4/28/2008
HBO Asia Synopses - Month of May 2008
300
Based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 tells the heroic story of Spartan king Leonidas (Butler) and 300 of his best warriors as they fight the invading Persian army of King Xerxes in Thermopylae in 480 B.C. Filled with amazing battle sequences straight out of the graphic novel, 300 is a dramatic retelling of a part of Greek history re-interpreted through Frank Miller's work.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey
"HUSTLE"
Phil Gaines (Reynolds), a tough but cynical cop, investigates the suicide death of a call girl, only to discover a web of murder and deceit that leads to a powerful attorney and Phil's own prostitute girlfriend, Nicole (Deneuve).
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Ben Johnson, Catherine Deneuve
ALL THE KING'S MEN
Based on Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All The King's Men tells the story of a man's rise to power in Louisiana's world of politics. Willie Stark (Penn) is elected as a governor with the support of the lower social classes. But when Judge Irwin (Anthony Hopkins) supports a group of Stark's enemies pushing for impeachment, Stark plays dirty to bring down the judge and ends up setting up his own ultimate downfall.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Sean Penn
AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS
When a veteran press agent, Lee Phillips (Crystal), is charged with the task of reuniting America's big screen sweethearts, Gwen Harrison (Zeta-Jones) and Eddie Thomas (Cusack), for one last public appearance, he knows it's going to be an uphill battle. After a painful 18-month separation, Eddie has been left emotionally crippled. Lee needs a miracle to pull this off, and Gwen's sister and personal assistant, Kiki (Roberts), is his only chance. Just as it looks like Lee might actually pull it off, things get complicated in the form of Kiki, who wants to be the therapy that Eddie needs.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Crystal
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
These guys may be armed, but they're hardly dangerous! John Candy and Eugene Levy star in this riotous comedy as two inept security guards out to stop the criminal mastermind responsible for a series of robberies. Getting locked in a steam bath, hiding in a pornography shop and being trapped in a toxic waste dump are all in a day's work for the bumbling duo.
Starring: Robert Loggia, John Candy, Meg Ryan, Eugene Levy, Kenneth McMillan
BABY BOY
An aimless young man has to learn the meaning of fatherly responsibility when his mother's boyfriend moves in with them and starts pushing him to grow up – the hard way.
Starring: Ving Rhames, Tyrese
BEBE'S KIDS
In this sassy, animated funfest, Robin Harris spends a day at an amusement park with a woman, Jamika, whom he's trying to impress, together with her son. What he doesn't count on is her neighbor Bebe's three pint-sized terrors tagging along who turn the place upside down. With the voices of Faizon Love, Nell Carter and Tone Loc.
Starring: Faizon Love
BEERFEST
Two brothers assemble an all-star beer-guzzling team to Munich after they were disgraced in an age-old beer competition.
Starring: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan
BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
This sequel to The Poseidon Adventure kicks off with the S.S. Poseidon lies belly up in mid-ocean, helpless before the waves and racked by internal explosions. Captain Mike Turner (Caine) and his sidekick Celeste Whitman (Field) head a rescue team to try saving the remaining survivors, but the villain Captain Svevo (Savalas) comes looking to steal a nuclear load.
Starring: Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas
BLACK SHEEP
Those madcap guys from Tommy Boy are up to their side-splitting antics again: Al Donnelly (Matheson), a promising candidate for state governor fears he may be embarrassed by his whacky brother, Mike (Farley), and hires his personal aide Steve Dodds (Spade) to keep Mike out of trouble.
Starring: David Spade, Tim Matheson, Chris Farley
BLUE STREAK
What happens when a $20 million diamond gets stolen, then stashed in an unfinished building that turns out to be the new 37th L.A. Police Precinct two years later? Jewel thief Miles Logan (Lawrence) will have to go undercover as a cop to retrieve his loot. After a short jail term, Miles learns everything there is to know about the boys in blue, so he can blend in and cash out. But the new cop on the block soon discovers that he's a better law enforcer than he is a crook. That's until his old ways come back to haunt him.
Starring: Luke Wilson, Martin Lawrence
BOOMERANG
Marcus Graham (Murphy) is a high flying executive who has everything - the cars, the clothes and the chicks. The problem is, once a woman falls in love with him, he loses interest. One day the tables are turned in him, and a high-powered female executive gives him the same treatment as he has been dishing out to his ladies. Will Marcus be able to find true love? Perhaps she has been right there under his nose all along!
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Robin Givens, Grace Jones
BRIAN'S SONG
Two American footballers, Gale Sayers (Mekhi Phifer) and Brian Piccolo (Maher), are competing for starting positions with the Chicago Bears. Though both are very different, their friendship strengthens with time. Sayers is clearly the more talented of the two, and rises to the top faster than his friend, but tragedy strikes when he is diagnosed with cancer.
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Sean Maher
BRING IT ON: ALL OR NOTHING
A top high school cheerleader has to prove herself from scratch when she moves to a new school, and compete against her old team for a spot in a TV show.
Starring: Solange Knowles, Hayden Panettiere
BUGSY
This is the true story of Bugsy, (Beatty) the notorious womanizing New York gangster who goes to Los Angeles and falls for the strong-willed starlet Virginia Hill (Bening)- who isn't contented with playing second fiddle as his mistress. Together, the duo build a new dream in Las Vegas - The Flamingo, a five-star hotel and casino that aims to rake in the big bucks with legal gambling and top-notch show business.
Starring: Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Warren Beatty
CANNONBALL RUN II
When an Arab sheik offers a million dollars to the person who zips from California to Connecticut fastest by car, it's fortune first, scruples later. Faster than a blink, a motley crew of rich-wannabes rev up their speed machines and start burning the rubber off their spare tires for a shot at some serious cash. Featuring comedy big-wigs Burt Reynolds, Jamie Farr, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra, this wacky ride sticks your nose where the rubber meets the road, and packs enough star power to come in first-place in any race.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jackie Chan, Marilu Henner
CASPER
Kat (Ricci) and her eccentric dad, Dr. James Harvey (Pullman), a self-styled 'ghost therapist', shows up on the doorstep of the dilapidated Whipstaff Manor. Hired by Whipstaff's scheming owner, Carrigan (Moriarty), Dr. Harvey has to exorcise the manor of a friendly but lonely young ghost named Casper, and his three incorrigibly odious uncles, so that she can get her hands on the macabre manor's fabled treasure. As the ill-mannered ghosts go out of their way to scare the 'fleshies', Casper finds himself becoming best friends with Kat in this funny and lively story.
Starring: Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman
CLOUD DANCER
A professional aeroplane acrobatics pilot suffers recurrent blackouts but continues with his career. He is also afraid to be in a long-term relationship because he is fearful of passing his defective genes to the next generation.
Starring: David Carradine, J. O'Neill
CLUB PARADISE
Normalcy takes a holiday when Jack Moniker (Williams) opens up a Caribbean resort. All hell breaks loose as Moniker and Ernest Reed try to turn a seedy hotel into a tropical Eden. The plumbing's a joke, guests vanish without a trace and the locals are plotting an uprising. And then things start to get really wild!
Starring: Robin Williams, Rick Moranis, Peter O'Toole
CONEHEADS
Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin star as an alien couple with coneheads who are accidentally left on Earth. While waiting to be recalled to their mother planet Remulak, they try to adapt to America and start a family there, with hilarious results.
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin
DUDLEY DO-RIGHT
Somewhere along the Canadian Rockies, dastardly villain S. Whiplash (Molina) and his band of outlaws seize the property of the townsfolk of Semi-Happy Valley and organize a fake gold rush. With thousands of prospectors storming into the area, only dedicated but dimwitted Mountie, Dudley Do-Right (Fraser) stands in Whiplash's way. Do-Right's initial efforts to thwart Whiplash end disastrously and matters go from bad to worse when his girlfriend, Nell Fenwick (Parker), falls for the charms of his enemy. Stripped of his badge and his girl, the usually sweet and naive Do-Right transforms into a masked avenger determined to take some serious revenge.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfred Molina
ENTOURAGE 43: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
The fourth season premiere of Entourage takes a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Medellin on location in Bogota, Colombia. On set, E and Walsh clash over keeping the film on schedule and Billy develops an infatuation with Vince's beautiful Colombian co-star, which becomes disruptive to the production. Meanwhile, Drama tries to angle for a part in the film, and Ari provides color commentary from his L.A. office.
Starring: Adrian Grenier
ENTOURAGE 44: THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST
Drama plans a welcome-back party for Vince at his new condo, but his obsession with keeping the place pristine puts a damper on the festivities. Ari and Mrs. Ari learn that their son may not get into their daughter's exclusive private school. Walsh's insecurities prevent E and Vince from seeing the first cut of Medellin.
Starring: Adrian Grenier
ENTOURAGE 45: MALIBOOTY
Walsh submits Medellin to Cannes, but E thinks the film still needs major editing. Vince gets in over his head while hanging out at a Malibu beach house. Drama rekindles a romance with a '90s party girl, and brings Turtle along as his wingman.
Starring: Adrian Grenier
ENTOURAGE 46: SORRY, HARVEY
E has to give a Hollywood heavyweight some bad news. In the hopes of getting his condo annexed into 90210 territory, Drama takes the mayor of Beverly Hills out for a night in town. Ari mishandles a top-secret script. Writer / director M. Night Shyamalan guest-stars.
Starring: Adrian Grenier
ENTOURAGE 47: THE DREAM TEAM
The Medellin trailer is leaked on YouTube, and an enraged Walsh blames E. In an effort to appear younger, Drama sees a hat he wants and tracks it down to a medical marijuana facility. The trailer leak pumps up Vince's marketability as Ari tries to attach him to a mountain-hiking story project.
Starring: Adrian Grenier
ENTOURAGE 48: THE WEHO HO
Walsh makes nice with E, who is still reluctant to work with him again. After his boyfriend breaks up with him, a devastated Lloyd takes a leave of absence, to Ari's dismay. Drama and Turtle go in on Cousin Ronnie's latest shady investment opportunity.
