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05/07/2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

( Release: May. 16, 2008 Rated: PG - for epic battle action and violence Details | Trailers | Photos ) — The Pevensie children finally get to return to Narnia, only to find out that over 1,300 years have passed in the magical land and everything and everyone they knew about it is dead and buried. The kingdom is now presided over by the despicable King Miraz (Sergio Castellitto) who rules with an iron fist. So, Lucy, Edmund, Peter and Susan (Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell) must return the displaced Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes) back to Narnia's throne to bring peace to the world again.
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05/07/2008
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer

( Release: May. 16, 2008 Rated: R (MPAA) Details | Photos ) — Three generations of women in a Mexican-American family — grandmother, mtoher, daughter 3 each have their boring lives livened up one exciting summer. The aging Dona Genoveva (Lucy Gallardo) buys an old car and decides she wants to learn how to drive at the age of 70. Her gardener, Don Pedro (Jorge Cervera Jr.), provides the lessons, both in driving and in the art of love. Meanwhile, divorced, middle-aged Rosa (Elizabeth Pena) is hit on by a handsome video store owner (Steven Bauer), who just happens to be still married. Finally, teenage Blanca (America Ferrera) meets a suave boy (Leo Minaya) who may have gotten another girl pregnant.
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05/07/2008
Reprise
( Release: May. 16, 2008 Rated: R (MPAA) Details | Trailers ) — Philip (Anders Danielsen Lie) and Erik (Espen Klouman-Hoiner) are best friends and aspiring authors. After sending their first novels to all the big publishing houses, only Philip finds success. After finding a minium of success, though, Philip suffers a nervous breakdown and spends some time in a psychiatric institution. Erik, on the other hand, never gets published, but also never gives up on his dream.
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04/28/2008
Sangre de Mi Sangre

( Release: May. 16, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — All Pedro (Jorge Adrian Espindola), an illegal immigrant from Mexico, wants to do is journey to NYC to meet his father, Diego (Jesus Ochoa). However, while on his journey, Pedro has all of his belongings stolen by Juan (Armando Hernandez), who wants to get to NYC first to steal Diego's fortune. Pedro is aided on his trip by a street hustler (Paola Mendoza) and the pair race against time to get their first to stop Juan's evil plan.
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05/07/2008
The Edge of Heaven
( Release: May. 21, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers ) — Nejat (Baki Davrak) doesn't like the fact that his widowed father Ali (Tuncel Kurtiz) has a prostitute, Yeter (Nursel) as a girlfriend. But after Yeter dies in a car accident, Nejat travels to Turkey to find her daughter, Ayten (Nurgul Yesilcay) and give her the bad news. However, he finds Ayten stuck in a Turkish prison after having been deported from Germany for political reasons.
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05/06/2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

( Release: May. 22, 2008 Details | Trailers | Photos ) — Harrison Ford returns as the iconic adventurer who picks up a new sidekick (Shia La Beouf) and an old flame (Karen Allen) for this ride.
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04/28/2008
The Children of Huang Shi

( Release: May. 23, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — In 1937, George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) inexplicably finds himself leading a group of sixty orphan Chinese boys on a journey over the Liu Pan Shan mountains to the Mongolian desert to escape the Japanese invasion. Helping Hogg on his heroic rescue are Chen Hansheng (Chow Yun-Fat), the leader of a Chinese partisan group; Lee (Radha Mitchell), an Australian woman who lends medical help; and Madame Wang (Michelle Yeoh), an aristrocrat also fleeing for her life.
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04/28/2008
Postal

( Release: May. 23, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — A down-on-his-luck, recently unemployed loser (Zack Ward) teams up with a crazed cult leader named Uncle Dave (Dave Foley) to rob an amusement park for some quickly needed cash. However, at the same time they pull the heist, the Taliban arrive with the exact same plan and now the cultists must take on the terrorists as well as succeed in their mission.
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04/28/2008
War, Inc.

