Movies Releasing: the Week of February 15, 2008 |
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Diary of the Dead |
DVD Release Date : ( France : January 20, 2009 ) |
Réalisateur : George A. Romero. |
Starring : Michelle Morgan, Josh Close, Shawn Roberts, Amy Lalonde, Joe Dinicol, Scott Wentworth. |
Runtime : 95 minutes. Genre : Horror. |
Official Website : http://www.myspace.com/diaryofthedead |
Plot Summary : |
The master of horror returns to the kind of filmmaking he pioneered and the genre he invented. In his first independent zombie film in over twenty years, George A. Romero takes us back to ground zero in the history of the living dead.
Jason Creed and a small crew of college filmmakers are in the Pennsylvania woods making a no-budget horror film when they hear the terrifying news that the dead have started returning to life.
Led by Jason's girlfriend, Debra, the frightened young filmmakers set off in a friend's old Winnebago to try to get back to the only safety and security they know: their homes.
But there is no escape from the crisis, nor any real home for them anymore. Everything they depend upon, all that they hold dear, is fractured as the plague of the living dead begins to spread.
Jason documents the true-life horrors in a tense, first-person style that heightens the reality of each encounter. Even as his friends die, even as they are attacked by ravenous walking corpses at... |
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The Spiderwick Chronicles |
DVD Release Date : ( France : November 12, 2008 ) |
Réalisateur : Mark Waters. |
Starring : Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn, Seth Rogen, Martin Short. |
Runtime : 96 minutes. Genre : Fantasy. |
Official Website : http://www.spiderwickchronicles.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
From the beloved best-selling series of books comes "The Spiderwick Chronicles," a fantasy adventure for the child in all of us. Peculiar things start to happen the moment the Grace family (Jared, his twin brother Simon, sister Mallory and their mom) leave New York and move into the secluded old house owned by their great, great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family blames Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate what's really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate and of the creatures that inhabit it. |
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Funny Games |
DVD Release Date : ( France : November 12, 2008 ) |
Réalisateur : Michael Haneke. |
Starring : Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Boyd Gaines, Siobhan Fallon, Devon Gearhart. |
Runtime : 111 minutes. Genre : Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.funnygames-themovie.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
In this provocative and brutal thriller from director Michael Haneke, a vacationing family gets an unexpected visit from two deeply disturbed young men. Their idyllic holiday turns nightmarish as they are subjected to unimaginable terrors and struggle to stay alive.
Remade from his own acclaimed 1997 film, "Funny Games" is written and directed by Michael Haneke ("Caché"), and stars Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet and Devon Gearhart. |
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Step Up 2 the Streets |
DVD Release Date : ( France : October 14, 2008 ) |
Réalisateur : Jon Chu. |
Starring : Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Telisha Shaw, Adam G. Sevani, Cassie |