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Religulous

Release date: 10/7/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Larry Charles
Cast: Bill Maher, Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda

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





Meet Dave

Release date: 17/7/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Brian Robbins
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Ed Helms, Brandon Molale

Meet Dave centers on a spaceship that takes the form of a human (Murphy). It's operated by 100 human-looking, quarter-inch-tall aliens seeking a way to save their planet. Complications ensue when their captain (also played by Murphy) falls in love with an Earth woman who always picks losers to date.





Dark Knight, The

Release date: 17/7/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Eric Roberts, Nestor Carbonell, Anthony Michael Hall, Melinda McGraw, Michael Jai White, Cillian Murphy

Batman (Christian Bale) and Gotham City Police Lt. James Gordon (Gary Oldman) team up with newly appointed DA Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) to stop a vicious killer with a warped sense of humor known only as The Joker (Heath Ledger).





X-Files 2

Release date: 24/7/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Chris Carter
Cast: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Xzibit, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly, Callum Keith Rennie, Adam Godley

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson return for the sequel to "X-Files."





Savages, The

Release date: 24/7/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Tamara Jenkins
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Laura Linney, Philip Bosco

An irreverent, hilarious and heartbreaking story revolving around a modern American family, "The Savages" portrays an all-too-common dilemma: after drifting apart emotionally and geographically over the years, two siblings Wendy (Laura Linney) and Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) must band together to care ...





Rocker, The

Release date: 31/7/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Cast: Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Josh Gad, Teddy Geiger, Jane Lynch, Emma Stone, Jason Sudeikis, Howard Hesseman, Jeff Garlin, Bradley Cooper, Lonny Ross, Will Arnett, Fred Armisen

The Rocker tells the story of a failed drummer who is given a second chance at fame. Robert "Fish" Fishman is the extremely dedicated and astoundingly passionate (not to mention sweaty) drummer for the eighties hair band Vesuvius, who is living the rock n' roll dream until he is unceremoniously kicked ...





Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution

Release date: 31/7/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Bille Eltringham
Cast: Catherine Tate, Iain Glen

She left the land of Marks & Spencer and went to the world of Marx and Lenin. Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution is a feelgood comedy following one dysfunctional family's journey from 1968 West Yorkshire to 19 below freezing East Germany and back again. Mr Ratcliffe fought for the cause, but his wife fought ...





Bank Job, The

Release date: 31/7/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays

In September 1971, thieves tunneled into the vault of a bank in London's Baker Street and looted safe deposit boxes of cash and jewelry worth over three million pounds. None of it was recovered. Nobody was ever arrested. The robbery made headlines for a few days and then disappeared - the result of ...





Ruins, The

Release date: 7/8/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Carter Smith
Cast: Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Jonathan Tucker, Laura Ramsey

A group of friends find their leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they accompany a fellow tourist on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.





Baby Mama

Release date: 7/8/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Michael McCullers
Cast: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver, Dax Shepard, Greg Kinnear, Maura Tierney, Romany Malco

Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven ...





Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

Release date: 7/8/2008
Rating: MA15+
Consumer Advice: Frequent coarse language; Strong sexual references and nudity; Strong drug use; Crude humour and strong violence
Running time: 100 mins
Director: Hayden Schlossberg, John Hurwitz
Cast: John Cho, Kal Penn, Roger Bart, Rob Corddry, Neil Patrick Harris

Harold and Kumar try to outrun authorities who suspect them of being terrorists when they try to sneak a bong on board their flight to Amsterdam.





College Road Trip

Release date: 7/8/2008
Rating: G
Consumer Advice: Some comedic violence
Running time: 83 mins
Director: Roger Kumble
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Raven Symone, Arnetia Walker, Michael Landes, Vincent Pastore

When an overachieving high school student decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father also decides to accompany her in order to keep her on the straight and narrow.





Pineapple Express

Release date: 7/8/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: David Gordon Green
Cast: Seth Rogen, Bill Hader, James Franco

A pair of druggie losers reach the top of the hit list when one witnesses a mob murder and drags his buddy into a crazy flight from mobsters bent on silencing both of them permanently.





