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| Taglines: | 1: A white-hot juggernaut at 200 miles per hour! (segment “Death Proof”) |
| Plot Summary: | From cult movie directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes a unique film experience: a double-bill of thrillers that recall both filmmakers’ favorite exploitation films. “Grindhouse” (a downtown movie theater in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace known for “grinding out” non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies) is presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director. Tarantino’s film, “Death Proof,” is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguez’s film “Planet Terror” shows us a view of the world in the midst of a zombie outbreak. The films are joined together by clever faux trailers that recall the ’50s exploitation drive-in classics. |
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| Taglines: | 1: Join the Resistance 2: The Battle for Tomorrow is About to Begin… 3: The world will tremble. 4: Who will save us? 5: Without Warning. Without Mercy. |
| Plot Summary: | Set in New York City circa 1939, the film centers on a reporter who notices that the world’s scientists are disappearing. Teamed with a skilled pilot and an adventurous colleague, it’s up to her to thwart the plans of a mad scientist bent on world domination. |
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| Taglines: | 1: Choice 2: Destiny 3: Sacrifice 4: Take Another Spin In IMAX 5: This summer a man will face his destiny. A hero will be revealed |
| Plot Summary: | Peter Parker (Tobey McGuire) can’t seem to catch any kind of break. Being Spiderman has brought him nothing but problems as far as his personal life is concerned. Not only that, Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is engaged to astronaut John Jameson, and Peter may lose her forever. Things are so bad for him that he is pushed past his breaking point, so he decides that he doesn’t want to be Spiderman anymore, until a freak accident transforms Dr. Otto Octavius into Dr. Octopus, a super-villian with four metal tentacles coming out of him. Peter realizes that only Spiderman can stop him, but of course, problems arise. Mary Jane gets caught in the middle, and Harry Osborn, who still blames Spiderman for the death of his father, Norman Osborn, also the Green Goblin, wants him dead. Spiderman will have to push himself past his limits if he’s going to survive. |
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| Taglines: | 1: Someone new is playing God. |
| Plot Summary: | Two hundred years after Mary Shelley’s novel the brilliant but mad Doctor (Thomas Kretschmann) has sustained his creature and himself over two centuries through genetic experimentation. In present-day America Detective O’Connor (Parker Posey) is investigating a series of horrific murders which leads her to the doctor and his creature. What she uncovers reveals the strange evolution the doctor and his creation undergo over the course of two centuries and the divergent paths creator and monster take in pursuing good or evil. |
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| Plot Summary: | Intrepid British archaeologist Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) has made perhaps the most important archaeological discovery in history: an orb that leads to the mythical Pandora’s Box. Unfortunately, the orb falls into the hands of Jonathan Reiss (Ciarán Hinds), an evil scientist who deals in killer viruses and hopes to sell the secrets of the box as the ultimate weapon. Recruited by British Intelligence to get the orb back from Reiss, Lara recruits Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler), a British marine turned mercenary (and her former love interest) to help. The two embark on an adventure that spans continents in an attempt to regain the orb… |
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| Taglines: | 1: In 6 hours they’ll be history! 2: One man’s future lies in the past. 3: They had to travel into the past to save the future 4: This fall you’re history |
| Plot Summary: | In the heart of the beautiful and historically rich Dordogne Valley of France, a team of archeology students and their professor diligently work to uncover the ruins of a 14th-century castle. For Professor Edward Johnston, the project is the culmination of a lifelong dream. Aided by assistant professor Andre Marek, his son Chris and students Kate, Stern and François, Johnston has made major strides in unearthing not only La Roque Castle but also a monastery and structures from the surrounding village of Castlegard. But things are about to go haywire… Suspicious of the dig’s benefactor, International Technology Corporation (ITC) and the man who runs it, Robert Doniger, Professor Johnston heads to ITC headquarters in New Mexico to get some answers, and while he’s away, his students discover a chamber that has been sealed for more than 600 years. Marek and Kate descend into the unstable room, and just before a near disastrous cave-in, they make two startling discoveries — a bifocal lens, which couldn’t have been invented before the chamber was sealed, and even more intriguing, a handwritten plea for help dated April 2, 1357…from Professor Johnston! Determined to solve the mystery, the students head for ITC headquarters, where they are stunned to learn of Doniger’s new invention — a machine that can actually transmit three-dimensional objects through space. Although he meant for the device to revolutionize shipping, Doniger inadvertently opened a wormhole that leads directly to the 14th century, and Professor Johnston, who had insisted on experiencing the discovery himself, is now trapped in a vicious French vs. English feudal war! Can Johnston’s loyal students survive one of the most violent battles in world history… and make it back to the 21st century alive? |
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| Taglines: | 1: If you can’t see him, if you can’t find him, you can’t stop him. 2: Open your eyes 3: There’s more to fear than you can see 4: Think Invisible, Be Invisible 5: Think You’re Alone? Think Again. 6: What would you do if you knew you couldn’t be seen? 7: You trust your eyes. You rely on your senses. You think you’re alone. Think again. |
| Plot Summary: | Elisabeth Shue is Linda Foster, a scientist who is working on a serum to make people invisible. When another scientist tries the serum and becomes invisible his colleagues figure another way to bring him back to the normal world. |
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| Taglines: | 1: They’ve saved the best trip for last… But this time they may have gone too far. |
| Plot Summary: | The movie continues where the last one with Marty stuck in 1955. But Doc Brown sent him a letter from 1855 through Western Union, that told him that after the Delorean was struck by lightning he was sent to 1855 and was unable to repair it, but has managed to bury it somewhere, where Marty can get to it in 1955 and hopefully the younger version of himself can repair it so he can drive it back to 1985 and then destroy it. But after finding it, Marty discovers that shortly after sending the letter Doc would be shot by an outlaw, Mad Dog Tannen. Marty then goes back to 1885 to save him and meets his ancestors. After finding the Doc, they were about to leave when Marty told the Doc that upon arriving the Delorean’s gas tank was punctured, so they don’t have any gasoline to run the car, which means they have to find some way to get the car to 88 mph. They decide to try pushing it with a locomotive. And things are fine except for the fact that Tannen, who had it in for Doc, now has it for Marty and has challenged him to gunfight on the day that they are going to leave, and Doc is smitten with Clara Clayton, the new school teacher. |
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| Taglines: | 1: Edward lived alone where he could hurt no one and no one could hurt him. Until the day the Avon Lady came calling… 2: Edward Was Here 3: His story will touch you, even though he can’t 4: Innocence is what he knows. Beauty is what she sees. 5: The Director Of “Batman” & “Beetlejuice” Invites You To Meet His Newest Creation: 6: The story of an uncommonly gentle man |
| Plot Summary: | A modern day fairy tale which tells the story of Edward, the man created by an inventor, who died before finishing him and left Edward with scissors where he should have hands. One day when the local “Avon” representative calls at the historic mansion where Edward has been living alone, she takes him home to stay with her family. He has to adapt to the new life and environment that he isn’t used to. Soon he shows a talent in cutting hair and hedges, and wins every body’s heart. But life isn’t always so sweet… |
| Tags: | bully, castle, christmas, cult-director, cult-favorite, dark-comedy, dead-boy, family, flashback-sequence, freak, ice-sculpture, inventor, limerick, loneliness, mad-scientist, misfit, mother, neighbor, sadness, satire, scissors, snow, suburbia, surreal, teen, topiary, unrequited-love |