Starring: Adrian Grenier
ENTOURAGE 49: THE DAY FU*KERS
Vince and Drama wager on the romantic prospects of Eric and Turtle. Ari tries to come to grips with the indignation of his son attending public school.
ENTOURAGE 50: GARY'S DESK
E gets an office on a shoddy stretch of Hollywood Boulevard. As a gift for E, Vince, Drama and Turtle scope out an antique desk with a rich Hollywood history, but learn that it's already been sold to an actor with whom they have their own colorful past. Ari preps for his annual meeting with an R&B super-diva, but first must squash some twin-sibling office drama. Guest-starring director Peter Jackson, Gary Busey and Mary J. Blige.
EXTERMINATOR 2
In the distant future, evil doesn't lurk behind dark corners, it walks the streets of New York, where good and evil even the score. Armed with a flamethrower, urban crime hero, the Exterminator (Ginty), stalks gang leader "X" (Van Peebles) and his band of urban guerillas. Formerly engaged in petty crimes, the group has since moved onto better things – stealing heavy duty weapons, blowing stuff out of the sky and yes, drugs. And to keep the neighborhood shaking in their boots, they are making sure their presence is felt at every street, raising their brutal crimes to new, terrorizing heights.
Starring: Robert Ginty, Deborah Geffner
FAILURE TO LAUNCH
Find out what happens when the parents of a 35 year-old bachelor (McConaughey) hire Sarah Jessica Parker to seduce him so that he can move out of their house!
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew McConaughey
FATAL CONTACT: BIRD FLU IN AMERICA
As an outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes contagious and transmittable among humans, scientists scramble to find a cure and contain the disease.
Starring: Stacy Keach, Joely Richardson
FINAL DESTINATION 3
In this third installment of the Final Destination series, the new heroine is a high school senior who has a premonition of a roller coaster ride that goes wrong and kills her and her friends. As before, she manages to warn her friends and save their lives, but death comes a-knocking to take back the lives which should have been lost.
Starring: Mary Winstead, Ryan Merriman
FIRST LOOK: SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE
Get behind the scenes of this long-awaited Sex And The City Movie as Manhattan's fabulous foursome are back on their quest for true love.
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker
FLY AWAY HOME
Moving to Canada to live with her estranged father after her mother's death, young Amy (Paquin) is sullen and troubled until she becomes a surrogate mother to a nest of goose eggs. The newly hatched chicks regard her as their real mother, and it soon becomes clear that she's going to have to perform all of a mother's tasks!
Starring: Dana Delany, Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Terry Kinney
FOUR BROTHERS
When a woman is murdered, her four adopted sons come together to solve the crime and to exact revenge. Bobby (Wahlberg) is the brawl-hungry leader while Angel (Gibson) is a rowdy sailor with a high-strung Latina girlfriend. Jack (Hedlund) is the young rock & roller of the clan and Jeremiah (Andre Benjamin) is the family man who has a link to the mob.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, Garrett Hedlund
FRIENDS WITH MONEY
This is the story of four female friends who examine their love relationships and do not like what they see. Jane (McDormand), a successful dress designer who has stopped washing hair, is prone to outbursts and is married to a man who might be gay. Franny (Cusack) is a multimillionaire who appears to have the perfect life with her family. Christine (Keener) is building her dream house and writing a screenplay with her husband as their life together is crumbling. And the youngest of the foursome, Olivia (Aniston), is a pot-smoking maid who stalks her ex-lover.
Starring: Joan Cusack, Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand
GREASE
Danny Zuko (Travolta) and Sandy Olsson (Newton-John) are two kids who find love on the beach. That is until school starts again and they have to face the one thing that kids fear: peer pressure. Now Danny must stay cool and appear unfazed when his heart truly yearns for the beautiful but innocent Sandy.
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John
GREASE 2
Sexy Stephanie Zinone is the leader of the outlaw sorority - The Pink Ladies. Michael Carrington (Caulfield) has just arrived from Britain caught unaware of the code that exists between the Pink Ladies and their counterpart gang, The T-Birds. As Michael tries to win Stephanie's heart, he must contend not only with the T-Birds that stand in his way, but also with Stephanie's expectations of her dream lover. Will Michael live up to what she expects?
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Maxwell Caulfield
GRENDEL
Chris Bruno stars as the legendary Beowulf, who travels from Sweden to Denmark to help battle a seemingly unstoppable monster called Grendel. In this screen adaptation, Beowulf carries a super crossbow complete with bayonets and sniper scope.
Starring: Chris Bruno
HBO CENTRAL
HBO Central is your monthly guide to the hottest attractions on HBO! Join your host, Simone Heng, for an exciting look at what's new on the channel each month. Take a peek at the biggest blockbusters and HBO Original productions headed your way, including Hollywood gossip, behind-the-scenes tidbits, superstar profiles and red carpet style guides. It's a one-stop hub of entertainment news that’s all about HBO, on HBO.
HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2: DEAD AIM
In Guesta Verde University, a crazy professor is killing students to feed his experiment on resurrecting the dead. An outbreak of zombies swarms the campus, and a government research team is sent to obtain the zero sample from a first-generation zombie. The team has limited time before the campus will be destroyed by missiles. Will they survive?
Starring: Emmanuelle Vaugier
I DREAMED OF AFRICA: A TRUE STORY
Kuki Gallmann (Basinger) wants a new start and leaves her predictable life in Italy for the freedom of the African wild. There, she discovers one true thing about Africa – that inside its magical exterior and enchanting canvas is a place of pain and suffering, certainly no walk in the park. Now home to a life that's free as far as her eyes can see, she has to deal with the locals – poachers who have never heard of animals on the endangered species list.
Starring: Kim Basinger, Vincent Perez
IMPULSE
Lottie Mason (Russell) is a narcotics cop who works a second shift in undercover vice. Tired and disillusioned, Lottie soon finds herself increasingly unable to separate fantasy from reality, as her undercover personas threaten to engulf her real life. Finding herself drawn to the temptations she faces each night, Lottie accepts a proposition that drags her into a dangerous web of murder and deceit.
Starring: Theresa Russell, George Dzundza, Jeff Fahey, Alan Rosenberg, Nicholas Mele
IN COUNTRY
Strong-willed Samantha "Sam" is a teenager whose father died in the Vietnam war. Her Uncle Emmett (Willis), also a veteran of the war, cares for her. Sam is determined to find out everything about her father's experience in the war but Emmett tries to discourage her. Sam's journey of discovery then becomes another journey of sorts for Emmett as he tries to come to terms with his own past.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd
INNOCENT BLOOD
A beautiful vampire with a conscience stalks the streets of Pittsburgh in search of prey in this comedic horror flick. She prefers the blood of mobsters – so when a gang war breaks out, she feasts nightly and makes the killings look like mob hits. But she doesn’t complete the job while feeding on one baddie, and he in turn becomes a blood sucker and is out for her blood!
Starring: Anne Parillaud, David Proval
INVADER
A scandal sheet reporter's latest story involves the mysterious deaths of four military men in this sci-fi thriller. Are they connected to the Air Force's testing of a top-secret new aircraft? His investigation leads him to a plot by alien invaders to take over the U.S. military! But he must escape their clutches if he is to live to tell the story.
Starring: Hans Bachmann, A. Thomas Smith
JESSE STONE: DEATH IN PARADISE
When a fourteen year old teenager is found dead in the Paradise river in Massachusetts, Chief of Police Jesse Stone (Selleck) seeks clues from the crime scene and various suspects to unravel the identity of the criminal.
Starring: Tom Selleck
JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO
Joe Banks (Hanks) makes a bizarre deal with a businessman for six weeks of a king's lifestyle – after which he'll jump into a Pacific isle volcano. Sparks fly when he teams up with yacht skipper, Patricia (Ryan) and set sail for his destiny – or maybe theirs.
Starring: Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack
KINDERGARTEN COP
One detective, John Kimble (Schwarzenegger), faces his toughest assignment yet. His attempts to track down a drug dealer lead to the school where the dealer's young son is studying. The fun begins when Kimble realizes he must go undercover as the son's kindergarten teacher!
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed
LAST HOLIDAY
Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) is a shy woman who dreams of an elegant life but is in fact just an oversized ordinary Jane. But when she is diagnosed with a terminal disease and has three weeks left to live, all hell breaks loose as Georgia pulls out all the stops for her very last holiday.
Starring: LL Cool J, Queen Latifah
LET IT RIDE
A typical small-time compulsive gambler, Jay Trotter (Dreyfuss), usually loses like everyone else. But one miraculous day at the races, he keeps winning and winning. In the meantime, his relationship with his wife gets worse. Will Lady Luck continue to shine for him, or will he lose both his money and his wife?
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, David Johansen
LITTLE MAN
A small-sized jewel thief, Calvin (Marlon Wayans), disguises himself as a toddler to retrieve the diamond he hid with a childless couple, Daryl (Shawn Wayans) and Vanessa. But when Calvin's boss tracks him and the couple down, Calvin and Daryl must team up for a bigger purpose.
Starring: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans
LITTLE NIKITA
In a routine background check, FBI agent Roy Parmenter (Poitier) finds out that the parents of teenage applicant, Jeff Grant (Phoenix) are actually Russian spies. With a Soviet spy hunting down these agents and killing them, Roy’s hunt drags Jeff along as Jeff gets torn between his family and his love for his country.
Starring: Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins
LITTLE WOMEN
Louisa May Alcott's American classic about four Massachusetts sisters in the post-Civil War era, focuses on Jo March (Ryder) who is determined to be a writer – but this ambition puts her at odds with the conventions of that time period. The film also stars Susan Sarandon, who plays the girls' wise, loving mother with the March sisters played by Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Samantha Mathis and Trini Alvarado.
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon
LOSER
Loser centers on Paul (Biggs), a Midwestern bumpkin who moves to New York for college at NYU. He arrives in the big city only to find that no one seems to like him. However, through a bizarre twist of fate, he meets fellow student, Dora (Suvari). He falls for her quickly and figures she likes him too. Or so he thinks. Unfortunately, Dora is busy having an affair with a pompous, unappreciative University professor (Kinnear). Things get worse for both Paul and Dora when he gets thrown out of his hostel and into the back room of an animal hospital and she loses her job as a strip-club waitress.
