Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)

In Theatres: May 30th, 2008
Genre: Documentary
Director: Christopher Bell
Cast:
Christian Boeving
Rick Collins
Chris Bell
Mark Bell
Mike Bell


Plot:
From the producers of Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 comes a new film that unflinchingly explores our win-at-all-cost culture through the lens of a personal journey. Blending comedy and pathos, BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER* is a collision of pop culture, animated sequences and first-person narrative, with a diverse cast including US Congressmen, professional athletes, medical experts and everyday gym rats.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

In Theatres: 1 July, 2009
Genre: Animation
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Cast:
John Leguizamo
Queen Latifah
Denis Leary
Ray Romano
Chris Wedge

Plot:
ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS, to be fully produced in 3-D, is the latest installment to the hit ICE AGE franchise, which has grossed more than $1.2 billion around the world. ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS will be directed by Oscar-nominated Carlos Saldanha, who directed ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN and co-directed ICE AGE.

My Best Friend's Girl (2008)

In Theatres: September 19th, 2008
Genre: Comedy
Director: Howard Deutch
Cast:
Dane Cook
Kate Hudson
Jason Biggs
Lizzy Caplan
Alec Baldwin

Plot:
Tank (Cook) faces the ultimate test of friendship when his best friend hires him to take his ex-girlfriend (Hudson) out on a lousy date in order to make her realize how great her former boyfriend is.

Henry Poole Is Here (2008)

In Theatres: August 15th, 2008
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Mark Pellington
Cast:
Luke Wilson
Radha Mitchell
Adriana Barraza
George Lopez
Cheryl Hines

Plot:
Luke Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Old School), Academy Award nominee Adriana Barraza (Babel) and Radha Mitchell (Finding Neverland) star in a modern day fable about the unexpected wonders of the everyday from director Mark Pellington (U2 3D, The Mothman Prophesies). Henry Poole is Here tells the funny, poignant and uplifting story of a disillusioned man who attempts to hide from life in a rundown suburban tract home only to discover he cannot escape the forces of hope.

Finding Amanda (2008)

In Theatres: June 27th, 2008
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Peter Tolan
Cast:
Matthew Broderick
Brittany Snow
Maura Tierney
Peter Facinelli
Steve Coogan

Plot:
From director Peter Tolan, creator of the hit television series Rescue Me, comes Finding Amanda, a hilarious and heartbreaking autobiographical comedy about the compulsions we can’t shake, and the unlikely lengths we’ll go to while trying.

Brideshead Revisited (2008)

In Theatres: July 25th, 2008
Genre: Drama
Director: Julian Jarrold
Cast:
Matthew Goode
Ben Whishaw
Hayley Atwell
Emma Thompson
Michael Gambon

Plot:
A provocative and suspenseful drama, “BRIDESHEAD REVISITED” tells an evocative story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in the pre-WWII era.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)

In Theatres: 3 October, 2008
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Director: Raja Gosnell
Cast:
Drew Barrymore
Piper Perabo
Salma Hayek
Jamie Lee Curtis
Edward James Olmos

Plot:
While on vacation in Mexico, Chloe, a ritzy Beverly Hills chihuahua, finds herself lost and in need of assistance in order to get back home.

The Wackness (2008)

In Theatres: July 3rd, 2008
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Jonathan Levine
Cast:
Ben Kingsley
Josh Peck
Olivia Thirlby
Famke Janssen
Mary-Kate Olsen

Plot:
It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) spends his last summer before college selling dope throughout New York City, trading it with his shrink (Ben Kingsley) for therapy, while crushing on his step-daughter (Olivia Thirlby).

Mongol (2007)

In Theatres: June 6th, 2008
Genre: Foreign, Drama, History
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Cast:
Tadanobu Asano
Khulan Chuluun
Honglei Sun


Plot:
Award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov (PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS) illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan in his stunning historical epic, MONGOL. Based on leading scholarly accounts and written by Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, MONGOL delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

In Theatres: 19 December, 2008
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Director: David Fincher
Cast:
Brad Pitt
Cate Blanchett
Tilda Swinton
Julia Ormond
Elle Fanning

Plot:
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.

The Longshots (2008)

In Theatres: August 22nd, 2008
Genre: Drama, Sport, Comedy
Director: Fred Durst
Cast:
Ice Cube
Keke Palmer
Tasha Smith
Jill Marie Jones

Plot:
From Ice Cube, the star of such hits as Are We There Yet?, Are We Done Yet? and First Sunday, comes a feel-good family comedy, THE LONGSHOTS — a hilarious and heartwarming story of the the first and only girl quarterback in Pop Warner football history.

