COMING SOON


 COMING SOON Bride Wars (TBC)

DIRECTOR:
Gary Winick (Suddenly 30)

CAST:
Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson

GENRE:
Comedy Romance

DURATION:
TBA

SYNOPSIS:
The story follows two best friends who set their respective wedding dates only to find that they've both chosen the same date. The two go to war when it turns out that neither wants to give up the date.

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Release Date
15th January 2009



 COMING SOON Hotel for Dogs (TBC)

DIRECTOR:
Thor Freudenthal

CAST:
Kevin Dillon, Kyla Pratt.

GENRE:
Comedy Romance

DURATION:
TBA

SYNOPSIS:
Adapted from author Lois Duncan's 1971 children's book of the same name, director Thor Freudenthal's Hotel for Dogs follows two mischievous orphans as they attempt to hide dozens of stray dogs in an abandoned hotel. Don Cheadle, Emma Roberts, and Lisa Kudrow also star in this family-friendly film.


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Release Date
15th January 2009



 COMING SOON Doubt (TBC)

DIRECTOR:
John Patrick Shanley

CAST:
Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams

GENRE:
Drama

DURATION:
TBA

SYNOPSIS:

John Patrick Shanley brings his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award® winning play to the screen as a gripping story about the quest for truth, the forces of change, and the devastating consequences of blind justice in an age defined by moral conviction.

It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller.

But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.


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Release Date
15th January 2009



 COMING SOON The Wrestler (TBC)

DIRECTOR:
Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream)

CAST:
Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood

GENRE:
Action

DURATION:
TBA

SYNOPSIS
Randy "Ram" Robinson is a professional wrestler from the 1980s who is forced to retire after a heart attack threatens to kill him the next time he wrestles. He takes a job at a deli, attempts to form a relationship with an aging stripper and does his best to reconcile with his estranged daughter. However, he is drawn to the prospect of a rematch with his old wrestling nemesis the Ayatollah, even though the fight may cost him his life.


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Release Date
15th January 2009



 COMING SOON Revolutionary Road (TBC)

DIRECTOR:
Sam Mendes (American Beauty)

CAST:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet

GENRE:
Drama

DURATION:
TBA

SYNOPSIS:
April and Frank Wheeler are a young, thriving couple living with their two children in a Connecticut suburb in the mid-1950s. Their self-assured exterior masks a creeping frustration at their inability to feel fulfilled in their relationships or careers. Frank is mired in a well-paying but boring office job, and April is a housewife still mourning the demise of her hoped-for acting career. Determined to identify themselves as superior to the mediocre sprawl of suburbanites who surround them, they decide to move to France where they will be better able to develop their true artistic sensibilities, free of the consumerist demands of capitalist America. As their relationship deteriorates into an endless cycle of squabbling, jealousy and recriminations, their trip and their dreams of self-fulfilment are thrown into jeopardy.


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Release Date
22nd January 2009



 COMING SOON Gran Torino (TBC)

DIRECTOR:
Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)

CAST:
Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Hughes

GENRE:
Drama / Thriller

DURATION:
TBA

SYNOPSIS:
A racist Korean War veteran living in a crime-ridden Detroit neighbourhood is forced to confront his own lingering prejudice when a troubled teen from his neighbourhood attempts to steal his prized Gran Torino. Decades after the Korean War has ended, ageing veteran Walt Kowalski is still haunted by the horrors he witnessed on the battlefield. The two objects that matter most to Kowalski in life are the classic Gran Torino that represents his happier days working in a Ford assembly plant, and the M-1 rifle that saved his life countless times during combat. When Kowalski's teenage neighbour attempts to steal his Gran Torino as part of a gang initiation rite, the old man manages to catch the aspiring thief at the business end of his well-maintained semi-automatic rifle. Later, due to the pride of the Asian group, the boy is forced to return to Kowalski's house and perform an act of penance. Despite the fact that Kowalski wants nothing to do with the young troublemaker, he realizes that the quickest way out of the situation is to simply cooperate. In an effort to set the teen on the right path in life and toughen him up, the reluctant vet sets him up with an old crony who now works in construction. In the process, Kowalski discovers that the only way to lay his many painful memories to rest is to finally face his own blinding prejudice head-on.


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Release Date
22nd  January 2009



 COMING SOON Milk (M)

DIRECTOR:
Gus Van Sant (Elephant, Good Will Hunting)

CAST:
Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, James Franco.

GENRE:
Drama / Biography

DURATION:
143 mins.

SYNOPSIS:
After moving to San Francisco, the middle-aged New Yorker, Harvey Milk, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed his former colleagues for denying White's attempt to rescind his resignation from the board.

Mr. Milk had been the subject of several books and the Academy Award-winning documentary feature, The Times of Harvey Milk (1984); but Milk (2008) is the first fictional feature to explore private aspects of the man's personal life and career.

 

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Release Date
29th January 2009



 COMING SOON The Changeling (MA15+)

DIRECTOR:
Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)

CAST:
Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich.