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari
LOST IN AMERICA
A yuppie couple, David (Brooks) and Linda (Hagerty) Howard, decide to quit their jobs and liquidate their assets to live the American dream. They cruise the continent in a mobile home but soon discover that they've taken the road to the America of lost dreams instead, and find themselves back at the crossroads. But that's not all - they lose all their savings, almost build their own tombstones on the Hoover Dam, and end up settling for dead-end jobs in a more than quiet Arizona town.
Starring: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty
MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME
The lone avenger is back for his third outing. Max (Gibson) is still on his eternal journey in the post-apocalyptic outback. He's robbed and makes his way to Thunderdome, a city which has retained some technology but no civilization. Soon, he's embroiled in a power struggle where he's forced to fight for Aunt Entity (Turner). Gibson's charismatic presence, Turner's quirky acting and the brilliant action set-pieces make this film as exciting and energetic as the first two.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner
MEATBALLS PART II
The crazy bunch at Camp Sasquatch are back again in this rowdy sequel to the comedy smash. This time, owner Giddy (Mulligan) tries to keep his camp open after it's threatened with foreclosure after Hershey (Camp), the militant owner of Camp Patton located just across the lake, wants to buy the entire lake area to expand Camp Patton.
Starring: John Larroquette, Richard Mulligan, Hamilton Camp
MEET JOE BLACK
A profound and bittersweet story, this movie sets a question of whether love can exist under the most extreme of circumstances. Bill Parrish (Hopkins) is a media tycoon, loving father and is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. He leads a charmed and happy existence and thinks nothing of it until someone enters his world to rock the boat - an enigmatic young man named Joe Black (Pitt), who in reality is the personification of Death. Joe's job is to take Parrish to the pearly gates. But Death did not bank on the fact that he had chosen the body of someone who for a brief moment earlier, had already met Parrish's daughter, Susan. With such familiarity, it becomes inevitable that she would fall for him, although that complicates matters since love was never on the agenda.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani
MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON
Robin Williams takes on the role of Vladimir, a saxophone player in the Moscow circus who finds life in Russia difficult and unrewarding. During his tour in America, he decides to make a break for it while visiting New York's Bloomingdale's department store. Follow his life as he works his way towards the American dream, he has to face up to the reality that the grass may not always be greener on the other side.
Starring: ARobin Williams, Maria Conchita Alonso
MY GIRL
An 11-year-old girl learns important lessons about life, and death, in this gentle, touching coming-of-age comedy-drama. Vada Sultenfuss (Chlumsky) is a lonely girl whose mother is dead and father is a mortician. Her only solace is her best friend, a boy Thomas Sennett (Culkin) who is allergic to everything. When her father (Aykroyd) falls for his makeup assistant (Curtis), Vada goes out of her way to split them up.
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin
NACHO LIBRE
Jack Black stars in this hilarious story as a poor Mexican monastery worker with a big heart. His life long dream of becoming a wrestler is finally realized when he enters a local Lucha Libre tournament in an attempt to save his community with the prize money.
Starring: Jack Black
NANNY MCPHEE
Nanny McPhee (Thompson) faces the challenge of doing what Julie Christie did for the seven Von Trapp children in the Sound of Music - tame them. It's no mean feat considering that the seven children of the recently widowed Mr Brown have successfully driven away 17 previous nannies. But instead of song and dance, McPhee relies on her magical spells and sorcery to shape up the seven children.
Starring: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald
NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET
Two mismatched LA detectives investigate a murder, and end up following a trail of corruption and criminal activity that leads back to their office. That's when they realize there is a mole and they go all out to nab the crime boss- and uncover the mole.
Starring: Billy Dee Williams, Robert Carradine
OPEN SEASON
When a 900-pound domesticated grizzly bear named Boog and a scrawny one-horned mule deer named Elliot become stranded in the woods during hunting season, it's up to the duo to rally all the other forest animals and turn the tables on the hunters.
OUTLAND
Marshall O'Neil (Connery) knows about living life in limbo — his wife left him and had taken their son along with her, and he's stranded in a forgotten mining town on one of Jupiter’s moons. But there's more to worry about when the miners start killing themselves in bizarre ways. His investigations into their deaths lead him to discover that their mine boss, Sheppard (Boyle), has been keeping his workers on overtime by feeding them a work-enhancing drug with deadly side-effects.
Starring: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle
POPULATION 436
Steve Kady (Jeremy Sisto) is a census taker who is tasked to investigate a tiny village where the population has remained unchanged, at 436, for the last 100 years. Soon, he discovers the dark secret of the village.
Starring: Fred Durst, David Ames
RED EYE
Lisa Reisert (McAdams) is the attractive desk manager of a swanky Miami hotel. While waiting to board her flight home, she meets handsome Jackson Rippner (Murphy) at the Dallas airport who turns out to be her seat mate. But she is horrified when she finds out that Jackson is about to set a diabolical plan into action. Her father Joe (Cox) is being held at gunpoint by one of Jackson's men as hostage. In order for her to save her father's life, Lisa has to re-assign the Deputy Chief of Homeland Security to another room at her hotel so that his assassination can successfully take place. Coupled with turbulent weather, the plane becomes a claustrophobic, nerve-wracking arena for the deadly cat and mouse game that Lisa and Jackson are about to play.
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Brian Cox, Cillian Murphy
RUSTLERS' RHAPSODY
Tom Berenger stars as the singing cowboy, Rex O'Herlihan, who trots into town on his wonder horse, Wildfire, and gets mixed up in a clash between sheep herders and cattlemen. Merilu Henner co-stars as Miss Tracy, the all-talk-and-no-go saloon gal who solicits drinks and loves to seduce singing cowboys. Rex is next on her list!
Starring: Tom Berenger, G.W. Bailey, Marilu Henner
SAVAGE ISLANDS
Tommy Lee Jones stars as the swashbuckling hero in this South Seas pirate tale full of vigor and verve. A kidnapped damsel, nasty slave traders and a rousing action climax add to the zesty, old-fashioned fun.
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe
SHOTTAS
Two US drug dealers and childhood friends, Biggs (Marley) and Wayne are deported back to Jamaica, where they continue their ruthless ways. They threaten a local politician to gain visas back to the US and once in Miami, the duo tries to take back Biggs' former drug business from the current kingpin.
Starring: Ky-Mani Marley, Wyclef Jean
SMALL SOLDIERS
High tech action toys, programmed for combat, soon turn a suburban neighborhood into a major battlefield. They are every kid's dream toys - high tech action figures with advanced computer chips (the same ones used in advanced missiles) as brains for realism in combat play. The "good guys" are the small soldiers led by Major Chip Hazard and are programmed for battle against the alien Gorgonites led by Archer. While the soldiers are built for combat, the Gorgonites are programmed for pacifism and to lose. But with the help of some school kids, the one-sided battle turns out to be an all-out war!
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Tommy Lee Jones, Jay Mohr
SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT
When the perfect wife, Grace (Roberts), discovers that her husband Eddie (Quaid) has been cheating on her, she takes their daughter with her and leaves him, seeking refuge at Grace's parents' home. Grace is surprised when she doesn't get any tears of sympathy from her father, a rich horseman, Wyly King (Duvall); her mother, Georgia (Rowlands); or her cynical and hard-nosed sister, Emma Rae (Kyra Sedgwick). Instead, Grace's parents tell her to go back to Eddie. Grace's dysfunctional relationship with her family nonetheless spurs her to lick her wounds and fight back with class, style and a sense of humor.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall
STAR TREK INSURRECTION
From the beginning of the Federation, the Prime Directive was clear: no Starfleet expedition may interfere with the natural development of other civilizations. Picard is confronted with orders that undermine that decree. If he obeys, 600 peaceful residents of Ba'ku will be forcibly removed from their remarkable world, all for the reportedly greater good of millions who will benefit from Ba'ku's Fountain of Youth-like powers. If he disobeys, he will risk his Starship, his career, his life. But for Picard, there's really only one choice. He must rebel against Starfleet… and lead the insurrection to preserve Paradise.
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes
STAYING ALIVE
John Travolta's trim and toned in this spirited sequel to his mega hit, Saturday Night Fever. As disco king Tony Manero, he leaves Brooklyn behind to seek a career as a Broadway dancer, while caught between the pretty dancer who loves him and the haughty star he just can't get off his mind.
Starring: John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes
STEPMOM
Isabel (Roberts) and Jackie (Sarandon) square off as two mothers competing for a place in the hearts of the same children in this tender drama that asks: can another person ever take the place of a child's natural mother? Isabel is a career-minded fashion photographer forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to her boyfriend two children. When their natural mother, Jackie, appears, the result is a conflict that is, at times, comical and often, tragic. Jackie soon discovers she's terminally ill and the two women realize that they must find a way to connect, in order to save the people they both love.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Ed Harris, Susan Sarandon
STOMP THE YARD
When DJ, a troubled youth from Los Angeles, moves to Atlanta to attend Truth University, he discovers “stepping”, the age-old style of dance traditionally done in African-American fraternities, where teams demonstrate complex moves and create rhythmic sounds using their bodies. DJ’s raw talent and hip-hop inspired moves quickly place him at the center of a fierce rivalry between two fraternities, the winner of which will be determined in front of a sold-out arena at the annual stepping championships. But before he can help his teammates, he must first battle his own demons and learn the true meaning of brotherhood.
Starring: Columbus Short, Meagan Goode
SUPERSTAR
Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dream if she becomes a superstar, so her prayers, fantasies, and conversations with her only friend focus on achieving super-stardom. Her big chance is a school talent contest – her main competition is Evian, the school beauty. She is dancing with Sky, the object of Mary Katherine's kiss dream. Mary Katherine gets some talent-show help from her fellow special education students, her grandma, and inspiration from secrets in her past.
