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Bride Wars (TBC) |
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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.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Release Date
15th January 2009 |
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Hotel for Dogs (TBC) |
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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.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Release Date
15th January 2009 |
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Doubt (TBC) |
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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.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Release Date
15th January 2009 |
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The Wrestler (TBC) |
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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.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Release Date
15th January 2009 |
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Revolutionary Road (TBC) |
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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.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Release Date
22nd January 2009 |
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Gran Torino (TBC) |
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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.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Release Date
22nd January 2009 |
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Milk (M) |
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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.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Release Date
29th January 2009 |
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The Changeling (MA15+) |
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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).
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Release Date
5th February 2009 |
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Slumdog
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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?
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Release Date
5th February 2009 |
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Rachel Getting
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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.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Release Date
12th February 2009 |
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He's Just Not That
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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.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Release Date
12th February 2009 |
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The International (TBC) |
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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.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Release Date
19th February 2009 |
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The Reader (TBC) |
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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.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Release Date
19th February 2009 |
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Confessions of a
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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.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Release Date
12th March 2009 |
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