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I Give It a Year

Director: Dan Mazer
Starring: Anna Faris, Rose Byrne, Rafe Spall, Jason Flemyng, Stephen Merchant, Minnie Driver, Olivia Colman, Jane Asher, Tim Key, Nigel Planer, Alex MacQueen, Simon Baker
Genre: Comedy
Studio: StudioCanal
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 5.9 (9,103 votes)
Release: Aug 2013
Summary: A look at the trials and tribulations of a pair of newlyweds during their first year of marriage.
 

I Melt with You

Director: Mark Pellington
Starring: Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe, Christian McKay, Carla Gugino
Genre: Drama
Studio: Media House Capital
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6
Release: Dec 2011
Summary: When four 40-something college friends meet up for their annual reunion, things start to spiral out of control, and a pact they made as young men is revisited.
 

I Saw the Devil

Director: Ji-Woon Kim
Starring: Byung-Hun Lee, Gook-Hwan Jeon, Min-Sik Choi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 7.8 (36,680 votes)
Release: May 2011
Summary: Korean director Kim Ji-woon first garnered a reputation as an ace assimilator of outside styles, most notably for the ickily Freudian J-horror thriller "A Tale of Two Sisters" and the monumentally goofy spaghetti Western pastiche "The Good, the Bad, the Weird". "I Saw the Devil" finds the filmmaker moving towards a style much closer to home--namely the Korean revenge thriller, best typified by movies such as "Oldboy", "Memories of Murder", and "Nowhere to Hide"--with results that vary between masterfully staged and punishingly gross. Beginning with an impeccably uneasy snowbound abduction scene, the story follows a dashing secret agent (Byung-hun Lee) sworn to track down the murderer of his pregnant fiancée. Upon finding the maniac ("Oldboy"'s majestically disheveled Min-sik Choi), he implants him with a tracking device and proceeds to follow him across the country, swooping in to torture him at random intervals. Clocking in at 144 minutes, Ji-woon's film clearly believes in a more-is-more policy, with ideas about the futility of revenge and the dangers of staring into the abyss taken to their graphic extremes. Viewers with strong constitutions will find much to chew on. Anyone else, however, should be prepared to dive behind the couch at a moment's notice. --"Andrew Wright"
 

I Spit on Your Grave

Director: Steven R. Monroe
Starring: Sarah Butler, Chad Lindberg, Rodney Eastman
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.2 (28,571 votes)
Release: Feb 2011
Summary: UNFORGIVING. UNCOMPROMISING. UNMERCIFUL. UNRATED.

The original version was reviled, condemned, and banned around the world for its on-screen depictions of depravity and violence. Now experience the acclaimed remake that dares to go even further: Jennifer Hills (a fearless performance by Sarah Butler) is a big-city novelist who rents an isolated country cabin to write her new book. But when she is brutally raped by a group of sadistic rednecks, Jennifer has plans for more than mere revenge. One-by-one she will find them. She will inflict horrific acts of agonizing torment upon them. And no jury in America would ever convict her. Jeff Branson (“ALL MY CHILDREN”), Daniel Franzese (BULLY), Rodney Eastman (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3 & 4), Chad Lindberg (THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS) and Tracey Walter (THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) co-star in this graphic, shocking and undeniably disturbing new take on one of the most controversial films of all time.
 

Ice Age

Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
Starring: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Goran Višnjić, Jack Black, Cedric the Entertainer, Stephen Root, Diedrich Bader, Alan Tudyk, Lorri Bagley, Jane Krakowski
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entert.
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 5
Release: Mar 2002
Summary: With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters -- Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth -- find an orphaned infant and decide to return it to its human parents. Along the way, the unlikely allies become friends. But when enemies attack, their quest takes on far nobler aims..
 

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas

Director: Karen Disher
Starring: Billy Gardell, Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Holiday, Short
Studio: Reel FX Creative Studios
My Rating:
Rated: G
Rating: 3
Release: Nov 2011
Summary: When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's naughty list, he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up making things much worse. Now it's up to Manny and his prehistoric posse to band together and save Christmas for the entire world.
 

Ice Age: Continental Drift

Director: Mike Thurmeier, Steve Martino
Starring: John Leguizamo, Ray Romano, Chris Wedge, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott, Jennifer Lopez, Queen Latifah, Peter Dinklage, Nick Frost, Josh Gad, Nicki Minaj, Heather Morris, Wanda Sykes, Alan Tudyk, Rebel Wilson, Aziz Ansari, Joy Behar
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Studio: 20th Century Fox
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Release: Jul 2012
Summary: Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.
 

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Director: Carlos Saldanha
Starring: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Simon Pegg, Seann William Scott, Regan Mizrahi, Karen Disher, Chris Wedge, Kristen Wiig
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 6
Release: Jul 2009
Summary: Times are changing for moody mammoth Manny, motor mouthed sloth Sid and crafty saber-toothed tiger Diego in this third installment of the beloved computer-animated children's franchise. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors: the mighty dinosaurs.
 

