BANGKOK_DANGEROUS September 5, 2008
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, more
EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE ITALIAN September 5, 2008
 In a case of mistaken ethnicity, a
lovelorn fishmonger (Jay Jablonski) struggling to let go of
a long past romance pretends to be Italian in order to date
a beautiful woman (Cerina Vincent)--and finds himself
learning to love again. more
MISTER FOE September 5, 2008
Jamie Bell is Hallam Foe, a troubled young
man whose knack for voyeurism paradoxically reveals his
darkest fears, and his most peculiar desires. Driven to
expose the true cause of his mother’s death, he instead
finds himself searching the rooftops of the city of
Edinburgh for love. more
PING PONG PLAYA September 5, 2008
 Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jessica Yu makes her feature
comedy debut with PING PONG PLAYA, a hilarious and warm-hearted
tale about embracing one's culture while still breaking down
stereotypes. Christopher "C-dub" Wang (Jimmy Tsai) is a suburban
guy who sports an urban swagger, waxes political on all things
Asian American, and clings to pipe dreams of a career as a pro
basketball player. more
BURN AFTER READING September 12, 2008
A
dark spy-comedy from
Academy Award winners
Joel and Ethan Coen. An ousted CIA official’s (Academy
Award nominee
John Malkovich) memoir accidentally falls into the
hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their
find. more
RIGHTEOUS KILL September 12, 2008
 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). The cast also features hip-hop
superstar Curtis Jackson (Get Rich or Die Tryin’). more
THE WOMEN September 12, 2008
 Mary Haines (Meg Ryan) appears to have a perfect life: a
beautiful home in Connecticut, a lovely 12-year old daughter, a
successful Wall Street honcho husband, and a part-time career as a
designer for her father’s clothing company. Mary not only seems to
have it all, she seems to do it all: whether it’s planting
perennials in the garden; following in her mother’s footsteps as
co-chair of a Central Park women’s committee; or personally doing
the cooking for a benefit luncheon, . more
THE FAMILY THAT PREYS September 12, 2008
 Academy Award®-winner Kathy Bates and Academy Award®-nominee
Alfre Woodard star as the matriarchs of two very different
families being torn apart by greed and scandal in the contemporary
drama TYLER PERRY’S THE FAMILY THAT PREYS. The sixth feature film
by Perry chronicles the inner workings of two families—one
upper-crust and the other working class—that become inextricably
linked by scandal. more
TOWELHEAD September 12, 2008
 TOWELHEAD follows the dark, bold and
shockingly funny life of Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American
girl, as she navigates the confusing and frightening path of
adolescence and her own sexual awakening. more
APPALOOSA September 17, 2008
Set in the Old West territory
of New Mexico, "Appaloosa" revolves around a pair of hired guns (Viggo
Mortensen and Ed Harris) who come to clean up a dangerous town run
by a ruthless, powerful rancher (Jeremy Irons) and his band of
outlaws. While boldly bringing new order to the town, the two
fearless lawmen meet a provocative outsider (Renée Zellweger)
whose unconventional ways threaten to destroy their decade-old
bond. more
LAKEVIEW TERRACE September 19, 2008
 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 neighbor, who
disapproves of their interracial relationship. A stern, single
father, this tightly wound LAPD officer (Samuel L. Jackson) has
appointed himself the watchdog of the neighborhood. more
HOUNDDOG September 19, 2008
HOUNDDOG is a
provocative Southern tale set in the late 1950's rural Alabama
about a precocious young girl Lewellen (Dakota Fanning) and her
journey into the beginnings of adulthood and her struggle for
freedom from the abuse and repression that surrounds her. more
GHOST TOWN September 19, 2008
 In the comedy “Ghost Town,” Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is a
man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies
unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he
wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see
ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly
Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear), who pesters him into breaking up the
impending marriage of his widow Gwen (Téa Leoni). more
BATTLE IN SEATTLE September 19, 2008
In
1999, five days rocked the world as tens of thousands of
demonstrators took to the streets of
Seattle
in protest of the World Trade Organization. Among them are
Django (Andre Benjamin), Sam (Jennifer
Carpenter), Lou (Michelle
Rodriguez) and Jay (Martin Henderson). United in
their desire to be heard and to make a difference, for these
protesters, more
MY BEST FRIEND'S GIRL September 19, 2008
Romantic Comedy Smart, beautiful and
headstrong, Alexis is the girl of Dustin’s dreams. But after only
five weeks of dating, the love-struck Dustin is coming on so
strong that Alexis is forced to slow things down – permanently.