Transsiberian (2008)

In Theatres: July 18th, 2008
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Brand Anderson
Cast:
Woody Harrelson
Emily Mortimer
Kate Mara
Eduardo Noriega
Thomas Kretschmann Myassa

Plot:
An American couple, Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer), decide to take the long way home from their recent sojourn in Asia on the legendary Trans-siberian Express train from Beijing to Moscow. On their way, they meet another couple from the West, Carlos (Eduardo Noriega) and Abby (Kate Mara), with whom they quickly form a familiar bond that often unites fellow travellers away from home. When Roy accidentally gets separated from the group at a stopover, Jessie begins to realize that their compatriots aren’t exactly who or what they seem to be. The real danger begins to surface as a deceitful Russian detective (Sir Ben Kingsley) and locals terrorize Jessie in this unforgettable journey.

Twilight (2008)

In Theatres: December 12th, 2008
Genre: Action, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Cast:
Kristen Stewart
Robert Pattinson
Billy Burke
Peter Facinelli
Elizabeth Reaser

Plot:
TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern day love story between a vampire and a human. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother remarries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn’t expect much of 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, he sees straight into her soul.

The House Bunny (2008)

In Theatres: 22 August, 2008
Genre: Comedy
Director: Fred Wolf
Cast:
Anna Faris
Emma Stone
Kat Dennings
Colin Hanks
Katharine McPhee

Plot:
When Shelly, a Playboy bunny, is tossed out of the mansion, she has nowhere to go until she falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. The members of the sorority - who also have got to be the seven most socially clueless women on the planet - are about to lose their house. They need a dose of what only the eternally bubbly Shelley can provide... but they will each learn on their own to stop pretending to be what others want them to be and start being themselves.

Religulous (2008)

In Theatres: October 3rd, 2008
Genre: Documentary
Director: Larry Charles
Cast:
Bill Maher
Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda

Plot:
Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.

Kicking It (2008)

In Theatres: June 13th, 2008
Genre: Documentary
Director: Susan Koch

Plot:
The lives of homeless people are changed forever through an international soccer competition. This film follows six players as they set off for Cape Town, South Africa to play in the Homeless World Cup.

I Served the King of England (2008)

In Theatres: August 22nd, 2008
Genre: Comedy, Romance, War, Foreign
Director: Jirí Menzel
Cast:
Ivan Barnev
Oldrich Kaiser
Julia Jentsch
Martin Huba
Marián Labuda

Plot:
Jan Dítì (Ivan Barnev) is short in height, but high in ambition. To put it bluntly, the young provincial waiter wants to become a millionaire. And he knows just how to do it: by hearing everything, seeing everything, and creating opportunities at every turn. Armed with this knowledge and an irrepressible wish to please, he soon leaves his first place of employment, a pub, for a luxury brothel and, finally moving onto an elegant Art Nouveau Prague restaurant. But by the late 1930s, things are changing: Hitler has taken the Sudetenland region and is breaking apart Czechoslovakia. Jan falls in love with Líza (Julia Jentsch), a Sudeten German proud of her Aryan blood. They marry, and soon after Líza is sent to serve on the Polish front, while Jan remains behind to serve as a nurse in a Nazi SS Research Hospital, but when she returns, she has a fortune in rare stamps that Jews had ‘left behind’ … After Líza’s less than heroic death, Jan sells the stamps and becomes … a millionaire. But he only has three years to enjoy his fortune: the new Communist regime puts him behind bars for 15 years, one for each of his millions… Upon his release from jail, Jan is sent to live in a decrepit border town. Here Jan reflects on the events that have shaped his life – and to reflect on what might have happened if he had played a different role in these events.

Eagle Eye (2008)

In Theatres: September 26th, 2008
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director: D.J. Caruso
Cast:
Shia LaBeouf
Michelle Monaghan
Rosario Dawson
Michael Chiklis
Anthony Mackie

Plot:
In the fast-paced race-against-time-thriller “Eagle Eye” Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan are two strangers who become the pawns of a mysterious woman they have never met, but who seems to know their every move. Realizing they are being used to further her diabolical plot, they must work together to outwit the woman before she has them killed.

Choke (2008)

In Theatres: September 26th, 2008
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Clark Gregg
Cast:
Sam Rockwell
Anjelica Huston
Kelly Macdonald
Brad William Henke
Jonah Bobo

Plot:
A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.

