The Last Exorcism [2010]

"Believe In Him."

Director:  Daniel Stamm

Writers: Huck Botko, Andrew Gurland

Stars: Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell and Iris Bahr

 

Storyline

 

In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the evangelical Reverend Cotton Marcus was raised by his father to be a preacher. He agrees that the filmmaker Iris Reisen and the cameraman Daniel Moskowitz make a documentary about his life. Cotton tells that when her wife Shanna Marcus had troubles in the delivery of their son Justin, he prioritized the doctor help to God and since then he questions his faith. Further, he tells that exorcisms are frauds but the results are good for the believers because they believe it is true. When Cotton is summoned by the farmer Louis Sweetzer to perform an exorcism in his daughter Nell, Cotton sees the chance to prove to the documentary crew what he has just told. They head to Ivanwood and they have a hostile reception from Louis's son Caleb. Cotton performs the exorcism in Nell, exposing his tricks to the camera, but sooner they learn that the dysfunctional Sweetzer family has serious problems.

THE EXORCIST 'Pentalogy' (5)

The Exorcist [1973]

 "The Scariest Movie Of All Time"

Director: William Friedkin

Writers: William Peter Blatty (written for the screen by), William Peter Blatty (novel)

Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow and Linda Blair

 

Storyline

 

When a teenager is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

 Exorcist II : The Heretic [1977]

" It's four years later...what does she remember?"

Director: John Boorman

Writers: William Goodhart,

Stars: Richard Burton, Linda Blair and Louise Fletcher

 

Storyline

 

A girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl's exorcist.

 The Exorcist III [1990]

  

"The horror is Legion."

Director: William Peter Blatty

Writers: William Peter Blatty (screenplay), William Peter Blatty (novel)

Stars: George C. Scott, Ed Flanders and Brad Dourif

 

Storyline

 

Lt. Kinderman and Father Dyer cheer each other up on the anniversary of the death of their mutual friend, Father Damien Karras, by going to see "It's a Wonderful Life" at the local theater in Georgetown, near Washington D.C. But there's no cheering Kinderman while a particularly cruel and gruesome serial killer is at large. His murders, which involve torture, decapitation and the desecration of religious icons, is bad enough; but they also resemble those of the Gemini Killer, who has been dead for fifteen years.

Exorcist: The Beginning [2004]

 "Go Back To Where The Horror Began."

Director: Renny Harlin

Writers: William Peter Blatty (movie The Exorcist), William Wisher Jr. (story)

Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Izabella Scorupco and James D'Arcy

 

Storyline

 

Years before Father Lancaster Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. This is the tale of Father Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu and the rediscovery of his faith.

Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist [2005]

Director: Paul Schrader

Writers: William Peter Blatty (movie The Exorcist), William Wisher Jr. (story)

Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Gabriel Mann and Clara Bellar

 

Storyline

 

Years before Father Lancaster Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. This is the tale of Father Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu and the rediscovery of his faith.

[REC] (2)

[Rec] [2007]

"Whatever You Witness..... Never Stop Recording."

*The Movie That Inspired "QUARANTINE" 

Director: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza

Writers: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza

Stars: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza and Jorge-Yamam Serrano

 

Storyline

 

"REC" turns on a young TV reporter and her cameraman who cover the night shift at the local fire station. Receiving a call from an old lady trapped in her house, they reach her building to hear horrifying screams -- which begin a long nightmare and a uniquely dramatic TV report.

[Rec] 2 [2009]

"Evil Is Spreading"

Director: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza

Writers: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza

Stars: Jonathan Mellor, Manuela Velasco and Óscar Zafra

 

Storyline

 

The action continues from [Rec], with the medical Dr. Owen leads a three-men SWAT team inside the sealed off building to get blood sample from the girl Medeiros to develop an antidote. They are attacked by the zombie-like creatures and Dr. Owen locks a zombie inside a room using a crucifix. He discloses that the patient zero was possessed by the evil and the Vatican sent him to save mankind. Further, they will only leave the building under his voice command. Meanwhile, three teenagers follow a fireman and a man that breaks into the building through the sewage system to rescue his colleague and daughter respectively and they are trapped inside. They are lured and release the evil creature that was locked by Dr. Owen in a room. Out of the blue, the lead team meets the journalist Ângela Vidal hidden inside the building.

JACKASS 'Trilogy' (3)

Jackass : The Movie [2002]

"With stuff you'd never see on TV"

Director:  Jeff Tremaine

Writers:  Jeff Tremaine (concepts by), Spike Jonze (concepts by)

Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera and Chris Pontius

 

Storyline

 

Johnny Knoxville and his crazy friends appear on the big screen for the very first time in Jackass: The Movie. They wander around Japan in panda outfits, wreak havoc on a once civilized golf court, they even do stunts involving LIVE alligators, and so on. While Johnny Knoxvile and his pals put their life at risk, they are entertaining people at the same time. Get ready for Jackass: The Movie!!

