• Director: Tim Hill
• Release Date: 5 October 2001 (USA)
• Run Time: 86 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy , Crime , Family  
• MPAA: Rated PG for some bullying and crude humor.

Tagline: His World. His Rules.  

Trivia: Max was supposed to be somewhat flustered talking to Jenna after walking into a door while looking at her, but Alex D. Linz flubbed his line and nearly got the giggles (12:02). The filmmakers liked the effect and put that take into the film. 

Goofs: Continuity: When Max walks out of the assembly room with trash all over him, Robe grabs a single noodle from Max’s ear (16:48). In the next shot we see that Robe has many noodles wrapped around his fingers (16:51). 

“Max Keeble is a nice, quiet teenager, whose idea of ’superhero-requiring’ danger is braving Evil Ice Cream Man who blames him for a health complaint from ma Lily. She spent six years on just the right interior and now hears from dad Don Keeble, a wimp whose ‘career’ in commercial publicity still only got him wearing sly costumes, a promotion requires the family to move to Chicago. Initially Max just hates giving up his high-school friends, a fatso and a music-maniac, but when their former friend Troy McGinty picks on them with his new image as bully realizes leaving means he can’t be punished after Friday, and plans an orgy of revenge. Max’s targets include the arrogant new principal, Elliot T. Jindraike, who spends the school budget on a new sports stadium to flatter the inspector, Superintendant Bobby ‘Crazy Legs’ Knebworth, and even plants to tear down the animal shelter. When it’s all in motion, dad suddenly announces he has taken Max’s first advice and turned down the promotion! Written by KGF Vissers”

• Director: Neil Jordan
• Release Date: 25 November 1992 (USA)
• Run Time: 112 min
• Country: UK , Japan
• Genre: Drama , Thriller  
• MPAA: Rated R for sexuality, strong violence and language.

Tagline: Play At Your Own Risk.  

Trivia: Producer Stephen Woolley owned a repertory cinema in London called the “Scala”, when there were funding issues with the film Woolley ended up borrowing money from the Scala to keep the production afloat. 

Goofs: Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the scene shot at Balbriggan County, Dublin, a Northern Ireland Railways GM locomotive 113 passes in the background, with a passenger train. The sound dubbed in is a British Rail HST railcar set, which is quite different. The sound effect is also too short; most of the train passes silently. 

“An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by Jude, another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody’s lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus adopts the name “Jimmy” and gets a job as a day laborer. He also starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus’ IRA background. But there are some things about Dil that Fergus doesn’t know, either… Written by Eugene Kim <genekim@concentric.net>”

• Director: Harold F. Kress
• Release Date: 4 May 1951 (USA)
• Writers: True Boardman (screenplay) Alexander Hull (novel)
• Run Time: 68 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Family , Western  

Trivia: In October 1951, MGM was distributing this film on the drive-in theater circuit on a double bill with The Great Caruso (1951) starring Mario Lanza. 

“A Lassie movie. After years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that his partner has since died and left Tommy fatherless. He decides to leave Shep (played by Lassie) with Tommy to cheer him up. Meanwhile, Jonathan’s new partner, Lin, isn’t interested in sharing the gold, and lures Jonathan to his death. Lassie immediately deduces what’s happened, so Lin poisons Lassie. Lassie barely pulls through and pursues Lin to a climactic confrontation where, due to an off-screen accident with some liquid nitrogen, Lin’s gun jams. Written by Leo L. Schwab <ewhac@best.com>”

• Director: Paul Schneider
• Release Date: 10 April 1999 (USA)
• Run Time: Brazil:90 min | Germany:80 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Fantasy , Sci-Fi  

Tagline: Who's Got Time to Be a Teenager When You Have to Save the World?

• Director: Stuart Gillard
• Release Date: 21 November 2003 (USA)
• Run Time: Brazil:90 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama  

Trivia: The character Alex Schlotsky is based on Lamont Carr’s former player Alex Barbag. 

