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Joe Dirt (2001)

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: David Spade | Brittany Daniel | Dennis Miller | Adam Beach | Christopher Walken | Jaime Pressly | Kid Rock | Erik Per Sullivan | Megan Taylor Harvey | Caroline Aaron | Fred Ward | John Farley | Bob Zany | Bean Miller | Lee Walker
Directors: Dennie Gordon
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David Spade plays Joe, whose search for his family has him hittin’ the road and keepin’ it real with every lowlife he meets, including a sweet hottie (Brittany Daniel), a janitor (Christopher Walken), and a pychotic cannibal (Brian Thompson) with whom he has a brief interlude. Through it all, Joe keeps on truckin’ . . . all the way to L.A., where a shock jock DJ (Dennis Miller) targets Joe as the butt of his show. But Joe’s plucky spirit encourages listeners to cheer him on and help him find a better family than the one he thought he wanted. Rock on!

National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: USA
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While Ben is presenting new information about John Wilkes Booth and the 18 pages missing from Booth’s diary, one man stands up and presents a missing page of John Wilkes Booth’s diary. Thomas Gates, Ben’s great-grandfather, is mentioned in the page. It shows that Ben’s great-grandfather could have been a person involved with Abraham Lincoln’s murder. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley to Buckingham Palace(which they break into). It takes them to a book in the White House(which they break into also)and they even steal a page from the book. But in order to see more from the book, their choice is either get elected president or kidnap the President of the United States. Which do they choose? It’s obvious. The conspiracy then crosses to Mount Rushmore and they even mention the JFK conspiracy. Could Ben clear his family’s name? Or will his family be known as the descendant of Abraham Licoln’s murderer?

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007)

Monday, May 5th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Chaplin | Brian Cox | Alex Etel | Craig Hall | Mathew Kaczorowski | Forbes KB | David Morrissey | Marshall Napier | Erroll Shand | Adam Smith | Joel Tobeck | Geraldine Brophy | Jessica Kaczorowski | Emily Watson | Priyanka Xi
Directors: Jay Russell
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Based on a novel by Dick King-Smith, author of The Sheep Pig (from which Babe was adapted), the touching and often spectacular The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep ingeniously presumes to explain the truth behind “Nessie,” i.e., the Loch Ness Monster. The story, told in present day to a couple of American tourists by a kindly gentleman (Brian Cox) in a pub, begins with a lonely boy, Angus (Alex Etel), pining for his father, who is serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. Angus, along with his sister (Priyanka Xi) and mother (Emily Watson), live on an estate that has been billeted by soldiers in the Scottish Highlands, near Loch Ness. The troop’s commander (David Morissey) has an eye for mom, suspicions about a mysterious handyman, Lewis (Ben Chaplin), who is also a war hero, and an absurd contention that the Highlands are the real frontline in the war against Germany.

Into this intriguing drama comes a completely different element, a fantastical creature of Celtic mythology that befriends Angus and is, in fact, the sea-beast who will eventually be known as the Loch Ness Monster. Trying to hide the dinosaur-like fellow, nicknamed Crusoe, Angus enlists Lewis to transfer it to the lake, where boy and serpent have extraordinary adventures together until human stupidity threatens Crusoe’s existence. A true family film, there is a lot for adults to like about the grownup story in The Water Horse. Meanwhile, the wistful relationship between Angus and Crusoe—each of whom helps the other move past obstacles toward their individual destinies—will leave children feeling both happy and melancholy in the best possible sense. Directed by Jay Russell (My Dog Skip), The Water Horse is the best of a mini-genre of films about or inspired by old Nessie.