Ice Age: The Meltdown

Director: Carlos Saldanha
Starring: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Jay Leno
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Studio: Blue Sky Studios
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 6
Release: Mar 2006
Summary: Manny the woolly mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, and the hapless prehistoric squirrel/rat known as Scrat are still together and enjoying the perks of their now melting world. Manny may be ready to start a family, but nobody has seen another mammoth for a long time; Manny thinks he may be the last one. That is, until he miraculously finds Ellie, the only female mammoth left in the world. Their only problems: They can't stand each other--and Ellie somehow thinks she's a possum! Ellie comes with some excess baggage in the form of her two possum "brothers" -- Crash and Eddie, a couple of daredevil pranksters and cocky, loud-mouthed troublemakers. Manny, Sid and Diego quickly learn that the warming climate has one major drawback: A huge glacial dam holding off oceans of water is about to break, threatening the entire valley. The only chance of survival lies at the other end of the valley...
 

The Iceman

Director: Ariel Vromen
Starring: Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta, Chris Evans, David Schwimmer, James Franco, Stephen Dorff, Robert Davi, John Ventimiglia
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
My Rating:
Rated: R
Release: May 2013
Summary: In the 1960s, Richard Kuklinski is working as a porn film lab tech until his mob bosses persuade him to change his career into that of a contract killer. For years, Kuklinski gains a reputation for cold blooded professionalism even as he raises a family who are kept in the dark about his true career. Unfortunately, mob politics ultimately forces him to secretly work independently with the psychopathic Robert 'Mr. Freezy' Pronge. As much as Kuklinski tries to keep his lives separate, circumstances and his own weaknesses threaten a terrible collision as the consequences of his choices finally catch up to him.
 

Ichi the Killer

Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ohmori, Shinya Tsukamoto, Paulyn Sun, Susumu Terajima
Genre: Action, Adventure
Studio: Media Blasters
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 7.1 (31,392 votes)
Release: Nov 2003
Summary: Welcome to a world where violence is a virtue and depravity is a way of life. This madman ichi the killer and between him and kakihara the streets will run red with blood. Studio: Media Blasters Inc. Release Date: 11/18/2003 Run time: 129 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Takashi Mike
 

Identity Thief

Director: Seth Gordon
Starring: Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Melissa McCarthy, John Cho, Genesis Rodriguez, T.I., Morris Chestnut, Robert Patrick, Eric Stonestreet, Amanda Peet
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Studio: Aggregate Films
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 5.6 (21,531 votes)
Release: Feb 2013
Summary: When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.
 

The Ides of March

Director: George Clooney
Starring: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood
Genre: Drama
Studio: Cross Creek Pictures
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 7.4 (21,200 votes)
Release: Oct 2011
Summary: Stephen Meyers is an idealist who's brilliant at communications, is second in command of Governor Mike Morris's presidential campaign, and is a true believer. In the middle of the Ohio primary, the campaign manager of Morris's opponent asks Meyers to meet; he offers him a job. At the same time, Morris's negotiations for the endorsement of the man in third place, a North Carolina Senator, hit a snag. A young campaign intern, Molly Stearns, gets Stephen's romantic attention. Republicans have a trick up their sleeve; Stephen may be too trusting, and Molly has a secret. What's most important, career, victory, or virtue?
 

Idiocracy

Director: Mike Judge
Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, Anthony 'Citric' Campos
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Studio: 20th Century Fox
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.4 (69,207 votes)
Release: Jan 2007
Summary: Hanna (Ronan) is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her father (Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Ms. Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.
 

Igor

Director: Anthony Leondis
Starring: John Cusack, Myleene Klass, Robin Walsh, Matt McKenna, John Cleese, Steve Buscemi, Sean Hayes, Eddie Izzard, Jay Leno, Jennifer Coolidge, Molly Shannon, James Lipton, Christian Slater, Arsenio Hall
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family
Studio: Exodus Film Group
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 6.0 (14,184 votes)
Release: Sep 2008
Summary: In a world filled with Mad Scientists and Evil Inventions, one talented evil scientist's hunch-backed lab assistant has big dreams of becoming a Mad Scientist himself and winning the annual Evil Science Fair.
 

The Illusionist

Director: Sylvain Chomet
Starring: Jean-Claude Donda, Edith Rankin
Genre: Animation, Foreign
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 7.6 (189,295 votes)
Release: May 2011
Summary: "The Illusionist" (2010) is director Sylvain Chomet's homage to French writer-director-actor Jacques Tati, whose work he's loved for years: the three beldams in Chomet's "The Triplets of Belleville" even watch a clip from Tati's "Jour de Fête" in bed. Based on a script Tati wrote but never produced, the film focuses on a sleight-of-hand magician whose career founders as television and rock and roll supplant traditional entertainment. During a trip to a remote village in Scotland--where pub goers still appreciate his act--the magician encounters Alice, a teenage girl who works as a maid. When he departs, Alice follows him to Edinburgh, seeking a more glamorous life. In addition to his stage gigs, the Illusionist works at various odd jobs to support Alice, whom he treats as an adopted daughter. Like "Triplets" (and Tati's classic comedies), "The Illusionist" is told with only minimal dialogue. However, in place of the manic energy of "Triplets", "The Illusionist" is permeated with a wistful melancholy for a fading era, a fading talent, and, ultimately, a fading relationship. The animation is more polished than in Chomet's previous films: a sequence of the drunken magician teetering around the lobby of a broken-down hotel is brilliantly drawn. The backgrounds of Edinburgh are beautifully rendered. "The Illusionist" won awards from several critics' groups in the United States, but it lacks the purity of vision of "Triplets". The film represents a combination of Tati's and Chomet's sensibilities, rather than the pure work of either artist. It's a lovely film, but viewers expecting the take-no-prisoners absurdity of "Triplets of Belleville" will be disappointed. (Rated PG for thematic elements and smoking) "--Charles Solomon"
 

ils (Them)

