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October 11, 2010

Machete



The highly skilled Federale Machete is hired by some unsavory types to assassinate a senator. But just as he's about to take the shot, he notices someone aiming at him and realizes he's been set up. He barely survives the sniper's bullet, and is soon out for revenge on his former employers, with the reluctant assistance of his old friend Cheech Marin, who has become a priest and taken a vow of nonviolence. If you hire him to take out the bad guys, make sure the bad guys aren't you!

Directors: Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez
Danny Trejo ... Machete Cortez
Robert De Niro ... Senator John McLaughlin
Jessica Alba ... Yvetta Sartana
Steven Seagal ... Torrez
Michelle Rodriguez ... Luz
Jeff Fahey ... Michael Booth
Cheech Marin ... Padre Cortez
Don Johnson ... Von Jackson
Shea Whigham ... Sniper
Lindsay Lohan ... April Booth

October 7, 2010

House That Jack Built, The


A dying, powerful father asks his only son to preserve the family estate and never tear it down. Time loosens his promise, and Jack demolishes the estate to build a "party palace". On opening night, Jack and company are in for a rude awakening. A "monstrous spirit" has returned with murderous intents on those who have knocked the house

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Kris Black, Gail O'Grady, Michael Guarnera, Justin Shilton
Directors: Bruce Reisman

Predators


Predators, a bold new chapter in the Predator universe, shot under the creative auspices of Robert Rodriguez, stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they’ve been brought together on an alien planet… as prey. With the notable exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers--mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members--human “predators” that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators in the ultimate battle of survival of kill, or be killed.

Actors: Danny Trejo, Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Laurence Fishburne, Alice Braga
Directors: Nimrod Antal

22 Bullets


Note: This movie is in French language with English subtitles

After a long, brutal and successful career in the Marseille mafia, Charly Matteï (Jean Reno) has turned a new leaf and gone straight. For three years, he has lived a quiet life devoted to his wife and two young children. Then, one winter morning, he is left for dead on the docks of the old port with 22 bullets in his body. Somehow he survives. And goes looking for Tony Zacchia, the only man who would dare to try to kill him. Zacchia made just one mistake: he failed.

Actors: Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Marina Pois, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Directors: Richard Berry

October 6, 2010

Who is Clark Rockefeller?


Synopsis
Based on the true story of one of the FBI's most elusive con artists, Emmy Award winner Eric McCormack (TV's "Will & Grace") and Sherry Stringfield (TV's "ER") star in Who is Clark Rockefeller?, an unbelievable story of love, loss and Deceit.
When Clark Rockefeller, aka Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, charmed his way into the life of Sandra Boss, he thought he finally found the perfect identity. However, when Sandra unravels the truth behind Clark's lies, her life and marriage fall to pieces. And when Clark boldly kidnaps his own daughter in an attempt to disappear forever, Sandra must confront her past and expose the truth before it's too late.


Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Sherry Stringfield
• Regina Taylor
• Emily Alyn Lind
• Stephen McHattie
• Eric Mccormack

Writers:
• Edithe Swensen

Producers:
• Edithe Swensen

Directors:
• Mikael Salomon

Short Track


The daily life experiences of Carolinian, Blake Beckett, a five-time stockcar racing short track champion, are exposed through unique characters that work and play through weeks that culminate in 120 mph Saturday nights. Sparks fly as Beckett's country-singing teenaged daughter falls for a young California race driver. Blake longs to make it to the sport's top series, while struggling to find a way to help his deaf son follow in his race driving footsteps.

Pepper Sweeney ... Blake Beckett
Barbara Niven ... Audrey Beckett
Joshua Snyder ... Indy Johansen
Ann Bratton ... Abby Beckett
Patrick Gorman ... 'Pops' Beckett
Mathis Fender ... Brody Beckett
Kaley Bridgeman ... Chevy Beckett
Matt Knudsen ... Wayne
Steven Christie ... Cotton

Please Give


Synopsis
Married antique-dealers, Kate and Alex (Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt) plan on gutting the apartment they own next door to expand their own pad once Andra, the cranky, elderly widow (Ann Guilbert) who lives there, finally dies. When Kate, conflicted with her own guilt, befriends Andra's granddaughters (Rebecca Hall and Amanda Peet), the results are anything but predictable in this devastatingly funny comedy that examines life and death...and everything in between!

