Saturday, December 18, 2010

Game of Death (2010)

Release Date:
27 November 2010

Director:
Giorgio Serafini

Genres:
Action/Adventure

Plot:
Secret Ops agent Marcus is sent to Detroit to take out an arms dealer and the head of the hedge fund that is financing him. His CIA backup has other plans and turns on him and it's a fight to survive in a hospital.

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The Expendables (2010)

Release Date:
13 August 2010

Director:
Sylvester Stallone

Genres:
Action/Adventure/Thriller/War

Plot:
A team of mercenaries head to South America on a mission to overthrow a dictator.

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Home (2009)

Release Date:
5 June 2009

Director:
Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Genres:
Documentary

Plot:
With aerial footage from 54 countries, Home is a depiction of how the Earth's problems are all interlinked.

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Sunday, December 12, 2010

The Town (2010)

Release Date:
17 September 2010

Director:
Ben Affleck

Genres:
Crime/Drama/Thriller

Plot:
As he plans his next job, a longtime thief tries to balance his feelings for a bank manager connected to one of his earlier heists, as well as the FBI agent looking to bring him and his crew down.

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Easy A (2010)

Release Date:
17 September 2010

Director:
Will Gluck

Genres:
Comedy/Romance

Plot:
A clean-cut high school student relies on the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.


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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

Release Date:
24 September 2010

Director:
Zack Snyder

Genres:
Animation/Adventure/Fantasy

Plot:
When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with newfound friends to seek out the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.


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Monday, March 1, 2010

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

Release Date:
2 October 2009

Director:
Michael Moore

Genre:
Documentary/Drama

Plot:
Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).

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Triage (2009)

Release Date:
13 November 2009

Director:
Danis Tanovic

Genre:
Drama/Mystery/War

Plot:
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.

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Legion (2010)

Release Date:
22 January 2010

Director:
Scott Stewart

Genre:
Action/Fantasy/Horror/Thriller

Plot:
An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in humankind...

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Malice in Wonderland (2009)

Director:
Simon Fellows

Genre:
Action/Crime/Drama/Fantasy/Romance/Thriller

Plot:
A modern take on the classic fairytale, Alice in Wonderland, set in the North East of England.

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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

Release Date:
23 October 2009

Director:
Paul Weitz

Genre:
Action/Adventure/Comedy/Fantasy/Horror/Thriller

Plot:
A young boy named Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a Vampire. After a series of events Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque Du Freak and become a Vampire.

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Amelia (2009)

Release Date:
23 October 2009

Director:
Mira Nair

Genre:
Biography/Drama

Plot:
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

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Agora (2009)

Release Date:
9 October 2009

Director:
Alejandro AmenĂ¡bar

Genre:
Adventure/History/Romance

Plot:
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria.

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The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)

Release Date:
13 November 2009

Director:
Troy Duffy

Genre:
Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller

Plot:
The MacManus brothers are living a quiet life in Ireland with their father, but when they learn their beloved priest has been killed by mob forces, the duo return to Boston to bring justice to those responsible.

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Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Release Date:
25 December 2009

Director:
Guy Ritchie

Genre:
Action/Adventure/Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Plot:
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.

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RocknRolla (2008)

Release Date:
31 October 2008

Director:
Guy Ritchie

Genre:
Action/Comedy/Crime

Plot:
In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs, attracting some of the city's scrappiest tough guys and its more established underworld types, all of whom are looking to get rich quick.

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Planet 51 (2009)

Release Date:
20 November 2009

Directors:
Jorge Blanco
Javier Abad

Genre:
Adventure/Comedy/Fantasy

Plot:
American astronaut Captain Charles "Chuck" Baker lands on Planet 51 thinking he's the first person to step foot on it. To his surprise, he finds that this planet is inhabited by little green people.

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Julie & Julia (2009)

Release Date:
7 August 2009

Director:
Nora Ephron

Genre:
Biography/Comedy/Drama/Romance

Plot:
Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.

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Thursday, February 11, 2010

An Education (2009)

Release Date:
8 October 2009

Director:
Lone Scherfig

Genre:
Drama

Plot:
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.

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Friday, February 5, 2010

Food, Inc. (2008)

Release Date:
4 June 2009

Director:
Robert Kenner

Genre:
Documentary

Plot:
An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Coraline (2009)

Release Date:
6 February 2009 (USA)

Genre:
Animation/Adventure/Family/Fantasy

Writers (WGA):
Henry Selick (screenplay)
Neil Gaiman (book)

Plot:
An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

City Island (2009)

Release Date:
20 August 2009

Genre:
Comedy

Director:
Raymond De Felitta

Plot:
A family's bizarre and layered lies to one another come unraveled.

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

The Informant! (2009)

Release Date:
18 September 2009

Genre:
Comedy/Crime/Drama/Thriller

Director:
Steven Soderbergh

Plot:
The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre.

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Saturday, January 23, 2010

New York, I Love You (2009)

Release Date:
16 October 2009

Genre:
Drama/Romance

Writers:
Emmanuel Benbihy (concept)
Tristan Carné (premise)

Plot:
An anthology film joining several love stories set in one of the most loved cities of the world, New York.

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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Release Date:
25 November 2009

Genre:
Animation/Adventure/Comedy/Family

Director:
Wes Anderson

Plot:
Angry farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with a sly fox, look to get rid of their opponent and his family.

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Friday, January 15, 2010

The Hurt Locker (2008)

Release Date:
10 October 2008

Genre:
Action/Drama/Thriller/War

Director:
Kathryn Bigelow

Plot:
Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Dorian Gray (2009)

Release Date:
9 September 2009

Genre:
Drama/Horor

Director:
Oliver Parker

Plot:
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Up (2009)

Release Date:
29 May 2009

Genre:
Animation/Adventure/Comedy/Family

Directors:
Pete Docter
Bob Peterson

Plot:
By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America.

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

A Perfect Getaway (2009)

Release Date:
7 August 2009

Genre:
Drama/Horror/Mystery/Thriller

Director:
David Twohy

Plot:
Two pairs of lovers (Zahn & Jovovich, Olyphant & Sanchez) on a Hawaiian vacation discover that psychopaths are stalking and murdering tourists on the islands.

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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Up in the Air (2009)

Release Date:
25 December 2009

Genre:
Comedy/Drama/Romance

Director:
Jason Reitman

Plot:
With a job that has him traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham leads an empty life out of a suitcase, until his company does the unexpected: ground him.

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Sunday, January 3, 2010

The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)

Release Date:
14 August 2009 (USA)

Genre:
Drama/Romance/Sci-Fi

Director:
Robert Schwentke

Plot:
A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage.

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