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February 2010

The Informant (undercover) Body of LiesBreach; The Departed; The Kindergarten Cop; Miami Vice; Big Momma’s House; Undercover Brother; Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous; The Fast and the Furious; Point Break; Face/Off; Bad Boys II; A Scanner Darkly; Never Been Kissed

Amelia (Biopics) The Aviator; Walk the Line; Amadeus; A Beautiful Mind; Erin Brockovich; Man on the Moon; Ray;The Doors; Frida; The Hurricane; Beyond the Sea; Elizabeth; La Vie en Rose; Pollack; Gandhi;

Love Happens (Romantic Dramas) The Time Traveler’s Wife; Adam; Just Like Heaven; Australia; Lucky You; The Last Kiss; The Notebook; Nights in Rodanthe; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; A Good Year; City of Angels; P.S. I Love You; The Lake House; Pride and Prejudice; Before Sunset; Before Sunset

January 2010

Fame (Dance Moves) A Chorus Line; Step Up; Flashdance; Save the Last Dance; Footloose; Saturday Night Fever; Staying Alive; Shall We Dance; Stomp the Yard; White Knights; Strictly Ballroom; Step Up 2 the Streets; Take the Lead

The Invention of Lying (Fantasy) Groundhog Day; Pleasantville; Stranger Than Fiction; Big Fish; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Bruce Almighty; Evan Almighty

Surrogates (In the Future) Blade Runner; The Matrix series; Children of Men; I, Robot;Terminator series; V For Vendetta; War, Inc; Escape from New York; Escape from L.A.; Waterworld; A Clockwork Orange; 12 Monkeys; Minority Report; Mad Max; Total Recall

December 2009

The Hangover (Las Vegas) What Happens In Vegas; Showgirls; Casino;Fear and Loathing in Vegas;
Leaving Las Vegas;The Cooler; 21;Ocean’s Eleven; Swingers; Vegas Vacation; Indecent Proposal; Bugsy

Julie and Julia (Food) No Reservations; Chocolat;The Joy Luck Club; Soul Food;
Pieces of April; Ratatouille; Like Water for Chocolate;Tortilla Soup;Waitress;My Big Fat Greek Wedding; Spanglish

Public Enemies (Bank Robbers) Bonnie and Clyde; The Italian Job; Point Break; Inside Man;
Thomas Crown Affair; The Ladykiller; The Good Thief; Thunderbolt and Lightfoot; Stir Crazy; The Heist; Die Hard with a Vengeance; Run Lola Run; Raising Arizona; Dog Day Afternoon

November 2009

The Ugly Truth (Independent Woman) Erin Brockovich; White Palace; The Brave One;The Devil Wears Prada; In Her Shoes; Million Dollar Baby; Mrs Henderson Presents; Places in the Heart; Against The Ropes; Mona Lisa Smile; Legally Blonde; GI Jane

My Sister’s Keeper (Tearjerkers) Terms of Endearment; Stepmom; Steel Magnolias; Pay It Forward; The Notebook; Million Dollar Baby; Message in a Bottle; Titanic; Forrest Gump; Sophie's Choice; Meet Joe Black; Philadelphia;The Color Purple.

The Taking of Pelham 123 (Hostages) Air Force One; Speed; Collateral; John Q; Misery; Phone Booth; The Negotiator; Hostage;The River Wild

October 2009

Orphan (Young & Evil) Joshua; The Exorcist; The Omen; Children of The Corn;The Unborn; The Good Son; Heathers; Carrie; The Shining; Firestarter; The Ring; The Grudge; Village of the Damned; The Twilight Zone: the Movie

Year One (Making Fun of History) Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Monty Python’s The Life of Brian; History of the World, Part 1;
O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Shakespeare in Love; Around the World in 80 Days; Blazing Saddles; Caveman

The Proposal (Unlikely Couples) Two Weeks Notice; Notting Hill; Romancing the Stone; You've Got Mail; Harold & Maude; Lars and the Real Girl; Splash; Knocked Up; Punch-Drunk Love; Maid in Manhattan; Hairspray; Six Days and Seven Nights; Yes Man

September 2009

State of Play (Political Intrigue) All the President's Men; All the King's Men; Manchurian Candidate;Three Days of the Condor; Missing; Syriana;The Interpreter;Clear and Present Danger; Vantage Point; Spy Game;The Devil’s Own;The Sum of all Fears; Enemy of the State
 
Observe and Report (Dark Comedy)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith; Burn after Reading; You Kill Me; Ice Harvest; Trainspotting; Pulp Fiction; Death at a Funeral;The Savages;Running with Scissors; The Ladykillers; Duplex;Secretary; Grosse Pointe Blank;The Cable Guy; Little Miss Sunshine

Dance Flick (Spoofs) Scary Movie series; Not Another Teen Movie; Young Frankenstein; Blazing Saddles;
Naked Gun series;Airplane series; Spinal Tap; Austin Powers series; Zoolander; Hot Shots; Reno 911!: Miami; Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story; Tropic Thunder; Spaceballs

