Sunday, January 2, 2011

Unstoppable 2010










Plot: Unstoppable, a 20th Century Fox drama about a runaway train carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals. Pits an engineer and his conductor in a race against time. They’re chasing the runaway train in a separate locomotive and need to bring it under control before it derails on a curve and causes a toxic spill that will decimate a town.
Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller
IMDB rating: 7.2/10
Directed by: Tony Scott
Starring: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee
Runtime: 92 minutes
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Legacy 2010







Plot: When a military effort to tackle a British-born Ukrainian arms dealer ends catastrophically, Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray lands in a military hospital to overcome the torture he was subjected to. After nearly a year, Gray returns to Brooklyn and moves into a rundown apartment to reflect on the inconsistencies of the botched assignment. But Gray soon gets caught up in another impossible mission: to expose the corruption of a high-powered senator on the verge of announcing his presidential campaign.
Genre: Thriller
IMDB rating: 5.7/10
Directed by: Thomas Ikimi
Starring: Idris Elba, Eamonn Walker, Monique Gabriela Curnen
Links: IMDB

Resident Evil Afterlife 2010









Plot: In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice (Jovovich), continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead – and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.
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Genre: Action | Adventure | Horror
iMDB Rating: 6.2/10 (22,224 votes)
Directed by: Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter and Wentworth Miller
Runtime: 97 mins
LinksiMDb Trailer

Bonded by Blood 2010











Plot:In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.
Genre: Crime
IMDB rating: 6.2/10
Directed by: Sacha Bennett
Stars: Dave Legeno, Vincent Regan and Tamer Hassan
Runtime: 92mins
Links: iMDB

Game Of Death 2010











Plot: A diplomat’s bodyguard and company are injured in a botched assassination attempt. They’re all taken to the same hospital, where the bodyguard teams up with a nurse to protect the diplomat from a team of ruthless assassins. The nurse soon learns that there is more to this sticky situation than expected.
Genre: Action | Adventure
IMDB rating: 5.5/10 (20 votes)
Directed by: Giorgio Serafini
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Zoe Bell and Gary Daniels
Runtime: 88 min
Links: IMDBTrailer

Salt 2010










Plot: Evelyn Salt is a CIA agent and highly respected by all, including her boss, Ted Winter. Out of the blue, a Russian spy walks into their offices and offers a vital piece of information: the President of Russia will be assassinated during his forthcoming visit to New York City to attend the funeral of the recently deceased U.S. Vice President. The name of the assassin: Evelyn Salt. Concerned about the safety of her husband, who she cannot contact, she goes on the run. Winter refuses to accept that she is a mole or a double agent but her actions begin to raise doubts. Just who is Evelyn Salt and what is she planning?

For Colored Girls 2010












PLOT: Retaining the play’s poetic style, the film’s lead cast consists of nine African-American women, seven of whom are based on the play’s seven characters only known by color (”Lady in Red”, “Lady in Blue”, “Lady in Yellow” etc.). Like its source material, each character deals with a different personal conflict, such as love, abandonment, rape, infidelity, and abortion. The characters are represented by a color Jo (Red), Juanita (Green), Yasmine (Yellow), Tangie (Orange), Alice (White), Gilda (Gray), Crystal (Brown), Nyla (Purple), and Kelly (Blue). Each of their stories are different, but the characters interact within each others lives.
Genre: Drama
IMDB rating: 4.1/10 
Directed by: Tyler Perry
Directed by: Janet Jackson, Anika Noni Rose, Whoopi Goldberg
Links: IMDB

Monsters 2010











Plot:Six years ago previously, a NASA probe returning to earth with samples of an alien life form, crashed over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear, and half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain “the creatures”… The story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama
IMDB rating: 6.6/10 (6,501 votes)
Directed by: Gareth Edwards
Starring: Whitney Able, Scoot McNairy
Runtime: 94 mins
Links: IMDB

The Switch 2010










Plot: An unmarried 40-year-old woman turns to a turkey baster in order to become pregnant. Seven years later, she reunites with her best friend, who has been living with a secret: he replaced her preferred sperm sample with his own.
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Genre: Drama | Music | Romance
iMDB Rating: 5.9/10 (4,265 votes)
Directed by: Josh Gordon, Will Speck
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Jeff Goldblum
Runtime: 01:41:23
LinksiMDB – Trailer

13 2010












Plot
A naive young man assumes a dead man’s identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
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Genre: Drama | Thriller
iMDB Rating: 7.4/10 (1,176 votes)
Directed by: Géla Babluani
Directed by: Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke and Emmanuelle Chriqui.
Runetime: 1h 33mn
Links: iMDB – Trailer

Legend Of The Guardians 2010










Plot: Acclaimed filmmaker Zack Snyder makes his animation debut with the fantasy family adventure “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole” based on the beloved Guardians of Ga’Hoole books by Kathryn Lasky. The film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father’s epic stories of the Guardians of Ga’ Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones. While Soren dreams of someday joining his heroes, his older brother, Kludd, scoffs at the notion, and yearns to hunt, fly and steal his father’s favor from his younger sibling. But Kludd’s jealousy has terrible consequences–causing both owlets to fall from their treetop home and right into the talons of the Pure Ones. Now it is up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave young owls. Together they soar across the sea and through the mist to find the Great Tree, home of the legendary Guardians–Soren’s only hope of defeating the Pure Ones and saving the owl kingdoms.
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Fantasy
IMDB rating: 7.2/10 (4,489 votes)
Directed by: Zack Snyder
Starring: Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Essie Davis, Adrienne DeFaria
Runtime: 90 minutes
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Ticking Clock 2010










Plot: Academy Award® Winner Cuba Gooding Jr. (Best Supporting Actor, Jerry McGuire, 1996) stars in the pulse-pounding action thriller TICKING CLOCK. A reporter stumbles upon the journal of a murderer replete with plans to butcher specific people, and investigates on his own, finding that every trail leads to a 9-year-old orphan living in a group home.
Genre: Action | Thriller
iMDB Rating: N/A
Directed by: Ernie Barbarash
Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Neal McDonough and Austin Abrams
Runtime: 177 min
LinksIMDb – Trailer

Devil 2010










Devil (also known as The Night Chronicles: Devil) is a 2010 American supernatural thriller film based on a story by M. Night Shyamalan, written by Brian Nelson, and directed by John Erick Dowdle. The film was released on September 17, 2010, and is the first of The Night Chronicles trilogy, which involves the supernatural within modern urban society. The film’s plot follows a group of people trapped inside of an elevator that realize one of them is the Devil. Devil opened at the number three spot in the box office opening weekend, taking in a total haul of twelve million dollars.
Genre: Thriller
IMDB rating: 6.6/10
Directed by: John Erick Dowdle
Starring: Chris Messina, Logan Marshall-Green, Jenny O’Hara
Runtime: 80mins
Links: iMDB

Casino Jack 2010



















Plot 
A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder. Two-time Academy Award Winner Kevin Spacey gives the performance of a lifetime in Casino Jack, a riotous new film starring Spacey as a man hell bent on acquiring all that the good life has to offer. He plays in the same game as the highest of rollers and resorts to awe-inspiring levels of conning, scheming and fraudulent antics to get what he wants. Inspired by true events that are too over-the-top for even the wildest imaginations to conjure, Casino Jack lays bare the wild excesses and escapades of Jack Abramoff.
Genre: Biography | Comedy | Crime
IMDB rating: 6.6/10
Directed by: George Hickenlooper
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Kelly Preston, Barry Pepper
Runtime: 1h 43min
Links: iMDB – Trailer

 

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