3 Needles 2005  N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Cast: Lucy Liu, Shawn Ashmore, Stockard Channing, Chloe Sevigny, Olympia Dukakis, Sandra Oh, Tanabadee Chokpikultong, Sook-Yin Lee, Isabelle Cyr, Gary Farmer, Thierry Fargeau, Jessie Gabe
Three stories offer different perspectives on the AIDS crisis. In the first, Lucy Liu takes on the role of black-marketer Jin Ping who jeopardizes a village when she pretends to be a representative of the Provincial Health Office and sanctions an unsanitary drawing of villagers' blood. In the second story, HIV-positive porn star Denys (Shawn Ashmore) uses his own father's blood for required blood tests by his production company. In the final entry, a young nun, Sister Clara (Chloe Sevigny), works with missionaries (Olympia Dukakis and Sandra Oh) and makes personal sacrifices for the good of her village.
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Cadet Kelly 2002  TV, 105 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy
Director: Larry Shaw
Cast: Hilary Duff, Christy Carlson Romano, Gary Cole, Aimee Garcia, Shawn Ashmore, Linda Kash, Nigel Hamer, Sarah Gadon, Andrea Lewis, Joe Matheson
Kelly's (Hilary Duff) mother (Linda Kash) has remarried, and her new husband Joe Maxwell (Gary Cole) serves as the commandant of the George Washington Military School. Not only has Kelly been uprooted from her Manhattan neighborhood, but she is now attending the military school where she has a very hard time fitting into her new surroundings.
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The Quiet 2006 R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Jamie Babbit
Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Camilla Belle, Edie Falco, Martin Donovan, Shawn Ashmore, Katy Mixon, David Gallagher, Shannon Woodward, Steve Uzzell, Ken Thomas, Rudy Costa, Maria Cash
Orphaned deaf-mute Dot (Camilla Belle) moves in with her godparents–Olivia and Paul Deer (Edie Falco and Martin Donovan)–and their popular cheerleader daughter, Nina (Elisha Cuthbert). There is a dark secret in this home: Nina is having an incestuous affair with her father, and Dot's presence will have a decisive impact on the family.
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The Ruins 2008 R, 91 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Carter Smith
Cast: Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, Joe Anderson, Sergio Calderon, Jesse Ramirez, Balder Moreno, Dimitri Baveas, Patricio Almeida Rodriguez, Mario Jurado, Luis Antonio Ramos
American vacationers–Jeff (Jonathan Tucker), Amy (Jena Malone), Stacy (Laura Ramsey), and Eric (Shawn Ashmore)–meet Mathias (Joe Anderson) at a Mexican resort and agree to help him search for his brother who is missing in the jungle. They travel to an archeological dig and come upon a Mayan temple covered with vines. Villagers appear on the scene and start shooting at them. The group escapes by climbing the ruins, but even more dangers await at the top.
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Underclassman 2005  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy
Director: Marcos Siega
Cast: Nick Cannon, Roselyn Sanchez, Shawn Ashmore, Angelo Spizzirri, Cheech Marin, Hugh Bonneville, Ian Gomez, Kelly Hu, Brandy Heidrick, Johnny Lewis
Underachieving LAPD bicycle cop Tracy Stokes (Nick Cannon) goes undercover at the elite Westbury School to investigate a student's murder that is tied to a stolen-car ring.
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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. 3 Needles (2005)
2. Cadet Kelly (2002)
3. The Quiet (2006)
4. The Ruins (2008)
5. Underclassman (2005)
6. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
7. X2 (2003)
aka: X2: X-Men United
aka: X-Men 2
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