August 2009

I Love You, Man (Male Bonding) Swingers; Sideways;The Darjeeling Limited; Wedding Crashers; Lethal Weapon; White Men Can’t Jump; Superbad; Hitch; Pineapple Express

The Soloist (Mental Illness) Michael Clayton; The Number 23; A Beautiful Mind; Girl Interrupted; Sybil; Fight Club;Hide and Seek;One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; One Hour Photo; The Aviator; Secret Window

Sunshine Cleaners (Dysfunctional Families) Little Miss Sunshine; The Royal Tenenbaums; The Virgin Suicides; Buffalo ’66; Rachel Getting Married; The Wrestler; The Secret Life of Bees; American Beauty; Home for the Holidays; Garden State; The Squid and the Whale; Life as a House; Ordinary People;Running with Scissors

July 2009

FAST AND FURIOUS (Car Chases) The French Connection; The Italian Job; Gone In 60 Seconds; The Bourne Identity; Smokey and the Bandit; Bullitt; Death Proof; Mad Max; Cannonball Run; The French Connection; The Blues Brothers; Thelma & Louise; Wanted

Knowing (Global Catastrophe) The Day After Tomorrow; The Happening; Transformers; Independence Day; War of the Worlds; The Day the Earth Stood Still; I Am Legend; Signs

The Haunting in Connecticut (Supernatural) The Exorcist; The Ring; The Sixth Sense; What Lies Beneath; The Blair Witch Project; The Ring; The Grudge; The Others; Poltergeist; The Omen; The Skeleton Key; Ghost Ship; The Fog; The Orphanage; Dark Water

June 2009

12 ROUNDS (Hostages)  Air Force One; Speed; Collateral; Die Hard; John Q.; Misery;
The Negotiator; Hostage; Inside Man; Cellular; Captivity; Firewall; The River Wild;
Phone Booth; Cadillac Man

He’s Just Not That Into You (Winning Someone Over) Hitch; Groundhog Day; What Women Want; As Good as It Gets; Something's Gotta Give; How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days; Failure to Launch; Love Actually; Doc Hollywood; 10 Things I Hate About You; 50 First Dates

DEFIANCE (The Holocaust) The Pianist; Schindler's List; Sophie's Choice; Life is Beautiful;
Boy In The Striped Pajamas; The Reader; Jakob the Liar; The Counterfeiters

May 2009

PAUL BLART (bumbling people in charge) Get Smart; Spies Like Us; Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector; Reno 911: Miami; National Security; Police Academy series; The Pink Panther series; Rush Hour series;The Naked Gun series

NEW IN TOWN (dislike turns to love) Knocked Up; As Good as it Gets;Sweet Home Alabama; 27 Dresses; Failure to Launch; Moonstruck; Fool’s Gold; What Happens In Vegas;You’ve Got Mail; Tin Cup;Ten Things I Hate About You How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days; Six Days, Seven Nights; Down with Love

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (romantic fantasy) Ghost; Groundhog Day; The Lakehouse; Prelude To A Kiss; Sliding Doors; Starman; Meet Joe Black; Forever Young; City Of Angels; Peggy Sue Got Married; Splash;Twilight

Apil 2009

DOUBT (Nuns and Priests) Lilies Of The Field; Sister Act; Sister Act 2; Dead Man Walking; The Da Vinci Code; The Omen; The Exorcist

BRIDE WARS (Wedding Nightmares) My Big Fat Greek Wedding; The Wedding Singer; Sex and the City; Runaway Bride; Sweet Home Alabama; My Best Friend's Wedding; What Happens in Vegas;27 Dresses; The Wedding Planner; Four Weddings and a Funeral; License to Wed

FROST/NIXON (Politics) Wag the Dog; All the King's Men; Primary Colors; Bulworth Man of the Year; Dr. Strangelove; Dave; JFK; The Contender

March 2009

TWILIGHT (Vampires) Interview with the Vampire; 30 Days of Night; Van Helsing; John Carpenter’s Vampires; Salem’s Lot; The Lost Boys; Blood and Chocolate; Blade series; Underworld series

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS (The Holocaust) Schindler's List; The Pianist; The Counterfeiters; Sophie's Choice; Life Is Beautiful; Jakob the Liar; Sunshine

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (India) Gandhi; Namesake; Bride and Prejudice; The Darjelling Limited; A Passage to India

CADILLAC RECORDS (Music Bios) Coal Miner's Daughter; Selena; Amadeus; What's Love Got to Do with It; Music of the Heart; La Bamba; The Doors; The Buddy Holly Story; Great Balls of Fire!; La Vie en Rose; El Cantante; Dreamgirls; Ray; Walk the Line; Beyond the Sea

February 2009

Nights in Rodanthe (Romance)  Failure to Launch; The Last Holiday; The Family Stone;  Elizabethtown; Must Love Dogs; Kate & Leopold; 50 First Dates; When Harry Met Sally; As Good As It Gets; Pretty Woman; Notting Hill; You’ve Got Mail; Bridget Jones’s Diary

