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The Informant (2009)

2009-09-22T09:08:00.000-07:00

Mark Whitacre has worked for lysine developing company ADM for many years and has even found his way into upper management. But nothing has prepared him for the job he is about to undertake - being a spy for the FBI. Unwillingly pressured into working as an informant against the illegal price-fixing activities of his company, Whitacre gradually adopts the idea that he's a true secret agent. But as his incessant lies keep piling up, his world begins crashing down around him.

AVATAR - Official Teaser Trailer (HD)

2009-08-25T11:48:00.000-07:00

In Theatres Worldwide December 18 - In the epic action adventure AVATAR, James Cameron, the director of Titanic, takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination. On the distant moon Pandora, a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization.

Dorian Gray (2009)

2009-07-28T07:42:00.000-07:00

Who isn’t fascinated by the idea of immortality? Even if it turns out to be more of a curse than a gift, such is the case with Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray? The latest take on Wilde’s immortal character has Ben Barnes, currently waging war in “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” as the titular Prince Caspian, will be taking the lead role in the big screen version of “The Picture of Dorian Gray”.

Music Day

2009-06-16T05:40:00.000-07:00

little boots MEDDLE bedroom version

Nikolai Voronov - White dragonfly love

Without You - Mark Gormley

Can we kiss?

2009-06-15T07:58:00.001-07:00

Can we kiss?

The Time Traveler's Wife

2009-06-14T09:49:00.000-07:00

Clare has been in love with Henry her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveler--cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning...

KEN BLOCK GYMKHANA TWO THE INFOMERCIAL

2009-06-13T23:39:00.000-07:00

Riding on the success of the first Gymkhana Practice video that grabbed the attention of over 20 million viewers worldwide, the Gymkhana TWO video takes infomercials to the ...

Bruno (2009)

2009-06-10T10:28:00.000-07:00

The story is what exactly what you'd expect when Sacha Baron Cohen is on the loose. Unfortunate Americans get caught with their pants down (and sometimes with Cohen's pants down) repeatedly and mercilessly as Cohen travels across the country posing as Bruno, a flamboyantly gay Austrian model on a quest to find himself. Along the way he sickens homophobes, embarrasses celebrities, and names his adopted black baby "O.J."

The Final Destination (2009)

2009-06-08T07:53:00.000-07:00

On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O'Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends...

A Time To Kill Closing Arguement

2009-06-08T04:47:00.000-07:00

Matthew McConaughey's closing arguement from "A Time To Kill".

UP (2009)

2009-06-07T11:14:00.000-07:00

From the creators of Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., and Toy Story comes this animated flick about an old man who a bunch of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilderness with a 9-year-old stowaway.

Slava Polunin - SnowShow

2009-05-31T07:01:00.001-07:00

They call him "the best clown in the world". His Snow Show is celebrated as "a theatre classic of the 20th century" (The Times, London). Recognition came unusually early for Slava Polunin, and from that moment on, his fame was unstoppable. This is probably because Slava doesn't do things "just like that". Everything in his life is very well considered, very finely weighed - even the most crazy, the most incredible, the most adventurous of feats. In achieving his aims, he is concrete, collected and imperturbable.

A Perfect Getaway (2009)

2009-05-28T08:11:00.000-07:00

Cliff and Cydney are an adventurous young couple celebrating their honeymoon by backpacking to one of the most beautiful, and remote, beaches in Hawaii. Hiking the wild, secluded trails, they believe they've found paradise. But when the pair comes across a group of frightened hikers discussing the horrifying murder of another newlywed couple on the islands, they begin to question whether they should...

Whatever Works (2009)

2009-05-27T12:00:00.000-07:00

An eccentric New Yorker abandons his upper-class life to embrace a more carefree existence. Shortly after, he ends up meeting a young girl from the South and her family, and no one seems to get along in the entanglements that follow.

Gamer Trailer (HD)

2009-05-23T21:59:00.000-07:00

GAMER is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online games: people play peoplefor keeps. Mind-control technology is widespread, and at the heart of the controversial games is its creator, reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall). His latest brainchild, the first-person shooter game Slayers, allows millions to act out their most savage fantasies online in front of a global audience, using real prisoners as avatars with whom they fight to the death.

The Girl Next Door (2004)

2009-05-22T07:48:00.000-07:00

Eighteen-year-old Matthew Kidman is a straight-arrow over-achiever who has never really lived life--until he falls for his beautiful and seemingly innocent neighbor, Danielle. When Matthew discovers that this perfect "girl next door" is a one-time porn star, his sheltered existence begins to spin out of control. Ultimately, Danielle helps Matthew emerge from his shell and discover that sometimes...

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

2009-05-21T05:37:00.000-07:00

Robert Downey Jr. brings the legendary detective to life as he has never been portrayed before. Jude Law stars as Holmes' trusted colleague, Watson, a doctor and war veteran who is a formidable ally for Sherlock Holmes. Rachel McAdams stars as Irene Adler, the only woman ever to have bested Holmes and who has maintained a tempestuous relationship with the detective. Mark Strong stars as their mysterious...

9 (2009)

2009-05-20T05:41:00.000-07:00

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A post apocalyptic fantasy nightmare in which humanity's legacy is threatened. Takes place in a parallel universe, where a race of oppressed rag dolls fights for survival.

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

2009-04-17T08:43:00.000-07:00

After a ship is sunk off the coast of Albania, the world's superpowers begin a feverish search for its valuable lost cargo: the powerful ATAC system, which will give the bearer unlimited control over Polaris nuclear submarines. As James Bond (Agent 007) joins the search, he suspects the suave Kristatos of seizing the device. The competition between nations grows more deadly by the moment, but Bond...

