the Emperor attempts to eradicate the ancient Imperial Samurai warriors in preparation for more Westernized and trade-friendly government policies, Algren finds himself unexpectedly impressed and influenced by his encounters with the Samurai, which places him at the center of a struggle between two eras and two worlds, with only his own sense of honor to guide him. Written by la pointe

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325710/plotsummary

Ocean's Eleven

2009-05-30T08:47:00.000-07:00

Danny Ocean wants to score the biggest heist in history. He combines an eleven team member, including Frank Catton, Rusty Ryan and Linus Caldwell. Their target? The Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand. All casinos owned by Terry Benedict. It's not going to be easy, as they plan to get in secretly and out with $150 million. Written by Film_Fan

A gangster by the name of Danny Ocean rounds up a gang of associates to stage heists of three major Las Vegas casino's (Bellagio, The Mirage, and the MGM Grand) simultaneously during a popular boxing event. Written by Ryan McIntosh {Jaded_Aero@hotmail.com}

When Daniel Ocean is released from prison in New Jersey, his next heist is already planned. Danny's target are three Las Vegas casinos: The Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand. They all belong to ruthless entrepreneur Terry Benedict, who, by the way, also shows a certain interest in Danny's beautiful ex-wife Tess. During a much-anticipated boxing event (Lennox Lewis vs. Wladimir Klitschko), there will be $150 million in the safe, 70 yards below the strip. So, Danny starts to hire professionals from all over the country: There's the card magician Rusty Ryan, the perfect pickpocket Linus Caldwell and the ingenious pyrotechnician Basher Tarr. Reuben Tishkoff, who lost a casino to Benedict, provides funding, the brothers Virgil and Turk Malloy will drive and help, and Frank Catton, a professional card dealer, gets a job at the casino to watch the routines. Saul Bloom, already retired, will play the rich heavy weaponry dealer and live in the hotel, while Livingston Dell bugs the place to have a look over the shoulders of the security personnel. Finally, the chinese acrobat artist Yen will be the one to move inside the safe before the motion detectors are turned off. There are three rules to be followed: First: no blood. Second: Rob only who deserves it. Third: Do it as if you have nothing to lose. When the day of the boxing event finally draws near, all is set, and Benedict doesn't have a clue - or does he? Written by Julian Reischl {julianreischl@mac.com}

Recently paroled con artist Danny Ocean is a man who keeps his cool in situations unlikely to make any individual comfortable. No sooner does he violate his parole that he's traveling around the country gathering people for his next big scheme: to rob three casinos owned by the ever ruthless Terry Benedict. With the aid of a right hand man named Dusty, a thief out of retirement, a pickpocket, a card dealer, a surveillance man, a chinese acrobat, an explosives expert, two frontmen, and a bitter casino mogul, they make up Ocean's eleven, out to make one very big score. Written by MonkeyKingMA

Danny Ocean is a thief who has just been paroled from prison. He seeks out his partner, Rusty and he has a job. And it is to rob the vault that houses the cash of three casinos in Las Vegas. And he plans to rob it on a night when 150 million is in it. So they recruit nine guys and they begin to put Ocean's plan in motion. Everything is going well until Rusty discovers that Ocean's ex-wife, Tess is the main squeeze of Terry Benedict the (ruthless) owner of the casinos. Rusty asks him what is he going to do if he has to choose. But Ocean says that if his plan goes smoothly, he is going to be able to have his cake and eat it. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240772/plotsummary

Aladdin

2009-05-30T08:46:00.000-07:00

Aladdin is a street-urchin who lives in a large and busy town long ago with his faithful monkey friend Abu. When Princess Jasmine gets tired of being forced to remain in the palace that overlooks the city, she sneaks out to the marketplace, where she accidentally meets Aladdin. Under the orders of the evil Jafar (the sultan's advisor), Aladdin is thrown in jail and becomes caught up in Jafar's plot to rule the land with the aid of a mysterious lamp. Legend has it that only a person who is a "diamond in the rough" can retrieve the lamp from the Cave of Wonders. Aladdin might fight that description, but that's not enough to marry the princess, who must (by law) marry a prince. Written by Murray Chapman {muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au}

