February 2010 Movies

With John Travolta • Luc Besson • Jonathan Rhys Meyers • Pierre Morel • India Osborne • Adi Hasak • Kasia Smutniak • Melissa Mars • Amber Rose Revah

A personal aide to the U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All James wants is to become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So when he's offered his first senior-level assignment, he can't believe his good luck - until he meets his new partner, special agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta).

A trigger-happy, wisecracking, loose cannon who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack, Wax leads James on a white-knuckle shooting spree through the Parisian underworld that has James praying for his desk job. But when James discovers he's a target of the same crime ring they're trying to bust, he realizes there's no turning back...and that Wax himself might be his only hope for making it through the next forty-eight hours alive.

With Amanda Seyfried • Channing Tatum • Tucker Tooley • Wyck Godfrey • Jeremiah Samuels • Richard Jenkins • Scott Porter • Henry Thomas • Lasse Hallstrom • Ryan Kavanaugh • Marty Bowen • Toby Emmerich • Jamie Linden • Michele Weiss

"Dear John" tells the story of John Tyree (Channing Tatum), a young soldier home on leave, and Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried), the idealistic college student he falls in love with during her spring vacation. Over the next seven tumultuous years, the couple is separated by John’s increasingly dangerous deployments. While meeting only sporadically, they stay in touch by sending a continuous stream of love letters overseas--correspondence that eventually triggers fateful consequences.

With Luc Besson • David Belle • Patrick Alessandrin • Cyril Raffaelli

Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city's secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem.

With Peter Block • Emma Bell • Shawn Ashmore • Kevin Zegers • Adam Green • Cory Neal

A snowboarder along with his best friend and his girlfriend who get stranded on a chairlift halfway up a New England mountain as the slopes close for the weekend.

With Judith Ehrlich • Rick Goldsmith

A documentary on Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, who concluded that the war was based on lies and leaked 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times.

With Jessica Alba • Anne Hathaway • Emma Roberts • Bradley Cooper • Jennifer Garner • Taylor Lautner • Julia Roberts • Queen Latifah • Jamie Foxx • Topher Grace • Ashton Kutcher • Shirley MacLaine • Carter Jenkins • Jessica Biel • Mike Karz • Hector Elizondo • Wayne Rice • Sam Brown • Marc Silverstein • Abby Kohn • Katherine Fugate • Gary Marshall • Mike Disco

"Valentine's Day" follows the intertwining storylines of a group of Los Angelinos as they find their way through romance over the course of one Valentine's Day.

With Alexandra Daddario • Chris Columbus • Pierce Brosnan • Uma Thurman • Sean Bean • Rosario Dawson • Richard Harmon • Jake Abel • Logan Lerman • Catherine Keener • Steve Coogan • Greg Mooradian • Karen Rosenfelt • Joe Stillman • Guy Oseary • Rick Riordan • Carla Hacken • Brandon T. Jackson • Kevin McKidd • Melina Kanakaredes • Tim Aas • Maria Olsen

It’s the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters have walked out of the pages of high school student Percy Jackson’s Greek mythology texts and into his life. And they’re not happy: Zeus’ lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Even more troubling is the sudden disappearance of Percy's mother. As Percy adapts to his newly discovered status as a demi-god (his father is Poseidon), he finds himself caught between the battling titans of Mt. Olympus. He and his friends embark on a cross-country adventure to catch the true lightning thief, save Percy’s mom, and unravel a mystery more powerful than the gods themselves.

With Emily Blunt • Anthony Hopkins • Benicio Del Toro • Hugo Weaving • Rick Yorn • Scott Stuber • Peter Cramer • Geraldine Chaplin • Kiran Shah • Joe Johnston • Mary Parent • Donna Langley • Andrew Kevin Walker

Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, "The Wolfman" brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins. Oscar® winner Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Oscar® winner Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother...and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself.

Lawrence Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate.

As he pieces together the gory puzzle, he hears of an ancient curse that turns the afflicted into werewolves when the moon is full. Now, if he has any chance at ending the slaughter and protecting the woman he has grown to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoor. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, a simple man with a tortured past will uncover a primal side to himself...one he never imagined existed.

With Shah Rukh Khan • Karan Johar

"My Name is Khan" examines how the life of a Muslim man from India (Shah Rukh Khan) living in San Francisco embarks on a remarkable journey across the United States, inspiring people and inviting debate, creating an accidental revolution.

With Leonardo DiCaprio • Mark Ruffalo • Martin Scorsese • Ben Kingsley • Michelle Williams • John Carroll Lynch • Patricia Clarkson • Jackie Earle Haley • Mike Medavoy • Laeta Kalogridis • Emily Mortimer • Max von Sydow • Arnold W. Messer • Bradley J. Fischer • Dennis Lehane • Louis Phillips • Chris Brigham

From Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese, "Shutter Island" is the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island’s fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane.

