Movie Info:
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rachel Taylor, Jon Voight, Jon Turturro
Genre: Action/Thriller
Duration: 144 mins
Release Date: June 2007
Plot Summary:
Whereas the Earth is the home of a variety of organic-based lifeforms, the planet of Cybertron is the home world of a race of robots which have the ability to transform into other mechanisms, with each Transformer having its own unique disguise. The Transformers are divided into two separate camps: the good and just Autobots who are led by Optimus Prime; and the evil Decepticons, who are led by Megatron. With fuel supplies, on Cybertron running low, both forces travel through space looking for a new source, which leads them to Earth, which from their perspective rich in minerals and chemicals they need. Disguising themselves as cars, airplanes, boats, etc easily recognizable to humans, the Transformers engage in a secret war for control of Earth bountiful natural resources...
Movie Review: 
Transformers (2007)
I am Legend (2007)
Movie Info:
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Duration: 101 mins
Release Date: December 2007
Plot Summary:
After a female doctor finds a cure for cancer, the cure mutates into a deadly virus that affects everyone. Lt. Col. Robert Neville is working on the cure when he has to get his family out of Manhattan, because they are closing it off. Once all of the uninfected are gone, only soldiers and the infected remain, Neville tries desperately to find a cure using his blood and find other survivors. When he captures the Alpha Female, The Alpha Male does not like that very much. Neville is running out of time and hope as the darkness closes in..
Movie Review: 
The Pianist (2002)
Movie Info:
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard, Julia Rayner
Genre: Drama/War
Duration: 150 mins
Release Date: January 2003
Plot Summary:
The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who in the 1930's was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Polland, if not Europe. A t the outbreak of the second world war, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a German concentration camps, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German LAbor compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Movie Review: 
Cruel Intentions (1999)
Movie Info:
Director: Roger Kumble
Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Philippe, Reese Witherspoon
Genre: Roamnce/Drama/Thriller
Duration: 97 mins
Release Date: March 1999
Plot Summary:
Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gella) and Sebastian (Ryan Phillippe) are two wealthy teenage step siblings living in Manhattan. With their absent parents travelling in Europe, the wealthy pair have the family penthouse to themselves. Sebastian, a bad boy lothario, has apparently slept with all the girls in town and appears numb to it all. Kathryn, who appears to be the good girl class president is actually far more amoral and malicious than Sebastian, but maintains appearances to the contrary. When she is dumped by her boyfriend for Cecile (Selma Blair), she schemes revenge by destroying Cecile's reputation. She challenges Sebastian to deflower Cecile and transform her into a tramp to humiliate her boyfriend. But the girl who has caught Sebastian' s attention is Annette (Reese Witherspoon), the new headmaster's daughter. Kathryn makes a wager that f Sebastian fails to lure Annette into bed before the summer is over, Kathryn gets his car. If he succeeds, Sebastian gets Kathryn. Sebastian accepts the bet, but Annette turns out to be more than either of them bargained for.
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The English Patient
Movie Info:
Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth
Genre: Drama/Romance
Duration: 162 mins
Released Date: November 1996
Plot Summary:
Anthony Minghella wrote and directed this award winning adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel about a doomed and tragic romance set against the backdrop of World War II> In a field hospital in Italy. Hana (Juliette Binoche) a nurse from Canada, is caring for a pilot who was horribly burned in a plane wreck, he has no identification and cannot remeber his name, so he's known simply as the "english patient" thanks to his accent. When th hospital is forced to evacuate, Hana determines en route that the patient should'nt be moved far due to his fragile condition, so the two are left in a monastery to be picked up later. In time, Hana begins to piece togetherthe patient's storyfrom the shards of his memories..