Twilight (2008)

2009-04-16T10:53:00.000-07:00

Bella Swan has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen, a boy unlike any she's ever met. Edward is a vampire, but he doesn't have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood. Intelligent and witty, Edward sees straight into Bella's soul. Soon, they are swept up in a passionate, thrilling and unorthodox romance. To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for -- a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will Edward & Bella do when a clan of new vampires -- James, Laurent and Victoria -- come to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life?

Fast and Ffurious

2009-04-04T23:23:00.000-07:00

When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto reignites his feud with agent Brian O'Conner. But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmanuever him. And from convoy heists to precision tunnel crawls across international lines, two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what's possible behind the wheel.

Op zoek naar Maria - Dans in het Centraal Station van Antwerpen

2009-04-03T08:56:00.001-07:00

Op Zoek naar Maria gaat van start op vtm, en dat zullen ze in Antwerpen geweten hebben. Ruim 200 dansers hebben de hal van het station op z'n kop gezet.

New Trailer Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs [HQ]

2009-04-02T06:43:00.000-07:00

New Trailer Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs HQ

Knowing

2009-03-18T10:24:00.000-07:00

In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler...

The Simpsons - NEW Main Title

2009-03-17T08:15:00.000-07:00

The opening sequence of ‘The Simpsons’ has been updated for the first time in 19 years to mark the first HD episode which airs in the US tonight.

Race to Witch Mountain (2009)

2009-03-16T08:43:00.000-07:00

A taxi driver who gets more than get bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they're also trying desperately to escape people who have made them their targets.

Benny Hill Best

2009-03-16T08:26:00.000-07:00

A Funny Scene of The Benny Hill Show.

"The Twitter Song" (Do the Twitter Dance) by Chris Thompson

2009-03-14T00:57:00.000-07:00

Lyrics-
Twitter Twitter everything...everything i see
when i go to bed..when im baking bread. sitting on bed...shoot out of oven
and even when i Pee...morning pee shot
on computer or on your phone..sitting at computer on twitter to phone
twitter what you desire...shot of grabbing banan
In 140 characters the world you can inspire - eating a banana tweet...put on jacket..scratch...HIT IT!

saw a pretty girl just the other day
she winked and she smile walked across my way
i couldnt figure out just what to say
so i twitter it...twit twit...twittered it twittered it

On twitter you retweet,twit,twhirl,and twitter it- pull stuff out of dictionary display words

dont understand these terms youre twilliterate. if you havent sign up yet you should consider it
twitter.com it wont even hurt a bit
now remember that girl from across the way
and i didnt know just what i should say
OH NO shes coming to talk to me
OH ill just hide behind this tree
i see you right you twitterin fiend
youshould follow me too my name is justine OOOO

Twitter Twitter everything...everything i see
when i go to bed..when im baking bread
and even when i Pee
on computer or on your phone
twitter what you desire
In 140 characters the world you can inspire

ok everybody do the twitter dance
it might look silly at your first glance
pick up your phone go from left to right
and do the twitter dance all day and all night
Look at everybody do the twitter dance
maybe look silly at your first glance
pick up your phone go from left to right
look at everybody do the twitter dance
look at everybody do the twitter dance
twitter twitter twitter

Twitter Twitter everything...everything i see
when i go to bed..when im baking bread
and even when i Pee
on computer or on your phone
twitter what you desire
In 140 characters the world you can inspire

Twilight (2008)

2009-03-11T11:53:00.000-07:00

Bella Swan has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen, a boy unlike any she's ever met. Edward is a vampire, but he doesn't have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood. Intelligent and witty, Edward sees straight into Bella's soul. Soon, they are swept up in a passionate, thrilling and unorthodox romance. To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for - a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will Edward & Bella do when a clan of new vampires - James, Laurent and Victoria - come to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life?

A Short Love Story In Stop Motion

2009-03-09T06:37:00.000-07:00

A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.

A show reel is the motion picture equivalent of an artist’s portfolio. It is typically used as a tool to promote an artist’s skill, talent and experience in a selected field, such as acting, directing, cinematography, editing, special effects, animation, video games or another graphic-related field. It is conventional in the film industry to have one, and it is the main tool by which an artist promotes her or his own work.

GlenGarry Glen Ross

2009-03-07T22:15:00.000-08:00

Story of wheeling and dealing in the real-estate business.

(500) Days of Summer (2009)

2009-03-05T08:53:00.000-08:00

This is a story of boy meets girl, begins the wry, probing narrator of 500 DAYS OF SUMMER, and with that the film takes off at breakneck speed into a funny, true to life and unique dissection of the unruly and unpredictable year-and-a-half of one young man's no-holds-barred love affair.

Queen: The Making of an American Beauty

2009-03-02T07:05:00.000-08:00

While it's not acknowledged outright by the film's producers, this expose into the "professional world" of The Miss America Pageant at the state level appears to have been inspired by the Jon-Bennet tragedy. One cannot help but feel the filmmakers went looking to uncover some maniacal sub-culture obsessed with turning their daughters into walking-talking perfection, with an ultimate goal of receiving a rhinestone tiara and bouquet of roses.

And what better place to look for it than in the deep South, "the heart of the Confederacy"--Texas. True, the startling quotes and surreal situations surrounding this pageant are all the more amusing with Southern accents, but the filmmaker makes no comment that this in fact occurs (to various degrees) in every state of the Union.

Nevertheless, the documentary is a fascinating look at the lengths two young women (and presumably every participant) will go to compete for a new crown--I say "new" because these girls have been doing this since childhood. You learn they move from city to city each year for yet another attempt to shoot for the state title.

Even more intriguing is the professional "coaches" that take on each girl weeks prior to the "big event." From high hair to high-heels, interview dry-runs to food deprivation, they create what they believe a "winner" should be. Strangely, it's men, not other women, who lead these ladies to their goal. Their eyes are ruthless, missing nothing--best of all, they even predict (accurately!) who will win the Texas title even before their girls have competed.

