Pandemic
Release Date: 10/20/2009
Humans and animals alike become victims of the same illness in this action film directed by Jason Connery. The fate of the world lies in the hands of a veterinarian and a paranoiac who must work around a military quarantine. ~ All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Ray Wise, Graham McTavish, Alesha Clarke
Director(s): Jason Connery
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Thriller, Feature
|
Pandorum
Release Date: 12/22/2009
Antibodies director Christian Alvart takes suspense into space with this tale of two astronauts who realize that they aren't alone as they drift into the darkest corners of our galaxy. Awakening in their hyper-sleep chamber with no memory of who they are or what their mission is, disoriented astronauts Lt. Payton (Dennis Quaid) and Corporal Bower (Ben Foster) gradually surmise that they are the only ones aboard the darkened spacecraft. But how did they get here, and what are those strange sounds comi ...
Actor(s): Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet
Director(s): Christian Alvart
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Science Fiction, Feature
|
Paranormal Activity
Release Date: 12/29/2009
A haunted house makes no secret of the fact it's not pleased with its new tenants in this independent tale of supernatural horror. Katie (Katie Featherson) and Micah (Micah Sloat) are a twentysomething couple who've just moved into a new home in San Diego, CA. Katie has an interest in the paranormal and believes that malevolent spirits have been following her since childhood, though Micah is not so easily convinced. However, after several nights of loud noises and strange happenings, Micah starts to ...
Actor(s): Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs
Director(s): Oren Peli
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Thriller, Feature
|
Passengers
Release Date: 05/12/2009
A grief counselor (Anne Hathaway) begins to suspect foul play when the six airplane crash survivors she is tending to mysteriously begin to disappear and the truth behind the tragedy grows ever more clouded in Nine Lives director Rodrigo Garcfa's conspiratorial supernatural thriller. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, David Morse
Director(s): Rodrigo Garcfa
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Thriller, Feature
|
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Release Date: 05/19/2009
A New Jersey rent-a-cop gets his moment to shine as the holidays approach and Santa's little helpers stage a coup at the local shopping mall in this comedy starring King of Queens' Kevin James. Paul Blart (James) is a single suburban dad attempting to make ends meet by working as a mall security guard. Paul takes his job very seriously; unfortunately the same can't be said for the shoppers he deals with on a daily basis. That all changes the day that Santa's little helpers shut down the mall and star ...
Actor(s): Kevin James, Keir O'Donnell, Jayma Mays
Director(s): Steve Carr
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Comedy, Feature
|
Personal Effects
Release Date: 05/12/2009
Ashton Kutcher stars as a broken man who sets off on a vengeance-filled search for his sister's murderer, only to fall into the arms of a gorgeous older woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) who may share the same torment in this romantic drama from Insight Studios. TV veteran David Hollander directs from his own script. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher, Kathy Bates
Director(s): David Hollander
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
|
Planet Hulk
Release Date: 02/02/2010
Exiled into deep space by the most powerful superheroes on Earth, the Incredible Hulk becomes an unlikely hero after crash landing on a distant planet. Millions of light years from Earth, the Red King rules planet Sakaar with an iron fist. When Hulk arrives on Sakaar, he is sold as a slave and forced to fight as a gladiator. The people of Sakaar need a savior, and as Hulk fights his way through a series of formidable opponents, he forms a powerful bond with four fearsome warriors. Later, along with t ...
Actor(s):
Director(s): Sam Liu
MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Children's/Family
|
Powder Blue
Release Date: 05/26/2009
Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, and Jessica Biel topline this ensemble drama regarding intersecting lives on Christmas Eve from writer/director Timothy Linh Bui (Green Dragon). Liotta plays an ex-convict who tracks down his estranged daughter (Biel) after serving a 25-year jail sentence. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, Jessica Biel
Director(s): Timothy Linh Bui
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
|
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire
Release Date: 03/09/2010
Monster's Ball producer Lee Daniels follows up his 2005 directorial debut, Shadowboxer, with this adaptation of author Sapphire's best-selling novel about an overweight, illiterate African-American teen from Harlem who discovers an alternate path in life after she begins attending a new school. Clareece "Precious" Jones is only a teenager, yet she's about to give birth to her second child. Unable to read or write, Clareece shows little prospect for the future until discovering that she has been accep ...
Actor(s): Gabourey Sidibe, Lenny Kravitz, Paula Patton
Director(s): Lee Daniels
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
|
Pretty Ugly People
Release Date: 01/12/2010
Longtime friendships are put to the ultimate test when a dying woman summons her best friends from college into the wilderness for a four-day camping trip, and everyone quickly discovers that they haven't exactly been told the whole truth about her current condition. Lucy (Missi Pyle) has always been obese, and now that her health has taken a turn for the worse, she wants to spend her last days with the estranged college social group that helped her through one of the most difficult periods of her en ...
Actor(s): Missi Pyle, Melissa McCarthy, Josh Hopkins
Director(s): Tate Taylor
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Comedy, Feature
|
Public Enemies
Release Date: 12/08/2009
Based on author Bryan Burrough's ambitious tome Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43, director Michael Mann's sprawling historical crime drama follows the efforts of top FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale ) in capturing notorious bank robber John Dillinger. A folk hero to the American public thanks to his penchant for robbing the banks that many people believed responsible for the Great Depression, charming bandit Dillinger (Johnny Depp) was virtually u ...
Actor(s): Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard
Director(s): Michael Mann
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Crime, Feature
|
Punisher: War Zone
Release Date: 03/17/2009
Marvel Comics' vigilante character The Punisher gets another big-screen outing in this third film incarnation of the character, this time from Green Street Hooligans director Lexi Alexander. Fueled by revenge and aided by his trusted weapons expert, Microchip (Wayne Knight), vigilante Frank Castle (Rome's Ray Stevenson) turns the New York City streets red with blood as he takes down each and every member of the crime syndicate responsible for the death of his wife and two kids. As the law-appointed " ...
Actor(s): Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Julie Benz
Director(s): Lexi Alexander
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Action, Feature
|
Push
Release Date: 07/07/2009
Lucky Number Slevin director Paul McGuigan takes the helm for this action thriller concerning a group of telekinetic American ex-patriots who band together in an attempt to take down the clandestine government agency that's genetically transforming normal citizens into powerful psychic warriors. The Division is a shadowy government operation devoted to making humankind the ultimate weapon. Those who accept this transformation have the power to move objects with the mind, see the future before it happ ...
Actor(s): Dakota Fanning, Djimon Hounsou, Chris Evans
Director(s): Paul McGuigan
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Thriller, Feature
| | | |