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August 16, 2010

Centurion


AD 117. The Roman Empire stretches from Egypt to Spain, and East as far as the Black Sea. But in northern Britain, the relentless onslaught of conquest has ground to a halt in face of the guerrilla tactics of an elusive enemy: the savage and terrifying Picts. Quintus Dias (Fassbender), sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' (West) legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the earth and destroy their leader Gorlacon. But when the legion is ambushed on unfamiliar ground, and Virilus taken captive, Quintus faces a desperate struggle to keep his small platoon alive behind enemy lines. Enduring the harsh terrain and evading their remorseless Pict pursuers led by revenge-hungry Pict Warrior Etain (Kurylenko), the band of soldiers race to rescue their General and to reach the safety of the Roman frontier.

Actors: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Noel Clarke, David Morrissey
Directors: Neil Marshall

Blood Done Sign My Name


Synopsis
Nate Parker (The Great Debaters) stars with Golden Globe-winner Ricky Schroder (TV's 24) in this electrifying true story as told in the award-winning book by Timothy Tyson. When a black Vietnam War vet is murdered by whites in small-town North Carolina, it sparks a firestorm of violent protest. Amid the rising chaos, a local teacher (Parker) and newly arrived preacher (Schroder) will risk everything to see justice done and change the brutal legacy of the past. From writer/director Jeb Stuart (screenwriter of Die Hard), it's a powerful, emotionally explosive film the New York Times applauds as "...rich and fascinating."

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Michael Rooker
• Lela Rochon
• Afemo Omilami
• Rick Schroder
• Nick Searcy
• Darrin Henson
• Darrin Dewitt Henson
• Nate Parker
• Omar Miller

Writers:
• Jeb Stuart

Producers:
• Mari Stuart
• Jeb Stuart
• Mel Efros

Directors:
• Jeb Stuart

Batman: Under The Red Hood


Synopsis
In Batman: Under The Red Hood, Batman faces his ultimate challenge as the mysterious Red Hood takes Gotham City by firestorm. One part vigilante, one part criminal kingpin, Red Hood begins cleaning up Gotham with the efficiency of Batman, but without following the same ethical code. Killing is an option. And when the Joker falls in the balance between the two, hard truths are revealed and old wounds are reopened. Featuring a fantastic voice cast headed by Bruce Greenwood, Jensen Ackles and Neil Patrick Harris. This dazzling OC Universe Original Animated Movie twists and turns through action-packed battles and exciting surprises for a thrill ride you can't miss!

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Bruce Greenwood
• Neil Patrick Harris
• Jason Isaacs
• Jensen Ackles
• John DiMaggio
• Wade Williams

Writers:
• Judd Winick

Producers:
• Bobbie Page
• Bruce Timm

Directors:
• Brandon Vietti

American Bandits Frank And Jesse James


Synopsis
After Jesse James (George Stults) is wounded by a bullet to the chest, his brother Frank (Tim Abell) splits the gang up and plans a rendezvous in four days time. With the Marshall Kane (Peter Fonda) in hot pursuit, and betrayal within the outlaw band, the stage is set for a blazing and climactic shootout in the deserted town of Gila Wells.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Siri Baruc
• Lauren Eckstrom
• Jeffrey Combs
• Tim Abell
• Anthony Tyler Quinn

Writers:
• Fred Olen Ray

Producers:
• Kimberly A. Ray
• Fred Olen Ray

Directors:
• Fred Olen Ray

Accidents Happen


Synopsis
Oscar winner Geena Davis stars as Gloria Conway, the sharp-tongued mom in this darkly comic story of a family strangely cursed with a streak of bad luck. But as life takes unexpected detours, Gloria manages to tear apart her pain to find the humor in even the toughest things that happen to her. When her teenage son Billy uncharacteristically lets off some steam in a series of scandalous pranks, the tragic results are something no one could have predicted. But with the love of his family and some unexpected help, Billy sees the magic behind life's oddest accidents.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Geena Davis
• Sarah Woods
• Erik Thomson
• Sebastian Gregory
• Joel Tobeck
• Harry Cook
• Harrison Gilbertson