Starring: Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon
TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY
Comedian Will Ferrell stars as Ricky Bobby, a NASCAR champion who has it made. But after a frightening crash, Ricky hits rock bottom when he loses his nerve, career and wife. Willing to do anything to get back on top, he turns to his estranged father, Reese (Cole), for a few old racing tricks to conquer his fear of driving.
Starring: Will Ferrell, John Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen
TEQUILA SUNRISE
Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell – one a cop and the other a drug dealer desperate to get out of the business – are lifelong buddies who fall in love with the same woman (Pfeiffer). When word gets around that a big deal is going down with a drug lord, personal loyalties and individual honor start to become sources of conflict.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell
THE BIG TEASE
Crawford Mackenzie (Ferguson) is used to staring at the top of other people's heads. He's better with a pair of snippers than he is with a fork and spoon, and he's in the business of helping people make a statement - with their hair. The flamboyant but unknown hairdresser receives an invitation to the World Hairdresser International Federation annual contest in LA, and thinks his ship's finally come in. But his ship soon capsizes and sinks when he realizes he's going as an audience participant and not as a contestant! Things get hairy when he tries every trick in the hairdresser's manual to enter the contest.
Starring: Craig Ferguson, Frances Fisher, David Rasche
THE DUKES OF HAZZARD: THE BEGINNING
Charging hot off the wheels of the successful 2005 theatrical release, see where it all began. This comedy prequel contains wild car chases and crashes, Daisy's hilarious, but ultimately successful transformation into every Hazzard boy's fantasy girl, and all the fun and laughs expected from the Dukes of Hazzard.
Starring: Jonathan Bennett, Christopher McDonald, Randy Wayne
THE EXPERTS
Travis Heath (Travolta, and Wendell Atwill (Gross) are relocating to a small town in Nebraska, to kick off their latest venture - a hip new nightclub. It's only when they get there do they realize that they've actually been abducted by the Soviet Union, who want the duo to serve as experts on everything that America deems "cool", and pass on the information to a town inhabited by KGB operatives.
Starring: Kelly Preston, John Travolta
THE HOLCROFT COVENANT
Based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling spy novel, this action-packed thriller is a taut tale of mystery, murder and money. Noel Holcroft (Caine), an unsuspecting New York architect receives a cryptic message that could clear his father's name. His father was a confidant of Adolf Hitler and on his death left a fortune to make amends for his past--but his son has to search the world to find it. Guilt-ridden by his father's past, Holcroft was the perfect pawn in a scheme that would supposedly rectify the horrors of Hitler's Third Reich, but as he soon discovers, treachery can be twisted in many ways and no one can be trusted when $4.5 billion dollars are at stake!
Starring: Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant
THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR
There's something strange with the house next door, as Col Kennedy (Boyle) soon discovers. Behind the façade of this huge and beautiful house lies an evil force that has unspeakable powers over anyone who lives inside or dares even to enter. No one in the neighborhood is safe, especially not Col who is trying to uncover the truth.
Starring: Colin Ferguson, Lara Flynn Boyle
THE IN CROWD
Adrien Williams (Heuring) starts work at a posh East Coast Country Club and joins the "in crowd" - a clique of wealthy college kids. At first she gets along well with Brittany Foster (Ward), the leader of the group, but when Britanny's beau shows interest in Adrien, Brittany is out for blood. Brittany and her friends suddenly turn into a pack of defensive wolves, hungry to protect the status quo and the secrets of the group, at all cost - and certainly at the expense of their newest member.
Starring: Lori Heuring, Susan Ward
THE KARATE KID
Peer acceptance — what would you be without it? Daniel (Macchio) for one gets to be the Cobras' punching bag. Absolutely devoid of any fighting skills, he is no match for that bunch of karate savvy kids. He makes his position worse by falling for Ali (Shue), the ex-girlfriend of the leader of the Cobras. Desperate, Daniel turns to his handyman, Miyagi (Morita), who also happens to be a martial arts master.
Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Ralph Macchio, Pat Noriyuki Morita
THE KARATE KID PART II
Miyagi (Morita) returns to his ancestral home to see his father for the last time, and to rekindle the romance with his childhood sweetheart. He brings his student Daniel (Macchio) along for the ride, which is a good thing as his arrival ignites an old feud with a long-time enemy — a feud that drags Daniel into a battle to save the old man's honor.
Starring: Ralph Macchio, Pat Noriyuki Morita, Nobu McCarthy
THE LAST TYCOON
Based on a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, this is a haunting love story set in 1930s Hollywood. Robert De Niro stars as Monroe Stahr, a young studio genius at the top of his game. Jack Nicholson plays a union organizer while Robert Mitchum stars as a powerful studio head.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Robert Mitchum
THE NAKED CAGE
Michelle (Shattuck) is wrongly convicted of a bank robbery she did not commit and is sent to a maximum-security women's prison complete with a corrupt sadistic female warden. There, the innocent woman must learn to survive a riotous prison.
Starring: Shari Shattuck, Lucinda Crosby
THE NUMBER 23
Jim Carrey stars in this dark psychological thriller revolving around a man who becomes haunted by the fact that he's reading a book about his own life and that the book ends in his murder. Spiraling into an obsession with the number 23, Walter Sparrow (Carrey) twists his once idyllic life into an inferno of psychological torture spurred on by the mysterious novel, The Number 23.
Starring: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen
THE QUIET
Dot (Belle) is a deaf and mute girl who has lost her parents and is sent to a family with dark secrets. Their father is having an incestuous relationship with the daughter, Nina (Cuthbert), while their mother appears oblivious. But the two girls soon realize they share a common secret that leads to a shocking conclusion.
Starring: Edie Falco, Elisha Cuthbert, Shawn Ashmore
THE SOPRANOS 25: THE KNIGHT IN WHITE SATIN ARMOR
Janice and Richie's domestic quarrel ends when Richie makes the fatal mistake of punching his fiancée. Stunned and appalled, Janice kills Richie with bullets to the chest and head. Frightened, she calls Tony, who employs Christopher and Furio to dismember and dispose of the body. And Tony puts his sister on a bus back to Seattle, Washington.
Starring: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco
THE SOPRANOS 26: FUNHOUSE
In this season two finale, a nauseated and feverish Tony suffers from food poisoning and has a series of bizarre, telltale dreams. But the most disturbing dream confirms Tony's aching suspicion: Pussy confesses that he's turned into a Federal informant. Dragging himself out of bed, Tony, along with Silvio, goes to the Bompensiero home. There, they discover Pussy's FBI wire equipment and tapes. Tony and Silvio lure a nervous Pussy to a boat where Paulie has been waiting, and the four mobsters head out to sea. Pussy confesses his FBI involvement. Tony, Silvio and Paulie do what they must – they shoot Pussy, dump his body in the ocean and sadly turn back to shore.
Starring: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco
VALLEY OF LIGHT
Noah Locke (Klein) is a World War II veteran who returns home at the end of the war to discover that there is nothing left for him. His parents have died, his brother is in prison and the family farm has been sold. Feeling lost, Noah wanders in search of a place he can call home. He is led by a mysterious stranger to a place called The Valley of Light. There, Noah meets and befriends a mute boy, Matthew (Zach Mills), and Eleanor (Gretchen Mol), a young widow.
Starring: Chris Klein, Gretchen Mol
VAMPIRE BATS
Insect specialist-cum-college professor Maddy Rierdon (Lawless) gets suspicious when a student is found dead with all his blood drained and covered with mysterious puncture marks. Maddy investigates and discover a group of mutated vampire bats. Can she stop them before they kill everyone?
Starring: Lucy Lawless, Dylan Neal, Liam Waite
VISION QUEST
Eighteen year-old Louden Swain is determined to lose 23 pounds to make it into the high-school wrestling team. His opponent: the human-battering ram, Shute. Enter Louden's self-appointed half-Indian spiritual advisor, Kuch, who puts his young friend's problem in perspective. According to Kuch, Louden is on what a vision quest, an attempt to gain communion with the 'Everywhere Spirit' and find his place in the eternal circle. But Louden gets distracted from his mission when he falls for an older woman, Carla.
Starring: Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino
WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005)
Tom Cruise stars in this movie adaptation of HG Wells' classic novel. Earth has been invaded by a superior alien race and the human race is facing extinction. Without warning, strange electrical storms plunder points in the ground across the globe, awakening hideous, massive, three-legged machines that have lain dormant for centuries. Unimaginable chaos on a global scale ensues as the alien machines incinerate everything in their path with white-hot death rays. Will mankind survive this attack? Is there something that can beat these seemingly indestructible machines?
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Tom Cruise, Miranda Otto
WE ARE MARSHALL
When the entire football team and coaches of Marshall University died in a plane crash in 1970, the team's new coach, Jake Lengyel (McConaughey), rallies the surviving team together to keep the football program alive.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Anthony Mackie
WIND CHILL
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When their car breaks down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
Starring: Ashton Holmes, Emily Blunt
WYATT EARP
Kevin Costner stars in a sweeping epic of the transformation of a country. In the tumultuous years that take him from a secure family life to the frontiers of America, Earp grows from an innocent boy to a hardened lawman, transformed by the land he walks. But Earp's unflinching loyalty to his brothers and their dreams brings great joy – and ultimately great tragedy – to the man destined to become one of the West's most enduring legends.
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman
ZATHURA: A SPACE ADVENTURE
A pair of bickering brothers must put aside their differences if they must survive and save their elder sister as well, when the board game they are playing comes alive and flings them, together with their house and elder sister into outer space. The boys soon realize that there is only one way to get back to Earth- keep playing to finish the game. But at every turn they make, they face even harder challenges including a murderous robot, an explosive meteor shower and lizard-like aliens.
Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Tim Robbins, Dax Shepard, Kristen Stewart
ZOOM
Four kids have one common problem — they have unique super powers but they just want to be normal. In comes out-of-luck former superhero, Captain Zoom (Allen), who teaches them to love themselves and harness their powers to save the world from destruction.