No where in the film, however, does the filmmaker ask these girls to what end all their efforts lead. The coaches point to past-winners who've "married well." Is this the lesson? Are they competing for a future high-income that comes not from themselves, but from some dazzled man?

World Builder

2009-02-23T08:22:00.000-08:00

A short film by Bruce Branit where a strange man uses a holo-world as a monument to the woman he loves.

Escape From City 17 - Part One

2009-02-21T11:32:00.000-08:00

Directed by The Purchase Brothers. The Escape From City 17 short film series is an adaptation based on the Half Life computer game saga by Valve Corporation. Originally envisioned as a project to...

Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (2009)

2009-02-18T10:18:00.000-08:00

Documentary that chronicles the Jonas Brothers' Burning Up tour.

Requiem for A Dream (2000)

2009-01-29T09:08:00.000-08:00

Evoking the inner landscape of human beings longing to connect, to love and feel loved, is this parable of happiness gloriously found and tragically lost. Parallel stories are linked by the relationship between the lonely, widowed Sara Goldfard and her sweet but aimless son, Harry. The plump Sara, galvanized by the prospect of appearing on a TV game show, has started on a dangerous diet regimen to...

U.S. Box Office: $3,609,278

Faintheart (Trailer) 2009

2009-01-27T09:47:00.000-08:00

Faintheart is a British comedy, watching one man's life fall apart while his spare time is wasted on a fantasy existence.
It has been made for the cinema by Vertigo films but MySpace users have been calling the shots throughought the production process.
Users of the social networking website were given the chance to take part in making the movie, including picking the director, first-timer Vito Rocco.

Confessions of a Shopaholic

2009-01-25T06:17:00.000-08:00

Rebecca Bloomwood is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door -- that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published.

Push - Trailer (2009)

2009-01-16T03:28:00.000-08:00

The Division, a shadowy government agency, is genetically transforming citizens into an army of psychic warriors--and brutally disposing of those unwilling to participate. Nick Gant, a second-generation telekinetic or "mover," has been in hiding since the Division murdered his father more than a decade earlier. He has found sanctuary in densely populated Hong Kong--the last safe place on earth for fugitive psychics like him--but only if he can keep his gift a secret. Nick is forced out of hiding when Cassie Holmes, a 13-year-old clairvoyant or "watcher," seeks his help in finding Kira, an escaped "pusher" who may hold the key to ending the Division's program. Pushers possess the most dangerous of all psychic powers: the ability to influence others' actions by implanting thoughts in their minds. But Cassie's presence soon attracts the attention of the Division's human bloodhounds, forcing Nick and Cassie to flee for their lives. With the help of a team of rogue psychics, the unlikely duo traverses the seedy underbelly of the city, trying to stay one step ahead of the authorities as they search for Kira. But they find themselves square in the crosshairs of Division Agent Henry Carver, a pusher who will stop at nothing to keep them from achieving their goal.

Defiance Trailers & Video Clips

2009-01-15T03:52:00.000-08:00

Four Jewish brothers living in Nazi occupied Poland escape into the forest where they join up with Russian resistance fighters in battling the Nazis. Throughout the war they built a village inside the forest and saved the lives of more than 1200 other Jews. Based on a true story.
U.S. Box Office: $309,017

Trailers & Video Clips: yahoo.com/movie

See Shadowrun: One Night

2008-12-20T22:39:00.000-08:00

One night in the shadows of 2060 can bring life or death. One night is too long to go alone. One night is all one man has, accompanied by his skilled team of rogue soldiers, to accomplish a daring heist against the corporation he once protected. His true reasons come into focus when his past finally catches up with him, a woman with a gun and every reason to pull the trigger... A movie short machinima created in Max Payne 2 and taking place in the Shadowrun cyberpunk/fantasy universe, this is the second project by Digital Clockwork and its first in collaboration with Black Bird Studio. Music: Juno Reactor - Rotorblade, Hybrid - Kill City, DJ Tatana - Electro Classic, Hybrid - Finished Synphony, Within Temptation - Pale, Within Temptation - Stand My Ground, DJ Tatana vs. The Mystery - Soul Cry.

Four Christmases (2008)

2008-12-12T11:42:00.000-08:00

When upscale, happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation--and unable to escape--they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities, increasingly mortified to find childhood fears raised, adolescent wounds reopened... and their very future together uncertain. As Brad counts the hours to when he can get away from their parents, step-parents, siblings and an assortment of nieces and nephews, Kate is starting to hear the ticking of a different kind of clock. And by the end of the day, she is beginning to wonder if their crazy families' choices are not so crazy after all.

U.S. Box Office: $69,418,170

Australia

2008-11-20T11:38:00.000-08:00

An English aristocrat inherits an Australian ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver to drive 2,000-head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....

Twilight

2008-11-19T08:11:00.000-08:00

TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern-day love story between a teen girl and a vampire. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a bit different, never fitting in with the girls at her school. When Bella is sent to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn’t expect much to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she’s ever met. Edward is a vampire, but he doesn’t have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood. Edward has been waiting 90 years for a soul mate, which he finds in Bella. They are soon swept up in a passionate and unorthodox romance. Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will they do when a clan of new vampires – James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre) – come to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life?...
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The Towering Inferno (1974)

2008-11-03T04:39:00.000-08:00

On the day of its grand opening, the world's tallest building becomes victim to an electrical mishap and a subsequent huge fire on its upper floors, causing all of the city's rescue teams to converge upon the scene and attempt to fight against what is a raging monster.

The Pineapple Express

2008-10-21T08:17:00.000-07:00

This summer, the guys who brought you Superbad reunite for the action-comedy Pineapple Express. Lazy stoner Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver...

