Prisoners - The Plot

Keller Dover ( Hugh Jackman ), a deeply religious man who runs a failing carpentry business, attends a Thanksgiving dinner with his family at the house of their neighbors, the Birches. After dinner, the families' young daughters, Anna Dover and Joy Birch, go missing. After a police hunt, an RV that had been parked in the neighborhood is found outside a gas station next to a wooded area. When Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) goes to confront the RV's driver, Alex Jones (Paul Dano), Alex tries to speed away and crashes into the trees.

Alex is released due to lack of evidence. Keller, who was convinced that Alex knows where the girls are, becomes disillusioned and decides to take matters into his own hands by abducting and imprisoning Alex in an abandoned, run-down apartment building owned by Keller. With the reluctant help of Joy's father, Franklin Birch (Terrence Howard), Keller repeatedly beats Alex for days for information. Overcome with guilt, Franklin tells his wife Nancy (Viola Davis) what they have done and brings her to see Alex. The Birches eventually decide to let Keller continue the torture, neither helping nor interfering. After Alex mentions escaping from a maze, Keller visits Alex's aunt, Holly Jones (Melissa Leo), to gauge her reaction when he mentions mazes.

Loki confronts a suspect named Bob Taylor (David Dastmalchian) at his home and finds that the walls are covered in drawings of intricate mazes. In a back room, locked crates filled with maze books, snakes, and bloody children's clothing are discovered. In custody, Taylor manages to grab a gun and commits suicide. Taylor is revealed to have faked the killings; the blood on the children's clothes is pig's blood and the clothing had been stolen after the abduction.

Days later, Joy Birch is found drugged and is hospitalized, but Anna is still missing. In her drugged state, Joy rambles that Keller was there. Keller rushes off as Loki chases him. Loki loses him, but heads toward the apartment complex and discovers the imprisoned Alex. Keller goes to Holly's, realizing that is where Joy had heard him. Holly holds Keller at gunpoint, drugs him, and imprisons him in a hidden pit. She reveals that she was responsible for the abduction of the girls and, with her husband, for several others before, including Bob Taylor. Alex was the first child they abducted.

Loki goes to Holly's house to tell her about Alex being found. He discovers Anna and is wounded by Holly, whom he kills. He rushes Anna to the hospital where she recovers. Later on alone at the Jones residence, Loki hears the faint sound of Keller blowing a whistle in the hidden pit and turns around to investigate.

RUSH ( 2013 ) - Based On True Story

Set against the sexy and glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing, Rush portrays the exhilarating true story of two of the greatest rivals the world has ever witnessed—handsome English playboy James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and his methodical, brilliant opponent, Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl). Taking us into their personal lives on and off the track, Rush follows the two drivers as they push themselves to the breaking point of physical and psychological endurance, where there is no shortcut to victory and no margin for error. If you make one mistake, you die. 

 Based on the true story of a great sporting rivalry between handsome English playboy James Hunt (Hemsworth), and his methodical, brilliant opponent Niki Lauda, (Bruhl). The story follows their distinctly different personal styles on and off the track, their loves and the astonishing 1976 season in which both drivers were willing to risk everything to become world champion in a sport with no margin for error: if you make a mistake, you die. 

Focuses on the British Formula One driver James Hunt and his rivalry with Niki Lauda for Formula One circuit dominance in the 1970s. 

   

 RUSH ( 2013 ) Everyone's driven by something.
Billed as a "re-creation of the merciless 1970s rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda."

Studio/Distributor:	Universal Pictures
Production Companies:	Imagine Entertaiantment Working Title Films Cross Creek Pictures

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 picks up where Sony Pictures Animation's hit comedy left off. Inventor Flint Lockwood's genius is finally being recognized as he's invited by his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, where the best and brightest inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. Chester's right-hand-gal - and one of his greatest inventions - is Barb (a highly evolved orangutan with a human brain, who is also devious, manipulative and likes to wear lipstick). It's always been Flint's dream to be recognized as a great inventor, but everything changes when he discovers that his most infamous machine (which turns water into food) is still operating and is now creating food-animal hybrids - "foodimals!" With the fate of humanity in his hands, Chester sends Flint and his friends on a dangerously delicious mission, battling hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, apple pie-thons, double bacon cheespiders and other food creatures to save the world again!

