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Friday, August 19, 2011

Fast Five 2011 (The Fast & The Furious #5)


Plot: Former cop Brian O’Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they’ve blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom. As they assemble their elite team of top racers, the unlikely allies know their only shot of getting out for good means confronting the corrupt businessman who wants them dead. But he’s not the only one on their tail. Hard-nosed federal agent Luke Hobbs never misses his target. When he is assigned to track down Dom and Brian, he and his strike team launch an all-out assault to capture them. But as his men tear through Brazil, Hobbs learns he can’t separate the good guys from the bad. Now, he must rely on his instincts to corner his prey… before someone else runs them down first.








Genre: Action | Crime | Drama
IMDB rating: 7.6/10
Directed by: Justin Lin
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson








Zookeeper

Plot: In Zookeeper, the animals at the Franklin Park Zoo love their kindhearted caretaker, Griffin Keyes (Kevin James). Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Griffin decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job. The animals, in a panic, decide to break their time-honored code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk! To keep Griffin from leaving, they decide to teach him the rules of courtship – animal style.




Genre: Comedy | Family | Romance
IMDB rating: 4.1/10
Directed by: Frank Coraci
Starring: Kevin James, Rosario Dawson and Leslie Bibb








Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides


Plot: Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.

Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
IMDB rating: 6.9/10 (55,572 votes)
Directed by: Rob Marshall
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz and Ian McShane








Kung fu Panda 2

Plot: In Kung Fu Panda 2, Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five. But Po’s new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. Po must look to his past and uncover the secrets of his mysterious origins; only then will he be able to unlock the strength he needs to succeed.



Genre: Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family
iMDB Rating: 7.7/10
Directed by: Jennifer Yuh
Starring: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman








Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Madeas Big Happy Family 2011

PLOT: Madea jumps into action when her niece, Shirley, receives distressing news about her health. All Shirley wants is to gather her three adult children around her and share the news as a family. But Tammy, Kimberly and Byron are too distracted by their own problems: Tammy can’t manage her unruly children or her broken marriage; Kimberly is gripped with anger and takes it out on her husband; and Byron, after spending two years in jail, is under pressure to deal drugs again. It’s up to Madea, with the help of the equally rambunctious Aunt Bam, to gather the clan together and make things right the only way she knows how: with a lot of tough love, laughter … and the revelation of a long-buried family secret.

Genre: Comedy | Drama
IMDB rating: 6.6/10 (2,354 votes)
Directed by: Tyler Perry
Starring by: Tyler Perry, Loretta Devine, Bow Wow








Monday, August 8, 2011

The Bang Bang Club


Plot:A drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa.

Genre: Drama
IMDB rating: 6/10
Directed by: Steven Silver
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman and Taylor Kitsch








WinWin

Plot: Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty (Giamatti), who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy’s mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything.


Genre: Comedy | Drama
IMDB rating: 7/10 (2,915 votes)
Directed by: Thomas McCarthy
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan and Jeffrey Tambor








Deadly Crossing


Plot: When an influx of violent and ruthless heroin dealers descend on Seattle, Elijah Kane (Steven Seagal) leads an elite undercover squad of cops to bring them to justice.

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama
IMDB rating: 5.8/10
Directed by: Wayne Rose
Starring: Steven Seagal, William ‘Big Sleeps’ Stewart and Alex Mallari Jr.








Sunday, August 7, 2011

Repeaters

Plot: A gritty mind-bending thriller about three twenty-somethings who find themselves in an impossible time labyrinth, where each day they awaken to the same terrifying day as the preceding one.

Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
IMDB rating: 6.0/10
Directed by: Carl Bessai
Starring: Dustin Milligan, Amanda Crew and Richard de Klerk









Saturday, August 6, 2011

The Ward

Plot: In 1966, in North Bend, Oregon, the runaway Kristen is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. Kristen is introduced to Dr. Gerald Stringer, who uses experimental therapy. Then she meets the inmates Emily, Sarah, Zoey and Iris and the tough nurse Lundt. During the night and in the shower later, Kristen sees the ghost of a woman and she learns that she is Alice Leigh Hudson, a mysterious wicked intern that has disappeared. When Iris is ready to go home, she is attacked by the ghost of Alice in the basement and murdered. She vanishes and the inmates decide to seek Iris out. Then Sarah is abducted by the Alice and also killed; the next one is Emily. Meanwhile Kristen escapes from her room and meets Zoey, expecting to protect her. However, Zoey is kidnapped by Alice and Kristen runs to Dr. Stringer’s office. She snoops his desk and finds a report with the truth about Alice.

Genre: Horror | Thriller
IMDB rating: 5.7/10 (3,957 votes)
Directed by: John Carpenter
Starring: Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer and Danielle Panabaker








Hoodwinked Too!

Plot: From the team that brought you ‘Hoodwinked,’ the hilarious re-telling of the classic Little Red Riding Hood fable, which grossed over $110 million in the United States, comes the side-splitting all-new tale ‘Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil.’ The sequel finds our heroine, Red, training with a covert group called the Sisters of the Hood. However, before she can finish her training, she’s forced to leave to rescue her Granny, Hansel and Gretel. Of course, what is a sequel without guest stars from the original? Thankfully, Granny and the rest of the Hoodwinked gang, including Nicky Flippers, who returns as head of the Happily Ever After Agency, along with the Wolf and his furry little caffeinated partner, all help solve the forest’s latest caper. ‘Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil’ is sure to be a rollicking, clever, comic rollercoaster ride combining edge of your seat adventure with classic, zany cartoon antics.

Genre: Animation | Family
IMDB rating: 5.4/10
Directed by: Mike Disa
Starring: Hayden Panettiere, Glenn Close and Patrick Warburton








Thursday, August 4, 2011

Bad Teacher


Plot: A comedy centered around a foul-mouthed, junior high teacher who, after being dumped by her sugar daddy, begins to woo a colleague — a move that pits her against a well-loved teacher.

Genre: Comedy
IMDB rating: 6.0/10 (11,577 votes)
Directed by: Jake Kasdan
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel and Justin Timberlake








The Ledge

Plot: A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills. Ultimately, as a test of faith, or lack of it, the believer forces the non-believer onto the ledge of a tall building. He then has one hour to make a choice between his own life and someone else’s. Without faith in an afterlife, will he be capable of such a sacrifice?

Genre: Drama | Thriller
IMDB rating: 7/10 (915 votes)
Directed by: Matthew Chapman
Starring: Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson, Charlie Hunnam, Christopher Gorham









Monte Carlo


Plot: Three graduates fulfill their dreams of vacationing in Paris. They accidentally find themselves in a lavish world, where they live like royalty and experience romance. But at the end of their journey, they discover the true magic of friendship.

Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Romance
IMDB rating: 6.2/10
Directed by: Thomas Bezucha
Starring: Selena Gomez, Katie Cassidy, Leighton Meester








Beautiful Boy


Plot: A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life.

Genre: Drama
IMDB rating: 7.0/10
Directed by: Shawn Ku
Starring: Michael Sheen, Maria Bello and Kyle Gallner