( Release: May. 23, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — Brand Hauser (John Cusack) is a corporate hit man who travels to the embattled country of Turaqistan, which has been taken over completely by a private corporation. Hired to kill a Middle East oil minister, Hauser poses as the corporation's Trade Show Manager and oversees the wedding of a pop singer (Hilary Duff) to get close to his target.
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05/08/2008
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
( Release: May. 30, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers ) — This documentary examines the use of performance enhancing drugs in professional sports and entertainment. As a child, director Christopher Bell wanted to grow up to be like Hulk Hogan, Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger and ended up taking steroids to accomplish that goal. This documentary looks at Bell's own involvement in the steroid subculture and examines why our country demands its heroes to be so much bigger than life.
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04/28/2008
The Foot Fist Way

( Release: May. 30, 2008 Rated: R (MPAA) Details | Trailers | Photos ) — Fred Simmons (Danny R. McBride) is a world-class martial-arts instructor at the Concord Tae Kwon Do Studio. While seeming to be totally in control of his life, Fred discovers that his wife Suzie (Mary Jane Bostic) has been repeatedly cheating on him. Fred's last ditch chance to regain his pride is to battle the ruthless Chuck "The Truck" Wallace (Ben Best), an eight-time undefeated champion and action movie star, in a fight to end all fights.
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05/07/2008
Savage Grace
( Release: May. 30, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers ) — Based on a shocking true story, Barbara Baekeland (Julianne Moore) is stuck in a dull marriage to her rich husband, Brooks (Stephen Dillane). As the couple drifts apart over the years, Barbara becomes more and more close to their son Tony (Eddie Redmayne). Brooks thinks Tony is a failure, but Barbara sees something special in her boy, something so special that she becomes romantically involved with him.
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05/06/2008
Sex and the City: The Movie

( Release: May. 30, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — Carrie Bradshaw, Samantha Jones, Charlotte York Goldenblatt and Miranda Hobbes (Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon) all return for another Manhattan adventure of romance and laughs.
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04/28/2008
The Strangers

( Release: May. 30, 2008 Details | Trailers | Photos ) — James and Kristen (Scott Speedman, Liv Tyler) travel out to a house in the middle of nowhere to relax. However, they won't be doing much of that when they are terrorized by a masked gang of psychos who are trying to torture and kill them.
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04/28/2008
Stuck

( Release: May. 30, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Photos ) — Brandi Boski (Mena Suvari) is a hard-working caregiver who works at a retirement home. When she hears she's up for a major promotion, she goes out drinking to celebrate. Unwisely driving herself home, she accidentally hits a homeless man, Tom (Stephen Rea), who flies into and gets stuck in her windshield. Fearing the incident will hurt her chances at getting the promotion, she decides to leave a slowly bleeding-to-death Tom in the windshield in her garage. When he's dead, she figures she can safely and secretly dispose of the body. So, Tom must gather up his strength to get out before he dies.
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04/28/2008
Kung Fu Panda

( Release: Jun. 6, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — Po the Panda (voice of Jack Black) dreams of being a martial arts master, but is in reality a fat, lazy, black and white slob. But when his town is threatened by evildoers, a group of real kung fu experts need to transform Po into the legendary "Chosen One" who is destined to save the day.
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05/07/2008
Miss Conception
( Release: Jun. 6, 2008 Rated: R - for language and some sexual content Details | Trailers ) — Georgina Scott (Heather Graham) feels her biological clock is ticking, but her boyfriend, Zak (Tom Ellis), is in no hurry to be a dad. So, after giving Zak the boot, Georgina enlists the help of her best friend Clem (Mia Kirshner) to find a way to get pregnant quickly, either the old fashioned way or via more modern procedures.
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04/28/2008
Mongol

( Release: Jun. 6, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — This historical biopic looks at the life of a young Genghis Khan and how he went from being a slave to conquering half of the world in 1206.
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05/07/2008
The Promotion

( Release: Jun. 6, 2008 Rated: R - for language including sexual references, and some drug use Details | Photos ) — Doug (Seann William Scott) and Richard (John C. Reilly) both work for the same Chicago supermarket. When a new store in the chain opens up, both men ruthlessly compete to see who can become the head manager there.
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04/28/2008
When Did You Last See Your Father?

