Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a 2008 film directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film is a sequel to 2004's Hellboy, also directed by del Toro.


PLOT:

A young Hellboy is told a bedtime story by his adoptive father (John Hurt), involving an ancient war between humans and the mythical creatures. The tale culminates with the creation of a crown that would give its wearer control over an unstoppable clockwork army. The 4900 soldiers, called The Golden Army, decimated the humans so completely that a truce was made. Humans would have the cities, while the mythical creatures would have the forests. The crown was broken, with two parts going to the elves and one to the humans. The Golden Army was buried and quickly became legend.

In the present, the now-adult Hellboy (Ron Perlman) is having relationship issues with his girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair). The duo, along with their partner Abe Sapien (Doug Jones), are sent to an auction house where violence has erupted. Unbeknownst to them, The King of the Elves has been murdered by his son Nuada (Luke Goss), who has taken it upon himself to destroy mankind. After taking his father's piece of the crown, he unleashed thousands of tooth fairies in the auction house, which devoured everyone and allowed him access to the second piece of the crown.

Abe scans the auction house, but accidentally scans Liz and discovers she's pregnant. She denies it, but Abe assures her he is never incorrect. After a fierce, fiery battle with the fairies, Hellboy is blown out a window and exposed to the media, thus destroying the secrecy of the BPRD. Furious at his actions, the Washington branch sends down a new agent, Johann Krauss (Seth MacFarlane), who works completely by the book.

The group then travels to The Troll Market, an enormous city hidden under The Brooklyn Bridge, for clues. They eventually discover Princess Nuala (Anna Walton), who holds the last piece of the crown needed to control The Golden Army. They take her into captivity at BPRD headquarters, where Abe quickly falls in love with her.

When Prince Nuada discovers his sister's location, he attacks BPRD headquarters. She hides the final piece of the crown, but her brother still kidnaps her, forcing the agents to bring the final piece to him. Unable to find the last piece of the crown, they travel to Northern Ireland, where the Golden Army was buried millenia ago, to confront their foe.

Little do the other agents know, Abe has found the last piece of the crown that Nuala hid and gives it up to Prince Nuada in exchange for her life. He forms the crown and awakens the golden army, which immediately attacks the agents. After a fierce battle, they realize that the army cannot be destroyed, as all of their damage regenerates.

Hellboy challenges Nuada for the right to the crown, which the Prince is forced to accept, given that Hellboy is royalty in Hell. They duel, but Abe informs Hellboy that he cannot kill Nuada, for the Prince and Princess are shared-soul twins - and when one is injured, they both share the wounds. Hellboy defeats Nuada, but the latter tells him he must be killed, as he will never stop fighting. Hellboy refuses and the Prince tries to attack once more, when suddenly, blood pours from his chest. His sister has stabbed herself through the heart, killing them both.

Abe rushes to Nuala's body and tells her he loves her before she dies. As she does, he cries for the first time in his life. Liz incincerates the crown, shutting down The Golden Army forever.

As the BPRD agents leave the underground compound, Agent Manning reprimands them for their actions. To his surprise, Hellboy, Liz, and Abe all hand over their belts and announce their resignation from the bureau. He complains to Johann, who then insults Manning and walks off defiantly with his newfound friends.

Wanted

Wanted is a 2008 action film loosely based on the comic book miniseries Wanted by Mark Millar. The film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov and stars James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Kretschmann, Konstantin Khabensky and Angelina Jolie. Production began in April 2007.

PLOT:

The film opens with a man known as Mr. X (David O'Hara) walking into a building in Chicago. He goes into a room and speaks with an Indian woman to find out who made a particular bullet for a "competitor". The conversation is interrupted by a sniper shooting the woman from a nearby building. This prompts Mr. X to run back into the elevator, where he performs a breathing exercise which causes his perception of time to slow. He then dashes down the corridor at amazing speed and makes a spectacular leap through the window, across the gap between buildings, eliminating all his opponents in mid-flight. As he assesses his fallen enemies, a dead sniper's phone begins to ring - a call from a man he calls Cross (Thomas Kretschmann). Cross tells Mr. X the snipers are decoys, who looks down and realizes that he is standing on top of an X mark on the ground. Cross then says goodbye as he fires a multi-stage bullet through Mr. X's head from miles away.

The scene then turns to Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy), a seemingly insignificant accounts manager in an unnamed firm. He lives a monotonous and unrewarding life, subject to frequent abuse from his boss, and suspects(accurately) that his friend and coworker is having sex with his shrewish girlfriend. He feels his life is summed up by an attempt at self-Googling; which produces no results. In addition, he is a hypochondriac, prone to panic attacks, which he takes Ativan to control. However, his perception of time seems to slow during these attacks - just like Mr. X.

One night, at a grocery store, Wesley notices he is being stalked by Cross, but doesn't pay any mind until a mysterious woman (Angelina Jolie) suddenly appears next to him, telling him that his father, Mr. X, was an elite assassin who had been killed on top of a building the day before - by Cross. The woman opens fire, and a shoot-out in the grocery store leads to a car pursuit in the streets, with the woman and Wesley making a narrow escape.

He wakes up the next morning at the base of The Fraternity, a thousand-year-old secret society of assassins who kill those who threaten to bring the world to chaos. The group's leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman), introduces Gibson to Fox, the woman from the night before, and invites him to follow in his father's footsteps as an assassin. Sloan first decides to test Wesley by making him shoot the wings off a fly. When Wesley refuses, a gun is put to his head, triggering a panic attack - during which he manages to shoot the wings off several flies.

Sloan explains that Wesley's "panic attacks" are actually an untrained manifestation of a rare superhuman ability which allows his heart to beat at an abnormally high speed, flooding his bloodstream with equally abnormal high levels of adrenaline. This causes his perspective of time to slow dramatically, granting him superhuman reflexes and strength. This trait is genetic, inherited from his father - and with his father's death, he also inherits his father's fortune to do with as he wishes. But Sloan is offering more than that - he is offering Wesley his father's position within The Fraternity, signified by his father's gun. Wesley, already overwhelmed by the day's events, refuses and leaves.

Wesley wakes up the the next day thinking that everything was a dream, but discovers his father's gun and finds over $3.6 million in his bank account. Confirming the claims made by Sloan causes him to have an epiphany - he can be more than what he is. He tells off his boss and quits his job, knocking out his philandering friend's teeth with his keyboard (the shattered keys and teeth spelling out "fuck you") as he leaves. Fox is waiting for him outside to give him a ride back to the Fraternity headquarters - an unassuming textile mill.

Wesley immediately begins training to make full use of his abnormal adrenaline surges and join the Fraternity. The Repairman desensitizes him to pain through daily bludgeoning. The Butcher teaches him various forms of close combat; hand-to-hand and knife fighting. Fox teaches him parkour. The Gunsmith teaches him marksmanship, not only with normal firearms but also the Fraternity's smoothbore weapons which are able to "curve" specially etched bullets in a manner similar to expertly pitched baseballs.

The training is brutal, and is only endurable with the assistance of periodic medicinal baths that accelerate healing. While recovering in one of these baths, Wesley meets the Exterminator (Konstantin Khabensky), a fellow Fraternity member named for his use of mini-bomb-bearing rats. He muses to Wesley of thousands of mini-bombs set upon a target.

