MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN

Genre: horror/Thriller
Release Date: 16 May 2008 (USA)
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Cast: Vinnie Jones, Brooke Shields, Bradley Cooper

When Leon Kaufman's (Bradley Cooper) latest body of work - a collection of provocative, nighttime studies of the city and its inhabitants -- earns the struggling photographer interest from prominent art gallerist Susan Hoff (Brooke Shields), she propels him to get grittier and show the darker side of humanity for his upcoming debut at her downtown art space.
Believing he's finally on track for success, Leon's obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer, Mahogany (Vinnie Jones), the subway murderer who stalks late-night commuters -- ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways imaginable.

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Assassination of a High School President

Genre: Vígjáték
Release Date: August 2008 (USA)
Director: Brett Simon
Cast: Mischa Barton, Reece Thompson,  Bruce Willis, Michael Rapaport, Kathryn Morris, Josh Pais, Melonie Diaz, Laura Ford

A homage to "Chinatown" set in a Catholic high school, "Assassination of a High School President" is a witty film noir replete with surprising twists and duplicitous characters from first-time feature director Brett Simon. The film focuses on a bullied school newspaper reporter named Bobby (Reece Thompson, "Rocket Science") investigating the theft of the school's SAT exams. Also tangled in the web of conspiracy is the most beautiful but devious girl in school (Mischa Barton), the long-insane principal (Bruce Willis) and a host of other darkly comedic characters played by Michael Rappaport, Kathryn Morris, and Melonie Diaz.

America the Beautiful

Genre: Documentary
ImdB Rating: 5.7
Director: Darryl Roberts
Cast: Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson, Ted Casablanca, Eve Ensler, Chris Keefe, Anthony Kiedis, Gerren Taylor

In a society where "celebutantes" like Paris Hilton dominate newsstands and models who weigh less than 90 pounds die from malnutrition, female body image is one of the more dire problems facing today's society. "America the Beautiful" illuminates the issue by covering every base. Child models, plastic surgery, celebrity worship, airbrushed advertising, dangerous cosmetics - no rock is left unturned.

The Spirit

Genre: Akció/Képregényadaptáció
Release Date: 19 Januar 2009 (USA)
Director: Frank Miller
Cast: Gabriel Macht, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Mendes, Jaime King, Paz Vega, Sarah Paulson, Stana Katic, Johnny Simmons, Dan Lauria

Down these mean streets a man must come. A hero born, murdered, and born again. When a Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of Central City. The Octopus who kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face who has other plans. He's going to wipe out the entire city. The Spirit tracks this cold hearted killer from the city's rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill the masked crusader.

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Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D

Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
Relase date: 11 July 2008 (USA)
Director: Eric Brevig
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Garth Gilker, Kaniehtiio Horn




In this update of Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth," Brendan Fraser will portray a geologist who, with his teenage son, discovers a message hidden in an ancient artifact, leading them into a previously unseen world. "Journey 3-D" will be shot in live action, with the otherworldly landscapes and creatures supplied by high-definition, photo-real 3-D technology. (Movieweb)

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My Best Friend's Girl

Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 19 September 2008 (USA)
Director: Howard Deutch
Cast: Kate Hudson, Alec Baldwin, Jason Biggs, Lizzy Caplan, Dane Cook, Diora Baird, Andrew Caldwell, Amanda Brooks

A master at seducing - and offending - women, Tank 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, 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 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.

IRON MAN

Genre: Action/Comics
Release Date: 2 May 2008 (USA)
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Jeff Bridges (Iron Monger), Gwyneth Paltrow (Virginia "Pepper" Pots)

Based on the Marvel Comics Character; Billionaire playboy industrialist Tony Stark makes weapons for the U.S. government. While out on a field test of one of his inventions, he is wounded, captured and forced to make weapons for the enemy. Instead, he fashions himself a crude power armor to save his life and facilitate his escape. When he returns home, he revises his armor and finds purpose as the Armored Avenger Iron Man!

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Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

Genre: Documentary
Release Date: 21 April 2008 (USA)
Director: Morgan Spurlock

With a baby on the way, and a need to make the world safe for infant-kind, an unassuming guy from West Virginia takes on what no special ops team could do: he puts to use his complete lack of experience, knowledge, and expertise to find the most wanted man on earth.
Some says he had to find him...

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Auf Die Anderen Seite

Genre: Drama
ImdB Rating: 8.1
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast:  Nurgül Yesilçay, Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz, Hanna Schygulla, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Nursel Köse

Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's university studies. Yeter's sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to search for Yeter's daughter Ayten. Political activist Ayten has fled the Turkish police and is already in Germany. She is befriended by a young woman, Lotte, who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not particularly pleasing to her conservative mother Susanne. When Ayten is arrested and her asylum plea is denied, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey,where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten.

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Mothers of Tears

Genre: Fantasy/Horror/Thriller
Release Date: 06 July 2008 (USA) Limited
Director: Dario Argento
Cast:  Asia Argento, Jun Ichikawa, Adam James, Cristian Solimeno, Adam James, Daria Nicolodi, Philippe Leroy, Udo Kier, Robert Madison

The final installment of Dario Argento's "Three Mothers" trilogy. The film centers on a young American art student, Sarah, who "unwittingly opens an ancient urn that unleashes the demonic power of the world's most powerful witch. As a scourge of suicides plague the city and witches from all over the world converge on Rome to pay homage, Sarah must use all her own psychic powers to stop the 'Mother of Tears' before her evil conquers the world.


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WALL-E

Genre: Animation
Release Date: 27 June 2008 (USA)
Director: Andrew Stanton
Voices: Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin

What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL*E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL*E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL*E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets an adventure into motion. Joining WALL*E on his journey across the universe is a cast of characters including a pet cockroach and a heroic team of malfunctioning misfit robots.

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Prom Night

Genre: Horror/Thriller
Release Date: 11 April 2008 (USA)
Director: Nelson McCormick
Cast: Brittany Snow, Thomas Kijas, Johnathon Schaech, Jessica Stroup, Kellan Lutz, Jana Kramer, Debbie Entin, Tatum Adair

Donnas senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, one of magic, beauty, and love. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. But when the night turns from magic to murder there is only one man who could be responsible, the man she thought was gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer, and survive their Prom Night. Written by Davi Silva

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Loaded

Genre: Action/Crime/Thriller
ImdB Rating: 4.6
Director: Alan Pao
Cast: Jesse Metcalfe, Corey Large, Monica Keena, Nathalie Kelley, Chace Crawford, Johnny Messner, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Vinnie Jones

Tristan Price (Jesse Metcalfe) has everything: money, privilege, loving parents (Erin Gray, John Bennett Perry), a beautiful girlfriend (Monica Keena) and a bright future. But he has always had a need for something more, something wilder. Enter Sebastian Cole (Corey Large), a handsome, charismatic, ruthless coke dealer with a taste for fast cars, fast women, rapid-fire weapons... and revenge. Soon, Tristan will be up to his eyeballs in a seedy underworld of drugs, sex and violence before he has a clue that his new best friend is, in reality, his worst enemy.

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