Big Fish (2003)

2008-10-16T11:22:00.000-07:00

As an eight-year old confined to bed because of a preternatural growing spurt, Edward Bloom occupies himself by reading the entire World Book Encyclopedia. He is taken in particular with an article about goldfish, in which he learns that "if goldfish are kept in a small bowl, they will remain small. With more space, the fish can double, triple or quadruple its size." Ten years later, after becoming one of the most popular young men in Ashton, Alabama, he realizes that--like the goldfish--in order for him to grow he must leave home and explore the world. And thus, an improbable and mythic journey begins. Many years and countless adventures later, Bloom is well known as a teller of tall tales about his colorful life as a less than ordinary young man, when his wanderlust took him around the world and back again. His mythic exploits range from the delightful to the surreal, interweaving epic sagas about giants and werewolves, conjoined Korean lounge singers, a witch with a glass eye that can see the future--and of course, a big fish that refuses to be caught. Bloomâs fabled stories charm everyone he encounters except his son Will, who has also left home but in this case to get out from under his fatherâs considerable shadow. When Edward becomes ill and his wife, Sandra, tries to reconcile them, Will embarks on his own personal journey trying to separate the myth from the reality of his fatherâs life and come to terms with the manâs giant feats and great failings.

Lets all go to the movies

2008-10-03T08:32:00.000-07:00

Holon is continuing in its steps to becoming a cultural alternative to Tel Aviv. After establishing both the comics museum and children's museums, the city decided it's high time to have an even more significant cultural establishment by opening up a new cinematheque, even though one already exists in the nearby metropolis.

Mor Eldar, manager of the new cinematheque, comes up with a good answer when I ask whether there is a need for another cinematheque in the same area code as the big city. "There are 520,000 people inhabiting Holon and the adjacent cities Bat Yam and Rishon Lezion. Many of those people enjoy quality movies, and there is no reason why they should have to drive through excruciating traffic to Tel Aviv, not to mention the parking problem," she says.

Indeed, she's right; it's much easier to find the new Adam Sandler movie, for example, than the new Hayao Miyazaki film. As such, the more cinematheques open up, the better.

The new cinematheque focuses on giving a stage to upcoming Israeli artists. Furthermore, focus groups will be held for movies of new artists. "We want to deepen the audience participation in the creation process of the movie" Eldar explains.

Another emphasis is on animation. Together with the comics museum, special animation events will take place and a short animated film will be shown before every feature. On the cinematheque's opening night, a movie examining Israeli animation in the past, present and future will be shown. Other events at the opening are the screening of two never before seen movies of Efraim Kishon, a short movie about new up and coming Israeli directors plus the appearance of Ronit Elkabetz who will be receive a lifetime achievement award.

Max Payne

2008-09-30T10:50:00.001-07:00

Max Payne is a maverick cop--a mythic anti-hero--determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murders of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.

	Max Payne - Official site of the 2008 movie Max Payne, the action thriller based on the video game, starring Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne, a cop out for revenge against the men who killed his partner and family. Also starring Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, and Ludacris. Directed by John Moore.
•	Apple.com Trailers: Max Payne - Watch the trailer for the movie Max Payne, starring Mark Wahlberg. In QuickTime format.
•	IMDb: Max Payne - Cast/character credits for the movie Max Payne, starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis. Includes photos, videos, a message board, and production details about the film based on the video game.
•	Wikipedia: Max Payne (Film) - Overview of the 2008 movie Max Payne includes a plot summary, cast list, and trivia.

Two for the Money (2005)

2008-09-23T06:06:00.001-07:00

*Recomend

Former college football star, Brandon Lane's uncanny ability to predict the outcome of a game introduces him to an unexpected new career when his gridiron glory is sidelined by a crushing injury. Brandon's talent makes him a prime candidate for recruitment by Walter Abraham, the head of one of the biggest sports consulting operations in the country. Walter hires the small town ex-athlete and grooms him into a shrewd front man. Brandon soon begins to enjoy his status as a Manhattan golden boy and finds himself growing comfortable with Walter's high-rolling lifestyle. The surrogate father/surrogate son relationship fattens Walter's business and personal accounts--until Brandon's golden touch begins to falter at the same time that Walter's manipulation of his protÃ©gÃ© crosses the line. With millions of dollars on the line, Brandon and Walter engage in a deadly game of con versus con, each one trying to maintain the upper hand while everyone in their world, including Walter's wife, Toni, are drawn into the escalating duel--where ultimately everything isn't what it appears to be.

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MORNING SUN

2008-09-15T08:23:00.001-07:00

A major documentary that provides a multi-perspective view of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as seen through the eyes of those born around the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

One of the least understood major historical events of the last century is what is misleadingly called the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Why did Mao Zedong undertake to destroy much of the remaining pre-revolutionary aspects of China?

Was this an act of middle-age hooliganism from the Great Leader? Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon's magnificent film supplies answers to these questions.

Carma Hinton was herself a high school student in Beijing during the 1960s. Her father was an eminent sinologist, with unique access to Mao's regime. Now she has been able to find representatives of the generation who became Red Guards. The filmmakers have used the device of a lavish propaganda film illustrating the trance of Maoism to contrast the high-flown idealism of the Cultural Revolution with the sordid vandalism that was its consequence.

Most of the people who appear in the film have never talked before in public about their experiences. They were changed utterly by the quasi-religious experience of being followers of Mao. And they have neither forgotten what they did, nor in most instances got over it - they remain, often pathetically, a lost generation of Chinese, marooned in post-Maoist society.

I'd recommend this film not just as one of the best studies of Maoism but also as a strong contender, along with the works of Norma Percy and Brian Lapping, for the award of most significant documentary about contemporary history.
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Four Christmases

2008-09-14T09:53:00.001-07:00

This first snippet from Four Christmases, the forthcoming holiday comedy starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, has been popping up during various TV shows lately. I missed it during America's Next Top Model last week but finally caught it during the VMAs on Sunday, and now I'm curious to know what you think.