Wesley makes amazing progress over due time but seems unable to master curving a bullet around a piece of hanging meat. Eventually Fox stands in front of the meat and Wes is told to shoot around her at the target. Once he finally succeeds, his training complete, and Wesley is given orders to kill people from The Loom of Fate, a cloth spinning machine that gives the names of the targets through a binary code hidden in the weaving of the threads, a process which Wesley initially finds suspicious.

While on his first assignment, Wesley hesitates in killing his target while riding by on the top of a train. In the next scene, he questions Fox, "How do we know who is bad or good?" She responds by telling him a story of a young girl. The girl's father was a prestigious judge who was handling a sensitive case, and the case's defendant had put a hit on him in order to get a judge who could be bought off. One day a hired killer held the young girl at knife point as they waited for her father to return home. The killer lit the father on fire as the young girl watched, then he branded his initials into her neck, which was the signature of his work. Fox explains that the killer had been targeted by the Fraternity several weeks prior to the events of the story, but their assassin had failed to carry out his duty. Fox then explains that is what the Fraternity does: kill one, and save a thousand. Wesley notices that initials are scarred onto her neck, indicating that the young girl in the story was her. The scene switches back to Wesley firing and curving the bullet to take out the target, revealing that Fox's story was told in a flashback prior to the assignment taking place.

Wesley is then given a second assignment - which he accomplishes easily with limited assistance from Fox. He then returns to his apartment to retrieve his father's gun - and encounters Cross upon leaving the building. Gunfire is exchanged and Wesley pursues Cross, but accidentally kills The Exterminator in the process. Cross takes this opportunity to "curve" a bullet into Wesley's arm. With his dying breath the Exterminator tells Wesley, "thousands."

Wesley analyzes the bullet from his arm and traces its origins - it is an expertly engraved bullet that might as well be autographed, the work of a renegade Fraternity member named Pekwarsky (Terrence Stamp). Sloan grants Wesley permission to personally investigate Pekwarsky despite Fox's protest that it could be a trap. After Wesley leaves, Sloan hands Fox a new kill order from the Loom - Wesley.

Wesley and Fox travel to the Fraternity's original base of operations in Europe, an abbey all but identical to the textile mill. The two easily capture Pekwarsky and force him to take them to Cross. The meeting leads to a confrontation between Wesley and Cross on a moving train. Fox steals a car and crashes it into the train, eventually causing the train to derail when it reaches a bridge over a deep ravine. Wesley, Fox, and Cross hang on for their lives as their cabin dangles from the bridge. Wesley is about to fall, but Cross catches his hand to save him. Wesley unhesitatingly shoots him. Before Cross dies, he tells Wesley that everything the Fraternity told him was a lie, and that he is his real father. Fox confirms the truth and explains that Wesley was the only one who could kill Cross not because of his superhuman talent, but because the only person Cross wouldn't kill was his son. Fox raises her weapon to shoot Wesley, but Wesley shoots the glass underneath him, plunging into the river far below.

Wesley awakes in a medicinal bath in an apartment across the street from his former apartment, courtesy of Pekwarsky. Upon inspecting the apartment he discovers it belonged to his father, who had been monitoring him his whole life. Pekwarsky hands Wesley a loom weaving and tells him to decode it. Wesley is shocked to discover Sloan's name in the weaving. Pekwarsky explains that Cross went rogue due to this discovery. Since then Sloan has used false weavings to direct the Fraternity as mere contract killers. Wesley realizes that Cross had never actually tried to kill him in their previous confrontations - he had been assassinating Fraternity members to keep them away from Wesley. Pekwarsky departs after giving Wesley plane tickets, stating that his father wished him a life free of violence and chaos.

While investigating the apartment further, Wesley discovers a secret room containing all of his father's weapons, maps, notes, and battle plans. He even finds a supply of The Exterminator's mini-bombs, realizing that The Exterminator had been working with his father. Consumed by rage and seeing his opportunity, Wesley devises a plan to take out Sloan and the Fraternity.

Wesley begins the first phase of his plan by filling a garbage truck with rats gorged on explosives-laced peanut butter, "arming" a number of the rats with the Exterminator's mini-bombs. He then crashes the truck into the Fraternity compound, thus flooding it with pseudo-smart bombs. After all the rats explode, he charges in, killing all the Fraternity members he encounters, including the Repairman and the Butcher. Upon Sloan's office, he finds himself surrounded by Fox and her fellow master assassins. Wesley tells them that Sloan is killing for profit by providing his killers with fake instructions from the Loom. He then attempts to kill Sloan, but is disarmed by Fox.

Fox then asks Sloan if this is true. Sloan then reveals that all of their names had come up in the weaving, and that he had merely acted to protect them. He then goes on to explain that if they truly believe in the code then they should all commit suicide right where they stand. Otherwise, they should kill Wesley and live a life of freedom - or more appropriately, world domination. The other assassins seem to agree with Sloan, but Fox, for whom the code is her reason for existence, turns on her fellow assassins. She curves a bullet to kill the entire circle of assassins, including herself. However, Sloan has already escaped.

WALL-E

WALL-E (promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E) is a 2008 computer animated adventure comedy science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 27, 2008.

PLOT


In the 2100s, the company Buy 'n Large supplies almost every service on Earth and eventually becomes the world government. Overrun by consumerism, the planet eventually becomes so heavily polluted that it can no longer support life. In an attempt to keep humanity alive, Buy 'n Large sponsors an exodus to space aboard several Executive Starliners, one of which is the Axiom. In the meantime, millions of WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) units are left behind to clean up the planet by gathering up garbage and compacting it into cubes for easy disposal. The recovery plan fails, and by 2805, only one WALL-E (the protagonist, voiced by Ben Burtt) remains operational. He is curious, awkward and just a little lonely. WALL-E has developed a personality and collects various items that he finds among the refuse, including a Rubik's Cube, plastic utensils, a lighter, an iPod, and a treasured videotape of the film Hello, Dolly! that teaches him emotion, particularly holding hands. He also finds and saves a seedling plant, repotting it in an old boot.

EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) (Elissa Knight), a robot from the Axiom sent to find plant life, lands on Earth. After observing her from afar, the two robots finally make contact and WALL-E's curiosity grows quickly into love. After multiple misunderstandings, WALL-E shows her the plant he found. Following her directive, EVE stores the plant inside herself and deactivates herself. WALL-E goes to great lengths to protect her body including harming himself. EVE is eventually recovered by the ship that took her to Earth and where other EVEs are stored and flys back to the Axiom. Chasing EVE, WALL-E latches on to the outside of the ship and rides it back to its destination. Aboard the Axiom, WALL-E escapes notice by other robots and explores the ship. After 700 years of liquid food and leaving all the work to robots, humanity have become lazy and morbidly obese, unable to stand or move without robotic help, and have no awareness of Earth. Every task is now automated, including the captain's duties, which are handled by the autopilot AUTO (MacInTalk).