Director: David Moreau, Xavier Palud
Starring: Olivia Bonamy, Michaël Cohen, Adriana Mocca, Maria Roman, Camelia Maxim
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Studio: Eskwad
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.6 (13,901 votes)
Release: Jul 2006
Summary: Clémentine, a teacher in a French School in Bucharest, lives with her husband, Lucas, in a remote real estate in Snagow. During the night, Clémentine is woken by weird noises outside their house, and Lucas sees their car being stolen. The lights are turned off, the phones are disconnected and they see that they are no longer alone. When weird lights appear outside, they hide in the cellar and try to ask for help from what could be a dreadful night of pure terror.
 

The Image

Director: Radley Metzger
Starring: Rebecca Brooke, Carl Parker, Marilyn Roberts, Yvette Hiver, Michelle Vence
Genre: Drama, Erotic
Studio: Synapse Films
My Rating:
Rated: NC-17
Release: Sep 1975
Summary: A fascinating study of the sadomasochistic relationship between a man, a young girl, and an older woman. Jean (Carl Parker, Score), meets his old friend Claire (Marilyn Roberts) at a party and is introduced to the young, seductive Anne (Mary Mendum). Jean discovers the two women have a master/slave relationship and gets seduced into their perverse sexual games. Based on the classic novel "L'Image" from Catherine Robbe-Grillet (under the pseudonym of Jean de Berg), this masterpiece of cinema is hailed by critics as one of the best erotic films ever made. Beautifully photographed with highly explicit imagery and provocative situations, The Image will titillate, arouse and shock you like no other film you've ever seen.
 

Immortals

Director: Tarsem Singh
Starring: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Stephen Dorff, Freida Pinto, Luke Evans
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Studio: Relativity Media
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.5 (29,523 votes)
Release: Nov 2011
Summary: Eons after the Gods won their mythic struggle against the Titans, a new evil threatens the land. Mad with power, King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) has declared war against humanity. Amassing a bloodthirsty army of soldiers disfigured by his own hand, Hyperion has scorched Greece in search of the legendary Epirus Bow, a weapon of unimaginable power forged in the heavens by Ares. Only he who possesses this bow can unleash the Titans, who have been imprisoned deep within the walls of Mount Tartaros since the dawn of time and thirst for revenge. In the king's hands, the bow would rain destruction upon mankind and annihilate the Gods. But ancient law dictates the Gods must not intervene in man's conflict. They remain powerless to stop Hyperion...until a peasant named Theseus (Henry Cavill) comes forth as their only hope. Secretly chosen by Zeus, Theseus must save his people from Hyperion and his hordes...
 

The Impossible

Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Marta Etura, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Holland, Sönke Möhring, Ploy Jindachote
Genre: Drama
Studio: Apaches Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 7.6 (73,436 votes)
Release: Dec 2012
Summary: A regular family - Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three kids - travel to Thailand to spend Christmas. They get an upgrade to a villa on the coastline. After settling in and exchanging gifts, they go to the pool, like so many other tourists. A perfect paradise vacation until a distant noise becomes a roar. There is no time to escape from the tsunami; Maria and her eldest are swept one way, Henry and the youngest another. Who will survive, and what will become of them?
 

In Bruges

Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Mark Donovan, Ann Elsley
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Studio: Universal Studios
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 8.0 (205,969 votes)
Release: Jun 2008
Summary: London based hit men Ray and Ken are told by their boss Harry Waters to lay low in Bruges, Belgium for up to two weeks following their latest hit, which resulted in the death of an innocent bystander. Harry will be in touch with further instructions. While they wait for Harry's call, Ken, following Harry's advice, takes in the sights of the medieval city with great appreciation. But the charms of Bruges are lost on the simpler Ray, who is already despondent over the innocent death, especially as it was his first job. Things change for Ray when he meets Chloe, part of a film crew shooting a movie starring an American dwarf named Jimmy. When Harry's instructions arrive, Ken, for whom the job is directed, isn't sure if he can carry out the new job, especially as he has gained a new appreciation of life from his stay in the fairytale Bruges. While Ken waits for the inevitable arrival into Bruges of an angry Harry, who feels he must clean up matters on his own, Ray is dealing with his own problems, not only with Harry, but with a Canadian couple and a half-blind thief named Eirik. Ray hopes he can count on both Chloe and Ken to help him carve out a new life for himself. In the end, Harry, involved in an incident with Jimmy, may have to keep to his own principles.
 

In My Skin

Director: Marina de Van
Starring: Marina de Van, Laurent Lucas, Léa Drucker, Thibault de Montalembert, Marc Rioufol, Dominique Reymond
Genre: Drama, Horror, Foreign
Studio: Lazennec & Associés
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.3 (2,620 votes)
Release: Dec 2002
Summary: Esther, a self-conscious young woman who works for a public relations firm. One night at a party with her friend, Sandrine (Léa Drucker), Esther wanders into the backyard and stumbles, scratching her leg on a piece of scrap metal. She goes back to the party, and later realizes that her injury is much more severe than she had thought. There's a huge, ugly gouge all the way up her shin, and she's bleeding profusely. She goes to a doctor, who patches her up and tells her she might need a skin graft. But Esther becomes obsessed with the wound. She won't let it heal, sneaking away during work to cut herself. As her leg becomes an ugly scarred mass, she begins to notice a problem with her arm. Before long, she's alienated Vincent and jeopardized her job with her compulsive, self-destructive behavior. But she continues on her grotesque downward spiral.
 

