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2008 Movie News & Reviews |
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Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, Blindsight
follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who
set out to climb the 23,000-foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side
of Mount Everest. The dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly
impossible challenge -- made all the more remarkable by the
fact that the teenagers are blind.
Set for limitted release: Friday 7th March 2008 IFC
Center, New York, NY Friday 14th March 2008 Landmark's
Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA/ Avalon Twin, Washington, DC/
Landmark's Ritz, Philadelphia, PA/ Starz Theater, Denver,
CO- Friday 21st March 2008 Harkin's Valley Art, Tempe,
AZ.
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7th |
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► Starring Raven and Martin Lawrence,
College Road Trip is about an overachieving high school
student and her overprotective cop father who travels around
the country trying to choose the perfect college.
► Snow Angels is based on Stewart O'Nan's novel
and features two stories of love and loss converging. One is
of a recently separated couple attempting to pick up the threads
of a future when faced with tragedy. The second is about an
awkward young man, currently in the throes of discovering his
first romance, forced to deal with the separation and subsequent
strife of his parents' relationship. Starring Sam Rockwell,
Kate Beckinsale, and Olivia Thirlby.
► Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Cooper,
and Rachel McAdams star in Married Life a 1940s-set drama
where an adulterous man plots his wife's death instead of putting
her through the humiliation of a divorce.
 ► Miss
Pettigrew Lives for a Day - A sophisticated and heartfelt
comedy. In the 1939-set romantic tale, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew
(Academy Award winner Frances McDormand), a middle-aged London
governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job.
An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous
world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and
singer, Delysia Lafosse (Academy Award nominee Amy Adams).
Within minutes, Miss Pettigrew finds herself swept into a
heady high-society milieu - and, by the end of the day, discovers
her own romantic destiny. Check out the trailer:
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► Bank Job -Inspired
by the infamous 1971 robbery that took place at the Lloyds
Bank in Marylebone London, Lionsgate The Bank Job stars Jason
Statham (Transporter, Snatch, Crank, Italian Job) and Saffron
Burrows (Klimt, Enigma). The highly-charged heist thriller
tautly interweaves high-level corruption, murder, and sexual
scandal in 1970s England.
► 10,000 B.C.
- From director Roland Emmerich comes a sweeping odyssey into
a mythical age of prophesies and gods, when spirits rule the
land and mighty mammoths shake the earth. In a remote mountain
tribe, the young hunter, D'Leh (Steven Strait), has found
his heart's passion - the beautiful Evolet (Camilla Belle).
When a band of mysterious warlords raid his village and kidnap
Evolet, D'Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters to
pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven
by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-tooth
tigers and prehistoric predators, and at their heroic journey's
end, they uncover a Lost Civilization. Their ultimate fate
lies in an empire beyond imagination, where great pyramids
reach into the skies. Here they will take their stand against
a powerful god who has brutally enslaved their people. |
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14th |
► Doomsday- A
deadly plague, known as the "Reaper Virus," has broken
out, killing hundreds of thousands in its wake. The British
Government evacuates as many survivors as it can out of the
infected area, and then builds a wall, preventing the remainder
from escaping. Thirty years later, the virus breaks out again,
and the Government decides to send a crack team of operatives
into the hot zone to investigate the possibility of a cure.
Starring Rhona Mitra and Malcolm McDowell.
► Funny Games - A family settles into
its vacation home, which happens to be the next stop for a pair
of young serial killers on an rampage through the neighborhood.
Starring Naomi Watts and Tim Roth.
► Never
Back Down - Set against the action-packed world of Mixed
Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler, a
tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart.
Jake Tyler, played by Sean Faris, is the new kid in town with
a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with
his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's
shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete
on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an
outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler.
► Sleepwalking, starring Charlize Theron,
Nick Stahl, and AnnaSophia Robb, is a road movie centered
around the tentative relationship between a young girl recently
abandoned by her mother and her uncle who receives a wake-up
call by her arrival.
► Based upon Dr Seuss's classic story, Horton
Hears a Who! is a new animated film featuring the voices
of Jim Carey, Steve Carell, and Seth Rogan. Horton the elephant
hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust which is home
to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees
to help protect the Whos and their home, but this gives him
nothing but torment from his neighbors, who refuse to believe
that anything could survive on the speck. Still, Horton stands
by the motto that, "After all, a person is a person, no
matter how small."
► History Films and Balcony Releasing Presents Sputnik
Mania a Film by David Hoffman, opening in New York.
This past year marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of
Sputnik, the first man-made object ever to leave the atmosphere
and successfully orbit the earth. Throughout the world, events
are being planned to celebrate the "Sputnik Year,"
which begins on the anniversary and runs through December
31, 2008. As part of that celebration, Sputnik Mania tells
the satellite's story from America's point of view.