Devastated and desperate to get her back, Dustin turns to his best
friend, Tank, the rebound specialist. more
THE DUCHESS September 19, 2008
 Long
before the concept existed, the Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana
Spencer (KEIRA KNIGHTLEY), was the original “It Girl.” Like her
direct ancestor Princess Diana, she was ravishing, glamorous and
adored by an entire country. Determined to be a player in the
wider affairs of the world, she proved that she could out-gamble,
out-drink and outwit most of the aristocratic men who surrounded
her more
IGOR September 19, 2008
 A hilarious twist on the classic monster movie, "Igor" tells the
story of one Igor who's sick of being a lowly lab assistant with a
Yes Master's degree and dreams of becoming a scientist. When his
cruel master kicks the bucket a week before the annual Evil
Science Fair, Igor finally gets his chance. more
BLINDNESS September 26, 2008
 From Nobel Prize winning author Jose Saramago and acclaimed
director Fernando Meirelles (“The Constant Gardener,” “City of
God”) comes the compelling story of humanity in the grip of an
epidemic of mysterious blindness. It is an unflinching exploration
of human nature, both bad and good–people’s selfishness,
opportunism,and indifference, but also their capacity for empathy,
love and sheer perseverance. more
EAGLE EYE September 26, 2008
 “Eagle Eye” is a race-against-time thriller starring Shia
LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Anthony Mackie and
Billy Bob Thornton. Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman
(Monaghan) are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone
call from a woman they have never met. more
NIGHTS IN RODANTHE September 26, 2008

Adrienne Willis (Diane Lane), a woman with her life in chaos, retreats to the tiny coastal town of Rodanthe,
in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to tend to a friend's inn
for the weekend. Here she hopes to find the tranquility she so
desperately needs to rethink the conflicts surrounding her--a
wayward husband who has asked to come home, and a teenaged
daughter who resents her every decision. more
MIRACLE AT ST ANNA September 26, 2008
 Directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay
written by James McBride, the author of the acclaimed novel of the
same name, the film chronicles the story of four African-American
soldiers who are members of the U.S. Army as part of the all-black
92nd Buffalo Soldier Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy, during
World War II more
FIREPROOF September 26, 2008
 At
work, inside burning buildings, Capt. Caleb Holt lives by
the old firefighter’s adage: Never leave your partner
behind. At home, in the cooling embers of his marriage, he
lives by his own rules.
After seven years of marriage, Caleb and Catherine Holt have
drifted so far apart that Catherine wishes she had never
married. more
CHOKE September 26, 2008
 Actor-turned-director Clark Gregg shows he
is as adept behind the camera as he is in front of it with
CHOKE, a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and
sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of
Colonial theme parks. Victor Mancini (Rockwell), a
sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly
deranged mother, Ida (Huston), in an expensive private
medical hospital by working days as a historical reenactor
at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park more
THE LUCKY ONES September 26, 2008
 When three very different U.S. soldiers
find themselves on an unplanned road trip across America,
they form a deep bond that may be the closest thing any of
them has to real family. A humorous and timely drama about
coming home, The Lucky Ones stars Rachel McAdams (The
Notebook, Wedding Crashers), Tim Robbins (Mystic River, The
Shawshank Redemption) and Michael Pena (Crash, World Trade
Center), and is directed by Neil Burger (The Illusionist)
from a screenplay by Burger and Dirk Wittenborn. more
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