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: The movie is supposed to take place around the time of Hanukkah, which can occur from late November to late December. The kids are often dressed in winter coats and scarves, but there are leaves on the trees, the shrubs are in full foliage, and the grass is green. The leaves are usually gone from the trees in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the movie is supposed to take place, by the end of October. 

• Director: Kevin Hooks
• Release Date: 5 February 2000 (USA)
• Run Time: 87 min
• Country: Canada , USA
• Genre: Drama  

Goofs: Anachronisms: The film is set in 1977, but the vehicle used by Carl Lumbly’s character in the opening scenes is a first-generation (1981-1989) Lincoln Town Car. 

“Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums’ house, she doesn’t expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African. Written by Dragomir R. Radev <radev@cs.columbia.edu>”

• Director: Mark Rosman
• Release Date: 12 March 2000 (USA)
• Writers: David Kukoff (teleplay) & Matt Roshkow (teleplay) …  
• Run Time: 89 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy  

“Opens with Alex at a party where she and her friend Sharon discuss Alex wanting to go to a ball with Eric Nilsson. When Alex tries to talk to him he tells her to move out of the way and is laughed at by some girls at the party. She gets home to her angry father who wants her to go into business and says she needs to go to sleep to get good grades so she can get into Harvard. She goes into her room and looks at a fashion magazine and wishes she could be a model. Next scene shows Janine ordering Chinese whose mother comes in and orders her something healthier. Her mother then announces that she is going away for a couple weeks and Janine is thrilled. Janine goes into her room and sees herself on TV. Written by Stephanie”

• Director: Rod Daniel
• Release Date: 18 March 2000 (USA)
• Run Time: Brazil:103 min
• Country: USA , Canada
• Genre: Drama , Family , Sport  

Goofs: Continuity: When Todd is attempting the 7-10 split, he tries it down the left side of the lane first. Then he moves to the right. When the ball goes by the pins the first time on the right, you can tell it’s just a flipped image from before. 

• Director: Paul Hoen
• Release Date: 9 March 2001 (USA)
• Run Time: 86 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Family , Fantasy , Sport  

Goofs: Continuity: When Kyle’s alarm rings, the close-up of the clock shows a time of 7:01. When he stops the alarm in the far camera angle, the time is 5:10. 

• Director: Stuart Gillard
• Release Date: 19 March 2004 (USA)
• Run Time: 120 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama , Family , Sport  

“Jace Newfield has a problem. Besides being blind and being the new kid at school, his problem is that the kids at his new school thinks he’s a jerk. Jace has to find a way to be accepted into his new school. Joining the wrestling team just might work. Written by Sarah Faulkner”

• Director: Rod Daniel
• Release Date: 21 August 1999 (USA)
• Run Time: Greece:82 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy , Family  

“Charlie, science wiz, hockey lover, and all around genius, is tired of being friendless. It’s bad enough that he’s in college before he’s 14 helping a scientist who’s in the midst of trying to defy gravity. So, in order to make his life exactly how he wants it, Charlie reinvents himself by taking on the image of a slacker/bad boy and enrolls in the local Jr. high. But juggling two lives is tough, even for a genius. Written by Max Vaughn”

• Director: Steve Boyum
• Release Date: 17 June 2000 (USA)
• Run Time: 85 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy , Family , Sci-Fi  

Trivia: Based on the novel Stepsister from the Planet Weird by ‘Frances Lantz’. 

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: When Megan, Ariel, Cutter, and Fanul are using hair dryers to get rid of S’Vad, when the camera zooms out on the four, you can see that the hair dryers are not plugged in. 

• Director: Paul Hoen
• Release Date: 10 January 2003 (USA)
• Run Time: 100 min
• Country: New Zealand , USA
• Genre: Comedy , Family , Fantasy , Drama  

Goofs: Continuity: After the wish is reversed Alex’s hair moves from being over his forehead to brushed back, to covering it again. 

• Director: Takeshi Kitano
• Release Date: 23 August 2001 (Russia)
• Run Time: 114 min
• Country: USA , UK , Japan
• Genre: Crime , Drama , Thriller  
• MPAA: Rated R for pervasive strong violence, language and brief nudity.

