“In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na’vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture. Written by Giorgio_C”

• Director: James Cameron
• Release Date:
  18 December 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  162 min
• Country: USA , UK
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Sci-Fi
• MPAA:
  Rated PG-13 for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking.

Tagline: Enter the World

Trivia: To help the actors prepare for their roles, director James Cameron took the cast and crew to Hawaii, where they spent their days trekking through the forests and jungles and living like tribes (building campfires, eating fish, etc), in order to get a better sense of what it would be like to live and move around in the jungle on Pandora, since there would not be any actual jungle sets to aid and guide the actors and crew. Zoe Saldana even dressed up as a warrior during these journeys, complete with an alien tail symbolic of the one her character has in the movie. These hikes were only done during the daytime, though; The cast and crew spent their nights at a Four Seasons hotel.

Goofs: Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Though it would seem Norm is standing next to his Avatar near the end of the movie (which would be physically impossible) we see multiple avatars with trousers and guns in the background. These are likely the other avatars we saw at the beginning of the movie.

“On the day of James Kirk’s birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien vessel. He was looking for Ambassador Spock, who is a child on Vulcan at that time, disdained by his neighbors for his half-human nature. Twenty years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker inspired by Capt. Christopher Pike to fulfill his potential in Starfleet even as he annoys his instructors like young Lt. Spock. Suddenly, there is an emergency at Vulcan and the newly commissioned USS Enterprise is crewed with promising cadets like Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov and even Kirk himself thanks to Leonard McCoy’s medical trickery. Together, this crew will have an adventure in the final frontier where the old legend is altered forever even as the new version of it is just beginning. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)”

• Director: J.J. Abrams
• Release Date:
  8 May 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  127 min
• Country: USA , Germany
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi
• MPAA:
  Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action and violence, and brief sexual content.

Tagline: The future begins.

Trivia: The role of James T. Kirk came down between Mike Vogel and Chris Pine. Vogel was reported as being the front runner for the part but J.J. Abrams decided to cast Pine in the end. Joshua Jackson also auditioned for the role.

Goofs: Continuity: When Kirk and McCoy first meet when sitting in the shuttle, Kirk’s shoulder strap of the seat harness changes several times through the shots from flat to bunched up.

Movie: Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

“In 1970, the four hundred year-old skilled samurai Saya is sent to the Kanto High School in an American military base in Tokyo by the Council, a secret society that has been hunting vampires for centuries. Saya has the appearance of a teenager but is the tormented half-breed creature with the soul of her human father and the powers and need of blood of her vampire mother. She is obsessed to face the powerful demon Onigen that killed her father. In the base, Saya saves Alice McKee, who is the daughter of General McKee and commander of the base, from the attack of several vampires. When General McKee is killed by a member of the Council, Alice runs to the hotel where Saya is lodged. They join forces and go to the countryside to chase Onigen. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”

• Director: Chris Nahon
• Release Date:
  29 May 2009 (Japan)
• Run Time:
  91 min
• Country: Hong Kong , Japan , France , Argentina
• Genre: Action , Horror , Thriller
• MPAA:
  Rated R for strong bloody stylized violence.

Tagline: Where evil grows she preys

Goofs: Anachronisms: US military personnel are shown using Beretta M9s (US Military designation of the civilian Model 92F/FS, etc) which were not issued as sidearms for the US Military in 1970. The 92 wasn’t designed until 2 years after this movie is set, and the side arm wasn’t issued till 1990.

“Trained since childhood to be a lethal killer, Raizo has since turned his back on the Ozunu clan that raised him and now seeks revenge for their heartless murders. Teaming up with Europol investigator Mika, Raizo steadily butchers his enemies while inching ever closer to the long-awaited bloody reunion with his former master. Written by The Massie Twins”

• Director: James McTeigue
• Release Date:
  25 November 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  99 min
• Country: USA , Germany
• Genre: Action , Crime , Drama , Thriller
• MPAA:
  Rated R for strong bloody stylized violence throughout, and language.

Trivia: After Raizo – played by Rain – is first captured and chained to the wall, one of his captors looks at him through the camera monitoring him and says, “He looks like he should be in a boy band.” Rain started his career in the boy band Fanclub before becoming a superstar solo artist whose initial popularity in Asia has spread to other continents.

Goofs: Continuity: In the scene where Mika is having lunch with Maslow in the park, the amount of Maslow’s drink keeps changing between takes.

“A youth chooses manhood. The week Sam Witwicky starts college, the Decepticons make trouble in Shanghai. A presidential envoy believes it’s because the Autobots are around; he wants them gone. He’s wrong: the Decepticons need access to Sam’s mind to see some glyphs imprinted there that will lead them to a fragile object that, when inserted in an alien machine hidden in Egypt for centuries, will give them the power to blow out the sun. Sam, his girlfriend Mikaela, and Sam’s parents are in danger. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are Sam’s principal protectors. If one of them goes down, what becomes of Sam? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}”

• Director: Michael Bay
• Release Date:
  24 June 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  150 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi
• MPAA:
  Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, language, some crude and sexual material, and brief drug material. (also IMax version)

Tagline: Revenge is coming.

Trivia: The Constructicons are a faction of Decepticons in "Transformers" (1984) who took the forms of construction vehicles, and who could combine into a larger robot. Two of their members’ names (Bonecrusher and Devastator) were used in the first film, so in this film some changes in christening had to be carried out.

