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19 Years on Show
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Jason X

Aliens called. It wants its plot back.

Reviewed Feb 10, 2009
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives! Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Seven Years in Reverse

Reviewed Jan 26, 2009
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward. Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Theatrical Release

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

It would have worked, too, if it weren't for those meddli...

Reviewed Jan 23, 2009
Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway house for troubled teens where he now lives, it seems like his nightmarish nemesis, Jason, is back for more sadistic slaughters. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

I’ve seen loading screens with more tension.

Reviewed Dec 14, 2008
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive. Genres: Drama, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

WALL·E

Number Five is In Love

Reviewed Dec 1, 2008
What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report to the humans. Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most imaginative adventures ever brought to the big screen. Genres: Animation, Family, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release