Bottle Shock (2008)

In Theatres: August 6th, 2008
Genre: Drama
Director: Randall Miller
Cast:
Alan Rickman
Bill Pullman
Chris Pine
Rachael Taylor
Freddy Rodriguez

Plot:
Based on a true story, Bottle Shock chronicles the events leading up to the famous ‘Judgment of Paris’ tastings, told through the lives of father and son, Jim and Bo Barrett. A former real estate attorney, Jim (Bill Pullman) sacrificed everything to realize his dream of creating the perfect hand-crafted chardonnay.

Space Chimps (2008)

In Theatres: July 18th, 2008
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Director: Kirk De Micco
Cast:
Andy Samberg
Cheryl Hines
Kenan Thompson
Stanley Tucci
Kristin Chenoweth

Plot:
Space Chimps is an intergalactic comedy that highlights the antics of astronaut chimps with the “wrong stuff.” Ham III (Samberg), the slacker grandson of the first chimp blasted into space before manned spaceflight, joins two other astronaut chimps for a dangerous mission through a black hole to an inhabited planet. When they’re stranded there, the chimps must help the inhabitants rid themselves of a tyrannical leader, and then figure out how to get back to Earth.

The Last Mistress (2007)

In Theatres: June 27th, 2008
Genre: Drama, Foreign
Director: Catherine Breillat
Cast:
Asia Argento
Fu'ad Ait Aattou
Roxane Mesquida
Claude Sarraute
Yolande Moreau

Plot:
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.

Tropic Thunder (2008)

In Theatres: 15 August, 2008
Genre: Action, Comedy, War
Director: Ben Stiller
Cast:
Ben Stiller
Jack Black
Robert Downey Jr.
Brandon T. Jackson
Jay Baruchel

Plot:
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

Australia (2008)

In Theatres: 14 November, 2008
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War, Western
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast:
Nicole Kidman
Hugh Jackman
David Wenham
Bryan Brown
Bruce Spence

Plot:
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.

Quid Pro Quo (2008)

In Theatres: June 13th, 2008
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director: Carlos Brooks
Cast:
Nick Stahl
Vera Farmiga
Aimee Mullins

Plot:
A semi-paralyzed radio reporter is sent out to investigate a story that leads him into an odd subculture and on a journey of disturbing self-realization.

You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)

In Theatres: June 6th, 2008
Genre: Action, Comedy
Director: Dennis Dugan
Cast:
Adam Sandler
John Turturro
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Nick Swardson
Rob Schneider

Plot:
In You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, a comedy from screenwriters Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog), and Judd Apatow (Knocked Up), Sandler stars as Zohan, an Israeli commando who fakes his own death in order to pursue his dream: becoming a hairstylist in New York. Dennis Dugan directs.

My Winnipeg (2007)

In Theatres: June 13th, 2008
Genre: Drama
Director: Guy Maddin
Cast:
Darcy Fehr
Ann Savage
Amy Stewart
Louis Negin
Brendan Cade

Plot:
A personal portrait of filmmaker Guy Maddin's hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The Rocker (2008)

In Theatres: 1 August, 2008
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Cast:
Rainn Wilson
Josh Gad
Emma Stone
Christina Applegate
Jane Lynch

Plot:
The Rocker tells the story of a failed drummer who is given a second chance at fame. Robert "Fish" Fishman...

The Foot Fist Way (2006)

In Theatres: May 30th, 2008
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jody Hill
Cast:
Adam McKay
Will Ferrell
Chris Henchy

Plot:
An inept karate instructor struggles with marital troubles and an unhealthy obsession with fellow karate enthusiast Chuck "The Truck" Williams.

The Edge of Heaven (2008)

In Theatres: May 21st, 2008
Genre: Drama, Foreign
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast:
Hanna Schygulla
Patrycia Ziolkowska
Baki Davrak
Nurgul Yesilçay

Plot:
In a Turkish enclave in Bremen, patriarchal widower Ali brings home Yeter, a local prostitute, to tend to his domestic needs. Yeter is saving money to finance her daughter Ayten’s college education in Turkey. When Yeter is accidentally killed, Ali’s son Nejat heads to Turkey to find Ayten, who unbeknownst to him, has embarked on her own rebellious journey to Germany. Multi-layered and poignant, THE EDGE OF HEAVEN delves into German-Turkish relations and age-old generational divide. Winner of the Best Screenplay in the Cannes Film Festival 2007. Directed by Fatih Akin (Head-On, Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul).