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New In Town

New In Town

📅 Release: January 30, 2009
🎭 Genre: RomanceComedy
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr., Siobhan Fallon, J.K. Simmons, Frances Conroy, Mike O'Brien, Ferron Guerreiro
📖 Synopsis: In the charming romantic comedy "New in Town," high-powered Miami executive Lucy Hill, played by [c=Renee Zellweger], finds her life turned upside down when she is sent to a small Minnesota town to o...
Taken

Taken

📅 Release: January 30, 2009
🎭 Genre: ActionThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Katie Cassidy, Leland Orser, Arben Bajraktaraj, Camille Japy, Holly Valance
📖 Synopsis: In a gripping tale of suspense and relentless determination, "Taken" introduces viewers to Bryan Mills, portrayed by [c=Liam Neeson], a former CIA operative whose life takes a dark turn when his daug...
Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans

Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans

📅 Release: January 23, 2009
🎭 Genre: ActionFantasyHorror
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Rhona Mitra, Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Shane Brolly, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Ashton, Alexander Carroll, Tania Nolan, Craig Parker
📖 Synopsis: In a dark and tumultuous world, the origins of the age-old conflict between vampires and lycans are brought to life in "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans." This gripping prequel follows the tragic love ...
Killshot

Killshot

📅 Release: January 23, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke, Johnny Knoxville, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Thomas Jane, Rosario Dawson, Lois Smith, Don McManus
📖 Synopsis: In the gripping drama-thriller [m=Killshot], directed by [c=John Madden], a couple finds themselves in a perilous situation after becoming targets of a dangerous hitman. The film features a stellar c...
Donkey Punch

Donkey Punch

📅 Release: January 23, 2009
🎭 Genre: Thriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin, Tom Burke, Nichola Burley, Julian Morris, Jay Taylor, Jaime Winstone
📖 Synopsis: A hedonistic holiday turns into a waking nightmare in this intense thriller from director [c=Oliver Blackburn]. Three British friends, including the adventurous Lisa ([c=Nichola Burley]), join a grou...
Lodger, The

Lodger, The

📅 Release: January 23, 2009
🎭 Genre: MysteryThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Shane West, Simon Baker, Donal Logue, Roy Werner, Rachael Leigh Cook, Phillip Baker Hall, Rebecca Pidgeon, Mel Harris
📖 Synopsis: Simon Baker, Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, and Shane West face off against a Jack the Ripper copycat in this horrifying thriller "The Lodger" follows a seasoned detective on the trail of a ruthless kille...
Outlander

Outlander

📅 Release: January 23, 2009
🎭 Genre: ActionAdventureSci-Fi
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: James Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Jack Huston, Owen Pattison, Ted Ludzik, Aidan Devine, Michael Fox, Katie Bergin, Amy Kerr, Cliff Saunders
📖 Synopsis: "Outlander" begins when a space craft crashes into the majestic fjords of ancient Norway and into the time of the Vikings. From the wreckage emerge two bitter enemies: a soldier from another world - K...
Wendy And Lucy

Wendy And Lucy

📅 Release: December 10, 2008
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Will Oldham, John Robinson, Wally Dalton, Larry Fessenden, John Breen
📖 Synopsis: Proving why she is one of the most highly-regarded auteurs of current cinema, Kelly Reichardt's ("Old Joy") subtle storytelling technique uses a formal minimalist style to weave together a unique emot...
Inkheart

Inkheart

📅 Release: January 23, 2009
🎭 Genre: FantasyAdventure
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Brendan Fraser, Eliza Bennett, Sienna Guillory, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Andy Serkis, Rafi Gavron, Jamie Foreman
📖 Synopsis: Mortimer "Mo" Folchart and his 12-year-old daughter, Meggie, share an extraordinary gift for bringing characters from books to life when they read aloud. But there is a danger: when a character is bro...
Chandni Chowk To China

