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Zathura

Adventure Is Waiting

Genres: Family / Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Director: Jon Favreau
Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing
Starring: Tim Robbins, Josh Hutcherson, jonah bobo, Dax Shepard, Kristen Stewart
After their father goes to for work, leaving them in the care of their older sister, six-year-old Danny and ten-year old Walter discover an old tattered metal board game, "Zathura." After trying unsuccessfully to get his brother to play the game with him, Danny starts to play on his own. From his first move, Danny realises this is no ordinary board game. His spaceship marker moves by itself and when it lands on a space, a card is ejected, which reads: "Meteor shower, take evasive action." The house is immediately pummelled from above by hot, molten meteors. When Danny and Walter look up through the gaping hole in their roof, they discover, to their horror that they have propelled into deepest, darkest outer space. And they are not alone. Danny and Walter realise that unless they finish the game they'll be trapped in outer space forever.

Derailed
They Never Saw It Coming.

Genres: Thriller
Director: Mikael Håfström
Distributor: The Weinstein Company
Starring: Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Melissa George, Vincent Cassel, Robert 'The RZA' Diggs
Advertising executive Charles Schine (Clive Owen) is just another Chicago commuter who regularly catches the 8:43 A.M. train to work. But the one day he misses his train and meets Lucinda Harris (Jennifer Aniston), his life is changed forever. Lucinda is charming, beautiful and seductive. Despite the fact that each are married with children, their attraction to one another is magnetic. But this fling turns dangerous when a violent criminal confronts and pulls them into a dangerous plot. Now with their entire lives thrown off-course, Charles must figure out how to turn the tables and somehow save their families.

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