 Jackass Number Two [2006]

" The Number One Movie in America is Number Two!"

Director:  Jeff Tremaine

Writers:  Jeff Tremaine (television series "Jackass"), Spike Jonze (television series "Jackass")

Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and Chris Pontius

 

Storyline

 

Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before.

 Jackass 3D [2010]

"The following stunts were performed by professionals, so neither you nor your dumb buddies should attempt anything from this movie."

Director: Jeff Tremaine

Writers: Preston Lacy

Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and Bam Margera

 

Storyline

 

Johnny Knoxville and company return for the third installment of their TV show spin-off, where dangerous stunts and explicit public displays rule.
'Jackass 3D' opens with the entire cast all lined up, each wearing a different color of the rainbow, in front of a rainbow colored background, each in turn being attacked in various ways. Some of the footage is slowed down for maximal effect. This is repeated again at the end of the movie with additional explosions mixed in with gallons of water to wash away the cast- chaos is resumed. Throughout the movie the team are subjected to the usual foray of physical abuse from team members or perform hilarious stunts (including some of the more stomach turning stunts such as the Sweat suit cocktail, Toy Train Eruption and Poo Cocktail Supreme - not for the weak stomached!)

Unthinkable [2010]

"How far would you go to protect your country?"

Director: Gregor Jordan

Writers: Peter Woodward

Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss and Michael Sheen

 

Storyline

 

A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs while a CIA "consultant," known as H, interrogates the suspect who has allowed himself to be caught. The suspect, whose wife and children have left him and disappeared, seems to know exactly what the interrogation will entail. Even as H ratchets up the pressure, using torture over Brody's objection, the suspect doesn't crack. Should H do the unthinkable, and will Brody acquiesce? Is any Constitutional principle worth possible loss of life?

Unknown [2011]

" Take back your life."

 

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Writers:  Oliver Butcher (screenplay), Stephen Cornwell (screenplay),

Stars: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and January Jones

 

Storyline

 

Dr. Martin Harris, an American Bio-technologist, arrives in Berlin with his ravishing wife-Elizabeth, to attend a biotechnology submit. On reaching the hotel, he finds some part of the luggage missing. He takes a cab back to the airport in order to locate the missing luggage, but before he could inform his wife the cab meets an accident and falls off a bridge into the river. The female driver of the cab, after rescuing him, flees from the scene. Dr. Harris is taken to a medical facility where he finally regains his conscious after spending four days in comma. He seems to have suffered from a bout temporary amnesia, but soon remembers of his wife and the purpose of the visit to Berlin. He is suddenly overcome by a desperate urge to unite with his wife and he leaves the hospital immediately. On arriving at the hotel, he confronts the security to arrange for a meeting with his wife. To his dismay...

The Mechanic [2011]

"Someone has to fix the problems."

Director: Simon West

Writers:  Richard Wenk (screenplay), Lewis John Carlino (screenplay)

Stars: Jason Statham, Ben Foster and Donald Sutherland

 

Storyline

 

Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But when his mentor and close friend Harry (Donald Sutherland) is murdered, Bishop is anything but detached. His next assignment is self-imposed - he wants those responsible dead. His mission grows complicated when Harry's son Steve (Ben Foster) approaches him with the same vengeful goal and a determination to learn Bishop's trade. Bishop has always acted alone but he can't turn his back on Harry's son. A methodical hit man takes an impulsive student deep into his world and a deadly partnership is born. But while in pursuit of their ultimate mark, deceptions threaten to surface and those hired to fix problems become problems themselves.

The Crow [1994]

"Real love is forever."

Director: Alex Proyas

Writers:  James O'Barr (comic book series and comic strip), David J. Schow (screenplay),

Stars: Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott and Rochelle Davis

 

Storyline

 

A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante's invincibility.

The Untouchables [1987]

"Never stop fighting till the fight is done"

BASED ON A TRUE STORY

Director: Brian De Palma

Writers:  Oscar Fraley (suggested by book), Eliot Ness (suggested by book)

Stars: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery and Robert De Niro

 

Storyline

 

Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein's 'The Battleship Potemkin'.

The Next Three Days [2010]

"What if you had 72 hours to save everything you live for?"

