the Mind’s Chew Toy

Plot: Charlie Hinton (Murphy) has a good paying job, a loving wife, and a kid (Griffin). But, when he’s laid off and can’t find other work, Charlie and his friend Phil (Garland) come up with the idea of opening a home day care to help pay the bills until they can find “real” jobs. They find out, however, a day care is a little tougher than they figured. But, with the help of their friend Marvin (Zahn), they try to make it work, even competing against a militant day care run by the under-handed Miss Harridan (Huston).

Plot: Years after a horrific accident, a vulcanist (Brosnan) is sent to the quiet town of Dante’s Peak after reports of slight geological happenings with the local mountain. After arriving, he befriends the town’s mayor (Hamilton), and starts to worry the local mountain may be less dormant than people think. When he goes to warn the town, however, his boss shuts him down, saying there isn’t any need. Little does anyone know how wrong he is…

Plot: Matt Murdock (Affleck) is a blind lawyer working in Hell’s Kitchen during the day…but at night he becomes the masked vigilante DareDevil, “the man without fear”. Matt is just getting to know the daughter of a wealthy businessman, Electra (Garner), when her father is killed by hit man Bullseye (Farrell) - and DareDevil is blamed. Now, DareDevil has to find who hired Bullseye - before Electra extracts her revenge on him. Based on the Marvel comic book characters.

Plot: A man (Sewell) wakes up in a hotel room, in the bathtub. In the other room is a dead hooker covered with strange markings painted in her own blood. He can’t remember anything, including his own name. Now he must find out what has happened to him, and what, if anything, it has to do with a Dr. Schreber (Sutherland) and ‘The Strangers,’ mysterious beings who possess the ability to alter time and reality.

Plot: In the town of Darkness Falls, there’s a tale about a lady named Matilda Dixon, a ghost that wears a porcelain mask - and kills anyone that sees her. It’s just a tale though, right? Not for Kyle (Kley), who witnessed the Tooth Fairy kill his mother. Of course, no one believed him, and he’s been in and out of foster homes and mental hospitals ever since. Now, 12 years later, he’s come back to Darkness Falls. Why? Because his old girlfriend Katie (Caulfield) has a younger brother, Michael (Cormie)…and Michael has seen the Tooth Fairy too.

Plot: After leaving her husband Kyle (Scott), Dahlia (Connelly) and her five-year-old daughter Cecilia (Ariel Gade) move into a new apartment in Roosevelt Heights, NY. While it isn’t the best apartment, it’s affordable and located near a good school. But, when water starts leaking into their apartment, and Cecilia begins to have conversations with her imaginary friend, Dahlia begins to suspect there may be something wrong with the empty apartment directly above their heads.

Plot: When the curator of the Louvre is murderd and Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) is suspected, Langdon teams up with gifted cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Tautou) to find the true murderer - and stumble upon an even greater mystery involving The Priory Of Scion, an ultra-secretive sect charged with keeping one of the greatest secrets of all time. Based on the novel by Dan Brown.

Plot: A mysterious virus has descended on Milwaukee. It causes the recently dead to rise up and attack the living. As the virus spreads through the world, a few survivors gather together and fight for their very existence. A remake of the 1984 film of the same name.

Plot: After a break in the ice shelf, Jack Hall (Quaid) begins to think another Ice Age is approaching. Despite his pleas to the government, Jack is ignored. When massive weather patterns start emerging, Jack’s worst fears are realized: the next Ice Age is almost upon them. Jack’s immediate concern is for his son, Sam (Gyllenhaal), who is trapped in the Manhattan Public Library. While the rest of the US flees for Mexico, Jack must race against the elements if he ever wants to see his son alive again.

Plot: A medieval truce between the Light and the Dark has kept an uneasy peace for years. But now, each side has gained a powerful Great One: For the light, it’s Anton’s love interest Svetlana (Poroshina); for the dark, it’s his son, Yegor (Martynov). On the run for murder, Anton (Khabensky) must find the long-lost ‘Chalk Of Fate’ - or the battle to come may end everything. Based on the novel Night Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko.

Plot:: Nick Hume is just a normal guy - he works in an office, and he’s got a loving wife and two sons. When one of his sons is killed in a gang initiation ritual, Nick sets out to avenge his son’s death by killing the man responsible. Unfortunately, the killer happens to be the gang leader’s brother - and Nick has unknowingly just started a war to the death.

Plot: While investigating a ferry disaster on the Mississippi, New Orleans’ ATF Agent Doug Carlin (Washington) is assigned to a special task force that uses newfound technology to look 4 days into the past. As the team focuses on Claire (Patton), a victim who may lead them to the person responsible for the disaster, Doug wonders if he may be able to go back and save Claire, the dead woman he is falling in love with.