( Release: Jun. 6, 2008 Rated: PG-13 (MPAA) Details | Trailers | Photos ) — Blake Morrison (Colin Firth) is a happily married middle-aged guy who has always had a troubled relationship with his father, Arthur (Jim Broadbent). After discovering his dad has a terminal illness, Blake flashes back to all the moments in his life when Arthur didn't live up to the idealistic vision his son had of him, especially in regards to a strange woman (Sarah Lancaster) who may or may not have born Arthur's illegitimate child.
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04/28/2008
You Don't Mess with the Zohan

( Release: Jun. 6, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — Zohan (Adam Sandler) is the top agent in Israel's Mossad agency who gets tired of the constant fighting, but his only means of escape is to fake his own death. Relocating to New York City, he reinvents himself as a top hairstylist who gives his women customers great hairdos and a little bit "extra." His newfound idyllic life doesn't last for long, though, when some of his former enemies find out where he's been hiding out.
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04/28/2008
Encounters at the End of the World

( Release: Jun. 11, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Photos ) — Acclaimed documentarian Werner Herzog travels to one of the most remote locations on Earth to tell the story of what life is like for the thousand people who call Antartica home.
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05/08/2008
Baghead

( Release: Jun. 13, 2008 Rated: R (MPAA) Details | Trailers | Photos ) — Four aspiring actors go live for the summer in a cabin in the woods to hammer out a screenplay for a film that they all hope will be their big break. While the quartet is intent on working hard, their personal relationships keep distracting them from the goal at hand. Matt (Ross Patridge) has broken up with his girlfriend Catherine (Elise Muller), even though they still occasionally sleep together. Meanwhile, Chad (Steve Zissis) has a mad crush on Michelle (Greta Gerwig), who desperately lusts after Matt. Things get really crazy when Michelle sees a man with a bag over his head, but no one can figure out if he was just an illusion or a maniac out to kill them all.
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04/28/2008
The Happening

( Release: Jun. 13, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — When the entire fate of humanity is threatened, Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) takes his family and tries to avoid the impending apocalypse.
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04/28/2008
The Incredible Hulk

( Release: Jun. 13, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — Still stuck with the ability to turn into a raging behemoth, Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) desperately searches for a cure that will rid him of his gamma-irradiated alter ego once and for all. However, he's barely given a chance to stop running from the obsessed General Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt), who will use the entire might of the U.S. military to find Banner and kill the Hulk. Meanwhile, Banner also must deal with his tortured relationship with Betty Ross (Liv Tyler), as well as contend with a new opponent, another gamma-created monstrosity called the Abomination (Tim Roth).
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04/28/2008
Brick Lane

( Release: Jun. 20, 2008 Rated: PG-13 (MPAA) Details | Trailers | Photos ) — Nazneen (Tannishtha Chatterjee) is a 17-year-old girl who is forced to move from her Indian home to London's East End as part of an arranged marriage to a much older man, Chanu (Satish Kaushik). Homesick and missing her family, Nazneen does her best to be a dutiful wife, but all that changes when she begins an affair with an English guy (Christopher Simpson) closer to her age.
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04/28/2008
Get Smart

( Release: Jun. 20, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — The nation's security is put at risk when the terrorist organization KAOS hacks into the computer system of Control, the top U.S. spy agency, and uncovers the names of all their agents. So, it's up to lowly systems analyst Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) to go out into the field with the only other agent whose identity hasn't been compromised, Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway), to put a stop to KAOS. However, that task is easier said than done thanks to Smart's ineptness and the devious machinations of key terrorist Siegfried (Terence Stamp) and his evil sidekick Shtarker (Kenneth Davitian). Based on the hit TV series.
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04/28/2008
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

( Release: Jun. 20, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — Kit Kittredge (Abigail Breslin) is a young girl trying to survive the Great Depression in 1934 in this first feature film based on the popular doll and book series.
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04/28/2008
The Love Guru

