D’Leh (Steven Strait), a young mammoth hunter of the Yagahl Tribe, is the son of a hunter that abandoned the village. It was also at this time that D’Leh witnessed the mysterious arrival of Evolet (Camilla Belle), a young girl with bright blue eyes who prompts a prophecy from the wise old woman of the tribe, Old Mother, of “ four legged demons” coming to their land during the last mammoth hunt to occur years later. D’Leh falls in love with Evolet and promises that she will always be in his heart. Several years later, the tribe is in anticipation of a herd of woolly mammoths coming across the land, a herd that will help the tribe survive the winter. After the hunt goes wrong and Evolet is captured by horseriding Arab slave traders who raid the village, D’Leh goes after her, and after finding other tribes that have been pillaged and enslaved, he leads an insurrection against the traders, now sacrificing their slaves to a god.

Vantage Point follows several characters as they each experience an assassination attempt on the President of the United States (William Hurt) during a summit in Spain. The event is captured multiple times with some common threads connecting each. The primary character is Secret Service Agent Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid), fresh from an extended leave of absence after taking a bullet for the President in a previous assassination attempt. His partner, Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) has lead the charge to get Barnes back into active service and is at his side when the shots are fired. Forest Whitaker plays an American tourist who is filming the event on his digital video camera. Sigourney Weaver is a producer for the Global News Network, stationed just outside the plaza in a television broadcast truck. Edgar Ramirez plays Javier, one of the conspirators along with Suarez (Said Taghmaoui) and Veronica (Ayelet Zurer. Enrique (Eduardo Noriega) is a police officer charged with protecting the mayor of the Spanish city in which the film is set. Whether or not he is connected with the plot is unclear. As are the motivations behind all 8 of the main characters as the story unfolds from five separate yet interlaced Vantage Points.

It is 1976, the final season for the American Basketball Association (ABA) as the league has just arranged a merger with the National Basketball Association (NBA). Unfortunately for Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell), owner of the Flint Tropics, the NBA has only agreed to take four teams from the ABA and the Tropics aren't included. Not willing to take this one sitting down, Jackie proposes that the top four finishers in the league's current season should be the teams to move over to the NBA. The ABA commissioner (David Koechner) reluctantly agrees. Thus, the fight to finish #4 or better begins. Jackie trades for Monix (Woody Harrelson) who won a championship ring with the Boston Celtics in the NBA while sitting on the bench. His former girlfriend (Maura Tierney) lives in Flint and he sees this as an opportunity to rekindle their relationship. As the season wears on, Jackie throws everything into the fight for fourth place including cheesy gimmicks and give-aways to fill the seats.

A casual afternoon hunting in rural Texas for welder Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) turns into a fight for survival after he stumbles on the remains of several drug runners and a stash of drugs and money. Instead of reporting what he found to the police, Moss takes the cash and returns to his mobile home and wife Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald). Soon, Moss realizes that a psychopathic killer named Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) is hot on his trail, leaving nothing but dead bodies in his wake. As Moss struggles to stay one step ahead of Chigurh, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) struggles with coming to terms with his advancing years and the increasingly violent crimes he is charged with investigating. With another hit man (Woody Harrelson) dispatched to clean up the mess Chigurh has created, the stage is set for a violent convergence of these characters where few are likely to survive.

Finn (Matthew McConaughey) is a dim-witted surfer/scuba diver who has turned his love of the sea into a career searching for lost treasure.  His main pursuit of the Aurelia, a Spanish galleon missing since 1715, has cost him his boat and his wife, the beautiful and brilliant Tess (Kate Hudson).  When he discovers a piece of a plate that belonged to someone connected with the Aurelia, his search and Tess' love is rekindled.  The treasure is being pursued by other interested parties as well, lead by rapper Bigg Bunny (Kevin Hart) and professional treasure hunter Mo Fitch (Ray Winstone).  In order to finance the adventure, Finn convinces millionaire Nigel Honeycutt (Donald Sutherland) to back him.  Ironically enough, Honeycutt just happens to be Tess' new boss.  Filling out the cast of characters is Honeycutt's daughter Gemma (Alexis Dziena) and assorted sidekicks for Bigg Bunny and the crew of the Honeycutt's yacht, Precious Gem.

