In Karakura Town, unidentifiable spirits begin appearing en mases. While attempting to deal with these strange souls, Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki meet Senna, a mysterious shinigami who wipes out most of them. Senna refuses to answer any questions, so Ichigo is forced to follow her while Rukia tries to find out what's going on.
It is 300 years into the future. Earth's environment had been devastated by mankind's own foolish plans and humankind is beleaguered by the sentient forests which they have awoken. The world balance is tipped when a young boy named Agito stumbles across a machine that glowed in a strange blue hue inside a forbidden sanctuary. The machine, which has preserved a beautiful girl named Tula from the past, is activated. Tula has a "mission" that had been entrusted to her by the past ...
Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, the eighth Pokémon movie, ranks as one of the best features in this popular franchise. Director Kunihiko Yuyama and writer Hideki Sonoda sensibly keep the adventures and threats to a scale that's appropriate for the characters. (The first movies put the world at risk, and while Ash Ketchum is a good kid, he's not someone who can credibly save the planet.) Ash, Brock, Max, and May journey to Cameron Palace for a tournament that celebrates the valor of Prince Aaron, who saved the realm from destruction 1,000 years ago. Ash and Pikachu win, but the mischievous Mew kidnaps Pikachu, whom he's befriended. Prince Aaron's Pokémon companion Lucario awakens from the victor's staff to lead Ash and the gang to the Tree of Beginning, a mountain that is also a living entity. Ash risks his life to rescue Pikachu, proving the depth of their friendship to Lucario. The film includes lots of CG effects, most of which work well with the drawn animation: the earlier Pokémon films tended to look like two different movies spliced together.
It all started with a legend passed down from the People of the Water... Somewhere in this world, there is a Sea Temple created by the People of the Water. The Sea Temple contains a hidden treasure called the Sea Crown, but no one has ever seen the Sea Crown, or even the Sea Temple, because the temple is protected by a secret mechanism. The temple drifts through a vast ocean undetected, waiting... waiting... Ash and Pikachu meet Lizabeth, a descendant of the People of the Water, and learn about the legend. They also meet Jackie, a Pokmon Ranger on a secret mission to protect a Manaphy egg (Manaphy is mysteriously known as The Prince of the Sea) and find the Sea Temple as well...
The computer-animated movie takes place two years after the events of the Final Fantasy VII video game. The world has assuredly become a more peaceful place, though cities and industry are still lying in ruins and most of the Earth's population has been afflicted with a strange and lethal disease known as 'Seikon-Shoukougun' which is Japanese for 'Planet Scar Syndrome'. The main character, guilt-ridden ex-soldier Cloud Strife (Steve Burton), has been leading a reclusive life, no longer wanting to fight wars. However, when he is attacked by three mysterious, villainous kids, Kadaj (Steve Staley), Yazoo (Dave Wittenberg) and Loz (Fred Tatasciore), who are bent on assaulting the Planet, Cloud is forced to come out of retirement to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.
Based on true events, the political drama portrays the confrontation between journalist Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin that shook the American society in 1954. America's freedom, values and ideals were threatened when Joseph McCarthy launched a massive campaign against communists. Murrow, a well-known host of the CBS television program, was the first person who drew the attention of the general public to ideological and political problems. Despite corporate pressure and the potential ramifications, the courageous journalist ventured to investigate and expose McCarthy and his dirty methods during his "witch-hunts."
The early years of the famous magnate, Howard Hughes (1905-1976), are charted in this biographical chronicle where Leo DiCaprio stars. His eclectic career came through everything from oil, for which he cared little, to casinos, film, and aviation - as he turned millions of dollars into billions. His relationships with Hollywood's divas, including the elegant screen star Katharine Hepburn (Blanchett) and the sensual screen beauty Ava Gardner (Beckinsale) were also volatile. He was the incarnated mid-century icon of American wealth. Martin Scorsese directed this fast-moving, epic-scale biopic documenting the life and loves of the one of the most colorful Americans of the 20th century and also chronicles Hughes' struggle with his physical phobias and disabilities, and with his increasingly erratic, obsessive-compulsive behavior that forces him to isolate himself from the world.
The action takes place in the year 2131 – in a war-deserted future the city of Utopia, populated by humans and bioroids, where a very high-powered computer called GIA is a kind of "Big Brother", supporting the city council in controlling every side of life. Deunan Knute, a survivor of numerous global wars, appears in this ideally organized society, and she is destined to carry a heritage that will be crucial for the future of humanity.
Karen Davis, an exchange student working in Tokyo, covers for a disappeared nurse and check up Emma, an American immigrant, in her home. She finds her sleeping the whole day. The reason is a mysterious curse, the Grunge, haunting the house and spreading like a virus. Karen must tear up the terrific circle of deaths not to become the victim of the Grunge herself.
Young Sophie Hatter is cursed by the Witch of the Waste, and turns into an old hag. Ashamed of how she looks, she flees into the hills where a moving castle roams the hills. It is said to belong to the young and handsome wizard Howl, who has a bad reputation. Within the castle, Sophie befriends the fire demon Calcifer, who promises to help her become young again. One catch: she must help Calcifer to be free of Howl, and Calcifer cannot tell her how. However, Sophie agrees to stay and try to find out about the contract through other ways. Still, Howl can see that Sophie is under a spell like Calcifer can, and he falls in love with her for who she is and not for what she looks like. Sophie manages to bring life to the moving castle, and she helps Howl to face his former tutor, Madam Suliman.
