The 25th Hour
press photo courtesy of Touchstone Pictures
Starring: Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson
Directed by: Spike Lee

A drug dealer (Norton) has been sentenced to jail for seven years. In the last 24 hours before he begins his jail term, he wanders around New York City with his two best friends and girlfriend, and takes a close look at his life.

About Schmidt
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney
Directed by: Alexander Payne

Warren Schmidt (Nicholson) is a recently widowed and retired
insurance salesman who only wants the best for his daughter (Davis). At this point in his life, he's feeling pretty low and needs to put things into perspective. And what better way to do so than on a Winnebago trek across the country to attend his daughter's wedding to a man he detests?

Adaptation
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, John Cusack, Chris Cooper
Directed by: Spike Jonze

This complicated story is wrapped around screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage) who is attempting to adapt Susan Orlean's (Streep) non-fiction novel, "The Orchid Thief," to the big screen. But that's just half of it. Another portion of the movie follows the actual story of a plant dealer and three Seminole Indians who clone rare orchids and sell each of them off to exotic flower collectors for an ungodly price.

Analyze That
Starring: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow
Directed by: Harold Ramis

A continuation from "Analyze This," the aptly named "Analyze That" follows mobster Paul Vitti (De Niro) after he's released from prison and needs to see his friendly psychoanalyst (Crystal). But this time around, Dr. Ben Sobol may be the one who needs the analyzing. Tensions rise as Paul tries to deal with his non-mafia life and Ben is forced to deal with the stress of taking over the family practice after the recent death of his father.

Antwone Fisher
Starring: Denzel Washington, Derek Luke, Joy Bryant, Salli
Richardson, Yolanda Ross, Stephen Snedden
Directed by: Denzel Washington

This is a true story about Antwone Fisher, a Navy sailor with an
anger management problem on the verge of being discharged from the Navy. With the help of a Navy psychiatrist (Washington), Fisher turns his life around and explores his childhood and the family that abandoned him. He later discovers a hidden talent and becomes a Hollywood screenwriter.

Catch Me if you Can
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Martin Sheen, Christopher Walken, Jennifer Garner
Directed by: Steven Spielberg

For two years in the mid-1960s, Frank W. Abagnale (DiCaprio) led the FBI on a wild goose chase. Frank was responsible for a string of serious crimes, forging checks worth millions and taking on the
identity of doctors, lawyers, professors, even an assistant attorney general. The story follows the young man's faux life as he is finally
nabbed by agent Joe Shaye (Hanks), escapes jail, and ironically
becomes an FBI consultant for white collar crimes.

Empire
Starring: John Leguizamo, Denise Richards, Peter Sarsgaard
Directed by: Franc Reyes

Drug dealer Victor Rosa (Leguizamo) tries to clean up his dirty life
of crime, entrusting his money to an investment banker (Sarsgaard) and his lovely girlfriend (Richards). Wrong move. The two money-watchers turn out to be con artists.

Equilibrium
Starring: Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Emily Watson, Angus MacFadyen
Directed by: Kurt Wimmer

Set in a future society where human emotion is prohibited, this drama tells the story of agent John Preston (Bale), who must administer the drug that prevents such feelings. When he accidentally misses a dose, he's conflicted with his strong emotions towards his superiors.

Evelyn
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Vavasseur, Julianna Margulies, Alan Bates
Directed by: Bruce Beresford

Irishman Desmond Doyle's (Brosnan) life is in shambles. His wife left him, he lost his job, and he soon loses his children to orphanages due to antiquated Irish custody laws. But with the help of friends and a risk-taking lawyer, he finds the courage to take on the Supreme Court and the Catholic Church to get his children back.

Gangs of New York
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson
Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Set in the mid-19th century, this is the true tale of the semblance
of early Irish and Italian gangs in New York City. The plot focuses
on Amsterdam Vallon (DiCaprio), the son of a murdered mobster who is seeking revenge on the suspected killer, Bill "The Butcher" Poole
(Day-Lewis).

The Hot Chick
photo by Robert Trachtenberg, courtesy of Touchstone Pictures
Starring: Rob Schneider, Rachel McAdams
Directed by: Tom Brady

A spiteful, yet popular high school girl (McAdams) wakes up one morning to find that (surprise!) she has magically turned into a man in his thirties (Schneider). As she begins her journey to find out how to turn herself back into a teenager - and into her own body - she finds out just how mean she's been in the past.

The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers
Starring: Elijah Wood, Sir Ian McKellen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett,
Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortenson
Directed by: Peter Jackson

In the second movie from J.R.R. Tolkien's classic fantasy trilogy,
the dark Lord Sauron looks to enslave the free citizens of middle
earth by recovering the powerful ring he created below Mount Doom.
Guided by the group representing the free races, the hobbit Frodo
(Wood) closes in on Sauron's fortress, where he attempts to destroy
the evil ring.

Maid in Manhattan
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson
Directed by: Wayne Wang

This is a "Cinderella"-like fairy tale of a chambermaid (Lopez) in a
luxury New York hotel who is introduced to Christopher Marshall
(Fiennes), rich heir to a political dynasty (and a guest at the
hotel). Only thing is, when he meets the single mother maid, he
mistakes her for another well-to-do guest. Will love prevail when the
two find out they are worlds apart?

Morvern Callar
Starring: Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Duncan McHardy
Directed by: Lynne Ramsay

When an underprivileged grocery clerk's writer boyfriend commits
suicide, she doesn't exactly mourn his death. Instead, she covers up
his death, passes his unpublished book off as hers, collects all the
royalties, and sets out to live in the lap of luxury, clubbing it up
in the Mediterranean.

Narc
Starring: Ray Liotta, Jason Patric, Chi McBride, Busta Rhymes
Directed by: Joe Carnahan

A narcotics officer (Patric) is assigned to the murder case of a
young cop alongside the dead cop's partner (Liotta), who is seeking
vengeance. As the two become further involved in the case, they
uncover something that could jeopardize both of them.

Star Trek: Nemesis
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Whoopi Goldberg
Directed by: Stuart Baird

The Next Generation crew members are back and will be running into some new villains on the planet Romulus. A subplot revolves around
the Romulans and Data.

Two Weeks Notice
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt
Directed by: Marc Lawrence

Lucy Kelson (Bullock) is a brilliant attorney under the employment of
irresponsible billionaire George Wade (Grant). Lucy is tired of doing
more than her part as George's attorney and finds a replacement (Witt), a recent Harvard grad. But will Lucy leave before she and George realize they have more than a professional relationship?

The Wild Thornberrys
Starring (voices of): Lacey Chabert, Jodi Carlisle, Tim Curry, Flea,
Danielle Harris, Tom Kane
Directed by: Jeff McGrath, Cathy Malkasian

This is an animated movie based on the popular Nickelodeon series of the same name. The Thornberrys are a family who travel the world
making nature documentaries with their special daughter, Eliza (Chabert), who has the ability to communicate with animals.