In The Loop

Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, James Gandolfini, Chris Addison, Anna Chlumsky, Enzo Cilenti, Paul Higgins, Mimi Kennedy
Genre: Comedy, Foreign, Indie
Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: Unrated
Rating: 10
Release: Jan 2009
Summary: The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster. But, after Simon accidentally backs military action on TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington, DC. If Simon can get in with the right DC people, if his entourage of one can sleep with the right intern, and if they can both stop the Prime Minister's chief spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker rigging the vote at the UN, they can halt the war. If they don't... well, they can always sack their Director of Communications Judy, who they never liked anyway and who's back home dealing with voters with blocked drains and a man who's angry about a collapsing wall.
 

In The Mouth Of Madness

Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jurgen Prochnow, David Warner, John Glover
Genre: Horror
Studio: Warner Bros.
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 7.1 (27,707 votes)
Release: Feb 2013
Summary: With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and ends up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb's End. The fact that this town exists as a figment of Cane's twisted imagination is only the beginning of Trent's problems....
 

In Time

Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Galecki, Matthew Bomer, Vincent Kartheiser, Yaya DaCosta, Toby Hemingway, Mary Elise Hayden, Ethan Peck, Bella Heathcote, Christiann Castellanos, Shyloh Oostwald, Michael William Freeman, Jesse Lee Soffer, Aaron Perilo, Nick Lashaway, William Peltz, Ray Santiago, Zuleyka Silver, Laura Ashley Samuels, Brendan Miller, Maximilian Osinski, Melissa Ordway, Emma Fitzpatrick, Cathy Baron, Sterling Sulieman
Genre: Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Studio: Fox
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 6.6 (156,811 votes)
Release: Oct 2011
Summary: In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as 'time keepers'.
 

Inception

Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe
Genre: Aciton, Adventure, Mystery
Studio: Warner Home Video
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 8.8 (753,766 votes)
Release: Dec 2010
Summary: Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible-inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming.
 

The Incredible Hulk

Director: Louis Leterrier
Starring: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Christina Cabot
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Studio: Universal Studios
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: PG-13
Release: Oct 2008
Summary: Depicting the events after the Gamma Bomb. 'The Incredible Hulk' tells the story of Dr Bruce Banner, who seeks a cure to his unique condition, which causes him to turn into a giant green monster under emotional stress. Whilst on the run from military which seeks his capture, Banner comes close to a cure. But all is lost when a new creature emerges; The Abomination.
 

The Incredibles

Director: Brad Bird, Bud Luckey, Roger Gould
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee, Dominique Louis
Genre: Animation
Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 8.0 (288,639 votes)
Release: Mar 2005
Summary: After creating the last great traditionally animated film of the 20th century, "The Iron Giant", filmmaker Brad Bird joined top-drawer studio Pixar to create this exciting, completely entertaining computer-animated film. Bird gives us a family of "supers," a brood of five with special powers desperately trying to fit in with the 9-to-5 suburban lifestyle. Of course, in a more innocent world, Bob and Helen Parr were superheroes, Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl. But blasted lawsuits and public disapproval forced them and other supers to go incognito, making it even tougher for their school-age kids, the shy Violet and the aptly named Dash. When a stranger named Mirage (voiced by Elizabeth Pena) secretly recruits Bob for a potential mission, the old glory days spin in his head, even if his body is a bit too plump for his old super suit.
 

Independence Day

Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch
Genre: Action, Adventure
Studio: 20th Century Fox
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 6.5 (287 votes)
Release: Sep 2003
Summary: In "Independence Day", a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. "Independence Day" is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn't even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed by Roland Emmerich, "Independence Day" is a pastiche of conventions from flying-saucer movies from the 1940s and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and bizarre coincidences that create convenient shortcuts in the story. (Such as the way the girlfriend of one of the film's heroes--played by Will Smith--just happens to run across the president's injured wife, who are then both rescued by Smith's character who somehow runs across them in alien-ravaged Los Angeles County.) The movie is just sheer fun, aided by a cast that knows how to balance the retro requirements of the genre with a more contemporary feel. "--Tom Keogh"
 

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone
Genre: Action, Adventure
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Release: Oct 2008
Summary: Nearly 20 years after riding his last Crusade, Harrison Ford makes a welcome return as archaeologist/relic hunter Indiana Jones in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skul"l, an action-packed fourth installment that's, in a nutshell, less memorable than the first three but great nostalgia for fans of the series. Producer George Lucas and screenwriter David Koepp ("War of the Worlds") set the film during the cold war, as the Soviets--replacing Nazis as Indy's villains of choice and led by a sword-wielding Cate Blanchett with black bob and sunglasses--are in pursuit of a crystal skull, which has mystical powers related to a city of gold. After escaping from them in a spectacular opening action sequence, Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young greaser (Shia LaBeouf) whose friend--and Indy's colleague--Professor Oxley (John Hurt) has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts. Whatever secrets the skull holds are tertiary; its reveal is the weakest part of the movie, as the CGI effects that inevitably accompany it feel jarring next to the boulder-rolling world of Indy audiences knew and loved. There's plenty of comedy, delightful stunts--ants play a deadly role here--and the return of "Raiders" love interest Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood, once shrill but now softened, giving her ex-love bemused glances and eye-rolls as he huffs his way to save the day. Which brings us to Ford: bullwhip still in hand, he's a little creakier, a lot grayer, but still twice the action hero of anyone in film today. With all the anticipation and hype leading up to the film's release, perhaps no reunion is sweeter than that of Ford with the role that fits him as snugly as that fedora hat. "--Ellen A. Kim"
 