WALL-E follows EVE to the captain's room, where the captain (Jeff Garlin) is to be shown the plant. However, EVE no longer contains the plant. AUTO informs the captain that EVE has apparently malfunctioned, and she is sent to the robot repair room. WALL-E is spotted and also sent to the repair room, where he, in a misunderstanding about the diagnostic machine, takes EVE's gun arm and accidentally liberates all the malfunctioning robots from their prison-like confines. WALL-E is carried away by the celebrating, newly-freed malfunctioning units. EVE chases the other robots and WALL-E to recover her arm; in the process, she is accidentally labeled as a rogue robot, mistaken for helping lead the other crazed robots. Seeing the chaos WALL-E has caused, EVE tries to send him back to Earth in an escape pod, but he refuses to go. While she tries to put WALL-E into the pod, AUTO's assistant, GO-4, arrives and reveals that he had the plant the whole time. He then tries to dispose of it in the escape pod, and when WALL-E tries to retrieve it, he is launched into space and the pod's self-destruct sequence is activated. By using a fire extinguisher to propel himself, he escapes with the plant at the last second. Realizing that the plant has been recovered, AUTO again triggers the alert against WALL-E and EVE. EVE brings the plant to the captain; curious to see images of Earth, he projects EVE's memories and security camera footage from when she shut down, where she sees the lengths that WALL-E went to protect her. The captain is shocked by the environmental devastation on Earth depicted in the recordings and decides they must return to make amends.

AUTO mutinies and tries to dispose of the plant, and is forced to reveal the truth of the situation to the captain. After leaving the Earth, Buy 'n Large quickly concluded that the planet was too toxic to ever support life again and abandoned recolonization plans; as a result, AUTO is secretly programmed to never return to Earth. AUTO locks the captain in his bedroom, electrically shocks WALL-E, throws him and the plant into a garbage chute, and deactivates EVE. EVE awakens in the Axiom's disposal facility where gigantic WALL-A (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Axiom-Class) units are compacting garbage and launching it into space. EVE saves WALL-E, whose hardware is heavily damaged and rapidly losing battery power, and realizes that they must return to Earth in order to fix him. They recruit the malfunctioning robots and fight their way back to the main part of the ship. Meanwhile, the captain tricks AUTO into bringing him back onto the bridge. He tells WALL-E and EVE to put the plant on the holo-detector, a pedestal that rises from the floor on one of the passenger decks. AUTO forces the holo-detector back into the floor and turns the ship on its side, and EVE is forced to save several humans as they slide into a wall. WALL-E uses his body to jam the holo-detector open so EVE can put the plant inside. The captain shuts down AUTO, takes manual control, once the plant is in the holo-detector the ship's hyperjump back to Earth is initiated. WALL-E's crushed body runs out of charge and shuts down.

Once they arrive on Earth, EVE frantically replaces WALL-E's damaged components using spare parts in his home. As he recharges, he appears to lose the personality he has developed and begins to perform his programmed task, crushing his knick-knacks into cubes. EVE, despondent over the loss of WALL-E, holds his hand and leans forward to "kiss" him, causing a spark to jump between the two. The spark reboots WALL-E's memory and he suddenly recognizes her. With a renewed sense of purpose, humanity and robots begin working together to restore Earth's biosphere.

As the credits begin, the redevelopment of Earth is depicted through a series of drawings, starting with primitive cave paintings and moving through more sophisticated techniques. The progression ends with a picture of WALL-E and EVE gazing at a giant tree, which is revealed to be the plant rescued from the Axiom. During the credit roll, pixel art images of the characters appear and interact in various ways.

Sex and the City

Sex and the City is the romantic comedy feature film adaptation of the HBO comedy series Sex and the City (itself based on the book Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell) about four female friends living in New York City. The series often portrayed frank discussions about romance and sexuality.

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Set four years after the events of "An American Girl in Paris, Part Deux", the film begins with Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Big (Chris Noth) viewing apartments with the intention of moving in together. Carrie falls in love with a penthouse suite, which Big immediately agrees to pay for. However, Carrie experiences doubts over the sensibility of this arrangement, explaining that they are not married, and as such she would have no legal rights to their home in the event of a separation. Quelling her worry, Big suggests that they get married.

Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is finding balancing her home, work and social life ever more difficult, and confesses that she hasn’t slept with Steve (David Eigenberg) for six months. She is devastated when Steve reveals he has slept with another woman, and immediately separates from him. Samantha (Kim Cattrall) is living with Smith (Jason Lewis), who has a successful television career. They live in L.A., where Samantha is finding it difficult to take time for herself. She is traveling frequently between L.A. and New York, and grappling with her persistent desire for sex with other men. Charlotte (Kristin Davis) is happy in her marriage to Harry, with their adopted Chinese daughter, Lily.

Carrie's wedding plans escalate into such a lavish event that Big begins to experience doubts. After an argument with Steve at the rehearsal dinner, Miranda tells Big bluntly that he and Carrie are crazy to be getting married. On the day of the ceremony, he decides he cannot go through with it, and although he changes his mind and returns to the venue, Carrie has already been left humiliated and betrayed. The four women take the honeymoon that Carrie had booked to Mexico, where they de-stress and collect themselves.

On her return to New York, Carrie hires an assistant, Louise (Jennifer Hudson), to help her move back into her old apartment and manage her administration. After reflecting on an argument she has with Carrie, Miranda agrees to attend couples counseling with Steve, and they are eventually able to reconcile. Samantha begins overeating to keep her from cheating on Smith, but eventually realizes that their relationship is simply not working, and that she needs to put herself first. The two break up, and she moves back to New York. Charlotte falls pregnant and is delighted, although for several months is concerned that something might happen to the baby, as her life seems to be too perfect.

A surprise encounter with Big leaves Charlotte so furious she goes into labor. Big delivers her to the hospital, and waits until baby Rose is born, hoping to see Carrie. Harry passes on the message that Big would like her to call him, and that he has written to her frequently, but never received a reply. Carrie searches her correspondence, before realizing that Louise has kept his emails password-protected from her, after she earlier announced she wished to sever all communication with him. She finds that he has sent her dozens of letters copied from a book she showed him in the weeks before their wedding, "Love Letters of Great Men", culminating with one of his own where he apologizes for screwing it up and promises to love her forever.

One hour before the locks are due to be changed on their shared apartment, Carrie travels to the home Big had bought for them to collect a pair of shoes she had left there. She finds Big in the walk-in closet he had built for her, and the moment she sees him, her anger at his betrayal dissipates. She runs into his arms and they share a passionate kiss. After spending the final hour in their apartment together, talking and apologizing to one another, Big proposes to Carrie properly, using one of her shoes in place of a ring. They later marry alone, in a simple wedding in New York City Hall, followed by a get-together at a local diner with friends. The movie ends with the four women around a table in a restaurant celebrating Samantha's fiftieth birthday, and making a toast to the next fifty.

The Happening

The film opens in New York's Central Park, when people suddenly fall into a strange trance and begin committing suicide. The signs are 1. Memory loss 2. Disorientation 3. Suicide. The phenomenon spreads to other areas; in New York, construction workers throw themselves off buildings while, in Rittenhouse Square Philadelphia, a string of people kill themselves with a police officer's gun.

Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), is teaching science class in Philadelphia when the principal ends classes due to reports of an apparent bioterrorist attack on New York. Elliot and his distant wife, Alma Moore (Zooey Deschanel), join Elliot's best friend and fellow teacher, Julian (John Leguizamo), and his eight year old daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez) as they decide to leave the city. There are obvious problems in Elliot's and Alma's marriage, due to the fact that they fight before the train leaves and decide to sit in different compartments. The train they take soon stops at a small town in western Pennsylvania; train services are discontinued after the crew loses contact with "everyone." News begins to come through televisions and cell phones as the pandemic is shown spreading across the northeastern United States. The initial assumption of terrorism is abandoned as the scale of the attacks grows beyond the capabilities of any known terrorist group. The train abandonees take refuge in a small diner where they watch the TV for news on the attacks. A woman is sent a movie on her iPhone of a man feeding himself to Lions at a Zoo. Right after this, they find that the "attacks" have hit Princeton, where Julian's wife is currently shopping.

