West
Los Angeles - home of the young, rich and hip. It is also home to
twenty-five year old Zachary "Zeus" Andrews. Transplanted from Chicago
as a kid, Zeus never fit into the hip LA culture. As a way to make a
living in his undesirable world, Zeus peddles drugs to wealthy kids. He
desperately seeks the path on which his destiny lies - that is until he
meets a girl who seems to transcend the shallow culture they inhabit.
She gives him the purpose he has long sought. But the reality of the
gritty drug culture explodes into Zeus' life in the most shattering of
ways. He must find a way out of his current existence within a very
dangerous world to reach a place of enlightenment he so desperately
seeks.
Doomsday
takes place nearly three decades after a lethal virus called the Reaper
nearly wipes out Scotland and causes the rest of the world to wall off
the country. When the Reaper begins to emerge in England 25 years
later, an elite team and their leader (Rhona Mitra) are sent to the
contaminated landscape of Scotland to find a cure.
The Orphanage [STREAMING] (2008): Good Quality w/Eng Subs
plot:
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, where she opens an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
Vantage
Point is the story of eight strangers with eight different points of
view each trying to piece together the truth behind an assassination
attempt on the President of the United States. These eight people
include Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox),
Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William
Hurt) at an anti-terrorism summit in Salamanca, Spain. Also involved
are Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker), an American tourist who thinks he’s
captured the shooter on his camcorder while videotaping the event for
his family back home, and TV news producer Rex Brooks (Sigourney
Weaver), relaying the historic event to millions of TV viewers across
the globe. When a double of President Ashton is shot moments after
stepping to the podium, chaos ensues. Terrorists attack the podium and
the actual location of the President - who had earlier been moved to a
safe location after his aides learn of a definite threat against the
summit. Barnes must uncover the truth while facing his memories of a
previous assassination attempt as well as betrayal from within the
security detail. As they and others reveal their stories, the pieces of
the puzzle fall into place.
A
mild-mannered teacher and a hazmat specialist have to figure out how to
stop an unstoppable creature who feeds on light and energy, and moves
with exponential speed, before it destroys everything in it's path.
The story focuses on struggling film producer Charlie Berns, who is on the verge of suicide when his aspiring screenwriter nephew Lionel arrives from New Jersey with a script about 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli. Charlie agrees to make the film, but he converts the literate PBS-style script into the action adventure Middle Eastern espionage film Lev Disraeli: Freedom Fighter. He casts African American Bobby Mason, a recent convert to Judaism, in the title role and proceeds to set up locations in Yugoslavia. When Mason gets kidnapped by Macedonian separatists during filming, Charlie devises a way to keep his project going. He moves his crew to Prague and begins to film Lionel's original script without advising studio heads of his plan.
As a teenager, David Rice (Max Thieriot) lives with his abusive father William (Michael Rooker), after his mother, Mary (Diane Lane), left when David was only five. He has no friends in school except for Millie (AnnaSophia Robb), whom he has a crush on. When a prank goes wrong and David’s life is threatened he discovers he can “Jump” – teleport to anywhere on the planet which he's previously visited or visualized from a photograph. Using his ability he leaves his childhood home behind and sets himself up in New York City, and steals money from a local bank after seeing the inside of the vault and using it as a Jump point. As an adult, David (Hayden Christensen) lives life to excess, Jumping all across the world and living a consequence free life.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumper_%28film%29
Why Democracy - Taxi to the Dark Side [Rapidshare] (2007)
Info
Taxi to the Dark Side takes an in-depth look at the
torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and
Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who
was tortured and killed in 2002.
This documentary was supposed to have been aired on Discovery
channel prior to the 2008 election. Discovery chickened out in fear
that showing the documentary would hurt the station and instead the
documentary will now only be aired in September 2008 on HBO.
Plot: From the creators of "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," this
series is set after the events of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day." After
the sacrifices of Dr. Miles Dyson and T-800 Model 101 Terminator, the
Connors find themselves once again being stalked by Skynet's agents
from the future. Realizing their nightmare isn't over, they decide to
stop running and focus on preventing the birth of Skynet. With the aid
of Cameron Phillips, a beautiful girl who has a mysterious past also
linked to the future, they begin a quest stop the United States
military from creating the program that will bring humanity to an end.