Starring: Tim Allen, Chevy Chase, Courtney Cox
Based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 tells the heroic story of Spartan king Leonidas (Butler) and 300 of his best warriors as they fight the invading Persian army of King Xerxes in Thermopylae in 480 B.C. Filled with amazing battle sequences straight out of the graphic novel, 300 is a dramatic retelling of a part of Greek history re-interpreted through Frank Miller's work.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey
"HUSTLE"
Phil Gaines (Reynolds), a tough but cynical cop, investigates the suicide death of a call girl, only to discover a web of murder and deceit that leads to a powerful attorney and Phil's own prostitute girlfriend, Nicole (Deneuve).
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Ben Johnson, Catherine Deneuve
ALL THE KING'S MEN
Based on Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All The King's Men tells the story of a man's rise to power in Louisiana's world of politics. Willie Stark (Penn) is elected as a governor with the support of the lower social classes. But when Judge Irwin (Anthony Hopkins) supports a group of Stark's enemies pushing for impeachment, Stark plays dirty to bring down the judge and ends up setting up his own ultimate downfall.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Sean Penn
AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS
When a veteran press agent, Lee Phillips (Crystal), is charged with the task of reuniting America's big screen sweethearts, Gwen Harrison (Zeta-Jones) and Eddie Thomas (Cusack), for one last public appearance, he knows it's going to be an uphill battle. After a painful 18-month separation, Eddie has been left emotionally crippled. Lee needs a miracle to pull this off, and Gwen's sister and personal assistant, Kiki (Roberts), is his only chance. Just as it looks like Lee might actually pull it off, things get complicated in the form of Kiki, who wants to be the therapy that Eddie needs.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Crystal
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
These guys may be armed, but they're hardly dangerous! John Candy and Eugene Levy star in this riotous comedy as two inept security guards out to stop the criminal mastermind responsible for a series of robberies. Getting locked in a steam bath, hiding in a pornography shop and being trapped in a toxic waste dump are all in a day's work for the bumbling duo.
Starring: Robert Loggia, John Candy, Meg Ryan, Eugene Levy, Kenneth McMillan
BABY BOY
An aimless young man has to learn the meaning of fatherly responsibility when his mother's boyfriend moves in with them and starts pushing him to grow up – the hard way.
Starring: Ving Rhames, Tyrese
BEBE'S KIDS
In this sassy, animated funfest, Robin Harris spends a day at an amusement park with a woman, Jamika, whom he's trying to impress, together with her son. What he doesn't count on is her neighbor Bebe's three pint-sized terrors tagging along who turn the place upside down. With the voices of Faizon Love, Nell Carter and Tone Loc.
Starring: Faizon Love
BEERFEST
Two brothers assemble an all-star beer-guzzling team to Munich after they were disgraced in an age-old beer competition.
Starring: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan
BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
This sequel to The Poseidon Adventure kicks off with the S.S. Poseidon lies belly up in mid-ocean, helpless before the waves and racked by internal explosions. Captain Mike Turner (Caine) and his sidekick Celeste Whitman (Field) head a rescue team to try saving the remaining survivors, but the villain Captain Svevo (Savalas) comes looking to steal a nuclear load.
Starring: Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas
BLACK SHEEP
Those madcap guys from Tommy Boy are up to their side-splitting antics again: Al Donnelly (Matheson), a promising candidate for state governor fears he may be embarrassed by his whacky brother, Mike (Farley), and hires his personal aide Steve Dodds (Spade) to keep Mike out of trouble.
Starring: David Spade, Tim Matheson, Chris Farley
BLUE STREAK
What happens when a $20 million diamond gets stolen, then stashed in an unfinished building that turns out to be the new 37th L.A. Police Precinct two years later? Jewel thief Miles Logan (Lawrence) will have to go undercover as a cop to retrieve his loot. After a short jail term, Miles learns everything there is to know about the boys in blue, so he can blend in and cash out. But the new cop on the block soon discovers that he's a better law enforcer than he is a crook. That's until his old ways come back to haunt him.
Starring: Luke Wilson, Martin Lawrence
BOOMERANG
Marcus Graham (Murphy) is a high flying executive who has everything - the cars, the clothes and the chicks. The problem is, once a woman falls in love with him, he loses interest. One day the tables are turned in him, and a high-powered female executive gives him the same treatment as he has been dishing out to his ladies. Will Marcus be able to find true love? Perhaps she has been right there under his nose all along!
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Robin Givens, Grace Jones
BRIAN'S SONG
Two American footballers, Gale Sayers (Mekhi Phifer) and Brian Piccolo (Maher), are competing for starting positions with the Chicago Bears. Though both are very different, their friendship strengthens with time. Sayers is clearly the more talented of the two, and rises to the top faster than his friend, but tragedy strikes when he is diagnosed with cancer.
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Sean Maher
BRING IT ON: ALL OR NOTHING
A top high school cheerleader has to prove herself from scratch when she moves to a new school, and compete against her old team for a spot in a TV show.
Starring: Solange Knowles, Hayden Panettiere
BUGSY
This is the true story of Bugsy, (Beatty) the notorious womanizing New York gangster who goes to Los Angeles and falls for the strong-willed starlet Virginia Hill (Bening)- who isn't contented with playing second fiddle as his mistress. Together, the duo build a new dream in Las Vegas - The Flamingo, a five-star hotel and casino that aims to rake in the big bucks with legal gambling and top-notch show business.
Starring: Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Warren Beatty
CANNONBALL RUN II
When an Arab sheik offers a million dollars to the person who zips from California to Connecticut fastest by car, it's fortune first, scruples later. Faster than a blink, a motley crew of rich-wannabes rev up their speed machines and start burning the rubber off their spare tires for a shot at some serious cash. Featuring comedy big-wigs Burt Reynolds, Jamie Farr, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra, this wacky ride sticks your nose where the rubber meets the road, and packs enough star power to come in first-place in any race.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jackie Chan, Marilu Henner
CASPER
Kat (Ricci) and her eccentric dad, Dr. James Harvey (Pullman), a self-styled 'ghost therapist', shows up on the doorstep of the dilapidated Whipstaff Manor. Hired by Whipstaff's scheming owner, Carrigan (Moriarty), Dr. Harvey has to exorcise the manor of a friendly but lonely young ghost named Casper, and his three incorrigibly odious uncles, so that she can get her hands on the macabre manor's fabled treasure. As the ill-mannered ghosts go out of their way to scare the 'fleshies', Casper finds himself becoming best friends with Kat in this funny and lively story.
Starring: Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman
CLOUD DANCER
A professional aeroplane acrobatics pilot suffers recurrent blackouts but continues with his career. He is also afraid to be in a long-term relationship because he is fearful of passing his defective genes to the next generation.
Starring: David Carradine, J. O'Neill
CLUB PARADISE
Normalcy takes a holiday when Jack Moniker (Williams) opens up a Caribbean resort. All hell breaks loose as Moniker and Ernest Reed try to turn a seedy hotel into a tropical Eden. The plumbing's a joke, guests vanish without a trace and the locals are plotting an uprising. And then things start to get really wild!
Starring: Robin Williams, Rick Moranis, Peter O'Toole
CONEHEADS
Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin star as an alien couple with coneheads who are accidentally left on Earth. While waiting to be recalled to their mother planet Remulak, they try to adapt to America and start a family there, with hilarious results.
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin
DUDLEY DO-RIGHT
Somewhere along the Canadian Rockies, dastardly villain S. Whiplash (Molina) and his band of outlaws seize the property of the townsfolk of Semi-Happy Valley and organize a fake gold rush. With thousands of prospectors storming into the area, only dedicated but dimwitted Mountie, Dudley Do-Right (Fraser) stands in Whiplash's way. Do-Right's initial efforts to thwart Whiplash end disastrously and matters go from bad to worse when his girlfriend, Nell Fenwick (Parker), falls for the charms of his enemy. Stripped of his badge and his girl, the usually sweet and naive Do-Right transforms into a masked avenger determined to take some serious revenge.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfred Molina
ENTOURAGE 43: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
The fourth season premiere of Entourage takes a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Medellin on location in Bogota, Colombia. On set, E and Walsh clash over keeping the film on schedule and Billy develops an infatuation with Vince's beautiful Colombian co-star, which becomes disruptive to the production. Meanwhile, Drama tries to angle for a part in the film, and Ari provides color commentary from his L.A. office.
Starring: Adrian Grenier
ENTOURAGE 44: THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST
Drama plans a welcome-back party for Vince at his new condo, but his obsession with keeping the place pristine puts a damper on the festivities. Ari and Mrs. Ari learn that their son may not get into their daughter's exclusive private school. Walsh's insecurities prevent E and Vince from seeing the first cut of Medellin.
Starring: Adrian Grenier
ENTOURAGE 45: MALIBOOTY
Walsh submits Medellin to Cannes, but E thinks the film still needs major editing. Vince gets in over his head while hanging out at a Malibu beach house. Drama rekindles a romance with a '90s party girl, and brings Turtle along as his wingman.
Starring: Adrian Grenier
ENTOURAGE 46: SORRY, HARVEY
E has to give a Hollywood heavyweight some bad news. In the hopes of getting his condo annexed into 90210 territory, Drama takes the mayor of Beverly Hills out for a night in town. Ari mishandles a top-secret script. Writer / director M. Night Shyamalan guest-stars.
Starring: Adrian Grenier
ENTOURAGE 47: THE DREAM TEAM
The Medellin trailer is leaked on YouTube, and an enraged Walsh blames E. In an effort to appear younger, Drama sees a hat he wants and tracks it down to a medical marijuana facility. The trailer leak pumps up Vince's marketability as Ari tries to attach him to a mountain-hiking story project.
Starring: Adrian Grenier
ENTOURAGE 48: THE WEHO HO
Walsh makes nice with E, who is still reluctant to work with him again. After his boyfriend breaks up with him, a devastated Lloyd takes a leave of absence, to Ari's dismay. Drama and Turtle go in on Cousin Ronnie's latest shady investment opportunity.