Redbelt

Release date: 7/8/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: David Mamet
Cast: Rodrigo Santoro, Tim Allen, Emily Mortimer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alice Braga, Joe Mantegna

Set in the west-side Los Angeles fight world, a world inhabited by bouncers, cage-fighters, cops, and special forces types, "Redbelt" is the story of Mike Terry (Chewitel Ejiofor), a Jiu-jitsu master who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing to instead pursue an honorable life by opeRating ...





Good

Release date: 7/8/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Vicente Amorim
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Mark Strong, Jason Isaacs

Good is one man's journey during the Nazi regime set against his chaotic private life. Based on the play by CP Taylor, Good forces us the question the nature of humanity and whether in such circumstances a person can remain good.





Stop-Loss

Release date: 14/8/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Kimberly Peirce
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ciarán Hinds, Timothy Olyphant, Victor Rasuk, Rob Brown

Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. Brandon tries to resume the life he left behind with the help and support of his family and his best friend, Steve Shriver, who served with him in Iraq. Alongside their war-time ...





Bachna Ae Haseeno

Release date: 14/8/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Siddharth Anand
Cast: Deepika Padukone, Bipasha Basu, Ranbir Kapoor, Minissha Lamba

Celebrate the fresh new story of "Bachna Ae Haseeno", the third film from one of India's new vanguard of exciting directors, Siddharth Anand. It stars the young scion of the legendary Kapoor family, Ranbir Kapoor as the carefree alpha male and the relationships he has with the 3 women in his life. Starring ...





Mirrors

Release date: 14/8/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Alexandre Aja
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Ezra Buzzington

A mall security guard becomes wrapped up in a mystery involving a particular department store's mirrors which seem to bring out the worst in people.





Persepolis

Release date: 21/8/2008
Rating: M
Running time: 92 mins
Director: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Cast: Sean Penn, Gena Rowlands, Catherine Deneuve, Iggy Pop, Chiara Mastroianni, Simon Abkarian, Danielle Darrieux

Based on her bestselling graphic novel, Marjane Satrapi teamed up with underground comic book artist Vincent Paronnaud to co-direct this animated big screen adaptation. The result is an electrifying, heartfelt, and original portrait of a spunky girl who surmounts countless obstacles to grow into a wise ...





Tropic Thunder

Release date: 21/8/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Ben Stiller
Cast: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Nick Nolte, Brandon Jackson, Steve Coogan, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Jay Baruchel, Matt Levin, Andrea De Oliveira, Reggie Lee, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Cruise

A comedy about five actors who go on location and find themselves relying on their boot camp experiences when they get stuck in a real war-like situation.





Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

Release date: 28/8/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Cast: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Luke Goss

Along with his expanding team in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development—pyrokinetic girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair), aquatic empath Abe (Doug Jones) and protoplasmic mystic Johann—the BPRD will travel between the surface strata and the unseen magical one, where creatures of fantasy become corporeal. ...





He's Just Not That Into You

Release date: 28/8/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Ken Kwapis
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Justin Long, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Connelly, Ginnifer Goodwin, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper

In Baltimore, a group of unrelated people deal with love and the challenges of reading or misreading human behavior. Jennifer Connelly plays a woman stuck in a tired marriage with a cheating husband (Bradley Cooper). Another man pines after a woman who is having an affair with a married man. A young ...





Son Of Rambow

Release date: 28/8/2008
Rating: PG
Running time: 95 mins
Director: Garth Jennings
Cast: Zofia Brooks, Neil Dudgeon, Tallulah Evans, Adam Godley

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.





Passengers

Release date: 4/9/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Chelah Horsdal, Ryan Robbins, Andrew Wheeler, Robert Gauvin, David Morse, Andre Braugher, Clea DuVall, Dianne Wiest

A grief counselor works with a plane crash survivor through his denial of the terrible event.





Wall-E

Release date: 11/9/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Andrew Stanton
Cast: Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard

What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off?

Academy Award®-winning writer-director Andrew Stanton (“Finding Nemo”) and the inventive storytellers and technical geniuses at Pixar Animation Studios (“The Incredibles,” “Cars,” “Ratatouille”) transport ...