The movie centers on Kate and Brad, who usually find a way to avoid spending Christmas with their families — until this year, when they must visit all four of their divorced parents in a single day. Reese is typically cute in these sorts of movies, and nothing in this little clip makes me think Four Christmases will be any different. I think this movie's success will depend on the interplay between the Kate and Brad characters and their various family members, though, and there's not much of that here — so I'll be on the lookout for a longer trailer before this movie hits theaters Nov. 26.

For now, though, to watch the clip, just read more.

United 93

2008-09-11T05:11:00.001-07:00

The film opens early on the morning of September 11, 2001 with the hijackers praying in their hotel room, then leaving for Newark International Airport. At the airport, the passengers and crew board United Airlines Flight 93 along with the hijackers. Shortly after boarding, Flight 93 runs into rush hour traffic, and the flight is momentarily delayed. The other 3 would-be-hijacked flights take off.

Eventually Flight 93 does take off and passes by Manhattan. Hijacker Ziad Jarrah catches a final glimpse of the World Trade Center as the plane climbs away.

Air traffic controllers monitoring all current flights notice that American Airlines Flight 11 has taken a southern turn toward New York City. Not long after that, Flight 11 descends into Lower Manhattan and crashes head on into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, though air traffic controllers are not aware of it. CNN then broadcasts the first international shot of the smoking WTC. While the traffic controllers, unaware that Flight 11 has crashed, try to make sense of it, United Airlines Flight 175 begins to descend and turn toward NYC as well. Air traffic controllers then realize they are dealing with a hijacking. American Airlines Flight 77 is also hijacked. The traffic controllers alert the U.S. Air Force, who decide whether or not to shoot down all suspected hijacked flights. The traffic controllers and Air Force then watch in horror as Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower of the WTC on live television.

Word of the planes that hit the World Trade Center reaches Flight 93, and the hijackers then decide to begin the hijacking. After one of them assembles a bomb out of clay and plastic, the other 3 wrestle their way into the cockpit and overpower the pilots. In the cockpit they put a photo of the U.S. Capitol, their target, on the flight yoke mounted clipboard. By this time, Flight 77 crashes and creates a huge fireball at the Pentagon.

Much to the growing consternation of Ben Sliney and his people, coordination with the Air Force is haphazard and there are simply not enough planes ready, or armed, to respond to an in-air hijacking. Sliney ultimately decides to shut down all airspace in the United States and ground every single flight.

The hijackers do not prevent the people from making phone calls through the on-board GTE Airfone system. After hearing about the crashes into the WTC and the explosion at the Pentagon from loved ones, the passengers and crew understand that if they do nothing, they will also die, and eventually elect to storm the cockpit and attempt to retake the plane. The passengers make one last set of phone calls to friends and family, where they declare their intentions. The remaining crew assemble what makeshift weapons they can: cutlery, wine bottles, a fire extinguisher.

Learning that one of the passengers can fly a plane (although he has not flown a commercial aircraft), the group pin their hopes on him being able to at least control the plane. They debate whether the bomb is real or fake before deciding to start their counter-attack by overpowering the terrorist with the bomb, after discovering it is fake. He is overpowered and killed by the passengers with a fire extinguisher. Having seen this, the terrorist in the forward section of the planes warns the two in the cockpit and makes several attempts to hold off the advancing passengers, including using what appears to be mace. He too is soon overwhelmed and killed by one of the passengers.

Ziad Jarrah shakes the plane violently to throw the passengers off balance, but nonetheless they make it into the cockpit. As the passengers wrestle with Jarrah for control, the plane goes into an angled nosedive towards the ground. The film ends just as Flight 93 crashes into a grassy empty field.

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2008-09-08T06:14:00.001-07:00

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Online Movie Premiere: Will It Work?

2008-09-05T09:50:00.001-07:00

Hollywood is following the path of television networks
with plans for an Internet-based movie premiere. Michael Moore has
announced he’ll release his new project, an election-focused film
called Slacker Uprising, exclusively on the Web — and for free, too. Downloads will be offered at no charge via Blip.tv for the first three weeks of release.

Moore’s movie takes viewers along his journey through 62 cities in
the 20 U.S. “swing states” that could heavily influence the November
vote. Moore speaks to crowds to try to encourage young “slackers” to
register to vote — and, not surprisingly, stirs up some controversy
along the way.

It’s a risky move for Moore, whose last two documentaries were two
of the three most profitable in movie-making history. So will it pay
off? Well, financially, probably not. There doesn’t seem to be any
major monetization or ad profit plan in place. While Moore does intend
to eventually sell DVDs of the project, that certainly can’t compare to
the box office cash it would have brought in.

Still, for a guy who probably doesn’t need the money, it may just be worthwhile in the end. As with Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want online album
release experiment, the exposure and publicity may outshine any lack of
direct income. That, of course, more than pays off down the road. With
people already flocking to watch television online,
the idea of a free Web movie release undoubtedly plays to a
demographic’s video-centric habits — and love him or hate him, the
outspoken jolly king of the documentary world may have stumbled onto a
smart strategy. I suspect it won’t be the last semi-mainstream Internet
movie premiere, but rather the first in a trend that’ll only move
upward.

"Traitor"

2008-08-27T09:59:00.001-07:00

Too much narrative trickery takes away from the real talent in this post-9/11 thriller, Don Cheadle and Saïd Taghmaoui.

By Stephanie Zacharek.

