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Jan
26

Legion (2010)

118 CommentsAction, Fantasy, Horror, ThrillerJanuary 26th, 2010

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Legion

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After God loses faith in humanity, the Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany), who has become a fallen angel, is the only one standing between mankind and Armageddon. This time using angels to execute the Last Judgment, God’s wrath descends on Earth to exterminate the world’s population. In a desperate, last-chance gambit, Michael leads a group of strangers in a small New Mexico diner to become unlikely heroes to protect a young waitress (Adrianne Palicki). Ultimately, Michael sacrifices himself to protect Charlie and Jeep from Gabriel, but Gabriel catches up with them and tries to kill the baby, but is stopped by Michael who God has resurrected as an Archangel. Apparently Michael’s actions have restored God’s faith in humanity and he has given Michael a second chance. Michael defeats Gabriel and heads back to Heaven with him, leaving Jeep to protect Charlie and the baby who will grow up to lead humanity out of the darkness of the Apocalypse that has occurred.

Cast:Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Adrianne Palicki, Charles S. Dutton, Jon Tenney, Kevin Durand, Willa Holland, Kate Walsh, Dennis Quaid

 

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Jan
26

The Book of Eli (2010)

112 CommentsAction, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, WesternJanuary 26th, 2010

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Thirty years after an apocalyptic event, Eli (Denzel Washington) is on a journey to the west coast of the United States. On his travels he runs into many enemies, but he ably dispatches them with fluid bladework.
Searching for a source of water he arrives in a ramshackle town which is overseen by Carnegie (Gary Oldman). Carnegie is a literate man and he has gangs looking for a book, though the gangs and his own henchmen do not understand why he wants the book.
After shooing away a cat in Carnegie’s bar, Eli is set upon by a gang of bikers; Eli kills them all. Realizing that Eli is a literate man like himself Carnegie asks Eli to stay, though it is made clear that the offer is not negotiable. After Carnegie’s blind wife Claudia (Jennifer Beals) gives Eli some food Carnegie asks Claudia’s daughter Solara (Mila Kunis) to seduce Eli. Eli turns her down but before they eat he says a prayer.
The following day Solara prays with her mother and Carnegie realizes that Eli has a copy of the Bible, the book he has been looking for, as all copies were destroyed after the apocalypse. Eli sneaks out of his room and goes to the stores across the street where he asked the Engineer (Tom Waits) to recharge his portable battery.

Cast:Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Frances de la Tour, Michael Gambon, Tom Waits

 

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Jan
25

Avatar (2009)

509 CommentsAction, Adventure, Sci-Fi, ThrillerJanuary 25th, 2010

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Avatar

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In AD 2154, a human corporation mines Pandora, the lush moon of Polyphemus, one of three gas giants that orbit Alpha Centauri A, 4.4 light years from Earth. The humans seek to exploit Pandora’s reserves of a precious mineral called unobtainium. The company employs former Marines and soldiers as mercenaries.Pandora is inhabited by an indigenous paleolithic species of sapient humanoids called the Na’vi. Standing nine feet tall, with tails, bones reinforced with naturally occurring carbon fiber, and bioluminescent blue skin, the Na’vi live in harmony with the natural world, and are considered primitive by human standards. They worship a mother goddess called Eywa.Humans are unable to breathe Pandora’s atmosphere, which is rich in carbon dioxide, methane, and ammonia, and peaceful interaction with the Na’vi is difficult. Human researchers led by Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver) create the Avatar Program, genetically engineering human-Na’vi hybrids.