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Catherine Keener
• Rebecca Hall
• Amanda Peet
• Ann Morgan Guilbert
• Sarah Steele
• Oliver Platt

Writers:
• Nicole Holofcener

Directors:
• Nicole Holofcener

Nightmare On Elm Street, A (2010)


Synopsis
Five teenage friends living on one street all dream of a sinister man with a disfigured face, a frightening voice and a gardener's glove with knives for fingers. One by one, he terrorizes them within their dreams - where the rules are his and the only way out is to wake up. But when one among them dies, they soon realize that what happens in their dreams happens for real and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. Buried in their past is a debut that has just come due. To save themselves, they must plunge into the mind of the most twisted nightmare of all: Freddy Krueger. Jackie Earle Haley plays the legendary evildoer in this contemporary reimagining of the seminal horror classic.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Katie Cassidy
• Kellan Lutz
• Kyle Gallner
• Connie Britton
• Rooney Mara
• Clancy Brown
• Jackie Earle Haley
• Thomas Dekker

Writers:
• Wesley Strick
• Eric Heisserer

Producers:
• Michael Bay
• Andrew Form
• Brad Fuller

Directors:
• Samuel Bayer

Mother and Child


Nine Lives director Rodrigo García explores the maternal instinct in Mother and Child through three disparate L.A. women: Karen (Annette Bening), a physical therapist, cares for her ailing mother; Elizabeth (Naomi Watts) works as a high-powered attorney; and Lucy (Kerry Washington), a bakery owner, plans to adopt (only Lucy has a spouse). An opening sequence reveals that Karen, who became pregnant at 14, gave Elizabeth up for adoption. Though the daughter has no desire to track down the mother, Karen has been mourning her loss for decades, never working up the nerve to take the next step. All three turn to the same adoption agency (Cherry Jones, who donned a nun's habit for Broadway's Doubt, plays Sister Joanne). When Karen yields to the advances of a kindly divorcé (Jimmy Smits), and Elizabeth, who's been sleeping with her boss (Samuel L. Jackson) and her married neighbor (Marc Blucas), finds herself with child, their feelings of anger and resentment start to melt. Lucy, meanwhile, has been meeting with a prickly expectant mother (Half Nelson's Shareeka Epps) who may hold the key to her happiness--assuming that a baby will solve all life's problems. García clearly venerates motherhood, but he doesn't let any of his characters off the hook: Karen can be cruel, Elizabeth can be cold, and Lucy can be whiny, but they overcome their lesser natures. There are a few missteps, like a soft-focus montage toward the end, but García manages a sprawling cast with finesse, and his gifted leads have rarely been better

Actors: Annette Bening, Naomi Watts, Samuel L. Jackson, Jimmy Smits, Kerry Washington
Directors: Rodrigo García

How To Train Your Dragon


Synopsis
A winner with fans and critics alike, DreamWorks Animation's How To Train Your Dragon delivers "thrilling action adventure" (Claudia Puig, USA Today) in a timeless movie that's also "funny and touching" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). Toothless and Hiccup - unlikely friends and heroes - lead dragons and Vikings to unite in the ultimate battle for survival. "DreamWorks has topped itself" (Pete Hammond, Box Office Magazine) with visually stunning animation, an outstanding cast and a wonderful original story.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• America Ferrera
• Kristen Wiig
• Gerard Butler
• Jonah Hill
• Jay Baruchel
• Craig Ferguson
• Christopher Mintz-Plasse
• T.J. Miller

Directors:
• Dean Deblois

Familiar, The


Synopsis
The Familiar is a terrifying story of spiritual manipulation in the life of a lonely gunsmith named Sam. Through his estranged sister-in-law , Laura, who he has not seen since before the death of his wife five years earlier, Sam comes face to face with a very wicked spirit named Rallo. Sam's attraction to Laura blinds him to the fact that Rallo is taking possession of Laura and is intent on destroying them both. Sam must work through his bitterness and choose what he really believes as he battles for his soul and Laura's life.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Stephanie Brehms
• Laura Spencer
• Bryan Massey
• Ben Hall
• Jeff West

Writers:
• Miles Hanon

Producers:
• Heather Olive

Directors:
• Miles Hanon

October 4, 2010

Suck


Synopsis
The Winners are a down and out band who find their road to stardom by riding rock-n-roll's highway to hell. It all begins when their bass player, Jennifer (Jessica Pare), disappears with a mysterious vampire and reemerges with a sexual charisma that drives the audiences wild. Now, The Winner are topping the charts and blazing a bloody trail across North America with legendary vampire hunter Eddie Helsig (Malcolm McDowell) hunting them along the way. Who knew fame and immortally could "suck" like this?

