Boy A (2007)

Having been institutionalized for most of his life, Jack (Andrew Garfield) is finally released from prison at the age of 24. He and another boy murdered a child when they themselves were children. The film follows Jack's attempts to readjust to the world outside of confinement and restart a life which never really got going.
Under the fatherly mentoring of Terry (Peter Mullan), his parole contact and social worker, he experiences a coming of age, which would normally have happened years ago. Forces from the past are constantly upon him. As we learn more about the events leading up to the crime which has ruined so many lives, there is an increasing sense of suspense, intrigue and ultimately doom: the tabloid press and Terry's real son are not going to let things lie.



Cast: Andrew Garfield,Alfie Owen,Katie Lyons,Peter Mullan,Taylor Doherty
Director: John Crowley
MPAA Rating: Rated R for language, sexuality, some disturbing content and brief drug use.
IMDb User Rating: 8.0/10

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Hancock (2008)

John Hancock (Will Smith) is an unhappy and reluctant superhero who is living in his own world. For some unknown reason, Hancock is depressed and has started drinking very heavily. He has saved many lives in Los Angeles over the years, but in doing so, he has no regards for damaging buildings, trains, roads, cars, or anything that gets in his way of getting the job done. The last time he captured several criminals, it cost the city $9 million to fix the damages. The public has had enough of Hancock, and they want him to stop or go to another city. Then one day, Hancock saves the life of Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman) from being run over by a train. Ray is a public relations executive who now can go home to his wife and child, because Hancock was there. Ray owes Hancock his life, and he makes it his mission to change his superhero's image and have the public cheering him. Ray's wife, Mary (Charlize Theron), believes Hancock cannot be fixed, and she doesn't want Ray to be hurt.



Cast: Will Smith,Charlize Theron,Jason Bateman,Jae Head,Eddie Marsan
Director: Peter Berg
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and language.
IMDb User Rating: 6.7/10

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Transsiberian (2008)

This movie will make you wanna think twice before you take a train ride in the land of Mother Russia. TRANSSIBERIAN is a thriller with a brilliant storyline that gets you hooked from beginning…

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Loaded (2008)

A privileged man with a profitable job, a beautiful girlfriend, and a loving family becomes hopelessly entangled with a vengeful drug dealer who assumes the role of his best friend before revealing his diabolical true colors. Tristan Price (Jesse Metcalfe) has a bright future, but when the shade begins to eclipse the sun, things turn bad more quickly than he could have ever anticipated. It seems that sometimes the most stable of folks are also the ones who crave adventure most, and Jesse is a prime example of that penchant. When Jesse meets up with charismatic cocaine dealer Sebastian Cole (Corey Large), the allure of fast cars, fast women, and automatic weapons find the thrill-seeking everyman suddenly drawn into a dangerous world of sex, drugs, and violence. But Jesse's new best friend is also his new worst enemy, and if he has any hope of pulling out of his current tailspin and salvaging relationship with his faithful girlfriend (Monica Keena) he will have to confront the man that could take it all away with the lightening flash of a finger on the trigger.



Cast: Jesse Metcalfe,Corey Large,Monica Keena,Nathalie Kelley,Chace Crawford
Director: Alan Pao
MPAA Rating: Rated R for pervasive drug use and language, violence and some sexuality.
IMDb User Rating: 4.7/10

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The Dark Knight (2008)

With just one year having passed after taking out Ra's Al Ghul's plan to have Gotham eliminated and the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Jonathan Crane AKA the Scarecrow, and after the city was nearly plundered with his toxins, Bruce Wayne and his vigilante alter-ego the Batman, continue the seemingly endless effort to bring order to Gotham, with the help of Lt. James Gordon and newly appointed District Attorney Harvey Dent. But a new threat has now emerged into the streets. The Dark Knight faces a rising psychopathic criminal called The Joker, whose eerie grin, laughter, and inhuman morality makes him as dangerous than what he has yet to unleash. It becomes an agenda to Batman to stop the mysterious Joker at all costs, knowing that both of them are in an opposite line. One has no method at all and seeks to see the world plunge into the fire he has yet to light. One represents the symbol of hope and uses his own shadow to bring the peace and order he has yet to accomplish doing.



Cast: Christian Bale,Heath Ledger,Aaron Eckhart,Michael Caine,Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director: Christopher Nolan
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and some menace.
IMDb User Rating: 9.1/10

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Taken (2008)

Taken, is Franco-American, produced and co-scripted (with Hollywood writer Robert Mark Kamen) by Luc Besson and starring Liam Neeson as a retired CIA field agent discovering that his 17-year-old daughter has been abducted in Paris by Albanian white slavers. The plot is much like Arthur Penns 1985 thriller Target, starring Gene Hackman, but altogether fiercer.
After a careful build-up in Los Angeles, the picture moves at the speed of a high velocity bullet, preposterous, yet logically developed. By the time Neeson has dealt with the Albanians, the bent French coppers assisting them and the murderous Arabs taking possession of the girls on behalf of lecherous sheikhs, he's killed something like 50 people and maimed as many more. This is the sort of picture that discourages Americans such as Sarah Palin from getting passports.

Cast: Liam Neeson,Maggie Grace,Famke Janssen,Xander Berkeley,Katie Cassidy
Director: Pierre Morel
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, disturbing thematic material, sexual content, some drug references and language.
IMDb User Rating: 7.9/10

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