In 2003, Dr. Serena Kogan (Helena Bonham Carter) of Cyberdyne Systems convinces death row inmate Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) to sign his body over for medical research following his execution by lethal injection. One year later, the Skynet system is activated, perceives humans as a threat to its own existence, and eradicates much of humanity in the event known as Judgment Day (see Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines). In 2018, John Connor (Christian Bale) leads an attack by the Resistance on a Skynet base. John discovers human prisoners and the plans for the development of a new type of Terminator incorporating living tissue, but is the only apparent survivor of the attack after the base is destroyed in a nuclear explosion. However, Marcus emerges from the wreckage of the base and proceeds on foot to Los Angeles.

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Watch Bangkok Adrenaline (2009) Online.
Director: Raimund Huber
Writers: Raimund Huber (written by), Conan Stevens (screenplay)
Release Date: 14 May 2009 (Thailand)
Genre: Action, Comedy

Actors: Daniel O’Neill, Priya Suandokemai, Gwion Jacob Miles, Conan Stevens, Raimund Huber, Geoffrey Giuliano, Dom Hetrakul

Plot: Four backpackers arrive in Thailand to party and drink. A gambling game goes wrong and with their lives on the line they desperately decide to kidnap a billionaires daughter. Things go wrong when her ‘father’ doesn’t play ball and prefers to use the kidnapping to further his own interests.

PLOT

The story takes place 25 years after the original Knight Rider series. Mike Traceur (who later changes his name to Michael Knight), son of the original Michael Knight, has become the driver of the next generation KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand), now a Ford Shelby GT500KR Mustang. Along with a former girlfriend Sarah Graiman, the daughter of the scientist Charles Graiman who designed both KITTs, Mike becomes the new champion of Knight Industries, a high tech government and law enforcement contractor. In the episode, Day Turns Into Knight, Dr. Graiman dies due to an apparent explosion on a damaged aircraft, and Agent Rivai is seriously injured and forced not to continue on as the team’s FBI agent. During the episode, Knight to King’s Pawn, the NSA shuts down the SSC due to Dr. Graiman’s death, and Agent Torres deactivates KITT in order to reactivate KARR. Torres believed that KITT’s programming would be able to override KARR’s inherent self-preservation protocols to save human lives instead of harming them. In holographic messages to Mike and Sarah, Dr. Graiman reveals this had always been Agent Torres’s plan for KITT and that he had opposed him. Mike is told that he was KARR’s original driver and that his mind was wiped in the wake of the project’s failure. The team find KITT’s AI stored online and attempt to rebuild it. Mike then infiltrates Area 51 to install the new KITT AI chip into his confiscated Mustang shell. As Mike and KITT flee, KARR discovers that KITT has been reactivated and overcomes KITT’s protocols, taking Torres as a hostage/driver. KITT is able to destroy KARR but Agent Torres dies shortly therafter. Sarah discovers that her father had left all of the SSC’s funding in her name. Sarah, Mike, Zoe, and Billy use that funding to restart the Foundation for Law and Government (FLAG) and continue on its original mission.

Knight Industries Three Thousand (K.I.T.T.)

For the series premiere, many new features in KITT were introduced in addition to those seen on the pilot movie. As an homage to the original KITT’s Super Pursuit Mode, the new KITT transforms into Attack Mode – a significantly more aggressive version than the Attack Mode depicted in the pilot movie, which consisted primarily of an extended rear spoiler. KITT also transforms into a Ford F-150 FX4 pickup truck for off-road purposes, a Ford E-150 van, Ford Flex, Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, and a 1969 Mach 1 Mustang for disguise purposes. The series also demonstrated capabilities such as KITT’s Turbo Boost, allowing KITT to briefly become airborne, and submergibility, maintaining system integrity and life support for occupants while underwater. Also installed in KITT are a grappling hook, a laser that originates from his scanner bar, double miniguns, defensive flares, offensive missiles, a dart gun, a sonic inhibitor and an EMP Weapon.

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Watch Beeswax (2009) Online.
Director: Andrew Bujalski
Writer: Andrew Bujalski
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Actors: Tilly Hatcher, Maggie Hatcher, Alex Karpovsky, Katy O’Connor, David Zellner, Kyle Henry, S.J. Anderson,

Plot: A pair of identical twin sisters — one, who has been paraplegic since youth and gets around in a wheelchair, and the other — ‘same face, different bodies.

Watch City Rats (2009) Online. Life isn’t like it is in the movies…
Director: Steve Kelly
Writer: Simon Fantauzzo
Release Date: 24 April 2009 (UK)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Actors: Tamer Hassan, Danny Dyer, Ray Panthaki, Susan Lynch, Kenny Doughty, James Lance, MyAnna Buring,

Plot: Eight lost souls search for solutions to problems ranging from finding a better suicide method, to defeating creative block, to losing their virginity.

Watch Reclaiming the Blade (2009) Online. In a confusing and ambiguous world, nothing makes more sense than a good, old-fashioned sword fight.
Director: Daniel McNicoll
Writer: Daniel McNicoll
Release Date: 15 April 2009 (USA)
Genre: Documentary

Actors: Viggo Mortensen , Karl Urban, John Rhys-Davies, Richard Taylor, Bob Anderson, John Howe, Matt Easton, Fabrice Cognot,
Gordon Hart

Plot: The Medieval and Renaissance blade, a profound and beautiful object handcrafted by master artisans of old. An object of great complexity, yet one with a singular use in mind- it is designed to kill. The truth of the sword has been shrouded in antiquity, and the Renaissance martial arts that brought it to being are long forgotten. The ancient practitioners lent us all they knew through their manuscripts. As gunslingers of the Renaissance they were western heroes with swords, and they lived and died by them. Yet today their history remains cloaked under a shadow of legend.