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21st |
 ► The
Hammer - Jerry Ferro's (Adam Carolla) 40th birthday
has brought his life into sharp relief and it's not a
pretty picture. A once-promising amateur boxer -- who
quit so he wouldn't risk his perfect record of underachievement
-- Jerry has been knocking around from one construction
job to another and spinning his wheels in an unsatisfying
relationship, all the while with an eye toward eventually
getting his shit together. His last connection to the
fight game is the evening boxing class he teaches to middle-aged,
middle class, middle management types at a gym in Pasadena,
where he also works as a handyman. When venerable boxing
coach Eddie Bell (Tom Quinn) asks Jerry if he'd like to
spar a couple of rounds with Malice Blake (Harold House
Moore), an up-and-coming pro, Jerry reluctantly steps
into the ring. Despite the ass-kicking Jerry otherwise
receives, a one-punch knockdown of Blake convinces Jerry
that it's time to make his return to competitive boxing.
Thus ends a 20-year layoff and begins a hilarious fish-out-water
quest for Olympic gold.
View the trailer
here.
► Drillbit Taylor stars
Owen Wilson, Josh Peck, and Alex Frost. When two freshmen
are tormented by a bully during their first day of high
school,they enlist the services of a solider-of-fortune,
fully unaware that he is anything but skilled in the art
of protection. See below for clips from Drilbit Taylor
Punch
Me Harder - - Interviewing
Bodyguards - - Teachers'
Lounge
► In Meet the
Browns - A funny, moving romantic drama about the
power of love and family, Lionsgate's Tyler Perry Meets the
Browns features a return to the big screen by Madea, the indomitable,
law-breaking, fun-loving grandma. A single mother living in
inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to
make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. But
when she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope
for the first time - until a letter arrives announcing the
death of a father she's never met. Desperate for any kind
of help, Brenda takes her family to Georgia for the funeral.
But nothing could have prepared her for the Browns, her father's
fun-loving, crass Southern clan.
► Starring Joshua Jackson and Rachael Taylor, Shutter
is about a newly married couple who discovers disturbing,
ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic
accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they
investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left
unsolved.
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28th |
► Who's
Your Monkey - Four friends, one monkey and a dead
guy…a lot can change in a night. ►
Chapter 27 - On December 8, 1980 Mark David Chapman
(Jared Leto) shocked the world by murdering the beloved
purveyor of peace, 40-year old musician and activist,
John Lennon, outside The Dakota, his New York apartment
building. Chapman's motives were fabricated from pure
delusion, fueled by an obsession with the fictional character
Holden Caulfield and his similar misadventures in J.D.
Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. In one instant, an anonymous,
25-year old, mentally unstable, socially awkward Beatles
fan -- who had fluctuated between idealizing Lennon and
being overcome with a desire to kill him - altered the
course of history.
 ► From director Michael Radford, comes
Flawless, a clever
diamond-heist thriller set in swinging 1960s London. Demi
Moore plays Laura Quinn, a bright, driven and beautiful
executive at the London Diamond Corporation who finds herself
frustrated by a glass ceiling after years of faithful employment,
as man after man is promoted ahead of her despite her greater
experience. Michael Caine is Hobbs, the nighttime janitor
at London Diamond who is virtually invisible to the executives
that work there, but over the years has amassed a startling
amount of knowledge about how the company runs. Hobbs has
his own bone to pick with London Diamond. Observing Laura's
frustration, he convinces her to help him execute an ingenious
plan to steal a hefty sum in diamonds. But unbeknownst to
Laura, Hobbs plans go even farther than he's let on, and
together they set in motion a thrilling heist of dizzying
proportions, the likes of which London has never seen.
► Superhero is a comedic spoof on recent superhero
films, from Spider-Man to Catwoman.
► 21
- Columbia Pictures' high stakes action adventure "21"
is inspired by the true story of the very brightest young minds
in the country - and how they took Vegas for millions. Ben Campbell
(Jim Sturgess) is a shy, brilliant M.I.T. student who - needing
to pay school tuition - finds the answers in the cards. He is
recruited to join a group of the school's most gifted students
that heads to Vegas every weekend armed with fake identities
and the know-how to turn the odds at blackjack in their favor.
With unorthodox math professor and stats genius Micky Rosa (Kevin
Spacey) leading the way, they've cracked the code. By counting
cards and employing an intricate system of signals, the team
can beat the casinos big time. Seduced by the money, the Vegas
lifestyle, and by his smart and sexy teammate, Jill Taylor (Kate
Bosworth), Ben begins to push the limits. Though counting cards
isn't illegal, the stakes are high, and the challenge becomes
not only keeping the numbers straight, but staying one step
ahead of the casinos' menacing enforcer: Cole Williams (Laurence
Fishburne).
► In Run, Fatboy, Run some ten years after he left
his fiancée at the altar, the rather corpulent Dennis
preps for a real-life marathon with real-life romantic consequences
hanging in the balance.
► Starring Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Stop Loss is about a soldier who, after fighting in Iraq,
refuses to return to battle despite the government mandate requiring
him to do so. |
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Movie Reviews: |
Never used to like Colin Farrell but
I'm beginning to appreciate him more and more. Bruges
is a dark, Belgium town where he and another hit man
are holed up after a hit gone bad. The story twists
and turns through midgets, hookers, assassins and assorted
violence-but it is one of the cleverest and funniest
movies I've seen in a while.
It is dark, witty, confusing and somewhat unpredictable.
I really liked it but you probably won't because you
never like what I like.
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