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Gamer 2009 • Suspense • Rated R
Gamer
Starring:  Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Kyra Sedgwick, Ludacris, John Leguizamo, Zoe Bell, Johnny Whitworth
Director:  Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor 
Release:  September 4, 2009 
January 19, 2010 

GAMER is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online games: people play people... for keeps. Mind-control technology is widespread, and at the heart of the controversial games is its creator, reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall). His latest brainchild, the first-person shooter game "Slayers," allows millions to act out their most savage fantasies online in front of a global audience, using real prisoners as avatars with whom they fight to the death.

Kable (300's Gerard Butler) is the superstar and cult hero of the ultraviolent "Slayers." Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned and forced to fight against his will, the modern day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game to free his family, regain his identity and to save mankind from Castle's ruthless technology.

Rated R for frenetic sequences of strong brutal violence throughout, sexual content, nudity and language

105 Minutes

The Invention of Lying 2009 • Comedy • Rated PG-13
The Invention of Lying
Starring:  Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, Jonah Hill, Tina Fey, Louis C.K., Jason Bateman 
Director:  Ricky Gervais, Matt Robinson
Release:  September 25, 2009 (theaters)
January 19, 2010 (video)

In an alternate reality, lying - even the concept of a lie - does not even exist. Everyone - from politicians to advertisers to the man and woman on the street - speaks the truth and nothing but the truth with no thought of the consequences.

But when a down-on-his-luck loser named Mark suddenly develops the ability to lie, he finds that dishonesty has its rewards. In a world where every word is assumed to be the absolute truth, Mark easily lies his way to fame and fortune. But lies have a way of spreading, and Mark begins to realize that things are getting a little out of control when some of his tallest tales are being taken as, well, gospel. With the entire world now hanging on his every word, there is only one thing Mark has not been able to lie his way into: the heart of the woman he loves.

Rated PG-13 for language including some sexual material and a drug reference

100 Minutes

Pandorum 2009 • Science Fiction • Rated R
Pandorum
Starring:  Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Norman Reedus, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue, Cung Le, Eddie Rouse
Director:  Christian Alvart 
Release:  September 25, 2009 (theaters)
January 19, 2010 (video)

When two men emerge from a deep sleep in the middle of space, they discover that they have no memories of who they are and where they're going. But their memory loss pales in comparison to the problem of the murderous warriors on board their ship who don't want to leave anyone alive.

Rated R for strong horror violence and language

108 Minutes

Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball 2010 • Action • Rated R/Unrated
Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
Starring:  Tom Berenger, Autumn Reeser, Tommy Flanagan, Ernie Hudson, Vinnie Jones, Keegan Connor Tracy, Martha Higareda 
Director:  P.J. Pesce
Release:  January 19, 2010 (video)

Walter Weed (Tom Berenger) is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey (Martha Higareda), a power-tool wielding psychopath (Vinnie Jones) and a deadly master of disguise (Tommy Flanagan). Also in the hunt is the fan-favorite Tremor family from the original film, featuring nymphomaniacal gun-nut (Autumn Reeser) and her lethal kinfolk (Maury Sterling, Michael Parks and C. Ernst Harth). Baker (Clayne Crawford), the agent in charge of the operation, puts himself and his team in the line of fire to defend Weed, but it’s not until the smoke clears on the film’s explosive climax that the surprising identity of the plot’s mastermind is revealed.

Rated R/Unrated for bloody violence and language

88 Minutes

Whiteout 2009 • Action • Rated R
Whiteout
Starring:  Kate Beckinsale, Columbus Short, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Alex O'Loughlin, Shawn Doyle, Bashar Rahal 
Director:  Dominic Sena
Release:  September 11, 2009 (theaters)
January 19, 2010 (video)

After two years stationed at Antarctica's South Pole research base, lone U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) is as anxious as anyone to be going home. She's turned in her resignation and is counting the hours and minutes to the last plane out. But three days before departure, a body turns up on the ice and Carrie is immediately thrust into Antarctica's first murder investigation. As the death toll mounts, the mystery deepens with shifting loyalties, deadly whiteouts, and a relentless killer who will stop at nothing to protect a secret buried for over sixty years. Now with everyone around her packing up and getting out, Carrie must solve the crime before Antarctica is plunged into six months of darkness and she is stranded with the killer on a land where nothing comes in and no one gets out.

Rated R for violence, grisly images, brief strong language and some nudity

101 Minutes

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