Changeling (Missing Children) The  Deep End of the Ocean; Freedomland; Gone Baby Gone; Man on Fire; Trapped; Ransom;
 Raising Arizona

Body of Lies (Espionage) The Recruit; Traitor; The Good Shepherd; Swordfish; The Manchurian Candidate; Syriana

January 2009

The Rocker (Music Groups)  Rock Star; School of Rock; Almost Famous; This is Spinal Tap; The Blues Brothers; Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny; Once; Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story; Eddie and the Cruisers; That Thing You Do! Dreamgirls

The Express  (True Football) We Are Marshall; Friday Night Lights; Gridiron Gang; Brian's Song; Invincible; Rudy; Radio;  Remember the Titans
           
Appaloosa  (Westerns) Unforgiven; Open Range; Dances With Wolves; A Fistful of Dollars; For a Few Dollars More; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Young Guns; The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford; Silverado; 3:10 to Yuma; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

December 2008

MAMA MIA (Musicals)  Hairspray; Grease; Dreamgirls; Rent; Little Shop of Horrors; Chicago; West Side Story; Sweeney Todd; Across the Universe; The Producers; Phantom of the Opera; Moulin Rouge
 
STEP BROTHERS (Sibling Rivalries)  The Savages; The Darjeeling Limited;  Stuck on You; Adaptation; Atonement; In Her Shoes; The Other Boleyn Girl; Cruel Intentions; Raising Helen; Margot at the Wedding; Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
   
BURN AFTER READING  (Dark Comedies) School for Scoundrels;You Kill Me; Mr and Mrs Smith; Ice Harvest; Trainspotting; Little Miss Sunshine; Death To Smoochy; Death at a Funeral; Secretary; The Savages; Fargo; Running with Scissors; The Ladykillers; American Beauty; Gross Pointe Blank; The Cable Guy

November 2008

Get Smart (TV Shows) Charlie's Angels I, II; Mission: Impossible I, II, III; South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut; The Spongebob Squarepants Movie; Starsky and Hutch; The X-Files; The Avengers; The Beverly Hillbillies; Bewitched; The Fugitive; Miami Vice; The Twilight Zone: The Movie;The Wild Wild West; The Untouchables; The Mod Squad; S.W.A.T; The Dukes of Hazzard

Fred Claus (The Holidays) Elf; Home Alone; How the Grinch Stole Christmas; Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights; Bad Santa; Family Stone, The Nightmare Before Christmas; National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation; Scrooged; Jack Frost; Jingle All the Way; Planes, Trains & Automobiles; Home for the Holidays; The Polar Express; The Santa Clause I, II; Love Actually; A Christmas Story.

Transsiberian (Trains) Runaway Train; The Taking of Pelham One Two Three; Money Train; Polar Express; Planes, Trains & Automobiles; Silver Streak

October 2008

You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Hairdressers) Shampoo; Barber Shop 1, 2; Beauty Shop; Steel Magnolias; The Beautician and the Beast; Educating Rita

The Happening (strange occurrences) Signs; The Mist; The Fog; The Orphanage; An American Haunting; The Thing; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Poltergeist series series; White Noise;The Exorcist series; The Grudge

The Incredible Hulk (comic book characters) Iron Man; Batman series; Blade series; Daredevil series; Fantastic Four series; Spiderman series; Transformers; X-Men series; The Punisher; Hellboy; Ghost Rider

September 2008

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (relationship breakups) The Break-Up; High Fidelity; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; When Harry Met Sally; In Her Shoes; Annie Hall; My Super Ex-Girlfriend; Swingers.

Leatherheads (football)  We Are Marshall; Gridiron Gang; Remember the Titans; Friday Night Lights; Invincible; The Replacements; The Longest Yard; North Dallas Forty; Any Given Sunday; All The Right Moves; Semi-Tough; Black Sunday; The Game Plan; Radio; Wildcats.

Baby Mama (pregnancy) Waitress; Knocked Up; Juno; Children of Men; Father of the Bride II; Nine Months;  Riding in Cars With Boys; Saved!; She's Having a Baby; The Object Of My Affection.

August 2008

Prom Night (Teen Horror) Final Destination series; Halloween series; Scream series; Friday the 13th series; I Know What You Did Last Summer; I Still Know What You Did Last Summer; Urban Legend; The Faculty.

Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day (Woman Friends) Thelma & Louise; A League of Their Own; Steel Magnolias; Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood;
Beaches; First Wives Club; Fried Green Tomatoes; Mystic Pizza; The Sisterhood Traveling Pants; Waiting To Exhale.

Street Kings (Cops) Die Hard series; Lethal Weapon series; 48 Hours; Another 48 Hours; Beverly Hills Cop series; The Departed;Training Day; The French Connection I & II; SWAT; Fargo; L.A. Confidential; American Gangster.