Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jude Law, Meryl Streep, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning
Director: Brad Silberling
Shall We Dance? (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
For longer than he can remember, John Clark (Richard Gere) has led a dull existence… and even with a successful career, charming wife (Susan Sarandon) and loving family, he still feels something is missing as he makes his mind-numbing commute through the city each day. But one night, on his evening ride home, he looks up to see a beautiful woman (Jennifer Lopez) staring through the window of a dance studio. Haunted by her gaze, John impulsively jumps off the train and signs up for dance lessons… and his whole life begins to change. Now, he's entering a world he never imagined – the colorful world of competitive ballroom dancing. It's a place filled with grand passions, bitter rivalries, great friends and strange couples and it's about to reignite the excitement in John's life – not to mention the lives of his family, dance instructors and fellow classmates – in ways he's never dreamed.
Starring: Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Lisa Ann Walter
Director: Peter Chelsom
Darkness Falls (2003)
Horror | Thriller
In the 1800's there was a woman that little children would take their old teeth (ones they had recently lost) to in exchange for a gold coin. A few years later, tragedy struck her, first a fire in her house which caused her to not be able to go into any type of light, and then she was hanged. There's a story that goes around the town of Darkness Falls about her, and she's called the Tooth Fairy. The story goes that she can't go in the light, and if you wake up and see her, she'll kill you. The usual saying is "Don't Peek." Well, there is a boy named Kyle who gets a warning from his friend Caitlin to not peek. Well, he wakes up on the night when the Tooth Fairy is supposed to come and get his last tooth and sees her.
Starring: Emma Caulfield, Chaney Kley, Lee Cormie, Grant Piro, Sullivan Stapleton, Steve Mouzakis
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Miss USA 2012 (TV 2012)
Awards
Miss USA 2012, the 61st Miss USA pageant was held on June 3, 2012, at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada. Miss USA 2011, Alyssa Campanella of California crowned her successor Olivia Culpo, Miss Rhode Island USA, the first from Rhode Island, at the end of the event. Culpo will represent the United States at Miss Universe 2012.
The 50 states and the District of Columbia competed for the prestigious title. The pageant was televised live on NBC in the U.S. . The full preliminary round, as well as highlights from the event, is available over Xbox Live via their YouTube and MSN applications.
For the first time, a question was solicited from Twitter for the final question for one of the five finalists. That question, should transgenders be allowed to compete, was answered by the winner, Culpo.
Presenters: Andy Cohen, Giuliana Rancic, Jeannie Mai, Kelly Osbourne
Miss America 2012 (TV 2012)
Awards
Miss America 2012, the 85th Miss America pageant, was held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on January 14, 2012. Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan from Nebraska, crowned her successor Laura Kaeppeler from Wisconsin at the end of this event. It was broadcast live on ABC. All 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico competed for the prestigious title.
Chris Harrison and Brooke Burke, for the second year in a row, hosted the pageant.
Presenters: Chris Harrison, Brooke Burke
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Exit Humanity (2011)
Drama | Horror
A young man's struggle to survive in the aftermath of a deadly undead outbreak during the American Civil War.
Starring: Mark Gibson, Jordan Hayes, Dee Wallace, Bill Moseley, Stephen McHattie, Brian Cox
Director: John Geddes
Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker (2012)
Animation | Fantasy
In a land where battles are fought with swords and magic, a young heroine rises to glory as Templars, mages, and dragons clash. Cassandra, a brash and beautiful warrior, must stop a conspiracy that threatens the realm's most powerful religious order. Accused of treasonous crimes and hunted by friend and foe, Cassandra must clear her name and overcome her rage in order to save the day and take her place in legend.
Starring: Colleen Clinkenbeard, J. Michael Tatum, Luci Christian, Pam Dougherty
Director: Fumihiko Sori
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Haute tension / High Tension / Switchblade Romance (2003)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Marie and Alexia are classmates and best friends. Hoping to prepare for their college exams in peace and quiet, they decide to spend a weekend in the country at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But in the dead of night, a stranger knocks on the front door. And with the first swing of his knife, the girls' idyllic weekend turns into an endless night of horror.
Starring: Cécile De France, Maïwenn
Director: Alexandre Aja
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore / Cats & Dogs (2010)
Action | Comedy | Family
In the age-old battle between cats and dogs, one crazed feline has taken things a paw too far. Kitty Galore, formerly an agent for cat spy organization MEOWS, has gone rogue and hatched a diabolical plan to not only bring her canine enemies to heel, but take down her former kitty comrades and make the world her scratching post. Faced with this unprecedented threat, cats and dogs will be forced to join forces for the first time in history in an unlikely alliance to save themselves — and their humans.
Starring: James Marsden, Nick Nolte, Christina Applegate, Katt Williams, Bette Midler
Director: Brad Peyton
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Cats & Dogs (2001)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family
Witness this epic "tail" of what happens when an eccentric professor makes a discovery that could tip the age-old balance of pet power. Now an inexperienced young beagle pup will undertake the ultimate mission impawsible: saving humankind from total catastrophe!
