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After a string of successes that have catapulted their members into the Hollywood elite, Team Apatow has chosen Easter weekend 2008 to lay an egg. Drillbit Taylor is a study in mediocrity and the only way anyone would be aware it came from Judd Apa...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-03-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Steven Brill
Cast: Owen Wilson, Nate Hartley, Troy Gentile, ...
It seems that an inordinate number of movies produced by BBC Films take us back in time to an England That Was, where class structures were as rigid as women's corsets and royalty meant more than a ceremonial title. In many cases, there's a samene...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-09-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Saul Dibb
Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, ...
There is no truth to the rumor that free frontal lobotomies will be performed at the entrance to all theaters showing Eagle Eye. This movie tests the viewing public's tolerance for enduring crass stupidity when the payoff is a series of repetiti...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-09-26
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: D.J. Caruso
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, ...
From Stephan Elliott, the man who brought us The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert comes Easy Virtue, an adaptation of Noel Coward's play. Written in 1924, this was the playwright's 16th play, and was originally filmed in 1928 by Alfred ...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-05-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Stephan Elliott
Cast: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, ...
Elegy, based on Philip Roth's The Dying Animal, provides an incisive perspective of how a person's inability to believe in love destroys a single, fragile chance at happiness. The movie tells the poignant tale of how one man - intelligent, urbane,...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-08-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Isabel Coixet
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, ...
A moment frozen in time through the lens of a camera - that's one of many images director Jan Troell uses to cement the foundation of his new period piece, Everlasting Moments. The chronicle of a woman who lived and died in the early part of the 2...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-03-06
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Jan Troell
Cast: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, ...
The Express is the latest movie to join an ever-expanding subgenre of the "sports movie" category: fact-based films that explore the impacts of integration into various contests during the latter half of the 20th century. We have already seen prod...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-10-10
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Gary Fleder
Cast: Rob Brown, Dennis Quaid, Darrin Dewitt Henson, ...
The Eye is another PG-13 ghost story adapted from an Asian original, and that probably says all that needs to be said about it. Want more evidence of why is may not be the best choice for an evening's entertainment? It stars one of the most attra...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-02-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: David Moreau, Xavier Palud
Cast: Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey
I wish I could be more positive about Fanboys because I understand what the filmmakers are trying to do. Their goal is to provide a Valentine to fanboys and fangirls worldwide - all those who devote themselves to an element of pop culture and ofte...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-02-06
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drugs, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Kyle Newman
Cast: Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, Dan Fogler, ...
Based purely on the misleading trailers that herald First Sunday's arrival in theaters, one might be forgiven thinking this is another dumb comedy about individuals characterized by a shortage of brain cells. However, while the film occasionally f...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-01-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: David E. Talbert
Cast: Ice Cube, Tracy Morgan, Katt Williams, ...