( Release: Jun. 20, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American who was raised by gurus in an ashram in India. As an adult, he moves back to his home country and tries to set himself up as a self-help expert. His first task: save the marriage between the Toronto Maple Leaf's star hockey player Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco) and his estranged wife. When she starts dating L.A. Kings player Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake), Darren becomes so depressed that the Leaf's season goes into freefall. So the team's owner, Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba), and coach (Verne Troyer) put extra pressure on Pitka to help Darren so that the team can go on to win the Stanley Cup.
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04/28/2008
WALL*E

( Release: Jun. 27, 2008 Details | Trailers | Photos ) — In the year 2700, WALL*E is a happy little trash-compacting robot who suddenly gets big dreams about his ultimate destiny, leading him on a wild journey across the universe.
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04/28/2008
Wanted

( Release: Jun. 27, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — Based on the hit comic book series by Mark Millar, Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) a pathetic office drone discovers that he has superpowers after his estranged father passes away. Inducted into a team of secret assassins, Wesley gains the ability to move super fast and uses his newfound ability to quickly dispatch evildoers. However, when he learns that his fellow killers aren't necessarily killing in the name of justice, Wesley must discover the true hero within himself.
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05/08/2008
Hancock

( Release: Jul. 2, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — A once-popular superhero (Will Smith) has now fallen from grace and is reviled by his formerly adoring public. Hoping to become the idol of millions again, he hires a public relations expert (Jason Bateman), which is a good move until he starts dating the expert's hot wife (Charlize Theron).
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04/28/2008
The Wackness

( Release: Jul. 3, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — In 1994 New York City, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) is a teenage pot dealer who trades his product for therapy sessions with psychiatrist Dr. Jeffrey Squires (Ben Kingsley). Both men are terribly depressed. Luke is a virgin desperately trying to arrange his first time, while Dr. Squires' marriage to his drug-addled wife (Famke Janssen) is falling apart. Together, they travel through NYC's seemy underbelly to connect with a wide array of freaks and weirdos, including a hippie chick (Mary-Kate Olsen) and a New Wave musician (Jane Adams).
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04/28/2008
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

( Release: Jul. 11, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — The demonic superhero (Ron Perlman) returns to save the world from a rampaging horde of otherworldly creatures.
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04/28/2008
Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D
( Release: Jul. 11, 2008 Rated: PG (MPAA) Details ) — Trevor (Brendan Fraser) is a science professor whose radical theories have completely tarnished his reputation. While backpacking across Iceland with his nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson), the two explorers find a cave that leads them deep down into the bowels of the planet. There they discover a bizarre landscape filled with terrifying creatures. Based on the classic novel by Jules Verne.
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New DVDs

05/05/2008
P.S. I Love You

( Released: 05/06/2008 Rated: PG-13 - for sexual references and brief nudity Avg. Score: 2.25/5 | Trailers | Photos | Reviews ) — Holly Kennedy (Hilary Swank) is devastated when her loving husband Gerry (Gerard Butler) falls unexpectedly ill and dies. But he seemingly comes back into her life when a series of messages he recorded before he died start showing up on her doorstep. While Holly's mom (Kathy Bates) and her friends (Gina Gershon, Lisa Kudrow) worry that these notes are keeping Holly mired in the past, she knows they are what she needs to help propel her into a new, happy future.
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05/05/2008
I'm Not There

( Released: 05/06/2008 Rated: R - for language, some sexuality and nudity Avg. Score: 4.25/5 | Trailers | Photos | Reviews ) — This unique biopic of Bob Dylan has six different actors, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw, portraying the folk-music legend at different points in his life.
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05/05/2008
Bella

( Released: 05/06/2008 Rated: PG-13 - for thematic elements and brief disturbing images Avg. Score: 3.25/5 | Trailers | Photos | Reviews ) — Jose (Eduardo Verastegui) used to be a superstar soccer player making millions of dollars. But, after falling on hard times, he's forced to work in his brother's Mexican restaurant. It's not all bad, though, especially when he falls for a pretty young waitress (Tammy Blanchard).
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05/05/2008
Delirious

