Bedtime Stories

Release Date:

8 January 2009

Genre:

Comedy | Family | Fantasy

Cast:

Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Russell Brand, Richard Griffiths



A family comedy about a hotel handyman whose life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true.

Passengers

Release Date:

12 November 2008

Genre:

Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Cast:

Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Andre Braugher, Dianne Wiest, David Morse



After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire, is assigned by her mentor to counsel the flight's five survivors. 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, the most secretive of the passengers. Just as Claire's professional relationship with Eric -- despite her better judgment -- blossoms into a romance, 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, no matter the consequences.

Dead Like Me: Life After Death

Release Date:

17 February 2009

Genre:

Comedy | Fantasy

Cast:

Ellen Muth, Callum Blue, Sarah Wynter, Jasmine Guy, Britt McKillip



After the departure of Rube Sofer, a new head reaper named Cameron Kane takes over. He's a slick businessman who couldn't care less about helping the newly dead. Chaos ensues and brings out the worst in Daisy and Mason who begin drinking anew. George and Reggie re-connect for the first time when George reaps a new friend of Reggie's.

The Broken

Release Date:

15 November 2008

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Cast:

Lena Headey, Richard Jenkins, Asier Newman, Michelle Duncan, Melvil Poupaud


On a busy street in London, Gina thinks she sees herself drive past in her own car. Stunned by this strange event, Gina follows the mystery woman up to her apartment. From here, events take an eerie turn for the worse until Gina's awareness slides from solid reality into a world that will haunt more than just her nightmares.

Inkheart

Release Date:

28 January 2009

Genre:

Adventure | Family | Fantasy

Cast:

Brendan Fraser, Sienna Guillory, Eliza Bennett, Richard Strange, Paul Bettany


An adventure of a father and his young daughter, searching for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative, this fantasy takes a darker side whenever we hear Mo 'Silvertongue' Folchart reading out aloud from books. His ability to rise to life, to export, to release figures out of the page and into the real world is only relevant when the darker side of his stories appear to reek havoc and destruction. Join in the fantasy and revel at the marvel of Books in this adventure of adventures' that brings the best stories throughout the decades to life that transcends beyond imagine.

Bride Wars

Release Date:

15 January 2009

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Cast:

Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Bryan Greenberg, Chris Pratt, Steve Howey



Two best friends become rivals when they schedule their respective weddings on the same day.

Marley and Me

Release Date:

4 February 2009

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance

Cast:

Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen
Turner


After their wedding, newspaper writers John and Jennifer Grogan move to Florida. In an attempt to stall Jennifer's "biological clock", John gives her a puppy. While the puppy Marley grows into a 100 pound dog, he loses none of his puppy energy or rambunctiousness. Meanwhile, Marley gains no self-discipline. Marley's antics give John rich material for his newspaper column. As the Grogans mature and have children of their own, Marley continues to test everyone's patience by acting like the world's most impulsive dog.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Release Date:

8 January 2009

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance

Cast:

Cate Blanchett, Julia Ormond, Faune A. Chambers, Elias Koteas, Donna DuPlantier


On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams nee Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, being born an old man who was diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by his biological father, Thomas Button, after Benjamin's biological mother died in childbirth, Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at that home, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in age they finally match up. Some of the revelations in Benjamin's diary are difficult for Caroline to read, especially as it relates to the time past this reconnection between Benjamin and Daisy, when Daisy gets older and Benjamin grows younger into his childhood years.

Tanging Ina Ninyong Lahat

Release Date:

2008

Genre:

Comedy

Cast:

Carlo Aquino, Serena Dalrymple, Ai-Ai de las Alas, Gloria Diaz,

Ploning

Release Date:

30 April 2008

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Cast:

Judy Ann Santos, Gina Pareño, Mylene Dizon, Meryll Soriano, Ces Quesada



Ploning, is a story of one mans search for the enigmatic woman who has deeply wounded him in the past. Having grown up in an illegal Taiwanese fishing vessel, Rodrigo (30 years old) returns to the beautiful island of Cuyo and is given from sunrise to sunset to look for his Ploning. In his search, he discovers that the woman he loved and adored as a boy is not the woman he thought he knew. Ploning has displayed her maternal love for Digo ( the 6-year old Rodrigo) but is shrouded in her mysterious love and devotion for Tomas, her childhood sweetheart who left her when she was 16. This 30-year-old spinster who has held a special place amongst the people as a dutiful daughter, a devoted friend, a caring sister and a loving maternal figure is slowly unveiled through Rodrigos memory and an emotional meeting with Plonings confidante, Seling. Through his search, Ploning will be revealed as the islands most bittersweet source of selfless love.

One True Love

Release Date:

19 November 2008

Genre:

Drama | Mystery | Romance

Cast:

Dingdong Dantes, Marian Rivera, Iza Calzado



A story about a wife's struggle for his husband and his true love.