Aladdin, a street rat, is the only person who can enter the cave of wonders and retrieve a magical lamp for the dark Vizier Jafar. Aladdin becomes trapped in the cave with his sidekick, Abu, and accidentally discovers the resident of the lamp. Aladdin develops a relationship with the Genie and uses his wishes to become a prince to chase the affections of Princess Jasmine. When Jafar finally steals the lamp and gets three wishes of his own, Aladdin must rely on his intelligence to trick Jafar and save his friends and the Kingdom. Written by FMJ_Joker

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103639/plotsummary

The Day After Tomorrow

2009-05-30T08:41:00.000-07:00

This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age. At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Professor Jack Hall (Quaid), who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to get to his son, Sam (Gyllenhaal), who was in New York City as part of a scholastic competition, when the city was overwhelmed by the chilling beginnings of the new Ice Age. In addition to all of the other challenges Dr. Hall faces, he's also going against the flow as humanity races south to warmer climes, and he's nearly the only one going north... Written by austin4577@aol.com

When global warming causes world wide disasters and leads to an ice age, a climatologist named Jack Hall tries to rescue his son Sam who is trapped in New York. Jack must go from Washington D.C. to New York, but on the way some things happen. Can Jack rescue his son? Written by mexiryan@yahoo.com

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/plotsummary

Watchmen

2009-05-29T09:22:00.000-07:00

In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so discover a deeper and far more diabolical plot. Written by evan murphy

"Watchmen" is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity... but who is watching the Watchmen?" Written by T-Hen

A group of heroes, forced into retirement a decade before are called together once again to investigate the murder of one of their own. What they discover an age-old conspiracy to change the balance of power in a world not different from our own. Written by Kent Sanderson

Watchmen is a story set in an alternative 1985, where the world is ticking closer to the brink of nuclear war, and a plot to eliminate a band of ex-crime fighters is instigated, but why? and by whom? It is up to two of those ex-crime fighters to investigate the plot that seems to go beyond the unthinkable. Written by Ruckwood

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S.W.A.T

2009-05-29T09:20:00.000-07:00

Based off of a one time T.V. show, two Los Angeles S.W.A.T. officers Jim Street and Brian Gamble were sent in to foil an extremely violent bank robbery. Although they thwarted the robbery, they shot a hostage in the process. Street was suspended from S.W.A.T. while Gamble was fired altogether. After 6 months, a veteran S.W.A.T. officer, Daniel Harrelson or "Hondo", is told to assemble a S.W.A.T. team for his division. He chooses other S.W.A.T. officers as well as 3 rookies. However, after they pass the S.W.A.T. training, they receive a message that a French crime boss, known as Alex Montell is trying to escape from prison. This will not be easy to prevent, especially after Montell promises $100 Million to his rescuers. Written by John Wiggins

The Special Weapons and Tactical division of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is the most honored and respected unit in the entire world. When two cops, Officers Jim Street and Brian Gamble foil a bank robbery holdup by shooting a female hostage, the two are kicked out of SWAT, stashing them into the "gun cage". Six months later, Street's ex-friend Gamble is gone, and so is his future until one day an cop arrives to give Street a second chance at redemption by putting him back on SWAT. That man is veteran Sergeant Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson, an Old School boss cop who think second chances are just a-OK. Now Hondo, Street, and the new SWAT team consisting of: Michael Boxer, T.J. McCabe, Deacon 'Deke' Kaye, and a female cop, Christina 'Chris' Sanchez, has a big mission: escorting Alex Montel, a international fugitive and serial killer to a federal prison in the California desert, but problems get in the way along the way including two fake cops breaking the detainee out, offering $100 Million on live TV to street gangs who can get Montel out, and worse, Gamble and McCabe getting him to safety. Can the SWAT team take down Montel and can Street finish the score with Gamble? Written by Christopher Howell (Ckh87520@aol.com)

