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July 14, 2009

Fifth Commandment, The


In Bangkok, an assassin who turns down a job that hits too close to home finds himself targeted by the elite members of his profession.

Actors: Rick Yune, Keith David, Bokeem Woodbine, Dania Ramirez, Roger Yuan
Directors: Jesse V. Johnson
Writers: Rick Yune
Producers: Rick Yune, Andrew Zarrow, Patrick Cole

Table For Three


Synopsis
Brandon Routh of Superman Returns stars as Scott, who is suddenly single and alone after his girlfriend dumps him during his marriage proposal and his roommate moves thousands of miles away. But when he invites super-nice strangers Ryan and Mary (Sophia Bush of One Tree Hill and Jesse Bradford of Bring It On) to share his apartment, they soon begin to intrude on every aspect of his life including his new relationship with the girl of his dreams (Jennifer Morrison of House M.D.). Is Scott just being paranoid or does this seemingly 'perfect couple' need a third wheel to keep them rolling?

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Jesse Bradford
• Sophia Bush
• Brandon Routh
Writers:

• Michael Samonek

Producers:
• Melissa Jones
• Nathan Talbert Reimann

Directors:
• Michael Samonek

Princess Protection Program


Synopsis
Get ready for a hilarious and heartwarming royal reality check in Princess Protection Program, the new smash-hit Disney Channel Original Movie starring Selena Gomez (Wizards Of Waverly Place) and Demi Lovato (Sonny With A Chance)! Plus, this Royal B.F.F. Extended Edition DVD features an insider's look at the realities and responsibilities of being a real-life princess, and lets you listen in as real-life best friends Selena and Demi dish about their lives on and off the set!

The worlds of royalty and roughing it collide when the lovely Rosalinda (Lovato) enters the Princess Protection Program and moves in with her new "cousin" Carter (Gomez), a total tomboy. In an unexpected role reversal, "Rosie" learns how to act like an everyday girl and Carter finds her own inner princess. Once they discover what they have in common, they prove that best friends really are forever!

Cast & Crew

Actors:
• Jamie Chung
• Demi Lovato
• Selena Gomez
• Molly Hagan
• Samantha Droke
• Sully Diaz
• Nicholas Braun
• Kevin G. Schmidt
• Tom Verica
• Robert Adamson
• Dale Dickey

Writers:
• Annie DeYoung
• David Morgasen

Producers:
• Danielle Weinstock

Directors:
• Allison Liddi-Brown

Killshot


Synopsis
Mickey Rourke stars as Armand "Blackbird" Degas, a mafia hit man who shoots to kill and never leaves witnesses... until now. When Carmen and Wayne Colson (Diane Lane, Thomas Jane) see him at the scene of a botched murder attempt they become his next targets. After entering witness protection they discover the law isn't on their side and decide to take matters into their own hands.

Cast & Crew

Actors:
• Mickey Rourke
• Thomas Jane
• Diane Lane
• Rosario Dawson
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Writers:
• Hossein Amini

Producers:
• Lawrence Bender
• Richard N. Gladstein

Directors:
• John Madden

Echelon Conspiracy


Synopsis
When Max Peterson (Shane West) receives a series of mysterious cell phone messages that promise him untold wealth, he soon finds himself the victim of a deadly international plot. Chased by a lethal team of government operatives, Max races across the planet in a desperate attempt to unravel a conspiracy that threatens the stability of the entire world. Edward Burns, Ving Rhames and Martin Sheen co-star in this techno-charged edge-of-your-seat action thriller!

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Martin Sheen
• Ving Rhames
• Edward Burns
• Shane West
Directors:
• Greg Marcks

Bob Funk


Synopsis
An attractive executive (Rachael Leigh Cook) joins the Funk family futon company where she is being groomed to replace Bob (Michael Leydon Campbell), the eldest son. Bob is on a downward spiral facing each morning with a gluttony of coffee, booze and women without much else to fill his day. Ultimately Bob's over-the-top behavior forces his mother to fire him. As Bob sets out on a path to regain control of his life and get his job back, he just might find love along the way.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Rachael Leigh Cook
• Grace Zabriskie
• Amy Ryan
• Michael Leydon Campbell

Writers:
• Craig Carlisle

Producers:
• Keith Kjarval

Directors:
• Craig Carlisle

Magique

Note: This is a French movie with English subtitles

Synopsis

On an isolated farm live Betty and her 10-year-old son Tommy.
Young Tommy has never met his father before; his mother has always told him that she didn’t know who he was. So Tommy convinced himself that his father was actually an astronaut and his mother never told him otherwise. Each night he sits and watches the sky waiting for him to return. Tommy rarely sees his mother happy and he would love to see a smile light up her face, but how? One day he discovers that a circus is coming to town. But, due to legal technicalities, they are forbidden to set up their tent in the town! Certain that he has found the solution to his problem, Tommy seizes the opportunity. He succeeds in convincing his mother to welcome the circus onto their property. The caravans come in and set up in the field next to the farm house. But another problem arises: Bingo, the man in charge of transporting the main tent got lost along the way, and without the tent, there cannot be a show!