Cast:Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez

 

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Jan
24

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18,163 CommentsAction, Adventure, Animation, Biography, Cartoon, Children, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Family, Fantasy, History, Horror, Music, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Sports, Suspense, Teen, Thriller, Tragicomedy, War, WesternJanuary 24th, 2010

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Jan
23

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

84 CommentsAction, Adventure, Sci-FiJanuary 23rd, 2010

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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It is revealed that thousands of years ago there was a race of ancient Transformers who scoured the universe looking for energon sources. Known as the Dynasty of Primes, they used machines called Sun Harvesters to drain stars of their energy in order to convert it to energon and power Cybertron’s AllSpark. The Primes agreed that life-bearing worlds would be spared, but in 17,000 BC, one brother, thereafter dubbed “The Fallen”, constructed a Sun Harvester on Earth. The remaining brothers thus sacrificed their bodies in order to hide the Matrix of Leadership—the key that activates the Sun Harvester—from The Fallen, who swore to seek revenge upon Earth.
In the present day, two years after the events of the previous film, Optimus Prime is seen leading NEST, a military organization consisting of human troops and his own team of Autobots (including newcomers Arcee, Chromia, Elita One, Sideswipe, Jolt, and the twins Skids and Mudflap) aimed at killing the remaining Decepticons on Earth. While on a mission in Shanghai, Optimus and his team destroy Decepticons Sideways and Demolishor, being given a warning by the latter that “The Fallen will rise again”. Back in the United States, Sam Witwicky finds a splinter of the destroyed AllSpark, and upon contact the splinter fills his mind with Cybertronian symbols. Deeming it dangerous, Sam gives the AllSpark splinter to his girlfriend Mikaela Banes for safe keeping, and leaves her and Bumblebee behind to go off to college. Upon arrival, Sam meets his college roommate Leo Spitz, who runs an alien conspiracy website, and Alice, a co-ed who makes sexual advances on him. Back home, Decepticon Wheelie tries to steal the shard, only to be captured by Mikaela. After having a mental breakdown, uncontrollably writing in Cybertronian language, Sam calls Mikaela, who immediately leaves to get to him.

Cast:Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Peter Cullen, Hugo Weaving, Mark Ryan, Frank Welker, Jess Harnell, Charlie Adler, Robert Foxworth, Tony Todd, Tom Kenny, Grey DeLisle, André Sogliuzzo, Kevin Michael Richardson

 

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Jan
22

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

110 CommentsAction, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerJanuary 22nd, 2010

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Sherlock Holmes

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In 1891 London, Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Dr. John Watson (Jude Law) race to prevent a human sacrifice ritual conducted by Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong). Holmes and Watson stop the sacrifice just in time and neutralize Lord Blackwood while Holmes saves Watson from a glass shard Blackwood used to kill his enemies that he barely sees until the last second, after which the police, led by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), arrive and arrest him.
Blackwood’s execution occurs three months later, during which Holmes has become bored without a new case. Watson prepares to leave 221B Baker Street to establish his own business, and he intends to marry Mary Morstan (Kelly Reilly). Blackwood requests Holmes’ presence on the day of his execution, and warns him that three more deaths will occur after his execution that will change the very nature of their world. Blackwood is executed by hanging, and declared dead by Dr. Watson himself.
Holmes is re-acquainted with Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams). She offers him a sum of money to pursue a case of a missing red-haired midget by the name of Reordan. Holmes disguises himself to find the identity of Adler’s employer, but can only surmise that he is a professor.

Cast:Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong

 

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Jan
22

Daybreakers (2009)

80 CommentsAction, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, ThrillerJanuary 22nd, 2010

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Daybreakers

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Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a hematologist in the year 2019, in which a plague has transformed much of the world’s population into vampires. Edward is employed by Bromley Marks, a pharmaceutical company that is the chief supplier of blood for the American population, which is operated by Charles Bromley (Sam Neill). As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human for their blood, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. When deprived of blood for extended periods of time, vampires lose their human-like characteristics and begin to transform into winged bat-like monsters called “sub-siders,” those of which have diminished mental capacity and no ability to speak and are driven strictly by their impulse to feed. However, a covert group of humans makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race. After being saved by Edward, Audrey (Claudia Karvan) – the group’s leader – brings him in on the secret: there is a cure to vampirisim. One of the group, Elvis (Willem Dafoe), is a human who was cured of being a vampire. Following a car crash in which he was thrown through the windshield, and into a river, he was exposed to sunlight by accident for a very short time before hitting the water, thus extinguishing the fire. Upon emerging, he discovered that he was human again. Edward attempts to replicate this by using a fermentation vat with an added trap door to initiate controlled sunlight exposure, concluding that the blood needs to be exposed to sunlight while in the human body for the treatment to be effective. After several controlled exposures using the vat’s air vent to suck out the fire, the experiment is successful and Edward is cured.

