Control (2007)

Control is a 2007 black-and-white biographical film about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. Matt Greenhalgh wrote the screenplay based on the book Touching from a Distance, written by Curtis' widow Deborah who co-produced the film. Directed by Anton Corbijn, Control stars Sam Riley as Ian, Samantha Morton as Deborah, and Alexandra Maria Lara as Annik Honoré. It also stars James Anthony Pearson, Joe Anderson, and Harry Treadaway as Joy Division members...

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The Game Plan (2007)

The Game Plan is a 2007 family comedy film directed by Andy Fickman and starring Dwayne Johnson. This is the last film in which Johnson uses his ring name "The Rock." This is also the last Disney film to be distributed by Buena Vista, due to Disney semi-retiring the name in May 2007, making all other future Disney movies (starting with Enchanted) permanently distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.The last game of the regular football...

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Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 American computer-animated film and the fourth feature-length film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It was directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Lee Unkrich and David Silverman, and written by Jill Culton, Peter Docter, Ralph Eggleston, Dan Gerson, Jeff Pidgeon, Rhett Reese, Jonathan Roberts, and Andrew Stanton. The starring voices are John Goodman and Billy Crystal as monsters who scare children for a living, Mary...

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War, Inc. (2008)

War, Inc. is a 2008 American political satire film starring John Cusack and directed by Joshua Seftel. Cusack also co-wrote and produced the film.The film opens in a bar in Nunavut when hitman Brand Hauser (John Cusack) asks the bartender for a shot glass. After speaking to a man beside him, he takes out a small bottle of hot sauce and pours it into the glass. He drinks it, and shoots and kills the three men at the bar. He takes a picture of the...

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Cougars Inc. (2011)

Cougars, Inc., developed under the title Mother's Little Helpers, is a comedy indie film written and directed by Asher Levin about rebellious coming-of-age teenager Sam Lowell (Kyle Gallner). Sam has been kicked out of some of the top boarding schools across the country. Now, he finds himself making new friends and struggling to fit in at a prep-school in Southern California called Moore Prep. After Sam's mom is no longer able to afford his pricey...

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The Orphanage (2007)

The Orphanage (Spanish: El Orfanato) is a 2007 Spanish-Mexican horror film and the debut feature of Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona. The film stars Belén Rueda as Laura, Fernando Cayo as her husband, Carlos, and Roger Príncep as their adopted son Simón. The plot centers on Laura, who returns to her childhood home, an orphanage. Laura plans to turn the house into a home for disabled children, but a problem arises when she and Carlos realize that Simón...

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The Big Bang (2011)

Late one night, Los Angeles private investigator, Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas) gets a visit from a recently paroled Russian boxer with an intriguing job offer: find Lexie, his missing girlfriend--and the 30-million dollar stash of diamonds she's hiding. As Detective Cruz sets out to find her, the clues send him into the city's seediest corners, from a Hollywood action star with a dirty little secret (James Van Der Beek), to an enterprising porn producer...

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The King's Speech (2010)

The King's Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays King George VI who, to overcome his stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech therapist played by Geoffrey Rush. The two men become friends as they work together, and after his brother Edward VIII abdicates, the new king relies on Logue to help him make a radio broadcast on the day that Britain goes to war with Germany...

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The Warrior's Way (2010)

The Warrior's Way is a 2010 fantasy action film, starring South Korean actor Jang Dong-gun, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush, Danny Huston, and Tony Cox. The film was written and directed by Sngmoo Lee, and it was produced by Barrie Osborne, who also produced Lord of the Rings.The film was released on December 3, 2010.In the 19th century, a warrior named Yang (Jang Dong Gun) is ordered to kill the last memberof an enemy clan--a baby. He refuses the mission...

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Leap Year (2010)

Leap Year is a 2010 American romantic comedy film directed by Anand Tucker. The film, which stars Amy Adams and Matthew Goode, premiered in New York City on January 6, 2010.Anna Brady (Amy Adams) plans to travel to Dublin, Ireland to propose to her boyfriend Jeremy (Adam Scott) on February 29, leap day, because, according to Irish tradition, a man who receives a marriage proposal on a leap day must accept it.[3] While mid-flight to Dublin, there...

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Tom Yum Goong (2005)

Tom-Yum-Goong (Thai: ต้มยำกุ้ง, IPA: [tôm jam kûŋ], distributed as Warrior King in the UK, as The Protector in the US, as Thai Dragon in Spain, and as Revenge of the Warrior in Germany) is a 2005 Thai martial arts film starring Tony Jaa. The film was directed by Prachya Pinkaew, who also directed Jaa's prior breakout film Ong-Bak. As with Ong-Bak, the fights were choreographed by Jaa and his mentor, Panna Rittikrai. In the United States, it was endorsed...