Chandni Chowk To China

📅 Release: January 16, 2009
🎭 Genre: ComedyAction
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Mithun Chakraborty, Gordon Liu, Ranvir Shorey, Roger Yuan
📖 Synopsis: Chandni Chowk to China, the first ever Bollywood Kungfu comedy takes you on a madcap journey from the by-lanes of Chandni Chowk in Delhi, to Shanghai, the Great Wall and rural China, marrying in its w...
My Bloody Valentine 3-D

My Bloody Valentine 3-D

📅 Release: January 16, 2009
🎭 Genre: HorrorThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Betsey Rue, Edi Gathegi, Tom Atkins, Kevin Tighe, Megan Boone
📖 Synopsis: Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, ...
Notorious

Notorious

📅 Release: January 16, 2009
🎭 Genre: BiographyDramaMusic
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jamal Woolard, Angela Bassett, Derek Luke, Anthony Mackie, Antonique Smith, Naturi Naughton, Dennis White, Julia Pace Mitchell
📖 Synopsis: "Notorious" is about the life of rapper Christopher Wallace a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G. In just a few short years, The Notorious B.I.G. rose from the streets of Brooklyn to become one of the most infl...
Hotel For Dogs

Hotel For Dogs

📅 Release: January 16, 2009
🎭 Genre: ComedyFamily
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon, Don Cheadle, Johnny Simmons, Troy Gentile, Tiya Sircar
📖 Synopsis: "Hotel for Dogs" stars Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle in a smart, funny comedy adventure that shows how far love and imagination can take you. When their new g...
Paul Blart: Mall Cop

Paul Blart: Mall Cop

📅 Release: January 16, 2009
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Kevin James, Jayma Mays, Keir O'Donnell, Shirley Knight, Raini Rodriguez, Erick Avari, Bobby Cannavale, Dahlia Salem, Stephen Rannazzisi, Adam Ferrara
📖 Synopsis: In the hilarious comedy "Paul Blart: Mall Cop," [c=Kevin James] stars as Paul Blart, an earnest but bumbling mall security officer who takes his job very seriously. Despite his best efforts to protec...
Unborn, The

Unborn, The

📅 Release: January 9, 2009
🎭 Genre: SupernaturalThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Meagan Good, Cam Gigandet, James Remar, Jane Alexander, Idris Elba, Carla Gugino, Rhys Coiro
📖 Synopsis: Sometimes the soul of a dead person has been so tainted with evil that it is denied entrance to heaven. It must endlessly wander the borderlands between worlds, desperately searching for a new body t...
Not Easily Broken

Not Easily Broken

📅 Release: January 9, 2009
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Morris Chestnut, Taraji P. Henson, Kevin Hart, Jenifer Lewis, Maeve Quinlan, Cannon Jay, April Betts
📖 Synopsis: In the emotionally charged drama "Not Easily Broken," the fragility of love and the strength of commitment are put to the test. The story centers around Dave and Clarice, portrayed by [c=Morris Chest...
Bride Wars

Bride Wars

📅 Release: January 9, 2009
🎭 Genre: RomanceComedy
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Candice Bergen, Kristen Johnston, Bryan Greenberg, Steve Howey, Chris Pratt, Michael Arden, John Pankow, Paul Scheer
📖 Synopsis: Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are best friends who since childhood have planned every detail of their respective weddings. At the top of their bridal "must have" list: a ceremony at New Y...
Defiance

Defiance

📅 Release: January 16, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaWar
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, George MacKay, Tomas Arana, Mark Feuerstein
📖 Synopsis: Based on an extraordinary true story, "Defiance" is an epic tale of family, honor, vengeance and salvation in World War II. The year is 1941 and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being massacred by the t...
Good

Good

📅 Release: December 31, 2008
🎭 Genre: Drama
🎬 Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Mark Strong, Steven Mackintosh, Jodie Whittaker, Gemma Jones, Anastasia Hille, Ruth Gemmell, Steven Elder
📖 Synopsis: In this hauntingly intimate drama directed by [c=Vicente Amorim], [c=Viggo Mortensen] delivers a quietly devastating performance as John Halder, a compassionate German professor of literature whose a...
Revolutionary Road

