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Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi
98 Minutes |
Men in Black |
| Men in Black follows the exploits of agents Kay and Jay, members of a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth. The two Men in Black find themselves in the middle of the deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies. In order to prevent worlds from colliding, the MiB must track down the terrorist and prevent the destruction of Earth. It's just another typical day for the Men in Black. |
| Cast: Tommy Lee Jones; Will Smith; Linda Fiorentino; Vincent D'Onofrio; Rip Torn; Tony Shalhoub; Siobhan Fallon; Mike Nussbaum; Jon Gries; Sergio Calderon; Carel Struycken; Fredric Lehne; Richard Hamilton; Kent Faulcon; John Alexander |
| Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld |
Written by: Lowell Cunningham; Ed Solomon |
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Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi
88 Minutes |
Men in Black II |
| It has been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Kay has since returned to the comforts of civilian life while Jay continues to work for the Men in Black, the highly funded yet unofficial government agency that regulates all things alien on earth. While investigating a seemingly routine crime, Jay uncovers a diabolical plot masterminded by Serleena, an evil Kylothian monster who disguises herself as a sexy lingerie model. It's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay--who not only has no memory of his time spent with the agency, but is also the only person alive who has the expertise to save the galaxy--to reunite with the MIB before Earth is destroyed completely. |
| Cast: Tommy Lee Jones; Will Smith; Rip Torn; Lara Flynn Boyle; Johnny Knoxville; Rosario Dawson; Tony Shalhoub; Patrick Warburton; Jack Kehler; David Cross; Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine; Peter Spellos; Michael Rivkin; Michael Bailey Smith; Lenny Venito |
| Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld |
Written by: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon |
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Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
182 Minutes |
Merlin |
| The legend of King Arthur, this time, from the perspective of the King's Wizard, Merlin. Merlin is a creature born of pagan magic, living in a world converting to Christianity. Merlin is beside Arthur as he gains Excalibur, builds Camelot and is betrayed by his wife, Guinevere. Merlin and Arthur are both menaced by the plots of Morgan Le Fey, her son by Arthur, Mordred, and their cohorts. Through it all, Merlin tries to keep Arthur from the destructive path set by fate |
| Cast: Sam Neill; Helena Bonham Carter; Miranda Richardson; John Gielgud; Martin Short; Paul Curran; Jason Done; Rutger Hauer; James Earl Jones; Isabella Rossellini; Mark Jax; Jeremy Sheffield; Daniel Brocklebank; Lena Headey; John McEnery |
| Directed by: Steve Barron |
Written by: Edward Khmara; David Stevens |
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Action / Adventure / Thriller
110 Minutes |
Mission: Impossible |
| Movie based on the television series finds Jim Phelps and his team charged with stopping a traitor from stealing and selling classified material. Everything was going well until the man they are following and all of the team are inexplicably killed except for Ethan Hunt. Ethan then calls the Director and goes to meet him when he discovers that the whole mission was to ferret a mole that they have been suspicious of for some time. The Director shows evidence that hints that Ethan's the one they have been looking for but Ethan knows that he is not, so he escapes. Ethan then arranges to meet the buyer and whom he warns against using the material he has and when they meet he offers to get what he paid for in exchange for telling whom the mole is. Ethan, along with Phelps' wife Claire recruits two disavowed agents to help him which won't be easy. |
| Cast: Tom Cruise; Jon Voight; Emmanuelle Beart; Henry Czerny; Jean Reno; Ving Rhames; Kristin Scott Thomas; Vanessa Redgrave; Dale Dye; Marcel Iures; Ion Caramitru; Ingeborga Dapkunaite; Valentina Yakunina; Marek Vasut; Nathan Osgood |
| Directed by: Brian De Palma |
Written by: Bruce Geller; David Koepp |
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Action / Thriller
123 Minutes |
Mission: Impossible II |
| IMF agent Ethan Hunt has been sent on a mission to retrieve and destroy the supply of a genetically created disease called 'Chimera'. His mission is made impossible due to the fact that he is not the only person after samples of the disease. He must also contest with a gang of international terrorists headed by a turned bad former IMF agent who has already managed to steal the cure called 'Bellerophon' and now need 'Chimera' to complete their grand plan of infecting the whole world. In order to infiltrate and locate the terrorist group he relies on the help of an international thief Nyah of whom he quickly develops a love interest. Time is not only running out for Agent Hunt to find and destroy 'Chimera' before the terrorists get their hands on it, but he must also find 'Bellerophon' so as to save his love interest who has already become infected by the disease from a terrible and rapid death. |
| Cast: Tom Cruise; Dougray Scott; Thandie Newton; Ving Rhames; Richard Roxburgh; John Polson; Brendan Gleeson; Rade Serbedzija; William Mapother; Dominic Purcell; Matthew Wilkinson; Nicholas Bell; Cristina Brogers; Kee Chan; Kim Fleming |
| Directed by: John Woo |
Written by: Bruce Geller; Ronald D. Moore |
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Drama / Romance
111 Minutes |
Monster's Ball |