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 - plot

After Flint Lockwood and his friends save the world from the food storm, super-inventor Chester V, the CEO of Live Corp, is tasked to clean the island. He relocates Flint, his friends, and the citizens of Swallow Falls to San Franjose, California. Unbeknownst to Flint, the FLDSMDFR survived the explosion and landed in the center of the island, and Chester is determined to find it. Chester invites Flint, his biggest fan, to work at Live Corp, where he meets Chester's assistant Barb, a talking orangutan with a human brain. Six months later, Flint humiliates himself during a promotion ceremony when his invention "Party-In-A-Box" explodes. Meanwhile, Chester is informed that his search-parties on the island have been attacked by monstrous cheeseburgers which are learning how to swim. Fearing the world's inevitable doom, Chester tasks Flint to find the FLDSMDFR and destroy it once and for all. Despite Chester's demands to keep the mission classified, Flint recruits his girlfriend and meteorologist Sam Sparks, her cameraman Manny, police officer Earl Devereaux, and "Chicken" Brent. Much to Flint's dismay, his father Tim joins the crew and they travel to Swallow Falls on his fishing boat.

When arriving, they notice that a jungle-like environment has overgrown the island. Tim stays behind while Flint and the others investigate, finding a vast habitat of living food animals. Tim, searching for food at his abandoned tackle shop, encounters a family of humanoid pickles and bonds with them by fishing. Chester discovers that Flint allowed his friends to join on the mission and arrives on the island with Barb, chagrined and determined to separate them. After escaping a Tacodile attack, Sam notices that the foodimal was protecting its family, and begins to suspect Chester is up to no good. Flint finds his former lab and invents a device that can track the FLDSMDFR. Sam attempts to convince Flint to spare the foodimals, but Flint is intent on making Chester proud. Sam leaves in anger, along with the others (including his pet monkey Steve). In the jungle, Sam proves that the foodimals mean no harm by taming a Cheespider. Upon realizing Chester's intentions, the group is taken hostage by Live Corp employees.

Flint finds the FLDSMDFR, but notices a family of cute marshmallows and becomes hesitant to destroy the machine. Chester immediately seizes control of the FLDSMDFR and announces his plot to make his updated line of candy bars out of the foodimals. A crushed Flint is tossed into the river but rescued by the marshmallows. Flint is taken to his father, who along with the foodimals, help him infiltrate the Live Corp building that is under construction on the island. Flint frees the trapped Foodimals and confronts Chester, who threatens to make candy bars out of his friends. Chester makes several holograms of himself to overwhelm Flint, but Flint uses the "Party-In-A-Box" to expose the real Chester. An army of Foodimals arrive and Flint's friends are freed by Barb, having a change of heart. Chester tries to make off with the FLDSMDFR, but is eaten by a Cheespider. With the island safe from Chester, Flint returns the FLDSMDFR to its place and the foodimals continue to live in peace as more are born. Flint fishes with his father for the first time, finding it enjoyable. During a post-credits scene, Barb reveals to have a crush on Steve.

INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 2 - Behind The Scenes

Patrick Wilson is having a terrifyingly big year at the box office. First, the actor appeared as Ed Warren in the surprise blockbuster "The Conjuring," a terrifying tale of New England exorcism. The modestly budgeted horror film won critical acclaim and grossed over $135 million at the box office, making it one of the summer's biggest success stories.

Now Wilson's hoping to repeat that success with "Insidious: Chapter 2," the sequel to 2011's horror hit that pairs Wilson once again with "The Conjuring" and "Insidious" director James Wan. The sequel picks up where the first film's cliffhanger left off, with Wilson's character Josh Lambert not alone inside of his own body. Despite the similarities behind the scenes, Wilson believes his characters could not be more different.