Indiana Jones, The Adventures of

Director: Vic Armstrong, Simon Wincer
Starring: Harrison Ford
Genre: Action, Adventure
Studio: Paramount Home Video
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 6.1 (366 votes)
Release: Oct 2003
Summary: As with "Star Wars", the George Lucas-produced "Indiana Jones" trilogy was not just a plaything for kids but an act of nostalgic affection toward a lost phenomenon: the cliffhanging movie serials of the past. Episodic in structure and with fate hanging in the balance about every 10 minutes, the "Jones" features tapped into Lucas's extremely profitable "Star Wars" formula of modernizing the look and feel of an old, but popular, story model. Steven Spielberg directed all three films, which are set in the late 1930s and early '40s: the comic book-like "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the spooky, "Gunga Din"-inspired "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", and the cautious but entertaining "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". Fans and critics disagree over the order of preference, some even finding the middle movie nearly repugnant in its violence. (Pro-"Temple of Doom" people, on the other hand, believe that film to be the most disarmingly creative and emotionally effective of the trio.) One thing's for sure: Harrison Ford's swaggering, two-fisted, self-effacing performance worked like a charm, and the art of cracking bullwhips was probably never quite the iconic activity it soon became after "Raiders". Supporting players and costars were very much a part of the series, too--Karen Allen, Sean Connery (as Indy's dad), Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, Denholm Elliot, River Phoenix, and John Rhys-Davies among them. Years have passed since the last film (another is supposedly in the works), but emerging film buffs can have the same fun their predecessors did picking out numerous references to Hollywood classics and B-movies of the past. "--Tom Keogh"
 

Indie Game: The Movie

Director: Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky
Starring: Jonathan Blow, Phil Fish, Edmund McMillen, Tommy Refenes
Genre: Documentary
Studio: BlinkWorks Media
My Rating:
Rated: Unrated
Rating: 6
Release: May 2012
Summary: Indie Game: The Movie is a feature documentary about video games, their creators and the craft. The film follows the dramatic journeys of video game developers as they create and release their games to the world. The film tells the emotional story of friends Edmund McMillen & Tommy Refenes, as they craft their first Xbox game: "Super Meat Boy". It follows Phil Fish, the creator of the highly-anticipated game: "FEZ". After 4 years of working in near solitude, Phil reveals his opus to the public for the first time. And, the film tells the surprising story of one of the highest-rated video games of all time:"Braid". The film is about making video games, but at its core, it's about the creative process, and exposing yourself through your work. In short: Making fun and games is anything but fun and games.
 

Inglourious Basterds

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Mike Myers, André Penvern, Michael Bacall
Genre: Thrillers
Studio: Universal Studios
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 4.3 (12 votes)
Release: Aug 2009
Summary: Although Quentin Tarantino has cherished Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 "macaroni" war flick "The Inglorious Bastards" for most of his film-geek life, his own "Inglourious Basterds" is no remake. Instead, as hinted by the Tarantino-esque misspelling, this is a lunatic fantasia of WWII, a brazen re-imagining of both history and the behind-enemy-lines war film subgenre. There's a Dirty Not-Quite-Dozen of mostly Jewish commandos, led by a Tennessee good ol' boy named Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) who reckons each warrior owes him one hundred Nazi scalps--and he means that literally. Even as Raine's band strikes terror into the Nazi occupiers of France, a diabolically smart and self-assured German officer named Landa (Christoph Waltz) is busy validating his own legend as "The Jew Hunter." Along the way, he wipes out the rural family of a grave young girl (Melanie Laurent) who will reappear years later in Paris, dreaming of vengeance on an epic scale.
Now, this isn't one more big-screen comic book. As the masterly opening sequence reaffirms, Tarantino is a true "filmmaker", with a deep respect for the integrity of screen space and the tension that can accumulate in contemplating two men seated at a table having a polite conversation. "IB" reunites QT with cinematographer Robert Richardson (who shot "Kill Bill"), and the colors and textures they serve up can be riveting, from the eerie red-hot glow of a tabletop in Adolf Hitler's den, to the creamy swirl of a Parisian pastry in which Landa parks his cigarette. The action has been divided, "Pulp Fiction"-like, into five chapters, each featuring at least one spellbinding set-piece. It's testimony to the integrity we mentioned that Tarantino can lock in the ferocious suspense of a scene for minutes on end, then explode the situation almost faster than the eye and ear can register, and "then" take the rest of the sequence to a new, wholly unanticipated level within seconds.
Again, be warned: This is not your "Greatest Generation," "Saving Private Ryan" WWII. The sadism of Raine and his boys can be as unsavory as the Nazi variety; Tarantino's latest cinematic protégé, Eli (director of "Hostel") Roth, is aptly cast as a self-styled "golem" fond of pulping Nazis with a baseball bat. But get past that, and the sometimes disconcerting shifts to another location and another set of characters, and the movie should gather you up like a growing floodtide. Tarantino told the Cannes Film Festival audience that he wanted to show "Adolf Hitler defeated by cinema." Cinema wins. "--Richard T. Jameson"
 