Starring: Adrian Grenier
ENTOURAGE 49: THE DAY FU*KERS
Vince and Drama wager on the romantic prospects of Eric and Turtle. Ari tries to come to grips with the indignation of his son attending public school.
ENTOURAGE 50: GARY'S DESK
E gets an office on a shoddy stretch of Hollywood Boulevard. As a gift for E, Vince, Drama and Turtle scope out an antique desk with a rich Hollywood history, but learn that it's already been sold to an actor with whom they have their own colorful past. Ari preps for his annual meeting with an R&B super-diva, but first must squash some twin-sibling office drama. Guest-starring director Peter Jackson, Gary Busey and Mary J. Blige.
EXTERMINATOR 2
In the distant future, evil doesn't lurk behind dark corners, it walks the streets of New York, where good and evil even the score. Armed with a flamethrower, urban crime hero, the Exterminator (Ginty), stalks gang leader "X" (Van Peebles) and his band of urban guerillas. Formerly engaged in petty crimes, the group has since moved onto better things – stealing heavy duty weapons, blowing stuff out of the sky and yes, drugs. And to keep the neighborhood shaking in their boots, they are making sure their presence is felt at every street, raising their brutal crimes to new, terrorizing heights.
Starring: Robert Ginty, Deborah Geffner
FAILURE TO LAUNCH
Find out what happens when the parents of a 35 year-old bachelor (McConaughey) hire Sarah Jessica Parker to seduce him so that he can move out of their house!
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew McConaughey
FATAL CONTACT: BIRD FLU IN AMERICA
As an outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes contagious and transmittable among humans, scientists scramble to find a cure and contain the disease.
Starring: Stacy Keach, Joely Richardson
FINAL DESTINATION 3
In this third installment of the Final Destination series, the new heroine is a high school senior who has a premonition of a roller coaster ride that goes wrong and kills her and her friends. As before, she manages to warn her friends and save their lives, but death comes a-knocking to take back the lives which should have been lost.
Starring: Mary Winstead, Ryan Merriman
FIRST LOOK: SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE
Get behind the scenes of this long-awaited Sex And The City Movie as Manhattan's fabulous foursome are back on their quest for true love.
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker
FLY AWAY HOME
Moving to Canada to live with her estranged father after her mother's death, young Amy (Paquin) is sullen and troubled until she becomes a surrogate mother to a nest of goose eggs. The newly hatched chicks regard her as their real mother, and it soon becomes clear that she's going to have to perform all of a mother's tasks!
Starring: Dana Delany, Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Terry Kinney
FOUR BROTHERS
When a woman is murdered, her four adopted sons come together to solve the crime and to exact revenge. Bobby (Wahlberg) is the brawl-hungry leader while Angel (Gibson) is a rowdy sailor with a high-strung Latina girlfriend. Jack (Hedlund) is the young rock & roller of the clan and Jeremiah (Andre Benjamin) is the family man who has a link to the mob.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, Garrett Hedlund
FRIENDS WITH MONEY
This is the story of four female friends who examine their love relationships and do not like what they see. Jane (McDormand), a successful dress designer who has stopped washing hair, is prone to outbursts and is married to a man who might be gay. Franny (Cusack) is a multimillionaire who appears to have the perfect life with her family. Christine (Keener) is building her dream house and writing a screenplay with her husband as their life together is crumbling. And the youngest of the foursome, Olivia (Aniston), is a pot-smoking maid who stalks her ex-lover.
Starring: Joan Cusack, Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand
GREASE
Danny Zuko (Travolta) and Sandy Olsson (Newton-John) are two kids who find love on the beach. That is until school starts again and they have to face the one thing that kids fear: peer pressure. Now Danny must stay cool and appear unfazed when his heart truly yearns for the beautiful but innocent Sandy.
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John
GREASE 2
Sexy Stephanie Zinone is the leader of the outlaw sorority - The Pink Ladies. Michael Carrington (Caulfield) has just arrived from Britain caught unaware of the code that exists between the Pink Ladies and their counterpart gang, The T-Birds. As Michael tries to win Stephanie's heart, he must contend not only with the T-Birds that stand in his way, but also with Stephanie's expectations of her dream lover. Will Michael live up to what she expects?
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Maxwell Caulfield
GRENDEL
Chris Bruno stars as the legendary Beowulf, who travels from Sweden to Denmark to help battle a seemingly unstoppable monster called Grendel. In this screen adaptation, Beowulf carries a super crossbow complete with bayonets and sniper scope.
Starring: Chris Bruno
HBO CENTRAL
HBO Central is your monthly guide to the hottest attractions on HBO! Join your host, Simone Heng, for an exciting look at what's new on the channel each month. Take a peek at the biggest blockbusters and HBO Original productions headed your way, including Hollywood gossip, behind-the-scenes tidbits, superstar profiles and red carpet style guides. It's a one-stop hub of entertainment news that’s all about HBO, on HBO.
HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2: DEAD AIM
In Guesta Verde University, a crazy professor is killing students to feed his experiment on resurrecting the dead. An outbreak of zombies swarms the campus, and a government research team is sent to obtain the zero sample from a first-generation zombie. The team has limited time before the campus will be destroyed by missiles. Will they survive?
Starring: Emmanuelle Vaugier
I DREAMED OF AFRICA: A TRUE STORY
Kuki Gallmann (Basinger) wants a new start and leaves her predictable life in Italy for the freedom of the African wild. There, she discovers one true thing about Africa – that inside its magical exterior and enchanting canvas is a place of pain and suffering, certainly no walk in the park. Now home to a life that's free as far as her eyes can see, she has to deal with the locals – poachers who have never heard of animals on the endangered species list.
Starring: Kim Basinger, Vincent Perez
IMPULSE
Lottie Mason (Russell) is a narcotics cop who works a second shift in undercover vice. Tired and disillusioned, Lottie soon finds herself increasingly unable to separate fantasy from reality, as her undercover personas threaten to engulf her real life. Finding herself drawn to the temptations she faces each night, Lottie accepts a proposition that drags her into a dangerous web of murder and deceit.
Starring: Theresa Russell, George Dzundza, Jeff Fahey, Alan Rosenberg, Nicholas Mele
IN COUNTRY
Strong-willed Samantha "Sam" is a teenager whose father died in the Vietnam war. Her Uncle Emmett (Willis), also a veteran of the war, cares for her. Sam is determined to find out everything about her father's experience in the war but Emmett tries to discourage her. Sam's journey of discovery then becomes another journey of sorts for Emmett as he tries to come to terms with his own past.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd
INNOCENT BLOOD
A beautiful vampire with a conscience stalks the streets of Pittsburgh in search of prey in this comedic horror flick. She prefers the blood of mobsters – so when a gang war breaks out, she feasts nightly and makes the killings look like mob hits. But she doesn’t complete the job while feeding on one baddie, and he in turn becomes a blood sucker and is out for her blood!
Starring: Anne Parillaud, David Proval
INVADER
A scandal sheet reporter's latest story involves the mysterious deaths of four military men in this sci-fi thriller. Are they connected to the Air Force's testing of a top-secret new aircraft? His investigation leads him to a plot by alien invaders to take over the U.S. military! But he must escape their clutches if he is to live to tell the story.
Starring: Hans Bachmann, A. Thomas Smith
JESSE STONE: DEATH IN PARADISE
When a fourteen year old teenager is found dead in the Paradise river in Massachusetts, Chief of Police Jesse Stone (Selleck) seeks clues from the crime scene and various suspects to unravel the identity of the criminal.
Starring: Tom Selleck
JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO
Joe Banks (Hanks) makes a bizarre deal with a businessman for six weeks of a king's lifestyle – after which he'll jump into a Pacific isle volcano. Sparks fly when he teams up with yacht skipper, Patricia (Ryan) and set sail for his destiny – or maybe theirs.
Starring: Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack
KINDERGARTEN COP
One detective, John Kimble (Schwarzenegger), faces his toughest assignment yet. His attempts to track down a drug dealer lead to the school where the dealer's young son is studying. The fun begins when Kimble realizes he must go undercover as the son's kindergarten teacher!
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed
LAST HOLIDAY
Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) is a shy woman who dreams of an elegant life but is in fact just an oversized ordinary Jane. But when she is diagnosed with a terminal disease and has three weeks left to live, all hell breaks loose as Georgia pulls out all the stops for her very last holiday.
Starring: LL Cool J, Queen Latifah
LET IT RIDE
A typical small-time compulsive gambler, Jay Trotter (Dreyfuss), usually loses like everyone else. But one miraculous day at the races, he keeps winning and winning. In the meantime, his relationship with his wife gets worse. Will Lady Luck continue to shine for him, or will he lose both his money and his wife?
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, David Johansen
LITTLE MAN
A small-sized jewel thief, Calvin (Marlon Wayans), disguises himself as a toddler to retrieve the diamond he hid with a childless couple, Daryl (Shawn Wayans) and Vanessa. But when Calvin's boss tracks him and the couple down, Calvin and Daryl must team up for a bigger purpose.
Starring: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans
LITTLE NIKITA
In a routine background check, FBI agent Roy Parmenter (Poitier) finds out that the parents of teenage applicant, Jeff Grant (Phoenix) are actually Russian spies. With a Soviet spy hunting down these agents and killing them, Roy’s hunt drags Jeff along as Jeff gets torn between his family and his love for his country.
Starring: Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins
LITTLE WOMEN
Louisa May Alcott's American classic about four Massachusetts sisters in the post-Civil War era, focuses on Jo March (Ryder) who is determined to be a writer – but this ambition puts her at odds with the conventions of that time period. The film also stars Susan Sarandon, who plays the girls' wise, loving mother with the March sisters played by Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Samantha Mathis and Trini Alvarado.
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon
LOSER
Loser centers on Paul (Biggs), a Midwestern bumpkin who moves to New York for college at NYU. He arrives in the big city only to find that no one seems to like him. However, through a bizarre twist of fate, he meets fellow student, Dora (Suvari). He falls for her quickly and figures she likes him too. Or so he thinks. Unfortunately, Dora is busy having an affair with a pompous, unappreciative University professor (Kinnear). Things get worse for both Paul and Dora when he gets thrown out of his hostel and into the back room of an animal hospital and she loses her job as a strip-club waitress.