Movie Review: 
Pieces of April (2003)
Movie Info:
Director: Peter Hedges
Cast: Katie Holmes, Derek Luke, Oliver Platt, Alison Pill, John Gallagher, Patricia Clarkson
Genre: Drama
Duration: 80 mins
Release Date: January 2003
Plot Summary:
Novelist and Screenwriter Peter Hedges makes his directorial debut with the comedy drama Pieces of April. Family outcast April Burns (Kathie Holmes) lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby (Derek Luke). In order to spend some time with her dying mother, Joy(Patricia Clarkson), April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast...
Movie Review: 
Cold Mountain (2003)
Movie Info:
Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman
Genre: Drama/Romance
Duration: 154 mins
Release Date: December 2003
Plot Summary:
Jude Law and Nicole Kidman play two people living in Cold MOuntain who fall in love> just as they declare their love, the Civil War breaks ou and INman (Jude Law) has to go and fight. Eventually he desserts and returns to Ada (Nicole Kidman) , a long journey in which he meets a whole variety of people and gets almost killes numerous times. Meanwhile, Ada has nearly starved to death but is saved when Ruby ( Renee Zellweger) turns up to help her run the farm. Ada and Ruby also have to fight against the Home Guard bullies who stayed behind from teh war that hunt deserters like Inman.
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Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Movie Info:
Director: Terry George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Xolani Mali, Desmond Dube, Hakeem Kae-Kazim
Genre: Drama/Crime
Duration: 121 mins
Release Date: December 2004
Plot Summary:
Hotel Rwanda is a story of one one's struggle to save his country from teh overwhelming hatred that had taken it hostage. In 2004, Rwanda faced a massive genocide that took the lives of a million people over an extremely short period of time. The world community stood around, uselessly wringing their hands, while thousands of innocent people died by the day. This films chronicles those turbulent times focusing on the cunning, bravery and enormous sacrifice that one took in an effort to save his family and the ones he loved. In the process, he save the lives of 1268 people, changing the world. This is a heroic story of Paul Rusesabagina.
Movie Review: 
The Weather Man (2005)
Movie Info:
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis, Gemmenne de la Pena
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Duration: 101 mins
Release Date: October 2005
Tagline: In life accuracy counts
Plot Summary:
Popular Chicago weatherman Dave Spritz (Nicolas Cage) has a shot at the big time in New York City when a national morning television show calls him for an audition. Professionally, Dave is on top of the world, but his personal life is in complete disarray. Dave's dealing with a painful divorce from his wife (Hope Davis), the illness of his father (Michael Caine) and trouble with his kids. He's poised between stability and disaster and whether he keeps his grip or takes a tragic fall remains to be seen...
Movie Review: 
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Movie Info:
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Cast: Will Smith, Jadden Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe
Genre: Drama
Duration: 117 mins
Release Date: December 2006
Plot Summary:
The rousing, true to life story of a single dad who went from living on the streets to owning his own brokerage firm is brought to the big screen by superstar Will Smith appearing for the first timeopposite his real-life son Jaden Smith. Set in the early 80s San Francisco, the film charts teh hard times and eventual comeback of Chris Gardner, a suddenly single salesman, who has custody of his son, but finds that providing for the two of them is a challenge in the increasingly unstable economic climate. He struggles to work his way from unpaid intern at Dean Witter to something more substantial, even as life continues to offer him setbacks. Making his Hollywood debut, Italian director Gabrielle Muccino was championed by Will Smith for the project.
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Titanic (1997)
Movie Info:
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher
Genre: Romance/Drama
Duration: 194 mins
Release Date: February 1998
Awards: Oscar winner for Best Picture 1998
Tagline: A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets
Plot summary:
An old lady who claims to be a survivor of the Titanic tells her story to an eager group of treasure hunters, who ar ein search of a rare diamond in the Titanic wreckage. Her name is Rose and she was a passenger on teh Titanic along with the star, Jack. The two meet and Rose, unhappy with her arranged marriage to a male chauvanist pig. Jack, a young artist, who struggles to get through with life yet inexplicably enjoys it, sees the true Rose hidden behind the upper class snob. As he continues to spend time with her the two fall in love and kiss on the bow of the Titanic. Meanwhile the shiphits an iceberg and Jack is framed for theft and chained up in the lower levels of the ship. Rose tries to find a way to free and get off the sinking ship...
