Valkyrie (2008)

In Theatres: October 3rd, 2008
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Director: Bryan Singer
Cast:
Tom Cruise
Kenneth Branagh
Bill Nighy
Tom Wilkinson
Eddie Izzard

Plot:
The “July 20 Plot” on Hitler’s life is one of the most heroic but least known episodes of World War Two. Severely wounded in combat, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg returns from Africa to join the German Resistance and help create Operation Valkyrie, the complex plan that will allow a shadow government to replace Hitler’s once he is dead. But fate and circumstance conspire to thrust Stauffenberg from one of many in the plot to a double-edged central role. Not only must he lead the coup and seize control of his nation’s government… He must kill Hitler himself.

The Dark Knight (2008)

In Theatres: July 18th, 2008
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast:
Christian Bale
Heath Ledger
Morgan Freeman
Michael Caine
Gary Oldman

Plot:
The follow-up to the action hit “Batman Begins,” “The Dark Knight” reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who once again embodies the man behind the mask. “The Dark Knight” takes Batman across the world in his quest to fight a growing criminal threat. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman has been making headway against local crime…until a rising criminal mastermind known as The Joker (Heath Ledger) unleashes a fresh reign of chaos across Gotham City. To stop this devious new menace-Batman’s most personal and vicious enemy yet-he will have to use every high-tech weapon in his arsenal and confront everything he believes.

Surfwise (2007)

In Theatres: May 9th, 2008
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Director: Doug Pray
Cast:
Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz
Juliette Paskowitz

Plot:
Like many American outsider-adventurers, Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz set out to realize a utopian dream. Abandoning a successful medical practice, he sought self-fulfillment by taking up the nomadic life of a surfer. But unlike other American searchers like Thoreau or Kerouac, Paskowitz took his wife and nine children along for the ride, all eleven of them living in a 24 foot camper. Together, they lived a life that would be unfathomable to most, but enviable to anyone who ever relinquished their dreams to a straight job. The Paskowitz Family proved that America may be running out of frontiers, but it hasn’t run out of frontiersman.

Son of Rambow (2007)

In Theatres: May 2nd, 2008
Genre: Comedy
Director: Garth Jennings
Cast:
Bill Milner
Will Poulter
Jules Sitruk
Jessica Stevenson
Neil Dudgeon

Plot:
Set on a long English summer in the early 8O:s, Son Of Rambow is a comedy about friendship, faith and the weird business of growing up.

Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)

In Theatres: May 30th, 2008
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director: Michael Patrick King
Cast:
Sarah Jessica Parker
Kim Cattrall
Kristin Davis
Cynthia Nixon

Plot:
Sex and the City is coming to the big screen in a feature film adaptation of the hit HBO television series. The film will follow the continuing adventures of the series four main characters - Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda - as they live their lives in Manhattan four years after the series ended.

Romulus, My Father (2007)

In Theatres: February 29th, 2008
Genre: Foreign, Drama
Director: Richard Roxburgh
Cast:
Eric Bana
Franka Potente
Marton Csokas
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Jacek Koman

Plot:
Based on Raimond Gaita’s critically acclaimed memoir. It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is the tale of a boy trying to balance a universe described by his deeply moral father, against the experience of heartbreaking absence and neglect from a depressive mother. It is, ultimately, a story of impossible love that celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.

Kung Fu Panda (2008)

In Theatres: June 6th, 2008
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Family
Director: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson
Cast:
Jack Black
Jackie Chan
Dustin Hoffman
Lucy Liu
Ian McShane
Angelina Jolie

Plot:
A CG-animated comedy about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda, Po, who must somehow become a Kung Fu Master in order to save the Valley of Peace from a villainous snow leopard, Tai Lung. Set in the legendary world of ancient China, this is the story of Po, our unlikely hero, who enters the rigid world of Kung Fu and turning it upside down. Po ultimately becomes a Kung Fu hero by learning that if he believes in himself, he can do anything

Get Smart (2008)

In Theatres: June 20th, 2008
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: Peter Segal
Cast:
Steve Carell
Anne Hathaway
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
Alan Arkin
Terrence Stamp

Plot:
In the all-new action comedy “Get Smart,” Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief (Alan Arkin) has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamt of working in the field alongside stalwart superstar Agent 23 (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson). Smart is partnered instead with the only other agent whose identity has not been compromised: the lovely-but-lethal veteran Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway). As Smart and 99 get closer to unraveling KAOS’ master plan—and each other—they discover that key KAOS operative Siegfried (Terence Stamp) and his sidekick Shtarker (Kenneth Davitian) are scheming to cash in with their network of terror. Given little field experience and even less time, Smart—armed with nothing but a few spy-tech gadgets and his unbridled enthusiasm—must defeat KAOS if he is to save the day.

Defiance (2008)

In Theatres: December 19th, 2008
Genre: Drama, War
Director: Ed Zwick
Cast:
Daniel Craig
Liev Schreiber
Jamie Bell
Alexa Davalos

Plot:
In WWII Russia, Jewish refugees band together into a brigade that hides in the forest, ambushes Germans and survives until war’s end, eventually 1200 strong.