Mummy 3: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor

Release date: 11/9/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Rob Cohen
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, Michelle Yeoh, Luke Ford, John Hannah

A despotic Emperor (Jet Li) in 50 B.C. is punished for his evil when a witch lays a curse on him, turning him and his army into terra cotta for all time. Forward to 1946, where Rick (Brendan Fraser) and Evelyn (Maria Bello) have retired to Oxfordshipre, England, having worked as British spies during ...





Wild Child

Release date: 18/9/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Nick Moore
Cast: Emma Roberts, Natasha Richardson, Shirley Henderson, Aidan Quinn

Sixteen-year-old Poppy (Emma Roberts) is a self-obsessed, incorrigible brat who lives a pampered life in her L.A. world. Though she's handed credit cards with unlimited balances and surrounded by countless hangers on, Poppy can't escape the mounting frustration she feels with her family situation. And ...





Step Brothers

Release date: 18/9/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Adam McKay
Cast: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Andrea Savage, Kathryn Hahn

In Step Brothers, Will Ferrell plays Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old who lives with his mother, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen). John C. Reilly plays Dale Doback, a terminally unemployed forty-year-old who lives with his father, Robert (Richard Jenkins). When Robert and Nancy marry ...





Angus, Thongs & Full Frontal Snogging

Release date: 18/9/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Georgia Groome, Aaron Johnson, Alan Davies, Kimberley Nixon, Eleanor Tomlinson, Liam Hess, Eva Drew

Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around her hilarious journal entries, prepare to be engulfed in the ...





Space Chimps

Release date: 18/9/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Kirk De Micco
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Stanley Tucci, Patrick Warburton, Cheryl Hines, Kristin Chenoweth, Andy Samberg, Kenan Thompson, Omid Abtahi, Zack Shada

The story follows two NASA trained chimpanzees; Lucy (a well trained, disciplined, typical “company woman”) and Ham (a classic good-natured goofball) who have to forego their usual comforts and live like animals when their space mission propels them into a distant universe. Forced to land on a magical ...





Seventeen

Release date: 18/9/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Burr Steers
Cast: Zac Efron, Michelle Trachtenberg, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann

About a guy whose life didn't quite turn out how he wanted it to and wishes he could go back to high school and change it. He wakes up one day and is seventeen again and gets the chance to rewrite his life.





Taken

Release date: 18/9/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Pierre Morel
Cast: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Holy Valance

A former spy must use his skills to rescue his estranged daughter, who is kidnapped and forced into the slave trade.





Eagle Eye

Release date: 25/9/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: D.J. Caruso
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bob Thornton

A young slacker returns home when his overachieving twin brother dies mysteriously. Both he and a single mother find they have been framed as terrorists. Forced to become members of a cell that has plans to carry out a political assassination, they must work together to extricate themselves.





Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Release date: 25/9/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Raja Gosnell
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Jamie Lee Curtis, Andy Garcia, Salma Hayek, George Lopez, Cheech Marin, Paul Rodriguez, Placido Domingo, Edward James Olmos, Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo, Piper Perabo

In the Disney comedy, BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA, a pampered pooch named Chloe (voice of DREW BARRYMORE) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected ...





Babylon A.D.

Release date: 2/10/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Cast: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Gérard Depardieu, Mark Strong, Charlotte Rampling

Veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop (Diesel) takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to China. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.





Brideshead Revisited

Release date: 2/10/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Julian Jarrold
Cast: Michael Gambon, Emma Thompson, Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode, Greta Scacchi

The memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family and in particular brother and sister Sebastian and Julia.





House Bunny

Release date: 2/10/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Fred Wolf
Cast: Katharine McPhee, Kellan Rhude, Beverly D'Angelo, Emma Stone, Anna Faris

Anna Faris stars as Shelley Darlington, a former playboy bunny who signs up to be the new house mother at UCLA’s nerdiest sorority, 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 ...





International, The

Release date: 9/10/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen

Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world’s most powerful banks. Uncovering reprehensible illegal activities, Slainger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New ...





