The Backup Plan

Zoe (Lopez) cannot find the man of her dreams, but wants a child anyway. She undergoes artificial insemination. The same day she meets Stan (O'Loughlin) when they step into a taxi, both claiming to be first. She joins a mutual aid group of single pregnant women. Zoe and Stan fall in love, but Zoe does not tell him about the insemination. It turns out to be successful, she becomes pregnant, but only after some weeks she tells Stan about it. He is first angry that she did not tell him earlier, but later accepts it. He hangs around a children's playing area to imagine how it is to be father, but is suspected to be a pervert; this is soon cleared up. Zoe turns out to be pregnant of twins. Due to a remark of Stan that the twins are not his, Zoe thinks he does not accept to become father of them, and breaks off the relationship. Later she wants to mend it, and Stan accepts.

Furry Vengeance

A real estate developer named Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser) is given the task to develop a forest into a development by his boss Neal Lyman (Ken Jeong) much to the objections of Dan's son Tyler (Matt Prokop) and his wife Tammy (Brooke Shields). Unfortunately, the animals who live in the forest don't intend to take the loss of their home lying down, and instead decide to turn the tables on Dan. Tammy is planning an eco friendly fair and Lyman's company decides to sponsor it. The Sanders family later finds out that Lyman and his company are not eco friendly and want to cut down the forest to build houses.

Brooklyn's Finest

The film takes place within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of Brooklyn and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects in the NYPD's 65th precinct. Three policemen struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.
The opening scene shows two men sitting in a parked car having a conversation, the man in the drivers seat, Carlo (Vincent D'Onofrio) is then shot unexpectedly in the face by the passenger (revealed to be Sal) who then robs Carlo and runs off.
Detective Salvatore "Sal" Procida (Ethan Hawke), desperate for money to feed and house his rapidly growing family, has started pocketing the money left on the table during drug raids. Deeply religious, he finds that he is in the bad place of trying to reconcile his misdeeds with his needs. The mold in the walls of his home is making his wife (Lili Taylor) ill and endangering the life of his unborn twins. And the down payment on his coveted new, bigger house is past due.
Officer Eddie Dugan (Richard Gere) is a week from retirement after twenty-two years of less-than-exemplary service to the force when he is assigned to oversee rookies in the tough neighborhoods. His life in shambles, Eddie is barely hanging on, swilling whiskey in the morning to get out of bed. His only friend is a prostitute he frequents.
Detective Clarence "Tango" Butler (Don Cheadle) is an undercover cop working the drug beat. But he is tired of the kind of attention that a black man in a black car attracts, and he has been begging for a promotion and a desk job for years. He is finally offered a way out and it means betraying a close friend Caz, a known criminal (Wesley Snipes) recently released from federal prison. Federal Agent Smith (Ellen Barkin) instructs Tango to set up the drug deal that will assure Caz's arrest and return to federal prison.
Eddie's first rookie assignment (Logan Marshall-Green) is a former Marine, who becomes disgusted with Eddie's lack of professionalism, and asks to be reassigned - only to be killed on his next assignment. Eddie's second rookie assignment (Jesse Williams) accidentally fires his gun near a teenager during a petty theft investigation causing him to go deaf, leaving the NYPD facing a public relations nightmare. During the investigation, Eddie is remorseful for what happened, and is upset that he didn't stay in the store, but refuses to play along with his superiors' attempts to imply that the teenager was a drug dealer.
Sal's wife goes into the hospital after an asthma attack. The doctor says that the attack was caused by wood mold, which is in Sal's home. Sal becomes more stressed at this news.
When Tango goes to warn Caz to abort their upcoming drug deal, they are ambushed and Caz is shot dead on the street, under orders from Red (Michael K. Williams), a gangster Caz had humiliated earlier in a rooftop incident. Eddie turns in his badge and visits his regular hooker, Chantal (Shannon Kane), who does not want to change her life by moving with him to Connecticut. After Agent Smith remarks that Caz's death is better than his arrest, Tango lunges at her, but is restrained by fellow agents. Tango determines to avenge Caz's death now that he knows Red ordered the hit.
That night within the Van Dyke housing projects, Eddie, Tango, and Sal converge for very different reasons. After leaving his friend and partner, Detective Ronny Rosario (Brían F. O'Byrne), Sal, alone, raids the apartment of a drug informant. After killing three of the informant's entourage and finding their stockpile of cash, Sal is shot in the back and killed by a thug who saw Sal enter the building. Meanwhile, Eddie, overcoming the urge to commit suicide, rescues a missing person (Sarah Thompson) from a basement operated sex-slave dungeon. Eddie apprehends one of the men, and is confronted by a second. Eddie instructs the second man to get down, but the man threatens him. Eddie shoots the man in the chest, and a fight ensues. Tango gets his vengeance on Red, but then is mistaken for a gangster and is shot dead in the street by Rosario. Only after shooting and killing Tango does Rosario realize he has shot another law officer. Rosario, still determined to stop Sal, is forced to continue his search for him, yet is further devastated when he finds the body of Sal in the drug dealer's apartment.
The closing scene shows Eddie having rescued the three missing girls, and in the process having redeemed himself from the reputation he earned within the precinct of being a failure as an officer.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