Revolutionary Road

📅 Release: December 26, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaRomance
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour, Ryan Simpkins, Ty Simpkins, Zoe Kazan, Kristen Connolly
📖 Synopsis: Adapted from the revealing novel by Richard Yates, "Revolutionary Road" is an incisive portrait of an American marriage seen through the eyes of Frank (three-time Academy Award nominee Leonardo DiCapr...
Last Chance Harvey

Last Chance Harvey

📅 Release: January 16, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaRomance
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Kathy Baker, James Brolin, Eileen Atkins, Richard Schiff, Liane Balaban
📖 Synopsis: New Yorker Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman) is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss (Richard Schiff) that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to ...
Valkyrie

Valkyrie

📅 Release: December 25, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Stephen Fry, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten, Eddie Izzard, Halina Reijn, David Bamber, Thomas Kretschmann
📖 Synopsis: In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world where justice and honor have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of powe...
Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories

📅 Release: December 25, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyAdventureFantasy
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Courteney Cox, Teresa Palmer, Russell Brand, Lucy Lawless, Richard Griffiths
📖 Synopsis: In the whimsical comedy adventure "Bedtime Stories," [c=Adam Sandler] stars as Skeeter Bronson, a hotel handyman whose life takes a fantastical turn when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and ne...
Spirit, The

Spirit, The

📅 Release: December 25, 2008
🎭 Genre: ActionAdventure
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Paz Vega, Sarah Paulson, Jaime King, Eric Balfour, Dan Lauria, Stana Katic, Johnny Simmons, Louis Lombardi, Meeghan Holaway
📖 Synopsis: Adapted from the legendary comic strip, THE SPIRIT is a classic action-adventure-romance told by genre-twister FRANK MILLER (creator of 300 and SIN CITY). It is the story of a former rookie cop who r...
Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The

Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The

📅 Release: December 25, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaFantasyMystery
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Tilda Swinton, Eric West, Elias Koteas, Joshua DesRoches, Elle Fanning, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt
📖 Synopsis: "I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins "Benjamin Button," adapted from the classic 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. A man...
Marley & Me

Marley & Me

📅 Release: December 25, 2008
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Alan Arkin, Eric Dane, Haley Bennett, Clarke Peters, Haley Hudson, Marc Macaulay, Sandy Martin
📖 Synopsis: In the heartwarming comedy, "Marley & Me," directed by [c=David Frankel], audiences are introduced to a young couple, John and Jennifer Grogan, played by [c=Owen Wilson] and [c=Jennifer Aniston]. Eag...
Wrestler, The

Wrestler, The

📅 Release: December 17, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaActionSport
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Ernest Miller, Evan Rachel Wood, Ajay Naidu, Judah Friedlander, Mark Margolis
📖 Synopsis: Back in the late '80s, Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, twenty years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of diehard wrestling fans ...
Reader, The

Reader, The

📅 Release: January 9, 2009
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Karoline Herfurth, Linda Bassett, Susanne Lothar, Hannah Herzsprung
📖 Synopsis: "The Reader" opens in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank h...
Nothing But The Truth

Nothing But The Truth

📅 Release: January 9, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Angela Bassett, Alan Alda, Vera Farmiga, David Schwimmer, Noah Wyle, Julie Ann Emery, Preston Bailey, Kristen Shaw
📖 Synopsis: A new thriller inspired by actual events starring Kate Beckinsale (Click, Serendipity), Vera Farmiga (The Departed), Matt Dillon (Crash), Noah Wyle (Fail Safe, ER), David Schwimmer (Madagascar, Friend...
Twilight

Twilight

📅 Release: November 21, 2008
🎭 Genre: RomanceThrillerAction
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz
📖 Synopsis: TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern day love story between a vampire and a human. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy gi...