Director: Paul Haggis

Writers: Paul Haggis (screenplay), Fred Cavayé (screenplay)

Stars: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks and Liam Neeson

 

Storyline

 

Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

The A-Team [2010]

"There Is No Plan B"

Director: Joe Carnahan 

Writers: Joe Carnahan, Brian Bloom

Stars: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper and Sharlto Copley

 

Storyline

 

Four American soldiers who are in Iraq are sent on a mission to recover plates for printing 100 dollar bills that were used to print a billion dollars. After doing the job and returning to the base their commanding officer is killed in an explosion and the plates are stolen by another operative. They would be court martialed and sent to different prisons. 6 months later, the leader, Hannibal Smith is visited by a CIA spook who tells him he knows where the man who took the plates is and wants him and his men to recover it. So he helps him escape and he breaks out the others and they go after the plates. But after doing it, they discover that the spook might not be ok. And a military intelligence officer who was involved with one of them is pursuing them.

Takers [2010]

"Everyone's after something"

 

Director: John Luessenhop
Writers: Peter Allen, Gabriel Casseus

Stars: Chris Brown, Paul Walker, Hayden Christensen and Matt Dillon

 

Storyline

 

A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings (Idris Elba), John Rahway (Paul Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and brothers Jake (Michael Ealy) and Jesse (Chris Brown) Attica successfully complete their latest heist and lead a life of luxury while planning their next job. When Ghost (Tip T.I. Harris), a former member of their team, is released from prison he convinces the group to strike an armored car carrying $20 million. As the "takers" carefully plot their strategy and draw nearer to exacting the grand heist, a reckless police officer (Matt Dillon) inches closer to apprehending the criminals.

Season of the Witch [2011]

"Not all souls can be saved."

Director: Dominic Sena
Writers:  Bragi F. Schut

Stars:  Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman and Claire Foy

 

Storyline

 

A 14th century Crusader returns to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. A beleaguered church, deeming sorcery the culprit of the plague, commands the two knights to transport an accused witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence. A priest, a grieving knight, a disgraced itinerant and a headstrong youth who can only dream of becoming a knight join a mission troubled by mythically hostile wilderness and fierce contention over the fate of the girl. When the embattled party arrives at the abbey, a horrific discovery jeopardises the knight's pledge to ensure the girl fair treatment, and pits them against an inexplicably powerful and destructive force.

Out of Sight [1998]

"Opposites attract."

 

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writers: Elmore Leonard (novel), Scott Frank (screenplay)  

Stars: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez and Ving Rhames

 

Storyline

 

A career bank robber busts out of jail (Clooney) with the help of his buddy (Rhames) and kidnaps a US Marshal (Lopez) in the process. When the two cons head for Detroit to pull off their final big scam, the Marshal is put on their case but she finds she is attracted to one of them and has second thoughts about bringing them in.

My Name Is Khan [2010]

"An ordinary man, An extraordinary journey ... FOR LOVE."

Director: Karan Johar
Writers: Shibani Bathija (story), Shibani Bathija (dialogue)
Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Sheetal Menon

 

Storyline

 

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, suffers from Asperger's syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism that complicates socialization. The adult Rizwan marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who mistake his disability for suspicious behavior. Following his arrest, he meets Radha, a therapist who helps him deal with his situation and his affliction. Rizwan then begins a journey to meet US President Obama to clear his name.

Hitler : The Rise of Evil [2003]

"The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing."

Director: Christian Duguay
Writers:  John Pielmeier, G. Ross Parker  

Stars: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing and Jena Malone

 

Storyline

 

The movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler from childhood to manhood, and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria, it describes the first world war from his point of view, and how he became the strongest man in Germany. The movie show us how turned Hitler from a poor soldier into the leader of the Nazis, and how he survived the attempts to kill him. It describes his relationship with his mistress Eva Braun, and his decisions and enemies inside Germany and inside the Nazi party.

Faster [2010]

"Justice is swift. Vengeance is faster."

Director: George Tillman Jr.
Writers: Tony Gayton, Joe Gayton
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton and Maggie Grace

 

 

Storyline

 

An ex-con sets out to avenge his brother's death after they were double-crossed during a heist years ago. During his campaign, however, he's tracked by a veteran cop and an egocentric hit man.

Dorian Gray [2009]

"Forever Young. Forever Cursed." 

Director: Oliver Parker
Writers: Oscar Wilde (novel), Toby Finlay (screenplay)
Stars: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth and Rebecca Hall

Storyline

 

Fresh-faced and innocent, Dorian Gray arrives in London to move into the house he has inherited. Almost immediately he falls under the influence of amoral and calculating Lord Henry Wotton, leading to a life of increasing debauchery and even violence. Through many years Gray stays as young-looking as ever, while a portrait painted when he arrived grows old, reflecting his increasing excesses. Eventually the picture, now secreted in his attic, becomes almost hideous to behold. When true love finally enters his life he realises he must guard his secret at all costs.