As people try to flee from the affected area, Julian joins a group heading to Princeton, hoping to find his wife. He leaves his daughter, Jess, in the care of Elliot and Alma. Julian then gives her a picture of her parents and promises he'll be back. Soon, he and the group he's joined enter Princeton, to find many bodies hanging from trees. A woman in the car panics, and Julian tries to calm her down by telling her math problems (he believes that percentages are comforting). However, he looks at the ceiling of the Jeep to find a small slit in the vinyl. Suddenly the car stops, and then drives full force into a tree. Two of the front passangers are thrown through the windshield, but Julian survives. Dizzily, he steps out of the car and slits his wrists with shards of glass.

Meanwhile, Elliot, Alma, and Jess manage to hitchhike with a botanist and his wife; the man explains his theory that plants are attacking people as a defense mechanism. He elaborates on the complex mechanisms that often seem to appear spontaneously, involve strategies such as attracting predators to kill off specific threats and foster communication between different species of plants. Eventually, Elliot and the group come to a crossroads and meet a soldier, Pvt. Auster, who reports that he has come from a military installation that was already affected. From the other roads came more fleeing vehicles; the drivers report that they have been from an affected area. All the cars stop and the people huddle in a group, scared to leave the spot.

Auster takes charge and advises the group to split into two: those who are ready to move out and those who still have to fetch or gather things. As the phenomenon occurs in smaller and smaller populations, both groups are advised to stay away from the roads and travel by foot to less populated areas. Elliot, Alma and Jess are ready to go, as well as two young teens some adults and younger children.

As the wind blows through the fields, Auster's larger group soon succumbs to the phenomenon, killing themselves using the soldier's pistol. Elliot, assessing the situation as a scientific experiment, realizes that the phenomenon is caused by an airborne neurotoxin. The number of people present in an area determines whether a group of people are to be considered a threat. Elliot makes the group split into three smaller ones with Elliot, Alma, Jess and two teenage boys staying together.

After a while, they come across a house in what seems to be the middle of nowhere. Elliot riffles though the desk drawer to find a map while Alma takes Jess to pee and the boys explore the house. Soon enough, Elliot realizes that everything in the house is fake, including the plants. As he wanders into the dining room, Alma and Jess return and they're set to leave. As they leave the house they notice a large group of people running towards the home. The smaller group makes a run for it, but Elliot watches in horror from a nearby hill as a man starts up a large lawnmower, then lies under it.

Elliot's group make their way toward a community, which they hope is so small that it will not trigger a release of the toxin. They come to a house where a group of individuals are holed up, still believing the phenomenon to be a terrorist attack. Jess announces she's hungry and they beg for food. But when the boys try to make an forced entry, they are shot to death. Alma and Elliot follow Jess from the house to avoid being shot themselves.

Elliot, Alma and Jess next come across the house of an elderly woman, who lives in complete isolation, thus, she is ignorant of the pandemic. Though she allows them to stay, she proves to be a harsh host and a paranoid woman. In the evening, she shrewdly asks Elliot if they are planning on murdering or stealing from her. In the morning, Elliot finds himself alone; going downstairs, he hears the voices of Alma and Jess but cannot find them. He inadvertently enters a room and is yelled at by the old woman who accuses him of stealing and demands that they leave immediately.

The woman storms out of the house into the garden when the wind begins blowing once more. Realizing that the neurotoxin release is triggered by even individual people, Elliot closes the door and windows of the house. The woman, on the other hand, roams around the house and eventually kills herself by smashing her head into the walls and windows of her own house. Fleeing from the windows that have been smashed open, Elliot finds himself in a room where he can hear Alma and Jess. He finds a speaking tube, which leads to a shed outside the house. Conversing with his wife, he says that he would want nothing more than to be with her. As the three leave their shelters, the pandemic suddenly subsides and they remain unaffected.

Three months later, Elliot and pregnant Alma have adjusted to a new life with Jess as their adopted daughter. On television, environmentalists are warning that the pandemic may only have been a warning, a rash that precedes an infection. Elliot takes Jess to the bus stop while Alma stays at home, timing a home pregnancy test. When he returns, Alma greets him with a smile and baby news.

In the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, civilians fell into a strange trance. A man keeps repeating that he must take his bicycle home before he goes to a party. He and others start killing themselves. The pandemic has spread.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a 2008 science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. Set in 1957, the fourth film in the Indiana Jones film series pits an older and wiser Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) against agents of the Soviet Union, led by Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett), in the search for a crystal skull. Indy is aided by his former lover Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), the greaser Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf), and fellow archaeologist Mac (Ray Winstone). John Hurt and Jim Broadbent also play fellow academics.



Plot:

In 1957, Colonel-Doctor Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett) leads a convoy of Soviets, dressed as American soldiers, infiltrating a military base in the Nevada desert containing "Hangar 51", where they force Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) to lead them to a crate holding the remains of an extraterrestrial creature that crashed ten years before in Roswell, New Mexico. In a brief scene, a broken crate containing the Ark of the Covenant is revealed to the audience. When Jones attempts to escape, he is foiled by his old partner, George "Mac" McHale (Ray Winstone), who reveals that he is working with the Soviets. Jones then escapes on a rocket sled into the desert, where he stumbles upon a nuclear test town and survives a nuclear blast by hiding in a lead-lined refrigerator. While being debriefed, Jones discovers he is under FBI investigation because his friend Mac is a Soviet agent. Jones returns to Marshall College, where he is offered a leave of absence to avoid being fired because of the investigation. As he is leaving, Jones is stopped by Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf) and told that his old colleague, Harold Oxley (John Hurt), disappeared after discovering a crystal skull in Peru.



In Peru, Jones and Mutt discover that Oxley was locked in an insane asylum until Soviet soldiers kidnapped him. In Oxley's former cell, Jones discovers clues to the grave of Francisco de Orellana, a Conquistador who went missing in the 1500s while seeking Akator (also known as El Dorado). Jones finds the crystal skull that Oxley hid in Orellana's grave in the Nazca Lines. The skull is elongated in the shape that indigenous peoples formed their own skulls into. The Soviets capture Indy and Mutt and take them to the camp where they are holding Oxley and Mutt's mother, Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), who reveals that Mutt is Jones's son. The Soviets believe the skull is the actual skull from an extraterrestrial life-form with a crystalline bone structure, holding great psychic power. Mutt, Jones, Oxley, and Marion manage to breifly escape, but are recaptured. Marion, Jones, and Mutt have their feet tied and their hands tied behind their back and are locked in the back of a truck. Mutt, Jones, and Marion argue about how Jones is Mutt's father. A guard gets annoyed by the arguing so he takes a cleave gag and roughly puts it in Marion's mouth, making her unable to talk. Jones then knocks out the guard with his feet, making them able to escape. Later, during a lengthy vehicle chase involving sword fights, Mutt swinging on vines with monkeys, and several Soviet soldiers being eaten by army ants, as well as Mac revealing that he is actually a double agent working against the Soviets, Mutt, Marion, Mac, Oxley, and Jones ride an amphibious truck over a cliff and down three waterfalls, eventually finding the Temple of Akator.

