271. Predator
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John McTiernan
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landham, R.G. Armstrong, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo
Plot: A group of Commandos are sent to a Central American region where they are supposed to fight hoodlums and thieves when a transparent killer shows up to teach them a lesson.
272. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guy Ritchie
Actors: Nick Moran, Dexter Fletcher, Jason Flemyng, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Nicholas Rowe
Plot: A group of working class men put their money together for high rolling card game, but when they loose it all, they only have one week to pay it back or else.
273. Groundhog Day
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Harold Ramis
Actors: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-Murray, Marita Geraghty
Plot: A bored weatherman is sent to cover the ground hog and his shadow on Groundhog Day, only to discover that the same day repeats itself, no matter what he does.
274. Moonlight
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Barry Jenkins
Actors: Naomie Harris, Mahershala Ali, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders
Plot: Follows the life of Kevin from childhood, to adolescents to adulthood as he grows up in the drug-plagued inner-city Miami as he looks to rise above the violence and gangs to find love and change within himself.
275. 28 Days Later
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny Boyle
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston
Plot: An animal right's group accidentally releases a virus that turns England's
population into rage-infested zombies. Only a few humans remain to fight
off the flesh-hungry hoard.
276. Wreck-It Ralph
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Rich Moore
Actors: John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Sarah Silverman, Jane Lynch, Alan Tudyk, Adam Carolla
Plot: An 8-bit bad guy longs to be the hero, so to earn the medal he rightfully deserves, he game jumps to the new first-person shooter Heroes Duty but just when success is at hand, he wrecks things and winds up in the candy-coated racing game sugar rush where he reluctantly teams up with glitch named Vanellope and finds out being a true hero means a lot more than just having a medal.
277. Hell or High Water
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Mackenzie
Actors: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Katy Mixon, Kevin Rankin, Gil Birmingham
Plot: With the family ranch on the line, two brothers decide to rob the very
banks looking to foreclose on their homes. Taking only small bills and
using a nearby casino to change out the money, they have a few days to
complete the task. A Texas Ranger nearing retirement takes up the case but
as both near the end point, more than money is put on the line.
278. The Holdovers
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alexander Payne
Actors: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Tate Donovan, Carrie Preston, Michael Provost
279. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin McDonagh
Actors: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage, Caleb Landry Jones, Abbie Cornish
Plot: In this darkly comic tale a mother, who is frustrated at the lack of progress following the murder of her daughters months earlier, buys and posts three messages in billboards leading in to town, pointed directly at the well-liked chief of police. When other disparate characters begin to get involved in the proceedings, the grieving mother and Ebbing Police Department really get into it.
280. Skyfall
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sam Mendes
Actors: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Rhys Ifans, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes
Plot: Loyalties will be tested as M finds herself at the mercy of part of her past she had thought was done for good. With M16 coming under attack, Bond will have to track down and eliminate the threat, no matter how it may affect his personal relationships.
