Archive for August, 2008

Redbelt

Dvd release date: 08/26/2008
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tim Allen
Director: David Mamet
Category: Drama
Rated: R
Set on the westside of the Los Angeles fight world, a scene inhabited by bouncers, cagefighters, cops and special forces types “Redbelt” is the story of Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a Jiu-jitsu master who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing to instead [...]

What Happens in Vegas

Dvd release date: 08/26/2008
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher
Director: Tom Vaughan
Category: Comedy
Rated: PG-13
Two strangers awaken together to discover they’ve gotten married following a night of debauchery in Sin City, and one of them has won a huge jackpot after playing the other’s quarter. The newlyweds devise ever-escalating schemes to undermine each other and get their [...]

Street Kings

Dvd release date: 08/19/2008
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker
Director: David Ayer
Category: Action & Adventure
Rated: R
Gripping performances by Keanu Reeves, Academy Award(R) Winner Forest Whitaker and an all-star supporting cast power this action-packed crime thriller, in which a veteran cop finds himself ensnared in a deadly web of conspiracy and betrayal. Reeves stars as Tom Ludlow, [...]

Smart People

Dvd release date: 08/12/2008
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Thomas Haden Church
Director: Noam Murro
Category: Independent
Rated: R
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant – but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he’s as downright flummoxed as the next guy. His collegiate son won’t confide in him, his [...]

The Counterfeiters

Dvd release date: 08/05/2008
Starring: Karl Markovics, Au gust Diehl
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Category: Foreign
Rated: R
“The Counterfeiters” is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936. Salomon “Sally” Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. When thrown into a concentration camp, Salomon must decide whether his actions, which could [...]

Nim's Island

Dvd release date: 08/05/2008
Starring: Jodie Foster, Abigail Breslin
Director: Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett
Category: Children & Family
Rated: PG
Welcome to “Nim’s Island”, a tropical paradise where imagination runs wild and adventure rules! Abigail Breslin (“Little Miss Sunshine”), Jodie Foster and Gerard Butler shine in this fun, “exhilarating and enchanting family picture” (San Francisco Chronicle) based on Wendy [...]