Jim Street is a former S.W.A.T. team member, who along with his partner Brian Gamble, is thrown off the team in the aftermath of a controversial decision they made during a robbery/hostage standoff. Gamble quits the force in disgust, but for Street, being a policeman is his life and he agrees to a demotion, hoping to someday have the chance to redeem himself and once again wear the privileged S.W.A.T. uniform. He gets that chance when team commander Dan "Hondo" Harrelson is assigned to recruit and train five top-notch officers for a new Special Weapons and Tactics unit. After weeks of rigorous physical training, the new team is immediately thrown into action when a notorious drug lord, offers a $100 million bounty to anyone who can free him from police custody. As they escort the kingpin out of Los Angeles into the hands of the Feds, the S.W.A.T. team is pursued by a ruthless and well-armed band of mercenaries. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

An arrested drug kingpin is transported by a Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team led by Jackson's character out of the city and into federal custody. Plans go awry when the kingpin offers $100 million to anyone who can free him. Written by Anonymous

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Blades of Glory

2009-05-29T09:19:00.000-07:00

When rivalry between the world's best men's figure skaters - sex addicted, improvisational Chazz Michael Michaels and germophobic, precise Jimmy MacElroy - breaks into a fight on the awards platform, they're banned from the event for life. Three years later, desire for a gold medal and a careful reading of the rules lead them to compete as skating's first male-male pair. Can they overcome mutual dislike, limited time to prepare, their coach's secret past, and the dirty tricks of their main opponents, the Van Waldenberg siblings? The key to victory or defeat may lie in the attraction of the virginal Jimmy toward Katie, the Van Waldenbergs' little sister. Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}

Chazz Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy are two professional ice skaters, who after getting into a fight, are both banned from mens figures skating. Fortunately, it is soon discovered by an obsessed fan that they are banned from mens singles competition and not doubles competition. Now Chazz and Jimmy must team up as the first double mens team and take on the team of Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg, who are eager to do anything to get the victory. Written by Film_Fan

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445934/plotsummary

Hook

2009-05-29T09:17:00.000-07:00

Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy's granddaughter. Captain Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell (Roberts). With the help of her and the Lost Boys, he must remember how to be Peter Pan again in order to save his children by battling with Captain Hook once again. Written by Ed Sutton {esutton@mindspring.com}

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The Mask

2009-05-29T09:14:00.000-07:00

This is the story of a mild-mannered bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss, who has just discovered a mysterious ancient green wooden mask by the sea that is inhabited by Loki, the Norse night god of mischief. But when Stanley puts on the mask, he transforms into an uncontrolled wacky-suited green-skinned cartoony manic superhero "The Mask" that does the craziest things and amazes people in search of justice and a good time too. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

Stanley Ipkiss is a bank clerk that is an incredibly nice man. Unfortunately, he is too nice for his own good and is a pushover when it comes to confrontations. After one of the worst days of his life, he finds a mask that depicts Loki, the Norse night god of mischief. Now, when he puts it on, he becomes his inner, self: a cartoony romantic wild man. However, a small time crime boss, Dorian Tyrel, comes across this character dubbed "The Mask" by the media. After Ipkiss's alter ego indirectly kills his friend in crime, Tyrel now wants this green-faced goon destroyed. Written by Ian Pugh {skypilot@ezaccess.net}

Stanley Ipkiss is a typical loser. He is too shy to get girls, doesn't dare to stand up for himself, and is pushed around by his boss. But his world is about to change: When he finds the Mask of Night god Loki, he turns into a manic super hero who conquers the dance floor and wins the heart of beautiful Tina Carlyle. Written by Qrrbirbel

A bank clerk without much success with women comes in to possession of a mysterious mask which transforms him into his inner personality. Set in "Edge City", a big American city with a pollution and gangster problem, as "The Mask" the bumbling clerk becomes an unconventional super hero in search of justice and a good time too. Written by Rob Hartill