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari
LOST IN AMERICA
A yuppie couple, David (Brooks) and Linda (Hagerty) Howard, decide to quit their jobs and liquidate their assets to live the American dream. They cruise the continent in a mobile home but soon discover that they've taken the road to the America of lost dreams instead, and find themselves back at the crossroads. But that's not all - they lose all their savings, almost build their own tombstones on the Hoover Dam, and end up settling for dead-end jobs in a more than quiet Arizona town.
Starring: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty
MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME
The lone avenger is back for his third outing. Max (Gibson) is still on his eternal journey in the post-apocalyptic outback. He's robbed and makes his way to Thunderdome, a city which has retained some technology but no civilization. Soon, he's embroiled in a power struggle where he's forced to fight for Aunt Entity (Turner). Gibson's charismatic presence, Turner's quirky acting and the brilliant action set-pieces make this film as exciting and energetic as the first two.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner
MEATBALLS PART II
The crazy bunch at Camp Sasquatch are back again in this rowdy sequel to the comedy smash. This time, owner Giddy (Mulligan) tries to keep his camp open after it's threatened with foreclosure after Hershey (Camp), the militant owner of Camp Patton located just across the lake, wants to buy the entire lake area to expand Camp Patton.
Starring: John Larroquette, Richard Mulligan, Hamilton Camp
MEET JOE BLACK
A profound and bittersweet story, this movie sets a question of whether love can exist under the most extreme of circumstances. Bill Parrish (Hopkins) is a media tycoon, loving father and is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. He leads a charmed and happy existence and thinks nothing of it until someone enters his world to rock the boat - an enigmatic young man named Joe Black (Pitt), who in reality is the personification of Death. Joe's job is to take Parrish to the pearly gates. But Death did not bank on the fact that he had chosen the body of someone who for a brief moment earlier, had already met Parrish's daughter, Susan. With such familiarity, it becomes inevitable that she would fall for him, although that complicates matters since love was never on the agenda.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani
MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON
Robin Williams takes on the role of Vladimir, a saxophone player in the Moscow circus who finds life in Russia difficult and unrewarding. During his tour in America, he decides to make a break for it while visiting New York's Bloomingdale's department store. Follow his life as he works his way towards the American dream, he has to face up to the reality that the grass may not always be greener on the other side.
Starring: ARobin Williams, Maria Conchita Alonso
MY GIRL
An 11-year-old girl learns important lessons about life, and death, in this gentle, touching coming-of-age comedy-drama. Vada Sultenfuss (Chlumsky) is a lonely girl whose mother is dead and father is a mortician. Her only solace is her best friend, a boy Thomas Sennett (Culkin) who is allergic to everything. When her father (Aykroyd) falls for his makeup assistant (Curtis), Vada goes out of her way to split them up.
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin
NACHO LIBRE
Jack Black stars in this hilarious story as a poor Mexican monastery worker with a big heart. His life long dream of becoming a wrestler is finally realized when he enters a local Lucha Libre tournament in an attempt to save his community with the prize money.
Starring: Jack Black
NANNY MCPHEE
Nanny McPhee (Thompson) faces the challenge of doing what Julie Christie did for the seven Von Trapp children in the Sound of Music - tame them. It's no mean feat considering that the seven children of the recently widowed Mr Brown have successfully driven away 17 previous nannies. But instead of song and dance, McPhee relies on her magical spells and sorcery to shape up the seven children.
Starring: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald
NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET
Two mismatched LA detectives investigate a murder, and end up following a trail of corruption and criminal activity that leads back to their office. That's when they realize there is a mole and they go all out to nab the crime boss- and uncover the mole.
Starring: Billy Dee Williams, Robert Carradine
OPEN SEASON
When a 900-pound domesticated grizzly bear named Boog and a scrawny one-horned mule deer named Elliot become stranded in the woods during hunting season, it's up to the duo to rally all the other forest animals and turn the tables on the hunters.
OUTLAND
Marshall O'Neil (Connery) knows about living life in limbo — his wife left him and had taken their son along with her, and he's stranded in a forgotten mining town on one of Jupiter’s moons. But there's more to worry about when the miners start killing themselves in bizarre ways. His investigations into their deaths lead him to discover that their mine boss, Sheppard (Boyle), has been keeping his workers on overtime by feeding them a work-enhancing drug with deadly side-effects.
Starring: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle
POPULATION 436
Steve Kady (Jeremy Sisto) is a census taker who is tasked to investigate a tiny village where the population has remained unchanged, at 436, for the last 100 years. Soon, he discovers the dark secret of the village.
Starring: Fred Durst, David Ames
RED EYE
Lisa Reisert (McAdams) is the attractive desk manager of a swanky Miami hotel. While waiting to board her flight home, she meets handsome Jackson Rippner (Murphy) at the Dallas airport who turns out to be her seat mate. But she is horrified when she finds out that Jackson is about to set a diabolical plan into action. Her father Joe (Cox) is being held at gunpoint by one of Jackson's men as hostage. In order for her to save her father's life, Lisa has to re-assign the Deputy Chief of Homeland Security to another room at her hotel so that his assassination can successfully take place. Coupled with turbulent weather, the plane becomes a claustrophobic, nerve-wracking arena for the deadly cat and mouse game that Lisa and Jackson are about to play.
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Brian Cox, Cillian Murphy
RUSTLERS' RHAPSODY
Tom Berenger stars as the singing cowboy, Rex O'Herlihan, who trots into town on his wonder horse, Wildfire, and gets mixed up in a clash between sheep herders and cattlemen. Merilu Henner co-stars as Miss Tracy, the all-talk-and-no-go saloon gal who solicits drinks and loves to seduce singing cowboys. Rex is next on her list!
Starring: Tom Berenger, G.W. Bailey, Marilu Henner
SAVAGE ISLANDS
Tommy Lee Jones stars as the swashbuckling hero in this South Seas pirate tale full of vigor and verve. A kidnapped damsel, nasty slave traders and a rousing action climax add to the zesty, old-fashioned fun.
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe
SHOTTAS
Two US drug dealers and childhood friends, Biggs (Marley) and Wayne are deported back to Jamaica, where they continue their ruthless ways. They threaten a local politician to gain visas back to the US and once in Miami, the duo tries to take back Biggs' former drug business from the current kingpin.
Starring: Ky-Mani Marley, Wyclef Jean
SMALL SOLDIERS
High tech action toys, programmed for combat, soon turn a suburban neighborhood into a major battlefield. They are every kid's dream toys - high tech action figures with advanced computer chips (the same ones used in advanced missiles) as brains for realism in combat play. The "good guys" are the small soldiers led by Major Chip Hazard and are programmed for battle against the alien Gorgonites led by Archer. While the soldiers are built for combat, the Gorgonites are programmed for pacifism and to lose. But with the help of some school kids, the one-sided battle turns out to be an all-out war!
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Tommy Lee Jones, Jay Mohr
SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT
When the perfect wife, Grace (Roberts), discovers that her husband Eddie (Quaid) has been cheating on her, she takes their daughter with her and leaves him, seeking refuge at Grace's parents' home. Grace is surprised when she doesn't get any tears of sympathy from her father, a rich horseman, Wyly King (Duvall); her mother, Georgia (Rowlands); or her cynical and hard-nosed sister, Emma Rae (Kyra Sedgwick). Instead, Grace's parents tell her to go back to Eddie. Grace's dysfunctional relationship with her family nonetheless spurs her to lick her wounds and fight back with class, style and a sense of humor.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall
STAR TREK INSURRECTION
From the beginning of the Federation, the Prime Directive was clear: no Starfleet expedition may interfere with the natural development of other civilizations. Picard is confronted with orders that undermine that decree. If he obeys, 600 peaceful residents of Ba'ku will be forcibly removed from their remarkable world, all for the reportedly greater good of millions who will benefit from Ba'ku's Fountain of Youth-like powers. If he disobeys, he will risk his Starship, his career, his life. But for Picard, there's really only one choice. He must rebel against Starfleet… and lead the insurrection to preserve Paradise.
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes
STAYING ALIVE
John Travolta's trim and toned in this spirited sequel to his mega hit, Saturday Night Fever. As disco king Tony Manero, he leaves Brooklyn behind to seek a career as a Broadway dancer, while caught between the pretty dancer who loves him and the haughty star he just can't get off his mind.
Starring: John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes
STEPMOM
Isabel (Roberts) and Jackie (Sarandon) square off as two mothers competing for a place in the hearts of the same children in this tender drama that asks: can another person ever take the place of a child's natural mother? Isabel is a career-minded fashion photographer forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to her boyfriend two children. When their natural mother, Jackie, appears, the result is a conflict that is, at times, comical and often, tragic. Jackie soon discovers she's terminally ill and the two women realize that they must find a way to connect, in order to save the people they both love.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Ed Harris, Susan Sarandon
STOMP THE YARD
When DJ, a troubled youth from Los Angeles, moves to Atlanta to attend Truth University, he discovers “stepping”, the age-old style of dance traditionally done in African-American fraternities, where teams demonstrate complex moves and create rhythmic sounds using their bodies. DJ’s raw talent and hip-hop inspired moves quickly place him at the center of a fierce rivalry between two fraternities, the winner of which will be determined in front of a sold-out arena at the annual stepping championships. But before he can help his teammates, he must first battle his own demons and learn the true meaning of brotherhood.
Starring: Columbus Short, Meagan Goode
SUPERSTAR
Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dream if she becomes a superstar, so her prayers, fantasies, and conversations with her only friend focus on achieving super-stardom. Her big chance is a school talent contest – her main competition is Evian, the school beauty. She is dancing with Sky, the object of Mary Katherine's kiss dream. Mary Katherine gets some talent-show help from her fellow special education students, her grandma, and inspiration from secrets in her past.