How To Lose Friends And Alienate People

Release date: 9/10/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Robert B. Weide
Cast: Megan Fox, Kirsten Dunst, Simon Pegg, Jeff Bridges, Gillian Anderson

Sidney Young (Pegg) is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the conservative New York based Sharps ...





Burn After Reading

Release date: 16/10/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand

CIA agent Osbourne Cox is writing his memoirs after getting fired from the CIA. The disc containing the memoirs is discovered in the female locker room at the gym, where it was left by mistake by the secretary of Katie Cox's divorce lawyer. Katie had downloaded the information secretly so her divorce ...





Max Payne

Release date: 16/10/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: John Moore
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Beau Bridges, Mila Kunis

A DEA agent in New York, Max Payne has it all: A terrific job, a baby daughter, and a loving wife - the American dream. But this dream soon becomes his worst nightmare, as he returns home one day to discover that his wife and child have been brutally slain by psychotic hit men. Now on a personal mission ...





Ghost Town

Release date: 23/10/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: David Koepp
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Ricky Gervais, Tea Leoni

This romantic comedy follows a misanthropic dentist who dies for seven minutes during a routine procedure only to find himself harassed by the ghost of a dead businessman following his recovery. The former wife of the businessman is due to remarry which is a situation the ghost wants the dentist to ...





Roadside Romeo

Release date: 23/10/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Jugal Hansraj
Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Javed Jaffrey,

A rich, cool, spoilt brat of a dog is abandoned on the wicked streets of Mumbai. He faces situations he has never faced before. He is confronted by dangerous, loony characters, the likes of which he has never met before. From mansions to streets. From five course meals to five courses of scraps. From ...





Nights In Rodanthe

Release date: 30/10/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: George C. Wolfe
Cast: Diane Lane, Richard Gere, James Franco, Scott Glen, Mae Whitman

A story of two unhappy people whose lives become entwined as they develop a life changing romance. Adrienne (Lane) is a woman who's trying to decide whether or not to stay in her loveless marriage. Her life changes forever when Paul (Gere), a doctor travelling to reconcile his relationship with his ...





Lakeview Terrace

Release date: 30/10/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Neil LaBute
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Eva La Rue, Bitsie Tulloch

In Lakeview Terrace, a young couple (Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington) has just moved into their California dream home when they become the target of their next-door neighbour, who disapproves of their interracial relationship. A stern, single father, this tightly wound LAPD office (Samuel L. Jackson) ...





Rocknrolla

Release date: 6/11/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Idris Elba, Ludacris

When a Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, millions of dollars are up for grabs, and all of London’s criminal underworld wants in on the action. Everyone from a dangerous crime lord to a sexy accountant, a corrupt politician and down-on-their-luck petty thieves conspire, collude and collide ...





Australia

Release date: 13/11/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, David Wenham

Luhrmann's film is set in northern Australia prior to World War II and centers on an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Hugh Jackman) to drive 2,000 ...





James Bond: Quantum Of Solace

Release date: 20/11/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Marc Forster
Cast: Daniel Craig, Mathieu Amalric, Giancarlo Giannini, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Judi Dench, Olga Kurylenko

Daniel Craig reprises his role as James Bond. The story takes the super spy (Daniel Craig) out for revenge on a mission that takes him to Austria, Italy and South America.

Bond girl Camille, played by Ukrainian-born Olga Kurylenko, leads the secret agent to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), ...





High School Musical 3

Release date: 27/11/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Kenny Ortega
Cast: Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman

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 ...





Death Race

Release date: 4/12/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast: Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane

In the near-future, prisons are run by a corporation which uses inmates to participate in the most popular sport on earth, a brutal adrenalin-fuelled game of carnage in which monster cars are fitted with machine guns, flame throwers and rocket launchers. Former racing champion Jensen Ames is just two ...





Four Christmases

Release date: 4/12/2008
Rating:
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Director: Adam Shankman
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn

A young married couple, each of them with divorced parents who've remarried, are expected to attend four different Christmas Day family celebrations.





Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince

Release date: 11/12/2008
Rating:
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Director: David Yates
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, David Bradley, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Matthew Lewis, Bonnie Wright, Jim Broadbent, Helen McCrory, Jessie Cave

Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts is tempered by the fact there is a war going on all around him - a war in which he must eventually either win or die. Dumbledore takes it upon himself to show Harry a partial history of Tom Riddle and in doing so discloses the secret to the Dark Lord's immortality. Meanwhile, ...