Stanley Ipkiss is a young shy man who works in a bank. One day, he discovers a mask by the sea, which (according to an archaeologist) pictures the Norse god of tricks and deception, Loki. When Stanley puts on the mask, he transforms into an uncontrolled reflection of himself, that does crazy things and amazes the people. This new super-hero, the "Mask", falls in love with a singer, Tina Carlyle while he decides to eliminate every gangster in the city. Written by Chris Makrozahopoulos {makzax@hotmail.com}

Mild-mannered bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss discovers a mysterious ancient mask that brings his inner most desires to wild, screaming life! Now, together with his sidekick Milo, this wise-cracking green tornado is taking Edge City over the top. Written by Robert Lynch {docrlynch@yahoo.com}

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110475/plotsummary

Van Helsing

2009-05-29T09:12:00.000-07:00

Van Helsing is in the world to rid all evil, even if not everyone agrees with him. The Vatican send the monster hunter and his ally, Carl to Transylvania. They have been sent to this land to stop the powerful Count Dracula. Whilst, here they join forces with a Gypsy Princess called Anna Valerious, who is determined to end an ancient curse on her family, by destroying the vampire. They just don't know how! Written by Film_Fan

During the late 19th century, legendary vampire hunter Gabriel Van Helsing is a man cursed with a past he cannot recall and driven by a mission he cannot deny. Van Helsing finds a land still mired in past, where legendary creatures of darkness come to life. A place ruled over by the evil, seductive and unbeatable vampire, Count Dracula. It is Dracula that Van Helsing has been sent to terminate. Anna Valerious is one of the last of a powerful royal family, now nearly annihilated by Dracula. A fearless hunter in her own right, Anna is bent on avenging her ancestors and ending an ancient curse by killing the vampire. Joined by a common foe, Van Helsing and Anna set out to destroy Dracula along with his empire of fear. But in challenging an enemy who never dies, Van Helsing uncovers a secret he never imagined and comes face-to-face with the unresolved mysteries of his own enshrouded past. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

During the late 19th century, famed monster hunter Dr. Gabriel Van Helsing heads to Eastern Europe to battle with Count Dracula, the Wolf Man, and Frankenstein's Monster. By his side is the ravishing Anna, a member of a family committed to ridding the world of evil. Written by IMDb Editors

Infamous monster hunter Van Helsing, and his priest of a sidekick Carl, travel to Transylvania to battle monsters of legend Dracula and brides and the Wolfman, and keep the notorious Count from bringing his undead children to life, and in so doing, allow the the beautiful Anna, and the rest of the family Valerious, to enter the Gates of St. Peter. Written by daywalkr82

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338526/plotsummary

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

2009-05-29T09:09:00.000-07:00

A member of a rich British aristocratic family, Lara Croft is a "tomb raider" who enjoys collecting ancient artifacts from ruins of temples, cities, etc. worldwide, and doesn't mind going through death-defying dangers to get them. She is skilled in hand-to-hand combat, weapons training, and foreign languages - and does them all in tight outfits. Well, the planets of the solar system are going into planetary alignment (Which occurs every 5,000 years), and a secret society called the Illuminati is seeking an ancient talisman that gives its possessor the ability to control time. However, they need a certain clock/key to help them in their search, and they have to find the talisman in one week or wait until the next planetary alignment to find it again. Lara happens to find that key hidden in a wall of her mansion. The Illuminati steal it, and Lara gets an old letter from her deceased father telling her about the society's agenda (Her father was also the one who hid the key). Now, she must retrieve the key and find and destroy the talisman before the Illuminati can get their hands on it. Written by Vampirok

Based on the popular video game series, Tomb Raider features the adventures of Lara Croft an antiquities hunter-for-hire. She travels to exotic locales in search of treasures and artifacts in the catacombs of ancient tombs and ruins remaining from age-old empires. A female Indiana Jones, Croft's expeditions are always chock full of action, danger, intrigue, suspense and her omnipresent knack for defying death in tight outfits. Written by Sujit R. Varma

