dan23's - Rented List

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Unconventional salesmen, stuck-in-a-rut Danny (Paul Rudd) and lady's man Wheeler (Seann William Scott), spend their days promoting Minotaur energy drink to school students. Full of self-loathing and driven to delirium after being dumped by girlfriend.

Beth (Elizabeth Banks), Danny lashes out on an energy drink bender, trashing both the company truck and school property, resulting in the arrest of both him and Wheeler. Wheeler and Danny are faced with a choice; either do time in jail or clock one hundred and fifty hours as mentors for troubled children. These unlikely role models are assigned to the most difficult children on offer, making them contemplate jail as an easier option! Danny is paired with dorky role playing loner, Augie, whilst Wheeler is the latest victim of booby obsessed, foul-mouthed Ronnie.

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Marvel Studios' 'Captain Marvel' takes you on a spectacular adventure from the 1990's, tracing the path of Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) as she becomes one of the most powerful heroes in the universe. When a galactic war reaches Earth, she meets young agent Nick Fury (Samuel L.

Jackson) at the centre of a maelstrom, leading to her ultimate destiny as an Avenger!

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An alien entity inhabits the earthly form of a seductive young woman who combs the Scottish highways in search of the human prey it is here to plunder. It lures its isolated and forsaken male victims into an otherworldly dimension where they are stripped and consumed.

But life in all its complexity starts to change the alien. It begins to see itself as 'she', as human, with tragic and terrifying consequence. 'Under the Skin' is about seeing ourselves through alien eyes.

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Mona Lisa Smile is a funny, inspiring and uplifting film about an art history professor with a lot to teach about life and much to learn about love. Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a recent graduate is hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College in 1953.

Determined to confront the outdated values of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional minded students to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.

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The year's most original horror film, Pulse takes fear into new territory - the very devices we trust to get us through the day. When the dead discover a means to contact the living through electronic devices, cell-phones and computers become open gateways to monstrosities and destruction.

Starring Kristen Bell, Christina Milian, Ian Somerhalder and Rick Gonzalez, Pulse is loaded with terrifying thrills and gruesome special effects, and capped with an astonishing surprise ending.

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X-Men Unite! An all-star cast, Including Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Halle Berry, Jennifer Lawrence, Ellen Page, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, assembles for battle in this mind-blowing adventure.

As armies of murderous Sentinel rojbots hunt down mutants and humans alike, the unstoppable characters from the original X-Men trilogy join forces with their younger selves in an pic struggle to change the past - and save our future.

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What have talking snakes, immaculate conceptions, walking on water, extra- terrestrial travellers, a container load of truckers, Islamic hip-hop and the natural highs of the Cannabis Ministries got to do with spiritual salvation? These are some of the questions director Larry Charles and

comedian, commentator and all round religious sceptic, Bill Maher seek answers to in Religulous. Award winner Maher reflects on his own religious upbringing and travels to Jerusalem, Egypt, London, Amsterdam, The Vatican and across the United States exploring the role of religion in today's society. Along the way he talks to believers, non-believers, religious leaders, self professed messiahs, atheists, extremists, politicians, agnostics, academics and the average man on the street looking to lift the lid on their beliefs.

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This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide.

Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results. One of the most provocative films about art ever made, Exit Through the Gift Shop is a chaotic study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence. By turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairytale... with bolt cutters.

Eight candidates face the interview from hell. Led into a windowless concrete bunker they are given eighty minutes to answer one simple question. A question that will take each candidate to the very edge... and beyond, as they are forced to confront their deepest, darkest, most violent fears.

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Inspector Tequila Yuen (Chow Yun Fat) is determined to rid the city of gangs by beating them at their own violent game. But in a vicious shoot out, his partner and colleagues are massacred, leaving Yuen bitter and hungry for vengeance.

Yuen comes face-to-face with Tony (Tony Leung), a lethal and cunning assassin working for a gun-running gang, in a stake-out where it seems that Yuen will end up in a body bag. But a stunning plot twist cranks up the action another gear when Yuen discovers that Tony has a dangerous secret...

A group of oil-rig roughnecks are left stranded when their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Battling mortal injuries and merciless weather, the survivors have only a few days to escape the icy elements and a vicious pack of rogue wolves on the hunt before their time runs out.

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When a madman commits horrific murders inspired by Poe's darkest works, a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) joins forces with the writer in a quest to get inside the killer's mind in order to stop him from making every one of Poe's brutal stories a blood chilling reality.

A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, which escalates when Poe's love (Alice Eve) becomes the next target.

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American siblings Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) and Linda (Paz de la Huerta) eke out a shared existence in Tokyo - he by dealing drugs, she by working as a stripper. However, tragedy strikes when a deal turns sour and Oscar is shot by the police.

As his lifeless body lies on the floor of a public toilet, his soul floats high above the neon-drenched Tokyo streets, observing the effect of his death on his sister and reliving the events in his life that brought him to this juncture.

Nick, Dale and Kurt decide to become their own bosses by launching a business. After a slick investor deceives them, they hatch a misguided plan to get their company back.

Jack Carter (Michael Caine) has rarely looked cooler as the well dressed heavy, attempting to uncover the facts behind the death of his brother. The film tracks Caine as he becomes embroiled in the sinister underworld of crime and pornography.