“Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy an old man, who can’t get along with either his kids or his neighbors, a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Thao, a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao’s family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood. Written by alfiehitchie”

• Director: Clint Eastwood
• Release Date: 9 January 2009 (USA)
• Run Time: 116 min
• Country: USA , Germany , Australia
• Genre: Crime , Drama
• MPAA: Rated R for language throughout, and some violence.

Trivia: Kowalski is also the last name of the anti hero in the muscle car driven cult classic Vanishing Point (1971).

Goofs: Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The medical form shows Walt’s marital status as “Married”, which is not possible since his wife’s funeral is the opening scene of this chronologically told movie. However, this is the first time Walt has been to the doctor since his wife died, and based on the conversation with the doctor, it had been than 3 years since his last visit. With all that was going on in his life at the time of that visit, it is not unreasonable to believe he just forgot to update his marital status.

“Angelenos Doug Billings and Tracy Garner are about to get married. Two days before the wedding, the four men in the wedding party – Doug, Doug’s two best buddies Phil Wenneck and Stu Price, and Tracy’s brother Alan Garner – hop into Tracy’s father’s beloved Mercedes convertible for a 24-hour stag party to Las Vegas. Phil, a married high school teacher, has the same maturity level as his students when he’s with his pals. Stu, a dentist, is worried about everything, especially what his controlling girlfriend Melissa thinks. Because she disapproves of traditional male bonding rituals, Phil has to lie to her about the stag, he telling her that they are going on a wine tasting tour in the Napa Valley. Regardless, he intends on eventually marrying her, against the advice and wishes of his friends. And Alan seems to be unaware of what are considered the social graces of the western world. The morning after their arrival in Las Vegas, they awaken in their hotel suite each with the worst hangover. None remembers what happened in the past twelve or so hours. The suite is in shambles. And certain things are in the suite that shouldn’t be, and certain things that should be in the suite are missing. Probably the most important in the latter category is Doug. As Phil, Stu and Alan try to find Doug using only what little pieces of information they have at hand, they go on a journey of discovery of how certain things got into the suite and what happened to the missing items. However they are on a race for time as if they can’t find Doug in the next few hours, they are going to have to explain to Tracy why they are not yet back in Los Angeles. And even worse, they may not find Doug at all before the wedding. Written by Huggo”

• Director: Todd Phillips
• Release Date: 5 June 2009 (USA)
• Run Time: 100 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy
• MPAA: Rated R for pervasive language, sexual content including nudity, and some drug material.

Tagline: Feel it June 5

Trivia: No effects or prosthetics were created for Stu’s missing tooth. Actor Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu’s tooth is missing.

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: When they are preparing the steak for the tiger it is very soft and floppy, Allan is even able to fold it in half. However, when Stu takes the steak to be fed to the tiger it is very stiff, indicating that it is a prop.

“Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. For years, he has applied to become a cop, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. One day, a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and take hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside, and because of his sense of duty, refuses to leave. He thus becomes the police department’s eyes on the inside and attempts to stop the criminals on his own. Written by J. Rieper”

• Director: Steve Carr
• Release Date: 16 January 2009 (USA)
• Run Time: 91 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Comedy , Crime , Family
• MPAA: Rated PG for some violence, mild crude and suggestive humor, and language.

Tagline: Safety never takes a holiday.

Trivia: The first movie ever released in the month of January to gross over $100 million during it’s initial release.

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: When Paul is about to start playing Rock Band it shows the start of a Guitar Hero song starting up, but the song “Detriot Rock City” is on the game Rock Band.

“Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarried and Bella chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn’t expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she’s ever met. He’s nothing like anyone she’s ever met, period. He’s intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance – unorthodox because Edward really isn’t like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn’t aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he’s immortal. That’s right – vampire. But he doesn’t have fangs – that’s just in the movies. And he doesn’t drink human blood, though Edward and his family are unique among vampires in that lifestyle choice. To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for – a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. Somehow or other, they will have to manage their unmanageable love. But when unexpected visitors come to town and realize that there is a human among them Edward must fight to save Bella? A modern, visual, and visceral Romeo and Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love affair – between vampire and mortal. Written by Summit entertainment”

• Director: Catherine Hardwicke
• Release Date: 21 November 2008 (USA)
• Run Time: 122 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Thriller
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some violence and a scene of sensuality.

Tagline: When you can live forever what do you live for?

Trivia: Taylor Lautner had to wear a wig for his role as Jacob Black.

Goofs: Continuity: In the baseball scene when Carlisle hits ball, you can see Edward and Emmett start to run after it. But, after the close-ups of their faces, they start to run again.

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• Director: Shawn Levy
• Release Date: 22 May 2009 (USA)
• Run Time: 105 min
• Country: USA , Canada
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Family , Fantasy
• MPAA: Rated PG for mild action and brief language.

Tagline: When the lights go off the battle is on.