Innerspace

Director: Joe Dante
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Grainger Hines
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Studio: Warner Home Video
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 6.6 (28,806 votes)
Release: Jul 1987
Summary: Tuck Pendleton is a cocky pilot, who is taking part in a miniaturization experiment. When some bad guys break into the lab to steal the technology, one of the scientists takes a syringe which contains the miniaturized Tuck and vessel. Now in the vessel is part of the material needed to restore him. But the other part which is the lab is stolen. The scientist's shot but before dying he injects Tuck into Jack Putter, a hypochondriac, who feels that something is wrong with him all the time. When Tuck links himself to Jack's systems, he discovers that something happened. So they go back to the lab, and discover what happened. Now they are told that unless they retrieve the material that was stolen they won't be able to restore Tuck before his oxygen is depleted. Now the government rep decides that the only thing that matters that as long as they have the other half of the material, it is useless to the thieves. So Tuck eggs Jack to go out and find the thieves. They enlist the aid of Tuck's old girlfriend, Lydia, who is a reporter. And it's fortunate for them that she has a lead that pans out.
 

Inside (À l'intérieur)

Director: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo
Starring: Beatrice Dalle, Alysson Paradis, Nathalie Roussel, François-Régis Marchasson, Jean-Baptiste Tabourin
Genre: Horror
Studio: Genius Products (TVN)
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6
Release: Apr 2008
Summary: Four months after pregnant Sara loses her husband in a horrific auto accident, she is visited on Christmas Eve by a mysterious madwoman. Alone and desperate to save her unborn child, Sara fights to stay alive as each of her potential rescuers die at the womans sadistic hands.
 

Inside Job

Director: Charles Ferguson
Starring: Matt Damon
Genre: Sports
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 8.2 (33,958 votes)
Release: Mar 2011
Summary: As he did with the occupation of Iraq in "No End in Sight", Charles Ferguson shines a light on the global financial crisis in "Inside Job". Accompanied by narration from Matt Damon, Ferguson begins and ends in Iceland, a flourishing country that gave American-style banking a try--and paid the price. Then he looks at the spectacular rise and cataclysmic fall of deregulation in the United States. Unlike Alex Gibney's fiscal films, "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" and "Casino Jack", Ferguson builds his narrative around dozens of players, interviewing authors, bank managers, government ministers, and even a psychotherapist, who speaks to a culture that encourages Gordon Gekko-like behavior, but the number of those who declined to comment, like Alan Greenspan, is even larger. Though the director isn't as combative as Michael Moore, he asks tough questions and elicits squirms from several participants, notably former Treasury secretary David McCormick and Columbia dean Glenn Hubbard, George W. Bush's economic adviser. Their reactions are understandable, since the borders between Wall Street, Washington, and the Ivy League dissolved years ago; it's hard to know who to trust when conflicts of interest run rampant. If Ferguson takes Reagan and Bush to task for tax cuts that benefit the wealthy, he criticizes Clinton for encouraging derivatives and Obama for failing to deliver on the promise of reform. And in the category of unlikely heroes: former governor Eliot Spitzer, who fought against fraud as New York's attorney general (he's the subject of Gibney's documentary "Client 9"). "--Kathleen C. Fennessy"
 

Inside Llewyn Davis

Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, Garrett Hedlund, John Goodman, Oscar Isaac, Ethan Phillips, Robin Bartlett, Max Casella, Jerry Grayson, Jeanine Serralles, Adam Driver, Stark Sands, Alex Karpovsky, F. Murray Abraham
Genre: Drama, Music
Studio: Anton Capital Entertainment (ACE)
My Rating:
Rated: R
Release: Dec 2013
Summary: Follow a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- some of them of his own making.
 

Internal Affairs

Director: Mike Figgis
Starring: Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Laurie Metcalf, Nancy Travis, Richard Bradford, Elijah Wood
Genre: Drama
Studio: Paramount
My Rating:
Rated: R
Release: Jan 1990
Summary: Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.
 

The Internship

Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Tiya Sircar, Rose Byrne, Josh Gad, Jessica Szohr, Aasif Mandvi, Josh Brener, Tobit Raphael, Dylan O'Brien, Max Minghella, Rob Riggle, Eric André, Harvey Guillen, Gary Anthony Williams, Will Ferrell, John Goodman, B. J. Novak
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 6.2 (47,523 votes)
Release: Jun 2013
Summary: Billy (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Owen Wilson) are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete, they defy the odds by talking their way into a coveted internship at Google, along with a battalion of brilliant college students. But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they must compete with a group of the nation's most elite, tech-savvy geniuses to prove that necessity really is the mother of re-invention.
 

Into Eternity

Director: Michael Madsen
Starring: Timo Äikäs, Carl Reinhold Bråkenhjelm, Mikael Jensen, Berit Lundqvist, Wendla Paile
Genre: Documentary, Foreign
Studio: Dogwoof
My Rating:
Rated: Unrated
Rating: 7.3 (1,440 votes)
Release: Nov 2010
Summary: Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste cre- ated by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.
 

