From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:14 PM

The feature-film debut of director Zack Snyder, Dawn of the Dead is a modern retelling of George Romero’s 1978 horror classic, which was actually the second film in a trilogy that began with Night of the Living Dead and concluded with Day of the Dead. Sarah Polley and Ving Rhames star as two of ...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:14 PM

The creators of such docudramas as The Queen and Frost/Nixon re-team for this period sports chronicle set in 1974. In England, the Leeds United players retain a status as the preeminent champions of their football league. Unfortunately, the manager to whom the team owes much of its success, visi...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:13 PM

An Albanian woman living in Belgium finds her dreams of opening a snack bar with her boyfriend leading to tragedy after she agrees to marry a Russian Mafioso in order to gain citizenship. All Lorna wanted was to start a small business with her loving boyfriend, but in order to make that happen s...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:13 PM

The bumbling cops of Comedy Central’s hit television series take a trip to Miami Beach for a national police convention. After the trip there turns out to be much more difficult than anticipated, the bumbling crew must leap into action when the convention center becomes the target of a biologica...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:13 PM

Dylan Walsh, Danny DeVito, Jonah Hill, and Justin Long star in prolific actor-turned-writer/director Hart Bochner’s quirky romantic comedy about the efforts of a simple blue collar worker to reconnect with his childhood love and finally clean up his crime infested California neighborhood. Ray Tu...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:12 PM

John Stockwell’s thriller Turistas begins when vacationers end up stranded in a little Brazilian village after a bus accident wipes out their transportation. Although many in the group are experienced when it comes to unusual travel destinations, none of them are able to get a handle on this str...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:12 PM

The sole survivor of a Viking "dragon" vessel shipwrecked on the eastern shores of the New World 15 years ago provides the only hope for the a Native American tribe faced with certain destruction by Norse berserkers in director Marcus Nispel’s (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) dark action adventure. ...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:12 PM

A naïve group of National Guard trainees embark on a routine training mission in the New Mexico desert, only to find themselves face to face with a murderous band of cannibalistic mutants in prolific music video director Martin Weisz’s sequel to the successful 2006 remake. An isolated desert res...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:11 PM

One of the most popular kung fu films ever, and perhaps the peak of the famed Bruce Lee’s career, Enter the Dragon achieved success by presenting a series of superbly staged fighting sequences with a minimum of distractions. The story finds Lee as a martial-arts expert determined to help capture...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:11 PM

Cops, secretaries, and prisoners stuck in a soon-to-be-shuttered L.A. police station fight off a horde of murderous gang members in director John Carpenter’s homage to Howard Hawks. When police officer Bishop (Austin Stoker) is left in charge of Precinct 13 on the last day it's open, he isn...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:11 PM

The Nobody’s Fool (1994) team of Paul Newman, director Robert Benton, and scripter Richard Russo reassembled for this L.A. detective drama, beginning with a Puerto Vallarta prologue showing private eye Harry Ross (Newman) accidentally shot by 17-year-old Mel Ames (Reese Witherspoon) during his e...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:11 PM

It’s a battle for humanity in this faith-based thriller from ChristianCinema.com and filmmaker Kevin Downes. In a dystopic future, humankind has been oppressed by a fascist government supported by the Community Police Force (CPF). But when three political prisoners escape from death row and join...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:10 PM

Irwin Allen’s second water-logged disaster film picks up where The Poseidon Adventure left off; Salvagers Michael Caine, Karl Malden and Sally Field enter the Poseidon to take what they can, unaware that evil salvager Telly Savalas and his henchmen lie in wait. When an explosion rocks the ship, ...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:10 PM

Having lived his life as the gardener on a millionaire’s estate, Chance (Peter Sellers) knows of the real world only what he has seen on TV. When his benefactor dies, Chance walks aimlessly into the streets of Washington D.C., where he is struck by a car owned by wealthy Eve Rand (Shirley MacLai...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:09 PM

Mrs. Doubtfire director Chris Columbus continues to explore the family turmoil of divorce in the tearjerker Stepmom, a story that pits the birth mother against the new mother. Jackie (Susan Sarandon), a one-time book editor, is now the consummate soccer mom juggling the schedules of her two kids...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:09 PM

"You’ve got to ask yourself a question: 'do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" Dirty Harry provoked a critical uproar in 1971 for its "fascist" message about the power of one, as it also elevated Clint Eastwood to superstar status through his most enduring screen persona. Harry Callaha...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:09 PM

Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have g...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:08 PM

This futuristic animated adventure is based on the graphic novel The Melting Pot, created by noted comic artists Kevin Eastman, Simon Brisley, and Eric Talbot and published by the creators of the well-known graphics magazine Heavy Metal. In a distant universe, the acronym F.A.K.K. (Federation As...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:07 PM

Martin Scorsese’s first Hollywood studio production also marked his first (and only) foray into a woman-centered story. Alice Hyatt (Ellen Burstyn), a resigned Southwest housewife, takes advantage of her trucker husband's sudden death to hit the road with her bratty son Tommy (Alfred Lutter...

From: Blockbuster on Fri, Mar 11 2011 9:07 PM

In this whimsical romantic comedy that recalls It’s a Wonderful Life, Nicolas Cage plays Jack Campbell, a workaholic bachelor who gets to see what his life might have been like had he stayed with his old sweetheart, Kate (Tea Leoni). Thirteen years before, Jack accepted a brokerage internship th...