After entering the temple, Jones uses the skull to open the door to a chamber tomb. Inside, thirteen crystal skeletons, one with a missing skull, are seated on thrones. When the Soviets arrive, Mac reveals that he lied about being a double agent. When Spalko places the skull onto the skeleton, it begins communicating to the group through Oxley using an ancient Mayan dialect. Jones translates this to mean that the aliens want to give them a great gift. Spalko demands to know everything, and the skulls begin firing knowledge into her eyes, causing her to shake. As a portal to another dimension appears over the room, Oxley regains his sanity and explains that the aliens are inter-dimensional beings who taught the Maya their advanced technology. Indy, Mutt, Marion, and Oxley escape from the temple, but Mac is sucked into the portal. The skeletons form into a single alien which continues to feed Spalko with knowledge. However, the knowledge overwhelms Spalko, causing her to ignite into flames and disintegrate, with her essence being absorbed into the portal above. The temple crumbles, and a flying saucer rises from the debris and disappears. Back home, Jones is made an associate dean and marries Marion. As Mutt tries to take a picture of his parents, a gust of wind knocks Jones' hat off the coat stand and pushes it to Mutt's feet. However, just before Mutt slowly puts in on his head, Jones grabs it from him and places it on his own, leaving with his new bride, Marion.

The Foot Fist Way

The Plot: A down-and-out Tae Kwon Do instructor looks to turn his life around by going on a pilgrimage with his buddy (Hill) and two of his students to see his hero, the martial arts legend Chuck "The Truck" Wallace (Best), at a kung-fu convention.

THE BUZZ: It looks like Judd Apatow and his crew might have some competition this year in the form of dynamic writing/acting duo Danny McBride and Ben Best, and their director pal Jody Hill. The trio is being nursed by Will Ferrell and his development partner Adam McKay; their Gary Sanchez Productions is behind the team's HBO pilot East Bound and Down, a sports comedy (Will Ferrel? Sports? Comedy? Go figure.) that should hit the air later this year. Back to Foot Fist ... the indie was shot in 19 days and reportedly has a home-video feel at times, and taste-making reviewers dug it at last year's Sundance Film Festival, though we're unsure why the marketing plan for this one is slow to roll out. It should have been on FunnyOrDie months ago. All reviewers question whether audiences will embrace McBride's caustic, in-your-face performance as a Tae Kwon Do instructor who isn't afraid to attack a 7-year-old kid.

The Children of Huang Shi

George Hogg a young British journalist, who came from St. George's School, Harpenden, helps an Australian nurse save some orphaned children from Huangshi during the Japanese occupation of China in World War II. The movie spans from 1938 to 1945 and features the Rape of Nanking[1] and the Sankō Sakusen.[2]

War, Inc.

War, Inc. was filmed in Bulgaria beginning in late October 2006. Marisa Tomei and Cusack's sister Joan co-star in the film. It will be released to theatres in the United States on May 23, 2008. War Inc. is set in the future, when the fictional desert country of Turagistan is torn by a riot after a private corporation, Tamerlane, owned by the former Vice President of the United States (Dan Aykroyd), has taken over the whole state. Brand Hauser (John Cusack), a hit man who suppresses his emotions by gobbling down hot sauce, is hired by the corporation's head to kill the CEO of their competitors. To do this, he has to have a cover-up which is in the form of a gala wedding by the outrageous Central Asian Superstar Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff). Everything changes when the ruthless killer finds himself head-over-heels in love with a sexy reporter (Marisa Tomei).

Baby Mama

Baby Mama is a 2008 comedy film from Universal Pictures written and directed by Michael McCullers and starring Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Romany Malco and Dax Shepard.

Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey), a successful single businesswoman from Philadelphia, has put her career before her personal life. At the age of 37, she has finally decided to have a child on her own, but her plans change when she discovers she has only the slimmest chance of becoming pregnant. Also denied adoption, Kate gets a South Jersey working girl, Angie Ostrowski (Amy Poehler), to become a surrogate mom.

When Angie becomes pregnant, Kate begins preparing for motherhood in her own typically driven fashion—until her surrogate shows up at her door with no place to live. Their conflicting personalities put them at odds as Kate learns first-hand about balancing motherhood and career by catering to Angie's childish needs. As if this weren't enough Kate also begins dating the local owner of a blended juice cafe (Greg Kinnear).

What Kate doesn't know is that Angie is feigning the pregnancy and that in fact the in-vitro fertilization did not succeed. Hoping to ultimately run off with her payment, Angie begins to regret the lie but continually puts off confessing until getting an ultrasound wherein she discovers she is actually pregnant. Realizing the baby is her own (and her boyfriend's), Angie is forced to confess at her own baby shower. This unsurprisingly drives a wedge between the two women.
At the court hearing to definitively determine the maternity of the child, Angie makes an impassioned apology. The baby turns out to be Angie's. Meeting face to face after the proceedings, Angie's water breaks and Kate rushes her to the hospital. During Angie's delivery, Kate passes out. Upon waking she is told that she has become pregnant, the result of her relationship with her new beau.Ultimately remaining friends, Angie and Kate raise their children together.

Speed Racer

Speed Racer is a 2008 film that is a live action film adaptation of the 1960s Japanese anime series Speed Racer. The film is written and directed by the Wachowski brothers, who also serve as co-producers. The film had been in development since 1992, changing writers and directors until producer Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers collaborated to begin production on Speed Racer as a family film so the directors could reach a wider audience.

Actor Emile Hirsch was cast as Speed, the hero of the animated series, and Christina Ricci portrays Speed's girlfriend, Trixie. Speed Racer was shot between June and November 2007 in Potsdam and Berlin, Germany at an estimated budget of $100,000,000. Most of the filming took place at Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam, where the footage was shot entirely against greenscreen.. The Wachowski brothers also filmed in high-definition video for the first time, using a layering method to put both the foreground and the background of scenes in focus to have a real-life anime appearance. Marketers have prepared toys and video games to coincide with the film's release. Speed Racer premiered on May 3, 2008 as the closing film at the Tribeca Film Festival, and was released on May 9, 2008.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is a 2008 fantasy film based on Prince Caspian, the second published novel in C. S. Lewis' children's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. It will be the second film in The Chronicles of Narnia film series from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, following The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). The four Pevensie children return to Narnia to aid a young prince (Ben Barnes) in his struggle for the throne against his corrupt uncle King Miraz (Sergio Castellitto). The film will be released on May 16, 2008 in the United States, June 5, 2008 in Australia, and June 27, 2008 in the United Kingdom.

PLOT:

1941: A year has passed in our world since the first adventure ended, but in Narnia, almost 1,300 years have passed, and now it is time for the Pevensie children to return and make history. The villainous King Miraz prevents the rightful king, his young nephew Prince Caspian, from ruling the land of Narnia. Caspian uses Susan's magic horn that was left in Narnia to summon the four Pevensies to help him and a small army of Old Narnians reclaim his rightful throne.

21

21 (referred to in advertising as "21: The Movie") is a 2008 drama film from Columbia Pictures. It is directed by Australian director Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde) and stars Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, and Laurence Fishburne. The film is inspired by the true story of the MIT Blackjack Team.

PLOT:

Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess), based on the real life Massachusetts Institute of Technology card-counter Jeff Ma, is an MIT senior who applies for the prestigious Robinson Scholarship, a full scholarship to Harvard Medical School. Despite Ben's perfect resume, the official administering the scholarship tells Ben that his application essay must "dazzle" him in order to win it. In his non-linear equations class, Ben impresses his professor, Mickey Rosa (Kevin Spacey). One night while Ben is studying, Fisher (Jacob Pitts) tells him to come with him. He leads Ben to a card counting session led by Mickey. His team travels to Las Vegas every weekend to count cards and win money, which the members then split. Other members of the team are Ben's crush Jill (Kate Bosworth), Choi (Aaron Yoo), and Kianna (Liza Lapira). Mickey tells Ben that he has a great mind and is able to get past his emotions, and that's why he chose him.

