Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Duration: -
Starring: Chris Evans, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving, Samuel L. Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones,
Director: Joe Johnston
Producer: Kevin Feige
Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Marvel Studios
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Writer: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely

Synopsis
Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present the story of one man destined to become the world’s First Avenger. It is 1941, and the world is being torn apart by war. After repeatedly trying to enlist in the military to do his part and fight alongside his brothers and sisters in the Allied Forces, the young and scrappy 98 pound Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is accepted to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super-Soldier known as Captain America. In his muscular new incarnation, Captain America joins forces with his friend Bucky Barnes (SEBASTIAN STAN) and the confident Peggy Carter (HAYLEY ATWELL), under the command of Colonel Chester Phillips (TOMMY LEE JONES), to wage war on the evil HYDRA organization—the Nazi’s deep science division—led by the villainous Red Skull (HUGO WEAVING). “Captain America: The First Avenger” focuses on the early days of the Marvel Universe—later populated with such super heroes as Iron Man, the Hulk and Thor…When wars were fought with weapons, but won by men.

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Avatar

Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Duration: 2 hrs. 30 min.
Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Michelle Rodriguez, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana,
Director: James Cameron
Producer: James Cameron, Jon Landau, Rae Sanchini
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Writer: James Cameron

Synopsis
AVATAR takes us to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director of “Titanic,” first conceived the film years ago, when the means to realize his vision did not yet exist. Now, after four years of actual production work, AVATAR delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.

The story’s hero is Jake Sully, an ex-Marine confined to a wheelchair. Bitter and disillusioned, he’s still a warrior at heart. All Jake ever wanted was something worth fighting for – and he ultimately finds it in the place he least expected: on a distant world. Jake has been recruited to join an expedition to the moon Pandora, which corporate interests are strip-mining for a mineral worth $20 million per kilogram on Earth. To facilitate their work, the humans use a link system that projects a person’s consciousness into a hybrid of humans and Pandora’s indigenous humanoid race, the Na’vi. This human-Na’vi hybrid – a fully living, breathing body that resembles the Na’vi but possesses the individual human’s thoughts, feelings and personality – is known as an “avatar.”

In his new avatar form, Jake can once again walk. His mission is to interact with and infiltrate the Na’vi with the hope of enlisting their help – or at least their acquiescence -- in mining the ore. A beautiful Na’vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake’s life – reluctantly – because even in his avatar body, Jake represents to her the human encroachment on the Na’vi’s unspoiled world.

As Jake’s relationship with Neytiri deepens, along with his respect for the Na’vi, he faces the ultimate test as he leads an epic conflict that will decide nothing less than the fate of an entire world.

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Marley and Me

Genre: Comedy
Duration: 2 hrs. 3 min.
Starring: Alan Arkin, Eric Dane, Jennifer Aniston, Kathleen Turner, Owen Wilson,
Director: David Frankel
Producer: Gil Netter, Karen Rosenfelt
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: December 25, 2008
Writer: Don Roos, Scott Frank

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SYNOPSIS

As the snow falls on their wedding night, newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan (OWEN WILSON and JENNIFER ANISTON) decide to leave behind the harsh winters of Michigan and head south to begin their new lives in West Palm Beach, Florida. They obtain jobs as journalists at competing local newspapers, buy their first home, and begin to make their way through the challenges of a new marriage, new careers and, possibly, the life-changing decision to start a family.

Unsure of his preparedness for raising children, John confesses his fears to his friend and fellow journalist Sebastian, who comes up with the perfect solution: John should get Jenny a puppy. �There�s nothing to it,� says Sebastian. �You walk �em. You feed �em, you let �em out now and then.�

Then came Marley.

The Grogans adopt the cute, twelve pound yellow Labrador, who in no time at all, grows into a 100-pound steamroller of unbridled energy that turns the Grogan home into a disaster area.

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