Trivia: Hank Azaria had previously worked with Ben Stiller in Mystery Men (1999). Azaria also made cameo appearances in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) and Along Came Polly (2004), both of which also starred Stiller.

Goofs: Continuity: Larry Daley passes General Custer as he’s walking through the archives. When Larry comes upon the crate, the ‘frozen’ Egyptians are outside of the crate with their spears. Larry looks inside and the camera shows General Custer already in the crate. Once everybody comes to life General Custer comes out of nowhere to rescue Daley riding a motorcycle with a side car.

“Jerry Shaw is an amiable slacker with an over-achieving twin brother. After his twin dies in an accident, strange things happen to Jerry at a dizzying pace: a fortune shows up in his bank account, weapons are delivered to his flat, and a voice on his cell phone tells him the police are on their way. Jerry follows the voice’s instructions, and soon he and a woman he’s never met are racing through the city, on to a plane, and eventually to the Pentagon, chased by the FBI. She is Rachel Holloman, a single mom; the voice has threatened her son’s death if she doesn’t cooperate. The voice seems to know everything. Who is behind it, what is being planned, and why Jerry and Rachel? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}”

• Director: D.J. Caruso
• Release Date: 26 September 2008 (USA)
• Run Time: 118 min
• Country: USA , Germany
• Genre: Action , Crime , Mystery , Romance , Thriller
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and for language.

Tagline: If you want to live you will obey

Trivia: According to Shia LaBeouf, in order to become emotional for Ethan’s funeral scene, he listened to Judy Garland’s “Over The Rainbow” in which he stated that he “breaks down” when hearing that song.

Goofs: Errors in geography: In the scene where Jerry pulls off the freeway in Indianapolis to confront Rachel, they are actually located under the complex set of freeways under the 105 and 110 freeways in Los Angeles. There are no freeway interchanges like that in Indianapolis.

“A young Carl Fredrickson meets a young adventure spirited girl named Ellie. They both dream of going to a Lost Land in South America. 70 years later, Ellie has died. Carl remembers the promise he made to her. Then, when he inadvertently hits a construction worker, he is forced to go to a retirement home. But before they can take him, he and his house fly away. However he has a stowaway aboard. An 8 year old boy named Russell, whose trying to get an assisting the elderly badge. Together, they embark in an adventure, where they encounter talking dogs, an evil villain and a rare bird named Kevin. Written by Garfield2710″

• Release Date: 29 May 2009 (USA)
• Run Time: 96 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Animation , Action , Adventure , Comedy , Family
• MPAA: Rated PG for some peril and action.

Trivia: The dog pilots use the same broadcasting calls as the X-Wing Pilots in Star Wars (1977), changed from “Red Squadron” to “Gray Squadron” to reflect the notion that dogs are color-blind.

Goofs: Factual errors: Carl uses sails to propel and steer his house. Sails don’t work on a balloon. The sails and the balloon are both moving at the same speed as the air mass.

“Heading back to the streets where it all began, two men rejoin two women to blast muscle, tuner and exotic cars across Los Angeles and floor through the Mexican desert. When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto reignites his feud with agent Brian O’Connor. But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmaneuver him. And from convoy heists to precision tunnel crawls across international lines, two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what’s possible behind the wheel. Written by Universal Studios”

• Director: Justin Lin
• Release Date: 3 April 2009 (USA)
• Run Time: 107 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Crime , Drama , Thriller
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for for intense sequences of violence and action, some sexual content, language and drug references.

Tagline: New Model. Original Parts.

Trivia: The F-BOMB Camaro used at the end of the final chase scene through the tunnel is a duplicate of David Frieberger’s real ‘71 Camaro “F Bomb”. David was the chief editor for Hot Rod magazine for years. Originally built by Tom Nelson at Nelsonracingengines.com

Goofs: Factual errors: The traction needed to do a wheel stand is not obtainable on dirt.

“The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show’s questions. Each chapter of Jamal’s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show’s seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love. Written by Fox Searchlight Pictures”

• Release Date: 23 January 2009 (USA)
• Run Time: 120 min
• Country: UK
• Genre: Crime , Drama , Romance
• MPAA: Rated R for some violence, disturbing images and language.

Tagline: Love and money… You have mixed them both.

Trivia: The film is based upon Vikas Swarup’s novel “Q & A”.

Goofs: Continuity: Jamal is shuttled directly to the studio from the police station where he was beaten and tortured. His swollen eye clears up entirely by the time he gets to the show.

“After moving in together in an impossibly beautiful New York apartment, Carrie Bradshaw and Mr. Big make a rather arbitrary decision to get married. The wedding itself proves to be anything but a hasty affair–the guest list quickly blooms from 75 to 200 guests, and Carrie’s simple, label-less wedding gown gives way to an enormous creation that makes her look like a gigantic cream puff. An upcoming photo spread in Vogue puts the event–which will take place at the New York Public Library–squarely in the public eye. Meanwhile, Carrie’s girlfriends–Samantha, the sexpot; Charlotte, the sweet na