Brooklyn's Finest (2010)

Plot:

The film takes place within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of Brooklyn and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects in the NYPD's (fictional) 65th precinct. The action revolves around three policemen whose relationships to their jobs are drastically different.

The opening scene shows two men sitting in a parked car having a conversation, the man in the driver's seat, Carlo (Vincent D'Onofrio) is then shot unexpectedly in the face by the passenger, Detective Salvatore "Sal" Procida (Ethan Hawke). Sal grabs a bag of money out of Carlo's lap and runs away. Sal immediately confesses to a priest, not seeking God's forgiveness but his help with his situation, which he sees as dire. His wife (Lili Taylor) is pregnant with twins. His house is too small for the four children he already has, and it also has wood mold, which is jeopardizing his wife's health and the twins'. Desperate to move, Sal has arranged to purchase a larger home through a woman who owes him a favor. The down payment is due the following Tuesday, and Sal is still short. Sal appears to be a highly skilled and accomplished narcotics detective, but he has begun to try and pocket money from police raids.

Cast:

*Richard Gere as Officer Edward "Eddie" Dugan

*Don Cheadle as Detective Clarence "Tango" Butler

*Ethan Hawke as Detective Salvatore "Sal" Procida

*Wesley Snipes as Casanova "Caz" Phillips

*Brían F. O'Byrne as Officer Ronny Rosario

*Jesse Williams as rookie Officer Eddie Quinlan

*Will Patton as Bill Hobarts

*Lili Taylor as Angela Procida

*Shannon Kane as Chantel

*Ellen Barkin as Federal Agent Smith

*Michael K. Williams as Red

*Vincent D'Onofrio as Bobby "Carlo" Powers

*Tobias Truvillion as Gutta

*Logan Marshall-Green as Melvin Panton

*Raquel Castro as Katherine

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A Prophet (2010)

Plot:

Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), nineteen years old, French of North African descent, is sentenced to six years in prison for attacking police officers. Alone and illiterate upon his arrival at the racially divided prison, he falls under the sway of Corsican mobsters, led by Cesar Luciani (Niels Arestrup), who enforces a brutal rule.

The Corsicans think little of the North Africans. However, Malik comes under their protection after he is forced to complete an assignment for them: the murder of Reyeb, a hostile witness in the next cell block. Although the victim haunts Malik for years afterward, Luciani offers Malik protection, and enlists him to make coffee and play cards with his gang. When the bulk of the Corsicans are transferred or released, Luciani calls on Malik, who has secretly been studying Corsican, to be his eyes and ears in the prison, eventually arranging day-long furloughs for Malik that allow him to conduct Luciani's business on the outside. A hostage swap, a casino negotiation – he becomes more reliable than even the gang’s longtime attorney.

Cast:

*Tahar Rahim as Malik El Djebena

*Niels Arestrup as César Luciani

*Adel Bencherif as Ryad

*Reda Kateb as Jordi Le Gitan

*Hichem Yacoubi as Reyeb

*Jean-Philippe Ricci as Vettori

*Gilles Cohen as Prof

*Antoine Basler as Pilicci

*Leïla Bekhti as Djamila

*Pierre Leccia as Sampierro

*Foued Nassah as Antaro

*Jean-Emmanuel Pagni as Santi

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Skyline (2010)

Plot:

Elaine (Scottie Thompson) and Jarrod (Eric Balfour) have flown to Los Angeles for Jarrod's best friend Terry's (Donald Faison) birthday party. They spend the night celebrating with his girlfriend, Candice (Brittany Daniel), and his assistant, Denise (Crystal Reed). During the party, one of Terry's employees, Ray (Neil Hopkins), welcomes Jarrod to L.A., thinking he has moved there to join Terry's company. During a private argument about whether or not they should move to L.A., Elaine reveals that she is pregnant.

Early the next morning, bright blue lights descend from the sky, entrancing anyone who looks at them. The light turns their eyes milky white and inflames blood vessels, so that they stand up on the skin. Held captive by the light, humans are immobilized and engulfed by the machines. Ray suffers this fate, but Jarrod is saved when Terry tackles him. Jarrod returns to normal shortly after. He and Terry decide to investigate the light from the roof of the highrise, where they see several alien ships descend over the blue lights and vacuum up thousands of entranced humans. Locked out on the roof, they are almost captured by flying machines, but Elaine opens the door from inside. She is temporarily mesmerized, but Jarrod saves her.

Cast:

*Eric Balfour as Jarrod

*Scottie Thompson as Elaine

*Brittany Daniel as Candice

*Crystal Reed as Denise

*Neil Hopkins as Ray

*David Zayas as Oliver

*Donald Faison as Terry

*Robin Gammell as Walt

*J. Paul Boehmer as Colin

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Source Code (2011)

Source Code is an upcoming 2011 techno-thriller film directed by Duncan Jones, starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

Plot:
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assignment unlike any he's ever known, he learns he's part of a government experiment called the "Source Code," a program that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last 8 minutes of his life. With a second, much larger target threatening to kill millions in downtown Chicago, Colter re-lives the incident over and over again, gathering clues each time, until he can solve the mystery of who is behind the bombs and prevent the next attack.

