Archive for the ‘January 2010’ Category

The Graves: Death is the least of your problems

Abby Graves hides behind her big sister, Megan. But Megan is leaving town for a job. Only when they face the unspeakable terrors of Skull City, is Abby forced to grow up, overcome horrific menaces and learn to stand on her own two feet. On their last weekend together, Megan (Clare Grant) and Abby (Jullian [...]

January 29, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Horror Movies, January 2010, Movie Releases  No Comments

When in Rome: All is fair in love and Rome

An ambitious young New Yorker, disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome, where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of those who threw them in: a sausage magnate, a street magician, an adoring painter and a self-admiring model. But when a charming reporter pursues her [...]

January 29, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: January 2010, Movie Releases, Romantic Comedies  No Comments

Edge of Darkness: Few escape justice. None escape vengeance

When a homicide detective’s daughter is killed in his home, he assumes he was the target. But he soon learns that his daughter was the target and he searches for why this happened. This search leads him to a shadowy government operative, who has been sent in to clean up the evidence. Thomas Craven (Mel [...]

January 29, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: January 2010, Movie Releases, Suspense and Thrillers  No Comments

Youth in Revolt: Every “revolution” needs a leader

Nick Twisp (Michael Cera) is a cynical sex-obsessed 16-year-old who, while on vacation in a trailer park, meets Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday), an intellectual. The only things really standing in his way are Sheeni’s poetry-writing ex-boyfriend Trent, (Jonathan B. Wright) Nick’s temperamental divorced parents (Steve Buscemi and Jean Smart), and Nick’s mom’s boyfriends (Zach Galifianakis [...]

January 29, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Comedy Films, January 2010, Movie Releases, Teenage Films  No Comments

The Girl on the Train: A true story that raised a storm in France five years ago

Jobless, soul-searching and rollerblading Jeanne lives in a Paris suburb with her widowed mother Louise, who makes a living as a baby-sitter. Louise helps her daughter get a job with her old flame Samuel Bleistein, now a famous lawyer and Jewish activist. When Jeanne’s budding relationship with aspiring wrestler Franck is shattered by a violent [...]

January 22, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Drama Movies, January 2010, Movie Releases  No Comments

Extraordinary Measures: A man who defies conventional wisdom and great odds

John and his wife Aileen fight to find a cure for their two children that are diagnosed with a fatal disease. They team with a brilliant scientist to form a bio-tech company focused on developing a life-saving drug. Together they battle the medical and business establishments. Inspired by the true story of John Crowley, a [...]

January 22, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Drama Movies, January 2010, Movie Releases, Suspense and Thrillers  No Comments

Creation: The story of Charles Darwin

The story of Charles Darwin, who copes with the death of his daughter by plunging into his work “The Origin of Species.” From director Jon Amiel (The Singing Detective, Entrapment) and writer John Collee (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) comes Creation. A psychological, heart-wrenching love story starring Paul Bettany (A Beautiful [...]

January 22, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Drama Movies, January 2010, Movie Releases  No Comments

Tooth Fairy: The tooth hurts

Derek Thompson is a hard-charging hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster’s dreams, he’s sentenced to one week’s hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand. At first, Derek “can’t handle the tooth” – [...]

January 22, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Comedy Films, January 2010, Movie Releases  No Comments

Legion: When the last angel falls, the fight for mankind begins

In the supernatural action thriller “Legion,” an out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity’s only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner and the Archangel Michael [...]

January 22, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: January 2010, Movie Releases, Science Fiction Movies  No Comments

The Last Station

Countess Sofya, wife and muse to her husband Leo Tolstoy, suspects that his faithful disciple tricked him into signing a will leaving all his work and property to a Russian company. After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya, Leo Tolstoy’s devoted wife, passionate lover, muse, and collaborator, suddenly finds her world turned upside [...]

January 15, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Drama Movies, January 2010, Movie Releases  No Comments

Fish Tank: Live, love and give as good as you get

A clear-eyed, potent portrait of teenage sexuality and vulnerability, Fish Tank confirms Oscar winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold’s stature as one of the leading figures of new British cinema. Fifteen-year-old Mia (Katie Jarvis) is in a constant state of war with her family, her school and her neighbors, without any constructive creative outlet for her considerable [...]

January 15, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: January 2010, Movie Releases, Romantic Comedies  No Comments

The Spy Next Door: Part spy, part babysitter, all hero

Bob Ho (Jackie Chan), an undercover CIA superspy decides to give up his career in espionage to settle down with his next-door neighbor and girlfriend, Gillian (Amber Valletta). But Bob has one more mission to complete before Gillian agrees to marry him: winning over her three opinionated kids. When Gillian suddenly has to leave town, [...]

January 15, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Action and Adventure, Comedy Films, January 2010, Movie Releases  No Comments

Bitch Slap: Prepare to get slapped

“Bitch Slap” is a post-modern, thinking man’s throwback to the “B” Movie / Exploitation films of the 1950′s – 70′s as well as a loving, sly parody of the same. Inspired by the likes of “Dragstrip Girl”; “Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill”; “Kung Fu Nun” and the pantheon of Blaxploitation films, “Bitch Slap” will mix girls, [...]

January 8, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Action and Adventure, January 2010, Movie Releases  No Comments

The Book of Eli: Some will kill to have it. He will kill to protect it.

Eli is a warrior not by choice by necessity. He seeks only peace but if he is challenged, he will cut his attackers down. His hope is for the future and he does what he must to survive and continue. Carnegie is the self-appointed despot of thieves and gunmen that wants Eli’s power. In the [...]

January 8, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: January 2010, Movie Releases, Science Fiction Movies  No Comments

Leap Year: Once upon a time there was an Irish legend

Irish legend tells that, since the fifth century, women who find themselves in the land of luck can propose to their suitors who have yet to pop the question. The catch for these women longing to become legitimate fiancées? They only have 24 hours-once every four years-to utter those four little words to boyfriends who’ve [...]

January 8, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: January 2010, Movie Releases, Romantic Comedies  No Comments