Ben initially declines but after some persuasion, Ben joins the team to generate $300,000, the amount he needs for medical school. Life gets complicated; for every weekend he spends in Las Vegas, he ignores and lies to his friends and family. As Ben becomes the big player and makes the most money, former big player Fisher gets jealous. One night, Fisher joins the same table as Ben and screws up. Mickey is furious and sends Fisher home and kicks him off the team. Back at home, Ben's friends decide to continue the 209 robotics competition without him after Ben gets the wrong microcontroller. Shaken from losing his former two best friends, Ben loses a massive amount of money in one night, and Mickey and Ben angrily part ways. Mickey tells Ben that he needs to pay Mickey back the $250,000 he lost that night. Ben decides to take over the team and make the money back, but Mickey reports them to casino security. After being caught and brutally beaten by Cole Williams (Laurence Fishburne), the sinister "head" of the casino security team, Ben returns to MIT. He finds that Mickey has revoked credit for one of his classes, and Ben cannot graduate from MIT. Upon entering his dorm room, he finds his room trashed and all the money he saved for Harvard Medical School gone. Finally, he asks Mickey for a second chance to make his money back.

In disguise, the team arrives in Vegas for their last run. Ben and Mickey are winning big, but Cole Williams arrives. Ben and Mickey split along with Jill, deciding to separate. Mickey convinces Ben to throw him the bag with the winnings and they will meet up later. But Mickey decides to just leave and runs to the limo and asks the driver to go to the airport. But he has been tricked: he finds that the bag is actually filled with chocolate dollars, and that the driver of the limo is actually Williams's partner. Ben's secret plan is to trick Mickey as revenge for stealing his savings. That night, Cole Williams made a deal with Ben that he would not be hurt if he could bring Mickey back to Vegas. When Mickey asked for the bag with the winnings, Jill had already switched the real bag with another bag in her purse with the fake chips. Mickey is caught by casino security while Ben is let off the hook. Ben pays off casino security with that night's winnings, returns to MIT, and "dazzles" the Harvard dean with his Las Vegas adventures.

Prom Night

Prom Night is a 2008 slasher film from Screen Gems directed by Nelson McCormick and starring Brittany Snow. The film was released on April 10, 2008 in Australia, and on April 11, 2008 in Canada and the United States, followed by a worldwide release in May. It is a remake of the 1980 film of the same name.[3][4] The film is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for "violence and terror, some sexual material, underage drinking, and language


PLOT:


As the film opens, high school student Donna Keppel (Brittany Snow) sees her dad and brother dead and witnesses her mother get murdered by Richard Fenton (Johnathon Schaech), a teacher at her school who has become obsessed with her. Three years later, Donna, about to graduate and living with her aunt and uncle, is in therapy and taking pills (Klonopin, a benzodiazapine) to deal with the trauma of losing her family and her persistent nightmares. Donna and several friends (Bobby (Scott Porter) ), Lisa (Dana Davis), Ronnie (Collins Pennie), Michael (Kelly Blatz) and Claire (Jessica Stroup) make plans to attend their senior prom together.

Meanwhile, Detective Winn, the police officer responsible for imprisoning Fenton, learns that Fenton has escaped three days before Donna's senior prom and decides to stake out Donna's prom in order to keep an eye on her.

At the prom, Donna and her friends get keys to a suite in the hotel. Fenton is already at the prom and kills the maid to obtain the master key. He hides in the hotel room while Donna is in there. She opens the door and Claire surprises her. Claire is fighting with her boyfriend and says that she will be back down when she fixes her make-up. After Donna leaves, Claire hears noises and checks to see if it is Donna. She realizes that it is Fenton and is stabbed and killed.

Detectives Winn and Nash, Winn's partner, find the body of a man named Ramsey supposedly registered at the hotel. Michael goes upstairs to their room to find Claire to see if she would except his apology. He sees the closet door closing while checking the bathroom and goes up to the closet and opens it and sees Fenton's face. Fenton jumps at him and stabs him.

Lisa and Ronnie head up to the suite and Lisa bumps into Fenton in the elevator, but does not recognize him. She realizes his identity when Ronnie and her are having a romantic moment. She leaves suddenly leaving Ronnie confused. Ronnie was just about to propose. She leaves to warn Donna. When she gets to the elevator it is taking too long, so she rushes to the stairs and trips. She sees Fenton behind the door and she starts to run, hiding from him in a section of the hotel under renovation. She hides under a table. Ronnie comes down looking for her but she does not scream because Fenton would kill Ronnie if she did. Ronnie then goes back up. She thinks Fenton is gone, so she gets out from under the table and accidentally knocks over some paint tins, alerting Fenton. She runs right into him and he grabs her and slits her throat. Her blood sprays all over the plastic covering.

Detective Winn heads up to the room registered to Fenton's victim and finds the body of a hotel employee, a maid. Now knowing for sure that Fenton is in the building, he triggers the emergency alarm and evacuates the building, just as, downstairs, Ronnie and Lisa are about to be announced as prom king and queen. Ronnie and Bobby head outside while Donna goes back upstairs to retrieve something she left in the suite. Donna sees Fenton in the suite and hides under the bed she sees Claire's body and screams. Then she runs out the room and runs into Winn and Nash. Nash drives her back to her house while Winn searches the hotel (unsuccessfully) for Fenton. He eventually realizes that Fenton may have escaped wearing a hotel employee's uniform, and rushes back to Donna's house to warn her. He calls Nash, who is stationed outside Donna's home, on the way and tells him to get into the house.

Nash and another cop patrol the house while Donna and Bobby go to sleep. Winn arrives to find Nash dead in his car, throat slashed. Donna goes to the bathroom to take some pills to calm herself down and sees Fenton standing behind her in the mirror. Fenton grabs Donna by the hair and smashes her head against the mirror, knocking her unconscious.

Donna jerks awake and realizes she was only dreaming. She goes to the bathroom and takes some pills, only to come back and find Bobby dead, his throat slit. She sees a shadow thinking it is Fenton she hides in her closet but is grabbed by Fenton. The shadow figure was really Winn. A scream is heard so Winn goes downstairs. The person screaming was Donna's aunt because she sees a dead cop in her drive way. Donna hits Fenton and runs out the room but Fenton grabs her leg she starts to struggle with him. Winn comes back upstairs and shoots Fenton several times. Donna cries over Bobby's dead body. Her aunt and uncle then come in and take her out of the room, and the end credits roll.

The Forbidden Kingdom

The film opens during a battle between Sun Wukong, the Monkey King (Jet Li), and heavenly soldiers amongst the clouds. It is then revealed the sequence was a dream when a young teenager, Jason Tripitakas (Michael Angarano), awakens in his room plastered with vintage kung fu movie posters. After getting dressed, he makes his way to a pawn shop in Boston's China town to buy some new Kung fu DVD's. There, he converses with Hop (a prosthetics-laden Jackie Chan), the shop's elderly owner, and, while thumbing through some DVD's, he is drawn to room full of antiques and notices a golden staff. Hop tells him that the staff is to be delivered to its rightful owner and then closes the door. On his way back home, Jason is attacked by local bully Lupo (Morgan Benoit) and his cronies who force him to take them to the store so they can steal some money from the old man. Feeling betrayed, Hop tries to attack the thieves with the staff, but is shot. He tells Jason that he must deliver the staff to its rightful owner. Jason takes the staff and runs from the thieves. On top of a building, he is surrounded by the bullies and suddenly he is pulled off the roof by the staff and travels back through time.