City of Ember

Release date: 11/12/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Gil Kenan
Cast: Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Toby Jones, Saoirse Ronan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Harry Treadaway

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing ... and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that ...





Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Release date: 11/12/2008
Rating:
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Director: Aditya Chopra
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta, Rajesh Khanna, Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman

Rab ne Bana Di Jod is the New Bollywood Hindi Moviefrom Yash Raj Films. Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi would be the third Directorial Venture of the Super Hit Director, Producer and one of the most Powerful person in Bollywood today, Aditya Chopra. Aditya Chopra makes a come back to the director's seat after 8 ...





Madagascar 2: The Crate Escape

Release date: 18/12/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
Cast: Ben Stiller, Cedric the Entertainer, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, David Schwimmer

All the loveable characters are back -- Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo, King Julien, Maurice and the penguins -- in "Madagascar: The Crate Escape." Left marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. ...





Tale Of Despereaux

Release date: 26/12/2008
Rating:
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Director: Sam Fell
Cast: Robbie Coltrane, Ciarán Hinds, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Kline, Christopher Lloyd, Justin Long, William H. Macy, Stanley Tucci, Tracey Ullman, Sigourney Weaver

Once upon a time, in the faraway kingdom of Dor, there was magic in the air, raucous laughter aplenty and gallons of mouth-watering soup. But a terrible accident left the king broken-hearted, the princess filled with longing and the townsfolk despondent. All hope was lost in a land where sunlight disappeared ...





Frost/Nixon

Release date: 26/12/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones, Matthew Macfadyen, Oliver Platt, Kate Jennings Grant

A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.





Bedtime Stories

Release date: 26/12/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Adam Shankman
Cast: Adam Sandler

The life of a busy architect takes a crazy turn when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to come true.





Day The Earth Stood Still, The

Release date: 26/12/2008
Rating:
Running time: TBC
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates

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





Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The

Release date: 26/12/2008
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Director: David Fincher
Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Elle Fanning

Based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald story, the film centres on an elderly man who gets younger as time passes and encounters complications when, at age 50, he falls in love with a woman who is 30.





Duchess, The

Release date: 26/12/2008
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Director: Saul Dibb
Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling

Keira Knightley plays the 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire. She lived an extravagant, profligate and promiscuous life of political and romantic intrigue, becoming an important powerbroker amid Britain's ruling elite but also running up catastrophic gambling debts. She was alternately ...





Dean Spanley

Release date: 26/12/2008
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Director: Toa Fraser
Cast: Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam, Peter O'Toole

A surreal Edwardian comedic tale of canine reincarnation that explores the relationship between master and dog and father and son.





Bolt

Release date: 1/1/2009
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Director: Chris Williams
Cast: John Travolta, Thomas Haden Church, Woody Harrelson, Bruce Greenwood, Bernie Mac

Bolt, a German Shepherd, has lived his whole life as the star of a television show. When he winds up stranded in his trailer in the Nevada desert, Bolt soon finds out he doesn’t really have superpowers like on the show.





Changeling, The

Release date: 1/1/2009
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Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Amy Ryan, Colm Feore, Devon Gearhart

A mother prays for the return of her kidnapped son. When her prayers are answered, however, she begins to suspect the boy who comes back is not her child.





Inkheart

Release date: 1/1/2009
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Director: Iain Softley
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren,

"Inkheart" revolves around a girl whose father has the power to bring characters from books to life by reading aloud. When a villainous ruler and his band of rogues from a children's fable kidnap the man, his daughter and her friends, both real and imaginary, must rescue him. Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire ...





Igor

Release date: 1/1/2009
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Director: Anthony Leondis
Cast: John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Coolidge, John Cleese, Eddie Izzard, Molly Shannon, Sean Hayes, Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall, Paul Vogt

Igor is a playfully irreverent comedy that brings a new twist to the classic monster genre. In a world filled with Mad Scientists and Evil Inventions, one talented evil scientist's hunch-backed lab assistant has big dreams of becoming a Mad Scientist himself and winning the annual Evil Science Fair.