Into the Abyss

Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Jason Burkett, Werner Herzog, Michael Perry, Jeremy Richardson, Kristen Willis
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Studio: Sundance Selects
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 6
Release: Nov 2011
Summary: Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog returns with INTO THE ABYSS: A TALE OF DEATH, A TALE OF LIFE, a riveting examination of a horrible crime which probes the human psyche to explore why people kill--and why the state kills. In intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (who was scheduled to die eight days after his interview with Herzog), the filmmaker achieves what he describes as "a gaze into the abyss of the human soul." As he's so often done before, Herzog's investigation unveils layers of humanity, making an enlightening trip out of ominous territory.
 

Intolerable Cruelty

Director: Joel Coen
Starring: George Clooney, Catherina Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Herrmann, Paul Adelstein, Richard Jenkins, Billy Bob Thornton, Julia Duffy, Camille Anderson
Genre: Romantisch
Studio: Universal Pictures
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 5.3 (57 votes)
Release: Nov 2010
Comments: They can't keep their hands off each others assets.
Summary: Een doldwaze komedie van Oscar winnaars Joel en Ethan Coenover een man die rechtszaken wint en een vrouw die flirt om tewinnen.
Topadvocaat in scheidingszaken Miles Massey (George Clooney -Ocean's Eleven, Solaris) heeft alles wat zijn hartje begeert.Marilyn Rexroth (Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago, Traffic) isslechts op geld uit en gaat voor de hoofdprijs. Als Miles verliefdwordt op de niet te versieren Marilyn ontwikkelt zich eenhilarische strijd vol list en bedrog, waarbij beide partijen allesuit de kast halen om elkaar te slim af te zijn. De slinksetactieken, valse trucjes én de onmiskenbare aantrekkingskrachtescaleren als Marilyn en Miles onomwonden de degens kruisen in dezeklassieke strijd tussen de seksen.
 

Intouchables

Director: Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
Starring: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot, Clotilde Mollet, Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi, Cyril Mendy, Christian Ameri, Salimata Kamate, Marie-Laure Descoureaux
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Foreign
Studio: Quad Productions
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 5
Release: Nov 2011
Summary: A true story of two men who should never have met - a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
 

Invictus

Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Mofokeng, Matt Stern, Julian Lewis Jones, Adjoa Andoh, Marguerite Wheatley, Leleti Khumalo, Patrick Lyster, Matt Damon, Scott Eastwood, Langley Kirkwood, Bonnie Henna
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Studio: Warner Bros.
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 7.3 (79,291 votes)
Release: Dec 2009
Summary: Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
 

The Invisible War

Director: Kirby Dick
Starring: Kori Cioca, Jessica Hinves, Ariana Klay, Elle Helmer, Hannah Sewell, Trina McDonald, Robin Lynne Lafayette, Rob McDonald, Jerry Sewell, Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering, Myla Haider, Paula Coughlin, Michael Matthews
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Documentary
Studio: NEW VIDEO GROUP
My Rating:
Rated: Unrated
Rating: 7.4 (2,818 votes)
Release: Jun 2012
Summary: An investigative and powerfully emotional documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military, the institutions that perpetuate and cover up its existence, and its profound personal and social consequences.
 

The Iron Giant

Director: Brad Bird
Starring: Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Aniston, Vin Diesel, James Gammon
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Studio: Warner Home Video
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 7.9 (77,388 votes)
Release: Aug 1999
Summary: This is the story of a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that came from outer space. Meanwhile, a paranoid U.S. Government agent named Kent Mansley arrives in town, determined to destroy the giant at all costs. It's up to Hogarth to protect him by keeping him at Dean McCoppin's place in the junkyard.
 

The Iron Lady

Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Susan Brown, Alice da Cunha, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Genre: Biography, Drama
Studio: Film4
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 6.3 (45,687 votes)
Release: Jan 2012
Summary: Tells the story of a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and insightful portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman.
 

Iron Man

Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow
Genre: Action, Adventure
Studio: Paramount
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 4.5 (730 votes)
Release: Sep 2008
Summary: Suit up for action with Robert Downey Jr. in the ultimate adventure movie you’ve been waiting for, "Iron Man"! When jet-setting genius-industrialist Tony Stark is captured in enemy territory, he builds a high-tech suit of armor to escape. Now, he’s on a mission to save the world as a hero who’s built, not born, to be unlike any other. Co-starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard and Jeff Bridges, it’s a fantastic, high-flying journey that is "hugely entertaining" (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal).
 

Iron Man 2

Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson
Genre: Action, Adventure
Studio: Paramount
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 7.1 (260,530 votes)
Release: May 2010
Summary: After the high-flying adventures of the first "Iron Man" picture, the billionaire arms manufacturer and irrepressible bon vivant Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) finds himself nursing a hangover. But not like any hangover he's had before: this one is toxic, a potentially deadly condition resulting from heavy metals (or something) bleeding out of the hardware he's installed in the middle of his chest. This is the problem Stark needs to solve in "Iron Man 2", not to mention the threat from resentful Russian science whiz Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke), whose father helped create the Iron Man technology. There's an even bigger problem for the film: the need to set up a future Marvel Comics movie universe in which a variety of veteran characters will join forces, a requirement that slows down whatever through-line the movie can generate (although fanboys will have a good time digging the clues laid out here). Actually, the main plot is no great shakes: another Iron Man suit is deployed (Don Cheadle, replacing Terrence Howard from the first film, gets to climb inside), Stark continues to bicker with assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), and a weaselly business rival (Sam Rockwell) tries to out-do the Iron Man suit with an army of Vanko-designed drones. Mickey Rourke is a letdown, burdened by a wobbly Russian accent and looking skeptical about the genre foolishness around him, and Scarlett Johansson has to wait until the final couple of reels to unleash some butt-kickin' skills as the future Black Widow. That climax is sufficiently lively, and the initial half-hour, including Stark's smirky appearance before a Senate committee and a wacky showdown at the Monaco Grand Prix, provides a strong, swift opening. But the lull between these high points is crying for more action and more Downey improv. "--Robert Horton"
 

