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The International
Available on June 9th
Action - R - 118 min.
Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) is determined to expose an arms dealing ring responsible for facilitating acts of terrorism around the globe. But as his investigation leads Salinger and his partner, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts), deeper into the secret world of greed, corruption and murder, they become targets of a deadly conspiracy so vast, they soon find the only people left to trust are each other. This pulse-pounding thriller plays a high-stakes game of suspense, intrigue and explosive action.... More info...
Gran Torino
Available on June 9th
Drama - R - 116 min.
Korean War vet and retired autoworker Walt Kowalski doesn't much like how his life or his neighborhood has turned out. He especially doesn't like the people next door, Hmong immigrants from Southeast Asia. But events force Walt to defend those neighbors against a local gang that feeds on violence and fear. For the first time since Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood works on both sides of the camera, winning the National Board of Review Award as Best Actor for his bone-deep playing of Kowalski, burnished with experience, grace and gravitas into a "prime vintage Eastwood performance" (Peter Tra... More info...
Defiance
Available on June 2nd
Action - R - 136 min.
Daniel Craig (James Bond: The Quantum of Solace) stars as Tuvia Bielski, an ordinary citizen turned hero, in this action-packed epic of family, honor, vengeance and salvation. Defiance is a riveting adventure that showcases the extraordinary true story of the Bielski brothers, simple farmers - outnumbered and outgunned - who turned a group of war refugees into powerful freedom fighters. Tuvia, along with his unyielding brother, Zus (Liev Schreiber, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), motivate hundreds of civilians to join their ranks against the Nazi regime. Their "Inspirational story" (David Densby, T... More info...
Revolutionary Road
Available on June 1st
Romantic Drama - R - 119 min.
Academy Award nominee Leonardo DiCaprio and Academy Award winner Kate Winslet reunite for two powerful performances. This mesmerizing and moving story follows the lives of a passionate young couple living in suburban Connecticut who risk everything to pursue their dreams. They're willing to break away from the ordinary - but can they do it without breaking apart?
Valkyrie
Available on May 19th
Drama - PG-13 - 120 min.
"Tom Cruise gives one of the best performances of his career" (Jeffrey Lyons, NBC/Reel Talk) in this action-packed film from the director of The Usual Suspects and X-Men. Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Cruise) and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolph Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known. Co-starring Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Terence Stamp and Eddie Izzard, Valkyrie delivers gripping suspense and pulse-pounding excitement from start t... More info...
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Available on May 12th
Fantasy - R - 92 min.
The prequel story traces the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires known as Death Dealers and their onetime slaves, the Lycans. In the Dark Ages, a young Lycan named Lucian (Michael Sheen) emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has enslaved them. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, Sonja (Rhona Mitra), in his battle against the Death Dealer army and his struggle for Lycan freedom.... More info...
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Available on May 5th
Drama - PG-13 - 165 min.
"I was born under unusual circumstances..." Thus begins The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, the Academy Award-winning film starring Brad Pitt as a man who is born in his eighties and ages backward, and Cate Blanchett as the woman he is destined to love forever. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button is a monumental journey - as unusual as it is epic - that follows Benjamin's remarkable adventure of romance and redemption from the end of World War I through the twenty-first century. Winner of three Academy Awards, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is "one of the best movies of the decade!" (Kar... More info...
Uninvited, The
Available on April 28th
Horror - PG-13 - 87 min.
From the producers of The Ring and Disturbia comes a nail-biting thriller, The Uninvited. Following the suspicious death of their mother, sisters Anna and Alex become entangled in a deadly battle of wills when their father becomes engaged to Rachel, their mother's former caretaker. As the two sisters investigate Rachel's questionable past, they are confronted with ghostly visions, terrifying nightmares and deadly consequences. All leading to an ending so shocking it "will send chills down your spine!" (Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com)... More info...
Frost/Nixon
Available on April 21st
Drama - R - 123 min.
From Academy Award -winning director Ron Howard comes the electrifying, untold story behind one of the most unforgettable moments in history.
When disgraced President Richard Nixon agreed to an interview with jet-setting television personality David Frost, he thought he'd found the key to saving his tarnished legacy. But with a name to make and a reputation to overcome, Frost became one of Nixon's most formidable adversaries and engaged the leader in a charged battle of wits that changed the face of politics forever.
Featuring brilliant portrayals by Frank Langella and Michael Sheen, Fro... More info...
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Top 10 of the Week
1. Valkyrie
2. Breaking Bad Season 1
3. Frost Nixon
4. Defiance
5. Friday Night Lights Season 3
6. Quantum of Solace
7. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
8. The Reader
9. Let the Right One In
10. New In Town
Top 10 of May
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Breaking Bad Season 1
3. The Spirit
4. Underworld Rise of the Lycans
5. The Reader
6. The Wrestler
7. Taken
8. Quantum of Solace
9. Let the Right One In
10. Slumdog Millionaire
Top 10 blu-ray of 2009
1. Death Race
2. Star Trek The Original Series
3. Futurama Into the Wild Green Yonder
4. Hancock
5. Quantum of Solace
6. Slumdog Millionaire
7. The Dark Knight
8. Appaloosa
9. Babylon A.D.
10. Band of Brothers
Top 10 blu-ray of 2008
1. BBC Planet Earth
2. Iron Man
3. Mad Men Season 1
4. National Treasure 2
5. Revolver
6. 30 Days of Night
7. I Am Legend
8. The Happening
9. Wall-E
10. 21
Top 20 of 2009
1. Religulous
2. Burn After Reading
3. Pineapple Express
4. W.
5. Eagle Eye
6. Twilight
7. Let the Right One In
8. Righteous Kill
9. Quantum of Solace
10. Tropic Thunder
11. Changeling
12. Max Payne
13. Battlestar Galactica Season 4
14. MILK
15. Slumdog Millionaire
16. Traitor
17. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
18. Body of Lies
19. Role Models
20. Choke
Top 20 of 2008
1. Battlestar Galactica Season 3
2. Juno
3. The Wire Season 4
4. No Country For Old Men
5. Dexter Season 1
6. American Gangster
7. Iron Man
8. 3:10 to Yuma
9. I Am Legend
10. The Tudors Season 1
11. The Wire Season 2
12. The Wire Season 3
13. There Will Be Blood
14. Gone Baby Gone
15. Lost Season 3
16. Lost Season 2
17. Tropic Thunder
18. 21
19. Dexter Season 2
20. Weeds Season 3
Top 20 of 2007
1. The Departed
2. Heroes Season 1
3. The Good Shepard
4. Casino Royale
5. Stranger Than Fiction
6. Babel
7. The Illusionist
8. Pan's Labyrinth
9. Children of Men
10. Knocked Up
11. Deadwood Season 3
12. Lost Season 1
13. Blood Diamond
14. Little Miss Sunshine
15. Lost Season 2
16. 300
17. Rome Season 2
18. Smoking Aces
19. The Prestige
20. Sopranos Season 6 Part 1
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