When Jason wakes up he has been transported back to ancient China. There he is attacked by Jade Warriors who try to take the staff away from him. He is helped by the Drunken Immortal, Lu Yan (Jackie Chan). Later that night, seated in a restaurant, Lu tells Jason a story of how the Monkey King caused havoc at the banquet celebrating the Jade Emperor's forthcoming 500 year period of meditation and drank of the elixir of immortality. The Emperor took a liking to the Monkey King and decided to award him a heavenly title, much to the chagrin of the Jade Warlord (Collin Chou), a heavenly general. The Emperor then left the Jade Warlord in charge of heaven before retreating to his period of seclusion. The Jade Warlord later challenged the Monkey King to a duel, and turned him into stone by tricking the Monkey King to set aside his magic staff. But before he was fully immobilized, the Monkey King cast his staff into the mundane world. Lu ends the tale by stating a person known as the "Seeker" will be the person to find the staff and free the Monkey King. Lu and Jason then get into a fight with the Jade Warriors who track them to the restaurant and are saved by a mysterious woman, who turns out to be the Orphaned Warrior, Golden Sparrow (Liu Yi Fei). Golden Sparrow's family was killed by the Jade Warlord, and she has vowed vengeance against him.

The Jade Warlord is notified by his men that they have seen the magical staff. The Jade Warlord then sends his bounty hunter, the white-haired assassin Ni-Chang (Li Bingbing), to retrieve it for him. When Jason wakes up in the morning he is attacked by a person dressed in white clothes, who takes the staff away. Jason, Lu, and Golden Sparrow follow the trail of the mysterious man. They reach upon a temple where the man is meditating. There, Lu confronts the Silent Monk (Jet Li), who was the mysterious man. There they both fight for the staff. The Silent Monk later learns that the staff is meant for the traveler. The four head towards the Five Elements Mountain in a quest to free the Monkey King and destroy the rule of the Jade Warlord.
On the way to the Mountain, Lu and the Silent Monk teach Jason Kung Fu. After crossing a great desert, they are attacked by Ni-Chang and the Jade Warriors, but the four escape on their horses with the staff intact. Ni-Chang fires an arrow into the air after them, and Lu is hit with the arrow and falls from his horse. They take refuge in a monastery where they find out that only the elixir of immortality from the Jade Warlord will heal Lu from his mortal wound. Jason wanting to help Lu, heads toward the palace with the staff to exchange it for the elixir. Once at the palace he learns that the elixir was promised to Ni-Chang if she brought back the staff, but since Jason brought it, he has to fight Ni-Chang to death, the winner getting the elixir. The Silent Monk discovering that Jason has left with the staff and pursues Jason along with Golden Sparrow. Back at the palace, Jason and Ni-Chang fight. Though Jason had developed some skill in Kung Fu, the more experienced Ni-Chang easily defeats him. But before she can kill him, the Jade Warlord orders her to stop and, instead, sets his own men on Jason. The boy's life is once again saved when the Silent Monk and Golden Sparrow arrive (with Lu Yan in the rear being carried by monks from the monastery who join in the fight with the Jade Army with their staffs) and intervene. The Silent Monk duels the Jade Warlord while Golden Sparrow fights Ni-Chang. During the fight, Jason manages to grab the elixir and throws it to Lu Yan, who drinks it and regains his strength and energy. Lu then fights Ni-Chang on the balcony. The Silent Monk is mortally wounded during his battle with the Jade Warlord and throws the staff to Jason. Jason takes the staff and frees the Monkey King from his statue form. The Silent Monk dies from injuries and reverts into a golden hair, revealing him to be a magical human familiar created by the Monkey King prior to his imprisonment. The fight between the Monkey King and the Jade Warlord commences. Golden Sparrow tries to kill The Jade Warlord, but is killed instead. After a long battle, Jason is able to kill the Jade Warlord and Lu Yan kills Ni-Chang. He is then thanked by the Jade Emperor for his bravery and fulfilling the people's prophecy. He is then transported back to modern day Boston.

When Jason wakes up, he is attacked by Lupo's gang, but this time he uses his newfound Kung Fu skills and defeats Lupo. He then goes to see if Hop is alright, and Hop responds to Jason, stating that he is immortal, leaving it questionable whether or not Hop is Lu Yan or not. Hop is taken to the hospital, before Jason leaves the scene, he sees a girl who looks like Golden Sparrow. She thanks him for being brave and tells him she will see him later. She then goes into her store (Golden Sparrow). Jason, surprised but delighted to see her, leaves and goes home, where he practices his Kung Fu on the roof with a staff.

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

Following the events of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Harold Lee and Kumar Patel fly to Amsterdam so Harold can pursue a budding romance with his neighbor, Maria. After a prolonged struggle with security, the pair run into Vanessa, Kumar's ex-girlfriend, who happened to be the one who introduced Kumar to marijuana and helped him come out of his shell as an undergraduate. They are soon joined by Vanessa's fiancee, Colton, who helped Harold get his current job before embarking on a career with the government. The two pairs separate, but not before Vanessa and Kumar share a moment. The two board the plane, but a passenger becomes instantly nervous at Kumar's appearance, envisioning him as a terrorist. Mid-flight, Kumar follows Harold to the restroom with his new invention: a smokeless bong. As Harold exits, someone sees Kumar lighting the bong. Harold says, "It's okay, it's just a bong," and another passenger yells, "[It's] a bomb!"

Air marshals immediately detain both men, and the plane returns to Washington, where Ron Fox, an overzealous undersecretary of Homeland Security, interrogates the pair before sending them to Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Moments after their arrival, the pair are instructed to perform an oral sex act (a "cock meat sandwich") on a guard, but amidst commotion in the next cell in which two terrorists escape, they quickly take advantage of their own unlocked cell to escape the prison complex,[1] hitching a ride to Miami aboard a boat used by Cuban immigrants.

In Miami, they borrow a car from their college friend Raza who is having a "bottomless" pool party. Then, as fugitives from Homeland Security, they travel from Miami to Texas in search of Colton, in hopes that he will be able to help them through his father, who is connected with several high political officials. Kumar agrees to the plan, secretly hoping to disrupt the marriage.
Their trip becomes disrupted in Birmingham, Alabama, the pair abandon their vehicle when a group of black men playing basketball approach them after they wreck their vehicle into a fire hydrant (who were in reality trying to help them fix their vehicle and to see if they were okay). Lost in the forests of Alabama, the pair wander upon a redneck out deer hunting who invites them back to his shack to meet his beautiful wife and their inbred cyclops son. Afterwards, they accidentally stumble upon a Ku Klux Klan meeting, and avoid being lynched by jumping into a car driven by Neil Patrick Harris. High on mushrooms and Jack Daniel's, Harris transports the pair to the Texas border, where he uses his fame to get through a road block set up by the DHS. However, rather than proceed directly to the wedding, Harris insists that the trio stop at his favorite whore house. Kumar appears to take advantage of the situation, much to Harold's chagrin. Harold confesses to the other prostitutes that Kumar is selfish and thinks only of himself and not of the consequences that affect others. Kumar, meanwhile, is confessing to the pair of prostitutes in the room that he doesn't know why he broke up with Vanessa, and is still in love with her. However, the pair is forced to flee the whorehouse after Harris is chased out, then gunned down for branding his initials on the back of a prostitute. During the car ride to Colton's, while searching for Neil's family contacts, Harold pulls out a mask similar to the one worn by Chris Fehn of Slipknot.