Cast & Crew

Actors:
• Malcolm McDowell
• Iggy Pop
• Jessica Pare
• Dave Foley
• Henry Rollins
• Alice Cooper
• Rob Stefaniuk
• Moby
• Alex Lifeson
• Dimitri Coats

Writers:
• Rob Stefaniuk

Producers:
• Robin Crumley
• Jeff Rogers

Directors:
• Rob Stefaniuk

Pa-ra-da


SYNOPSIS:
Note: Movie is in Italian with English subtitles

The true story of the French-Algerian clown Miloud Oukili from his arrival in Romania, back in 1992 in his early twenties (three years after the end of Ceausescu's dictatorship), to his encounter with the street children of Bucharest, the so called "boskettari"--groups of kids living in the streets and sleeping in underground Bucharest making a living out of small thefts, begging and prostitution. Miloud wants to meet these kids, which have been completely hardened by their tragic lives (full of fights, violence, losses, pedophilia and drugs), and bring some hope to their existence. Although hampered by corrupted officers, Miloud will succeed in creating a real circus company with the "boskettari." The street children will perform in Bucharest's main square, proving the world that they are human beings, just like everybody else. Parada is the name of the established circus company that today still travels around Europe with its own show, carrying a message of friendship, solidarity and hope. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Venice Film Festival,
Actors: Andreea Perminov, Cristina Nita, Daniele Formica, Evita Ciri, Florin Precup
Directors: Marco Pontecorvo

Letter to Dad, A


Synopsis
Dan Donahue (Thom Mathews) has finally met the woman of his dreams. But on the night he is going to propose, he is overcome by deep-rooted anger caused by the father who abandoned him as a boy. Dan confronts his feelings of bitterness head on as he pours out his heart in a letter to his father.

As Dan writes, we see his life unfold, feeling his pain and ultimate joy, as we watch him grow from young boy to troubled teen and finally into a strong, spiritual man. In the end it is Dan's father, played brilliantly by John Ashton (Beverly Hills Cop I & II) who must face his own failures as a father in a climactic one on one meeting with the son he left behind.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Megan Gallivan
• John Ashton
• Thom Mathews

Legendary


Cal Chetley is an extremely bright, engaging, undersized fifteen year-old. He's been picked on most of his life primarily because he's always been a little different. Mike, Cal's older brother (WWE Superstar John Cena) and one time world-class high school/collegiate wrestler, left him and his mother behind years ago after a tragic car accident killed their father...an accident to this day Mike feels responsible for. Hoping to revive a relationship long since forgotten, Cal joins his high school wrestling team in the hopes his brother will train him. More importantly, Cal uses wrestling as the tool to reunite his family.

Actors: John Cena, Patricia Clarkson, Danny Glover, Devon Graye, Madeline Martin
Directors: Mel Damski

Last Airbender, The


The cartoon epic Avatar: The Last Airbender comes to the big screen as live-action special effects spectacular, with the title simplified to The Last Airbender. The movie is crammed with as much of the show's anime-influenced mythology as can fit: In a fantasy world, different tribes have influence over the elements of air, earth, fire, and water. Only one person can manipulate all four--the Avatar, who is also a bridge between the terrestrial and spirit worlds, and who reincarnates throughout the centuries. But for a hundred years, the Avatar has disappeared--until Katara, a young waterbender, and her brother Sokka discover a young airbender, Aang, frozen under the southern ice. Aang sets off to master the other elements so that he can counter the marauding Fire Nation, who have slain all other airbenders in their campaign to rule the world. Aang's journey and the titanic battles owe a significant debt to the Lord of the Rings trilogy--it's surprising that director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) hasn't made more of an effort to craft something more distinctive. The only character who stands out is Prince Zuko (Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire), an exiled firebender who can only regain his place by his father's side if he can capture the Avatar. Everyone else is fairly bland--but this movie isn't about characters, it's about special effects, and lots of money and labor has been lavished on blasts of fire and water flying through the air.
Actors: Dev Patel, Noah Ringer
Directors: M. Night Shyamalan