John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is at it again in Rambo.  Set in Thailand and Burma, Rambo has settled into a life as a boat captain, sailing up and down the river looking for snakes to capture and sell to a local snake fighting business.  When a group of missionaries shows up and asked him to take them up river to Burma, a country besieged by a brutal civil war, he is reluctant.  That is until the attractive Sarah (Julie Benz) convinces him that their efforts to provide aid to some of the people targeted for ethnic cleansing might make a difference.  Soon, the missionaries are captured by the local warlord and Rambo joins a group of mercenaries as they try to locate them and return them to safety.

Cloverfield follows the activities of a small group of friends on what begins as a typical night in New York City through the replaying of a video.  Rob (Michael Stahl-David) is moving to Japan and his friends decide to throw him a surprise Going Away party.  Rob's best friend Hud (T.J. Miller), his brother Jason (Mike Vogel) and his brother's girlfriend Lily (Jessica Lucas) are the main party planners.  As the party gets going, Hud begins to document it by using a video camera.  When friend turned potential girlfriend Beth (Odette Yustman) shows up with another guy, Rob's enthusiasm tanks.  Just as he starts sorting out his feelings about this turn of events, the night is disrupted by an attack on the city by an unknown monster.  As the party-goers flee the building and head out into the street, the video camera continues to roll, following Rob, Lily, Jason and Hud as they try to determine what is happening and searching for missing friends.

Jane (Katherine Heigl) is your average 30-something single female in New York.  She works hard, loves her family and enjoys her weekends.  Still, Jane has a secret which only she and her best friend Casey (Judy Greer) know.  Jane has been a bridesmaid 27 times.  Perhaps even Casey is unaware that Jane has kept all 27 Dresses.  Let's face it: Jane loves weddings and loves helping friends plan their weddings.  She just hasn't found the right guy to walk down the aisle with herself.  Well, she actually has.  Her boss, George (Edward Burns) is the love of her life.  At least until her sister Tess (Malin Akerman) shows up in town and sweeps the handsome George off his feet.  In the meantime, Jane is confronted with a reporter in the person of Kevin (James Marsden) who she finds to be an annoyance as she tries to figure out how to get through her sister's engagement and wedding to the man she (i.e. Jane) loves.

When thrown together in a shared hospital room, billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) find they have more in common than their ailment.  They both have lived relatively full lives but have a laundry list of things they want to do before kicking the bucket.  Hence, the generation of The Bucket List.  One small piece of yellow paper takes these two gentlemen, each with less than a year to live, on the adventure of a lifetime.  Carter's wife Virginia (Beverly Todd) is less than accepting of their plans, especially knowing how few days she has left with her husband of 45 years.  Edward and Carter are joined on their journey by Edward's tortured assistant Thomas (Sean Hayes).  Along the way, each discovers something about themselves and each other.  Their brief friendship has a profound effect on their remaining days and makes their final chapter far different than could have been expected.

Charlie Wilson's War is based on the book by George Crile about a congressman, a rogue CIA agent and a Texas millionaire and how they ended the Cold War. Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) represents the Second District of Texas in the US Congress during the early 1980s. He is a philanderer and drunk but, when confronted with the horror of Soviet activities in Afghanistan following their invasion, he finds something on which to focus his energies. With a position on the subcommittee in control of the CIA's covert operations budget, Wilson is in a position to expand funding to the Afghanistan rebels fighting the Soviet Union. With this knowledge, long-time supporter Joanne Herring (Julia Roberts) uses her connections to arrange a meeting between Wilson and the President of Pakistan. From there, Wilson, along with CIA Agent Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman), arrange for arms and heavy machinery from Israel and Egypt along with funding from Saudi Arabia to augment the funds from the US Congress, all in an effort to defeat the Soviets without anyone knowing the United States backed the war to such a large extent. In between, Wilson must face an ethics investigation due to his alleged use of illegal drugs.

In the follow-up to the highly successful National Treasure, historian and treasure hunter Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) along with his loyal sidekick Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), on-again/off-again girlfriend Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger) and father Patrick Gates (Jon Voight) are at it again, this time in search of proof that Ben's great-great grandfather Thomas was not a conspirator involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. When a partial page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, it indicates that Thomas was a part of the plot to assassinate Lincoln. It is brought forward by Jeb Wilkinson (Ed Harris), whose ancestors were insignificant supporters of the Confederacy. The search for the truth takes Ben and crew to Paris, London, Washington, D.C. and the Black Hills of South Dakota. Not only will the secrets of the conspiracy be revealed but a treasure that rivals the National Treasure which gave the Gates family their notoriety in the first place.

