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12/29/2005
Green Street
Matt's (Elijah Wood) character has recently been expelled from Harvard after taking the fall for his roommate when cocaine was found in their room. In truth, he resents his roommate for it but his roommate, we hear, has a powerful and influencial father.
Matt decides to move on and clear his head. He goes to visit his sister, who moved to England a few years ago. There, he meets his brother-in-law, Steve, for the first time, and Steve’s brother, Pete (Charlie Hunnam). He’s appears to be an ill tempered rude guy with easily aroused bouts of violence, but Matt gets to know Pete and his friends, and grows to like them.
Pete is a massive football fan, and takes Matt to his first match. After which he gets jumped by a gang of the rival team’s hooligans. Pete and his friends show up and a gang fight ensues. After this Matt spends more and more time with Pete and the 'firm'. They get in more fights and Matt gains respect among the fans, despite being a "Yank". And Matt gains respect for Pete who he realises is much more than just a thug.
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Bad News Bears
Morris Buttermaker (Thornton), an alcoholic pest removal worker and former professional baseball player (for a very short time), is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team of 12 year olds which is about to be thrown out of the league. Although the team does not win the first place in the next championship, it does achieve a great comeback.
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12/28/2005
Wedding Crashers
The film follows two sneaky guys who, apart from refusing to grow up, crash weddings to meet women. Things get complicated, however, when John (Wilson) falls hard for one of the bridesmaids (McAdams) they encounter whose family are American royalty - her dad is the secretary of the treasury! (Christopher Walken). Can Jeremy (Vaughn) help his best friend to get his act together in time to land the girl he never knew he always needed?
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Land Of The Dead
One heroic group of scavengers try to bring justice to the city within which they live. However they later face a much greater challenge when they become the cities main defence against an evolving group of killer zombies. These once slow and brainless creatures are becoming more advanced and intelligent as well as even more dangerous to the human survivors within the city.
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12/10/2005
Crash
A multiple-car crash investigation headed by Detective Graham Waters (Don Cheadle, Ocean’s 11 & 12, Hotel Rwanda), forces an in-depth examination of a series of dramatic events involving a multicultural cross section of LA residents from the previous thirty-six hours.
The chain of events is triggered when the district attorney, Richard Cabot (Brendan Fraser, The Quiet American, Gods and Monsters) and his wife Jean (Sandra Bullock, Murder By Numbers, 28 Days), have their car hijacked at gunpoint by two young black men, Peter (Larenz Tate, Ray, A Man Apart) and Anthony (Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, 2Fast 2Furious).
In another incident, veteran LAPD cop (Matt Dillon, Wild Things) takes out his racist frustrations in a horrific abuse of power on an affluent and innocent black couple (Thandie Newton, Mission: Impossible II) in full view of his young and disapproving partner (Ryan Phillippe, Gosford Park, Cruel Intentions). Elsewhere, a distrusting Iranian shop-owner engages in a tense argument with the Mexican locksmith who has just given him some friendly advice about his security arrangements.
As the night wears on these chance encounters prove their drastic significance for everyone involved. Each of them must face up to the consequences that their actions have had for others, but also to the surprising revelations they discover about themselves and their prejudices.
Packed with special features on DVD, Crash includes a commentary by Paul Haggis, Don Cheadle and Bobby Moresco, a behind-the-scenes featurette, and a bonus music video. Witness the wreckage that human prejudice can create in one of the most intelligent and thought-provoking films of the year and ask yourself the question – do you know who you are?
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12/02/2005
Skeleton Key
Caroline (Kate Hudson) is a twenty-five-year-old hospice worker who cares for the ailing and the elderly, a job designed to atone for her own mistake for ignoring her dying father in the past, when she had been a rock 'n' roll manager. After her latest charge passes away, Caroline takes a job in Louisiana, caring for Ben (John Hurt), a stroke-victim who is bed-ridden and cannot speak. But Caroline becomes suspicious of the house, and Luke's cold wife, Violet (Gena Rowlands) only adds to the creepy atmosphere. After acquiring a skeleton key, Caroline makes her way into a secret room within the attic where she discovers hair, blood, bones, spells, and other instruments for practicing voodoo. Violet says she has never been in the secret room, but that the items probably belonged to the original owners' two houseworkers, who practiced black magic and were lynched as a result. Noting that Ben had his stroke in the attic after entering the room, Caroline is determined to unlock the secrets of the house, and rescue Ben from the horrors that hold him captive within.
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Madagascar
At New York's Central Park Zoo, a lion (Stiller), a zebra (Rock), a giraffe (Schwimmer), and a hippo (Smith) are best friends and stars of the show. But when one of the animals goes missing from their cage, the other three break free to look for him, only to find themselves reunited ... on a ship en route to the island of Madagascar. When their vessel capsizes off the coast, however, the friends, who have all been raised in captivity, learn first-hand what life can be like in the wild.
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