Dvd release date: 12/27/2008
Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Saul Dibb
Category: Drama
Rated: PG-13
Long before the concept existed, the Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley), was the original “It Girl.” Like her direct ancestor Princess Diana, she was ravishing, glamorous and adored by an entire country. Determined to be a player in the wider affairs [...]
Dvd release date: 12/27/2008
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan
Director: D.J. Caruso
Category: Thrillers
Rated: PG-13
The race-against-time thriller “Eagle Eye” reunites actor Shia LaBeouf, director D.J. Caruso and executive producer Steven Spielberg for the first time since “Disturbia”. In “Eagle Eye”, Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone [...]
Dvd release date: 12/27/2008
Starring: Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear
Director: David Koepp
Category: Comedy
Rated: PG-13
In the comedy “Ghost Town”, Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability [...]
Dvd release date: 12/21/2008
Starring: George Clooney, Frances McDormand
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Category: Comedy
Rated: R
An all-star cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich, come together in this outrageous spy comedy about murder, blackmail, sex addiction and physical fitness! When a disc filled with some of the CIA’s most irrelevant [...]
Dvd release date: 12/21/2008
Starring: Skylar Astin, Phoebe Strole
Director: Andrew Fleming
Category: Comedy
Rated: R
One high school drama teacher is about to make a huge number 2 in this wildly irreverent and completely outrageous movie from the producers of “Little Miss Sunshine”! When his school’s theater department is threatened to be cut, failed-actor-turned-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz writes a [...]
Dvd release date: 12/18/2008
Starring: Anna Faris, Katharine McPhee
Director: Fred Wolf
Category: Comedy
Rated: PG-13
Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially [...]
Dvd release date: 12/16/2008
Starring: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Category: Music & Musicals
Rated: PG-13
Join the music, laughter and fun of the irresistibly charming “Mamma Mia! The Movie”. Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast, including Pierce Brosnan and Stellan Skarsgard – as well as up-and-comers Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper in this musical [...]
Dvd release date: 12/16/2008
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li
Director: Rob Cohen
Category: Action & Adventure
Rated: PG-13
The blockbuster global “Mummy” franchise takes a spellbinding turn as the action shifts to Asia for the next chapter in the adventure series, “The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor”. Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick O’Connell to combat the resurrected [...]
Dvd release date: 12/09/2008
Starring: Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director: Christopher Nolan
Category: Action & Adventure
Rated: PG-13
The follow-up to “Batman Begins”, “The Dark Knight” reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in his continuing war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, [...]
Dvd release date: 12/09/2008
Starring: Philippe Petit, Jim Moore (II)
Director: James Marsh
Category: Documentary
Rated: PG-13
Tightrope-walker Philippe Petit’s daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City’s 1350 feet high World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974, what some consider, “the artistic crime of the century”. (Publisher)
Summary of critic ratings:
Chicago Tribune: **** (out of four)
New York [...]