Goofs: Continuity: As the B-1 bomber approaches its wings are forward. The next time you see it, the wings are swept back. As it leaves after dropping its bomb the wings are forward again.

“After the events of “Ice Age: The Meltdown”, life begins to change for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and Ellie, having since become an item, are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives. Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back. Sid begins to wish for a family of his own, and so steals some dinosaur eggs which leads to Sid ending up in a strange underground world where his herd must rescue him, while dodging dinosaurs and facing danger left and right, and meeting up with a one-eyed weasel known as Buck who hunts dinosaurs intently. Written by Theshapeshifter”

• Release Date:
  1 July 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  94 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Animation , Action , Adventure , Comedy , Family , Romance
• MPAA:
  Rated PG for some mild rude humor and peril.

Tagline: The sub-zero heroes are back, on an incredible adventure… for the ages.

Trivia: LOGO GIMMICK: The 20th Century Fox logo is surrounded by snow-covered pine trees, and the searchlights are miniature smoldering volcanoes.

Goofs: Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The dinosaurs famously died out millions of years before animals such as the woolly mammoth and saber-toothed tiger appeared. However it’s stated in the movie that the dinosaurs they find are a few that managed to survive underground, and that the mammals thought they were extinct.

“The story is about a team of trained secret agent guinea pigs that takes on a mission for the US government. A specially trained squad of guinea pigs is dispatched to stop a diabolical billionaire, who plans to taking over the world with household appliances. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}”

• Director: Hoyt Yeatman
• Release Date:
  24 July 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  88 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Family , Fantasy
• MPAA:
  Rated PG for some mild action and rude humor.

Tagline: Gadgets, Gizmos, Guinea Pigs. In 3-D.

Trivia: Harry Gregson-Williams, the film’s original composer, dropped out to work on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010).

Goofs: Plot holes: It is made very clear around halfway through the movie that they left all the equipment at the lab which is being put under security. Ben later on finds Darwin and Hurley outside and when he brings them in they have the language decoders on them that have been left at the lab.

“The horror comedy Zombieland focuses on two men who have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies. Columbus is a big wuss — but when you’re afraid of being eaten by zombies, fear can keep you alive. Tallahassee is an AK-toting, zombie-slaying’ bad ass whose single determination is to get the last Twinkie on earth. As they join forces with Wichita and Little Rock, who have also found unique ways to survive the zombie mayhem, they will have to determine which is worse: relying on each other or succumbing to the zombies. Written by Columbia Pictures”

• Director: Ruben Fleischer
• Release Date:
  2 October 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  88 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Comedy , Horror
• MPAA:
  Rated R for horror violence/gore and language.

Tagline: This place is so dead

Trivia: Started off in written form as pilot for television. After the idea came to make the script a feature film, the script was revised and changed, and the feature film was approved for production.

Goofs: Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the beginning of the film, Columbus states that he is making his way from his dorm room in Austin to Columbus. However, in a later flashback, it is obvious he lives in an apartment, not a dormitory.

“In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed “The Prawns,” appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty-eight years later, the initial welcome by the human population has faded. The refugee camp where the aliens were located has deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9, where they are confined and exploited in squalor. In 2010, the munitions corporation, Multi-National United, is contracted to forcibly evict the population with operative Wikus van der Merwe in charge. In this operation, Wikus is exposed to a strange alien chemical and must rely on the help of his only two new ‘Prawn’ friends. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)”

• Director: Neill Blomkamp
• Release Date:
  14 August 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  112 min
• Country: USA , New Zealand
• Genre: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi , Thriller
• MPAA:
  Rated R for bloody violence and pervasive language.

Tagline: You are not welcome here.

Trivia: The creatures used in the small fighting arena were meant to be rodents/pests which were aboard the ship.

Goofs: Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Wikus walks into the Nigerian base, Obesandjo says he has a lot of guts for a white man. But the word he uses for “white man” is the Kiswahili word “mzungu”. Kiswahili is widely spoken in East Africa, but not in South Africa or Nigeria.

“Rancher Dan Evans heads into Bisbee to clear up issues concerning the sale of his land when he witnesses the closing events of a stagecoach robbery led by famed outlaw Ben Wade. Shortly thereafter, Wade is captured by the law in Bisbee and Evans finds himself one of the escorts who will take Wade to the 3:10 to Yuma train in Contention for the reward of $200. Evans’s effort to take Wade to the station is in part an effort to save his land but also part of an inner battle to determine whether he can be more than just a naive rancher in the eyes of his impetuous and gunslinging son William Evans. The transport to Contention is hazardous and filled with ambushes by Indians, pursuits by Wade’s vengeful gang and Wade’s own conniving and surreptitious demeanor that makes the ride all the more intense. Written by commanderblue”

• Director: James Mangold
• Release Date:
  7 September 2007 (USA)
• Run Time:
  122 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Crime , Drama , Western
• MPAA:
  Rated R for violence and some language.

Tagline: Time waits for one man

Trivia: At one point, Tom Cruise and Eric Bana were pursuing the starring roles in this film. But when Columbia Pictures put this film in turnaround, the actors left to pursue other projects.

Goofs: Errors in geography: In the shots at the train station you can clearly see all of the land in the background is covered in snow. There’s even snow on the tracks. Not only is it evident that it’s spring or summer time but there is a drought. Even though Contention is a distance away from Bisbee there would have never been a drought at one town while there’s a blizzard at another.