CJ7 (A Hope)

Genre: Sci-fi/Comedy
Release Date: 30 January 2008 (China)
Director: Stephen Chow
Cast: Stephen Chow, Kitty Zhang Yuqi, Chi Chung Lam, Min Hun Fung

From Stephen Chow, the director and star of "Kung Fu Hustle," comes "CJ7," a new comedy featuring Chow's trademark slapstick antics. Ti (Stephen Chow) is a poor father who works all day, everyday at a construction site to make sure his son Dicky Chow (Xu Jian) can attend an elite private school. Despite his father's good intentions to give his son the opportunities he never had, Dicky, with his dirty and tattered clothes and none of the "cool" toys stands out from his schoolmates like a sore thumb. Ti can't afford to buy Dicky any expensive toys and goes to the best place he knows to get new stuff for Dicky - the junk yard! While out "shopping" for a new toy for his son, Ti finds a mysterious orb and brings it home for Dicky to play with. To his surprise and disbelief, the orb reveals itself to Dicky as a bizarre "pet" with extraordinary powers. Armed with his CJ7 Dicky seizes this chance to overcome his poor background and shabby clothes and impress his fellow schoolmates for the first time in his life. But CJ7 has other ideas and when Dicky brings it to class... chaos ensues.

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Shutter

Genre: Horror/Thriller
ImdB Rating: 4.7/10
Director: Masayuki Ochiai
Cast: Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, John Hensley, James Kyson Lee, David Denman, Maya Hazen, Adrienne Pickering, Albert Smith, Daisy Betts


A newlywed couple Ben and Jane move to Japan for a promising job opportunity - a fashion shoot in Tokyo. During their trip on a dark forest road they experience a tragic car accident, leading to the death of a young local girl. Upon regaining consciousness, they find no trace of her body. A bit distraught the couple arrives in Tokyo to begin their new life. Meanwhile Ben begins noticing strange white blurs in many of his fashion shoot photographs. Jane believes that the blurs are actually spirit photography of the dead girl who they hit on the road, and that she may be seeking vengeance. (Written by Brian Corder)

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The Red Baron

Genre: Adventure/War/History
Release Date: 10 April 2008 (Germany)
Director: Nikolai Müllerschön
Cast: Matthias Schweighöfer, Til Schweiger, Lena Headey, Joseph Fiennes, Volker Bruch, Maxim Mehmet, Steffen Schroeder, Hanno Koffler, Tino Mewes,

Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Schweighöfer) is the most feared and celebrated pilot of the German air force in World War I. To him and his companions, air combats are events of sporty nature, technical challenge and honorable acting, ignoring the terrible extent of war. But after falling in love with the nurse Käte (Headey), Manfred realizes he is only used for propaganda means. Caught between his disgust for the war, and the responsibility for his fighter wing, von Richthofen sets out to fly again.

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27 Dresses

Genre: Comedy/Romance
ImdB Rating: 6.4/10
Director: Anne Fletcher
Cast: Peyton List, Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Brian Kerwin, Jane Pfitsch, Brigitte Bourdeau

Jane has always been good at taking care of others, but not so much in looking after herself. Her entire life has been about making people happy - and she has a closet full of 27 bridesmaid dresses to prove it. One memorable evening, Jane manages to shuttle between wedding receptions in Manhattan and Brooklyn, a feat witnessed by Kevin (James Marsden), a newspaper reporter who realizes that a story about this wedding junkie is his ticket off the newspaper's bridal beat. Jane finds Kevin's cynicism counter to everything she holds dear - namely weddings, and the two lock horns. Further complicating Jane's once perfectly-ordered life is the arrival of younger sister Tess (Malin Akerman). Tess immediately captures the heart of Jane's boss, George (Edward Burns). Tess enlists her always-accommodating sister to plan yet another wedding - Tess and George's - but Jane's feelings for him lead to shocking revelations... and maybe the beginning of a new life.