Will Smith stars in I Am Legend, an apocalyptic tale set in New York in the year 2012. Robert Neville (Smith) is a brilliant scientist and apparently the last human on Earth who is unaffected by a plague that has ravaged the planet. As he struggles to discover a cure for the disease, he has to avoid the zombie-like creatures who used the remaining 12 million immune humans as food. For three years, Neville has searched the vacant city during daylight hours to find food as well as groups of mutants whom he can use as guinea pigs for his various vaccines. He has imaginary friends in the form of mannequins which he has placed in various locations across the city. The plague against which he fights was created by a doctor (Emma Thompson) as a cure for cancer. Over time, those "cured" began to show symptoms similar to rabies. Neville became one of the scientists enlisted to eradicate the plague prior to it taking full effect and he now feels responsible for continuing the search for a cure. If he can find a cure, he may be able to bring those affected back to health and restore some semblance of civilization to the world.

In a world with witches, ice bears and daemons, a young girl named Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards) holds the key to preventing a group known as the Magisterium from controlling all of humanity. That key is The Golden Compass and Lyra is perhaps the only person that can read it. You see, if you can read The Golden Compass, you can learn the truth, see what others wish to hide and potentially change future events. Lyra lives at Jordan College with her uncle, Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig), and her daemon, Pan (voiced by Freddie Highmore). For months, children have been disappearing, being taken by Goblers, never to be seen again. When Lord Asriel embarks on a journey to the Arctic Circle to uncover the truth about a mysterious substance known as Dust, which the Magisterium is desperate to keep secret, and her best friends disappear, Lyra goes with the equally mysterious Mrs. Coulter (Nicole Kidman) and quickly learns that she is not who she claims to be. Lyra escapes with the aid of the Gyptians and with them forms an alliance which includes the witches lead by Serafina Pekkala (Eva Green), the ice bears lead by Iorek Byrnison (voiced by Ian McKellen) and a Texas airman (Sam Elliott). As they search for the missing children, they must travel by land, sea and air to the icy north. A war is brewing and the battle for their world and parallel worlds supposedly accessible via this Dust will take them to places they have only imagined.

August Rush is the story of Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore), a musically gifted orphan who hears the sounds of the world differently than others. He holds out hope that his parents will come for him one day, never believing that they did not want him. His parents, it turns out, are talented musicians in their own right. His mother, Lyla (Keri Russell), is an accomplished cellist and her father, Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), is an Irish rock star. Their one night affair took place twelve years earlier on a rooftop in New York, all set to a rendition of "Moondance" by a street musician. They instantly fall in love and Lyla's father (William Sadler) makes sure that this one night stand is all there will be, fearing that their intense feelings will destroy Lyla's budding career. Knowing in his heart that he will find his parents if he follows the music, Evan runs away from the orphanage and begins his search. Upon arriving in New York, he meets Wizard (Robin Williams), an "agent" for several child street musicians. When Evan begins playing a guitar, Wizard quickly realizes how talented he is and he reinvents him as August Rush, knowing that someone will be searching for him. Will Evan find his parents? Only time will tell.

Based on the English Literature classic, Beowulf begins with a kingdom under siege by a demon known as Grendel (Crispin Glover). King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) therefore puts out a call to any man brave enough to confront the creature and rid his kingdom of its fear. Soon, Beowulf (Ray Winstone) arrives from across the sea with tales of heroic acts. He is a larger than life warrior who quickly catches the eye of the King's young wife (Robin Wright Penn), the faith of the King and the ire of Unferth (John Malkovich), the King's trusted advisor. It does not take long for the demon to reappear and Beowulf quickly dispenses with him, only to learn that Grendel's mother (Angelina Jolie) survives and seeks revenge. He wastes no time in seeking her out and returns with tales of slaying the witch. Not having a legitimate male heir of his own, King Hrothgar names Beowulf as his successor and shortly thereafter perishes. Beowulf becomes King, gaining control of the kingdom and the hand of the Queen. Still, he is haunted by his encounter with Grendel's mother and it eventually leads to his downfall.