Harold and Kumar arrive at Colton's house the day before the wedding. Harold goes to tell Colton of their situation, instructing Kumar to remain in the car or their friendship is over. However, Kumar sees Vanessa, who is outside in search of a joint she hid outside, fall and twist her ankle, prompting him to leave the car. Kumar treats her ankle and the pair nearly kiss until their are interrupted by Colton and a fuming Harold, who sees that Kumar left the car. Vanessa is taken inside and Colton takes the pair to the airport, where he promises that he has taken care of everything. However, Harold and Kumar discover that they are instead going to be taken back into custody by Fox. Colton reveals that he never had any intention of helping either of them, prompting Harold to promise revenge.

On the plane, Harold remains angry at Kumar, who apologizes for getting them into their predicament and promises to change. Harold draws a can of mace from his pocket on the pretense of giving marijuana to the agents that are accompanying them, and the pair overpower their captors. However, they are sucked outside of the airplane when the door is accidentally opened. Harold, the only one wearing the parachute, is able to get a hold of Kumar, who is in free fall. Harold deploys the parachute and as they dodge gunfire from Fox, who jumped out after the pair without a parachute, who presumably falls to his death. They land in President George W. Bush's[1][4][2] Texas home in Crawford, Texas, where the President is hiding to avoid attending the aforementioned wedding. After bonding over marijuana, the President pardons the pair and sends the Secret Service to help them. Harold and Kumar object to the wedding, revealing Colton's true nature. Enraged, Colton attacks Harold, who promptly levels him with a knee to the stomach and a punch in the face. Vanessa is angry at Kumar for embarrassing her at the wedding, but forgives him when he recites the poem that he had been writing on the day they met, but was to embarrassed to share with her until now. The three leave the wedding, heading to Amsterdam, where Harold finds Maria, who appears to be with another man, but is actually in the middle of a photoshoot. Still, she finds the gesture romantic and no harm is done. The movie ends with everyone enjoying the city and its offerings.

After the credits, Neil Patrick Harris is shown waking up from his presumed demise, cursing his wounds.

Made of Honor

Tom (Dempsey) is a consummate ladies' man. Hannah (Monaghan) is his best friend and the one constant in his life. But when Hannah leaves town for a six-week business trip, allowing Tom to realize his love for her runs deeper than he ever knew, how does he deal with conveying his feelings -- especially when she returns with an engagement ring on her finger, and a request for him to be in her wedding?

Iron Man - 2008

Iron Man (Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero appearing in publications from Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby, Iron Man first appeared in Tales of Suspense (March 1963). Tony Stark, after being gravely injured and kidnapped, was forced to build a devastating weapon. He instead created a suit of power armor to save his life and help protect the world as Iron Man. He is a wealthy industrialist and genius inventor whose metal suit is laden with technological devices that enable him to fight crime.

Throughout most of his career, Iron Man has been a member of the superhero team the Avengers and has been featured in several incarnations of his own various comic book series. He has been adapted into several animated TV shows, as well as the 2008 film Iron Man starring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. Forbes has ranked Iron Man among the wealthiest fictional characters on their annual ranking. BusinessWeek has also ranked Iron Man as one of the top ten most intelligent fictional characters in American comics.

Die Hard

Die Hard is an Academy Award nominated 1988 American action film. It was written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, stars Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman, Paul Gleason, Reginald VelJohnson and William Atherton, and was directed by John McTiernan. A huge critical and commercial success, Die Hard propelled Willis' film career and established Rickman as a popular portrayer of villains in American film. The film also started the Die Hard series.
The movie is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which was previously made into a 1968 movie starring Frank Sinatra.

Story:

John McClane, a detective with the New York City Police Department, arrives in Los Angeles to attempt a Christmas reunion with his estranged wife Holly. He is taken by limousine driver Argyle to her workplace, the high-rise Nakatomi Plaza. While Argyle waits in the building's parking garage, McClane joins the Nakatomi Christmas party where he finds Holly and they get into an argument over her use of her maiden name Gennero. Holly leaves McClane in a small room near the party.

A gang of men led by German terrorist Hans Gruber invade the building, under the pretense of gaining the release of various terrorist operatives. The party-goers are subdued and it is revealed that the group are actually thieves; they plan to use the false terrorist crisis to cover their looting of $640 million in bearer bonds from the building's vault. Theo, the group's technical mastermind, begins disabling the vault locks, warning Gruber that the final electromagnetic lock is uncrackable.

McClane slips away during the party round-up, and his attempt to summon help brings him into confrontation with gang member Tony. Tony is killed, prompting the man's brother, Karl, to lead a hunt for the police officer through the building. McClane convinces a Los Angeles Police Department radio operator to send a patrol unit to Nakatomi, then secures the attention of responding officer Al Powell by dropping one of the terrorists onto the patrol car's hood. He also takes C4 explosives and detonators off the body of another terrorist.

Fox Plaza in Los Angeles, portrayed in the film as Nakatomi Plaza.The LAPD responds in force, but this only accelerates Gruber's timetable. The LAPD attempts to take over the building by sending a SWAT team and then an armored vehicle, but both are repelled by Gruber's men. When Gruber ignores McClane's request to back down, McClane retaliates by bombing an entire floor of the building with the rest of the C4 in McClane's possession. Holly's coworker Ellis reveals McClane's identity to Gruber and is murdered when McClane does not return the detonators.

While checking on the explosives set beneath the roof, Gruber finds himself in an unplanned face-to-face meeting with McClane and attempts to pass himself off as a hostage. Karl and his men interrupt the conversation and McClane loses the detonators as he flees. As he tends his wounds, Powell tells him via radio how he had shot a youth "armed" with a toy gun and became a desk sergeant afterwards.

The FBI arrives on the scene and orders the building's power cut. This merely deactivates the final lock on the vault, and Gruber "negotiates" with the FBI to release the hostages on the rooftop via helicopter. The FBI agents plan to double cross the "terrorists" with a surprise gunship attack, even if it means losing some of the hostages, but Gruber has wired the top of the building with the C4 and plans to blow it up to cover his escape.

Just as McClane discovers the primed C4, he is attacked by Karl. After a vicious battle, McClane leaves him for dead. Outside the building, a TV reporter named Richard Thornburg finds McClane's children and interviews them. Gruber realizes that Holly is McClane's wife and takes her aside as a special hostage. Theo goes to the parking garage to prepare the group's getaway ambulance. Argyle, who has been watching the situation on his limo's TV, rams the vehicle and punches Theo unconscious.

McClane drives the hostages back down to safety, but the FBI fires at him and Gruber proceeds with the C4 detonation. The resulting explosion destroys the FBI helicopter. McClane escapes the blast by jumping over the side of the building with a fire hose tied around his waist.
McClane confronts Gruber as Gruber holds Holly at gunpoint. McClane tricks Gruber with a false surrender and shoots him, knocking the man out a shattered window and dropping him thirty stories to his death. As McClane and his wife leave the building, Karl reappears one last time, only to be gunned down by Powell. Thornburg approaches the couple for an interview, but Holly punches him in the face and couple departs the scene in Argyle's battered limo.