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Zombie Strippers

Genre: Horror/Comedy
Release Date: 2008. (USA)
Director: Jay Lee
Cast: Jenna Jameson, Robert Englund, Roxy Saint, Joey Medina, Shamron Moore, Penny Drake, Jennifer Holland, John Hawkes, Jeannette Sousa, Whitney Anderson

In the not too distant future a secret government re-animation chemo-virus gets released into conservative Sartre, Nebraska and lands in an underground strip club. As the virus begins to spread, turning the strippers into "Super Zombie Strippers" the girls struggle with whether or not to conform to the new "fad" even if it means there's no turning back.

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Fireflies in the Garden

Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2008 (USA)
Director: Dennis Lee
Cast: Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hayden Panettiere, Ioan Gruffudd, Shannon Lucio, George Newbern, Cayden Boyd, Chase Ellison

Michael Taylor (Ryan Reynolds) is an author who has channeled his painful childhood memories into his novels. With some reluctance, he is flying home for his mother Lisa's (Julia Roberts) college graduation. After a lifetime of putting everyone else first, stroking her husband's (Willem Dafoe) massively insecure ego and raising her children in spite of that, it's Lisa's turn. What should be a moment of great celebration turns into a tragic reunion when Lisa is killed in a car accident, leaving father, son and family to pick up the pieces. While preparing for their mother's funeral, memories are relived and secrets are revealed which will test the family bond. After a childhood of hiding in his father's shadows, protected by his mother, Michael must confront his past and find an understanding of his family, his father and himself.

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Drillbit Taylor

Genre: Comedy
ImdB Rating: 6.1/10
Director: Steven Brill
Cast: Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Alex Frost, Valerie Tian, Casey Boersma, Dylan Boersma, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley,


Ryan (Troy Gentile), Wade (Nate Hartley) and Emmit (David Dorfman) attend their first day at high school and they're pumped...until they meet up with Filkins (Alex Frost), a school bully who comes off like a little Hannibal Lecter. Before they become completely engulfed in Filkins' reign of terror, they seek out some protection by placing an ad in Soldier of Fortune magazine. Their best response -- and the cheapest -- comes from Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), a down-on-his luck soldier of fortune who lives a homeless -- he likes to say "home-free" -- existence on the beach. He enrolls them in some physical and mental training.

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Humboldt County

Genre: Comedy/Drama
Release Date: 2008. (USA)
Rendezők: Darren Grodsky, Danny Jacobs
Szereplők: Fairuza Balk, Peter Bogdanovich, Frances Conroy, Madison Davenport, Brad Dourif, Chris Messina, Jeremy Strong, Darren Grodsky, Bethany Pagliolo, Danny Jacobs

Peter is a medical student about to graduate and begin his residency. When his professor fails him, he winds up in bed with an actress and singer named Bogart rolling through Los Angeles. He accompanies her to the northern most tip of California, where he encounters her eccentric family of pot farmers. But when Bogart runs away without a word, Peter is thrust into the picturesque and bizarre world that is Humboldt County.

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Turn the River

Genre: Drama/Thriller
Release Date: May 2008
Director: Chris Eigeman
Cast: Famke Janssen, Jaymie Dornan, Rip Torn, Matt Ross, Lois Smith, Marin Hinkle, Terry Kinney, John Juback, Tony Robles, Jordan Bridges

In the thriller TURN THE RIVER, Famke Janssen (Best Actress- Hamptons Film Festival) stars as Kailey a small town pool hustler in upstate New York. She ekes out a living playing poker, periodically driving into Manhattan to check up on her mentor, Quinn (Rip Torn), who runs Quinn's a hardcore pool hall. Kailey (Janssen) is determined to raise $50,000 to wrest her son Gulley (Jaymie Dornan), who she was forced to give up at birth, from the toxic clutches of her alcoholic ex-husband David (Matt Ross) and his domineering mother (Lois Smith) and move to Canada for a better life. In order to win the money, Kailey must score a match with the best player at Quinns, Duncan (John Juback). With this as her only hope for a future with her son, Kailey starts to play and the stakes have never been higher.