| Hank Grotowski is a prison guard. He works with his son, Sonny, and lives at home with his racist father, Buck. Lawrence Musgrove has just been executed and a horrible tragedy has happened at home. Now, Hank has just met Leticia, a young black woman struggling to make ends meet and they quickly fall in love to ease each other's pains. If only he knew that Leticia is Musgrove's widow... |
| Cast: Billy Bob Thornton; Taylor Simpson; Gabrielle Witcher; Heath Ledger; Amber Rules; Peter Boyle; Charles Cowan Jr.; Taylor Lagrange; Mos Def; Anthony Bean; Francine Segal; John McConnell; Marcus Lyle Brown; Milo Addica; Leah Loftin; Halle Berry |
| Directed by: Marc Forster |
Written by: Milo Addica Will Rokos |
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Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
92 Minutes |
Monsters, Inc. |
| James P. Sullivan (AKA 'Sulley') and Mike Wazowski pick up their paychecks at Monsters Inc., the utility company that generates energy from the goose bumps of children. Sulley, the No. 1 scream-generator at the plant accidentally lets in a little girl into the monster world. Since monsters are actually terrified of children it's a major cause for alarm and a major headache for Sulley and Mike. |
| Cast: John Goodman; Billy Crystal; Mary Gibbs; Steve Buscemi; James Coburn; Jennifer Tilly; Bob Peterson (III); John Ratzenberger; Frank Oz; Dan Gerson; Steve Susskind; Bonnie Hunt; Jeff Pidgeon; Sam 'Penguin' Black; Jack Angel (I) |
| Directed by: Peter Docter; David Silverman |
Written by: Robert L. Baird; Jill Culton |
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Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
91 Minutes |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| The movie starts out with Arthur, King of the Britons, looking for knights to sit with him at Camelot. He finds many knights including Sir Galahad the pure, Sir Lancelot the brave, the quiet Sir Bedevere, and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot. They do not travel on horses, but pretend they do and have their servants bang coconuts to make the sound of horse's hooves. Through satire of certain events in history (witch trials, the black plague) they find Camelot, but after literally a quick song and dance they decide that they do not want to go there. While walking away, God (who seems to be grumpy) come to them from a cloud and tells them to find the Holy Grail. They agree and begin their search. While they search for the Grail, scenes of the knight's tales appear and why they have the name they have. Throughout their search they meet interesting people and knights along the way. Most of the characters die; some through a killer rabbit (which they defeat with the holy hand grenade), others from not answering a question right from the bridge of Death, or die some other ridiculous way. In the end, King Arthur and Sir Bedevere are left and find the Castle Arrrghhh where the Holy Grail is. They are met by some French soldiers who taunted them earlier in the film, so they were not able to get into the castle |
| Cast: Graham Chapman; John Cleese; Eric Idle; Terry Gilliam; Terry Jones; Michael Palin; Connie Booth; Carol Cleveland; Neil Innes; Bee Duffell; John Young; Rita Davies; Avril Stewart; Sally Kinghorn; Mark Zycon |
| Directed by: Terry Gilliam; Terry Jones |
Written by: Graham Chapman; John Clees |
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Comedy / Drama / Romance
102 Minutes |
Moonstruck |
| Loretta Castorini, a Brooklyn bookkeeper in her late 30s whose husband died several years earlier in a bus accident, decides it's time to get married again. So she accepts the proposal of a nice, middle-aged fellow named Johnny Cammareri. Loretta is convinced her first marriage was cursed because she and her husband had gotten married at City Hall; this time, she's determined to do things right, even as she admits to her mother, Rose, that she's not really in love with Johnny. (To which Rose replies: "Good. When you love them, they drive you crazy, 'cause they know they can." Rose speaks from rueful experience; she suspects, with good reason, that her husband, Cosmo, is cheating on her.) Loretta is convinced that marrying Johnny is the safe and sure thing to do - until she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, who tends the ovens in a neighborhood bakery. Loretta discovers that in startling contrast to the pleasant, mild-mannered Johnny, Ronny is moody and passionate; what follows are complications worthy of a comic opera. |
| Cast: Cher; Nicolas Cage; Vincent Gardenia; Olympia Dukakis; Danny Aiello; Julie Bovasso; John Mahoney; Louis Guss; Feodor Chaliapin Jr.; Anita Gillette; Leonardo Cimino; Paula Trueman; Nada Despotovich; Joe Grifasi; Gina DeAngeles |
| Directed by: Norman Jewison |
Written by: John Patrick Shanley |
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127 Minutes |
Moulin Rouge |
| In 1900, Christian, an impoverished writer who has come from Scotland the year before, types his story: he arrived in Montmartre and fell in with Toulouse-Lautrec and Bohemians who believe in freedom, truth, beauty, and love. They want to sell a show to the Moulin Rouge, and its impresario wants a backer so he can build a proper theatre. He's plying a duke, who wants exclusive access to the favors of Satine, the Moulin Rouge's consumptive star. She wants to be a proper actress, so the duke's offer is fine - except that she and Christian fall in love. Can Satine keep the duke at bay without losing his patronage, will he discover the lovers and kill Christian, and can love trump jealousy? |
| Cast: Nicole Kidman; Ewan McGregor; John Leguizamo; Jim Broadbent; Richard Roxburgh; Garry McDonald; Jacek Koman; Matthew Whittet; Kerry Walker; Caroline O'Connor; Christine Anu; Natalie Jackson Mendoza; Lara Mulcahy; David Wenham; Kylie Minogue |
| Directed by: Baz Luhrmann |
Written by: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce |
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