Aug. 27, 2008 | "Traitor" is an earnest, efficient, serviceable thriller that makes a valiant effort to untangle some of the moral complexities of the post-9/11 world. But acknowledging moral complexities isn't the same as making us think about them, and the problem with so many post-9/11 drama-slash-thrillers -- from "Syriana" to "Rendition" to "Vantage Point" -- is that they're not necessarily better or more interesting than your standard old-school Cold War spy thriller. It's simply that they're topical, and thus poised to fool us into thinking they're deeper, politically or morally, than they really are.

"Traitor," which was written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, from a story by Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin), has been so liberally polished with the varnish of sincerity that it would be hard, for its first hour at least, not to take it seriously. Don Cheadle plays Samir Horn, an American (and a devout Muslim, as well as an explosives expert) who becomes involved with an Islamic fundamentalist group as the result of his friendship -- which flowered from a business relationship -- with Omar (Saïd Taghmaoui), a soft-spoken, well-educated, extremely likable terrorist. Samir has a complicated past that rouses the suspicions of American antiterrorist operatives. And in trying to figure out what's what, one wily FBI agent, Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce), tries to fit a bunch of disparate, jagged puzzle pieces together.

To tell this story, Nachmanoff uses that now-ubiquitous device, the mosaic narrative -- in other words, some pieces of the story are filled in before you know what to make of them, while others remain missing until long after you've stopped caring. The action in "Traitor" hopscotches from somewhere in Yemen to Marseille, from Washington to Nice; the movie keeps ricocheting, the better to make us feel dislocated in what's already a complex, confusing world. Nachmanoff shows some skill at navigating the story's plot twists: You may see them coming, but he at least finds understated, visually arresting ways of confirming them. The movie was shot by J. Michael Muro, who doesn't rely on clever camera angles to jazz things up -- its look is refreshingly austere. And Billy Fox's editing suggests the movie has been made for adults. In other words, it doesn't try to jack up our heart rates, falsely, by using lots of fast cutting.

But "Traitor" doesn't move forward with the power and confidence it needs. The picture begins to lose momentum about halfway through, and though I was intrigued enough to keep dutifully chugging along with it, whatever power it had over me dissipated minutes after I left the theater. Tricky plots are fun, but they don't necessarily serve actors well, and if "Traitor" had been streamlined and simplified just a little, it might have provided a better showcase for two terrific performers. Cheadle, in movies like "Hotel Rwanda" and "Crash," has become the go-to guy for roles that require bringing deep-rooted internal moral conflicts to the surface, and it's remarkable that he can play these parts so frequently without making them feel tired or programmed. Cheadle is deeply attuned to the cerebral and the emotional; in fact, he seems to make no distinction between them. In his portrayal of Samir, the anxiety and suffering we see in his eyes are a kind of electricity, a current generated by a brain that's whirring between the extremes of right and wrong.

Pearce may be the other big star in "Traitor," and while his performance is serviceable, it doesn't cut deeply. Taghmaoui, as a radical motivated by moral certainty, is the real actor to watch here. Taghmaoui is a French-born actor (of Moroccan descent) who has been appearing in French films for years. More recently, American audiences have seen him in pictures like "Vantage Point" and "The Kite Runner," and he played a fearsomely complex torturer in "Three Kings." Here Taghmaoui takes on the most thankless role imaginable, that of a sympathetic terrorist, and he's subtle enough to make the performance stick: He makes it possible for us to both like Omar and recoil from his actions (as well as his motivation). To his credit, Nachmanoff doesn't overstate the "terrorists are people too" case by giving Omar an adorable baby back home, or an anxious wife who worries about his welfare, or any of the other dumb tropes typically used to remind us of a character's humanity. (As if monsters don't sometimes have beloved wives and babies, too.) Omar is a solitary figure devoted to jihad, and particularly if you're a Westerner, what's to like about that?

But Taghmaoui doesn't court our approval, or even our understanding: All he does is ask us to accept his character's conviction, and we do. At one point, during a discussion in which Omar tries to explain to Samir the passion behind the terrorists' cause, Samir quotes Martin Luther King Jr.: "If a man hasn't found something worth dying for, he isn't fit to live." Omar waits a beat as he sizes up his friend, and then responds, "You're a very funny man." It's clear from the tone of his voice that the bitterness of the joke hasn't eluded him.

Warners suit takes issue with Indian film's title.

2008-08-26T09:32:00.001-07:00

NEW DELHI, India (Hollywood Reporter) - Warner Bros. has filed a lawsuit against Mumbai-based producer/distributor Mirchi Movies related to the title of its upcoming film "Hari Puttar -- A Comedy of Terrors," which Warners feels is a tad too similar to its franchise about a certain young wizard.
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The case is being heard in the Bombay High Court and comes up for hearing Monday (August 25). "Hari Puttar," a comedy that centers on a 10-year-old Indian boy whose family moves to England, is slated for a September 12 release.

"We have recently commenced proceedings against parties involved in the production and distribution of a movie entitled 'Hari Puttar,"' London-based Warners spokeswoman Deborah Lincoln said. "Warner Bros. values and protects intellectual property rights. However, it is our policy not to discuss publicly the details of any ongoing litigation."

The Hari Puttar name began making the rounds here as a comic gag when the first "Harry Potter" film was released. Hari is a popular Indian name, and "puttar" means "son" in the Punjabi language.

"Since the case is sub-judice, we can't comment as of now," Mirchi Movies CEO Munish Purii said. "However, we registered the 'Hari Puttar' title in 2005, and it's unfortunate that Warner has chosen to file a case so close to our film's release. In my opinion, I don't think our title has any similarity or links with 'Harry Potter."'

"Hari Puttar" is directed by Rajesh Bajaj and Lucky Kohli and stars Jackie Shroff, Saurabh Shukla and Sarika.

Warners' next "Harry Potter" installment, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," is slated for release worldwide in July.

