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The film re-unites Roeg with Donald Sutherland although his role is relatively minor, and Miranda Richardson surpasses herself as an unhinged, tormented soul who craves a fourth child.

Despite some dark themes and darker deeds, humour abounds and Roeg watchers will spot numerous in-jokes and allusions to other works.

There are some uncomfortably tense and gruesome scenes including one nightmarish flight of fancy which almost rivals the climax of ‘Don’t Look Now’ for nerve-shredding tension.

As always with Roeg, there are some startling and provocative visual surprises.

Kelly Reily plays a young architect who arrives in a beautiful but remote backwater of Ireland with a dream - to build a spectacular home upon the deserted ruins of a burnt-out cottage.

The cottage carries its own dark, secret history, and when Reilly falls pregnant, the envy of the superstitious, witchcraft-practising locals is aroused and old enmities are stirred.

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Director
Nicolas Roeg

Writers
Dan Weldon
Fay Weldon

Release Date
18 July 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller

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The movie starts out well enough with great dance sequences and cute jokes but as the movie goes on it starts to fizzle out.

The dances and sets are amazing but that is to be expected because it is on the big big screen but the acting and plot leaves little to the imagination.

The break out stars have to be Zac and Ashley but I was disappointed that Ashely was not given a bigger role and the movie focused more on Troy and Gabriella.

The plot lacked drama and stayed on one flat line instead of taking the audience on a ride

It’s a good movie but I still think the best on is the original which is the case in most movie franchises.

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Director
Kenny Ortega

Writers
Peter Barsocchini

Release Date
22 October 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance

Tagline
high school graduation

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This is a very good movie, but not the classic it wants to be.

It’s funny and tragic, although not too informative if you’ve read a newspaper with any regularity over the last eight years.

In short, there are no surprises.

Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory.

In an unprecedented undertaking, acclaimed director Oliver Stone is bringing the life of our 43rd President to the big screen as only he can.

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Director
Oliver Stone

Writer
Stanley Weiser

Release Date
7 November 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Biography | Comedy | Drama 

Tagline
Get Ready

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The Saw films have demonstrated an unfeasibly high success rate over time in terms of pulling off twist after twist and having them nearly all hit home.

With this track record, it seems inevitable that there’d be a significant stumble at some point.

They’ve never been bulletproof films (and thrillers are the genre that are hardest to bulletproof), but I’d say Saw V is definitely the stumble.

In spite of this, it still keeps in enough with the series in general for me to be ready for Saw VI in 2009 - which I hope will be better work.

Following Jigsaw’s grizzly demise, Mark Hoffman, the final apprentice to the serial killer is reigned a hero.

Agent Strahm is tested and puts the pieces together, Strahm realizes that Hoffman is helping Jigsaw, five seemingly unconnected people face a horrible lesson of teamwork.

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Director
David Hackl

Writers
Patrick Melton
Marcus Dunstan

Release Date
24 October 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Action | Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller 

Tagline
You won’t believe how it ends.

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Astounding.

Impeccably crafted drama.

The story is sad and very serious, but this is one of the most perfect examples of the art of simple dramatic film-making that exists.

This is film storytelling at its pinnacle, on a scale of four stars, this is a five star movie.

On a warm September evening, college professor Ethan Learner, his wife Grace, and their daughter Emma are attending a recital.

Their 10-year-old son Josh is playing cello — as usual.

His younger sister looks up to him, and his parents are proud of their son.

On the way home, they all stop at a gas station on Reservation Road.

There, in one terrible instant, he is taken from them forever.

spoooky! magic

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Director
Terry George

Writers
John Burnham Schwartz
Terry George

Release Date
15 November 2007 (Israel) 

Genre
Drama | Thriller 

Tagline
To find the truth, you have to find who’s hiding it.

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Let me get this out of the way: this movie has some of the greatest 3D animated fight scenes. Ever.

What elevates them from good to great is that while I expected the unbelievable, gravity-defying stunts that are REQUIRED of a good kung fu movie, there is an amazing amount of ‘realism’ to the physics in this movie.

