Tuesday, September 25, 2007

RESIDENT EVIL EXTINCTION

Alice, now in hiding in the Nevada desert, once again joins forces with Carlos Olivera and L.J., along with new survivors Claire, K-Mart and Nurse Betty to try to eliminate the deadly virus that threatens to make every human being undead and to seek justice. Since being captured by the Umbrella Corporation, Alice has been subjected to biogenic experimentation and becomes genetically altered, with super-human strengths, senses and dexterity. These skills, and more, will be needed if anyone is to remain alive.




Genres : Action, Horror, Adaptation and Sequel
Players : Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Mike Epps, Iain Glen, Ali Larter
Directed by: Russell Mulcahy
Production Company : Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Releasing
Duration : 1 hour 35 minute

INFAMOUS

What starts out as the irreverent journey of the openly gay writer Truman Capote to the middle-class world of 1950's Kansas, where he goes--with his childhood friend Harper Lee--to research the murder of the Clutter family, turns to something altogether darker when Capote forms an intense and complex relationship with one of the murderers. In doing so, he produced his greatest work, "In Cold Blood," but at a devastating personal cost.



Genres : Drama, Adaptation and Biopic
Players : Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels
Directed by: Doug McGrath, Dogulas McGrath
Production Company : Warner Independent Pictures
Duration : 1 hour 58 minute

Friday, September 14, 2007

SILK

In the mid 19th century, a silkworm merchant travels from France to Japan to locate silkworm eggs that are uncontaminated by the epidemic that threatens Europe's silk supply. The merchant falls in love with the occidental concubine of a Japanese baron, though he has a loyal and doting wife awaiting his return.




Genres : Drama, Romance and Adaptation
Players : Keira Knightley, Alfred Molina, Michael Pitt, Koji Yakusho, Sei Ashina
Directed by: Francois Girard
Production Company : Picturehouse, New Line International
Duration : 1 hour 33 minute

KING OF CALIFORNIA

At the age of sixteen, Miranda has already had to live with her share of disappointments. Abandoned by her mother, she's dropped out of school and has been supporting herself as an employee at McDonald's while her father Charlie resides in a mental institution. When Charlie is released and sent back to their home, Miranda finds the relatively peaceful existence she's built for herself completely disrupted. Charlie has become obsessed with the notion that the long-lost treasure of Spanish explorer Father Juan Florismarte Garces is buried somewhere near their suburban California housing unit. Armed with a metal detector and a stack of treasure-hunting books, Charlie soon finds reason to believe that the gold resides underneath the local Costco, and encourages Miranda to get a job there so that they can plan a way to excavate after hours.

Genres : Comedy
Players : Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood, Greg Davis Jr, Angel Oquendo, Willis Burks II
Directed by: Michael Cahill (II)
Production Company : First Look Pictures
Duration : 1 hour 33 minute

IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH

The story of a war veteran (Tommy Lee Jones), his wife (Susan Sarandon) and the search for their son, a soldier who recently returned from Iraq but has mysteriously gone missing, and the police detective (Charlize Theron) who helps in the investigation.





Genres : Drama, Thriller and Adaptation
Players : Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Jason Patric, Susan Sarandon, Jonathan Tucker
Directed by: Paul Haggis
Production Company : Warner Independent Pictures
Duration : 2 hour

GREAT WORLD OF SOUND

Martin answers an ad to train as a record producer, where he's excited by the prospect of signing undiscovered artists. The company, called Great World of Sound, partners shy, unassuming Martin with the gregarious Clarence and sends them on the road, visiting southern towns where the company has placed newspaper ads, and turning motels into makeshift audition studios. Though an unlikely duo, they sign more acts than anyone else at the company. But when Martin takes a special interest in a young girl's "New National Anthem," putting up his own money and following her progress, he discovers that something's amiss with the enterprise. As things threaten to unravel, he's forced to weigh his nagging conscience against both his loyalty to Clarence and his own financial ruin.

