Karen Davis is a woman residing in Japan with her boyfriend, who is studying there. Temporarily assigned to be caretaker for a woman with severe sleeping disorder, Karen goes to the patient's house. What she finds is something she would never expect. The house is plagued by the presence of murderous ghosts, the result of a curse. The curse is born from someone dying in a powerful rage. Now, Karen finds herself being tormented by that curse, as it eventually starts claiming it's victims.
Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) and Audrey Miller (Julianne Moore) are two rival divorce attorneys in NY, they pleads the cases of two quarreling spouses and follows two opposite ways of life as it seems. They feel a kind of sympathy to each other but almost don't give it a way until the moment they are to visit the castle which is a subject-matter of case. While Daniel and Audrey try to come to terms with their own relations, their heavily-publicized clients, a rock star and his wife, carry out their own. Battle of the sexes rages on!
Around the World in 80 Days is based on the classic novel by Jules Verne and stars Jackie Chan as Passepartout. He was a thief in 1872 who became the traveling companion and martial arts bodyguard of a man betting that he can circumnavigate the world in a set time. British inventor Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan), a daring man of science, stated his belief that it's possible for him to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days, as he asserted in a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin (Jim Broadbent), the head of the Royal Academy of Science. During their adventurous trip the pair has various points to stop at, situated in France (Paris, of course!), Turkey, India, China and the United States. Femme fatale Monique and a suspecting detective are also involved in the story. Soon after the pair left London, a major bank was robbed and Phileas and Passportout are considered as the main suspects trying to escape.
A timeless story of a young girl who moves to Cuba with her family, where she meets Javier, a local and falls in love with him, who encourages her to dance dirty Cuban-style. The Revolution approaches as the couple prepares for a national dance competition, discovering the love, sensuality and independence. When Castro takes over, Katey's parents decide to flee for the U.S., leaving Katey to make the ultimate decision.
The enchanting children’s tale follows the adventures of five siblings who are sent to stay with their uncle Albert (Kenneth Branagh) in his tumbledown mansion by the seaside during World War I. While exploring the ramshackle house, Robert (Freddie Highmore), Anthea (Jessica Claridge), Cyril (Jonathan Bailey), Jane (Poppy Rogers), and Martha (Zoл Wanamaker) discover a grouchy 8,000-year-old sand fairy, Psammead (voiced by Eddie Izzard), who promises to grant them one wish per day, each one lasting until sundown. All the wishes, however, backfire in amusing ways.
Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. A personal tragedy has left him dispassionate about the world and his work and he lives his life in limbo. In the midst of this existential crisis he attends a high school reunion and meets three old friends; acquaintances he's tried to forget but who now emerge like ominous shadows from his past. Once again, face to face with the love of his life, Hayson tries to right old wrongs and get his life back on track. However, life has other plans, and he realizes that the past is best laid to rest or it might haunt you forever. He soon finds himself embroiled in a nightmarish brew of deceit, passion and murder. Wanted by the police for a heinous killing, he must choose between succumbing to his darkest desires or the light that will renew his faith in himself and his future.
In Hollywood, the young teacher Nell (Angela Bettis) and her husband, the resident Steven Barrows (Brent Roam), move to an old building called Lusman Arms. Some sixty years ago, the place was glamorous, but presently is completely decadent, inclusive many dwellers have disappeared along the years. While her husband is working in the hospital, the lonely Nell hears some weird noises and becomes afraid of the place. While jogging, she is introduced and becomes close to her neighbor Julia Cunningham (Juliet Landau) and they schedule a hike together on the next day. Julia never shows up, and Nell looks for her in the building, finding a hiding block behind the wall, where an evil being, which was born from death, lives with many dead bodies.
1660. The France is being lacerated by the struggle between the king and the cardinal, each of them is having its own army: cardinal controls guardians, and the musketeers are loyal to the king. Legendary swordsman Jacques D'Artagnan's best days may be well behind him, he has schooled his daughter Valentine (Susie Amy) well in the way of the sword. Now it's time for Valentine to strike out on her own. With her father's sword and a letter of introduction to Commander Flint (Roy Dotrice), the eager young novice sets out to seek her fortune in Paris.
While inspecting the sewage system of London, two workers are attacked by a weird creature. Later, Kate decides to leave a party trying to meet the actor 'George Clooney' (qv) who is in London. She waits for the last underground train, but after drinking many alcoholic beverages, she falls asleep accidentally on the platform bench, missing the last train and being trapped in the closed underground station. Later, a train going to the depot stops at the platform. She boards the train and she meets her acquaintance Guy, who tries to sexually assault her in the underground car. Guy is attacked by the creature, dragged off, and Kate leaves the train through the tunnel. This is the beginning of her claustrophobic, scary and gore night running through the Underground of London.
A man who had conquered 90% of the known world by the age of twenty-five, Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell) was one of history's most luminous and influential leaders who forged an empire stretching from Greece to India in the fourth century B.C. His conquests facilitated the promotion of Greek culture, and, centuries later, the spread of Christianity, and the expansion of the great Roman Empire. Young King of Macedonia had conquered almost the entire known world of his era, before dying at the age of 32. This epic movie follows him, his family, his allies, foes, ventures and achievements.
