The war between the Autobots and Decepticons brings destruction down on planet Earth. A long time ago, on the planet of Cybertron, a hugely powerful alien race divided into two factions, the noble Autobots, and the devious Decepticons. Both groups intended to get sole access to the Allspark, a cube with the ability to give infinite power. The Autobots managed to smuggle it off the planet’s surface and hid it in a secrete location on Earth. The film is set hundreds of years later when the Deceptacons have come to Earth to look for it. The problem is that if the Autobots don’t find it before the Deceptacons, Earth will face destruction when the evil aliens’ use of the Allspark’s massive power. However, the Autobots have no idea where the cube was hidden. It turns out that a man named Sam Witwicky has a strange connection to the Allspark’s history and the Allspark’s whereabouts, making him the unlikely ally of these enormous creatures, as they fight for mankind’s survival and the chance to return home.

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Director: Michael Bay
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Tom DeSanto, Don Murphy
Year: 2007 Studio: DreamWorks Pictures
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Jon Voight
Running Time: 144 minutes

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry, Ron and Hermione begin their fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The wizarding community has dismissed Harry’s and Albus Dumbledore’s claims that Lord Voldemort has regained a body and been restored to his full power. They are instead being influenced by the stories written by The Daily Prophet and the total ignorance of the issue by Cornelius Fudge the Minister of Magic . A new Hogwarts Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher is chosen: Dolores Umbridge. She steadily tries to take over Hogwarts. Harry, Ron and Hermione immediately distrust the new teacher, because she forbits them to talk about the return of Voldemort. Out of this situation Harry establishes an ‘after-school-club’ which he calls: Dumbledore’s Army, which aims to prepare twenty-seven students for a potential battle with Voldemort.

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Director: David Yates
Producer: David Heyman, David Barron
Year: 2007
Studio: Warner Bros.
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman
Running Time: 138 minutes

Hairspray

The film is set early 1960s Baltimore and follows the story of chubby teenager Tracy Turnblad, who is obsessed with dancing. She dreams of appearing on the TV dance show The Corny Collins Show. The only problem is that she does not fit in as well as other people due to her larger body shape. But neither this fact, nor her mother’s opinion can stop Tracy. She is convinced that she can dance and is determined to prove everyone wrong. After an impressive performance at her high school dance, Tracy manages to win a spot on the show and becomes an instant sucess story This does not go down well with the show’s previous winner Amber von Tussle and her mother Velma who runs the WYZT television station. What makes things even worse is that Tracy does not only seem popular with the audience but also Amber’s boyfriend Link Larkin. As a result, the dance party tuns into a bitter battle as the two girls compete for the title ‘Miss Teenage Hairspray 1963′ However there is another twist to the stroy as a friend’s relationship opens Tracy’s eyes to a bigger issue: racial inequality. resulting from this Tracy leads a march to fight for integration and ends up with an arrest warrant. She thengoes on the run and is forced to hide in a friend’s basement.

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Director: Adam Shankman
Producer: Craig Zadan, Neil Meron
Year: 2007
Studio: New Line Cinema
Cast: John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah
Running Time: 117 minutes

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is the sequel to Fantastic Four (2005) . Both movies are based on the Marvel comic book with the same title. The movie follows Marvel’s first superhero family, The Fantastic Four. In this movie the Fantastic Four meet their biggest challenge yet as The Silver Surfer, comes to Earth with the intend to destroy it. As the Silver Surfer races around the globe causing trouble, Johnny, Reed, Sue and Ben must solve the mystery of the Silver Surfer and fight their mortal enemy, Dr. Doom, before it is too late.

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Director: Tim Story
Producer: Marvel Enterprises
Year: 2007 Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans, Doug Jones, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington
Running Time: 94 minutes

Shrek The Third

When Fiona’s father, King Harold, falls ill her husband Shrek is considered to be the rightful heir to the land of Far, Far Away. But because Shrek does not wish to give up his home the swamp, he gets his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots to recruit the rebellious Artie as the new king. Princess Fiona on the other hand calls together a band of royal girlfriends to fight off a coup d’etat by Prince Charming.

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Director: Chris Miller
Producer: Jeffrey Katzenberg, Aron Warner
Year: 2007 Studio: Warner Bros.
Cast: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews, John Cleese
Running Time: 92 minutes

Oceans Thirteen

Oceans Thirteen follows on from Oceans Eleven and Oceans Twelve. In it the team seeks revenge for their friend Rueben against the hotel / casino tycoon Willie Bank. Rueben is in critical condition after Willie Bank informs him that he will no longer be a part of the biggest and newest casino which is to open in Las Vegas. Ocean and his team are determined to seek revenge by trying to publicly humiliate Bank and tarnish his, up to now, spotless reputation. As well as this the team also plan to steal Bank’s well protected diamonds worth millions of dollars. It’s not an easy operation and requires skills and wit. This film is definitely entertaining, funny and full of excitement. I would surely recommend it to anyone that has enjoyed the the previous two films.

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Director: Steven Soderbergh
Producer: Jerry Weintraub
Year: 2007 Studio: Warner Bros.
Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Scott Caan
Running Time: 122 minutes

Cité des enfants perdus, La - The City of Lost Children (1995)

This film is a visual masterpiece with the costumes designed by Jean Paul Gaultier. The plot is very surreal and at times hard to follow but it suits this dark fairytale.
Crackpot scientist Krank is incapable of dreaming so abducts young children and tries to steal their dreams to stop and reverse his accelerated aging process. Krank kidnaps Denree, the younger brother of former circus strongman One who teams up with a young street urchin to get him back from the deranged Krank and his armies of clones and cyborg killers.
An almost indescribably beautiful film and easily the finest fantasy to come out of France in the 1990s. Crammed to the brim with grotesque characters, stunning production designs and off-the-wall plot twists, La cité des enfants perdus is a more than worthy successor to the directors’ manic Delicatessen and, in its haunting, surrealist imagery, it rivals anything done by Terry Gilliam and David Lynch. A work of genius.

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Directors: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Year: 1995
Cast: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Geneviève Brunet, Odile Mallet, Mireille Mossé, Serge Merlin