( Released: 05/06/2008 Rated: Rating Pending Avg. Score: 4.38/5 | Photos | Reviews ) — Les (Steve Buscemi) is a celebrity photographer who can't catch a break. Desperate to get a scoop, Les befriends a young homeless dude, Toby (Michael Pitt), who has similar dreams of becoming an actor. But then Toby accidentally runs into a hot pop star, K'Harma Leeds (Alison Lohman), and the two develop an instant attraction. Being seen with the right person may be just what Toby needs to get his career going, but will he leave his ol' pal Les behind in the dust?
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05/05/2008
First Sunday

( Released: 05/06/2008 Rated: PG-13 - for language, some sexual humor, and brief drug references Avg. Score: 1.75/5 | Trailers | Photos | Reviews ) — Two inept crooks plot the lowest crime imaginable — robbing their own church. But when their best laid plans inevitably fail miserably, the theives end up holding their fellow parishioners hostage, who all try to get the criminals back in God's good graces.
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05/05/2008
Hollywood Dreams

( Released: 05/06/2008 Rated: R Avg. Score: 3.33/5 | Trailers | Photos | Reviews ) — Margie Chizek (Tanna Frederick) travels from Iowa to Los Angeles to leave behind a tragic past and to start a fabulous future as a movie star. While the road to stardom is a long and torturous one, at least she has friends along for the ride, including a talent manager (Zack Norman) and his partner (David Proval), as well as a leading man as a lover (Justin Kirk).
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05/05/2008
The Hottie and the Nottie

( Released: 05/06/2008 Rated: PG-13 - for crude and sexual content Avg. Score: 0/5 | Trailers | Photos | Reviews ) — Nate Cooper (Joel David Moore) moves back to Los Angeles to find the girl he's had a crush on ever since he was six-years-old, Cristabel Abbott (Paris Hilton). Reconnecting with the love of his life, he finds out that she refuses to go anywhere without her super-homely best friend June Phigg (Christine Lakin). Even though Nate tries to fix June up so he can have Cristabel all to himself, he realizes that all guys run from the sight of this unsightly gal. Nate's next plan is to give June an extreme makeover, which also uncovers June's extremely attractive personality.
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05/05/2008
How to Cook Your Life

( Released: 05/06/2008 Rated: PG-13 - for brief strong language Avg. Score: 2.5/5 | Trailers | Photos | Reviews ) — Edward Espe Brown is a Zen master who likes to apply ancient principles of Buddhism to the modern world of food preparation. He and his eager students go on a spiritual journey to see how preparing a meal can promote peace within the body and the mind.
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05/05/2008
Over Her Dead Body

( Released: 05/06/2008 Rated: PG-13 - for sexual content and language Avg. Score: 2.75/5 | Trailers | Photos | Reviews ) — Ashley (Lake Bell) is an actual psychic who falls in love with a total skeptic, Henry (Paul Rudd). However, Henry comes with some baggage, chiefly his dead fiancée, Kate (Eva Longoria), who will stop at nothing to keep Henry single.
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05/05/2008
Saawariya

( Released: 05/06/2008 Rated: PG - for thematic elements, brief nudity, some language and incidental smoking Avg. Score: 1.88/5 | Photos | Reviews ) — A lonely guy (Ranbir Kapoor) who spends his days and nights locked in his apartment gets a new lease on life when he meets a mysterious woman (Salman Khan) on one of his rare sojourns outside. Over the next four nights, the couple meet up and quickly fall in love.
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05/05/2008
Teeth

( Released: 05/06/2008 Rated: R - for disturbing sequences involving sexuality and violence, language and some drug use Avg. Score: 3.33/5 | Trailers | Photos | Reviews ) — Dawn (Jess Weixler) is a shy teenage girl who actively resists the temptation to give in to her hormones, so she stays very active in her school's chastity group. However, when she's sexually assaulted, she discovers that her genitals have teeth, and they bite!
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