Lara Croft is a wealthy, British archeologist/tomb raider who tries to thwart a secret society/doomesday cult seeking two pieces of a mysterious device hidden in two different places of the world in order to use it during a rare planetary alignment to bring them unlimited power to control or destroy the world. Written by Matthew Patay

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146316/plotsummary

Minority Report

2009-05-29T09:07:00.000-07:00

In the year 2054 A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad "Precrime". They use three genetically altered humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand. John Anderton heads Precrime and believes the system's flawlessness steadfastly. However one day the Pre-Cogs predict that Anderton will commit a murder himself in the next 36 hours. Worse, Anderton doesn't even know the victim. He decides to get to the mystery's core by finding out the 'minority report' which means the prediction of the female Pre-Cog Agatha that "might" tell a different story and prove Anderton innocent. Written by Soumitra

In Washington, D.C., in the year 2054, murder has been eliminated. The future is seen and the guilty punished before the crime has ever been committed. From a nexus deep within the Justice Department's elite Pre-Crime unit, all the evidence to convict--from imagery alluding to the time, place and other details--is seen by "Pre-Cogs," three psychic beings whose visions of murders have never been wrong. It is the nation's most advanced crime force, a perfect system. And no one works harder for Pre-Crime than its top man, Chief John Anderton. Destroyed by a tragic loss, Anderton has thrown all of his passion into a system that could potentially spare thousands of people from the tragedy he lived through. Six years later, the coming vote to take it national has only fueled his conviction that Pre-Crime works. Anderton has no reason to doubt it until he becomes its #1 suspect. As the head of the unit, Anderton is the first to see the images as they flow from the liquid suspension chamber where the Pre-Cogs dream of murder. The faces are unknown to him, but this time, the killer's identity is clear when Anderton will murder a total stranger in less than 36 hours. Now with his own unit tracking his every move, led by his rival Danny Witwer, Anderton must go below the radar of the state-of-the-art automated city, where every step you take is monitored. Because people can't hide, everybody runs. With no way to defend himself against the charge of Pre-Crime, John must trace the roots of what brought him here, and uncover the truth behind the questions he has spent the past six years working to eliminate: Is it possible for the Pre-Cogs to be wrong? Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

Based off of a short story. It is the near future, a future where murders have become so common, that a system had to be established. This system is called "Precrime", where 3 physics can predict murders before they happen. Allowing police to stop the murders. This system is in production in Washington D.C. Where police officer John Anderton (who lost his son to a murder 6 years previous) has stopped numerous murders in his career. One day, he found out that he is the next person to commit a murder. Now, he is running away from a system he helped become successful, and trying to find out why he was set up to commit murder. Written by John Wiggins

Based on a Philip K. Dick short story, Minority Report is about a cop in the future working in a division of the police department that arrests killers before they commit the crimes courtesy of some future viewing technology. John Anderton has the tables turned on him when he is accused of a future crime and must find out what brought it about and stop it before it can happen Written by Anonymous

In the year 2054, a so-called "pre-crime division" is working around Washington, DC. Its purpose is to use the precog(nitive) potential of three genetically altered humans to prevent murders. When the three precogs, who only work together, floating connected in a tank of fluid, have a vision, the names of the victim and the perpetrator as well as video imagery of the crime and the exact time it will happen, are given out to the special cops who then try to prevent the crime from happening. But there is a political dilemma: If someone is arrested before he commits a murder, can the person be accused of the murder, which - because of the arrest - never took place? The project of pre-crime, at the time being in a state of trial run, is going to be voted about in the near future. If people accept it, the crime rate is going to drop drastically, but it never will be known if there might not be too many people imprisoned, some or even all of them innocent. After John Anderton lost his son to a crime a six years ago, he took up drugs, and works the precog division like nobody else. One day, his own name arrives in the "perpetrator" chute, and the precogs predict that he will kill a man he never knew in less than 36 hours. John takes off, his trust in the system diminishing rapidly. His own colleagues after him, John follows a very small trace that might hold the key to his innocence, a strange unsolved yet predicted murder and a so-called "minority report", a documentation of one of the rare events in which a precog sees something different than the other two. Written by Julian Reischl {julianreischl@mac.com}

