2004 Movies : Action

With Hugh Jackman • Kate Beckinsale • Richard Roxburgh • Elena Anaya • Will Kemp • David Wenham • Kevin J. O'Connor • Josie Maran • Shuler Hensley • Sam West • Stephen Sommers • Sam Mercer • Bob Ducsay

Set in the late 19th century, monster hunter Dr. Gabriel Van Helsing (Jackman) is summoned to a mysterious land in East Europe to vanquish evil forces... like Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh), the Wolf Man (Will Kemp), and Frankenstein's Monster (Shuler Hensley). Assisting him once he gets there is Anna (Kate Beckinsale), the heir of a long-running family committed to hunting down and destroying Dracula.

With Jared Padalecki • Eugene Levy • Andy Richter • Dr. Drew Pinsky • Dennie Gordon • Adam Cooper • Emily Fox • Riley Smith • Ashley Olsen • Mary-Kate Olsen • Andrea Martin • Darrell Hammond • Mary Bond Davis • Simple Plan • Jack Osbourne • Denise DiNovi • Alison Greenspan • Robert Thorne • Bill Collage

Today is the biggest day in the super-organized life of uptight overachiever Jane Ryan (Ashley Olsen). She's due to give a major speech at Columbia University for a competition to win a prestigious scholarship to Oxford University. Meanwhile, her rebellious sister Roxy (Mary-Kate Olsen) is planning to ditch school and go backstage at a Simple Plan music video shoot in Manhattan, where she'll slip her demo tape to the band's A & R team. Despite having so little in common and so much emotional distance between them, the adversarial sisters reluctantly journey together to the Big Apple, but their plans go wildly awry when a mix-up involving Jane's all-important dayplanner lands them in the middle of a shady black market music piracy scheme. Sidetracked, sideswiped and hotly pursued from Chinatown to Harlem by whacked-out truancy officer (Eugene Levy) and a wannabe gangster (Andy Richter), Jane and Roxy reluctantly join forces and find unexpected romance with a charming Senator's son (Jared Padalecki) and a handsome bike messenger (Riley Smith). If Jane doesn't recover her dayplanner – and the crucial speech inside it – she can kiss her college scholarship goodbye. If Lomax finally catches up with Roxy, she'll be drummed out of high school for good. Roxy and Jane seem to have everything going against them…but anything can change in a "New York Minute"!

With Akira Takarada • Momoko Kochi • Seijiro Onda • Toyoaki Suzuki • Tadashi Okabe • Akihiko Hirata • Takashi Shimura • Fuyuki Murakami • Sachio Sakai • Toranosuke Ogawa • Ren Yamamoto • Miki Hayashi • Takeo Oikawa • Kokuten Kodo • Kin Sugai • Ishirô Honda • Takeo Murata

A 400-foot monster reptile with radioactive breath is revived, thanks to nuclear testing. It goes on a mad rampage, destroying Tokyo - how will they kill it?

With Brad Pitt • Eric Bana • Sean Bean • Diane Kruger • Rose Byrne • Brian Cox • Brendan Gleeson • Wolfgang Petersen • Julie Christie • Diana Rathbun • Garrett Hedlund • David Benioff • Colin Wilson • Saffron Burrows • Peter O'Toole

Throughout time, men have waged war. Some for power, some for glory, some for honor — and some for love. In ancient Greece, the passion of two of history's most legendary lovers, Paris, Prince of Troy (Orlando Bloom) and Helen (Diane Kruger), Queen of Sparta, ignites a war that will devastate a civilization. When Paris steals Helen away from her husband, King Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson), it is an insult that cannot be suffered. Familial pride dictates that an affront to Menelaus is an affront to his brother Agamemnon (Brian Cox), powerful King of the Myceneans, who soon unites all the massive tribes of Greece to steal Helen back from Troy in defense of his brother's honor. In truth, Agamemnon's pursuit of honor is corrupted by his overwhelming greed — he needs control of Troy to ensure the supremacy of his already vast empire. The walled city, under the leadership of King Prium (Peter O'Toole) and defended by mighty Prince Hector (Eric Bana), is a citadel that no army has been able to breach. One man alone stands as the key to victory or defeat over Troy — Achilles (Brad Pitt), believed to be the greatest warrior alive. Arrogant, rebellious and seemingly invincible, Achilles has no allegiance to anyone or anything, save his own glory. It is his insatiable hunger for eternal renown that leads him to attack the gates of Troy under Agamemnon's banner — but it will be love that ultimately decides his fate. Two worlds will go to war for honor and power. Thousands will fall in pursuit of glory. And for love, a nation will burn to the ground.

With Jake Gyllenhaal • Emmy Rossum • Dennis Quaid • Roland Emmerich • Mark Gordon • Rick Hoffman • Jared Harris • Joe Cobden • Sela Ward • Austin Nichols • Perry King • Kenneth Moskow • Nestor Serrano • Arjay Smith • Jeffrey Nachmanoff

A high-concept big-budget movie from director Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day"), it's about a climatological disaster that ravages the world beyond recognition. As millions of terrified survivors flee south, Professor Adrian Hall (Dennis Quaid), a brilliant paleoclimatologist, heads to New York City — now a frozen wasteland — in search of his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), who may still be alive.