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Yes Man (2008)

2008-12-20T09:22:00.000-08:00

'Yes Man' stars Jim Carrey as Carl Allen, a guy whose life is going nowhere-the operative word being "no"-until he signs up for a self-help program based on one simple covenant: say yes to everything...and anything. Unleashing the power of "YES" begins to transform Carl's life in amazing and unexpected ways, getting him promoted at work and opening the door to a new romance. But his willingness to embrace every opportunity might just become too much of a good thing.

Overview

User Rating : 7.2/10

Director : Peyton Reed

Writers (WGA) : Nicholas Stoller (screenplay), Jarrad Paul (screenplay)

Release Date : 19 December 2008 (USA)

Genre : Comedy

Tagline:

One word can change everything.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

2008-12-12T09:35:00.000-08:00

Keanu Reeves tops this adaptation of the seminal 1951 sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still with this 20th Century Fox production. Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) helms the story of an alien traveler, Klaatu (Reeves), who heads to Earth along with his bodyguard robot, Gort, to deliver a warning of planetary destruction if the people of the world fail to bring peace to their civilizations. Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, and Kathy Bates co-star in the Ryne Douglas Pearson-penned film.

Overview

User Rating : 6.7/10

Director : Scott Derrickson

Writers (WGA) : David Scarpa (screenplay), Edmund H. North (1951 screenplay)

Release Date : 12 December 2008 (USA)

Genre : Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Tagline:

12.12.08 is the Day the Earth Stood Still

Four Christmases (2008)

2008-12-02T10:20:00.001-08:00

A crafty couple run the Christmas Day gauntlet by racing to visit their divorced parents' four separate households in this Vince Vaughn/Reece Witherspoon comedy that proves the holidays are no time for relaxing. Brad (Vaughn) and Kate (Witherspoon) have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust - big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing flights are cancelled, the couple is embarrassed to see their ruse exposed to the world by an overzealous television reporter. Now, Brad and Kate are left with precious little choice other than to swallow their pride and suffer the rounds. Along the way, they perform in a church nativity play at the behest of Kate's mother (Mary Steenburgen)'s pushy Pastor Phil (Dwight Yoakam), contend with Brad's gruff father Howard (Robert Duvall) and bullying brothers Dallas (Jon Favreau) and Denver (Tim McGraw) - a pair of trained UFC fighters - and pay a visit to Brad's spacey, New Age mother Paula (Sissy Spacek), who recently made waves in the family circle by marrying her son's childhood friend.

Overview

User Rating : 5.7/10

Director : Seth Gordon

Writers : Matt Allen screenplay & Caleb Wilson (screenplay)

Release Date : 26 November 2008 (USA)

Genre : Comedy

Tagline:

His father, her mother, his mother and her father all in one day.

Twilight (2008)

2008-11-22T10:57:00.000-08:00

When Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) reluctantly moved to the perpetually overcast town of Forks, WA, and set out to carve a niche for herself, she assumed it would be one similar to the low-profile social position she held back in Phoenix. First on the list of surprises was the unfamiliar attention from the male population of her new high school; second, the attention from one male in particular: Edward Cullen, Vampire (Robert Pattinson). Before long, the unlikely soul mates find themselves in a passionate relationship with a variety of significant setbacks, including Edward's special-needs diet (he doesn't eat humans, but Bella's scent inspires a nearly impossible to harness bloodlust) and the human girl's mortality. Though things proceed relatively smoothly at first (Edward even introduces Bella to his adoptive vampire family), a visiting vampire clan consisting of James (Cam Gigandet), Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre), and Laurent (Edi Gathegi) catches Bella's unique scent and threatens the young couple's budding, if dangerous, happiness. James, known for his powerful tracking ability, becomes obsessed with making Bella his next victim. Fearing for Bella's safety and that of her loved ones, the Cullens must combine their collective talents in order to stop the highly predatory James before his goal is accomplished.

Overview

User Rating : 5.3/10

Director : Catherine Hardwicke

Writers : Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay), Stephenie Meyer (novel)

Release Date : 21 November 2008 (USA)

Genre : Action / Horror / Romance / Thriller

Tagline:

When you can live forever what do you live for?