It is the year 2054 - Washington D.C. - dreams can be recreated through computers, computer monitors and displays are transformed into holograms, and identification is done through eye-scanning. John Anderton lost his son, and to prevent horrible events from occurring to other individuals he joins a unit known as "Pre-Crime" - where murderers are arrested before they can commit the murder. How does Pre-Crime work? Through 3 people known as "precogs". They are 3 psychics used to see the future and they see murders exactly the way they will occur. Through advanced technology, Pre-Crime officers are able to see what the precogs see, and they analyze the data, identify the perpetrator and victim, and try their best to stop the murder from occurring. The perpetrator is put into a sleep state with a device called a "halo". John Anderton gets accused of murdering a man he has never even met, causing him to run from Pre-Crime and prove his innocence. Written by Demijan Omeragic "Nuh"

Ine the year 2054, murders are predicted before they happen. This is due to three supernatural beings called Precognitives. The three of them are kept in a milky substance in a room called the temple. Images from their brain are produced onto a screen, where Chief John Anderton searches for clues to the murder's location using the images. His faith in the system is born of pain. He lost his son, Sean, six years ago. He's now separated and divorced from his wife, Lara, and has resorted to drugs to keep himself in control. One day, however, his life turns around when the Precogs see a vision of him killing a man named Leo Crow. Now on the run from the cops of Precrime, Anderton has to prove his innocence and discover if his murder was one of the rare cases in which one Precog sees things differently from the other two, called a Minority Report. Written by Ridley Lavine

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/plotsummary

Troy

2009-05-29T09:06:00.000-07:00

It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad." Written by Mensur Gjonbalaj

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The Incredible Hulk

2009-05-29T09:02:00.000-07:00

Depicting the events after the Gamma Bomb. 'The Incredible Hulk' tells the story of Dr Bruce Banner, who seeks a cure to his unique condition, which causes him to turn into a giant green monster under emotional stress. Whilst on the run from military which seeks his capture, Banner comes close to a cure. But all is lost when a new creature emerges; The Abomination. Written by Graham Kroon

A cure is in reach for the world's most primal force of fury: THE INCREDIBLE HULK. We find scientist Bruce Banner, living in shadows, scouring the planet for an antidote. But the warmongers who dream of abusing his powers won't leave him alone, nor will his need to be with the only woman he has ever loved, Betty Ross. Upon returning to civilization, our brilliant doctor is ruthlessly pursued by The Abomination -- a nightmarish beast of pure adrenaline and aggression whose powers match The Hulk's own. A fight of comic-book proportions ensues as Banner must call upon the hero within to rescue New York City from total destruction. One scientist must make an agonizing final choice -- accept a peaceful life as Bruce Banner or the creature he could permanently become: THE INCREDIBLE HULK. Written by Babak A.

Dr. Bruce Banner is secretly living in the greatest slum of South America, the Favela da Rocinha, and working in a factory of "cachaça" in Rio de Janeiro. While seeking the cure with his beloved Dr. Elizabeth Ross and other scientists, he learns how to control his emotions and heart beat and to keep his human form for a long period. When General Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross finds a clue of his location in Brazil, he sends a command leaded by the tough Major Emil Blonsky to abduct Dr. Banner. However, he transforms in Hulk and escapes to Guatemala. Later he contacts Betty and his colleagues and when he is close to find his cure, Blonsky captures him and transforms himself in powerful beast The Abomination. Dr. Banner has to decide whether he should remain human or transform in The Incredible Hulk again to stop The Abomination. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/plotsummary