Hunger

Release Date:

2 October 2008

Genre:

Drama | History

Cast:

Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Helena Bereen, Larry Cowan, Liam Cunningham


The last six weeks of the life of the Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Sands.

Ave Ventura: Pet Detective

Release Date:

4 February 1994

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Mystery | Thriller

Cast:

Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young, Tone Loc, Dan Marino



He's the best there is. In fact, he's the only one there is! He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man . . . or beast!

Inhabited Island

Release Date:

18 December 2008

Genre:

Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Cast:

Ignat Akrachkov, Sergei Barkovsky, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, Sergey Garmash

The Day The Earth Stood Still

Release Date:

10 December 2008

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Cast:

Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith, John Cleese



A remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.

War Wolves

Release Date:

March 2009

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Cast:

Michael Worth, John Saxon, Tim Thomerson, Natasha Alam, Alex Ballar

Australia

Release Date:

28 January 2009

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | War | Western

Cast:

Shea Adams, Hugh Jackman, Eddie Baroo, Nicole Kidman, Bryan Brown


In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. In 1939, the aristocratic Lady Sarah Ashley travels from Great Britain to Australia to meet her husband Maitland Ashley in northern Australia. The husband's drover comes to the city of Darwin to bring Sarah to their farm; however, when they reach Faraway Downs Farm, they find that Maitland was murdered. Sarah befriends Nullah, who tells her that the administrator Neil Fletcher is stealing her cattle; has killed her husband; and is working for the cattle baron King Carney. Sarah fires Fletcher and his men and together with Drover, Nullah and a group of loyal employees, they ride together to take the cattle to supply the army and win a tender in times of war. But the ambitious Fletcher has other intentions and uses Nullah to press Sarah.

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Release Date:

23 January 2009

Genre:

Action | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller

Cast:

Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux



The prequel story traces the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans. In the Dark Ages, a young Lycan named Lucian emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor, the cruel vampire king who has enslaved them. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, Sonja, in his battle against the Vampire army and his struggle for Lycan freedom.

Outlander

Release Date:

11 July 2008

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Cast:

James Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, John Hurt, Cliff Saunders



During the reign of the Vikings, Kainan, a man from a far-off world, crash lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator known as the Moorwen. Though both man and monster are seeking revenge for violence committed against them, Kainan leads the alliance to kill the Moorwen by fusing his advanced technology with the Viking's Iron Age weaponry.

Thick as Thieves

Release Date:

17 April 2009

Genre:

Crime

Cast:

Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Robert Forster, Rade Serbedzija



A master thief recruits a notorious thief to help him steal two famous Faberge eggs from an impenetrable vault in an effort to pull off one final job and repay his debt to the Russian mob.

Night Train

Release Date:

2009

Genre:

Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Cast:

Danny Glover, Leelee Sobieski, Steve Zahn, Matthias Schweighöfer,



Two Passengers and the conductor discover that a person has passed away on their Night Train cabin. They come across valuable diamonds on his person, that they wish to keep for themselves. So, to make it look like the man never boarded the train, they conspire to dump his body in a river that the train passes. Their scheme to get rid of the corpse escalates to the point where they have to chop up his body just to fit him into a small trunk. They then become paranoid, as they might turn on each other.

The Painted Skin aka "Hua pi"

Release Date:

29 July 1966

Genre:

Drama | Horror

Cast:

Juanjuan Chen, Yuan Gao, Wu Weng, Hong Zhu

Champions aka "Duo Biao"

Release Date:

13 November 2008

Genre:

Action

Cast:

Dicky Cheung, Miu Tse, Priscilla Wong, Debbie Goh, Wai Chi Ho



The story is based around the efforts of the Chinese National Martial Art League to raise the money to get the Olympic athletes and the demo team to Berlin. Thrown into the mix is a rivalry between women sprinters, a gangster kidnapping the baby of a kindly benefactor, the usual outdoor kung fu tournament with a "bad" kung fu school messing things up, the two male leads put into conflict with each other and lots and lots of feel good Chinese boosterism. In a way this film resembles a classic propaganda film from the days of Mao.

Scarce

Release Date:

2008

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Cast:

Steve Warren, Gary Fischer, Chris Warrilow, homas Webb, John Geddes



SCARCE depicts the gruesome fate of three lost snowboarders trapped at an isolated forest cabin owned by two menacing locals who harvest human flesh. As the day of the slaughter nears, they attempt to escape barefoot through the frozen wilderness.

Pride and Glory

Release Date:

3 December 2008

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Cast:

Colin Farrell, Edward Norton, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich, Jennifer Ehle



A family of police officers - patriarch, two sons, and a son-in-law - deals with corruption in a precinct in Washington Heights. Four officers die in an ambush at a drug dealer's apartment. It's brother Francis's precinct, so when the investigation led by brother Ray finds hints of police corruption, there's pressure to close ranks and save Frankie's career. Dad, a police brass, promises Ray that he and Frankie can clean things up, and Ray should focus on catching the drug dealer who killed the cops. Meanwhile, brother-in-law Jimmy, a hothead and an enforcer, is visited at home by a lowlife. Is Jimmy involved in the corruption? Where can this take the family?

