“Cashback Movie” – When art student Ben Willis (Sean Biggerstaff) is dumped by his girlfriend Suzy (Michelle Ryan), he develops insomnia. To pass the long hours of the night, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket. There he meets a colorful cast of characters, all of whom have their own ‘art’ in dealing with the boredom of an eight-hour-shift. Ben’s art is that he imagines himself stopping time. This way, he can appreciate the artistic beauty of the frozen world and the people inside it – especially Sharon (Emilia Fox), the quiet checkout girl, who perhaps holds the answer to solving the problem of Ben’s insomnia.
STARRING: Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Michelle Ryan
DIRECTOR: Sean Ellis
STUDIO: Magnolia Pictures
RATING: R (For language, sexual situations)
“Tekkonkinkreet” – In Treasure Town, orphans Black and White rule the mean streets through violence and terror. These lost boys are direct opposites: Black being a streetwise punk who embodies everything wrong about the city, while White is a innocent dope, out of touch with the world around him. Together, they’re unstoppable as they take on petty thugs, religious fanatics and brutal yakuza. But when a corporation called “Kiddy Kastle” tries to tear down and rebuild Treasure Town to fit its own goals, the boys must save the soul of their beloved city, that is if they can save themselves from inner demons. Based on Taiyo Matsumoto’s serialized manga “Black and White.”
Stay tuned to find out if “Tekkonkinkreet” gets a “2008 Oscar Nomination” for Best Animated Film!
STARRING The Voices of: Yû Aoi, Yusuke Iseya, Kankurô Kudô, Sanchu Mori, Masahiro Motoki, Kazunari Ninomiya, Yoshinori Okada, Nao Omori, Min Tanaka
DIRECTOR: Michael Arias
STUDIO: Sony Pictures
RATING: R (For violent and disturbing images, and brief animated sexuality)
THEATER COUNT (Opening Weekend): 2
RUNNING TIME: 111 minutes
TOTAL DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE: $6,000
U.S. DVD RELEASE DATE: 9/25/2007
n Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels, he lives in a lousy apartment and he does not have success with women. When one of his friends Julius Jenson sells his novel for US$ 190,000.00 to an editor, Jabez fells envy and promises to sell his soul to the devil for success and accidentally kills a woman with his typing machine. The Devil knocks on his door, fixes the situation and seals a contract with Jabez. His low quality novels have bad reviews but become best-sellers; Jabez enriches; has success with women, but has no time for his friends. Jabez meets with the publisher Daniel Webster who offers him a chance to break the contract with the devil
Winner of 5 Cesar Awards (the French ‘Oscar’) including Best Picture and Best Director, “Lady Chatterley,” is a keenly perceptive, frankly sensual adaption of D.H. Lawrence’s classic novel about the turbulent love affair between a lonely British aristocrat’s wife and their estate’s gamekeeper. Director Pascale Ferran captures the author’s vision both of a society in transition, and the tremulous eroticism between two people drawn together despite its inequalities.
STARRING: Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Couloc’h, Hippolyte Girardot
DIRECTOR: Pascal Ferran
STUDIO: Kino International
RATING: R (Nudity, sexual situations, language)
LANGUAGE: In French with English subtitles
n “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” Harry returns for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts and discovers that much of the wizarding community is in denial about the teenager’s recent encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort, preferring to turn a blind eye to the news that Voldemort has returned. Fearing that Hogwarts’ venerable Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, is lying about Voldemort’s return in order to undermine his power and take his job, the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, appoints a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher to keep watch over Dumbledore and the Hogwarts students. But Professor Dolores Umbridge’s Ministry-approved course of defensive magic leaves the young wizards woefully unprepared to defend themselves against the dark forces threatening them and the entire wizarding community, so at the prompting of his friends Hermione and Ron, Harry takes matters into his own hands. Meeting secretly with a small group of students who name themselves “Dumbledore’s Army,” Harry teaches them how to defend themselves against the Dark Arts, preparing the courageous young wizards for the extraordinary battle that lies ahead – “Harry Potter And The Order of the Phoenix.”
STARRING: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Imelda Staunton, George Harris, Helena Bonham Carter, Natalia Tena, Kathryn Hunter, Evanna Lynch, Gary Oldman, Harry Melling, Richard Griffiths, Fiona Shaw, Sian Thomas, Jason Boyd, Richard Macklin, Charles Hughes, Susie Shinner, Auror Dawlish, Nick Shim, Ralph Fiennes, Apple Brook, James Walters, James Utechin, Alec Hopkins, Jason Piper
DIRECTOR: David Yates
STUDIO: Warner Bros.
