2005 Movies : Action

With Jamie Foxx • Jake Gyllenhaal • Sam Mendes • Dennis Haysbert • Lucas Black • Doug Wick • Lucy Fisher • Peter Sarsgaard • Jacob Vargas • Brian Geraghty • Chris Cooper • Evan Jones • Laz Alonso • William Broyles • Anthony Swofford

"Jarhead" (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom.

Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA—their elite Marine Unit.

With Viola Davis • Terrence Howard • 50 Cent • Omar Benson Miller • Bill Duke • Tory Kittles • Daniel Lupi • Chris Lighty • David Gale • Paul Rosenberg • Joy Bryant • Ashley Walters • Adewale Akinnuoye-Abaje • Jim Sheridan • Heather Parry • Jimmy Lovine • Van Toffler • Arthur Lappin • Terence Winter • Stuart Parr • Gene Kirkwood

From acclaimed "In America" director Jim Sheridan comes the first film starring mega-hit rapper 50 Cent. This tale follows an inner city drug dealer who turns away from a life of dangerous crime to pursue his true passion, rap music. The road to change isn't easy however.

With James McAvoy • Tilda Swinton • Anna Popplewell • Andrew Adamson • Mark Johnson • Douglas Gresham • William Moseley • Christopher Markus • Georgie Henley • Perry Moore • Cary Granat • Joel Stillerman • Ann Peacock • Stephen McFeely

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe", the first in an exciting series of films in the making and based on the phenomenal bestselling novels, concerns a war between good and evil, pitting the magnificent lion Aslan against the forces of darkness in the magical world of Narnia. A White Witch has used her dark powers to keep Narnia in winter for 100 years, but it is foretold that four humans will be able to help Aslan break the spell. When the Pevensie siblings - Lucy, Susan, Edmund, and Peter - discover the magic of Narnia by entering the enchanted world through a wardrobe, the stage is set for a classic battle of epic proportions.

With Josh Hutcherson • Kristen Stewart • Jon Favreau • Douglas Tait • David Koepp • Erica Huggins • Dax Shepard • Michael De Luca • Scott Kroopf • Tim Robbins • William Teitler • Jonah Bobo • Chris Van Allsburg • John Camps

Two brothers discover an oblong box in the park, which they dismiss as just some dumb old game. The boys turn their attention away from the game's jungle adventure board to discover a second game board inside with an outer-space theme and a colored path leading to the purple planet, Zathura. Mayhem ensues each time one of the boys draws a game card or rolls the dice. Facing meteors and giant robots, the brothers begin to appreciate each other and their sibling rivalry dissolves.

With Robert Pattinson • Emma Watson • Tom Felton • Ralph Fiennes • Rupert Grint • Daniel Radcliffe • Alan Rickman • Gary Oldman • Timothy Spall • Brendan Gleeson • David Heyman • Jason Isaacs • David Tennant • Joshua Herdman • David Barron • Steve Kloves • Frances de la Tour • Shirley Henderson • Matthew Lewis • Stanislav Ianevski • Katie Leung • Devon Murray • Mark Williams • Jarvis Cocker • Clemence Poesy • Michael Gambon • Robbie Coltrane • Robert Hardy • Roger Lloyd-Pack • Pedja Bjelac • Jeff Rawle • Dame Maggie Smith • Jamie Waylett • Alfie Enoch • James Phelps • Chris Rankin • Mike Newell

Harry's fourth summer and the following year at Hogwarts are marked by the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, in which student representatives from three different wizarding schools compete in a series of increasingly challenging contests. However, Voldemort's Death Eaters are gaining strength and even creating the Dark Mark giving evidence that the Dark Lord is ready to rise again. In the unsuspecting lives of the young wizard and witches at Hogwarts the competitors are selected by the goblet of fire, which this year makes a very surprising announcement: Hogwarts will have two representatives in the tournament, including Harry Potter! Will Harry be able to rise to the challenge for the Tri Wizard Tournament while keeping up with school or will the challenges along with Voldemort's rebirth be too much for the young hero?

With Charlize Theron • Sophie Okonedo • Marton Csokas • Frances McDormand • Gary Lucchesi • Matt Manfredi • Amelia Warner • Jonny Lee Miller • Karyn Kusama • Gale Anne Hurd • Phil Hay • Gregory Goodman • Caroline Chikezie • Jonathan Hensleigh • Michael Finch • Peter Chung

Based on the MTV animated series by Peter Chung, "Aeon Flux" is set 400 years in the future, when disease has wiped out the majority of the earth's population except for one walled, protected city-state, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. The story centers on Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron), the top operative in the underground ‘Monican' rebellion – led by The Handler (Frances McDormand). When Aeon is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.

With Jack Black • Adrien Brody • Naomi Watts • Thomas Kretschmann • Colin Hanks • Andy Serkis • Peter Jackson • Jamie Bell • Philippa Boyens • Carolynne Cunningham • Jan Blenkin • Fran Walsh

It is 1933, and vaudeville actress Ann Darrow has found herself--like so many other New Yorkers during the Great Depression--without the means to earn a living. Unwilling to compromise and allow herself to sink into a career in burlesque, she considers her limited options while aimlessly wandering the streets of Manhattan. When her hunger drives her to unsuccessfully try to steal an apple from a fruit vendor's stall, she is rescued--literally--by filmmaker and multiple hyphenate Carl Denham. It seems that the entrepreneur-raconteur-adventurer is no stranger to theft, having that day lifted the only existing print of his most recent and unfinished film from under his studio executives' noses when they threatened to pull his completion funds. Carl has until the end of the day to get his crew onboard the Singapore-bound tramp steamer, the S.S. Venture, in hopes of completing his travelogue/action film. With that, the showman is certain he will finally achieve the personal greatness he knows awaits him around the corner--and although the crew believe that corner to be Singapore, Denham actually hopes to find and capture on film the mysterious place of legend: Skull Island. Unfortunately for Carl, his headlining actress has pulled out of his project, but his search for a size-four leading lady (the costumes have all been made) has, fatefully, led him to Ann. The struggling actress is reluctant to sign on with Denham, until she learns that the up-and-coming, socially relevant playwright Jack Driscoll is penning the screenplay--the fees his friend Carl pays for potboiling adventure are a welcome supplement to Driscoll's nominal income from his stage plays. With his newly discovered star and coerced screenwriter reluctantly onboard, Denham's moving picture ship heads out of New York Harbor--and toward a destiny that none aboard could possibly foresee.