Role Models (2008)

2008-11-16T09:17:00.000-08:00

A pair of irresponsible energy drink salesmen realize that serving a month of hard time is nothing compared to spending 150 hours in a community mentorship program after they trash the company truck and find themselves at the mercy of the court in this comedy starring Seann William Scott and Paul Rudd. Wheeler (Scott) and Danny (Rudd) wouldn't necessarily be the first people a parent would turn to when seeking out a babysitter, in fact, they probably wouldn't even make the list in the first place. After slamming a few too many Minotaur energy drinks and crashing the company truck, however, the two loose-living pals narrowly avert jail when the court decides to let them become mentors to a group of young misfits. But how is the recently dumped Danny supposed to help bashful, role-playing geek Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) become a man when all he can offer the boy is bitter sarcasm, and is beer-chugging man-child Wheeler really the best choice to help foul-mouthed fifth-grader Ronnie (Bobb'e J. Thompson) develop more respect for his elders? Probably not, but they'll have to do their best anyway when the center's ex-con director (Jane Lynch) confronts them with a harsh ultimatum. Now, if Wheeler and Danny can just make it through the rest of their probation without getting tossed in jail, maybe there's hope for the boys -- and Danny's relationship with his fed-up girlfriend (Elizabeth Banks) -- after all.

Overview

User Rating : 8.0/10

Director : David Wain

Writers (WGA) : Paul Rudd (screenplay) & David Wain (screenplay)

Release Date : 7 November 2008 (USA)

Genre : Comedy

Tagline:

Danny and Wheeler were just sentenced to 150 hours mentoring kids. Worst idea ever.

Madagascar : Escape 2 Africa (2008)

2008-11-12T08:38:00.000-08:00

In the highly-anticipated sequel to "Madagascar," Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, King Julien, Maurice and the penguins and the chimps find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so azy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old ashed plane--sort of. Once aloft, this unlikely ew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all--the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our zoo-raised ew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place...but is it better than their Central Park home?

Overview

User Rating : 7.4/10

Directors : Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath

Writer : Etan Cohen (written by)

Release Date : 7 November 2008 (USA)

Genre : Animation / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family

Tagline:

The crate escape

Quantum Of Solace (2008)

2008-11-05T08:13:00.000-08:00

Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger.

The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.

Overview

User Rating : 7.6/10

Director : Marc Forster

Writers (WGA) : Paul Haggis (written by) and Neal Purvis (written by)

Release Date : 5 November 2008 (Indonesia)

Genre : Action / Adventure / Thriller

Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

2008-11-04T05:17:00.001-08:00

Kevin Smith writes and directs his newest comedy for The Weinstein Co. with Zack & Miri Make a Porno, the story of two friends (Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks) who get into the amateur porn business to combat their rising debt, only to realize their underlying feelings for each other while doing so.

Overview

User Rating : 8.0/10

Director : Kevin Smith

Writer (WGA) : Kevin Smith (written by)

Release Date : 31 October 2008 (USA)

Genre : Comedy / Drama / Romance

High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)

2008-11-01T00:09:00.000-07:00

Disney's "High School Musical" phenomenon leaps onto the big screen in High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which finds high school seniors Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) facing the prospect of being separated from one another as they head off in different directions to college. Joined by the rest of the Wildcats, they stage an elaborate spring musical reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about their future. With incredible new music and exciting dance numbers designed to take maximum advantage of the big screen, this motion picture extravaganza delivers plenty of high-energy entertainment from East High's talented ensemble.

Overview

User Rating : 3.3/10

Director : Kenny Ortega

Writers (WGA) : Peter Barsocchini (written by & characters)

Release Date : 29 October 2008 (Indonesia)

Genre : Comedy / Drama / Family / Musical / Romance

Tagline:

high school graduation

Saw V (2008)

2008-10-28T10:16:00.000-07:00

In the fifth installment of the popular SAW franchise, Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy.

But when his secret is threatened, Hoffman must go on the hunt to eliminate all loose ends.

Overview

User Rating : 6.2/10

Director : David Hackl

Writers : Patrick Melton (screenplay) & Marcus Dunstan (screenplay)

Release Date : 24 October 2008 (USA)

Genre : Action / Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Tagline:

You won't believe how it ends.

Max Payne (2008)

2008-10-26T05:39:00.000-07:00

Max Payne tells the story of a maverick cop determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murder of his family and partner. Hell–bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max (Mark Wahlberg) is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.

Max Payne joins the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) after his baby daughter and wife are slaughtered in their house by psychotic junkies high on a new designer drug. While tracking the drug to the mafia Payne is framed for the murder himself and becomes entwined in a heavy conspiracy.