City of Men (2007)

In Theatres: February 29th, 2008
Genre: Foreign, Crime, Drama
Director: Paulo Morelli
Cast:
Douglas Silva
Darlan Cunha
Jonathan Haagensen
Rodrigo dos Santos
Camila Monteiro

Plot:
With their eighteenth birthdays fast approaching, Laranjinha sets out to find the father he never met, while Acerola struggles to raise his own young son. But when they suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of a gang war, the lifelong friends are forced to confront a shocking secret from their shared past.

WALL·E (2008)

In Theatres: June 27th, 2008
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Director: Andrew Stanton
Cast:
Fred Willard
Jeff Garlin
Paul Eiding
Ben Burtt
Kim Kopf

Plot:
The year is 2700. WALL*E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for.

Life Before Her Eyes (2007)

In Theatres: April 18th, 2008
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director: Vadim Perelman
Cast:
Uma Thurman
Evan Rachel Wood
Eva Amurri
Gabrielle Brennan
Brett Cullen

Plot:
A dramatic thriller about Diana, a suburban wife and mother who begins to question her seemingly perfect life--and perhaps her sanity--on the 15th anniversary of a tragic high school shooting that took the life of her best friend.

Step Brothers (2008)

In Theatres: July 25th, 2008
Genre: Comedy
Director: Adam McKay
Cast:
Will Ferrell
John C. Reilly
Mary Steenburgen
Richard Jenkins
Adam Scott
Kathryn Hahn

Plot:
Two spoiled guys become competitive stepbrothers after their single parents get hitched.

Standard Operating Procedure (2008)

In Theatres: April 25th, 2008
Genre: Documentary
Director: Errol Morris
Cast:
Christopher Bradley
Sarah Denning
Joshua Feinman
Merry Grissom
Zhubin Rahbar

Plot:
Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.

Roman De Gare (2007)

In Theatres: April 25th, 2008
Genre: Foreign
Director: Claude Lelouch
Cast:
Fanny Ardant
Dominique Pinon
Audrey Dana

Plot:
In the still of the night, three lives are about to cross…a woman abandoned, a stranger awaiting his chance and, a best-selling author who imagines the thriller of the year. Deceptively layered and intriguingly misleading, this highly anticipated new film from Oscar-winning director Claude Lelouch (A MAN AND A WOMAN) stars Dominique Pinon and Fanny Ardant as an unlikely pair caught up in a game with high stakes - and deadly consequences.

Righteous Kill (2008)

In Theatres: September 12th, 2008
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director: Jon Avnet
Cast:
Robert De Niro
Al Pacino
Curtis Jackson
Brian Dennehy
John Leguizamo

Plot:
Academy Award winners Robert De Niro (Raging Bull) and Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman) star as a pair of veteran New York City police detectives on the trail of a vigilante serial killer in the adrenaline fueled psychological thriller Righteous Kill, directed by Jon Avnet (Red Corner, Fried Green Tomatoes) and written by Russell Gewirtz (Inside Man).

Pineapple Express (2008)

In Theatres: Aug 8th, 2008
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Director: David Gordon Green
Cast:
Seth Rogen
James Franco
Amber Heard
Bill Hader
James Remar

Plot:
A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.

Iron Man (2008)

In Theatres: May 2, 2008
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast:
Robert Downey Jr.
Terrence Howard
Gwyneth Paltrow
Jeff Bridges

Plot:
Robert Dawney Jr. stars as Tony Stark/Iron Man in the story of a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon, instead using his intelligence and ingenuity Tony builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity. When he uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

In Theatres: May 22th, 2008
Genre: Action, Adventure
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast:
Harrison Ford
Karen Allen
Cate Blanchett
Shia LaBeouf
John Hurt
Ray Winstone

Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

In Theatres: April 4th, 2008
Genre: Foreign, Drama
Director: Hou Hsiao Hsien
Cast:
uliette Binoche
Simon Iteanu
Fang Song
Hippolyte Girardot
Louise Margolin

Plot:
A precious young boy, Simon (Simon Iteanu) must deal with the increasing fragility of his mother, the loving yet preoccupied Suzanne (Academy Award Winner Juliette Binoche of THE ENGLISH PATIENT, CACHÉ). Completely immersed in her own tribulations, Suzanne hires Song (Song Fan), a Taiwanese film student, to help care for Simon. Together with Song, a unique extended family is formed, utterly interdependent yet lost in separate thoughts and dreams mirrored by a delicate, shiny red balloon.

Chapter 27 (2007)

In Theatres: April 4th, 2008
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director: J.P. Schaefer
Cast:
Jared Leto
Judah Friedlander
Lindsay Lohan

Plot:
A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.

The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

In Theatres: April 18th, 2008
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director: Rob Minkoff
Cast:
Jackie Chan
Jet Li
Michael A. Angarano
Crystal Liu
Collin Chou

Plot:
An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.