Cast:Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Isabel Lucas, Sam Neill

 

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Jan
10

Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball (2010)

30 CommentsAction, Comedy, CrimeJanuary 10th, 2010

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Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball

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Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball is a film being released straight to DVD on January 19, 2010 starring Vinnie Jones and Tom Berenger. The film is a prequel to Joe Carnahan’s 2007 film Smokin’ Aces.
Walter Weed (Berenger) is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty. The assassins include a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey, a power-tool wielding psychopath and a deadly master of disguise.

Cast:Tom Berenger, Vinnie Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Michael Parks, Ernie Hudson

 

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Jan
03

Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009)

5 CommentsAction, Drama, Sci-FiJanuary 3rd, 2010

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Universal Soldier: Regeneration

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With stolen top-secret technology, terrorists have created a next-generation Universal Soldier – an elite fighter genetically altered into a programmable killing machine. With this ‘UniSol’ (Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Andrei Arlovski) leading the way, they seize the crippled Chernobyl nuclear reactor, threatening to unleash a lethal radioactive cloud.
The only one who can stop them is Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a UniSol who’s been decommissioned for years. Reactivated and retrained, Deveraux must make a full-out assault on the heavily armed fortress. But inside, he’ll discover not one, but two of these virtually indestructible warriors. Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren), Deveraux’s vicious UniSol enemy from the original Universal Soldier, has been secretly reanimated and upgraded.
Now these elite fighters are locked, loaded and programmed to kill; and the fate of millions hinges on this high-action showdown.

Cast:Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Andrei Arlovski

 

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Jan
02

2012 (2009)

20 CommentsAction, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, ThrillerJanuary 2nd, 2010

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In 2009, American geologist Adrian Helmsley meets his friend, Dr Santam Tsurutani, in India. Santam has discovered that neutrinos from a massive solar flare are acting as microwave radiation, causing the temperature of the Earth’s core to increase rapidly. Adrian informs White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser and US President Thomas Wilson that this will trigger a catastrophic chain of natural disasters. At the G8 summit in 2010, other heads of state and heads of government are made aware of the situation. They begin a massive, secret project intended to ensure the survival of humanity. Approximately 400,000 people are chosen to board a series of ships (called Arks, in reference to Noah’s Ark) to be constructed in the Himalayas. The majority of tickets aboard these ships are reserved for notable government officials and selected people, while additional funding for the project is raised by selling tickets to the private sector at the price of €1 billion per person.

Cast:John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton

 

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Jan
01

A Dangerous Man (2010)

5 CommentsAction, ThrillerJanuary 1st, 2010

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A Dangerous Man

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We open as Shane Daniels (Steven Seagal) stands before a judge in jail house blues. He listens as the judge tells him that he has the Arizona state’s apology for spending the last six years incarcerated for a violent murder he didn’t commit. That DNA evidence has proven his innocence beyond a shadow of a doubt. The Judge asks if there is anything he wants to say. A visibly angry Shane asks them if they can give him his life back.
Within hours of being released to the streets, Shane finds himself the intended victim of a street robbery. Using a combination of brutal boxing and martial arts skills, Shane takes out his two attackers. Unable to cope in the noisy city Shane takes to the road. Cut to a rest stop along a lonely stretch of highway. It’s early evening and there are no other cars in the lot with the exception of Shane who sits atop the hood of his car taking long pulls from the half empty whisky bottle. That’s when he witnesses a state trooper pulling over a car containing two Chinese nationals. When the Chinese nationals kill the state trooper and try to kill a few witnesses, Shane is forced to intervene. In a brutal fight he kills one of the attackers and sends the other running off into the desert.

