Motherhood

Eliza Welsh (Uma Thurman) is a mother of two that is planning her daughter’s, Clara (Daisy Tahan), sixth birthday party. She wakes up and takes a picture of her daughter sleeping and then the day from hell begins. She faces a series of events that just make her life seem like it is falling apart and that she will never be able to get the plans for the party completed. Among the things that go wrong for her are a chewing out from the neighbor for not cleaning up after her dog and having to show up at school in her night gown when her daughter forgets her book bag. That is just the beginning as the day gets worse. At the end of the day Eliza’s husband (Anthony Edwards) who always seems to be away from home takes Eliza to the rooftop for a surprise. Thinking her day could not get any worse, Eliza realizes things may not be so bad after all.

Extract

Joel (Jason Bateman) is the owner of an extract manufacturing plant. He regularly faces risky situations that steadily and rapidly deteriorate. Initially, his floor manager designate meets with an accident from a machine that later jeopardize the health and prospects of his business. His personal life is also not enviable as he tries to pt the fidelity of his wife, Suzie (Kristen Wiig) to test after taking the advice of his friend Dean (Ben Affleck). Lastly, making the situation more complex, an employee called Cindy (Mila Kunis), who is a con artist, is all set to take advantage of the company. Now, Joel must try to mend his married life and the company affairs, and understand what he actually longs for.

Face/Off

Face Off has a very original plot. Nicholas Cage and John Travolta star on opposing sides of the law. Nicholas Cage is an evil villain capable of unspeakable violence. John Travolta is a good cop who who asked to undergo a radical medical procedure to replace his face with the face of the Nicholas Cage character. The goal is to infiltrate the criminal organization of Nicholas Cage and Locate a bomb that has been placed in the Los Angelas area. The only problem is the two meet up and take over each others lives as their friends, family, and coworkers are unable to tell the two apart. Movie has exciting scenes of action and violence.

The 4th Kind

In remote Alaska Dr. Abigail Tyler (Mila Jovovich) videotapes sessions with seemingly traumatized patients and discovers that they have been abducted by aliens according to their stories. Since the 1960s people have been disappearing from the area in large numbers. The FBI has done investigations but never discovered or didn’t want to discover what DR. Tyler has uncovered. The terrifying revelations of the witnesses expose the truth about alien abductions and shows that their stories are very similar in content and identical in some of the details. What follows is a closer look at the validity of the claims and stories of alien abductions.

The Time Traveler's Wife

Henry DeTamble (Eric Bana) is a Chicago librarian with an odd problem: he has a genetic disorder that sends him hurtling through time when he is under distress. In spite of this challenge, Henry tries to build a stable life with the woman he loves, Clare (Rachel McAdams). Though they are married, Henry disappears and reappears randomly throughout Clare's life. With the challenges of a regular relationship coupled on top of this difficult challenge, the two try to find a way to have a happy life together.

Quantum Apocalypse

A rogue space anomaly is discovered approaching Earth, and it is up to the world’s top scientists to stop it from destroying the planet. Led by an eccentric quantum physicist Trish Zane (Farscape’s Gigi Edgley), these brilliant minds ultimately determine any attempt of preventing disaster is futile. As cities across the world are destroyed, the leaders in a small town in Louisiana struggle to maintain order and fight chaos ensuing this global catastrophe. When mayor Ben (Randy Mulke) and his wife and town sheriff Lynne (Stephanie Jacobsen of The Sarah Conner Chronicles) discover the key to saving the world may be within their own embattled family, they desperately attempt to unite Trish and her team with the unlikeliest of heroes, their ingenious, autistic son, Terry (Rhett Giles).

The Men Who Stare At Goats

Bill Django (Jeff Bridges) once travelled around the country, studying New Age movements and recruiting people into what he called the New Earth Army. Years later Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor), a reporter, travels to Kuwait to investigate the Iraq War when his wife leaves him. There he happens upon a man named Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), who happens to be one of Django's two best recruits along with Larry Hooper (Kevin Spacey). Bob learns all about the New Earth Army and the abilities that were developed in its members by Django when he and Lyn go on a mission together. Eventually they find themselves in the clutches of Hooper, who went to the 'dark side' of the powers of New Earth Army. Django is also in his clutches and the trio of Lyn, Bob, and Django eventually break free with the intention of telling the world their story.