Backseat (2005)

In Theatres: March 28th, 2008
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bruce Van Dusen
Cast:
Rob Bogue
Josh Alexander
Will Janowitz
Aubrey Dollar
Mark Rosenthal

Plot:
A ‘coming of age late’ story about prolonged adolescence, two old friends flee New York City on a three-day road trip to Montreal to escape their problems and meet the great Donald Sutherland. Between running drugs and meeting a man who only communicates through instant messaging, they run head-on into the always lingering problem of real life.

He Was a Quiet Man (2007)

In Theatres: January 14th, 2008
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Frank Cappello
Cast:
Christian Slater
Elisha Cuthbert
William H. Macy
Sascha Knopf
John Gulager

Plot:
A darkly humorous plunge into the life of an office drone who harbors thoughts of terminating his co-workers but never has the courage to pull the trigger. On one fateful afternoon, Bob Maconel (Christian Slater) crosses the line from potential killer to inadvertent hero when he saves beautiful Venessa (Elisha Cuthbert) from another man’s bullet. His Boss (William H. Macy) transforms Bob into an executive but his good fortune is short lived when the object of his desire asks him to end her life.

Planet B-Boy (2007)

In Theatres: March 21st, 2008
Genre: Documentary
Director: Benson Lee

Plot:
With compelling characters and vibrant dance sequences, PLANET B-BOY is set in the International world of b-boying - the urban dance more commonly known as “breakdancing.” Weaving between the vivid backdrops of Osaka, Paris, Seoul and Las Vegas, spectacular choreography frames the intimate stories of dancers who struggle for their dreams despite being misunderstood by larger society and their own families. An American dancer in Vegas looks for his big break; a Korean son seeks his father’s approval; a twelve-year-old boy in France confronts his family’s racism - all the b-boys’ lives collide in Germany where their skills are put to the ultimate test: the “Battle of the Year” finals, with crews from 18 nations vying for the title of World Champion.

The Duchess (2008)

In Theatres: November 19th, 2008
Genre: Drama, History
Director: Saul Dibb
Cast:
Ralph Fiennes
Keira Knightley
Charlotte Rampling
Dominic Cooper
Hayley Atwell

Plot:
The scandalous rise and fall of the Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire. Like Princess Diana, her direct descendent, she was beautiful, glamorous and adored by the public.

The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

In Theatres: January 18th, 2008
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Cast:
Bradley Cooper
Leslie Bibb
Vinnie Jones
Roger Bart
Peter Jacobson

Plot:
Next stop…death. When Leon Kaufman’s (Bradley Cooper) latest body of work – a collection of provocative, nighttime studies of the city and its inhabitants -- earns the struggling photographer interest from prominent art gallerist Susan Hoff (Brooke Shields), she propels him to get grittier and show the darker side of humanity for his upcoming debut at her downtown art space. Believing he’s finally on track for success, Leon’s obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer, Mahogany (Vinnie Jones), the subway murderer who stalks late-night commuters -- ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways imaginable. With his concerned girlfriend Maya (Leslie Bibb) fearing for his life, Leon’s relentless fascination with Mahogany lures him further and further into the bowels of the subways and ultimately into an abyss of pure evil – inadvertently pulling Maya right along with him.

The Visitor (2007)

In Theatres: April 11th, 2008
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Tom McCarthy
Cast:
Richard Jenkins
Hiam Abbass
Haaz Sleiman
Danai Gurira

Plot:
In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy’s follow-up to his award winning directorial debut The Station Agent, Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars as Walter Vale, a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City. Through new found connections with virtual strangers, Walter is awakened to a new world and a new life.

The Year My Parents Went On Vacation (2006)

In Theatres: February 15th, 2008
Genre: Foreign, Drama
Director: Cao Hamburger
Cast:
Michel Joelsas
Germano Haiut
Paulo Autran
Simone Spoladore
Eduardo Moreira

Plot:
et in the turbulent year of 1970, this poignant and humorous coming of age story thrusts twelve year-old Mauro (Michel Joelsas) into a maelstrom of political and personal upheaval. When his left-wing militant parents are forced to go underground, Mauro is left in the care of his Jewish grandfather’s neighbor in Sao Paulo. Suddenly finding himself an exile in his own country, he is forced to create an ersatz family from the religiously diverse and colorful population of his new neighborhood.

The Ruins (2008)

In Theatres: April 4th, 2008
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director: Carter Smith
Cast:
Jonathan Tucker
Jena Malone
Shawn Ashmore
Laura Ramsey
Joe Anderson

Plot:
Based on the terrifying best-seller by Scott Smith, “The Ruins” follows a group of friends who become entangled in a brutal struggle for survival after visiting a remote archaeological dig in the Mexican jungle - where they discover something deadly living among the ruins. “The Ruins” stars Jonathan Tucker (“The Black Donnellys”), Jena Malone (“Pride and Prejudice”), Shawn Ashmore (“X-Men: The Last Stand”), Laura Ramsey (“She’s the Man”) and Joe Anderson (“Across the Universe”). The film is directed by Carter Smith from a screenplay by Scott B. Smith.