Alone in the Dark 2

Genre: Horror/Action
Release Date: 2009. (USA)
Directors: Michael Roesch, Peter Scheerer
Cast: Rick Yune, Allison Lange, Danny Trejo, Ralf Moeller, Bill Moseley, Rachel Specter, Zack Ward, Natassia Malthe, Jason Connery, Michael Paré, P.J. Soles, Brooklyn Sudano,  Peter Looney

The Good News is Uwe Boll not Direct it. The Bad: He is to Produce it.
"Alone in the dark 2" tells the story of Edward Carnby, who joins forces with a team of witch hunters to track down the dangerous witch Elisabeth Dexter.

Butchered

Genre: Horror
Release Date: 2008. DVD
Director: Charles Stewart Jr., Sheila Brothers
Cast: Cari Moskow, Tim Woodward Jr., D.J. Naylor, Brandon Luck, Melissa Lukon, Cory Broadwater, Shaun O'Rourke, Brent Lovell, Kristina Sipes

A group of teens decides to spend the weekend on a local island to say their final goodbyes before heading off to college. Little do they know, a convicted serial killer escapes from the authorities while on death row at a maximum security prison. Touted in the headlines of the local papers as "The Butcher" due to the manner he hacked up his victims in the local town deli, he takes cover on THE VERY SAME ISLAND. It becomes a battle for survival as the teens attempt to fight back against this unimaginable foe. (Written by Shaun O'Rourke)

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30 Days of Night

Genre: Horror/Thriller
ImdB Rating: 6.7
Director: David Slade
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Amber Sainsbury, Megan Franich, Manu Bennett, Joel Tobeck, Craig Hall, Nathaniel Lees

Producer Sam Raimi ("Spider-Man") brings audiences the terrifying thriller "30 Days of Night," set in the isolated town of Barrow, Alaska, in the extreme northern hemisphere, which is plunged into complete darkness annually for an entire month. When most of the inhabitants head south for the winter, a mysterious group of strangers appear: bloodthirsty vampires, ready to take advantage of the uninterrupted darkness to feed on the town's residents. As the night wears on, Barrow's Sheriff Eben (Josh Hartnett), his estranged wife Stella (Melissa George), and an ever-shrinking group of survivors must do anything they can to last until daylight.

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Righteous Kill

Genre: Crime/Drama
Release Date: 12 September 2008 (USA)
Director: Jon Avnet
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, 50 Cent, Carla Gugino, John Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy, Frank John Hughes, Mark Famiglietti, Shirly Brener, Trilby Glover,

After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren't. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before.
Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can't do on their own -- take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars?

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American Zombie (DVD)

Genre: Comedy/Horror
ImdB pontszám: 6.7
Director: Grace Lee
Cast: Roger Ainslie, Andrew Amondson, Alice Amter, Austin Basis, Kasi Brown, Monique Edwards, Finneus Egan, Suzy Nakamura, Vanessa Peters, Jose Solomon

As the walking dead fill the streets of Los Angeles, filmmakers John Solomon and Grace Lee turn their cameras on the misunderstood flesh-eaters, their fierce proponents, and their staunch opponents to offer a glimpse of just how society has changed in the wake of the zombie uprising.  (Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide)

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Boarding Gate

Genre: Thriller/Erotic
ImdB Ratin: 6.0/10
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Asia Argento, Michael Madsen, Carl Ng, Kelly Lin, Alex Descas, Kim Gordon, Joana Preiss

The new film from acclaimed and adventurous French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, "Boarding Gate" is an erotic noir-thriller boasting an exciting international cast.
Asia Argento plays sexy ex-prostitute Sandra, who is forced to flee London after a steamy S&M encounter with a debt ridden ex-lover (Michael Madsen) ends in violence. Fleeing to Hong Kong in search of a fresh start, she becomes involved with an attractive young couple, Lester (Carl Ng) and Sue (Kelly Lin), who promise to help her obtain papers and money. But nothing turns out as expected for Sandra, and she finds herself trapped in a sordid game of manipulation.

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