WALL-E

2008-08-26T09:31:00.001-07:00

What's The Story?
After mankind abandons its trashed home planet, one garbage-collecting robot spends seven centuries cleaning up the mess. Over the years he evolves a personality that is considerably warmer and fuzzier than his rusty exterior. So when a sleek scout-robot checks in on Earth, the lonely and eccentric WALL-E falls head over heels in love. His pursuit of his paramour becomes a spacefaring adventure that will leave you speechless. Seriously. After about an hour you may literally forget how to speak.
Three Good Reasons

Guys like robots; gals like romance. This is a no brainer!

So far, Pixar has struck gold 8 out of 8 times. WALL-E could be smash hit #9, or Pixar's first flop -- either way you'll be part of movie history. (With Oscar-winning Finding Nemo creator Andrew Stanton directing, bank on "hit.")

Though WALL-E doesn't talk, per se, he'll have no trouble making himself understood. His "dialogue" is designed by Ben Burtt, who created the expressive electronic chatter of R2-D2.

Bet You Didn't Know
Think the movie's shots of a trashed Earth are pure science fiction? Maybe not. Imagine filling an entire football field six feet deep in trash. Okay, now, fill 81,999 more. Sound hard? The United States does it every year. That's just 4% of the world's population. Better get to work, WALL-E.

The Dark Knight (2008)

2008-08-26T09:30:00.001-07:00

What's The Story?
Batman began three summers ago - now it's time for him to finish what he started. Bruce Wayne and his alter ego Batman hover on the verge of victory over Gotham City's corruption, thanks to the help of the stalwart Lieutenant Gordon and the capable D.A. Harvey Dent. But then a grinning, horrific specter rises up out of nowhere to thwart Batman at every turn... a devious anarchist who calls himself The Joker. In order to defeat him, Batman will have to explore the darker side of justice and risk becoming more villain than hero himself.
Three Good Reasons

Batman Begins proved to audiences that "a great superhero movie" could rise above the genre and become simply "a great movie." This sequel promises to live up to that standard, boasting the same director and exceptional lead actors.

While the film is packed with Oscar-worthy talents, it doesn't skimp on the high-octane thrills. Action junkies will get to see car crashes and explosions made the dangerous, old-fashioned way -- with hard metal and hot, hot fire!

No one will want to miss the extraordinary performance of Heath Ledger as The Joker, a chilling interpretation that was creating buzz even before the young actor's tragic death.

Bet You Didn't Know
Batman was born at the same moment that a real-life superhero, "The Iron Horse" took his final bow. On May 2, 1939, the same day "The Batman" debuted in Detective Comics #27, baseball legend Lou Gehrig benched himself due to the ravages of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ending his record 2,130-game streak.

Tropic Thunder (2008)

2008-08-26T09:29:00.001-07:00

War May Be Hell, but Hollywood Is Even Worse.

Despite what you may have read lately, the biggest target of ridicule in “Tropic Thunder,” a flashy, nasty, on-and-off funny and assaultive sendup of the film industry, is not the mentally retarded. Rather, the true targets of this extreme comedy’s free-flowing contempt are the stars, makers, brokers, miscellaneous supplicants and even die-hard fans of the movies, who are all portrayed as challenged in some fashion: intellectually, ethically, aesthetically, sartorially, chemically, longitudinally, you name it.

“Tropic Thunder” was directed by one of its stars, Ben Stiller, a professional offender and sometimes very funny man who also shares the movie’s writing credits with Etan Cohen and the actor Justin Theroux (missing in on-screen action here). Over the past decade or so Mr. Stiller has carved out a lucrative niche in the comedy of humiliation, his and everyone else’s. Though this is familiar comic turf (the joke has to be on somebody), he has made it a particular specialty by playing variations on the emasculated patsy — the guy with the penis literally stuck in his zipper in “There’s Something About Mary” and figuratively caught in other roles — who either triumphs over adversity or violently succumbs to it.

The joke is most definitely on, at least initially, Tugg Speedman, the preening, hard-bodied, soft-minded action star Mr. Stiller plays with such intimate knowing in “Tropic Thunder.” A blockbuster sensation who has maxed out the audience’s love with too many sequels and one misbegotten attempt to bait Oscar with a weepie called “Simple Jack,” in which he played a bucktoothed retarded man, Tugg is hoping to resuscitate his career by going gung-ho and grunt in a Vietnam War movie also called “Tropic Thunder.” With his co-stars — notably Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus, an awards-laden Australian, and Jack Black as Jeff Portnoy, a comic partial to fat suits and flatulence — Tugg is headed, yup, into the heartless darkness.

That’s old territory for Mr. Stiller, whose most triumphant excursion into comedy’s dark places remains “The Cable Guy,” a scabrous, much-maligned 1996 riff on mass culture with Jim Carrey at his creepy greatest. “Tropic Thunder” is far slicker than “The Cable Guy” and, given the new film’s obviously lavish budget (the aerial shots alone could bankroll the next Sundance slate), understandably more eager to please.

Mr. Stiller has to seduce the audience he once skewered, which he tries to do by giving it Bruckheimer-size pyrotechnics (the lead actors go AWOL in the jungle) and crude laughs wrung from a host of human frailties. But ever the maximalist, he doesn’t just slice and dice his characters and their weaknesses; he tears them limb from limb, blowing both to smithereens.

And he does it with gusto, especially during the hyperviolent opening movie-set war scene in which body parts go flying, and one actor-soldier attempts to keep his innards from spilling out of his stomach wound. Though this bit is played for obvious laughs and is intentionally phony-looking (the soldier looks as if he had been hit with a big pot of cassoulet rather than mortar), the scene skews more yucky than yukky because Mr. Stiller has so little sense of modulation. He isn’t content simply to decapitate a character, the way, say, Graham Chapman hacked limbs in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”; he also has to play with the stringy bits hanging from the bloodied neck. Mr. Stiller doesn’t kill jokes: he stomps them to death.