Blade

In "Blade," the first film in an eventual trilogy, the title character played by Wesley Snipes is "daywalker," a half-human, half-vampire who has dedicated his life to the eradication of the vampire race. Blade's mother was bitten by a vampire when she was pregnant--as a result, Blade has all of the typical vampire's extra-human abilities but none of their weaknesses (such as sunlight); however, he also has a vampire's lust for blood, which he controls with the help of his friend and ally, Whistler (Kris Kristofferson). Blade's nemesis in this movie is Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), an upstart, charismatic young (well, relatively speaking) vampire who would rather rule the world than maintain the current uneasy coexistence of vampires and humans. Frost and his minions plan to awaken an ancient vampire god who will eradicate humanity once and for all. Blade, working with Whistler and Karen Jenson must stop this from happening.

O Brother, Where Art Thou

"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is about Everett (George Clooney), an imprisoned husband and father in the early 20th century Deep South. He escapes along with two friends, Pete (John Turturro) and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson), and travels to find his wife and daughters. He goes through several adventures with unscrupulous businessmen, religious fanatics and radio promoters, a soul-selling blues singer and others, all in an allegorical retelling of Homer's "The Odyssey". Along the way, he becomes a well-known musical and radio figure, while leading the somewhat stupid Pete and Delmar through their trials and tribulations.

You Don't Mess With The Zohan

Zohan (Adam Sandler) is an Israeli military agent that feels he has missed his calling in life to be a hairdresser. While out on a mission to imprison a Palestinian terrorist called the Phantom (John Turturro), Zohan stages his disappearance and sneaks off to New York City in pursuit of his passion; he then goes by the pseudonym of "Scrappy Cocoa". After facing one rejection after another from hair salons, Zohan is finally given a job at a Palestinian owned salon as a floor sweeper. In time, Zohan is able to prove that he is a talented hairstylist and that he is able to work peacefully with a Palestinian. Yet, one day a Palestinian taxi driver (Rob Schneider) recognizes Zohan for who he really is and informs the Phantom of Zohans whereabouts. Through a turn of events, Zohan and Phantom meet to duel in a challenge but the "fight" is disrupted by the unexpected news of a violent attack by white racists on Zohan and Phantom's people and homeland. Now Zohan and Phantom must work together to protect their people and territories.

2012

Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) is a divorced man. His former wife, Kate Curtis (Amanda Peet) and children live together with another man. In Guatemala there is a rumor that several of people have committed suicide as they believed that the world will cease to exist in 2012. Accordingly, a forum named ``Institute for Human Continuity`` (IHC) is formed. It starts constructing gigantic protective ships/ vessels under the Himalayas to face the dooms day. However, they discover that a global disaster caused by the dislocation of the Earth's outer layer will take place earlier than anticipated. Many cities and civilizations are completely destroyed. As the floods get worse, the US government announces the end of the world. Jackson Curtis and his family and some other survivors struggle their way to China to board the protective ship and save themselves.

Where The Wild Things Are

The classic children's tale comes to life in this telling of the story of Max (Max Records) a boy who is a little wild. Max has a few difficult encounters with family members, one with his sister when she gets mad at him and ruins his igloo, another when he throws a tantrum and bites his mother Connie's (Catherine Keener) hand. Running out of the house in frustration Max gets into an abandoned boat that he finds on the beach. Following several days of sailing in this boat Max reaches the home of the 'Wild Things', among them Carol (James Gandolfini), Judith (Catherine O'Hara), Ira (Forrest Whitaker), Alexander (Paul Dano), Douglas (Chris Cooper), The Bull (Michael Berry, Jr), and KW (Lauren Ambrose). The Wild Things are first interested in eating Max, but he convinces them to make him their king, and after spending some time on their island he learns some lessons about his own behavior before deciding to return home to his family.

I Can Do Bad All By Myself

Madea (Tyler Perry) catches Jennifer (Hope Olaide Wilson) and her two brothers stealing from home. She then decides to take them their Aunt April (Tarajai P. Henson) who is the only relative they have. April is a nightclub singer who drinks like a fish and lives off her boyfriend Raymond, who is married. A handsome Mexican immigrant, Sandino (Adam Rodriguez) soon changes her outlook after he moves into April’s basement. April is challenged by Sandino to change her life. She realized that she now has the choice of her life.

The Christmas Choir

This is an excellent and heartfelt Hallmark TV movie about a workaholic whose personal life has collapsed around him, who organizes and leads a Christmas choir of men living at a homeless shelter. Working my way through this intellectually, I find a lot of flaws in this picture: its episodic nature, its easy internal parallels, the cleanliness of everything and so forth, but the simplicity of the actors' performances work beautifully.

There are almost no big names involved in this production -- the closest to one is probably Rhea Perlman, who plays the cranky nun who runs the shelter. But it doesn't really matter. Very much worth your while.