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| September
2008 Movie News & Reviews |
► Palm Pictures is set to release Steven
Sebring's Sundance Film Festival award-winning film
Patti Smith: Dream of Life. The film is coming to
select theaters in September 2008. |
| September
3rd |
► Indian cinema legend Nana Patekar
(SALAAM BOMBAY) and newcomers Venkatesh Chavan and Jhangir
Badshah star in The Pool,
a film about a young man trying to make a living in the wealthy
hills of Panjim, Goa in India. |
| September
5th |
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In Bangkok
Dangerous the life of an anonymous assassin takes
an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete
a series of contract killings. Joe (Nicolas Cage), a remorseless
hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless
crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm),
a street punk and pickpocket, to run errands for him with
the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the
end of the assignment.
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In a case of mistaken ethnicity, a lovelorn
fishmonger (Jay Jablonski) struggling to let go of a long
past romance pretends to be Italian in order to date a
beautiful woman (Cerina Vincent)-and finds himself learning
to love again. A raucous romantic comedy, Everybody
Wants to be Italian is written an directed by
Jason Todd Ipson (Unrest , Peeping Tom) and stars Jay
Jablonski (Unrest, Conspiracy), Cerina Vincent (Cabin
Fever, It Waits), John Kapelos (Stick It, The Breakfast
Club), John Enos III ("The Young and the Restless,"
Phone Booth), Marisa Petroro (Reno 911!: Miami, "Deal
or No Deal") and Richard Libertini (Awakenings).
The film is produced by Jaime Burke and James Huntsman
(Unrest). 
► The Accidental
Husband centers on Emma (Uma Thurman) a successful but
uptight relationship expert with a hit radio show and an upcoming
book. She is serious and sensible about the issue of love and
gives frank, 'on the nose' advice to women on how to find the
right man without wasting time on the wrong ones in between.
Emma believes she has met her own perfect match in Richard (Colin
Firth) a successful and conservative publishing executive. (More...)
► After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire (Anne
Hathaway), is assigned by her mentor (Andre Braugher) to counsel
the flight's five survivors in Passengers. When they
share their recollections of the incident - which some say include
an explosion that the airline claims never happened - Claire
is intrigued by Eric (Patrick Wilson), the most secretive of
the passengers. When the survivors begin to disappear mysteriously,
one by one. Claire suspects that Eric may hold all the answers
and becomes determined to uncover the truth. |
| September
12th |
► Towelhead (Official
Site) is based on Alicia Erian's novel about ayoung Arab-American
girl who struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army
reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War. Staring
Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello, and Eugene Jones.
► In Amusement, (Official
Site) three women are stalked by a predator who has known
his potential victims since childhood. Starring Katheryn Winnick,
Laura Breckenridge, and Jessica Lucas.
► Tyler Perry's The Family that Preys Together
is a comedy-drama about two families who come from different
worlds and learn to love and work together. Starring Jennifer
Hudson, Kathy Bates, and Tyler Perry.
► Nights in Rodanthe (Official
Site) stars Diane Lane, Richard Gere, and James Franco,
and is about two unhappy people's whose lives become entwined
when they have a life changing romance. Adrienne is a woman
who's trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage
or not. Her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is traveling
to reconcile with his estranged son, checks into an inn in a
North Carolina beach town where she is staying.
► The Duchess (Official
Site) chronicles the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana,
Duchess of Devonshire, who reviled for her extravagant political
and personal lives. Starring Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes,
and Charlotte Rampling.
► Burn After
Reading is a dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners
Joel and Ethan Coen. An ousted CIA official's (Academy Award
nominee John Malkovich) memoir accidentally falls into the hands
of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find.
Also starring George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt and
Tilda Swinton.
► Righteous Kill is about two
Veteran New York City Detectives' hunt for a vigilante who
may be one of their own. Starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro,
Martin Scorsese, and 50 Cent.
► Punisher: War
Zone - Waging his one-man war on the world of organized
crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights
on overeager mob boss Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly
disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new
alias: Jigsaw. With the "Punisher Task Force" hot
on his trail and the FBI unable to take Jigsaw in, Frank must
stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before
more of his evil deeds go unpunished. View
the teaser trailer here! |
| September
19th |
► Ghost
Town stars Greg Kinnear and Ricky Gervais in a
romantic comedy set in glorious Manhattan New York. Ricky
plays a dentist that after a near death experience sees
dead people. Greg's Character needs the dentist help from
the afterlife in saving his ex-fiance from marrying the
wrong man. ► Blindness, starringJulianne
Moore, Mark Ruffalo, and Danny Glover, is an adaptation
of the Jose Saramago novel about an outbreak of blindness
that sweeps an unidentified town. Ruffalo will play a
doctor who loses his sight along with everyone else in
town, except the doc's wife.
► Nothing But The Truth -
In Washington, DC a female news reporter faces a possible
jail sentence for outing a CIA agent and refusing to reveal
her source. Starring Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, and David
Schwimmer.
► Igor is a computer-animated comedy that
brings a new twist to the classic monster genre. In a
world filled with Mad Scientists and Evil Inventions,
one talented evil scientist's hunch-backed lab assistant
has big dreams of becoming a Mad Scientist himself and
winning the annual Evil Science Fair. Featuring the voices
of John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, and Jennifer Coolidge.
► Lakeview Terrace - A young couple (Patrick Wilson
and Kerry Washington) has just moved into their California dream
home when they become the target of their next-door neighbor,
who disapproves of their interracial relationship. A stern,
single father, this tightly wound LAPD officer (Samuel L. Jackson)
has appointed himself the watchdog of the neighborhood. His
nightly foot patrols and overly watchful eyes bring comfort
to some, but he becomes increasingly harassing to the newlyweds.
These persistent intrusions into their lives ultimately turn
tragic when the couple decides to fight back.
► My Best
Friend's Girl- Tank faces the ultimate test of friendship
when his best friend hires him to take his ex-girlfriend out
on a lousy date in order to make her realize how great her
former boyfriend is. Starring Kate Hudson, Dane Cook, Alec
Baldwin, and Jason Biggs.
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| September
26th |
► From Samuel Goldwyn Films comes
Fireproof, a new film starring Kirk Cameron. This
action-packed love story will have audiences laughing, crying,
and inching toward the edge of their seats as they are drawn
into the world of a firefighter, his wife and a marriage worth
rescuing.
► Based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk, Choke is
about a sex-addicted con-man who pays for his mother's hospital
bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from
choking to death.
► Eagle Eye is a thriller starring Shia
LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Anthony Mackie,
and Billy Bob Thornton. Two unsuspecting Americans are separately
drawn into a conspiracy by a mysterious woman they have never
met, but who seems to know their every move. By the time they
discover her frightening identity, they have become her unwitting
accomplices in a diabolical assassination plot.
► Starring Jamie Lee Curtis and the voice of Drew
Barrymore and Salma Hayek, Beverly Hills Chihuahua is
about a ritzy Beverly Hills chihuahua who, while on vacation
in Mexico, finds herself lost and in need of assistance in order
to get back home. |
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