While all the performers are waiting for the tent to arrive, Tommy gets the opportunity to learn a little bit about the joyful life of transients. Slowly, love begins for two lonely hearts.


Director: Philippe Muyl
Screenplay: Philippe Muyl
Producers: Nathalie Gastaldo, Andre Rouleau
Starring: Marie Gillain, Cali, Antoine Duléry, Benoît Brière, Louis Dussol

Watchmen


Synopsis
Someone's killing our super heroes. The year is 1985 and super heroes have banded together to respond to the murder of one of their own. They soon uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger. The super heroes fight to stop the impending doom only to find themselves a target for annihilation. But, if our super heroes are gone, who will save us?

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Carla Gugino
• Malin Akerman
• Billy Crudup
• Patrick Wilson
• Matthew Goode
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan
• Jackie Earle Haley

Writers:
• David Hayter
• Alex Tse

Directors:
• Zack Snyder

War Wolves


JACK FORD LEADS A SPECIAL FORCES UNIT BACK TO THE UNITED STATES TO HUNT DOWN JAKE GABRIEL, A SOLDIER WHO HAS BEEN INFECTED WITH THE WEREWOLF VIRUS THAT TURNS MAN INTO WOLF. LITTLE DOES JACK KNOW THAT THREE OF THE FEMALE SOLDIERS SERVING IN HIS UNIT HAVE ALSO BEEN INFECTED AND HAVE ALREADY TRANSFORMED INTO SHE-WOLVES.

Actors: Michael Worth, John Saxon

Transmorphers: Fall of Man


Synopsis
In this present day prequel, the robot invaders attack the Earth, forcing a small band of humans to seek refuge below the surface of the planet.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Jennifer Rubin
• Bruce Boxleitner
• Shane Van Dyke

Writers:
• Shane Van Dyke

Producers:
• David Michael Latt

Directors:
• Scott Wheeler

Tetsujin 28: Morning Moon Of Midday


Note: This movie is in Japanese language

The granddaddy of Japanese giant robots continues his adventures in this animated movie! Born in a manga created by revered artist Yokoyama Mitsuteru in 1956, "Tetsujin 28" has starred in four TV anime series since the 1960s. The animated movie version Tetsujin 28 - Morning Moon of Midday was made by the principal cast and crew of the 2004 series and was shown in Japan's theaters in 2007. Written and directed by Imagawa Yasuhiro, the movie is set 10 years after the end of WWII. Junior detective and "Tetsujin 28" operator Kaneda Shotaro meets a young man also named Shotaro, who is trained in operating the giant robot. The namesake is actually the foster son of Kaneda's late father, thus the two Shotaros are brothers. They must find and retrieve their father's other creation, "Ruins Bomb", a weapon of mass destruction that could destroy Tokyo! However, a mysterious figure known as "Morning Moon" confronts Kaneda and attempts to kill him...

Skeleton Crew


Sypnosis
In the Early 1970's a remote mental institution next to the Russian border was shut down by the police. Before it was closed, DR Anderson made a series of snuff films using his patients. The doctor filmed all the murders in 8mm, and started to call himself "The Auteur". Thirty years later, an American film crew arrives in Finland to shoot a horror movie about the massacre, and are unaware that they are about to become the stars of their director's real life snuff film, they are in one. The Auteur is slaying the Skeleton Crew one by one.

Actors: Rita Suomalainen, Steve Porter, Jonathan Rankle, David Yoken, Anna Alkomaa
Directors: Tero Molin, Tommi Lepola

In The Loop


Synopsis
IN THE LOOP finds writer/director Armando Iannucci expanding his critically acclaimed satire THE THICK OF IT for the big screen and features a cast including Peter Capaldi (TORCHWOOD), James Gandolfini (THE SOPRANOS), Tom Hollander (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN), Peter Capaldi (THE THICK OF IT), Steve Coogan (I'M ALAN PARTRIDGE) and former child star Anna Chlumsky (MY GIRL). The foul-mouthed comedy follows the US President and UK Prime Minister as they conspire to start a war and promote is as a 'good thing'. US General Miller (Gandolfini) disagrees, as does British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster (Hollander). When the mild-mannered minister appears on TV, is quoted out of context and made to look like he endorses the conflict, he suddenly finds his every move under the watchful eye of the PM's amoral chief of communications (Capaldi). The Brits soon find themselves in Washington and at the centre of what will become an insurmountable 'mountain of conflict'.