Jumper (2008)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hayden Christensen | Samuel L. Jackson | Diane Lane | Jamie Bell | Rachel Bilson | Tom Hulce | Michael Rooker | Sean Baek | Katie Boland | Nathalie Cox | Teddy Dunn | Barbara Garrick | Meredith Henderson | AnnaSophia Robb | Max Thieriot
Directors: Doug Liman
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A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between “Jumpers” and those who have sworn to kill them.

xXx: State of the Union (2005)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Gerald | Ice Cube | Samuel L. Jackson | Willem Dafoe | Scott Speedman | Peter Strauss | Xzibit | Michael Roof | Sunny Mabrey | Nona Gaye | John G. Connolly | Ramon De Ocamp | Barry Sigismondi | Michael Don Evans | David Rountree | Ned Schmidtke
Directors: Lee Tamahori
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NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons (Jackson), fresh off the success of his last renegade recruitment, once again finds himself in need of an outsider. Gibbons and his new agent (Ice Cube) must track a dangerous military splinter group, led by Willem Dafoe, that is conspiring to overthrow the U.S. Government in the nation’s capital.

Casualties of War (1989)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael J. Fox | Sean Penn | Don Harvey | John C. Reilly | John Leguizamo | Thuy Thu Le | Erik King | Jack Gwaltney | Ving Rhames | Dan Martin | Dale Dye | Steve Larson | John Linton | Vyto Ruginis | Al Shannon
Directors: Brian De Palma
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During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.

War of the Worlds (2005)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Cruise | Dakota Fanning | Justin Chatwin | Miranda Otto | Tim Robbins | Rick Gonzalez | Yul Vazquez | Lenny Venito | Lisa Ann Walter | Ann Robinson | Gene Barry | David Alan Basche | Roz Abrams | Michael Brownlee | Camillia Sanes
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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Ray Ferrier is a dock worker who is finishing a night of work in the morning, because he works the night shift. But when he gets home his young daughter Rachel and teenage son Robbie are staying with him at his house in Bayonne, New Jersey, while his pregnant ex-wife Mary Anne and her new husband Tim visit her parents in Boston for the weekend. But then the unthinkable and, ultimately, the unexpected happens to him in an extraordinary sense! Witnessing, and barely escaping the horror, first-hand, it’s up to Ray to protect his two kids from terrorist and races up to Boston before one of them gets murdered by a large tripod machine in its path!

Romancing the Stone (1984)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Michael Douglas | Kathleen Turner | Danny DeVito | Zack Norman | Alfonso Arau | Manuel Ojeda | Holland Taylor | Mary Ellen Trainor | Eve Smith | Joe Nesnow | José Chávez | Evita Muñoz 'Chachita' | Camillo García | Rodrigo Puebla | Paco Morayta
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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Joan Wilder is a mousey writer of romance novels. She finds a package from her sister mailed from Colombia in her mailbox. A call from her sister tells her that she has been kidnapped and that bringing the package to Colombia is necessary for her safety and release. Being fairly clueless, she leaves for Colombia to rescue her sister. She is lost within hours of her arrival. She is nearly murdered by one of the men searching for the package when Jack Colton, a fairly low life American rescues her. They begin a journey through the jungle with bullets flying nearby. Is Joan up to all of this? What a way to find out.

The 300 Spartans (1962)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Egan | Ralph Richardson | Diane Baker | Barry Coe | David Farrar | Donald Houston | Anna Synodinou | Kieron Moore | John Crawford | Robert Brown | Laurence Naismith | Anne Wakefield | Ivan Triesault | Charles Fawcett | Michalis Nikolinakos
Directors: Rudolph Maté
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Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army more than 20 times as large. The actual heroism of those who stood (and ultimately died) with Leonidas helped shape the course of Western Civilization, allowing the Greek city states time to organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC.

Virgin Territory (2007)

Friday, April 25th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hayden Christensen | Mischa Barton | Christopher Egan | Tim Roth | Silvia Colloca | Ryan Cartwright | Andrea Celani | Tommaso Cini | Federico Ciuffolini | Neil Edmond | Justin Edwards | Rupert Friend | Diego Guerra | Riccardo Merra
Directors: David Leland
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Young Florentines regale one another in the Italian countryside while the black plague decimates their city.