Genres : Comedy, Drama and Musical/Performing Arts
Players : Pat Healy, Kene Holliday, Barlow Jacobs, Carver Johns, Robert Longstreet
Directed by: Craig Zobel
Production Company : Magnolia Pictures
Duration : 1 hour 46 minute

DESEMBER BOYS

A story of four orphan teenagers growing up behind the closed doors of a catholic convent in outback Australia. For years the boys watch the younger orphaned kids leave with their newly adopted parents, and have finally come to the realization their time may never come. The Reverend Mother gives the boys something to look forward to by sending them to visit the seaside for the first time. Their long awaited vacation doesn't turn out the way they planned until they meet Teresa and Fearless, a young autocratic couple who would make the perfect parents. Now as grown men, they reflect back on the '60s when, as boys, they spent their first tumultuous summer by the sea, as they sabotaged each other's efforts to be the 'chosen one'--only to discover that the real meaning behind what it is to be a family.

Genres : Art, Drama, Family and Adaptation
Players : Daniel Radcliffe, Teresa Palmer, Christian Byers, Lee Cormie, James Fraser
Directed by: Rod Hardy, Chris Langman (II), Ric Beecroft
Production Company : Warner Independent Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures International
Duration : 1 hour 45 minute

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

A romantic musical told mainly through numerous Beatles songs performed by the characters. A young man from Liverpool comes to America during the Vietnam War to find his father. He winds up in Greenwich Village, where he falls in love with an American girl who has grown up sheltered in the suburbs. Together they experience the sweeping changes of America in the late 60's.


Genres : Musical and Romance
Players : Evan Rachel Wood, T.V. Carpio, Martin Luther, Dana Fuchs, Jim Sturgess
Directed by: Julie Taymor
Production Company : Sony Pictures Releasing
Duration : 2 hour 13 minute

THE MESSENGERS

After having problems in Chicago, the Solomon family moves to a remote North Dakota farmhouse to start anew, but their attempts at an idyllic farming life is disrupted when their teen daughter Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her 3-year-old brother Ben start seeing and being attacked by supernatural beings who won't allow them to live in peace.




Genres : Science Fiction and Horror
Players : Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett, Dustin Milligan
Directed by: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Production Company : Sony Pictures Releasing
Duration : 1 hour 24 minute

Saturday, September 8, 2007

HIGHLANDER : THE SOURCE

The world is falling into chaos. As he roams a crumbling city, Duncan McLeod the Highlander, remembers happier times before the love of his life left.
Hopeless and alone, MacLeod finds his way to a band of immortal companions, including his mysterious friend Methos, and a mortal, Watcher Joe Dawson. Together this small group sets out on a quest to find the origin of the first Immortal and The Source of their immortality.

Genres : Action/fantasy
Players : Adrian Paul, Thekla Reuten, Jim Bynes, Peter Wingfield, Cristian Solimeno
Directed by: Brett Leonard
Production Company : Lionsgate Films
Duration : 1 hour 42 minute

FLAWLESS

In 1960's London, a janitor who dreams of liberating his employers of their inventory, finds an accomplice in an American executive who's stymied by the old boys' network.








Genres : Drama and Crime
Players : Michael Caine, Demi Moore, Lambert Wilson, Joss Ackland, Constantine Gregory
Directed by: Michael Radford
Production Company : Magnolia Pictures
Duration : 1 hour 40 minute

THE CONDEMNED

A select group of death row inmates are offered the opportunity to compete in a deadly game on an abandoned island for one week. The winner of the game will have his or her sentence dropped down to life imprisonment and avoid execution.






Genres : Action, Drama and Thriller
Players : Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones, Trent Sullivan, Rick Hoffman, Nathan Jones
Directed by: Scott Wiper (II)
Production Company : Lionsgate
Duration : 1 hour 53 minute

ALEX RIDER : OPERATION STORMBREAKER

Alex is a normal teenager who lives with his uncle, a boring bank manager, or so it seems until his uncle, Ian Rider, dispapears under mysterious circumstances. Alex soon learns that his uncle was a spy for Britain's secret intelligence service M16.
Within days he's gone from schoolboy to super spy, but will his first assisgnment be his last?