Overview

User Rating : 6.1/10

Director : John Moore

Writers : Beau Thorne (screenplay), Sam Lake (video game by Remedy Entertainment and 3-D Realms Entertainment)

Release Date : 22 October 2008 (Indonesia)

Genre : Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

Quarantine (2008)

2008-10-18T11:51:00.000-07:00

Jay Hernandez, Jennifer Carpenter, and Johnathon Schaech star in this remake of Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's successful, Spanish-language horror film [REC], which follows a television reporter and her cameraman as they fall under a mysterious quarantine issued on an inner-city apartment building. Television reporter Angela Vidal (Carpenter) and her trusty cameraman (Steve Harris) were documenting a night in the life of a Los Angeles fire station crew when the firefighters were summoned to a nearby apartment building to answer a routine 911 call. Upon arriving at the scene, Angela and company discover that police have already arrived to investigate the blood-curdling screams ringing out from one of the apartments. One of the women living in the building has been infected with something terrible, but what? When a few of the other residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape and discover that the CDC has quarantined the building. The officials in charge won't relay any information to those trapped inside the building, and it's impossible to seek information from the outside since telephone, Internet, television, and cell-phone access have all been cut off. By the time the quarantine is lifted, the intrepid cameraman's chilling footage provides the only evidence of the horrors that unfolded on that terrible night.

Overview

User Rating : 6.4/10

Director : John Erick Dowdle

Writers (WGA) : John Erick Dowdle (screenplay) & Drew Dowdle (screenplay)

Release Date : 10 October 2008 (USA)

Genre : Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Tagline:

On March 11 2008, the government sealed off an apartment complex in Los Angeles. The residents were never seen again. No details. No witnesses. No evidence. Until now.

Body Of Lies (2008)

2008-10-11T05:11:00.000-07:00

Fresh off of their success with director Martin Scorsese's The Departed, star Leonardo DiCaprio and screenwriter William Monahan team with director Ridley Scott for this screen adaptation of David Ignatius' novel Body of Lies. When CIA operative Roger Ferris (DiCaprio) uncovers evidence indicating that a major terrorist leader may be operating out of Jordan, he enlists the aid of CIA veteran Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe) in infiltrating the elusive saboteur's vast underground network. During the course of his dangerous mission, Ferris gradually comes to question how much he can trust his presumed allies -- who include not just Hoffman, but the outwardly helpful head of Jordanian intelligence as well.

Overview

User Rating : 8.0/10

Director : Ridley Scott

Writers (WGA) : William Monahan (screenplay), David Ignatius (novel)

Release Date : 10 October 2008 (USA)

Genre : Action / Drama / Thriller

Tagline:

Trust no one. Deceive everyone.

Laskar Pelangi (2008)

2008-10-08T07:37:00.000-07:00

The story which taken place in a small village called Gantung in East Belitong is about the childhood of ten young Malay race children who all of them has a different story and personality but they all have the same condition in live that is poverty. They all join together in a poor school that in a threshold to be closed down if the school can not collect 10 or more new students. Meanwhile in tit there was just only 9 children, then suddenly a child named Harun at the age of 15th with mentally disorder (retarded) sign in, which then just solve the school problem by accepting 10 student in that time. Since that time the entire 10 student has join together in a lifetime bonding and make a group of “LASKAR PELANGI”. Ikal (the main character), Lintang (the science genius boy), Mahar (the art genius boy), A kiong (the kind heart Chinese boy), Syahdan (who wants to be an actor), Kucai (the head of the class for all the time), Borek a.k.a Samson (the muscle boy), Trapani ( the handsome boy who can not be apart from her mother to long, later on he was diagnose as “heavy mother complex”), and Sahara (the only girl in the group before Flo come). The laskar pelangi all have a deep fondness to pelangi (rainbow) and every time after raining, they all get together in a filicium tree and stared on the rainbow with story from the art master Mahar. It helped a lot that their teachers were very dedicated and willing to sacrifice their own wellbeing for the sake of the kids. Though they are not gifted in the mind, they are very gifted in the way of the spirit and always talked in a very uplifting way. They symbolize patience, hard work and perseverance. Though they were trained only to teach a certain subject area, the impoverished state of the school has forced them to teach the kids everything from singing to physics. Fortunately, through the grace of God, two of these 10 were born geniuses and managed to teach the other kids things of the mind that the teachers can only be amazed about. All of these kids’ childhood is full with happiness although poverty was always be around them, but they manage to find their happiness in it, with high educational spirit they all fight for their future and hoping it will be better than the present that they live on.

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My Best Friend's Girl (2008)

2008-10-01T21:12:00.001-07:00

A master at seducing -- and offending -- women, Tank (Dane Cook) is a professional My Best Friend's Girl. When guys get dumped, they hire Tank to take their ex-girlfriends out on the worst date of their lives -- an experience so horrible it sends them running gratefully back to their beaus. So when Tank's best friend, Dustin (Jason Biggs), is dumped by his new girlfriend, Tank naturally offers to help out... and ends up meeting the challenge of a lifetime. Smart, beautiful and headstrong, Alexis (Kate Hudson) is the first girl who knows how to call his bluff, and Tank soon finds himself torn between his loyalty to Dustin and his love for his best friend's girl.