Cast:
* Jake Gyllenhaal as Colter Stevens
* Vera Farmiga as Carol Goodwin
* Michelle Monaghan as Christina
* Jeffrey Wright
* Russell Peters as Max Denoff
* Michael Arden as Derek Frost

Usefull links:
Source Code on Wikipedia
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Moon (2009)

Moon is a 2009 British science fiction film about a man who experiences a personal crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far side of the Earth's moon.

Plot:
Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is an employee contracted by Lunar Industries to extract helium-3 from lunar regolith, for much-needed clean energy back on Earth, leaving behind his wife Tess (Dominique McElligott), who was pregnant with their daughter, Eve, when he left Earth. He is stationed for three years at the largely automated "Sarang" lunar base ("sarang" means 'love' in Korean[7]), with only a robotic assistant named GERTY (equipped with a chatterbot voiced by Kevin Spacey) for company. A chronic long-range communications satellite failure limits him with only occasional recorded transmissions to and from Earth, as fixing the link is not among Lunar Industries' priorities. Two weeks before completing his contract, Sam begins to hallucinate, briefly seeing a teenage girl on the station. During a routine rover excursion to retrieve the full canisters of helium-3 from one of the automated harvesting machines, he sees a figure standing on the lunar surface and, distracted, he crashes his rover into the harvester, losing internal atmosphere. Sam hurriedly switches on his suit's life support system before losing consciousness.

Cast:
* Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell
* Kevin Spacey as the voice of GERTY
* Robin Chalk as Sam Bell Clone #2
* Dominique McElligott as Tess Bell
* Kaya Scodelario as Eve Bell
* Benedict Wong as Lunar Industries' Thompson
* Matt Berry as Lunar Industries' Overmeyers
* Malcolm Stewart as 'The Technician'

Usefull links:
Moon on Wikipedia
New York Times Review
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Rango (2011)

Plot:
In the film, Rango is a pet chameleon who lives in a terrarium. He has long thought himself a hero, but then finds himself removed from his contemporary American southwest surroundings and ending up in an Old West town called Dirt, which is populated by various desert critters garbed like characters out of a spaghetti western. As he’s always thought himself a hero, Rango establishes himself as the lawman, strolling the streets as a sheriff like character. Unknown to him, the “good guy” role doesn’t do very well in Dirt -- with a whole cemetery filled with good guy tombstones. But that doesn’t stop Rango from trying, constantly seeking to fit in, with his surroundings, no matter how challenging -- just like a good chameleon! At a certain point in the narrative, Rango will come to question everything about himself.

Cast:
* Johnny Depp as Rango
* Isla Fisher as Lucy
* Abigail Breslin as Missy
* Alfred Molina
* Bill Nighy as Rattlesnake Jake
* Harry Dean Stanton
* Ray Winstone
* Timothy Olyphant as The Spirit of the West[9]
* Alanna Ubach as Fresca
* Maile Flanagan as Boo
* Stephen Root as Doc' and Merrymack
* Beth Grant as Bonnie
* Ned Beatty as Tortoise John
* Kym Whitley as Melonee

Usefull links:
Rango on Wikipedia
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Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

Cowboys & Aliens is an an upcoming 2011 science fiction Western film based on the 2006 graphic novel of the same name created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg.
Plot:
In 1873 Arizona, a loner named Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) awakens with no memory of his past and a mysterious shackle around his wrist. He enters the town of Absolution where he learns he is a notorious criminal wanted by many people, including Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), a harsh leader who rules the town with an iron fist. But Absolution soon faces an even greater threat when mysterious forces attack the town from the sky, abducting anyone in their path. While Jake's shackle holds the key to defeating them, he must align himself with Dolarhyde and other former enemies to make a stand against this mysterious and more powerful new foe.

Cast:
* Daniel Craig as Jake Lonergan
* Harrison Ford as Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde
* Olivia Wilde as Ella
* Sam Rockwell as Doc
* Noah Ringer as Emmett
* Paul Dano as Percy Dolarhyde
* Clancy Brown as Meacham
* Keith Carradine Sheriff Taggart
* Adam Beach as Nat Colorado
* Ana de la Reguera as María
* Walton Goggins as Hunt

Usefull links:
Cowboys & Aliens on Wikipedia
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The Way Back (2011)

The Way Back is an upcoming drama film about a group of prisoners who escaped from a Siberian gulag during World War II.

Plot:
A group of prisoners engineer a grueling escape from a Stalinist Siberian gulag in 1942 and their passage to India.

Cast:
* Jim Sturgess as Janusz
* Colin Farrell as Valka
* Ed Harris as Mr. Smith
* Saoirse Ronan as Irena
* Mark Strong as Khabarov
* Dragoş Bucur as Zoran
* Gustaf Skarsgård as Voss

Usefull links:
The Way Back on Wikipedia
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