Plot: Charles (Owen) has a loving wife and a sick daughter. But when when he meets Lucinda (Anniston) on the train one day, his life changes. Immediately infatuated with her, they get a room together - only to be interrupted by a violent mugger who rapes Lucinda. Now, Charles can’t go to the cops without destroying both of their marriages. But what is he going to do when the mugger starts demanding money from him - money that he has saved to buy medications for his daughter? Based on the novel by James Siegel.

Plot: James Bond (Brosnan), while on a secret mission in South Korea, is captured. After 14 months of imprisonment, he is traded for Zao (Yune), the right-hand man of the general Bond killed before being captured. With a leak in British Intelligence, and Bond as the primary suspect, Bond must go on his own to track down Zao and find out what his association is with billionaire Gustav Graves (Stephens). Along the way, Bond runs into Jinx (Berry), whose motives are a mystery to him.

Plot: On a trip to Los Angeles to try to patch things up with his estranged wife Holly (Bedelia), New York cop John McClane (Willis) suddenly finds himself involved in a hostage situation. Terrorists, led by Hans Gruber (Rickman), have taken over the Nakatomi building where Holly works. With Hans seemingly one step ahead of both the LAPD and the FBI, it looks like it’s up to John McClane to save the day.

Plot: Just two years after his near-death experience at the Nakotmi building in LA, John McClane (Willis) battles terrorists who take over Washington Dulles Airport’s communication system around the holidays. The terrorists, led be ex-Col. Stuart (Sadler) will crash planes into the ground one by one unless their demands are met - including one on which Mrs. McClane (Bedelia) is a passenger.

Plot: Things haven’t been going well for Lieutenant John McClane (Willis). Now back in New York and not speaking to his wife, he’s recovering from a massive hangover when he’s targeted for a deadly game of “Simon Says” by an unknown terrorist (Irons). And things go from bad to worse when an innocent bystander named Zeus (Jackson) gets trapped into playing the game as well. But is this one game even McClane can’t win?

Plot: Still troubled over the death of his father a year ago, Kale (LaBeouf) gets into a fight at school - and finds himself under house arrest for 90 days. Bored, he starts spying on the people in his idyllic little town. Soon, however, his boredom turns to fear as he begins to suspect one of his neighbors (Morse) of being an elusive serial killer.

Plot: Four women, each with their own style of fighting, are invited to participate in the “Dead Or Alive” world fighting tournament on an exotic island. Based on the video game series by Tecmo.

Plot: Dr. Conrad (Douglas) is a rather successful uptown psychiatrist. But when his old friend (Platt) convinces him to take a look at a new patient downtown name Elisabeth (Murphy), he doesn’t quite know what he’s gotten himself into. Now, he only has one day to unravel the mystery of what Elisabeth is hiding - or he will never see his daughter again.

Plot: October, 1988: Donnie Darko (Gyllenhaal) is having a bit of a problem. He walks in his sleep, and keeps seeing a six-foot tall evil-looking bunny rabbit named Frank (Duval). His parents have sent him to a shrink (Ross) to help him with his problems, but so far it’s not working. Luckily, he’s out sleepwalking when an engine falls out of a plane and lands in his bedroom. As October wears on, he tries to discover what Frank is trying to tell him…even though he almost doesn’t want to know.

Plot: After a disturbance at a research station on Mars, Sarge (The Rock) leads a Rapid Response Tactical Squad to rescue the scientists. But, when his troops arrive, they discover they might just be in over their heads this time. Based on the videogame by ID Software.

Plot: Abraham Van Helsing (Plummer) has been hiding a couple of things from his assistant Simon (Miller) in his antiques shop. Abraham is the keeper of Dracula’s (Butler) remains, locked deep below the shop. After a break-in frees Dracula, it’s up to Simon and Abraham to stop him before he finds Abraham’s daughter, Mary (Waddell).

Plot: Dragon-like creatures from an ancient legend appear in Los Angeles, scale buildings, flip cars and terrorize the city in search for a girl named Sarah (Brooks). While investigating one of the disaster sites, a TV reporter named Ethan (Behr) uncovers a piece of debris which directly links him to this legend. Ethan must realize his destiny as an ancient warrior who was re-born in order to protect Sarah from the evil dragons and save the city from total destruction.

Plot: Four friends are on their annual deer hunting getaway. Everything is going well until they suddenly encounter a few mysterious strangers who aren’t feeling well. As the condition of the strangers worsens, the friends are suddenly thrust into a bizarre alien encounter. These four friends are unique though, possessing special “gifts” given to them by a childhood friend, Duddits (Wahlberg). To save themselves, and quite possibly the entire planet, they must once again rely on Duddits…or all hope is lost. Based on the novel by Stephen King.