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Eagle Eye (2008)

Plot: A slacker (LaBeouf) and a single mother (Monaghan) are framed as terrorists and then forced to become members of a cell planning a political assassination.

 
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★★★☆☆ Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull (2008)

Plot: In this fourth installment, Indiana Jones (Ford) returns once again to action. This time, it’s 1957 and the daring Dr. Jones must venture into the jungles of South America in a race against Soviet agents to find the mystical Crystal Skull.

 

★★★☆☆ Disturbia (2007)

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.

 

★★★★☆ Transformers (2007)

Plot: Sam Witwicky (LaBoeuf) is caught up in a war between two sects of a highly advanced alien race - The Autobots and The Decepticons - when they discover that the location of a powerful cube that could shift the balance of power in their war is etched on a pair of glasses Sam received from his grandfather. Based on the characters in the Hasbro toy line.

 

★★★★☆ Surf’s Up (2007)

Plot: A documentary crew follows penguin Cody Maverick (LaBoeuf) from his hometown of Shiverpool, Antartica to the Penguin World Surfing Championship on Pen Gu Island. Animated.

 

★★½☆☆ Constantine (2005)

Plot: John Constantine (Reeves) fights a battle most humans are totally unaware of. He knows that Heaven and Hell are waging a battle - he is able to see behind the normal, and sees the combatants hiding behind their falseness - and they see him. Now, he’s dying - but before he finally goes, he must help a woman (Weisz) who may, unknowingly, be at the center of an evil attempt to take over the world. Based on the DC Comics/Vertigo Hellblazer graphic novels.

 
 
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★★★☆☆ I, Robot (2004)

Plot: It’s Chicago, 2035, and robots are everywhere…but Det. Spooner (Smith) has a thing against robots, despite the 3 Laws of Robotics that protect humans. When USR, the biggest robotic manufacturer in the world, populates almost every home in the world with it’s newest robot version, however, one robot seemingly breaks the 3 Laws…and suddenly humanity’s chances aren’t looking very good. Loosely based on Isaac Asimov’s collection of short stories by the same name.

 
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★★★★☆ Holes (2003)

Plot: Stanley Yelnats IV (LaBeouf) is unlucky. It’s not his fault, though - it’s his great great grandfather, Stanley Yelnats I, who got the family cursed. Because of this curse, he’s wrongfully accused of stealing shoes from a charity auction and sentenced to six months at a camp in the desert. There, he is put in D-Tent, and made to dig holes in the desert all day. But, maybe his luck is starting to turn around, because the camp may be just what he needs to cure his cursed family. Based on the novel by Louis Sachar.