Actors: Anna Chlumsky, Steve Coogan, Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini, Peter Capaldi
Directors: Armando Iannucci

Grey Gardens


Synopsis
Thirty-five years after the Maysles brothers' famed documentary of the same name, Grey Gardens offers awry, behind-the-scenes look at "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, two charming eccentrics who were relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and inhabitants of a decaying mansion in the Hamptons. Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange star as the reclusive mother and daughter whose unconventional tastes and social rebellion transcended public opinion and forged a unique and unbreakable bond. Told over a span of four decades, the film, directed by Michael Sucsy from a script written by Sucsy and Patricia Rozema, focuses on their glamorous and well-heeled lives long before the making of the documentary and on the circumstances behind their riches-to-rags story.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Drew Barrymore
• Jessica Lange
• Jeanne Tripplehorn
• Daniel Baldwin
• Ken Howard
• Malcom Gets

Writers:
• Patricia Rozema
• Michael Sucsy

Producers:
• David Coatsworth

Directors:
• Michael Sucsy

Dolan's Cadillac


Sypnosis
Based on the story by Stephen King. Tom Robinson (Wes Bentley) is a peaceful, law-abiding schoolteacher until his wife Elizabeth (Emmanuelle Vaugier) accidentally witnesses a murder. Jimmy Dolan (Christian Slater), Las Vegas' most ruthless and untouchable mob boss, never leaves behind a witness. Haunted by the ghost of his wife, Robinson transforms himself into an obsessed vengeance machine, pushing himself beyond the breaking point of mind, body and spirit. When the two men finally meet deep in the heart of the desert, "Dolan's Cadillac" climaxes with an amazing test of wills the ultimate duel. The Cadillac, which has been Dolan's armor, may just as easily become his tomb.

Director: Jeff Beesley
Screenwriter: Richard Dooling
Starring: Christian Slater, Wes Bentley, Emmanuelle Vaugier

Duplicity


CIA officer Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) and MI6 agent Ray Koval (Clive Owen) have left the world of government intelligence to cash in on the highly profitable cold war raging between two rival multinational corporations. Their mission? Secure the formula for a product that will bring a fortune to the company that patents it first.
For their employers—industry titan Howard Tully (Tom Wilkinson) and buccaneer CEO Dick Garsik (Paul Giamatti)—nothing is out of bounds. But as the stakes rise, the mystery deepens and the tactics get dirtier, the trickiest secret for Claire and Roy is their growing attraction. And as they each try to stay one double-cross ahead, two career loners find their schemes endangered by the only thing they cheat their way out of: love.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Julia Roberts
• Tom Wilkinson
• Paul Giamatti
• Clive Owen

Writers:
• Tony Gilroy

Directors:
• Tony Gilroy

Day In The Life, A


Synopsis
Bad blood between two urban crime families explodes into an all-out turf war in this gritty, hard-hitting drama set to rap and starring music legend Sticky Fingaz. Stick (Fingaz) has plans to leave the mean street life behind, but when two members of his Family are gunned down by a rival gang, he's forced to choose between a new life for himself and his girlfriend - or loyalty to his blood brothers. Also starring Omar Epps, Mekhi Phifer, and Michael Rapaport.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Michael Rapaport
• Bokeem Woodbine
• Kurupt
• Faizon Love
• Drena De Niro
• Mekhi Phifer
• Clarence Williams III
• Omar Epps
• Sticky Fingaz
• Treach
• Fredro Starr
• Michael K. Williams

Directors:
• Sticky Fingaz

Fast & Furious


When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) reignites his feud with agent Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker). But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmanuever him. And from convoy heists to precision tunnel crawls across international lines, two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what's possible behind the wheel.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Michelle Rodriguez
• Jordana Brewster
• Vin Diesel
• Paul Walker

Writers:
• Chris Morgan

Directors:
• Justin Lin

Chameleon


Note: This movie is in Japanese with English subtitles

Death Note's Fujiwara Tatsuya transforms into an action star in the 2008 crime thriller Chameleon. Directed by Sakamoto Junji (Aegis, Face), the hardboiled actioner revolves around a group of small-time swindlers whose lives are thrown in peril after they cross a dangerous crime syndicate. Fujiwara Tatsuya gets to show off both his chameleon acting and action skills as the gun-brandishing hero, a challenging role originally written for late actor Matsuda Yusaku. Popular actress Mizukawa Asami (Monkey Magic, Last Friends) co-stars as a fortune teller with a mysterious past, along with rising star Shioya Shun (Like a Dragon) and antagonist Toyohara Kosuke (Children of the Dark).
The chameleon leader of a con ring, Goro (Fujiwara Tatsuya) and his cohorts happen to witness a kidnapping one day after a successful scam. Goro records the incident on his mobile phone, and soon learns that the kidnapped man is a key witness in a high-profile political corruption case. The perpetrators, however, are also aware Goro and his friends have incriminating evidence on hand. Goro cuts a deal with kidnapping mastermind Kijima (Toyohara Kosuke) - secrecy in exchange for safety - but when one of Goro's partners rescinds on the agreement, so too does the enemy. With Kijima and his men eliminating their gang one by one, Goro must fight back with all he's got to avenge his buddies and protect his new love (Mizukawa Asami).


Artist Name(s):Fujiwara Tatsuya (Actor), Mizukawa Asami (Actor), Toyohara Kosuke, Shioya Shun
Director: Sakamoto Junji

Bracelet Of Bordeaux, The


Synopsis
Two teen girls overcome danger and conspiracies as they set out to solve the crime and administer justice with the help of a magical bracelet. As the girls battle the mob, a punk gang and a crooked cop, they learn something about friendship, courage and the importance of hanging with the right crowd.

Actors: Ally Claire Carson, Kelsey Edwards, Shane Kelly, Shane Savage
Directors: Casey Kelly