"The fact that it's me and [director] James [Wan] and the same genre is about where the similarity [between 'The Conjuring' and 'Insidious: Chapter 2'] ends," reveals Wilson. "It's one thing when you're being possessed; it's another thing when you're trying to get rid of the possession."

One other thing that makes the two characters different? Wilson's "Conjuring" character was based on a real-life paranormal investigator. "They really couldn't be further apart, when you have one guy that's real, so you have whole books and photos and things you can look at to see, [and] tapes to listen to. That was a very sort of realistic approach. With ['Insidious: Chapter 2'], you can sort of take what's on the page and what my relationship is like [with Rose Byrne], and that drama, and see where that goes."

While Wilson's co-star Rose Byrne may not have as many hit horror films on her resumé, she revealed that she has the real-life chops to survive a terrifying experience. When asked what she would do if she heard a bump in her house similar to the kind other-dimensional visitors cause in "Insidious," Byrne told her own home invasion story.

"There was one time I could hear some rattling going around in my house when I was about 15, and I went upstairs and there was a guy trying to break in," said Byrne. "I was like, 'What are you doing?' Putting my hands on my [hips] in my pajamas. And he was like, [slurring] 'I just thought I was...' He was drunk! He was just trying to get into the house. I said, 'I'm going to call the police if you don't get out of here,' and I went back to bed... I lie awake and I could hear him go."

Don't expect to get a story as neat and pat as Byrne's in "Insidious: Chapter 2," though. Wilson revealed that fans who've enjoyed the first film's disturbing take on classic Hollywood haunting films had better prepare themselves for something different in this film.

"I think with this one also, we get into such a fantasy element, which is what this movie does more so than the first one," explained Wilson. "It really pushes that, which is good, which is what you should do. You should push the envelope."

"The Conjuring" Behind The Story

Since it opened July 19, James Wan's paranormal thriller The Conjuring has been scaring both moviegoers and its box-office competition with a hefty $112 million gross. Made on a relatively thrifty budget of $20 million, The Conjuring outgrossed its far more expensive rivals like R.I.P.D. and Turbo on a marketing campaign that can be boiled down to five words: "Based on a true story." It's a familiar promise to horror fans, who have been inundated with ghost stories making similar claims to veracity. But how much truth can there really be in stories about poltergeists and demonic possessions? Here, we fact-check The Conjuring. THE MOVIE A family is beset by a series of wrathful wraiths after they move into a colonial farmhouse. When the ghosts begin to target their young daughters, they hire a pair of paranormal investigators to end the haunting once and for all. THE TRUE STORY The Conjuring's poster boldly proclaims that it's "based on the true case files of the Warrens." So who are the Warrens, anyway? The real-life couple, Ed and Lorraine (played in the film by Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson), were American paranormal investigators that founded the New England Society for Psychic Research in 1952. The Warrens' 10,000-plus career cases include the alleged haunting depicted in The Conjuring. In 1971, Roger and Carolyn Perron moved into a colonial farmhouse in Harrisville, R.I., with their five daughters, and quickly began experiencing what they described as both haunting and spiritual possessions. They invited the Warrens to the farmhouse to investigate.

 Over the nine years they lived in the house, the Perrons described spirits, both harmless and angry, that "stunk of rotting flesh" and routinely arrived at 5:15 a.m. to levitate their beds. So how much of that is true? The real-life Perron family swears by their story, throwing their full weight behind the film and even appearing in some of The Conjuring's marketing materials. "Because I was the youngest and the most vulnerable, I was approached more than anyone, and I actually had a relationship with that [ghostly] boy," said April Perron in a trailer promoting the film. Of course, there are plenty of people who doubt the story. Steven Novella, the president of the New England Skeptical Society, told USA Today that "there is absolutely no reason to believe there is any legitimacy" to the Warrens' reports on the Perron haunting—or, for that matter, to any of the Warrens' cases. The Conjuring "is a fair reflection of the chaos and danger we faced at the farm," countered Andrea Perron. "There are liberties taken and a few discrepancies, but overall, it is what it claims to be—based on a true story, believe it or not .