In 740 AD, one of Merlin's (James A. Stephens) apprentices, Maxim Horvath (Alfred Molina), joins forces with the evil sorceress Morgana le Fay (Alice Krige), betraying Merlin. Morgana mortally wounds Merlin before his other apprentices, Balthazar Blake (Nicolas Cage) and Veronica (Monica Bellucci), can stop her. While Balthazar battles Horvath, Morgana prepares to kill Balthazar, but is stopped by Veronica, who absorbs Morgana’s soul into her own body. As Morgana tries to kill Veronica from within, Balthazar stops her by imprisoning Morgana and Veronica in the Grimhold, a prison similar to a nesting doll.
Before dying, Merlin gives his remaining apprentice a dragon ring that will choose the Prime Merlinian, who will become Merlin's successor. Only the Prime Merlinian will be able to defeat Morgana. Throughout history Balthazar imprisons Morganians, sorcerers who try to release Morgana, including Horvath, into successive layers on the Grimhold while he searches for the successor.


Balthazar's steel eagle came from the gargoyles on the Chrysler Building
In 2000 AD in Manhattan, 10-year-old Dave Stutler (Jake Cherry) encounters Balthazar in an antique store, who is as youthful as when Merlin gave him the ring. Hoping he is the successor, Balthazar gives him the dragon ring, which comes alive and locks onto Dave's finger. Dave accidently opens the Grimhold, releasing Horvath. While battling for possession of the Grimhold, Balthazar and Horvath are imprisoned in a vase with a ten-year lock. Dave is humiliated when he is discovered by his teacher and classmates with his pants wet due to a vase that broke in his lap. There is no trace of the battle, so everyone believes Dave made it up.
Ten years later, Dave (Jay Baruchel) is a physics student at New York University and has made the acquaintance of a childhood friend, Becky (Teresa Palmer). The mystical urn’s lock opens and Horvath escapes Balthazar. Horvath finds Dave, who is the last person he remembers possessing the Grimhold. Dave threw the Grimhold away after the battle, so he has no idea where it is. When Dave cannot tell him, Horvath unleashes a pack of wolves. Balthazar rescues Dave.
Dave initially refuses to help Balthazar, wanting only a normal life, but agrees to help as long as Balthazar will leave Dave alone once the Grimhold is found. They track the Grimhold to Chinatown, where Horvath has released the next Morganian, a wizard named Sun Lok (Gregory Woo). Dave defeats Sun Lok, and Balthazar retrieves the Grimhold. Dave loves using magic and agrees to become Balthazar's apprentice. He becomes romantically involved with Becky against Balthazar's wishes.


Stairs and walkways were built over an existing fountain for the climactic scene in Bowling Green park in Manhattan (seen looking southwest)
Horvath enlists sorcerer Drake Stone (Toby Kebbell) to help him retrieve the Grimhold and defeat Balthazar and Dave, whom Horvath realizes is the Prime Merlinian. They attempt to kill Dave, but Balthazar saves him. Cued by Horvath, Dave demands to know the truth about Balthazar’s quest. Balthazar reveals that Morgana is trapped in the Grimhold, as well as Veronica; if Morgana escapes she will attempt "The Rising", which will raise sorcerers from the dead, and use them to destroy the world. Dave is the only one who can defeat Morgana.
Horvath and Drake steal the Grimhold and Horvath uses a spell to steal Drake's energy, killing him. He releases the witch, Abigail Williams (Nicole Ehinger), from the last layer around the Grimhold and uses her to kidnap Becky. Once Abigail completes that, Horvath steals Abigail's energy. Horvath threatens to kill Becky, forcing Dave to surrender the Grimhold and his ring. Balthazar goes to defeat Horvath and Morgana, knowing that without the ring Dave will be killed.