Clark Stevens (Joshua Leonanrd), a psychiatric intern, experiences a series of mysterious events at the mental health facility in which he works. Running-down institute for immense schizophrenia and criminal insanity is stuffed with many unpleasant secrets. The story unfolds as Clark begins to reveal the mysteries of the staff, the treatment methods, the basement... Is there any medication used, or there is nothing material behind the secrecy? And, generally, the patient from the cell 44 seems to be a ghost. As many opinions tell, this movie is absolutely not for the faint-hearted, gore and horror are at its finest.
Ben Archer (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a former gangster, plans to retire but his expectancies get crash when his wife occasionally gives shelter to some fugitive Asian girl Kim. When it turns out that the girl escaped from Chinese mafia, Archer soon realizes that the powerful Chinese Triad kingpin sent his cutthroats to find her. When Ben's wife is murdered, he craves for the one thing - the revenge. Archer along with his son and Kim must survive numerous skirmishes and fights with Chinese Mafiosi in this action-packed movie abundant in stylish special effects and breathtaking dynamic.
The satellite of a company owned by the millionaire Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) locates in Antarctica an unidentified source of heat and a pyramid with indication of three different primitive cultures built six hundred meters below a deactivated whaling station. Weyland hires expertize, including an archeologist and an electronic engineer, and organizes an expedition leaded by Alexa Woods (Sannaa Lathan). When they reach their target, they realize that the place is indeed the stage of an ancient war between two breeds, and humans are only kettle in this game. They pick a side, based on the saying that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Hilary Duff stars as Sam Montgomery, a clumsy high school student who undergoes an amazing transformation into the one of her school's hottest girls. She is routinely exploited by her mean-spirited stepmother (Jennifer Coolidge) and being forced to scrub floors at her diner after the death of her father. But her gloomy life changes when she starts exchanging notes with a mysterious guy over the internet, who promises to meet her at the upcoming school dance, she also finds a friend in the person of an artsy nerd Carter (Dan Byrd). Sweet diner manager (Regina King), helps Sam to get disguised for the Halloween dance. There she discovers her prince is one of the popular guys, Austin Ames (Chad Michael Murray). This fairy tale having a cellular phone instead of the crystal shoe comes with plenty of wit, style, and heart. The uncovered shallowness of popular kids, their stupid parents, and whimpering siblings are shown in a way that should balm the unhealed wounds of anyone who's ever been to high school.
One year past the murder of a local girl, Sheriff Jack Shepard sees a blood-covered boy came out of the darkness of night. Shepard is guilt ridden over the girl's murder, he desperately begins to investigate the boy's true identity and tries to reveal if the mysterious teenager had possible victims any further. Sheriff Sheppard must meet his own demons and face his fears without any uncertainty if he is to finally solve the bloody mystery that has nearly consumed a small town as a stranglehold of a vicious killer and the living will sense the same pain the defuncts have suffered.
Despite the fact Van Helsing was commonly a supporting hero in more than forty vampire films, now he becomes a central character. He is to assist beautiful, sword-wielding Anna who is the last descendant of vampire-fighting clan, to slay the ominous count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh) having dispatched his monsters, namely the Wolf Man (Will Kemp), and Frankenstein's Monster (Shuler Hensley). Having convinced the distrustful peasants of his utility as the deliverer from the evil ones, Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) comes into the fierce confrontation with three Dracula's brides, powerful and dissolute viragos who embellish the movie bringing in a spirit of the perishable lust. Considering an almost immense budget, special-effects in this movie are quite impressive along with admirable Kate Beckinsale's cute character and the handsome long-haired Hugh Jackman in his heydays.
Coconut Beach Resort, a hedonistic paradise for swingers and rastamen, located in Costa Rica, turns into an abode of evil when it is visited by a machete-wielding serial killer. Coconut Pete (Bill Paxton), the owner of the island resort, orders the staff members to figure out the maniac's identity and stop him. However, the number of deaths keeps steadily increasing and the employees desperately try to cover up the murders in order not to lose the guests.
The horror thriller by Rolfe Kanefsky begins with a group of partying college kids attempting to spend the night in a spooky deserted mansion as part of an attempt to pledge fraternities and sororities in a Halloween night. Some demonic force is unleashed soon, they die one by one as they had accidentally interrupted a satanic ritual of professor Kapps, whose black demonic spirit began to possess them. The group of students has to fight to survive, but none of them can trust each other as some of the kids became a puppets of an evil professor.
Sophia Rosselini (Kelly Brook), a magnificent Italian temptress, opens a School for Seduction in a small town of Newcastle, and four friends sign up for an education in the "seductive arts" hoping to release their inner sex goddess. Four young women will find their stagnant sex-lives taking on a whole new life in a passionate tale of love and lust. Initially the course is great fun until Sophia's estranged husband arrives in the town with a shocking surprise in this romantic comedy abundant with hilarious situations.