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Gamer (2009)

Gamer is a 2009 science fiction thriller film written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.[3] The film stars Gerard Butler as a participant in an online game in which participants can control human beings as players, and Logan Lerman as the player who controls him. Gamer was released in North America on September 4, 2009 and the United Kingdom on September 16, 2009.In a near-future New York, eccentric Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) has...

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Prowl (2011)

Prowl is a 2010 American horror film directed by Patrik Syversen and written by Tim Tori and starring Courtney Hope, Ruta Gedmintas and Bruce Payne.The film concerns a young lady named Amber, who dreams of escaping her small town existence. She therefore persuades her friends, Peter, Suzy and Ray to accompany her to find an apartment in the big city, Chicago. Unfortunately, the vehicle transporting Amber and her friends to Chicago breaks down and...

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Street Kings 2 : Motor city (2011)

Street Kings 2: Motor City is a 2011 direct-to-DVD action-crime film directed by Chris Fisher and starring Ray Liotta. It is a sequel to the 2008 film Street Kings. The film is a sequel in name only, as it takes place in Detroit rather than Los Angeles and only Clifton Powell as Sergeant Greene returns from the first film's cast. However, it deals with similar themes of police corruption and internal affairs investigations that were seen in the...

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Sanctum (2011)

Sanctum is a 2011 3D adventure drama film directed by Alister Grierson and executive produced by James Cameron.17-year-old Josh (Rhys Wakefield), expedition bank-roller Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd) and his girlfriend Victoria (Alice Parkinson) travel by helicopter to the Esa'ala Cave, an underwater cave exploration site in Papua New Guinea.Upon reaching the cave it is made known that Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh), Josh's father and a master diver,...

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The Chaperone (2011)

The Chaperone is a 2011 film by WWE Studios starring World Wrestling Entertainment wrestler Triple H (Paul Levesque), Yeardley Smith, Ariel Winter, Kevin Corrigan, José Zúñiga, Kevin Rankin, Enrico Colantoni, and Israel Boussard.Ray Bradstone (Levesque) is the best wheel man in the business, but he is determined to go straight and be the best parent he can be to his daughter, Sally (Ariel Winter), and make amends with his ex-wife, Lynne (Annabeth...

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The Reef (2011)

Kate, her brother Matt and his girlfriend Suzie arrive at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia to meet up with Kate’s ex-lover Luke. Luke and his friend Warren deliver boats round the world for a living. Luke’s offered to take his three friends sailing for a week on a boat he has to deliver to Indonesia. On the water Kate and Luke’s relationship starts to reignite but it’s fraught with old conflicts. Dawn, the next day. Suddenly the boat flips....

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The Eagle (2011)

The Eagle is a 2011 historical epic film directed by Kevin Macdonald, and starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, and Donald Sutherland. Adapted by Jeremy Brock from Rosemary Sutcliff's historical adventure novel The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), the film tells the story of a young Roman officer searching to recover the lost Roman eagle standard of his father's legion in the northern part of Great Britain. The story is based on the Ninth Spanish Legion's...

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The Inheritance (2011)

"The Inheritance" had a rather interesting-looking poster, and that was what initially lured me to this movie. So based on the poster, I decided to give the movie a go.Now, the movie's history is somewhat interesting, and it is what keeps the movie afloat, because the scares in the movie are virtually non-existent. The movie is labeled as thriller, but it hardly managed that at all. There are moments where the movie builds up some suspense, but that...

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The Hit List (2011)

The Hit List is an upcoming film starring Peter Reidy and Cole Hauser. It was originally under the working title of "The List".Allan Campbell (Cole Hauser), a man who has had a very bad day, goes to a bar to drown his sorrows. He drunkenly befriends a mysterious man who calls himself Jonas (Cuba Gooding Jr.), revealing to him a list of five people he wishes were dead.But as the bodies start piling up, and with a detective (Jonathon LaPaglia) hot...

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The Mechanic (2011)

The Mechanic is a 2011 American action thriller film starring Jason Statham as the title character. It is directed by Simon West, is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name that starred Charles Bronson. Statham stars as Arthur Bishop, a professional assassin who specializes in making his hits look like accidents, suicides, or the acts of petty criminals. It was released in the United States and Canada on January 28, 2011.Download The Mechanic...

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