The spot (just in front of the steps) where Dave saves Balthazar by jump-starting his heart
Horvath releases Morgana, who still possesses Veronica's body, from the Grimhold. Morgana begins the spell. Horvath animates the Charging Bull sculpture at the north end of Bowling Green park, which attacks Balthazar.
With Becky's help, Dave reaches them in time to defeat Horvath and stop Morgana from completing the Rising. Balthazar takes Morgana's soul from Veronica's body into his own. Morgana’s spirit escapes Balthazar's body, and begins to shoot energy bolts at Veronica, which causes Balthazar to take the damage, killing him. Her ethereal projection is about to incinerate them until Dave stops her, using magic without the ring, proving he is the Prime Merlinian. Dave then saves Balthazar by jump-starting his heart. Balthazar reunites with Veronica, gifting her with a necklace he bought for her before she sacrificed herself. Dave and Becky fly to France on Balthazar's eagle.
After the end credits, Mickey Mouse's Fantasia wizard hat is seen in a glass jar, with Horvath's hat on a nearby table. A hand reaches out and takes it.

Inception (2010)

Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is found unconscious on a beach and brought into the chamber of an elderly man, who speaks to him cryptically. Cobb is carrying only a small spinning top and a handgun.
At an earlier time, a crime takes place inside a dream arranged by Cobb and his team, including a point man, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and an architect (someone who designs dream worlds) named Nash (Lukas Haas). They are currently inside the mind of Saito (Ken Watanabe), whom they belatedly discover is aware of their deception, causing them to fail their mission, and is auditioning them to work for his own dream crime.

The rules of dream worlds are explained: individuals hurt in a dream world will experience pain in a very real sense, but in-dream death merely causes the individual to wake. Dreamers use totems, small self-made artifacts (e.g. Cobb's metal top), to test whether they are awake or merely dreaming. Mazelike dream worlds contain the other shared dreamers -- all sleeping in a special drug-induced state in close proximity to each other. Objects and characters in the dreams are projections of the dreamers' minds, and may be lacking in unconsidered details. Dream crimes perpetrated by the likes of Cobb usually involve extraction of secrets from a target's mind.

After exposing Cobb and waking up, Saito intercepts Cobb while he attempts to leave Japan and asks him to perform the act of inception--creating a thought in the mind of a person, undetected. In return for a successful inception, Saito offers Cobb a chance to return to his children in America.

Cobb recruits Eames (Tom Hardy), a forger capable of shifting his identity inside a dream, and Ariadne (Ellen Page), whom he and Arthur train as their new architect as Nash was taken by Saito. While Ariadne trains inside Cobb's mind, she comes to understand what is haunting him: a vision of his deceased wife Mal (Marion Cotillard) that continually disrupts his dream world.

The inception target is Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy), son of Saito's terminally ill corporate rival Maurice Fischer (Pete Postlethwaite), and the objective is to seed Fischer with an idea that will lead to his dismantling his father's empire. Cobb's team forms a plan that will have them passing through a dream within a dream within a dream. Due to sedatives used and the depth of the multi-layered dreams, the usual rule of death leading to wakefulness is void: anyone killed in the dream will enter a mental limbo where even a few moments of real time could seem to be decades within the dream/limbo world and the person would not be able to distinguish this dream world from the real world.

We learn that Cobb and Mal once spent many years in the limbo state, Mal with her spinning-top totem (now used by Cobb) that spins indefinitely within dreams but stops spinning in the real world. Mal suffered delusions after waking from limbo, convinced that she was still in a dream and that the real world was still to come after her death. Ultimately this belief led to her suicide, which she tried to convince Cobb to join her in by incriminating him in her death. Instead, Cobb refused and fled the U.S. (and his children), to avoid facing murder charges. Saito promises that with a phone call, he can make the charges against Cobb disappear.

When the elder Fischer dies in Sydney, Saito arranges for himself and Cobb's team to share the first-class cabin with the younger Fischer on a flight from Sydney to Los Angeles. They proceed to drug Fischer and enter into a dream with him. They have help from Yusuf (Dileep Rao), the chemist who developed the compounds specific to the multi-level dream state they are attempting. Upon arriving in the first dream level, which is a rainy inner city area, the team kidnaps Fischer but is assaulted by guards within his mind. Saito is injured badly but kept alive. Eames takes the identity of Peter Browning (Tom Berenger), Fischer's godfather, pretending to have been kidnapped as well to try and extract information from Fischer. The team, while inside a van driven by Yusuf while being chased by the mercenaries, pushes down into the next dream level. The second level is a hotel where the team tricks Fischer into believing his dreams are under attack and that the kidnapping on the first level was orchestrated by Browning. Cobb convinces him that he must find out why his godfather is turning against him. The third level (designed by Ariadne, as are the other levels, so that Cobb lacks detailed knowledge of their layout lest his tormented subconscious interfere) is a snowy mountain fortress Fischer must break into to ultimately locate the idea the team is planting.