Click

2009-05-29T09:01:00.000-07:00

The architect Michael Newman has a typical middle-class family with his lovely and gorgeous wife Donna and their son Ben and daughter Samantha, and a constant visit of his parents. However, Michael is workaholic and under stress, trying to satisfy his boss with overwork and get a partnership in his company, giving priority to his work and neglecting the family issues. When the tired Michael goes to a department store to buy an universal remote control, he rests on a bed and he meets the weird salesman Morty that offers him a remote control capable of controlling his own universe. Michael uses too much and loses the control of the device, having his own life controlled by the remote control. Then Michael sees the worthwhile parts of his personal life he missed while working, and in the end of his life he lately concludes that the family comes first. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Michael Newman (Sandler) is a hard working family man, who must please his boss (Hasselhoff), in order to get promoted. Problem is he gets less time with his family, and wishes for a remote in which he can control his life. This soon comes true for Newman, when he meets Morty (Walken), a crazy sales clerk, who has the ultimate remote. A remote in which he can do anything, including muting, skipping and dubbing his life. He finds this to be the opportunity in which he can not only skip every argument, but also skip to his promotion. He sees this as a good idea, until the remote goes horribly wrong. Written by Film_Fan

Michael Newman is a loving father and husband, but he's got an office and a career he sees more often than his own family. To only make matters worse is a boss who takes everything for granted, including advantage of Michael by dangling a promotion in front of his face. But when one late night trip to a Bed, Bath and Beyond store for a new remote control, Michael finds himself in the possession of a new kind of remote control, developed by an eccentric inventor. A remote control so significant that it allows Michael to be able to fast forward, rewind, pause and practically control all the events in his life. So much to an extent that it becomes a luxury for the overworked man who finally gets some quality time with his family and his life. But not everything lasts forever as Michael is about to find out, when the remote control begins to malfunction, causing Michael to deal with the consequences. Written by mystic80

On the surface, Michael Newman seems to have it all, yet with all the demands forced upon him by his ungrateful boss Ammer, Michael finds that setting aside time to spend with his loving wife, Donna, and two picture-perfect children, Ben and Samantha, has grown increasingly difficult. When a frustrating bout with the television remote leads the overworked husband and father to a nearby Bed, Bath & Beyond in search of a universal remote with the power to control all of his electronic devices, a curious peek into the back room leads Michael into the company of eccentric employee and talented inventor Morty. It seems that Morty has created a device that will not only allow Michael complete control over his television and stereo, but his entire life as well. As Michael discovers that the remarkable device has the power to muffle the barks of the family dog, zoom himself past an irritating quarrel with his wife, and even allow him to travel back and forth through time to different points in his life, the rush of being able to skip straight to the good parts in life soon leaves him feeling as if he's missing out on the total experience. Only when Michael begins to realize that the he has lost control of his life and the remote is now programming him does he finally learn that life is as much about the moments he'd rather forget as it is the moments he will always remember. Written by Anonymous

Michael Newman is a workaholic architect working hard to keep his wife and kids happy. One night, Michael is on the road in search of an open store that may sell him a universal remote control to make his life easier. At the Bed, Bath, & Beyond store, Michael meets Morty, the inventor of a very advanced piece of technology, a remote control that not only controls his TV, but controls his whole LIFE!!! Now that he's using the remote on a regular basis, his work-life and family-life are finally in balance, he's trying harder than he ever imagined to spend more time with his family. Now, frustrated that his stuck up boss hasn't made him partner at his construction firm yet, he uses the remote to fast-forward through his life until his promotion. What he doesn't realize is that he has skipped through a whole year. The remote is now powered by its memory, and starts to fast-forward through crucial moments in his life, including arguments, foreplay, traffic, and, worst of all, promotions at his job. One year turns into ten years and than another six years. Written by Zac Abrams

Michael Newman seems to have a perfect life- a beautiful wife, two small children, and a job with great potential. But as his jerky boss passes Michael up for promotion after promotion, Michael becomes fed up, and wishes he could find a way to just, oh, skip through the hard parts in life. He gets exactly that -and much, much more- when he stumbles upon the Beyond section of a Bed, Bath, and Beyond in search of a universal remote. But as it turns out, the remote controls, well, the entire universe! At first this seems a blessing, but as the remote begins to program itself Michael finds his life skipping by, sometimes a few months, sometimes years. Will he be able to get his life back before its entirely gone? Written by Anonymous

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389860/plotsummary