Genres : Action
Players : Alex Pettyfer, Ewan Mcgregor, Robbie Coltrane, Mickey Rourke, Bill Nighy
Directed by: Geoffrey Sax
Production Company : The Weistein Company
Duration : 1 hour 33 minute

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

MR. WOODCOCK

John Farley, author of a best-selling self-help book about letting go of the past, violates his own advice when he returns to his small hometown to receive the community's highest honor. While there, John learns, to his horror, that his widowed mother, Beverly, is engaged to be married to none other than Mr. Woodcock, the gym teacher whose sadistic exploits were the bane of John's youth. Abetted by his nerdy old pal, Nedderman, John plots to break-up the relationship. But their well-laid plans go awry.



Genres : Comedy
Players : Billy Bob Thornton, Seann William Scott, Susan Sarandon, Kurt Fuller, Amy Poehler
Directed by: Craig Gillespie
Production Company : Landscape Entertainment

EASTERN PROMISES

The mysterious and ruthless Nikolai is tied to one of London's most notorious organized crime families. His carefully maintained existence is jarred when he crosses paths with Anna, an innocent midwife trying to right a wrong, who accidentally uncovers potential evidence against the family. Now Nikolai must put into motion a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution.


Genres : Drama, Thriller and Crime
Players : Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinead Cusack
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Production Company : Kudos Film & Television, Serendipity Point Films, BBC Films, Celador Productions
Duration : 1 hour 40 minute

DRAGON WAR

A beautiful young woman possesses the power to transform a legendary giant serpent into an almighty dragon who can only ascend into heaven with the woman's ultimate sacrifice. But the forces of darkness are out to claim the young woman as their own and her reincarnated lover and his aged mentor stand in their way.




Genres : Action, Art, Drama and Science Fiction
Players : Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster, Chris Mulkey, Elizabeth Peña
Directed by: Hyung-rae Shim
Production Company : Young Gu Art Entertainment
Duration : 1 hour 40 minute

THE BRAVE ONE

New York radio host Erica Bain has a life that she loves and a fiancé she adores. All of it is taken from her when a brutal attack leaves Erica badly wounded and her fiancé dead. Unable to move past the tragedy, Erica begins prowling the city streets at night to track down the men she holds responsible. Her dark pursuit of justice catches the public's attention, and the city is riveted by her anonymous exploits. But with the NYPD desperate to find the culprit and a dogged police detective hot on her trail, she must decide whether her quest for revenge is truly the right path, or if she is becoming the very thing she is trying to stop.


Genres : Action and Thriller
Players : Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Naveen Andrews, Mary Steenburgen, Jane Adams
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Production Company : Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Duration : 1 hour 59 minute

ROGUE ASSASSIN

After his partner is brutally murdered by the infamous assassin Rogue, FBI agent Jack Crawford vows to find the elusive killer and personally avenge his partner's death. But Rogue proves untraceable until three years later when he resurfaces to ignite a bloody turf war between Chinese mob leader Chang and Japanese Yakuza boss Shiro. Eager to capture Rogue once and for all, Crawford leads his team of crime specialists headlong into the conflict. But Crawford's thirst for vengeance jeopardizes his professional judgment, and as the violence escalates, Crawford finally comes face to face with his enemy to discover that nothing about Rogue or his plan is quite what it seems.

Genres : Action, Thriller and Crime
Players : Jet Li, Jason Statham, Devon Aoki, Nicholas Elia, Luis Guzman
Directed by: Philip G. Atwell
Production Company : Lionsgate
Duration : 1 hour 31 minute

HALLOWEEN

A new take on the legend and a new chapter in the Michael Myers "Halloween" saga.










Genres : Horror, Remake and Sequel
Players : Daeg Faerch, Danielle Harris, Malcolm McDowell, Danny Trejo, Sheri Moon
Directed by: Rob Zombie
Production Company : Trancas International Films, Inc.
Duration : 1 hour 49 minute