 The Hills Have Eyes 2006  R, 105 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Alexandre Aja
Cast: Ted Levine, Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie de Ravin, Dan Byrd, Robert Joy, Tom Bower, Billy Drago, Desmond Askew, Ezra Buzzington, Michael Bailey Smith, Laura Ortiz
In a remake of the 1977 film, Wes Craven produced this version of the Carter family's trip through the American Southwest. While on a road trip in their vintage Airstream trailer, the Carters find themselves stranded miles from nowhere. They soon realize that they are the prey of blood-thirsty, desert-dwelling atomic mutants that live in an abandoned nuclear testing site, and their days are numbered.
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Rick 2003  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Curtiss Clayton
Cast: Bill Pullman, Aaron Stanford, Agnes Bruckner, Sandra Oh, Dylan Baker, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Marianne Hagan, Jerome Preston Bates, Jamie Harris, Paz de la Huerta, William Ryall, P.J. Brown
After being humiliated by middle-management boss Rick O'Lette (Bill Pullman) when she interviewed for a job, Michelle (Sandra Oh) places a curse on him. From that point on, Rick's life takes a turn as one problem after another looms in his path.
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Standing Still 2006 R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Matthew Cole Weiss
Cast: Jon Abrahams, Amy Adams, Ethan Embry, Roger Avary, Xander Berkeley, Adam Garcia, Lauren German, Colin Hanks, Marne Patterson, Melissa Sagemiller, Nikki Schieler Ziering, Mena Suvari, Aaron Stanford, James Van Der Beek
Four years after graduation, college friends of Elise (Amy Adams) and Michael (Adam Garcia) reunite for their wedding in Los Angeles. Bachelor and bachelorette parties ensue, secrets are revealed, and issues–such as lesbianism, marriage, and estranged dads (Xander Berkeley)–are tackled in a variety of ways.
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 Tadpole 2002  PG-13, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gary Winick
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Aaron Stanford, John Ritter, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Iler, Adam LeFevre, Peter Appel, Alicia Van Couvering, Kate Mara, Ron Rifkin
Fifteen-year-old Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford), known to his Manhattan friends as "Tadpole," returns home from boarding school eager to see his friends but even more anxious to see the object of his affection: his stepmother, Eve (Sigourney Weaver). As luck would have it, a one-night stand with Eve's best friend, Diane (Bebe Neuwirth) complicates matters even further.
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 Winter Solstice 2005 R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Josh Sternfeld
Cast: Anthony LaPaglia, Aaron Stanford, Mark Webber, Allison Janney, Ron Livingston, Brendan Sexton III, Michelle Monaghan, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Jason Fuchs, Kel O'Neill, Thomas Sadoski
Widower Jim Winters (Anthony LaPaglia) tries to cope with raising his sons (Aaron Stanford and Mark Webber) after his wife was killed in a car accident. While the three have retreated into themselves, a change is in the air.
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 X-Men: The Last Stand 2006 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi
Director: Brett Ratner
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, James Marsden, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones, Rebecca Romijn, Ben Foster, Dania Ramirez, Ellen Page
In this last entry of the X-Men trilogy, those mutant heroes are back and must now face a choice to retain their unique powers or give up those powers and become human. Battle lines are drawn with mutant leader Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) preaching tolerance versus Magneto (Ian McKellen) who believes in survival of the fittest. Their followers meet on Alcatraz Island–after Magneto levitates the Golden Gate Bridge–and a battle follows involving not only the two mutant armies but the real army that, instead of firing guns, fires needles filled with a potion to cure the mutants.
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 X2 2003 PG-13, 133 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thiller
aka: X2: X-Men United
X-Men 2
Director: Bryan Singer
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn, Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Bruce Davison, Anna Paquin, Kelly Hu, Aaron Stanford, Shawn Ashmore, Cotter Smith
The X-Men return. This time they search for mutant assassin Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming) whose attempt on the President's (Cotter Smith) life has led to the government's cracking down on all mutants. This even includes the X-Men who attend Charles Xavier's (Patrick Stewart) school that trains mutants to peacefully exist. Because the government believes that the X-Men are responsible for the attack, the President appoints military scientist William Stryker (Brian Cox) to investigate the school. Stryker uses foul means to get information from the X-Men's old foe Magneto (Ian McKellan) and leads an attack on the school. Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is the only adult at the school for the time being, and his overwhelming job is to defend the school and save the students as the war escalates between the mutants and humans.
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| 1. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
2. Rick (2003)
3. Standing Still (2006)
4. Tadpole (2002)
5. Winter Solstice (2005)
6. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
7. X2 (2003)
aka: X2: X-Men United
aka: X-Men 2
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