Ash, Pikachu and friends (minus Misty) were visiting a festival celebrating the appearance of a comet when they stumble upon a mysterious rock-like crystal...
A comet bearing a deadly Pokemon creature crash-lands onto Earth, terrorising a nearby high-tech city, where Ash, Pikachu and friends are currently visiting...
The action takes place in Japan in the 1870s. Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a respected American military officer and Civil War veteran, accepts an offer to travel to the Land of the Rising Sun to train the country's regular army in the art of modern warfare. Preparing for more Westernized policy, the Emperor of Japan wants to extirpate the hereditary class system of the samurai warriors who rule the provinces. All of a sudden Algren takes part in the sanguinary civil war between the radical samurais and the new westernized troops. The gallant officer will have to choose which side to fight on and to learn about the code of honor.
The movie tells the story of a love affair between two lonely Americans – Bob Harris (Bill Murray), a middle-aged movie actor burdened with his unloved wife and kids, and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a young woman bored of her unloving husband. They meet in the Tokyo hotel and spend together an unforgettable weekend. Their love is not one of passion but rather one of emotional need. The relation is motivated by loneliness and melancholy. It’s probably a passing infatuation that provides long hoped-for comfort and companionship...
In the sequel to ‘Lara Croft Tomb Raider’, Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie), a bewitching aristocrat, archaeologist and venturesome explorer, sets out on her journey to a submerged temple called the Cradle of Life in search of the notorious Pandora's Box, a unique artifact which was considered to be the root of all evil in ancient times. Lara’s mission is finding the powerful Box before it falls into the wrong hands, namely, into the hands of Chen Lo (Simon Yam), a Chinese crime kingpin. Lo teams up with Jonathan Reiss (Ciaran Hinds), an ominous scientist whose malicious intent is to use the Box as weapons of mass distruction. Lara’s associate to help with the abnormally dangerous and arduous task is Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler), her ex-boyfriend. While travelling around the world they visit such exotic places as Greece, Hong Kong, Kenya and Tanzania to save humanity.
Can you imagine a near-future world? The time is out of joint: it's July, 2021, but snow falls in New York City, people freeze in Uganda, gravity loses its power in Africa. Despite world-wide chaos John (Joaquin Phoenix), a Polish academic on his way to Calgary, stops in New York to meet his wife Elena (Claire Danes), a world-famous figure skater, in order to get a divorce. But when John arrives at Elena's hotel, he realizes that something is wrong. John soon discovers that Elena and her staff have a secret — David (Alun Armstrong), her manager, has cloned Elena with the intention of killing her as soon as her talent finally runs short. They are soon on the run from David and his mates. Is there a corner of the world where they can seek shelter to keep themselves safe and sound?
Forty-two years after her first visit in Tokyo, Mothra returns to warn mankind that they must return Mechagodzilla, along with Godzilla's bones, to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. If not, dire consequences will follow. However, Godzilla is once again on the rampage, and Mechagodzilla is Japan's only defense.
This is a remake of the Japan version of "The Ring", which still is a cornerstone of the contemporary horror. A journalist woman named Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) gets to know that her niece and the friends of the girl have died instantly and inexplicably when they checked a room in a distant motel, during their vacation. Rachel has a son Aidan (David Dorfman), she figures out that a mysterious video tape is involved in this story; these who are dead now, have watched it. Among other things, she resembles some ominous strangeness browsing photos of her dead niece's friends: their faces are uncommonly changed. And having seen the tape which initially seemed an amateurish film peculiar with an unskillful cutting, she realizes that something evil and nightmarishly unavoidable has begun looming over her and her son. Soon after watching the tape containing these various, inexplicably sinister frames she hears her phone ringing, and picks up a receiver only to hear how many days remained for her to live. Now her life is a race against the time, she is to know something about the tape and the horrifying story that lays hidden behind the dust of the past decades, spotting some things around her, the things she have seen watching the cursed cutting. A masterpiece of Gore Verbinski as a director and Naomi Watts as an actress is a prominent remake between the ones of the same genre.
Johnathan Cross, a lover of extreme sports, is recruited by Alexi Petrovich to star in his sportive invention, Rollerball. Johnathan accepts and learns the ropes of Rollerball: The players are on Rollerblades, trying to bring a heavy metal ball into a high goal. Also, there are motorcyclists around to bring momentum to the players. Oh yes, and there are no rules in the game. During his skyrocketing career, Johnathan has to experience what Alexi has found out: Blood brings more viewing pleasure to the audience. So, Alexi starts to bribe members of the different teams to cause more trouble than necessary on the field, and the viewers love it. Only a little later, Johnathan's life is already in extreme danger as well as those of his friends and teammates. In a final game, Johnathan and his team have to fight for mere survival against their real opponent - their boss Alexi Petrovich.
After an alien invasion threatens to annihilate the human race, a young Japanese girl, named Milly (Anne Suzuki), travels back in time from 2084 to October 2002, and enlists the reluctant aid of skilled Tokyo gunman, named Miyamoto (Takeshi Kaneshiro), to discover and prevent the start of the war. However, trouble ensues when the two protagonists are forced to deal with a Japanese mafia boss, named Mizoguchi (Goro Kishitani), who is somehow involved in the start of the war by keeping the first alien spaceship and its alien pilot captive, while our two heroes race against the clock to find a way to stop the oncoming destruction from the vengeance-seeking alien invasion fleet on its way to Earth.