With Alexis Bledel • Bryan Greenberg • Anna Chlumsky • Scott Porter • Linda Moran • Rene Bastian • Julio DePietro

Ambitious young Manhattanite and urban conservationist Beth (Alexis Bledel) wants it all: a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share the city with. Of course that last one is often the trickiest of all. Beth falls hard for Tommy (Scott Porter), a sexy, young Wall Street hot-shot. But just as everything seems to be falling into place, complications arise in the form of Tommy's sensitive and handsome co-worker Daniel (Bryan Greenberg). Beth soon learns that the game of love in the big city is a lot like Wall Street -- high risk, high reward and everybody has an angle.

With Pierce Brosnan • Ewan McGregor • Alain Sarde • Jim Belushi • Robert Harris • Roman Polanski • Timothy Hutton • Olivia Williams • Tom Wilkinson • Kim Cattrall • Robert Benmussa

"The Ghost Writer" tells the story of a former British Prime Minister, Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), who is holed up on an island off the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. in midwinter, writing his memoirs. When his long-standing aide drowns, a professional ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) is sent out to help him finish the book. The anonymous ghost writer is quickly drawn into a political and sexual intrigue involving Lang’s wife, Ruth (Olivia Williams) and his aide (Kim Cattrall). Hanging over Lang is the threat of a war crimes trial and a mysterious secret from his past that threatens to jeopardize international relations. The film is based on the Robert Harris novel "The Ghost."

With Timothy Olyphant • Radha Mitchell • Dean Georgaris • Danielle Panabaker • Ray Wright • Joe Anderson • George A. Romero • Breck Eisner • Michael Aguilar • Scott Kosar

David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) is sheriff of Ogden Marsh, a picture-perfect American town with happy, law-abiding citizens. But one night, one of them comes to a school baseball game with a loaded shotgun, ready to kill. Another man burns down his own house…after locking his wife and young son in a closet inside. Within days, the town has transformed into a sickening asylum; people who days ago lived quiet, unremarkable lives have now become depraved, blood-thirsty killers, hiding in the darkness with guns and knives. Sheriff Dutton tries to make sense of what’s happening as the horrific, nonsensical violence escalates. Something is infecting the citizens of Ogden Marsh…with insanity.

Now complete anarchy reigns as one by one the townsfolk succumb to an unknown toxin and turn sadistically violent. In an effort to keep the madness contained, the government uses deadly force to close off all access and won’t let anyone in or out – even those uninfected. The few still sane find themselves trapped: Sheriff Dutton; his pregnant wife, Judy (Radha Mitchell); Becca (Danielle Panabaker), an assistant at the medical center; and Russell (Joe Anderson), Dutton’s deputy and right-hand man. Forced to band together, an ordinary night becomes a horrifying struggle for survival as they do their best to get out of town alive.

With Bruce Willis • Adam Brody • Tracy Morgan • Seann William Scott • Marc Platt • Kevin Smith • Jeff Kleeman • Michelle Trachtenberg • Kevin Pollack • Adam Siegel • Mark Cullen • Robb Cullen • Guillermo Diaz

Directed by Kevin Smith, "Cop Out" features two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card who find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. But before they can recover the prized `52 Pafko, they must first rescue a Mexican beauty who holds the key to millions of dollars in off-shore bank accounts--and who has already witnessed one high-profile murder because of them.

Veteran detective Jimmy Monroe (Bruce Willis) needs to cash in on his perfect Pafko in order to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, but in the tradition of everything that can go wrong...it's pilfered before he has a chance to collect. Paul Hodges (Tracy Morgan) is Jimmy's "partner-against-crime," whose preoccupation with his wife's alleged infidelity makes it hard for him to keep his eye on the ball, or his mind on the crime. Already in trouble and with nothing left to lose, Jimmy and Paul will have to break all the rules--including enlisting the aid of stoner thief Dave (Seann William Scott), who's working Paul's last nerve as Paul and Jimmy try to work the case.

With Kristen Stewart • Eddie Redmayne • William Hurt • Maria Bello • Udayan Prasad

The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life.

With Kat Dennings • Woody Harrelson • Nicholas Tabarrok • Sandra Oh • David Greene • Peter Stebbings

A comedy centered around three characters: an everyday guy who comes to believe he's a superhero, his psychiatrist, and the teenager he befriends.

With James Van Der Beek • Leslie Hope • Wendy Crewson • John Heard • Kenneth Tsang • Adam Kane

An FBI agent investigates the murder of an Asian professor and pursues the man's killers to Taiwan.

With Jacques Audiard

A young Arab man is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin.

With James Nguyen

The story of Rod, a young software salesman on the brink of launching a solar panel business in Silicon Valley. Things really seem to be going Rod’s way, especially when he reconnects with beautiful high school classmate Nathalie, a model who Victoria’s Secret chooses out of the blue to be their new cover girl. Their unbelievably perfect world is shattered by a sudden, unexplained bird attack. The vultures team up with the eagles, and begin dropping caustic liquids and exploding like bombs. Rod and Nathalie find themselves on a terror-filled ride up and down the coast, fighting off the vicious birds with their wits and...coat hangers.