Iron Man 2


Synopsis
Robert Downey Jr. returns as billionaire Tony Stark in this thrilling sequel to the worldwide blockbuster. Now that his superhero secret has been revealed, Tony's life is more intense than ever. Everyone wants in on the Iron Man technology, whether for power or profit...but for Ivan Vanko ("Whiplash"), it's revenge! Tony must once again suit up and face his most dangerous enemy yet, but not without a few new allies of his own. Co-starring Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, and Scarlett Johansson, Iron Man 2 is "Spectacular"

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Mickey Rourke
• Gwyneth Paltrow
• Sam Rockwell
• Scarlett Johansson
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Robert Downey Jr.
• Don Cheadle

Writers:
• Justin Theroux

Producers:
• Kevin Feige

Directors:
• Jon Favreau

Bratz: Pampered Petz


Get ready to celebrate! The Bratz are marking their 10th Anniversary this October in true Bratz style with a fabulous all-new Pet rescue adventure in BRATZ PAMPERED PETZ! Don’t miss out on this fun and adorable CGI animated movie when it becomes available on DVD, Digital Download and On Demand from Lionsgate Home Entertainment October 5th! The DVD is also joined by a brand new Bratz toy line that hits store shelves October 10th in celebration of the exciting 10 year milestone.

BRATZ PAMPERED PETZ is a Bratz® Musical with a Latin Pop flavor! Join Sasha, Yasmin, Cloe, Jade as they bring together their passion for fashion with music to save the cute and cuddly Petz in true Bratz style

A-Team, The


Give it up to the A-Team: they've always been good at demolishing things in big, big ways. Freed from the confines of the 1980s TV series, the 2010 blockbuster movie version allows the four members of the paramilitary squad to really amp up the mayhem to newly crazed heights. Liam Neeson plays team leader Hannibal Smith (inheriting the cigar-chomping from the show's George Peppard), and pro wrestler Quinton "Rampage" Jackson is "B.A." Baracus, the TV show's most iconic character (insert Mr. T "I pity the fool" joke here). As the vain Face, Bradley Cooper preens in convincing fashion, and District 9 out-of-nowhere star Sharlto Copley plays the unhinged pilot "Howlin' Mad" Murdock. These boys are on the trail of some money-counterfeiting plates, from Bagdad to Germany to places in between. It would be understating it to say that the plot is not of primary importance, although Patrick Wilson has some fun as a CIA official and Jessica Biel occasionally strikes poses as Face's ex-flame, now a military officer displeased with the A-Team's extra-legal shenanigans. The storytelling is insipid and half-hearted--but when it comes to snarky dialogue and two-fisted action scenes, director Joe Carnahan is in his comfort zone. It's reasonably fun watching the working-out of such logistical puzzles as dropping a tank (with crew inside) from a plane, or scattering the main characters on a dockside as cargo containers rain down from a ship looming above them. Good times, although is it asking too much for certain basic laws of physics (if you drop a human body ten stories, for instance, it might actually sustain injuries) to be used as a guideline? But worrying about such matters isn't in the spirit of The A-Team, which cheerfully ignores the petty concerns of credibility and logic.

Actors: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Gerald McRaney
Directors: Joe Carnahan

Amish Grace


Synopsis
Kimberly Williams-Paisley (TV's According To Jim and Father Of The Bride 1 & 2) leads a talented cast in the highest-rated original film ever to appear on the Lifetime Movie Network. When a tragedy takes the lives of five Amish schoolgirls in Pennsylvania, Ida (Williams-Paisley), the mother of one of the girls, faces a profound test of faith. As she begins to feel like an outsider within her own community, Ida must decide whether or not to stay with the Amish - and her beloved husband (Matt Letscher). Delicately crafted and featuring poignant performances, this film, based on a true story, is a moving testament to the power of forgiveness.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Madison Mason
• Kimberly Williams-Paisley
• Tammy Blanchard
• Fay Masterson
• Matt Letscher

Writers:
• Teena Booth
• Sylvie White

Producers:
• Kyle Clark
• Marta M. Mobley-Anderson

Directors:
• Gregg Champion