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Theatrical: Jan 1, 2006

Studio: Fox Video

Genre: Horror

Producer: Giovanni Lovatelli, John Moore, Jeffrey Stott, Peter Veverka

Duration: 110

Summary: When the Vatican observatory priest sees the appearance of a comet, the Church is sure that it confirms the eve of the Armageddon. Meanwhile, the USA President's godson Robert Thorn is informed in the maternity in Rome by Father Spiletto that his wife Katherine has just lost her baby and she had troubles with her uterus and would not have another pregnancy. Spiletto suggests Robert that another just born child that lost his mother could be the substituted for his son, and Robert accepts the child and gives the name of Damien. Robert is promoted to ambassador in London after a tragic accident. When Damien's nanny commits suicide in his birthday party, a substitute, Mrs. Baylock, comes to work and live with the family. Along the years, Katherine realizes that Damien is evil, while Robert is contacted by Father Brennan, who tells him that Damien is the son of devil. When the priest dies in a bizarre accident, the photographer Keith Jennings shows evidences to Robert that the boy is the Antichrist. They travel to the town of Megiddo to learn how the boy can be stopped.

Theatrical: Nov 15, 1985

Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

Genre: Comedy

Producer: Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Frank Hildebrand, Russell Thacher, Dimitri Villard

Duration: 93

Summary: The Countess has a problem. She is a 400 year old vampire who will cease to look young unless she is able to feed on a virgin three times before Holloween, a week away. She sends Sebastian, her servant and all of her lesser vampires out to find one. Finding a virgin is difficult in Los Angeles. Mark has a problem. He wants to 'do it' with Robin in the worst way, but she wants to wait. Jamie and Russ, Mark's goofy friends convince him to go to a Hollywood pick up spot where Mark meets the Countess, on the prowl. Robin's not going to understand.

Theatrical: Nov 2, 2001

Studio: Columbia TriStar

Genre: Action

Producer: Steve Chasman, Todd Garner, Glen Morgan, Charles Newirth

Duration: 87

Summary: There is not one universe, but there are many, which is a multiverse. Supposing you are just one person, there are many other versions of you in the other universes, there are ways to travel, but only a police agency,MVA, can travel only for police procedures. Gabriel Yulaw (Jet Li)is a former MVA agent, who killed another version of himself in self-defense. It made the other versions of him stronger. When Yulaw found out about this, he became power-hungry killing the 122 other versions for two years. After killing Lawless (also played by Jet)and getting captured by his former partner Roedecker (Delroy Lindo) and a new MVA agent Funsch (Jason Statham) Yulaw managed to escape the prison and is trying to kill his last target, Gabe Law (also played by Jet) who is a police officer. He is also at Yulaw's strength. Roedecker and Funsch now have to arrest Yulaw before he can kill Gabe. There is a possibility that the universe could die or make Yulaw invinible. After encountering Yulaw for the first time, Gabe thought that it was his split personality, but it wasn't. Will Gabe be able to confront Yulaw before or after Yulaw ruins his life?

Theatrical: Sep 13, 2002

Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

Genre: Drama

Producer: Jeremy W. Barber, Robert Katz, Pamela Koffler, Robert B. Sturm

Duration: 96

Summary: Seymour 'SY' Parrish has been doing photo development for 20 years. He has a vast knowledge of modern photography and develops photos at a local department store for a living. But SY lives a sad and lonely life and begins spying on the Yorkin family, his biggest customers who seem to have everything in the world. SY begins to feel that he wants to be in the Yorkin's life, but when he discovers that the Yorkins are not as perfect as they seem, he becomes a man on a mission to expose the imperfections of the Yorkin family that could tear them apart.

Theatrical: Jan 4, 2008

Studio: Alcon Entertainment

Genre: Horror

Producer: Timothy M. Bourne, Shinya Egawa, Allison Haskovec, Manfred D. Heid

Duration: 87

Summary: Yet more modern technology falls prey to the influence of eeeeevil spirits in "One Missed Call", a horror flick following firmly in the footsteps of "The Ring", "Pulse", and other remakes of Japanese creepfests. Good-looking young people are receiving voice-mails that prefigure their gruesome deaths; Beth (Shannyn Sossamon, "40 Days and 40 Nights") and Jack (Ed Burns) race against time to find the source of this cell-phone curse, leading them to a dark and treacherous burnt-out hospital. Little is fresh here--"One Missed Call" apes every other Japanese horror remake, using corpse makeup, blurry images at the corner of the screen or just out of sight, lots of ambient rattles and gasps, spooky-looking children, and the slow, trembling turn towards a ringing phone... which stopped being scary about four or five movies ago. But for fans of this particular subgenre, "One Missed Call" may evoke the warm, enjoyable familiarity that devotees of 1970s horror feel towards the repetitive output of Hammer Films. Ray Wise ("Reaper", "Twin Peaks") has a bit of fun as a cynical TV producer; comedian Margaret Cho has such a brief, throwaway part as a skeptical cop that one wonders if the rest of her role is on the cutting room floor; and Meagan Good ("Brick", "Stomp the Yard") gets prominent billing but is hardly in the movie at all. "--Bret Fetzer"

Theatrical: Oct 16, 1991

Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay

Genre: Comedy

Producer: Tarquin Gotch, John Hughes, Hunt Lowry, Mark Radcliffe

Duration: 104

Summary: Danny, a cop, meets and falls in love with Theresa. They get engaged, despite sneaking around behind his mother's back, but when push comes to shove, he can't quite quit worrying about his mother long enough to be any kind of lover to Theresa.