Iron Man 3

Director: Shane Black
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Ben Kingsley, Rebecca Hall, Jon Favreau, Paul Bettany, William Sadler, James Badge Dale, Yvonne Zima, Ashley Hamilton, Spencer Garrett, Bridger Zadina, Chris Gethard, Roy McCrerey, Jonathan Jackson, Stephanie Szostak, Guy Pearce, Noah Visconti, Ty Simpkins, Jenna Ortega, Bronte D'Esposito, Miguel Ferrer
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Studio: Marvel Studios
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Release: May 2013
Summary: The brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man is faced against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy’s hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
 

The Island

Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Studio: Dreamworks Video
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 6.8 (179,794 votes)
Release: Jun 2011
Summary: When you add up all the best things about "The Island", you might just conclude that there's hope yet for Hollywood's most critically reviled hit-maker, Michael Bay. Recruited by Steven Spielberg to direct this lavish and often breathtaking sci-fi action thriller, Bay rises to the occasion with an ambitious production that is, by his standards (and compared to Bay's earlier hits like "The Rock" and "Armageddon"), surprisingly intelligent as it explores the repercussions of cloning in a sealed-off society where humans are cultivated for spare parts, surrogate parenthood, and full-body replacements for wealthy clientele. But when two of the clones (Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johanssen) begin to question their fate and the motives of their keepers, they escape into the real world and "The Island" becomes just another Michael Bay action extravaganza, albeit an impressively exciting one. With elaborate chase scenes and a high-tech feast of CGI to dazzle the eye, "The Island" recycles much of the plot from 1979's "Clonus" while borrowing elements from "Logan's Run", "Gattaca" and "Minority Report", and while it's not as smartly conceived as those earlier films, there's no denying that, in many ways, it's Bay's best film to date. "--Jeff Shannon"
 

It's a Disaster

Director: Todd Berger
Starring: Julia Stiles, David Cross, America Ferrera, Erinn Hayes, Jeff Grace
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Vacationeer Productions
My Rating:
Rated: R
Release: Nov 2012
Summary: An awkward Sunday brunch takes an unexpected turn thanks to the apocalypse in this comedy from writer/director Todd Berger (The Scenesters). Tracy Scott (Julia Stiles) is ready to introduce her new boyfriend Glen (David Cross) to her best pals Hedy (America Ferrera), Emma (Erinn Hayes), and Lexi (Rachel Boston), and what better way to do it than gathering for a laid-back Sunday brunch? As the ladies and their significant others file in, it quickly becomes apparent that the chemistry is a bit off. Just when it seems like the situation couldn't get any more uncomfortable, however, the group learns that a series of dirty bombs have been set off downtown, and that a deadly cloud of VX nerve gas is blowing their way. Now, with their demise seemingly imminent, this bickering bunch must make peace with the fact that the worst party they've ever attended may also be their last.
 

The Italian Job

Director: F. Gary Gray
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Jason Statham, Seth Green
Genre: Thrillers
Studio: Paramount
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 6.9 (183,980 votes)
Release: May 2003
Summary: Though it bears little resemblance to the original 1969 thriller starring Michael Caine, the 2003 remake of "The Italian Job" stands on its own as a caper comedy that's well above average. The title's a misnomer--this time it's actually a Los Angeles job--but the action's just as exciting as it propels a breezy tale of honor and dishonor among competing thieves. Inheriting Caine's role as ace heist-planner Charlie Croker, Mark Wahlberg plays straight-man to a well-cast team of accomplices, including Mos Def, Jason Statham, and scene-stealer Seth Green in a variation of the role originally played by Noel Coward. As the daughter of Croker's ill-fated mentor (Donald Sutherland), Charlize Theron is recruited to double-cross a double-crosser (Edward Norton in oily villain mode), and once again, speedily versatile Mini Coopers play a pivotal role in director F. Gary Gray's exhilarating car-chase climax. It's perhaps the greatest product placement in movie history, and just as fun the second time around. "--Jeff Shannon"
 

The Italian Job

Director: Peter Collinson
Starring: Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley
Genre: Action, Adventure
Studio: Paramount
My Rating:
Rated: G
Rating: 6.9 (183,980 votes)
Release: Sep 1969
Summary: This little-known cult caper is about as depraved as they come. Michael Caine, ever the enterprising swinger and swindler, has an ingenious plan to steal a huge cache of Chinese gold to be shipped to Turin as collateral for a new Fiat plant. Since the Italy-Great Britain soccer match is being played at the same time, Caine wants to create a diversion in the form of a monumental traffic jam. For financing, he turns to Noel Coward, who directs British criminal enterprises from his jail cell. A motley crew is assembled, including Benny Hill as a computer expert with a fetish for large-breasted women. It's all a nasty and fun parody, with the most memorable robbery-chase sequence in the history of the caper genre. "--Bill Desowitz"