RATING: PG-13 (For intense action sequences, mild language)
“Dynamite Warrior” is a supernatural, action packed movie with high-grade special effects and the kind of raw action scenes the world is coming to expect from Thailand. Set in rural Thailand during the 1920s Dan Chupong (Born To Fight) plays Jone Bang Fai a young man riddled with grief and bent on revenge after witnessing his parents’ murder by a callous and malicious killer. The only information Jone has as to the killer’s identity is the memory of a tattoo-covered man who is part of an organized group of cattle rustlers. Jone makes it his mission to stop all cattle rustlers and in the process return each head of cattle back to its rightful owner. After searching the country high and low, Jone finally believes he has found the murderer in a small rural village in the North of Thailand. To Jone’s dismay he learns that the killer is in fact a warlock of immense power, a nearly invincible mystical man who is trying to control the whole village. His one weakness? He can be harmed only by weapons that have been treated with the menstrual blood of a young virgin. Armed with this knowledge and a few hundred highly charged rockets (and a dash of menstrual blood), our intrepid hero goes up against one of the most dangerous men to have ever walked the Earth.
STARRING: Dan Chupong, Panna Rittikrai
DIRECTOR: Chalerm Wongpim
STUDIO: Magnolia Pictures
RATING: R (For violence, sexual situations, language)
LANGUAGE: In Thai with English subtitles
Joshua is the tale of Brad (Sam Rockwell) and Abby (Vera Farmiga) Cairn, perfect Manhattan parents in a perfect Manhattan apartment whose perfect life begins to crack after the birth of their second child Lily. Shortly after Lily arrives home, a dark side of prodigy son Joshua (Jacob Kogan) slowly begins to reveal itself.
STARRING: Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Jacob Kogan, Celia Weston, Dallas Roberts, Michael McKean
DIRECTOR: George Ratliff
STUDIO: Fox Searchlight
RATING: R (For language and some disturbing behavior by a child)
The official movie website of the movie entitled both “Clubland” and “Introducing The Dwights,” takes you to the site – Clubland. The most recent poster for the film, however, is entitled “Introducing The Dwights.” We’ll let you decide which title properly represents the movie, as we bring you posters bearing both titles. The film, whatever the hell it is called, is a comedy, starring Oscar nominee Brenda Blethyn, is about a mother who tries to come between her son and his coming of age. Tim’s mom, Jean, is a bawdy and risqué comedienne still hoping to make it big. His brother Mark helps their mother rehearse for shows. Together, they inhabit a non-traditional household where chaos is the norm, the music is always on, and Jean’s larger-than-life personality takes center stage. When Tim meets and falls for Jill, his home becomes a combat zone as his mother fears this new girl, whose name she refuses to remember, will “break up” the unique family unit she’s tried so hard to keep together. In this hilarious, quirky, and oftentimes touching tale, Tim must learn to manage the emotions of the women of his life without losing himself in the process.
STARRING: Brenda Blethyn, Emma Booth, Peter Callan, Khan Chittenden, Brendan Clearkin, Russell Dykstra, Rebecca Gibney, Frankie J. Holden, Phillip Quast, Katie Wall, Richard Wilson
DIRECTOR: Cherie Nowlan
STUDIO: Warner Independent Pictures
RATING: R (For sexual content and language)
In the annals of history’s great escapes there is no other story like that of Dieter Dengler, the only American to ever break out of a POW camp in the impenetrable Laotian jungle. After months plotting his getaway from a harrowing prison and a death-defying journey through some of the world�s fiercest wilderness, Dengler appeared at his first press conference looking like a dashing movie star and showing neither sentimentality nor bitterness – simply an indomitable will to survive that allowed him to triumph against impossible odds. Now, from legendary director Werner Herzog (“Grizzly Man,” “Fitzcarraldo”) and starring acclaimed actor Christian Bale (“Batman Begins,” “The Prestige”) comes the incredible true story of a man who, from the depths of total darkness, blazed his own willful path to freedom. A blistering action-adventure and a stark epic of survival, “Rescue Dawn” reveals how Dieter Dengler relied on the most primal qualities of evasion, endurance, tenacity and courage to find his way home.
STARRING: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Marshall Bell, François Chau, Jeremy Davies, Craig Gellis, GQ, Zach Grenier, Pat Healy, Toby Huss, Bonnie Z. Hutchinson, Evan Jones, Abhijati ‘Meuk’ Jusakul
DIRECTOR: Werner Herzog
STUDIO: MGM
RATING: R (For violence, language and adult situations)
“License to Wed” follows newly engaged Ben Murphy (John Krasinski) and his fiancée, Sadie Jones (Mandy Moore), who has always dreamed of getting married in a traditional wedding at her family church. The problem is St. Augustine’s only has one wedding slot available in the next two years, and its charismatic pastor, Reverend Frank (Robin Williams), won’t bless Ben and Sadie’s union until they pass his patented, foolproof marriage-prep course. Through outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some pious manipulation, Ben and Sadie are about to find out if they really have what it takes to make it to the altar… and live happily ever after.
STARRING: Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, John Krasinski, Eric Christian Olsen, Christine Taylor, Josh Flitter
DIRECTOR: Ken Kwapis
STUDIO: Warner Bros.
RATING: PG-13 (For language and adult situations)