GENRE:
Drama / Thriller

DURATION:
TBA

SYNOPSIS:
Inspired by actual events that occurred in 1920s-era Los Angeles, the story tells of a woman driven to confront a corrupted LAPD after her abducted son is retrieved and she begins to suspect that the boy returned to her is not the same boy she gave birth to. The year was 1928, and the setting a working-class suburb of Los Angeles. As Christine (Angelina Jolie) said goodbye to her son, Walter, and departed for work, she never anticipated that this was the day her life would be forever changed. Upon returning home, Christine was distressed to discover that Walter was nowhere to be found. Over the course of the following months, the desperate mother would launch a search that would ultimately prove fruitless. Yet just when it seemed that all hope was lost, a nine-year-old boy claiming to be Christine's son seemed to appear out of thin air. Overcome with emotions and uncertain how to face the authorities or the press, Christine invites the child to stay in her home despite knowing without a doubt that he is not her son. As much as Christine would like to accept the fact that her son has been returned to her, she cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to challenge the Prohibition-era Los Angeles police force at every turn. As a result, Christine is slandered by the powers that be, and painted as an unfit mother. In this town, a woman who challenges the system is putting her life on the line, and as the situation grows desperate, the only person willing to aid her in her search is benevolent local activist Reverend Briegleb (John Malkovich).


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Release Date
5th February 2009



 COMING SOON Slumdog Millionaire (MA15+)

DIRECTOR:
Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later)

CAST:
Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor.

GENRE:
Drama

DURATION:
135 mins.

SYNOPSIS:
Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik (Patel), an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India¹s "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"

But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika (Pinto), the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show¹s questions.

Each chapter of Jamal¹s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show¹s seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show?

 

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Release Date
5th February 2009



 COMING SOON Rachel Getting Married (TBC)

DIRECTOR:
Jonathan Demme (The Manchurian Candidate)

CAST:
Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt.

GENRE:
Drama

DURATION:
128 mins.

SYNOPSIS:
Set during an idyllic wedding that threatens to descend into chaos with the appearance of the bride's estranged sister -- a volatile and unpredictable girl whose turbulent history of personal crisis and family conflict quickly threatens to take precedence over the happy ceremony. Rachel Buchman (Rosemarie DeWitt) is about to be married to the love of her life, but while the weather outside may be perfect, there's a storm blowing in. That storm goes by the name Kym (Anne Hathaway). Kym is the family black sheep, and wherever she goes disaster is sure to follow. Now, as friends and family gather together for a memorable day of dining, dancing, and celebration, everyone braces themselves knowing that, at any given moment, old skeletons may be dragged out and dusted off for display by the bombshell who seems to have an acerbic one-liner for every situation, and a flare for drama that could set their family home ablaze.


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Release Date
12th February 2009



 COMING SOON He's Just Not That Into You (TBC)

DIRECTOR:
Ken Kwapis (License to Wed)

CAST:
Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly, Scarlett Johansson.

GENRE:
Comedy

DURATION:
TBA

SYNOPSIS:
Based on the best selling book, "He’s Just Not That Into You" is a bittersweet comedy that provides a provocative, hilarious, and ultimately liberating new take on the battle of the sexes. As a group of bright quirky and extremely determined young women try to decipher the incomprehensible language of love, they take us on an uproariously funny romp along the bumpy road to romance.


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Release Date
12th February 2009



 COMING SOON The International (TBC)

DIRECTOR:
Tom Tykwer (Perfume, Heaven)

CAST:
Clive Owen, Naomi Watts

GENRE:
Thriller

DURATION:
TBA

SYNOPSIS:
The International centres on an obsessive Interpol agent (Clive Owen) who spearheads an investigation into one of the world's most high-profile and powerful banking institutions in an attempt to expose them for worldwide arms brokering, corruption and murder. Naomi Watts plays a Manhattan assistant district attorney who partners with the agent to take down the bank.


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Release Date
19th February 2009



 COMING SOON The Reader (TBC)

DIRECTOR:
Stephen Daldry (The Hours, Billy Elliot)

CAST:
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes

GENRE:
Drama

DURATION:
140 mins.

SYNOPSIS:
THE READER opens in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn" and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another.


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Release Date
19th February 2009



 COMING SOON Confessions of a Shopaholic (TBC)

DIRECTOR:
P.J. Hogan (My Best Friend's Wedding)

CAST:
Isla Fisher, Joan Cusack, John Goodman.

GENRE:
Comedy

DURATION:
TBA

SYNOPSIS:
Based on the books "Confessions of a Shopaholic" and "Shopaholic Takes Manhattan" by Sophie Kinsella. Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a 25 year old who lives with her best friend Suze in Suze's flat, in a trendy part of town. Rebecca has a very boring job writing for a financial magazine. She has a shopping addiction and her job doesn't pay enough. Her bills are piling up, so she tries cutting back, then she tries making more money. Eventually, Becky discovers a story that she is truly invested in. Exposing the story gets the attention of a male colleague that she hasn't quite figured out yet. Some drama ensues as she snags the guy, and she attempts to pay off her ever-growing debt.


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Release Date
12th March 2009