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2011 Movies : Action

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Last modified: Feb. 21, 2012

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With Shawn Levy Hugh Jackman Steven Spielberg Evangeline Lilly Anthony Mackie Hope Davis Mary McLaglen Jack Rapke Kevin Durand Robert Zemeckis Don Murphy Dakota Goyo Karl Yune John Gatins Steve Starkey Jeremy Leven Dan Gilroy James Rebhorn Susan Montford Rick Benatar Les Bohem Olga Fonda

Hugh Jackman stars as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the boxing ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

PG-13 Drama
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With Jackie Chan Joan Chen

An epic war film that details the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the violent rebellion that brought it down. With China split into warring factions and the starving citizens beginning to revolt, the ruling Qings are building a powerful army to quash any rebellion. But revolutionary leader Huang Xing (Chan) decides he must act before the Qing army becomes too powerful and leads an increasingly desperate series of violent uprisings against the power Qings.

R Drama
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With Joel Edgerton Mary Elizabeth Winstead Eric Heisserer Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Eric Newman Thomas Bliss Marc Abraham David Foster Matthijs van Heijningen Jonathan Walker

An American scientific expedition to Antarctica makes an incredible discovery — an alien spaceship with a mysterious and sinister frozen “thing” found nearby. They decide to drill through the ice encasement, ultimately freeing the trapped organism and triggering a series of horrific incidents and attacks.

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With Nicole Kidman Nicolas Cage Ben Mendelsohn Karl Gajdusek Danny Dimbort Avi Lerner Cam Gigandet Joel Schumacher John Thompson Dash Mihok Jordana Spiro Irwin Winkler Trevor Short Boaz Davidson Jill Cutler Eli Richbourg Liana Liberato

Four brutal perpetrators, looking for easy money, take a wife and husband hostage, but they run into complications with betrayal and deception.

R Action
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With Orlando Bloom Mads Mikkelsen Luke Evans Milla Jovovich Juno Temple Christoph Waltz Paul W.S. Anderson Logan Lerman Ray Stevenson James Corden Robert Kulzer Matthew Macfadyen Martin Moszkowicz Gabriella Wilde Jeremy Bolt Andrew Davies Freddie Fox

A modernized reimagining of the classic novels written by Alexandre Dumas that follow the story of a young d’Artagnan, who longs to become a great musketeer — one of the personal guards of the French crown. He encounters and befriends the contentious Athos, Porthos, and Aramis — three musketeers of legend and folly.

PG-13 Action
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With Guillermo del Toro Zach Galifianakis Salma Hayek Antonio Banderas David H. Steinberg Chris Miller John H. Williams Aron Warner Jeffrey Katzenberg Latifa Ouaou David Lipman Tom Wheeler

"Puss in Boots" will star Antonio Banderas as Puss In Boots and Salma Hayek as Kitty, Puss' love interest. Swords will cross and hearts will be broken in this adventure starring one of the most beloved characters of the Shrek universe - Puss In Boots. It's a swashbuckling ride through Puss's early years as he teams with mastermind Humpty Dumpty and the street-savvy Kitty to steal the famed Goose that lays the Golden Eggs.

Action 1 hr, 30 mins
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With Richard Gere Topher Grace Michael Brandt Martin Sheen Stana Katic Stephen Moyer Derek Haas Odette Yustman Ashok Amritraj Patrick Aiello Andrew Deane

The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin "Cassius," forces Paul Shepherdson (Richard Gere), a retired CIA operative, to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary (Topher Grace), to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing Cassius, Shepherdson is convinced his nemesis is long dead, but is pushed to take on the case by his former supervisor, Tom Highland (Martin Sheen). Meanwhile, Agent Geary, who wrote his Master's thesis on Shepherdson's pursuit of the Soviet killer, is certain that Cassius has resurfaced. As Shepherdson and Geary work their way through crimes both past and present, they discover that Cassius may not be the person they always thought him to be, forcing both to re-examine everything and everyone around them.

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 38 mins
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With C. Thomas Howell Mena Suvari William Sadler Mark Bierlein Tom Arnold Lance Kawas

Set in a Michigan city where a series of mysterious murders all have an unlikely but common thread - a hired insurance fraud investigator who gets more than a paycheck when he is inexplicably killed and then framed for the crimes.

R Action
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