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Elizabeth Perkins
Director: Lawrence Guterman
A Barefoot Dream / Maen-bal-eui Ggoom (2010)
Drama
After a series of pipe dream ventures go belly up, retired pro soccer player Kim Won-kang happens to visit East Timor, where he finds children playing the game barefoot on rocky pitches. Sensing a new business opportunity on finding the country doesn't have a single sporting goods store, he embarks on a scheme to get rich quick by purveying athletic shoes to the unshod youngsters. Sadly, no one there can afford to pay $60 for a pair of shoes, even on a generous installment plan, and before he knows it, he is reduced to coaching a team of ragged 10-year-olds and prospects are looking grim.
Starring: Gabriel Da Costa, Junior Da Costa, Zefancy Diaz, Osvaldo Freitas, Xanana Gusmão
Director: Tae-gyun Kim
The Scarlet Worm (2011)
Western
An aging killer trains a young hired gun in a plot to assassinate a meek brothel owner performing barbaric abortion acts on his prostitutes.
Starring: Aaron Stielstra, Dan van Husen, Brett Halsey, Derek Hertig, Kevin Giffin
Director: Michael Fredianelli
Battle Royale II: Requiem / Batoru rowaiaru II: Chinkonka (2003)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Three years after the events in "Battle Royale," Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara)is a well-known terrorist bent on bringing down the government. In response, they order the creation of the "Battle Royale 2" program, and send a class of junior-high students to catch and kill him.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ai Maeda, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayana Sakai, Haruka Suenaga
Director: Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku
Battle Royale / Batoru rowaiaru (2000)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
With school children all over the country growing increasingly delinquent, the Japanese government takes decisive action and introduces the Battle Royale Act. The Act sets forth a plan whereby a class will be chosen at random and flown to a remote island, where each student will then be given a weapon and set loose to fight their classmates, each student knowing that only one of their number will be allowed to leave the island alive. When Class B of Zentsuji Middle School are chosen to take part in the massacre, the different students quickly take sides against each other, but Shuya and Noriko form an alliance and try to weather it through together.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki kuriyama, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Tarô Yamamoto, Masanobu Ando
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Big Miracle (2012)
Drama | Romance
Based on the true story of a small town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. Local newsman Adam Carlson can't wait to escape the northern tip of Alaska for a bigger market. But just when the story of his career breaks, the world comes chasing it, too. With an oil…
Starring: Kristen Bell, Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski, Rob Riggle, Vinessa Shaw
Director: Ken Kwapis
The Big Heat (1953)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster's moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
Starring: Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin, Jocelyn Brando, Gloria Grahame
Director: Fritz Lang
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Project X (2012)
Comedy
3 high school seniors throw a birthday party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things spiral out of control as word of the party spreads.
Starring: Thomas Mann, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Oliver Cooper
Director: Nima Nourizadeh
Zhen Tou / Din Tao: Leader of the Parade (2012)
Comedy | Drama
A simple man with ordinary looks from Thailand, finds himself hitting on gold when he makes it big in his career as well as having the dilemma of choosing the woman he loves – his childhood playmate or business partner? Finally, the confused trio decides to consult the golden pillow..
Starring: Alan Kuo, Hung-Sheng Huang, Crystal Lin, Esther Liu, Jingying Tao
Director: Kai Feng
The Jungle Bunch The Movie / Les As de la Jungle: Operation banquise (2011)
Animation
The Jungle Bunch movie is the incredible story of how a Penguin’s egg fell off an Antarctic ice floe and somehow ended up in the jungle. Adopted and raised by an affectionate tigress, Maurice is totally convinced that he is actually a tiger! He divides his time between hunting, re-painting his stripes and teaching his own adopted son, Junior the Tiger Fish, his own special brand of hunting techniques. Maurice, Junior and all their jungle buddies form a happy, go-lucky but rather dysfunctional family.
Ping and Pong, two penguins from Maurice’s native Antarctic village, are in search of “The Great Tiger Warrior” to save their village from an oppressivegroup of walruses. Their search leads them to Maurice’s jungle home, where they tell him of their plight. Determined to help, Maurice, joined by Fred, a warthog convinced he lives in a musical; Batricia, the only bat afraid of the dark; Miguel, a more than primate gorilla; and Gilbert, a tarsier afraid to leave his limb, form a team and embark on an adventure they will never forget!
Starring: Dirk Bach, Michael Iwannek, Lutz Schnell
Director: David Alaux, Eric Tosti
Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend / Doraemon: Nobita to midori no kyojinden (2008)
Animation
One day Nobita found a small sapling behind the hill but his mom won't allow him to plant it in the backyard. Using Doraemon's special tool, they made the tree alive so it could move around freely. Nobita name it Ki-bō and the two became like brothers. From there, a new adventure awaits…
Starring: Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Oohara, Yumi Kakazu, Subaru Kimura, Tomokazu Seki
Director: Ayumu Watanabe