Tagline: The one guy you trust to get your back when a whole city's trying to put a bullet in it.  

Trivia: Heavily cut for violence by the MPAA to obtain an ‘R’ Rating in the United States. 

Goofs: Continuity: Ken takes the photo of the potential blackmail victim with his right hand while his left hand is on the table. In the close-up he’s holding it with both hands, and then he returns the picture with his right hand while his left hand is on the table again. 

“A Japanese Yakuza gangster is exiled to the United States. Takeshi settles in Los Angeles where his younger, half brother lives and finds that although the turf is new, the rules are still the same as they try to take over the local drug trade. Written by Anonymous”

• Director: Jerry Schatzberg
• Release Date: 18 July 1980 (USA)
• Writers: John Binder (writer) Gustaf Molander (story)  
• Run Time: 119 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Music , Romance , Drama  

Tagline: For 20 years he's been singing to the country. But he never figured he'd be living his own love songs.

Trivia: The mother of Amy Irving’s character is played by her real mother, Priscilla Pointer. 

• Director: Charles Sturridge
• Release Date: 16 September 2010 (UK)
• Country: UK
• Genre: Drama

Trivia: The name ‘Florizel Street’, the original working title of ‘Coronation Street’, came from a painting that writer Tony Warren hung in his Granada Television office showing ‘Prince Florizel’ battling his way through the enchanted forest. 

• Director: Antwan Smith
• Run Time: USA:98 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Mystery  
• MPAA: Rated R for language and some violence.

“”The Next Hit” is a mystery suspense thriller about a record company that takes an unorthodox approach to boosting sales; which is to put out a ‘hit’ on their marquee talent’s life with hopes of creating a multi-platinum recording legend. The story takes place in Miami and focuses on two main characters; Rodson Gray and his love interest Ann Smith. Written by Anonymous”

• Director: George VanBuskirk
• Release Date: 2010 (USA)
• Run Time: 91 min | USA:99 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Horror , Thriller

“At the end of every summer, the children of a Christian community from a suburb of New Jersey attend Camp Hope. They travel deep into the woods far from any distractions the world provides. Here, the children are taught the ways of the Lord, the perils of the flesh, and the horror of the Devil. A charismatic priest leads them in their training. But, he unknowingly has brought something with him, something evil. What was supposed to be a safe place, a spiritual retreat has now turned into a nightmare that not even faith can end. Written by American Film Market”

• Director: Scott Gurney
• Release Date: 31 July 2007 (USA)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Documentary

• Director: Mikael Salomon
• Release Date: 13 March 2010 (USA)
• Run Time: USA:95 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Biography , Crime , Drama  

Tagline: Con Man. Husband. Kidnapper.

“Called “the longest running con in FBI history,” Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the man that people knew as “Clark Rockefeller” (McCormack) had brilliantly impersonated numerous people, ranging from a talk show host to a Pentagon Advisor before ultimately claiming to be an heir to the famous Rockefeller family. Confident from the success of his prior scams, Clark quickly became well known and highly respected among Boston’s elite and used his purported high society status to charm his way into the life of Sandra Boss (Stringfield), a millionaire with a Harvard MBA and a partner at the prestigious management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company. Following a whirlwind courtship, the two married and had a daughter, Reigh (Emily Alyn Lind, Eastwick) before their rocky 12-year union ended in divorce, leading Clark to abduct his beloved daughter after losing custody to Sandra. With the help of FBI agent Megan Norton (Taylor), Sandra’s search for her daughter exposed Clark’s lifelong con game for the world to see and ultimately raised questions about the real man and the deception he is capable of. Written by Lifetime”

• Director: Vincent Ward
• Release Date: 26 January 2006 (New Zealand)
• Writers: Vincent Ward (story) Vincent Ward (screenplay) …  
• Run Time: Canada:114 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
• Country: New Zealand , UK
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Drama  
• MPAA: Rated R for violent and sexual content.

Tagline: With darkness all around, only the heart can see.  