Just watch the jailbreak and you’ll understand.

It’s the story about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda, named Po, who is the biggest fan of Kung Fu around…which doesn’t exactly come in handy while working every day in his family’s noodle shop.

Unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy, Po’s dreams become reality when he joins the world of Kung Fu and studies alongside his idols.

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Directors
Mark Osborne
John Stevenson

Writers
Jonathan Aibel
Glenn Berger

Release Date
4 July 2008 (UK)

Genre
Animation | Action | Comedy | Family

Tagline
Prepare for awesomeness.

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Don’t mistake Red for lesser fare such as Death Wish or The Brave One.

While it is constructed around a fairly simple premise that on the surface appears primed to appeal to the base human desire for revenge, the story here is so much more than that, and to give it short shrift and dismiss it as mere manipulative movie making would be to miss out on a story and performance that is a true must see.

Red is a 2008 dramatic thriller about a couple of kids who kill a dog named ‘Red’ to amuse themselves.

The owner finds out who they are, and tries to bring them to justice by informing the authorities.

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Directors
Trygve Allister Diesen
Lucky McKee

Writers
Stephen Susco
Jack Ketchum

Release Date
8 August 2008 (USA)

Genre
Drama | Thriller 

Tagline
They should have told the truth.

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This is a surprisingly good movie, considering it is basically low budget. It is fairly realistic, too. The weapons sound like the real weapons. The actors act like real Marines and soldiers.

There are some lapses in dialog, though. Some of the things the Marine lieutenant says would not be uttered by a Marine.

Far and away the biggest lapse is Rutger Hauer. He is starting to show his age - unfortunately. Plus, with his long hair a scraggly 3-day-old beard, he looks more like a street person than a Marine Corps General.

That notwithstanding, the military advisers did a much better job than in other movies of this genre. It held my attention, even if it wasn’t Saving Private Ryan.

Not a bad movie overall but lacks some special effects to beef it up

The Plot is at times a little weak, I get the thought - that the production team may have worked on the A-Team (Once you’ve watched the movie you’ll understand)

Other reviews say its pretty bad - each to their own

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Director
Brian Clyde

Writers
Michael Henry Carter

Release Date
17 January 2006 (USA)

Genre
Action

Tagline
The only thing harder than combat is rescue.

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A great, thought provoking film about the death penalty.

This is a movie that will be extremely difficult for most viewers to watch, yet it is worth it for more than one reason.

The first and foremost to reason to see this film is that it is a visual tour de force.

Every scene looks amazing and the cinematographer constantly fills the screen with something interesting to look at.

The second reason I would say to see this is that its script is pretty intelligent.

While not above some logic flaws and a frustrating beginning, a murder who I felt needed a little more story, the film really does shine when it all comes together.

Felix De La Pena (John Leguizamo) is an armored car driver struggling to make ends meet for his wife Marina (Rosie Perez) and two kids in East LA’s Boyle Heights neighborhood.

Their lives are thrown into chaos after Felix miraculously survives a violent on-the-job hijacking led by Adell Baldwin (Tyrese Gibson), a merciless criminal driven by power and greed.

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Director
Charles Oliver

Writer
Charles Oliver

Release Date
25 July 2008 (USA) 

Genre
Drama

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Cast is uniformly excellent, including Lucy Liu, Kristen Chenoweth and Anjelica Houston.

This was much better than some of the theatrically released Disney animated films I’ve seen (notably “Atlantis”), making it among the best of the Mouse’s direct-to-video titles.

Well worth checking out with your kids, but don’t be surprised if you find a tear in your own eye at the conclusion of this fantastic production

By the way Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure is being released in 2009.

Enter the magical world of fairies and meet the enchanting creatures of Pixie Hollow, who “nurture nature” and bring about the change of the seasons.

Changing the colors of the leaves, moving a sunbeam to melt snow, waking animals from their winter slumber, or giving a patch of sproutlings a sprinkle of water are all within the realm of these seasonal specialists.

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Director
Bradley Raymond

Writers
J.M. Barrie
Jeffrey M. Howard

Release Date
28 October 2008 (USA)

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