lørdag 14. november 2009

Mary And Max

Mary and Max is an animated tale about Mary Daisy Dinkle (Toni Collette), a chubby 8 year old girl from Australia, and Max Horovitz (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) an obese, atheist Jew from New York. The two strike up an unlikely pen pal friendship that spans nearly two decades from 1976 to 1994. During the lifetime of their long distance friendship they tackle many issues from their lives such as friendship, the birds and the bees, differences in belief systems, and more. Mary's letters chronicle her ascension from child to adult, while Max's show the life of a man passing from middle age to old age.

lørdag 7. november 2009

The Maiden Heist

Great art has its protectors every day in the major museums. Three guards are more than dedicated to the job they do. Their museum brings in modern work that has no appeal to the guards, and the museum authorities plan to sell the classic pieces, sending them elsewhere in the world. When Roger (Christopher Walken) and George (William H. Macy) and Charles (Morgan Freeman) find their long-beloved work transplanted to Europe, they not only miss their favorite art pieces, but they make plans to steal the works with which they have become obsessed. Roger becomes the mastermind of an inside plot to perform the biggest art heist in the history of their museum.

Four Christmases

Brad McVie (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) are a couple that enjoys their holidays. Every year they run from their respective families at Christmas in order to enjoy the holidays in some sunny, luxurious spot. However, things don't go so well for them in 2006 when they are caught at the airport, fogged in and filmed for all of their families to see. Now Brad and Kate are forced to spend time with Brad's dad (Robert Duvall) and Brad's mom (Sissy Spacek) and of course Kate's dad (Jon Voigt) and Kate's mom (Mary Steenburgen). The two view the experience differently with Brad anxious for it to be done, but Kate feeling a growing desire to start her own family. The question is whether the end of the four Christmases will find Brad and Kate together or apart?

torsdag 5. november 2009

Moon

Facing three years alone on the Moon, an astronaut named Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) finds that he craves more than voice contact with friends and loved ones on Earth. Living with GERTY (Kevin Spacey), a ubiquitous and epicene computerized voice, Sam Bell begins to unravel. What’s worse he is not sure if the bizarre double he sees running around the moonbase is real. After a crash involving his Lunar Rover, he feels he can no longer tell if he is actually subject to a massive conspiracy by the company that has sent him to run the automated energy system that is collecting a new and powerful substance for the profit of those back home.

onsdag 4. november 2009

District 9

District 9 is the name of a concentration camp which is home to millions of extraterrestrial aliens who were recovered from a disabled space ship twenty years earlier. A private company named Multinational United (MNU) has been awarded the contract to relocate the aliens to a new camp. Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley) is the MNU employee who needs to issue the eviction notices to the individuals in the camp, but he suffers an accident in which he is sprayed with an unknown substance. As Wikus begins to transform, he finds himself at odds with an employer who has horrible plans for testing him. Wikus escapes and heads back to District 9, where he enlists alien aid in an effort to reverse his transformation.

2012 Doomsday

For years, scholars have debated what the ancient Mayan calendars means. For this movie, December 12, 2012 answers that question. This is the day that the world begins to end. Shifts in the poles of the earth prompt a NASA scientist, Dr. Trish Lane, (Caroline Armiguet) to journey to the ancient ruins that may hold the secret. She races time with the hope of unlocking the strange forces that are destroying the planets climate and causing catastrophic earthquakes. Others are flocking to the temple because of the Christian belief that the Apocalypse is coming soon. As these strangers meet in the dense Mexican jungles, strange happenings all over the globe signal the end of the earth and possibly mankind, is near.

tirsdag 3. november 2009

Aliens In The Attic

The Pearson family, led by Nana Rose (Doris Roberts), rents a lakeside house for a summer vacation. The family includes Uncle Nathan (Andy Richter) and Stuart (Kevin Nealon), father of the family, and the children, especially teenager Bethany (Ashley Tisdale) who has a boyfriend named Ricky Dillman (Robert Hoffman) who ends up as a robot under the control of the mysterious aliens. Bethany’s brother Tom (Carter Jenkins) is a computer whiz and geek overall who can oppose any invader from space. The family is disrupted when four miniature aliens, led by Tazer (Thomas Haden Church) land in their attic, using mind control on the adults before launching a major invasion of the planet. Children cannot be controlled by the aliens, and thereby hangs the fate of the world.

søndag 1. november 2009

Hardwired

After a tragic accident claims the lives of Luke Gibson's (Gooding Jr.) wife and unborn child, he is left with critical injuries and complete amnesia. A new technological breakthrough from the Hexx Corporation - a Psi-Comp Implant that's hardwired into Luke's brain - saves his life, but Luke soon finds out that this new technology comes with a price and that the Hexx Corporation harbors sinister plans for the new device. With the help of new allies, Luke tries to recover the memories of his past while uncovering the Hexx Corporation's true motives.

Surrogates

Tom Greer (Bruce Willis) is a young blond action-oriented FBI agent, or is he? When he investigates the death of a famous inventor named Dr. Lionel Canter (James Cromwell), but he is actually a robotic double, controlled by the much older Canter. In his probe into the case, Greer discovers that real people, called Dreads, who have rejected surrogate technology live in a brave new world reservation, run by a man called the Prophet (Ving Rhames). If Greer and his partner Agent Peters (Radha Mitchell) want to resolve the case, Tom Greer will have to show his real self to infiltrate the conspiracy and learn the truth.

Resident Evil: Extinction

In the third installment in the series, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is hiding out in the Nevada desert from the Umbrella Corporation. The whole world is now infected with the virus and zombies are everywhere. Alice meets up with a bunch of survivors including some of the characters from the second installment. They finally decide to go to Alaska which they believe has not been infected by the virus yet. A remnant of the survivors take a helicopter from the Umbrella Corporation and fly off to Alaska. In the meantime, Alice goes after her tormentors and finishes of the doctor who was experimenting on her. He has turned into a super zombie at this point after taking the anti venom after being bitten by a new breed of zombies that was created by him. At the end, she comes together with her clones and threaten to bring down the whole Umbrella Corporation.