tjc's - Rented List

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Buried is unlike any film you have ever seen before. Imagine waking up in the dark and realizing that you've been buried alive fore reasons unknown to you, with nothing but a lighter, a mobile phone and only 90 minutes of oxygen left.

Ryan Reynolds delivers an utterly compelling performance filled with fear, frustration, emotion and even a couple of dark laughs along the way.

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Chloe Grace Moretz stars as Abby, a mysterious girl who moves next door to Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a social outcast who is viciously bullied at school.

In his loneliness, Owen forms a profound bond with Abby, but as a string of grisly murders grips his wintry New Mexico town, he begins to realise that Abby is anything but 'the girl next-door'.

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A group of bikers, which includes some of the survivors from the original film, embark on a journey by bus to a biker race near the desert of the infamous incidents. However, because of a mistake they are late and decide to take a shortcut through the desert.

Halfway through the desert the bus breaks down. While trying to repair the bus, some of the group wander off, and wind up in the traps of the survivors of the mutant family of the first. Then the mutants go after the rest...

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A shy girl who wants to be popular (Kristy McNichol) attends a pirate festival in her seaside community, featuring a swordplay demo led by a cute hunk (Christopher Atkins).

After selecting Mabel (Kristy McNichol) to participate in the demo, the instructor invites her aboard his boat for a real ride on the high seas, at which point a gang of her catty acquaintances latches on for the trip. Sent to get hamburgers for the outing, Mabel is 'accidentally' left behind when one of her 'friends' pulls the anchor prematurely. Determined not only to fit in, but to track down her dream guy, Mabel steers a tiny sailboat into stormy waters in pursuit, and gets shipwrecked. Thus begins a fantasy in which the unconscious Mabel imagines herself in a real pirate adventure, complete with her dashing pirate hero and a legion of his crusty shipmates, with dozens of unwed sisters who must rise to the altar before she can.

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Antonio Bay, a quaint, small seaside town is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. That night a heavy, mysterious fog rolls through the town and people begin to die in savage ways.

Rumours of a secret as old as the town begin to surface and the people of Antonio Bay realise they are victims of long dead sailors who have come to take revenge for their own murders at the hands of the town's founding fathers. The townspeople can only wait for the fog to roll in and pray that they are not the next to die.

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Taking an ill-advised detour en route to California, the Carter family soon run into trouble when their campervan breaks down in the middle of the desert. Stranded, the family find themselves at the mercy of a group of monstrous cannibals lurking in the surrounding hills.

With their lives under threat, the Carters have no choice but to fight back by any means necessary.

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A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive.

Forced to contend not only with the forest's other ruthless inhabitants, but with her own father's judgement, the girl must carve her own path to escape.

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In the year 2044 time travel has not yet been invented. But in 30 years it will have been... Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) works as a looper, a futuristic assassin who eliminates targets sent back in time by a criminal organisation.

The only rule is that you do not let your target escape -even if that target is you. The rules are put to the test when Joe is called upon to "close his loop" and assassinate his future self (Bruce Willis). In failing to pull the trigger, so begins a desperate race against the clock as Joe begins to unravel his own future and older Joe's past.

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Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is on a mission to identify a bomber who destroyed a train just hours earlier and who plans to kill thousands more with a much larger explosion in the heart of Chicago.

A top-secret program, named 'Source Code', allows Colter to exist briefly as another man in the parallel reality of the doomed commuter train. Each time he returns to the train, Colter has just eight minutes to uncover the bomber's identity. The more he learns, the more convinced he becomes that he can prevent the deadly blast from ever happening - unless time runs out first

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From the creators of Pulp Fiction and Desperado, comes this wild and wicked action thriller about two brothers on a desperate crime spree! Quentin Tarantino stars as a deranged convict who, along with his brother (George Clooney), kidnaps a preacher and his two kids (including Juliette Lewis) and

flees for the safety of a remote nightclub in Mexico. But once they arrive, they discover that the club is anything but a safe haven for criminals. It's bloodthirsty clientele forces the brothers to team up with their hostages in order to escape alive.

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It is the near future and society is crumbling. John Nada (Roddy Piper) is a struggling labourer who drifts into town and makes a deadly discovery - society has been invaded by aliens from another dimension who are controlling the Earth through mind control.

Armed with only a submachine gun and a pair of special sunglasses, can Nada infiltrate the aliens' transmitting station and reveal their true forms?

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A young policeman Ethan Bishop (Austin Stoker) is put in charge of a nearly deserted L.A. police station, in the process of moving to another location, that finds itself under siege by an interracial gang of cut-throats and escaped convicts.

Napoleon Wilson (Darwin Joston) is impressive as a heroic convict, so is Ethan as the unflappable cop.

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She was torn in Detroit...on an automobile assembly line. But she is no ordinary automobile. Deep within her chassis lurks the devil incarnate.

She is Christine - red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury whose unique 'standard' equipment includes a chilling, insatiable vengeance that will destroy anyone in her path. She seduces 17-year-old Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) who becomes consumed with passion for her sleek, rounded, chrome-laden body. She demands his absolute and unquestionable devotion and when outsiders seek to interfere, they become the victims of Christine's uncontrollable wrath.

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Samuel L. Jackson stars as the President of the United States, who finds himself hunted by a gang of psychotic terrorists when Air Force One crash-lands in a desolate mountain range. In the forest he meets a young boy who is out to prove himself as a hunter.

Together they must try to evade the assassins on the hunt for the ultimate Big Game prize.

"Super 8" tells the story of six friends who witness a train wreck while making a Super 8 movie, only to learn that something unimaginable escaped during the crash. They soon discover that the only thing more mysterious than what it is, is what it wants.