Theatrical: Jan 11, 2008

Studio: New Line Home Video

Genre: Art House & International

Producer: Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustín, Sandra Hermida, Elena Manrique

Duration: 105

Summary: When her old orphanage goes on the market, Laura (Belén Rueda, Amenábar's "The Sea Inside") and Carlos (Fernando Cayo) settle in with their son, Simón (Roger Príncep). Once acclimated to the remote seaside surroundings, they plan to re-open it as a home for special-needs children. Meanwhile, their seven-year-old doesn't know he's adopted or that he has a life-threatening illness. He does, however, have a lot of imaginary playmates. When Simón disappears without a trace, his parents contact the police, but to no avail. Because Laura has been hearing odd noises and having strange visions, they proceed to consult a medium. Aurora (Geraldine Chaplin, speaking perfect Spanish) is convinced they aren't alone. Carlos has his doubts, but Laura makes like a detective and revisits her childhood--through photographs, home movies, and exploration of the spooky stone manor--to determine who or what abducted her son.

Theatrical: Aug 10, 2001

Studio: Warner Home Video

Genre: Animation

Producer: Dennis Edwards, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Marc S. Fischer

Duration: 95

Summary: Frank Detomello is a slovenly zookeeper, and simple father to the only young and bright girl named Shane, who catches a cold right after when he swallowed a germ-ridden egg! The inside of his body is known as the "City of Frank". An unlikely hero of a policeman white blood cell, by the name of Osmosis Jones works as a member of Immunity, for Frank's immune system, as a white blood cell. But with that germ-ridden egg comes a mortal danger: Osmosis discovers Frank has really contracted a villainous and black-hearted deadly virus known as Thrax who arrives and plotting to ultimately overheat Frank's body, killing him from the inside out! Thrax is motivated by trying to become the nastiest new virus, attempting to kill each new victim faster than the previous. His grandiose plan for Frank is death in 48 hours, breaking previous medical records! Meanwhile the pill that Frank took, Drix arrives in the body and covers Frank's throat with ice to cover the irritation. Osmosis Jones becomes his newest partner. Now it's all up to only Osmosis and Drix to put an end of Thrax's plans before Frank gets sick forever and Shane will become an orphan!

Theatrical: Feb 29, 2008

Studio: BBC Films

Genre: Drama

Producer: Mark Cooper, Alison Owen, Jane Robertson, Scott Rudin

Duration: 115

Summary: A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.

Theatrical: Sep 27, 2001

Studio: Dimension

Genre: Drama

Producer: Fernando Bovaira, Eduardo Chapero-Jackson, Tom Cruise, José Luis Cuerda

Duration: 104

Summary: A woman named Grace retires with her two children to a mansion on Jersey, towards the end of the Second World War, where she's waiting for her husband to come back from battle. The children have a disease which means they cannot be touched by direct sunlight without being hurt in some way. They will live alone there with oppressive, strange and almost religious rules, until she needs to hire a group of servants for them. Their arrival will accidentally begin to break the rules with unexpected consequences.

Theatrical: Mar 10, 1995

Studio: Warner Home Video

Genre: Drama

Producer: Stephen Brown, Nana Greenwald, Duncan Henderson, Gail Katz

Duration: 127

Summary: In July of 1967, In Motaba River Valley, Zaire, a virus with a 100% mortality rate starts infecting people. The virus becomes known as the Motaba virus, and it's so deadly that it causes severe bleeding and liquefies internal organs, killing within 3 days. The virus wipes out Motaba River Valley, and a devastatingly huge fire bomb is dropped onto Motaba River Valley in order to reduce the chances of further infection. The bomb was dropped on the orders of corrupt General Donald McClintock, even though an army surgeon, General Bill Ford, was against the idea. 27 years later, in 1994, there is another outbreak in Motaba River Valley. At the United States Army Research Insitiute of Infectious Diseases (USARIID), located at Fort Detrick in Maryland, Colonel Sam Daniels is doing research on the Motaba virus, and so is his ex-wife Roberta Keough, who works at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. A monkey carrying the Motaba virus stows away on a ship that is heading for the USA, and after the monkey's arrival, people in Cedar Creek, California start becoming infected by the virus. Sam and Roberta head into Cedar Creek with fellow doctor Casey Schuler, and they start searching for the monkey, thinking that the monkey is the key to finding a cure. Along the way, Sam stumbles onto some information that may be of help -- McClintock has been concealing vital information from the president of the United States. Since 1967, McClintock and Ford have been in possession of E-1101, a serum that was made to cure the virus. McClintock has been trying to stop Ford from coming forward with this information, and so far, McClintock has succeeded. McClintock now wants to drop onto Cedar Creek the kind of firebomb that was dropped on Motaba River Valley 27 years ago. Sam and Roberta figure out that the virus in the Cedar Creek outbreak is a new strain of the Motaba virus -- an airborne strain that is even more contagious than the flu. When a new serum is made to stop the new strain, Sam and Roberta set out to stop McClintock from having the town blown up.