Yes Man

Release date: 1/1/2009
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Director: Peyton Reed
Cast: Jim Carrey, Bradley Cooper, Zooey Deschanel, Sasha Alexander, Danny Masterson, John Michael Higgins, Devin Smith, Molly Sims, Luis Guzman

A guy challenges himself to say "yes" to everything for an entire year. Based on the memoir by Danny Wallace.





Seven Pounds

Release date: 8/1/2009
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Director: Gabriele Muccino
Cast: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy

Starring Will Smith, this romantic comedy is about a man who inadvertently falls in love while attempting to kill himself.





Revolutionary Road

Release date: 15/1/2009
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Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates, David Harbour, Zoe Kazan

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950's struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.





Hotel For Dogs

Release date: 15/1/2009
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Director: Thor Freudenthal
Cast: Don Cheadle, Emma Roberts, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon

An orphaned brother and sister hide their dog in a vacant hotel, which soon becomes a place for nine other dogs who have been abandoned. The brother is a keen inventor and creates a number of contraptions to entertain the dogs e.g. stick thrower, poop collector… Lisa Kudrow plays a foster parent to ...





Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist

Release date: 15/1/2009
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Director: Peter Sollett
Cast: Michael Cera, Kat Dennings, Alexis Dziena, Aaron Yoo, Rafi Gavron

It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who’s just walked in to his band’s show with a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York City—and smack ...





Marley & Me

Release date: 15/1/2009
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Director: David Frankel
Cast: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Alan Arkin, Eric Dane

An unforgettable story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life.





Underworld 3: Rise Of The Lycans

Release date: 22/1/2009
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Director: Patrick Tatopoulos
Cast: Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra

The prequel story traces the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires known as Death Dealers and their onetime slaves, the Lycans. In the Dark Ages, a young Lycan named Lucian (Sheen) emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Nighy), ...





Soloist, The

Release date: 5/2/2009
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Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener

Based on the true story of musical prodigy Nathaniel Ayers, who developed schizophrenia in his second year at Juilliard and ended up homeless on the streets of downtown L.A. where he performs the violin and cello.





I Love You Man

Release date: 5/2/2009
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Director: John Hamburg
Cast: Paul Rudd, Jason Segal, Rashida Jones,

A newly engaged guy sets out to find the perfect "Best Man" for his wedding.





Doubt

Release date: 5/2/2009
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Director: John Patrick Shanley
Cast: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis

Set in 1964, Doubt centers on a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him abusing a black student. He denies the charges, and much of the play's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality and authority.





Valkyrie

Release date: 12/2/2009
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Director: Bryan Singer
Cast: Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry, Carice van Houten, Tom Wilkinson, Eddie Izzard, Daniel Brühl

At the height of WWII, a group of high-ranking German officers hatch a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and seize power of the military command in order to end the war. The code name for the operation is "Valkyrie," for the emergency plan that was meant to be used in case of a revolt against the Nazi ...





Friday The 13th

Release date: 12/2/2009
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Director: Marcus Nispel
Cast: Amanda Righetti, Jared Padalecki, Derek Mears

The 10th film in the Friday the 13th franchise, which will focus on Jason Voorhees' origins.





Confessions Of A Shopaholic

Release date: 12/2/2009
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Director: P.J. Hogan
Cast: Isla Fischer, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, Hugh Dancy, Leslie Bibb, Kristin Scott Thomas, John Lithgow, Lynn Redgrave

A college grad lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City to support where she nurtures her shopping addiction and falls for a wealthy entrepreneur. Based on the novel "Confessions of a Shopaholic" by Sophie Kinsella.





Thousand Words, A

Release date: 19/2/2009
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Director: Brian Robbins
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Claire Duke

A blasé guy learns that he has only 1,000 words left to speak before he will die.





Dinner For Schmucks

Release date: 5/3/2009
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Director: To Be Announced
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen

An extraordinarily stupid man possesses the ability to ruin the life of anyone who spends more than a few minutes in his company.