Writers:
• Brian Carbee

Producers:
• Anthony Anderson

Directors:
• Andrew Lancaster

August 10, 2010

Little Einsteins: Oh Yes, It's Springtime


Synopsis
Go on an adventure with Little Einsteins in this interactive animated series. With the help of their spaceship named Rocket, these kids solve mysteries and make discoveries. This release includes the episodes 'O Yes O Yes It's Springtime', 'Farmer Annie', and 'Annie And The Beanstalk'.

Killer Bitch


A woman is forced into a deadly game in which she has to kill five people or all her friends and family will be butchered. With extreme violence and red hot sex, it's a hard-edged lads' movie that takes no prisoners. Attacked by media worldwide as vile, sordid and ultra-violent; this now notorious British gangster film stars Yvette Rowland with cage fighter Alex Reid, former World Boxing Champion Robin Reid and the most True Crime legends ever caught on film, including Roy Shaw, Cass Pennant, Howard Marks, Jason Marriner, Carlton Leach, Dave Courtney and many more. Vile? Degrading? Sick? Porn? Now YOU can decide.

Actors: Alex Reid, Cass Pennant, Carlton Leach, Dave Courtney, Roy Shaw
Directors: Liam Galvin

Here and There


Synopsis
Robert (character actor David Thornton) is a grumpy burned-out musician, trying to survive in Manhattan. When his fed-up friend Rose (Thornton's real-life wife Cyndi Lauper in a small role) throws him out of her apartment, the destitute Robert reluctantly makes a deal with the young Serbian, Branko (Branislav Trifunovic), who's moving his stuff out. For a hefty fee, Robert agrees to fly to Belgrade and marry Branko's girlfriend, Ivana (Jelena Mrdja), so that she can move to New York. Branko gives him a down payment, and Robert goes to Belgrade and moves in with Branko's mother, Olga (Mirjana Karanovic of Emir Kusturica's When Father was Away on Business and Underground). Robert is predictably miserable there, unimpressed with the city's culture and unresponsive to Olga's kindness. Back in New York, Branko faces his own struggles. While he's desperately trying to raise the money to pay Robert, his van is stolen. He begs Robert to stay in Belgrade for another week until he can send the money. Devoid of options, Robert agrees, and, despite himself, slowly begins to enjoy his stay. Here and There marks the narrative feature debut of writer-director Darko Lungulov. The film had its International Premiere at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the award for Best New York Narrative.

Cemetery Junction


Synopsis
Cemetery Junction tells the funny, touching and universal story of being trapped in a small town and dreaming of escape. In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie (Christian Cooke) wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce (Tom Hughes) and loveable loser Snork (Jack Doolan) are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie (Felicity Jones), the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives forever.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Ralph Fiennes
• Emily Watson
• Felicity Jones
• Ricky Gervais
• Tom Hughes
• Christian Cooke
• Jack Doolan

Writers:
• Ricky Gervais
• Stephen Merchant

Directors:
• Ricky Gervais
• Stephen Merchant

Bass Ackwards


Synopsis
When Humble Linas (Linas Phillips), kicked off of his friend's couch and spurned by his lover, finds a forgotten van on a llama farm outside Seattle, he begins lurching east with nothing to lose. Slowly, the road eases him out of his relentless longing and into the moment. As his encounter with enigmatic characters take on subtly transcendent qualities, his shame and discomfort at being along gradually give away to self-acceptance and connection. The dented, off-kilter vehicle, which valiantly, amazingly endures the journey, becomes a colorful metaphor for the human condition - our tenacity and hopefulness always tingled with imperfection. This utterly original, lyrical and visually exciting adventure has such a light touch that it quietly sneaks up and tugs you into an overpowering appreciation of being human.