Starring: Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon
TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY
Comedian Will Ferrell stars as Ricky Bobby, a NASCAR champion who has it made. But after a frightening crash, Ricky hits rock bottom when he loses his nerve, career and wife. Willing to do anything to get back on top, he turns to his estranged father, Reese (Cole), for a few old racing tricks to conquer his fear of driving.
Starring: Will Ferrell, John Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen
TEQUILA SUNRISE
Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell – one a cop and the other a drug dealer desperate to get out of the business – are lifelong buddies who fall in love with the same woman (Pfeiffer). When word gets around that a big deal is going down with a drug lord, personal loyalties and individual honor start to become sources of conflict.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell
THE BIG TEASE
Crawford Mackenzie (Ferguson) is used to staring at the top of other people's heads. He's better with a pair of snippers than he is with a fork and spoon, and he's in the business of helping people make a statement - with their hair. The flamboyant but unknown hairdresser receives an invitation to the World Hairdresser International Federation annual contest in LA, and thinks his ship's finally come in. But his ship soon capsizes and sinks when he realizes he's going as an audience participant and not as a contestant! Things get hairy when he tries every trick in the hairdresser's manual to enter the contest.
Starring: Craig Ferguson, Frances Fisher, David Rasche
THE DUKES OF HAZZARD: THE BEGINNING
Charging hot off the wheels of the successful 2005 theatrical release, see where it all began. This comedy prequel contains wild car chases and crashes, Daisy's hilarious, but ultimately successful transformation into every Hazzard boy's fantasy girl, and all the fun and laughs expected from the Dukes of Hazzard.
Starring: Jonathan Bennett, Christopher McDonald, Randy Wayne
THE EXPERTS
Travis Heath (Travolta, and Wendell Atwill (Gross) are relocating to a small town in Nebraska, to kick off their latest venture - a hip new nightclub. It's only when they get there do they realize that they've actually been abducted by the Soviet Union, who want the duo to serve as experts on everything that America deems "cool", and pass on the information to a town inhabited by KGB operatives.
Starring: Kelly Preston, John Travolta
THE HOLCROFT COVENANT
Based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling spy novel, this action-packed thriller is a taut tale of mystery, murder and money. Noel Holcroft (Caine), an unsuspecting New York architect receives a cryptic message that could clear his father's name. His father was a confidant of Adolf Hitler and on his death left a fortune to make amends for his past--but his son has to search the world to find it. Guilt-ridden by his father's past, Holcroft was the perfect pawn in a scheme that would supposedly rectify the horrors of Hitler's Third Reich, but as he soon discovers, treachery can be twisted in many ways and no one can be trusted when $4.5 billion dollars are at stake!
Starring: Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant
THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR
There's something strange with the house next door, as Col Kennedy (Boyle) soon discovers. Behind the façade of this huge and beautiful house lies an evil force that has unspeakable powers over anyone who lives inside or dares even to enter. No one in the neighborhood is safe, especially not Col who is trying to uncover the truth.
Starring: Colin Ferguson, Lara Flynn Boyle
THE IN CROWD
Adrien Williams (Heuring) starts work at a posh East Coast Country Club and joins the "in crowd" - a clique of wealthy college kids. At first she gets along well with Brittany Foster (Ward), the leader of the group, but when Britanny's beau shows interest in Adrien, Brittany is out for blood. Brittany and her friends suddenly turn into a pack of defensive wolves, hungry to protect the status quo and the secrets of the group, at all cost - and certainly at the expense of their newest member.
Starring: Lori Heuring, Susan Ward
THE KARATE KID
Peer acceptance — what would you be without it? Daniel (Macchio) for one gets to be the Cobras' punching bag. Absolutely devoid of any fighting skills, he is no match for that bunch of karate savvy kids. He makes his position worse by falling for Ali (Shue), the ex-girlfriend of the leader of the Cobras. Desperate, Daniel turns to his handyman, Miyagi (Morita), who also happens to be a martial arts master.
Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Ralph Macchio, Pat Noriyuki Morita
THE KARATE KID PART II
Miyagi (Morita) returns to his ancestral home to see his father for the last time, and to rekindle the romance with his childhood sweetheart. He brings his student Daniel (Macchio) along for the ride, which is a good thing as his arrival ignites an old feud with a long-time enemy — a feud that drags Daniel into a battle to save the old man's honor.
Starring: Ralph Macchio, Pat Noriyuki Morita, Nobu McCarthy
THE LAST TYCOON
Based on a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, this is a haunting love story set in 1930s Hollywood. Robert De Niro stars as Monroe Stahr, a young studio genius at the top of his game. Jack Nicholson plays a union organizer while Robert Mitchum stars as a powerful studio head.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Robert Mitchum
THE NAKED CAGE
Michelle (Shattuck) is wrongly convicted of a bank robbery she did not commit and is sent to a maximum-security women's prison complete with a corrupt sadistic female warden. There, the innocent woman must learn to survive a riotous prison.
Starring: Shari Shattuck, Lucinda Crosby
THE NUMBER 23
Jim Carrey stars in this dark psychological thriller revolving around a man who becomes haunted by the fact that he's reading a book about his own life and that the book ends in his murder. Spiraling into an obsession with the number 23, Walter Sparrow (Carrey) twists his once idyllic life into an inferno of psychological torture spurred on by the mysterious novel, The Number 23.
Starring: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen
THE QUIET
Dot (Belle) is a deaf and mute girl who has lost her parents and is sent to a family with dark secrets. Their father is having an incestuous relationship with the daughter, Nina (Cuthbert), while their mother appears oblivious. But the two girls soon realize they share a common secret that leads to a shocking conclusion.
Starring: Edie Falco, Elisha Cuthbert, Shawn Ashmore
THE SOPRANOS 25: THE KNIGHT IN WHITE SATIN ARMOR
Janice and Richie's domestic quarrel ends when Richie makes the fatal mistake of punching his fiancée. Stunned and appalled, Janice kills Richie with bullets to the chest and head. Frightened, she calls Tony, who employs Christopher and Furio to dismember and dispose of the body. And Tony puts his sister on a bus back to Seattle, Washington.
Starring: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco
THE SOPRANOS 26: FUNHOUSE
In this season two finale, a nauseated and feverish Tony suffers from food poisoning and has a series of bizarre, telltale dreams. But the most disturbing dream confirms Tony's aching suspicion: Pussy confesses that he's turned into a Federal informant. Dragging himself out of bed, Tony, along with Silvio, goes to the Bompensiero home. There, they discover Pussy's FBI wire equipment and tapes. Tony and Silvio lure a nervous Pussy to a boat where Paulie has been waiting, and the four mobsters head out to sea. Pussy confesses his FBI involvement. Tony, Silvio and Paulie do what they must – they shoot Pussy, dump his body in the ocean and sadly turn back to shore.
Starring: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco
VALLEY OF LIGHT
Noah Locke (Klein) is a World War II veteran who returns home at the end of the war to discover that there is nothing left for him. His parents have died, his brother is in prison and the family farm has been sold. Feeling lost, Noah wanders in search of a place he can call home. He is led by a mysterious stranger to a place called The Valley of Light. There, Noah meets and befriends a mute boy, Matthew (Zach Mills), and Eleanor (Gretchen Mol), a young widow.
Starring: Chris Klein, Gretchen Mol
VAMPIRE BATS
Insect specialist-cum-college professor Maddy Rierdon (Lawless) gets suspicious when a student is found dead with all his blood drained and covered with mysterious puncture marks. Maddy investigates and discover a group of mutated vampire bats. Can she stop them before they kill everyone?
Starring: Lucy Lawless, Dylan Neal, Liam Waite
VISION QUEST
Eighteen year-old Louden Swain is determined to lose 23 pounds to make it into the high-school wrestling team. His opponent: the human-battering ram, Shute. Enter Louden's self-appointed half-Indian spiritual advisor, Kuch, who puts his young friend's problem in perspective. According to Kuch, Louden is on what a vision quest, an attempt to gain communion with the 'Everywhere Spirit' and find his place in the eternal circle. But Louden gets distracted from his mission when he falls for an older woman, Carla.
Starring: Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino
WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005)
Tom Cruise stars in this movie adaptation of HG Wells' classic novel. Earth has been invaded by a superior alien race and the human race is facing extinction. Without warning, strange electrical storms plunder points in the ground across the globe, awakening hideous, massive, three-legged machines that have lain dormant for centuries. Unimaginable chaos on a global scale ensues as the alien machines incinerate everything in their path with white-hot death rays. Will mankind survive this attack? Is there something that can beat these seemingly indestructible machines?
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Tom Cruise, Miranda Otto
WE ARE MARSHALL
When the entire football team and coaches of Marshall University died in a plane crash in 1970, the team's new coach, Jake Lengyel (McConaughey), rallies the surviving team together to keep the football program alive.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Anthony Mackie
WIND CHILL
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When their car breaks down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
Starring: Ashton Holmes, Emily Blunt
WYATT EARP
Kevin Costner stars in a sweeping epic of the transformation of a country. In the tumultuous years that take him from a secure family life to the frontiers of America, Earp grows from an innocent boy to a hardened lawman, transformed by the land he walks. But Earp's unflinching loyalty to his brothers and their dreams brings great joy – and ultimately great tragedy – to the man destined to become one of the West's most enduring legends.
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman
ZATHURA: A SPACE ADVENTURE
A pair of bickering brothers must put aside their differences if they must survive and save their elder sister as well, when the board game they are playing comes alive and flings them, together with their house and elder sister into outer space. The boys soon realize that there is only one way to get back to Earth- keep playing to finish the game. But at every turn they make, they face even harder challenges including a murderous robot, an explosive meteor shower and lizard-like aliens.
Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Tim Robbins, Dax Shepard, Kristen Stewart
ZOOM
Four kids have one common problem — they have unique super powers but they just want to be normal. In comes out-of-luck former superhero, Captain Zoom (Allen), who teaches them to love themselves and harness their powers to save the world from destruction.
Starring: Tim Allen, Chevy Chase, Courtney Cox
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