Cast:Steven Seagal, Daryl Shuttleworth, Jerry Wasserman, Byron Mann

 

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Jan
01

Give ‘Em Hell, Malone (2009)

3 CommentsAction, Crime, ThrillerJanuary 1st, 2010

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Give 'Em Hell, Malone

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Give ‘em Hell, Malone is an upcoming action/crime film directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Thomas Jane, Ving Rhames and Elsa Pataky.
A private eye, Malone (Tom Jane of The Punisher), retrieves a case that leads him on a dangerous journey filled with women, double-crossings, and colorful characters to solve a mystery of its contents and why everyone wants him dead. Directed in the style of classic detective films, Tarantino styles, and a flavor of ‘The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly’.

Cast:Thomas Jane, Ving Rhames, Elsa Pataky

 

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Dec
23

District 9 (2009)

19 CommentsAction, Drama, Sci-FiDecember 23rd, 2009

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In 1982, a large alien spaceship stops above Johannesburg, South Africa. Reports suggest that the ship became stranded after a command module separated from the ship and dropped to Earth, nowhere to be found. An exploratory team discovers a group of one million unhealthy and leaderless members of an arthropod-like extraterrestrial species who are given asylum on Earth. Some of these aliens engage in criminal and destructive activities, which lead to demands from the human population for more control. As a result, the aliens – derogatorily referred to as “prawns” – are confined to a government camp inside Johannesburg, called District 9. The camp is secured and, even with a massive police presence, soon turns into a slum. In the first decade of the 21st century, Multinational United (MNU) is placed in charge of policing and relocating the now 1.8 million aliens to District 10, a new camp 240 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg. They use a private military corporation, headed by Koobus Venter, to enforce the relocation effort with impunity.

Cast:Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Mandla Gaduka, William Allen

 

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Dec
22

The Boxer (2009)

6 CommentsAction, Drama, SportsDecember 22nd, 2009

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The Boxer

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The Boxer (2009) – All Ben Wilson (Joshua Dallas, The Descent 2) wants is to be a better man. So when he hooks up with Joe Miller (Stacy Keach, TV’s Prison Break), a cantankerous old boxing trainer, he finally gets his chance. Preparing for a title-qualifying bout against The Butcher — the sadistic bully who once nearly crippled him — Ben hopes to win fame, fortune and the girl he loves. For in today’s world, there’s only one way to get what you really want: you’ve got to fight for it!

Cast:Kelly Adams, Joshua Dallas, Henry Garrett, Stacy Keach

 

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Dec
22

Armored (2009)

13 CommentsAction, Drama, ThrillerDecember 22nd, 2009

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The movie begins with Ty (Columbus Short), the main character, going to work like any other day. They travel to a bank and pick up something that needs to be moved. Once they exit the bank with the money, Baines (Laurence Fishburne) signals for them to wait. He says a black van has circled their truck twice, and to be on the look out. They load up and move out. However, while traveling along a back road, their truck stalls. Baines tries to start the truck, but can’t. The truck has been sabotaged by someone putting sugar in the gas tank. They try to radio for help, but can’t, they are in a radio dead zone. Just then, the black van speeds up behind the truck and four men in gas masks jump out and stick a bomb to the back window. Ty tries to get away, but is stuck next to the bomb. The bomb goes off, and… launches a bottle rocket into the truck. It was all a prank being played on Ty. They all laugh it off and drive back, saying it was a prank. After work, Ty and all his coworkers are at the bar, discussing how other people have successfully robbed armored trucks before, to judge how Ty reacts. Mike (Matt Dillon) takes Ty home, but stops at a hot dog stand first. They get hot dogs, and on the way home from the stand, Mike breaks the news – they want Ty to help with a robbery. Their plan is to pick up 42$ million from a bank, but instead of delivering it where it is supposed to go, they want to stash it all, torch the trucks, and fake being robbed.

Cast:Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne, Amaury Nolasco

 

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