Being a sibling is not always easy but for Fred Claus (Vince Vaughn) it's more painful than for most. See, Fred's brother Nick is none other than the man we all know as Santa Claus (Paul Giamatti). From the moment he was born, Nick was his mother's (Kathy Bates) favorite and Fred, as the older brother, became bitter and resentful. Living in Chicago, Fred has a girlfriend (Rachel Weisz as Wanda) and several get-rich schemes. Upon getting arrested, Fred is forced to call his do-good brother to get a loan to make bail. Nick insists on Fred coming to the North Pole to help him get ready for Christmas as a way to earn the money. His arrival coincides with that of Clyde (Kevin Spacey), an efficiency expert who is sent by the "board" to evaluate Santa and file a report on his operation. If quotas are not met, Santa could lose his job. Will Fred be naughty or nice? You won't know until the final credits roll.

Fred Claus came with the hope of being the next in a long line of holiday comedy classics but falls far short of achieving that goal. Unlike recent classics like Elf, Fred Claus lacks a lot of great comedic moments. Vince Vaughn is still Vince Vaughn. He inhabits every character with the same attitude and line delivery as he always does. The original concept held a lot of promise but it was wasted through poor script writing. Willie (John Michael Higgins) is pretty much just annoying. The few bright spots are Kathy Bates as Fred and Nick's mother, Elizabeth Banks for her cleavage and cameos by some famous siblings in what is the funniest scene in the film. Giamatti has a few moments as Santa but Weisz is given little to work with here. This is one holiday movie you won't be seeing shown for 24 hours straight on TNT anytime soon. In fact, it's difficult to recommend it in the theater or on video unless you are a real die-hard Vince Vaughn fan. Rent Elf, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation or, better yet, A Christmas Story if you want a good laugh this holiday season.

We have not seen it yet, but we thought you should know about it... So here's the scoop on the movie from the Internet Movie Database... The Final Season is the true story of Kent Stock, played by Sean Astin, who in the early 90's, gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take over as head coach as the Norway High School baseball team. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill their former coach's shoes and that they can go out winners. In the summer of 1991 Norway High's baseball tradition ended on a triumphant but sombre note.

Tradition in Norway, Iowa, can be summed up in one word, baseball. In the small Midwestern town, population 586, baseball is a legacy passed father to son, generation to generation. The Norway high school team is no stranger to overcoming the odds, to playing "David" to the State's much larger schools' "Goliath." When the 1990 team, lead by Coach Jim Van Scoyoc, wins its 19th State Championship in 23 years, it is almost expected. The unexpected comes when bureaucracy intervenes to merge Norway into a larger school, and petty jealousies conspire to rob Norway of its heritage and a 20th State Championship. The legendary coach is fired and replaced with his 24-year-old, one-season assistant coach, Kent Stock -- a move designed to insure the team's failure. "THE FINAL SEASON" tells the true story of an underdog coach and team who despite tradition have been written off not only by their rivals but also by those closest to them, the town. Can they find the faith in themselves, and the faith in each other, to make it to one final championship game -- and the chance for redemption?

This movies was filmed right here in Iowa and stars Sean Astin, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tom Arnold, and more. It promised to be another straw in hat of Iowa film making. The movie opens Friday, October 12th at Star Cinema, Carmike Cinema Center 8 and the avalon Theater in Platteville.

Charlie Logan (Dane Cook) has had girlfriends come and go but he's never felt strongly enough about any of them to tell them he loves them. When it suddenly dawns on him that all of his ex-girlfriends married the next guy they dated, he realizes that he has a gift. He is Good Luck Chuck. Overnight, women start stopping by his dental office, hoping to bed Chuck so they can move on to the next guy and find true love. At the insistence of his best friend, Stu (Dan Fogler), Chuck takes advantage of the situation and sleeps with as many of these women as possible. Unfortunately, along the way he meets the women of his dreams, Cam (Jessica Alba), who takes care of the penguins at a local aquarium and is extremely clumsy. Fearing that Cam will fall in love with someone else after he sleeps with her, Chuck tries to avoid doing the act and then, once it happens, tries everything to win Cam's heart.

Set in Arizona in the late 1800s, 3:10 to Yuma is a modern version of the classic western of the same name. Outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) and his infamous band of thieves and murderers is wreaking havoc for the advancing Southern Railroad, stealing their payroll and putting up roadblocks at every turn. When Wade is captured in Bisbee, Civil War veteran turned rancher, Dan Evans (Christian Bale), volunteers to assist in transporting Wade from Bisbee to a neighboring town where he will be placed on the 3:10 train to the prison in Yuma. There, he is to be hanged the following morning. As they cross the drought stricken terrain, Wade and Evans come to earn the respect of the other, all while being chased by Wade's band of marauders, Native Americans and Evan's son, who has never respected his father.