Max Payne :: Director John Moore (The Omen) and Mark Wahlberg, playing the title character, bring Rockstar Games’ premium action franchise to the silver screen. As Max Payne, a widowed cop, Wahlberg delivers the action as he investigates a series of murders in the city. One thing is sure: justice will be delivered tonight. Mila Kunis and Chris O’Donnell also star. The screenplay was adapted by Beau Thorne for 20th Century Fox. |
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National Lampoon’s Stoned Age :: Director Adam Rifkin brings us a prehistoric comedy in which a caveman discovers that there’s more to life than sticks, stones, and brontosaurus burgers. Ishbo (Rifkin) is mocked by the domineering Neanderthals when he tries to advance the human race. Ishbo invents such useful items as toothbrushes, ladders, spoons, and pants hoping that the beautiful Fardart (Ali Larter) will fall for him. When that doesn’t work, Ishbo is finally ready to do it the old fashioned way, by dragging her away by her hair, when his idiot brother Thudnik (Hayes MacArthur) beats him to the punch. Later, Ishbo must use all his wits in order to fend off an attack by an enemy tribe. Maybe now Fardart will see Ishbo for the hero he truly is. |
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City of Ember :: In this children’s fantasy by noted director Gil Kenan (Monster House), two young heroes try to put together a age-old mystery in order to keep their city from being destroyed by darkness. The ancient City of Ember was built deep below the earth to be safe from a massive disaster. There, the people of Ember have thrived for many years. The city, however is running out of food and the power supply is in danger. After generations below ground, there is nobody left that understand how electricity works or even that there is a world outside the massive city. There is still hope, though, in the form of two teenagers, Lina (Saoirse Ronan) and Doon (Harry Treadaway. These two have found a set of instructions left by the Builders themselves that explains what they need to do to save the city. Unfortunately, the instructions are old and pieces are missing, so Lina and Doon must solve a mystery which takes them all over the great city. They must think like the Builders to keep the lights on in Ember and avoid plunging the city into darkness forever. Meanwhile, they must stay away from Mayor Cole (Bill Murray), their nemesis who likes Ember just like it is. |
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Igor :: With an all-star cast featuring the voice talents of John Cusack, Jay Leno, Molly Shannon, John Cleese, Jeremy Piven, Steve Buscemi and Jennifer Coolidge, Igor tells the story of a talented scientist born with a terrible deformity. Igor (Cusack) is a verifiable genius, but his hunchback is too distracting for everyone around him and so nobody notices his brilliance. He serves as a lab assistant to the evil Dr. Glickenstein (Cleese), but he dreams of becoming a mad scientist in his own right, winning the prize at the Evil Science Fair and winning the heart of Gretchen, the beautiful village vixen. |
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Henry Poole Is Here :: Henry Poole has had some very bad news during a routine doctor’s appointment. His has lost all hope and wishes simply to disappear, spending the rest of his life (such as it is) living on vodka and junk food in a cookie-cutter house in the suburbs. His plans go awry when he meets his beautiful divorced neighbor and falls in love. Further shaking things up is a miraculous looking stain on the stucco wall of his home. Could this blemish possess the power of healing? |
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Boogeyman 3 :: Sarah Morris witnessed the horrible suicide of her best friend, exposing herself to the wrath of the Boogeyman. Even though everyone thinks she is crazy, Sarah knows the Boogeyman is not just a kid’s story. Her friends pay a terrible price for their disbelief as evil envelopes the entire campus. Now it is just a matter of time until the Boogeyman gets them all. |
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King of the Hill :: Quim travels through rural Spain searching for the town where his girlfriend awaits. Along the way he becomes caught in a waking nightmare after stopping at an isolated gas station for some fuel and a bathroom break. There he meets a mysterious beauty named Bea and becomes ensnared in a life-or-death struggle against an unknown sniper. |
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Save Me :: Join filmmaker Robert Cary as he attempts to resolve the split between homosexuality and Christianity. Checked into a Christian rehab retreat by his brother, Mark (Chad Allen) is placed into the care of Gayle (Judith Light) and Ted (Stephen Lang), a deeply religious middle-aged couple determined to “rescue” young homosexuals. When they assign him a mentor, Scott (Robert Grant), their relationship intensifies, threatening to rip apart Gayle’s carefully constructed world. |
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The Express :: In this profile of Heisman Trophy winner and football great Ernie Davis, director Gary Fleder brings us an inspirational sports biography. Ernie davis (Rob Brown) always dreamed of becoming a football star, and his dreams were coming true as star running back for the Syracuse Orangemen. Even though he was a black man in the civil rights era, he continued his rise to the top. Shortly before finally being drafter into the NFL, however, Davis was diagnosed with leukemia. With the same determination he had always used to fight for his dreams, Davis now had to fight for his life. |