During the third-level attempt to break in, Fischer is killed by Cobb's projection of his dead wife Mal, and so is lost into limbo before the idea is planted. Cobb and Ariadne follow him down to this fourth level in an attempt to salvage the mission. But they are running out of time, since at each level, "kicks" to help them escape back to reality are imminent: explosives on the mountain fortress, explosives in the hotel, and the splash of the van into a river. Each team member left behind on each level (Yusuf driving the van, Arthur in the hotel, and Eames and Saito in the fortress) is protecting the rest of the team, fighting off Fischer's projected mercenaries.

In limbo, Ariadne and Cobb are confronted by Mal. It is revealed that Cobb knew inception was possible because when previously trapped in limbo with Mal he had planted the idea in her mind that the limbo world was fake—an implantation that got her to leave limbo but persisted in real life, leading to her suicide. Mal attempts to convince Cobb to stay in limbo and attacks him, but Ariadne shoots her and Mal dies in Cobb's arms. Following this, Fischer and Ariadne are able to return to the third-level mountain fortress, where Fischer confronts his father and reaches the cathartic understanding (as intended by the team) that his father had wanted him to be his own man. But during the confrontation with Mal in limbo, Saito dies (in level three). Cobb remains in the limbo state to locate him.

Returning to where the movie began, Cobb speaks with the elderly man (Saito, after many dream years in limbo). Cobb tells Saito the world he is in is not real, and they need to leave.

Cobb suddenly awakens to find everyone on the plane (including Saito) up and well. Saito picks up a phone and honors their arrangement, Cobb reenters the United States without incident, and is reunited with his children. Cobb spins his totem to test reality, but is distracted by the sight of his children. The top slows slightly and begins to wobble, but the screen cuts to black before it falls which leaves the question of whether Cobb is still dreaming.

The Code

Set in New York City, veteran thief Keith Ripley (Freeman) recruits younger crook Gabriel Martin (Banderas) to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to the Russian mob, who had killed his previous partner, Victor Korolenko, over the debt before they could complete the plan. Martin is unsure of Ripley, but Ripley's goddaughter, Alexandra Korolenko (Mitchell), who is also Victor's daughter, convinces him other wise, although Ripley doesn't like that the two are getting close. Ripley tells Martin the plan, that they are going to steal from a Russian Museum that has been smuggling Russian treasures into the country and bribing the NYPD with large donations and expensive equipment. The two infiltrate a party at the museum posing as cops, with Ripley as Lt. Weber (Forster), a cop who has a particular vendetta against Ripley, to gather information about their vault.

The Russian mob, lead by Nicky (Šerbedžija), grow impatient with Ripley and kidnap Alexandra, telling them they must steal two Fabergé eggs from the Russian Museum in order to get her back. When the duo get into the vaults of the museum with the eggs, Martin reveals he is an undercover cop from Miami planted by Weber to catch Ripley, leaves Ripley locked in the vault and informs Weber, while taking the eggs to the Russian mobster to free Alexandra. After Alexandra is released Martin is forced to meet with Nicky who reveals that the eggs they have stolen are made of wood (like the Karelian Birch egg). Meanwhile, Weber and his squad enter the museum, but are detained by the security guards due to Martin telling the guards he was a cop as he escaped.

Martin reports in to the police the next morning after the police have picked up Nicky, only to learn that the man they have in custody isn't the man Martin met, and that that was actually Victor Korolenko, who had faked his death with Ripley's help. It is then revealed that Ripley had escaped, letting the museum know cops were on the way and that they had cleaned out the vault of all the smuggled items (which had included the eggs) before the police could inspect it, meaning there was no evidence that anything had been stolen and that Martin's testimony would be worthless as his actions have been kept off the book to prevent Ripley from finding out and that Martin's involvement with Alex compromises him, and Ripley had to be let go.