Trivia: In late-October 2004 Vincent Ward was removed from directing the film by the producers, and replaced by his cinematographer Alun Bollinger. Ward returned to the project when filming was completed. 

Goofs: Crew or equipment visible: The jerk rig rope attached to the stunt man is visible during the ambush. 

• Director: Michael Oblowitz
• Release Date: October 2010 (USA)
• Country: USA , Canada
• Genre: Horror , Thriller  
• MPAA: Rated R for strong bloody violence and pervasive language.

Tagline: How do you catch a killer you've already caught?

“On a dark Christmas Eve in a small town, the lone Sheriffs on the night shift encounter a mysterious man who goes by the name of Mr. Nobody. As the night progresses, the Sheriffs discover that this isn’t just a nobody, but a vengeful killer whose past threatens to haunt them all. Written by Anonymous”

• Director: Mark Brown
• Release Date: 7 September 2001 (USA)
• Run Time: 90 min | Spain:93 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy , Romance  
• MPAA: Rated R for language including sexual dialogue.

Goofs: Continuity: The bouquet of flowers is unwrapped when Shante receives them at the beginning of the movie. When the top of the convertible opens, they are wrapped in plastic. When she arrives home, they are unwrapped again. 

“When it comes to matters of the heart, keeping her man happy and committed is all in a day’s work for Shante Smith. Shante is so adept at navigating the waters of romance that her best girlfriends Diedre, Karen and Tracye depend on her for advice whenever “man trouble” clouds the horizon. But when Shante’s boyfriend Keith is caught red-handed stepping out with a co-worker, Shante institutes her “Ten Day Plan” to get her man in line. Whether its sexy lingerie or good home cooking, Shante has an arsenal of weapons designed to bring a man to his knees…and back to her. She’s not above playing the damsel in distress or using the ever-reliable local grapevine to get Keith’s attention. It’s all good, because getting her man back – by any means necessary – is all that matters. Unfortunately the happy ending that Shante expects goes sideways when Keith begins following the advice of his buddy Tony, who brings a player’s perspective to the games girls play. In this comedic battle of the sexes, Shante’s about to discover that not only are there no rules – she’s not the only one playing. With her relationship at stake and her friends checking her every move, Shante has to think fast and stay a step ahead of Keith if she has any hope of bringing her man back…with her pride intact. Written by Anonymous”

• Director: Spike Lee
• Release Date: 20 October 2000 (USA)
• Run Time: 135 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy , Drama , Music  
• MPAA: Rated R for strong language and some violence.

Tagline: Starring the great negroe actors

Trivia: Most of this film was shot only on digital (Mini DV) camcorders, the kind you can buy at any electronics store. While this sacrificed quality, it allowed them to shoot with 15 cameras at a time, and it also allowed Spike Lee to get all the footage he needed shot within the film’s modest budget. The only scenes shot on film were the “Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show” sequences, which were shot on 16mm film. 

“Dark, biting satire of the television industry, focusing on an Ivy-League educated black writer at a major network. Frustrated that his ideas for a “Cosby Show”-esque take on the black family has been rejected by network brass, he devises an outlandish scheme: reviving the minstrel show. The hook: instead of white actors in black face, the show stars black actors in even blacker face. The show becomes an instant smash, but with the success also comes repercussions for all involved. Written by N. Cognito <nobody@noplace>”

• Director: Richard Berry
• Release Date: 8 April 2010 (Russia)
• Writers: Eric Assous (adaptation) Richard Berry (adaptation)  
• Run Time: 117 min
• Country: France
• Genre: Action , Crime , Thriller  

Tagline: Le sang versé ne sèche jamais (Shedded blood never dries)

Trivia: ‘Richard Berry’ (av) originally wanted to hire James Newton Howard to compose the film’s music, but eventually set his sights on Klaus Badelt after he was advised to listen to the music he composed for Anything for Her (2008). After meeting with Badelt and showing him the film when he learned the composer was in Paris, Berry was pleasantly surprised to hear him say that it was him who was asking to score the movie, not the other way around. 

“Charly Matte