High School Musical 3 : Senior Year

Release Date:

24 October 2008

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance

Cast:

Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu



As seniors in high school, Troy and Gabriella struggle with the idea of being separated from one another as college approaches. Along with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical to address their experiences, hopes and fears about their future.

Dark Floors

Release Date:

8 February 2008

Genre:

Fantasy | Horror

Cast:

Skye Bennett, Noah Huntley, Dominique McElligott, Ronald Pickup, William Hope



While in the hospital for a tomography of the brain of his autistic daughter Sarah, Ben becomes upset when there is a power failure. He decides to leave the hospital with Sarah, while the nurse Emily tries to convince him to leave Sarah for further treatment. They get the elevator with three other passengers, and suddenly the elevator stops; when the door opens, people has vanished from the hospital, the environment is creepy and they are chased by devilish monsters. They find that they are trapped in the hospital, and the creatures seem to be hunting Sarah.

Revolutionary Road

Release Date:

23 January 2009

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Cast:

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Ryan Simpkins, Ty Simpkins



It's 1955. Frank and April Wheeler, in the seventh year of their marriage, have fallen into a life that appears to most as being perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank commutes to New York City where he works in an office job while April stays at home as a housewife. But they're not happy. April has forgone her dream of becoming an actress, and Frank hates his job - one where he places little effort - although he has never figured out what his passion in life is. One day, April suggests that they move to Paris - a city where Frank visited during the war and loved, but where April has never been - as a means to rejuvenate their life. April's plan: she would be the breadwinner, getting a lucrative secretarial job for one of the major international organizations, while Frank would have free time to find himself and whatever his passion. Initially skeptical, Frank ultimately agrees to April's plan. When circumstances change around the Wheelers, April decides she will do whatever she has to to get herself out of her unhappy existence.

Screamers - The Hunting

Release Date:

17 February 2009

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Thriller

Cast:

Gina Holden, Jana Pallaske, Lance Henriksen, Greg Bryk, Christopher Redman



A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group of human survivors eking out an existence in an old military outpost, but more important, they discover that the threat of the screamers has become even more insidious, now that they're able to morph into human form.

Against The Dark

Release Date:

10 February 2009

Genre:

Action | Horror | Thriller

Cast:

Steven Seagal, Tanoai Reed, Jenna Harrison, Danny Midwinter, Emma Catherwood


He lives by the sword. They will die by it.

The Red Baron

Release Date:

10 April 2008

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | Romance | Wa

Cast:

Matthias Schweighöfer, Til Schweiger, Steffen Schroeder, Lena Headey


Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Schweighöfer) is the most feared and celebrated pilot of the German air force in World War I. To him and his companions, air combats are events of sporty nature, technical challenge and honorable acting, ignoring the terrible extent of war. But after falling in love with the nurse Käte (Headey), Manfred realizes he is only used for propaganda means. Caught between his disgust for the war, and the responsibility for his fighter wing, von Richthofen sets out to fly again.

Milk

Release Date:

4 February 2009

Genre:

Biography | Drama

Cast:

Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna,

James Franco

Upon moving to San Francisco from New York City in 1972, forty year old Harvey Milk gains focus in his life as a gay activist in the city's Castro district. Gay rights activism turns to political activism as Milk decides he can be a more effective voice for the gay community as a politician, elected or not. Through several elections and losses both for a city seat and a state assembly seat, Milk becomes the first openly gay man in the United States to be elected to political office when he wins a San Francisco supervisor seat in 1977. His many political battlefronts include one with the national anti-gay Save the Children crusade, led and fronted by singer Anita Bryant. Closer to home, Milk has a continuing struggle with his fellow supervisor, Dan White, a staunch social conservative.

Twilight

Release Date:

26 November 2008

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller

Cast:

Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed


Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a bit different, never caring about or fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother Renee (Sarah Clarke) remarries and decides to move with her new husband to Florida, and Bella decides to go live with her father, Charlie (Billy Burke), in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she's ever met. Intelligent and witty, his piercing eyes see straight into her soul. Soon, Bella and Edward are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance. Edward can run faster than any cheetah, he can stop a moving car with his bare hands, and he hasn't aged since 1918. Most importantly, he's a vampire. Like all vampires, he's immortal. He doesn't drink human blood (they're vampire "vegetarians"), which is rare among the vampire population. Instead, they go on regular "hiking" trips, where they feed on prey such as grizzly bears and mountain lions. For Edward, Bella is the thing he has waited ninety years for - a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. And what will they do when James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi), and Victoria (Rachel Lefevre) come into town and James sets his sights on Bella? Will true love prevail when Edward is forced to save her life and conquer his thirst? The true question is, When you can live forever, what do you live for?