Watchmen

Release date: 5/3/2009
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Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Billy Crudup, Carla Gugino, Patrick Wilson, Malin Akerman

A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one ...





Crimson Wing, The

Release date: 5/3/2009
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Director: Matthew Aeberhard, Leander Ward
Cast: N/A

In a remote and forgotten wilderness, one of nature's last great mysteries unfolds: the birth, life and death of a million crimson-winged flamingos. Against a dramatic backdrop of never-before filmed landscapes, these secretive birds struggle to survive and prevail over danger and fate. This inspiring ...





Lovely Bones, The

Release date: 19/3/2009
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Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon, Michael Imperioli, Rose McIver, Carolyn Dando, A.J. Michalka

An adaptation of the Alice Sebold best-selling novel, "The Lovely Bones" tells the story of Susie Salmon, who is murdered, but continues to observe her family on Earth after her death. Although she is detached from the world she once knew, Susie witnesses the impact of her loss on her loved ones, whilst ...





Duplicity

Release date: 26/3/2009
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Director: Tony Gilroy
Cast: Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton

A pair of corporate spies (Owen and Roberts) who share a steamy past hook up to pull off the ultimate con job on their respective bosses.





Race To Witch Mountain

Release date: 26/3/2009
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Director: Andy Fickman
Cast: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Ciaran Hinds, Alexander Ludwig, Carla Gugino, Garry Marshall

A brother and sister, each of whom possess paranormal powers, look to avoid being captured by a group of men who want to exploit them.





Pink Panther 2

Release date: 2/4/2009
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Director: Harald Zwart
Cast: Andy Garcia, Jean Reno, Steve Martin, John Cleese,

After earning France's Medal of Honour for solving the Pink Panther diamond mystery, Inspector Jacques Clouseau has been reassigned to a remedial job by Chief Inspector Dreyfus (John Cleese) to keep him out of trouble. Alas, the Pink Panther diamond is stolen yet again during a series of thefts around ...





Monsters Vs. Aliens

Release date: 2/4/2009
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Director: Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Rainn Wilson, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Stephen Colbert

A DreamWorks Animation film based on the horror comicbook "Rex Havoc," about a monster hunter called upon to battle aliens who disrupt cable TV service.





Cirque Du Freak

Release date: 2/4/2009
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Director: Paul Weitz
Cast: Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly

A young boy named Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a Vampire. After a series of events Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque Du Freak and become a Vampire.





Wolfman, The

Release date: 9/4/2009
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Director: Joe Johnston
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Benecio del Toro, Emily Blunt

Inspired by the classic Universal Pictures film that launched a legacy of horror, The Wolfman reclaims the myth of a man whose curse transforms him into something less human. Lawrence Talbot, a carefree Londoner, is lured back to his family estate after the disappearance of his brother. Reunited in ...





Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

Release date: 9/4/2009
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Director: To Be Announced
Cast: To Be Announced

The world's first ever animated disaster movie comes to the big screen when a small time inventor stumbles upon the invention of his lifetime - a machine that creates food that literally falls from the sky. Unfortunately, the machine goes haywire, causing strange food-related weather accidents across ...





Dragonball

Release date: 9/4/2009
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Director: James Wong
Cast: Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Jamie Chung, Emmy Rossum, Eriko Tamura, Joon Park, Chow Yun-Fat, Texas Battle, Randall Duk Kim

A young boy named Goku seeks out upon his grandfather's dying request to find the great Master Roshi and gather all seven Dragon Balls (of which he has one) in order to prevent Piccolo from succeeding in his desire to use the Dragon Balls to take over the world.





Ugly Truth, The

Release date: 9/4/2009
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Director: Robert Luketic
Cast: Gerard Butler, Katherine Heigl, Cheryl Hines, Nathan Corddry

A romantically challenged morning show producer (Heigl) is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent (Butler) to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result.





Case 39

Release date: 17/4/2009
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Director: Christian Alvart
Cast: Renee Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Callum Keith Rennie, Adrian Lester, Kerry O'Malley, Cynthia Stevenson

Family services social worker Emily Jenkins thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case, a troubled 10 year old Lilith Sullivan. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to kill Lilith, their only daughter. Emily saves her and de