Movie Review: 
Mean Creek (2004)
Movie Info:
Director: Jacob Aaron Estes
Cast: Rory Culkin, Ryan Kelley, Scott Mechowicz, Trevor Morgan, Josh Peck
Genre: Drama
Duration: 90 mins
Release Date: August 2004
Tagline: Beneath the surface, everyone has a secret
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Plot summary:
Independent filmmaker Jacob Aaron Estes makes his feature debut with the coming-of-age drama Mean Creek. Rory Culkin, Ryan Kelley, Scott Mechlowicz, Josh Peck, Trevor Morgan, and Carly Schroeder are teenagers living in a small town in Oregon. Some of the boys take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on teh town bully, it suddenly goes too far. Soon they're forced to deal with the unexpected consequences or their actions.
Movie Reviews: 
Mystic River (2003)
Movie Info:
Director: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney, Emmy Rossum
Genre: Drama/Crime/Mystery
Duration: 137 mins
Release Date: October 2003
Tagline: We bury our sins, we wash them clean
Plot Summary:
Directed by Clint Eastwood, the nysterious drama Mystic River is based on teh novel by Dennis Lehane. Set in an Irish neighborhood in Boston, Jimmy, Sean and Dave are three childhood friends who are reunited after a brutal murder takes place. Reformed convict Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn) and his devoted wife Annabeth (Laura Linney) find out that their teenage daughter Katie (Emmy Rossum) has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friendSean Devine (Kevin Bacon) is a homicide detective assigned to the case, along with partner Whitey Powers (Laurence Fishburne). Jimmy also gets his relatives, teh Savage brothers, to conduct an investigation of their own. Jimmy and Sean both start to suspect their old pal, Dave Boyle, who lives a quiet life with his wife Celeste (Marcia Gay Harden) but harbors some disturbing secrets..
Movie Reviews: 
All the King's Men (2006)
Movie Info:
Director: Steven Zaillian
Cast: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Patricia Clarkson
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Duration: 128 mins
Release Date: September 2006
Tagline: Time brings all things to light
Plot summary:
The All the King's Men is the story of th rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to the spotlight. Along the way, he loses his initial innocense, and becomes just as corrupt as those who he assaulted before for this characteristic. Also included is the romance between one of his "right hand women" and the up and coming journalist who brings Stark to prominence..
Movie Review: 
Blood Diamond (2006)
Movie Info:
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly
Genre: Drama/Thriller/Adventure
Duration: 143 mins
Release Date: December 2006
Tagline: Freedom
The Notebook (2004)
Movie Info:
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams
Genre: Drama
Duration: 123 mins
Release Date: June 2004
Tagline: Behind every great love is a great story
Apocalypto (2006)
Movie Info:
Director: Mel Gibson
Cast: Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernandez, Jonathan Brewer, Morris Birdyellowhead, Carlos Emilio Baez
Genre: Action/Drama
Duration: 139 mins
Release Date: December 2006
In America (2002)
Movie Info:
Director: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton, Sarah Bolger, Emma Bolger, Djimon Hounsou
Genre: Drama/Romance
Duration: 105 mins
Release Date: October 2003
Phonebooth (2002)
Movie Info:
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Colin Farrell, Keifer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell, Katie Holmes
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 81 mins
Release Date: April 2003
Tagline: Your life is on the line.
Heat (1995)
Movie Info:
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Ashley Judd, Tom Sizemore
Genre: Action
Duration: 171 mins
Release Date: December 1995
Tagline: An epic tale of crime and obsession and two men on opposite sides of the law
50 First Dates (2004)
Movie Info:
Director: Peter Segal
Cast: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Austin
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Duration: 99 mins
Release Date: February 2004