Ripley later calls Martin from a tarmac ready to leave with Victor to meet with a buyer for the eggs, letting him know that they knew Martin was a cop from the beginning, and that they plan on going into hiding, although Alex will continue to stay in New York (having been in on the plan the whole time) and where he can pick up his cut. Martin later meets up with Alex, who confesses that her feelings for him are real, and decides to become a thief.[

Green Zone

General Al-Rawi (Yigal Naor), in hiding in Baghdad, is meeting with his aides talking about the invasion of Iraq. Many of his aides propose fighting other Iraqi forces and American forces, however Al-Rawi suggests that they remain where they are and wait until the Americans arrive and perhaps make the Iraqi army an offer to join their forces (the earlier arrival of Al-Rawi, senior in the Iraqi government, is noticed by an an Iraqi we will come to know as Freddie).

Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) and his squad investigate a warehouse, believed to be holding Weapons of Mass Destruction. After encounters with a sniper and scanning the warehouse for radioactive activity, they find that the warehouse is empty, with the exception of an old piece of mechanical equipment. After regrouping with his squad, Roy Miller starts to question the intel given to him. At a debriefing, Miller brings up the point that the majority of the intel given to him is inaccurate and anonymous, stating that on his last three attempts to find WMDs, his team had come up with nothing. High-ranking officials quickly debunk Miller's theory about the intelligence being false.

Meanwhile, Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear) is welcoming Ahmed Zubadi (Raad Rawi) an Iraqi politician at Saddam International Airport, where he is interrogated by journalist Lawrie Dayne (Amy Ryan). She asks if she could speak to "Magellan", to which Poundstone says that he is heavily "locked up".

After the debriefing, Miller meets Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson), an employee of the CIA, who tells Miller that the next place he is going to investigate for WMDs is also empty, as a team had already searched there months ago. Brown suggests that the intelligence he is being given is part of a cover-up.

Whilst investigating another site, a playground where WMDs are thought to be buried, Miller is approached by the Iraqi seen earlier, who calls himself "Freddie" (Khalid Abdalla), who tells Miller that he saw Al-Rawi at the meeting in a nearby house. Miller and his men swiftly go to the house but Al-Rawi narrowly escapes but they take one of his henchmen into custody. This man Seyyed Hamza (Said Faraj) happens to have a book containing the addresses of Al-Rawi's safehouses, but before Miller can extract any more information the man is taken by Delta Force, sent by Poundstone.

Miller goes to Brown's hotel to give him the notebook and tell him of what took place, and then Brown tells Miller to go and retrieve the man taken by the Delta Force and offer him $1 million dollars in exchange for co-operation. Before leaving, he is approached by Wall Street Journal correspondent Lawrie Dayne, who hands him her card if Miller should wish to disclose any information later on. When he gets to the prison where the informant is held, the man is in desperate need of medical attention due to interrogation, and after Miller suspects that Al-Rawi might be Magellan, the man responds with the word "Jordan" after Miller asks him about Al-Rawi's whereabouts in the run up to the invasion. With Brown's help, Miller's suspicions are confirmed and it is discovered that Al-Rawi met with Poundstone in February in Jordan as Poundstone's inside man.

Miller then goes in pursuit of Al-Rawi, and, having been kidnapped by Al-Rawi's men, Al-Rawi tells him that he told Poundstone there had been no WMD programme since the First Gulf War, and we learn that Poundstone lied to his superiors in Washington - so that Iraq would be invaded anyway. General Al-Rawi then flees as the Iraqi Army is disbanded by the CPA and Delta Force learn of his location and, in their helicopters track to try to kill him. Back with Miller, he kills his captors and races to capture Al Rawi before the Special Forces get him. Meantime Freddie is shadowing Miller who does catch Al-Rawi, after shooting dead a high ranking terrorist working with Al-Rawi, Al-Malik, who had just killed Major Briggs, the leader of the Delta Force team, and says to him that if he surrenders he will take him back to Brown. At this point Freddie appears and shoots Al-Rawi to death, saying it's not Miller's choice.

At a meeting the next day where the Iraqi denominators are trying to broker a deal, Miller confronts Poundstone with what he found out and gives him a strongly-worded report of how the whole invasion was based on a lie. Poundstone denies any knowledge of meeting Al-Rawi or lying about the existence of WMDs but instead tells Miller "We're not stopping", in reference to America's push for democracy in Iraq. Miller violently grabs Poundstone but the encounter is split up by Delta Force soldiers. Poundstone then rejoins the Iraqi meeting, only to see the Iraqi leaders yelling at each other and leaving the meeting.

Later in his hotel room, Miller writes a report on the everything that happened.

Afterwards, Miller e-mails his report to Dayne, as well as many major news corporations and newspapers in the western world to expose the scandal. The camera then pans out to show Miller driving off on a Iraqi highway, with the Iraqi oil fields in the background.