Overview

User Rating : 4.8/10

Director : Howard Deutch

Writer (WGA) : Jordan Cahan (written by)

Release Date : 19 September 2008 (USA)

Genre : Comedy

Eagle Eye (2008)

2008-09-30T08:17:00.000-07:00

Shia LeBeouf and Michelle Monaghan star in Disturbia director D.J. Caruso's race-against-time thriller concerning two strangers thrust together by a mysterious telephone call, and their frantic efforts to discover why they have inexplicably become the nation's most wanted fugitives. Jerry Shaw (LeBouf) and Rachel Holloman (Monaghan) were complete strangers at the beginning of the day, but that changed the instant a strange woman called to threaten both their lives and the lives of their loved ones. Suddenly forced into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, Jerry and Rachel must now take orders from a woman who's using everyday technology to track and control their every move. As the situation intensifies and the hapless duo are deemed the country's most wanted fugitives, they must work together in order to discover who it was that turned their lives upside down, and what they can do to thwart the criminal mastermind's cunning yet diabolical plan.

Overview

User Rating : 6.9/10

Director : D.J. Caruso

Writers (WGA) : John Glenn (screenplay), Travis Wright (screenplay)

Release Date : 26 September 2008 (USA)

Genre : Action / Mystery/ Thriller

Tagline:

If you want to live you will obey. Don't walk. Run

Burn After Reading (2008)

2008-09-22T11:01:00.000-07:00

At the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Arlington, Va., analyst Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) arrives for a top-secret meeting. Unfortunately for Cox, the secret is soon out: he is being ousted. Cox does not take the news particularly well and returns to his Georgetown home to work on his memoirs and his drinking, not necessarily in that order. His wife Katie (Tilda Swinton) is dismayed, though not particularly surprised; she is already well into an illicit affair with Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), a married federal marshal, and sets about making plans to leave Cox for Harry.

Elsewhere in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, and seemingly worlds apart, Hardbodies Fitness Centers employee Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) can barely concentrate on her work. She is consumed with her life plan for extensive cosmetic surgery, and confides her mission to can-do colleague Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt). Linda is all but oblivious to the fact that the gym's manager Ted Treffon (Richard Jenkins) pines for her even as she arranges dates via the Internet with other men.

When a computer disc containing material for the CIA analyst's memoirs accidentally falls into the hands of Linda and Chad, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. As Ted frets, "No good can come of this," events spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, in a cascading series of darkly hilarious encounters.

Overview

Directors : Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Writers (WGA) : Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (written by)

Release Date : 12 September 2008 (USA)

Genre : Comedy / Crime

Tagline:

Intelligence is relative.

Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

2008-09-13T09:59:00.000-07:00

The life of an anonymous assassin takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings.

Joe (Nicolas Cage), a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), a street punk and pickpocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment.

Strangely, Joe, the ultimate lone wolf, instead finds himself mentoring the young man while simultaneously being drawn into a tentative romance with a local shop girl. As he falls further under the sway of Bangkok's intoxicating beauty, Joe begins to question his isolated existence and let down his guard... just as Surat decides it's time to clean house.

Overview

Directors : Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang

Writers (WGA) : Jason Richman (screenplay), Oxide Pang Chun (1999 film)

Release Date : 5 September 2008 (USA)

Genre : Action / Chrime / Thriller

Tagline:

There's only one way out.

Death Race (2008)

2008-09-09T07:42:00.000-07:00

Jason Statham leads the cast of an action-thriller set in the post-industrial wasteland of tomorrow, with the world's most brutal sporting event as its backdrop. A penitentiary full of felons has inspired the jailers to create a grisly pastime ripe for lucrative kickbacks. Now, adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for televised violence and a spectacular arena come together to form the 'Death Race.'

Three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames (Statham) is an expert at survival in the harsh landscape that has become our country. Just as he thinks he has turned his life around, the ex-con is framed for a gruesome murder he didn't commit. Forced to don the mask of the mythical driver Frankenstein--a crowd favorite who seems impossible to kill--Ames is given an easy choice by Terminal Island's warden (Joan Allen): suit up or rot away in a cell.