Cast & Crew
Writers:
• Linas Phillips

Producers:
• Thomas Woodrow

Directors:
• Linas Phillips

August 4, 2010

Town Called Panic, A


Synopsis
Hilarious and delightfully wacky, the stop-motion extravaganza A Town Called Panic has endless charms and raucous laughs for children and adults alike. Based on the Belgian cult TV series (released by Wallace & Gromit's Aardman Studios), Panic stars three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town that never fails to attract the craziest events.
Cowboy and Indian's plan to surprise their pal Horse with a homemade barbeque pit goes awry when the 50 million bricks they accidentally order online show up on their doorstep. This sets off a raucous chain of events as the trio travels to the center of the earth, treks across frozen tundra (complete with a giant snowball-throwing robot penguin) and discovers a parallel underwater universe of treacherous, pointy-headed creatures.

Runaways, The


Synopsis
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie in the music-fueled coming of age story of the groundbreaking, all-girl rock band, The Runaways. They fall under the Svengali-like influence of rock impresario Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon, Pearl Harbor), who turns the rebellious Southern California kids into a rock group with outrageous success. With its tough-chick image and raw talent, the band quickly earns a name for itself and so do its two leads: Joan is the band's pure rock n' roll heart, while Cherie, with her Bowie-Bardot looks, is the sex kitten.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Scout Taylor-Compton
• Dakota Fanning
• Kristen Stewart
• Alia Shawkat
• Stella Maeve
• Michael Shannon

Writers:
• Floria Sigismondi

Producers:
• Art Linson
• John Linson
• Bill Pohlad

Directors:
• Floria Sigismondi

Blood on the Highway


After a gastrointestinal mishap with their map, three twenty-somethings on a road-trip accidentally wander into Fate, Texas, only to find the town populated by bloodthirsty, dimwitted vampires. A brutal run-in with two carnivorous convenience store clerks leads the three to take refuge with the town's only surviving humans and prepare for battle with an army of the undead.

The citizens of sleepy small town Fate, TX gather for the grand opening of Consumart, a shiny new one-stop-shopping box store. The eager consumers gleefully pour into the store as the doors open at sundown. Why is the grand opening at sundown? Who cares, they've got cut-rate prices on plasma screens and baby clothes! DVDs! Mayonnaise! Coffins! Coffins? And before they have to time to really question this item, terror ensues and the store erupts into a bloodbath. A few weeks later, three oblivious, self-absorbed twenty somethings - CARRIE, SAM, and BONE - head out on a road trip to Mr. Fire (a festival which shares only minor non-litigious similarities, all of a purely coincidental nature, to Burning Man) and accidentally wander into Fate, unaware of its population's ill-fated transformation... into vampires. Being that the heroes are 20-somethings, they do it. Carrie, a shallow hothead, is dating Sam's wallet, er, Sam, who is a whiny, naive, hypochondriac rich boy. Bone, a callous hard-ass with a venomous way of speech, is still nursing a desire for Carrie predicated upon a drunken, frivolous one night stand. After a run-in with two blood-thirsty convenience store clerks in which Sam is repeatedly bitten and attacked and Bone is forced to slaughter them, our protagonists begin it wonder if something strange might be going on in the town. Luckily, but only in the sense that they didn't get murdered, the three stumble upon the only surviving humans in town: BYRON VON JONES, a trigger-happy, conspiracy theorist militia member; LYNETTE VON JONES, a haggard, trailer park slut and the only surviving wife out of Byron's harem; and ROY JACKSON (Chris Gardner), a cowardly, lying frat boy in his early 20s. The group bands together and takes shelter in Roy's ranch house, surrounded by hundreds of vampires intending to torch the property before sunrise, so they don't have to go home and try again the next day. Will our heroes escape death and transformation? Will Bone win over Carrie's dubious and indifferent heart? Does he even really care? And will the nefarious corporate franchise relevance to the plot ever be explained?

August 2, 2010

Shelter


Julianne Moore (THE HOURS) and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM) team up for this dark psychodrama from the writer of IDENTITY. Moore stars as a psychiatrist who stumbles onto a frightening discovery when it becomes apparent that the multiple personalities of her latest patient are those of people who have been brutally murdered. With time quickly running out she must uncover the secret buried deep within her patient's mind if she's to thwart further killings.

Outside, The


The son of a Southern California surfing legend grows up to become a professional surfer, only to realize too little too late that his celebrity status may be the one thing that's keeping him from realizing his true potential. As a young boy, Ned Blakely (Michael Graziadei) learned the rules of the waves from his mother (Nia Peeples), a lifelong surfer who spent so much time on the water that her blood seemed to flow with the tide. Years later, Ned takes the advice of his friends and enters into the world of competitive surfing. A true natural, he wins every competition he enters with ease. The next thing Ned knows, he's got an agent, and he's living the dream. But when the partying gets out of hand and the endorsement deals dry up, the surfer who rode his wave of success all the way to the top realizes that in order to take control of his life he must reassess his values, and refocus on the things that are truly important.

Starring-Michael Graziadei
Co-Star-Nia Peeples, Dante Basco, Rob Moran, Nicky Whelan
Director-Ari Davis

Operation: Endgame


An action comedy about two teams of government assassins working out of a top-secret underground facility using code names from the Tarot deck. When our hero - The Fool - arrives for his first day at work to find that the boss has been killed under mysterious circumstances, he must find the killer before the whole place blows up.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Ving Rhames
• Ellen Barkin
• Emilie de Ravin
• Maggie Q
• Odette Yustman
• Jeffrey Tambor
• Zach Galifianakis
• Adam Scott
• Rob Corddry
• Bob Odenkirk
• Joe Anderson
• Brandon T. Jackson

Directors:
• Fouad Mikati

July 30, 2010

To Save a Life


Synopsis
Jake is the most popular kid in school and has a promising future, but his world is rocked when tragedy strikes his childhood best friend. Now Jake is forced to ask "Could I have saved him?" With help from a few new friends, he embarks on a journey to live a life of purpose, knocking down the sacred social barriers of high school life and befriending a loner, Johnny Garcia. But When Johnny's life soon spiral's out of control, will Jake have what it takes to stop him from the same tragic end? Can one person really make a difference?

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Randy Wayne

My Fake Fiancé


Synopsis
Cash strapped duo Jennifer (Melissa Joan Hart) and Vince (Joey Lawrence) hatch the perfect plan - fake a relationship, engagement and quickie wedding. He will get the money to pay off a loan shark, and Jennifer will keep the house wares to fill her home after her moving van is stolen. Convincing their families they're really in loves proves challenging, however, these two unlikely partners begin to soften towards each other. Could love really be in the air?

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Melissa Joan Hart
• Joey Lawrence

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid


Synopsis
The hysterically funny, best-selling book comes to life in this smash-hit family comedy! Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid's life - middle school! That won't be easy, considering he's surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies and a moldy slice of cheese with nuclear cooties!

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Steve Zahn
• Rachael Harris
• Zachary Gordon
• Robert Capron

Writers:
• Jackie Filgo
• Jeff Filgo
• Jeff Judah
• Gabe Sachs

Producers:
• Nina Jacobson
• Brad Simpson

Directors:
• Thor Freudenthal

Confessions Of A Porn Addict


Synopsis
Mark Tobias had it all: a job, a house and Felice, his adoring wife. The only blemish in his otherwise perfect existence in his malignant addiction to porn. Confessions of a Porn Addict is a hilarious mockumentary that takes Mark and his Porn Addicts sponsor Bob on a redemptive journey to the heart of the porn industry in the San Fernando Valley, where he attempts to reclaim his old life and confront his favorite his favorite pornographer, the notorious Rob Black.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Lindsey Connell
• Spencer Rice
• Mark Breslin

Writers:
• Spencer Rice

Directors:
• Duncan Christie