Theatrical: Sep 27, 2007

Studio: Black Camel Pictures

Genre: Action

Producer: Graham Begg, Jamie Carmichael, Arabella Page Croft, Keiran Parker

Duration: 90

Summary: In a seedy bar in a town ravaged by war, mysterious businessman Hunt hires ex-marine D.C. to assemble a crack team of ex-soldiers to protect him on a dangerous journey into no-man's land. To this gang of hardened warriors, battle-worn veterans and borderline criminals killing is just a job - and one they enjoy. Their mission - to scope out an old military bunker. It should be easy - 48 hours at the most. Lots of cash for little risk, or so he says. Once at the outpost, the men make a horrific discovery that turns their mission on its head - the scene of a bloody and gruesome series of experiments, carried out by the Nazis on their own soldiers during WWII. Amid the carnage, they find something even more disturbing - someone who's still alive. As war rages above ground, and a mysterious enemy emerges from the darkness below, D.C. and his men find themselves trapped in a claustrophobic and terrifying scenario. Their mission is no longer one of safe-guarding - it's one of survival. Together they must discover why Hunt has brought them to the outpost - and what it is that's killing them off, one by one. OUTPOST is a gut-wrenching, adrenaline-fueled horror film, with terrifying set pieces and a suffocating, claustrophobic atmosphere. Gory, gruesome, scary and thrilling in equal measure, OUTPOST is a mind-blowing cocktail of Dog Soldiers, Predator and Hostel, that will scare the living daylights out of you!!!

Theatrical: Nov 4, 1987

Studio: Walt Disney Video

Genre: Comedy

Producer: Robert W. Cort, Ted Field, Peter V. Herald, Scott Kroopf

Duration: 100

Summary: Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class and who don't know they are sharing a lover. When he disappears under mysterious circumstances they refuse to believe that he is dead and are the only ones who are searching for him across several states. Ending up in the western US., they discover he had other interests as they find their lives in danger.

Theatrical: Feb 1, 2008

Studio: Gold Circle Films

Genre: Comedy

Producer: Paul Brooks, Jeff Levine, Scott Niemeyer, Peter Safran

Duration: 95

Summary: Eva Longoria Parker ("Desperate Housewives") plays a woman named Kate who gets crushed by an ice sculpture on her wedding day and comes back from the dead to make sure her fiance, Henry (Paul Rudd) never finds love with anyone else. Unfortunately for Kate, Henry's sister has dragged him to see Ashley (Lake Bell, "Surface"), a psychic who revives Henry's will to romance. Ashley is the only person who can see Kate--a fact that Kate uses to her advantage and makes Ashley's life miserable. "Over Her Dead Body" wants to be a classic screwball comedy in the vein of "Topper". It's packed with clever touches and comic setups--and if the plot never quite reaches the lunatic pitch "Over Her Dead Body" is reaching for, the movie's basic goodheartedness may leave you in a forgiving mood. Longoria Parker, whose charms may be better suited to television, doesn't quite have the crackle her roles demands (the movie was originally subtitled "Ghost Bitch"), but Rudd and Bell have a nice combative rapport that recalls the verbal sparring of movie couples in the 1930s. Jason Biggs and Lindsay Sloane ("Sabrina, the Teenage Witch") provide nifty supporting performances. All in all, "Over Her Dead Body" never fully gels, but there's some definite fun to be had as it bounces along. "--Bret Fetzer"

Theatrical: May 19, 2006

Studio: CIC Video/Paramount Home Ent.

Genre: Animation

Producer: Bonnie Arnold, Ellen Coss, Jim Cox, Bill Damaschke

Duration: 83

Summary: Traveling raccoon con artist, RJ (Willis), arrives in a woods outside a human city in the Midwest, excited about the wonders that living near humans can bring hungry animals. What he finds, however, is an Amish-like community that is deathly afraid of humans, after their leader, Vern the tortoise (Shandling), has an encounter with human boys that terrifies him. Encouraged by RJ, however, the animals slowly venture over the hedge that separates them from the brand new suburban development that appeared over the winter while they were sleeping, and what RJ shows them is a whole new world where humans leave tin cans full of fish and other food in big canisters, ripe for the taking. As they get closer and closer to humans, however, their comfortable lives in the woods appears to be threatened...

Theatrical: Dec 16, 1987

Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

Genre: Comedy

Producer: Nick Abdo, Roddy McDowall, Alexandra Rose, Anthea Sylbert

Duration: 112

Summary: Joanna Slayton is very rich and very spoiled. When she falls overboard from her yacht in the harbor of a small Oregon town she develops amnesia. She's taken in by Dean Profitt, a local carpenter she's previously maligned. Profitt, in revenge, persuades her that she is his wife and the mother of his four boys. Eventually, they "humanize" her and even when her memory returns she realizes she has fallen in love with Dean and his boys.