That’s how he ends up blowing what might have been the film’s sharpest scene, involving Kirk’s explanation for why Tugg’s performance as a retarded man in “Simple Jack” doomed his chances for an Oscar, an elucidation that includes a clever taxonomy of all the ways it’s permissible to play intellectually challenged in Hollywood (“Forrest Gump” is statuette-worthy, though not “I Am Sam”) and a grindingly unfunny repetition of the word retard. If Mr. Downey — who at this point in his career apparently can do no wrong, even in blackface — can’t make this bit work, it’s because the bit is unworkable. The pomposity of the Oscars is the hook, but it’s the word retard that provides the squirm.

There’s a lot of bait-and-switch throughout “Tropic Thunder,” including its use of blackface, which, along with the promiscuous deployment of the word retard, has earned it much of its advance publicity. Though Mr. Downey’s character, who has undergone a skin-darkening procedure to play his part, has been cut from moldy Fred Williamson cloth, he’s also the most recognizably human character in a lampoon rife with caricatures. One of those is played by an actual black man, Brandon T. Jackson as Alpa Chino, a rap entrepreneur who peddles an energy drink called Booty Sweat and is mainly around to mock Kirk’s impersonation, which is the filmmakers’ way of having their chocolate cake and eating it too.

What’s most notable about the film’s use of blackface is how much softer it is compared with the rather more vulgar and far less loving exploitation of what you might call Jewface. Hands down the most noxious character in “Tropic Thunder” is Les Grossman, the producer of the movie-within-a-movie, who’s played by an almost unrecognizable Tom Cruise under a thick scum of makeup and latex. Heavily and heavy-handedly coded as Jewish, the character is murderous, repellent and fascinating, a grotesque from his swollen fingers to the heavy gold dollar sign nestled on his yeti-furred chest. At one time Mr. Stiller wanted to adapt Budd Schulberg’s brutal satire about a Hollywood hustler, “What Makes Sammy Run?,” to the screen, a long dormant and now perhaps lost project that haunts this otherwise safe film like a wrathful ghost.

“Tropic Thunder” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Extreme carnage and language.

Iron Man

2008-08-26T09:28:00.001-07:00

What's The Story?
Playboy billionaire Tony Stark redefines "mid-life crisis" when his business trip to Afghanistan ends in a terrorist abduction. His captors, hoping to put his genius to work (and not being exactly MENSA material themselves), give him a high-tech workshop and demand that he build them a super-weapon. Of course, he builds a suit of super-armor instead and uses it to escape. Meanwhile back in the States, a nefarious plot has hatched in his absence. What's a now-virtually-indestructable guy to do but foil it?
Three Good Reasons

Robert Downey, Jr.'s bad-boy reputation makes him the perfect guy to play this conflicted, unlikely superhero. Downey's clean, sober, fit, and ready to save the world.

The classic comic's 21st-century makeover consists of more than just trading Vietnam for Afghanistan. The plot's ethical shades of gray give it more dramatic weight than you'll find in a standard funny-book adapation.

Not convinced yet of Iron Man's gravitas? Try counting up the stars' Academy Award nominations. The cast of this little comic book movie has earned a total of seven Oscar nods.

Bet You Didn't Know
The Black Sabbath song "Iron Man" has nothing to do with the Marvel comic, but Paul McCartney wrote a song called "Magneto and Titanium Man" that mentions two of Iron Man's nemeses (Titanium Man of course, as well as the Crimson Dynamo).

Hancock

2008-08-26T09:27:00.001-07:00

What's The Story?

What happens when a wisecracking, homeless, alcoholic superhero meets a determined PR exec? Hancock, who just saved the life of idealistic Ray Embrey, is about to find out. Embrey is determined to rehabilitate the down-and-out Hancock, clean up his image, and make him into a true hero the world can adore. Embrey's wife Mary, on the other hand, isn't so sure it's a worthy endeavor, particularly when Hancock starts hitting on her in the midst of his big comeback. The "Big Blue Boy Scout" he ain't.
Three Good Reasons

Will Smith and Jason Bateman are both masters of dry comic timing. This is the first time we've had the chance to see them play off of each other, and the results should be classic.

The market's a bit flooded right now with weighty epics of tortured-yet-beloved superheroes... so it's a bit refreshing to get a look at great power without great responsibility.

It's the Fourth of July weekend. That means three things: cookouts, fireworks, and Will Smith blockbusters.

Bet You Didn't Know
That poor stranded gray whale that Hancock tosses back into the ocean in the trailer? The one that lands on a sailboat? That whale would weigh about the same as two city buses (with passengers). More about Hancock on Yahoo! Movies.

The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

2008-08-26T09:23:00.000-07:00

What's The Story?

For two thousand years, the Dragon Emperor and his 10,000 warriors have slumbered in terra cotta, a grand army of destruction captured in harmless clay. Enter adventurer Alex O'Connell, who is to mummies what car alarms are to city-dwellers. When Alex realizes he's awakened an ancient evil, he does what any dashing young hero would do: he runs to tell Mom and Dad. And so it is that Rick O'Connell and his wife Evelyn get pulled into yet another perilous adventure, with their wayward spawn in tow.

Three Good Reasons:

1. Two words: Rick O'Connell. Or is that three words? At any rate, the witty, good-natured, courageous adventurer played by Brendan Fraser always shows audiences a good time.
2. China is awesome. Director Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious) agrees, and the chance to shoot on location there was a driving force behind his interest in the film.
3. With kung fu icons Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh in the cast, it's safe to say there will be more leaping, kicking, and smashing heads than in any Mummy movie to date.

Bet You Didn't Know

The ancient Egyptians immediately pulled out and discarded the brain before beginning the mummification process, because they considered the strange goopy substance to have no important purpose. This may explain the behavior of most movie mummies.