His face hidden by a metallic mask, one convict will be put through an insane three-day challenge. Ames must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals in the country's toughest prison to claim the prize of freedom. Driving a monster car outfitted with machine guns, flamethrowers and grenade launchers, one desperate man will destroy anything in his path to win the most twisted spectator sport on Earth.

Overview

Director : Paul W.S. Anderson

Writers (WGA) : Paul W.S. Anderson (screenplay, screen story)

Release Date : 27 August 2008 (Indonesia)

Genre : Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Tagline:

Get ready for a killer ride.

Babylon A.D. (2008)

2008-08-29T09:40:00.000-07:00

Hong Kong action icon Michelle Yeoh stars alongside American muscle Vin Diesel in this science fiction thriller concerning a nun who is charged with the task of caring for a young girl who may be the carrier of a deadly virus. Based on author Maurice Dantec's Babylon Babies, this tale of genetic manipulation comes to the screen courtesy of director Mathieu Kassovitz.

Overview

Director : Mathieu Kassovitz

Writers : Eric Besnard (writer), Maurice G. Dantec (novel)

Release Date : 3 September 2008 (Indonesia)

Genre : Action / Adventure Sci-Fi / Thriller

The House Bunny (2008)

2008-08-25T07:15:00.000-07:00

Shelley Darlington (Anna Faris) is a Playboy Bunny who teaches an awkward sorority about the opposite sex -- only to learn that what boys really like is what's on the inside.

Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have -- a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.

Overview

Director: Fred Wolf

Writers (WGA) : Karen McCullah Lutz (written by) & Kirsten Smith (written by)

Release Date : 22 August 2008 (USA)

Genre : Comedy

Star Wars : The Clone (2008)

2008-08-19T06:08:00.000-07:00

George Lucas continues his most popular franchise's legacy with Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a computer-animated 3-D film that takes place between Star Wars: Episode II and III. The first-ever animated feature from Lucasfilm Animation, this action-packed space adventure follows the heroic Jedi Knights as they attempt to maintain order and restore peace during a time of monumental galactic strife. The Clone Wars have engulfed the galaxy in chaos, and as the dreaded droid army of the Separatists wipes out everything in its path, the future of the Galactic Republic becomes increasingly uncertain. Meanwhile, Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan learner Ahsoka Tano embark on a pivotal mission that pits them directly against the dreaded Jabba the Hutt and his criminal minions while Count Dooku enlists the aid of Asajj Ventress and the rest of his sinister agents in ensuring that the young Jedi fails in his noble mission. Back on the front lines of the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Master Yoda attempt to fend off the forces of the dark side with the assistance of a massive clone army.

Overview

Director : Dave Filoni

Writers : Henry Gilroy (screenplay), George Lucas (characters and universe)

Release Date : 15 August 2008 (USA)

Genre : Animation / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi

Tropic Thunder (2008)

2008-08-17T10:17:00.000-07:00

Pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced. He sets out to Southeast Asia with a "Who's Who" of celebrity co-stars. They include Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an intense, three-time Oscar®-winning actor; Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), star of the popular gross-out comedy franchise "The Fatties"; multi-platinum hip-hop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson); and first-timer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel).

Soon after the production begins the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they're portraying, in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece.

Overview

Director : Ben Stiller

Writers (WGA) : Ben Stiller (screenplay) & Justin Theroux (screenplay)

Release Date : 13 August 2008 (USA)

Genre : Action / Comedy

Tagline:

The movie they think they're making... isn't a movie anymore.

Pineapple Express (2008)

2008-08-13T09:39:00.000-07:00

Next summer, the guys who brought you Superbad reunite for the action-comedy Pineapple Express. Lazy stoner Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver (James Franco): to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city's most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him. And it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they’re not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. All aboard the Pineapple Express.

Overview

Director : David Gordon Green

Writers (WGA) : Seth Rogen (screenplay) & Evan Goldberg (screenplay)

Release Date : 6 August 2008 (USA)

Genre : Comedy / Crime / Thriller

Tagline:

Put this in your pipe and smoke it.

The Children Of HuangShi (2008)

2008-08-09T09:58:00.000-07:00

As China is ravaged by war in the late '30s, a young English journalist named George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) leads 60 orphans over the Liu Pan Shan mountains and into the safety of the Mongolian desert. Joining the journalist and the children on their arduous journey are an American nurse (Radha Mitchell) and the fearless leader of a Chinese partisan group (Chow Yun-Fat). The journey won't be easy, but as they boldly forge forward through snow-covered mountains and unforgiving desert, they learn the true meaning of responsibility, courage, and love. Jane Hawksley pens a drama based on actual events and directed by renowned filmmaker Roger Spottiswoode.