7 new releases this week, including the much anticipated Vantaage Point. We also have The Piano Player coming in but I have been unable to find anay further information on this film as yet... sorry!
Angela bridges (Rachel Nichols), an ambitious and gorgeous young lawyer, hurries out her upscale Manhatten office on the way to see her family. She descends to parking level P2, she tries to start her car. The engine won't turn. She tries again. It won't start. She is trapped in a haunting, underground world - a world which is inhabited by a dark and forgotten soul, who is watching her every move. Brooding in his subterranean office, Thomas (Wes Bently) spends his days alone, isolated underground., watching people come and go with little contact with or interest in, the outside world. Except for Angela. Thomas develops a disturbing obsession for Angela. As the prospect of spending another Christmas alone becomes all but certain, something seething inside Thomas snaps.
1 copy in store 31st July 2008!
Protégé is everything you want to know about drugs, but never knew. The film tells of a well-intentioned narcotics agent, Nick (Daniel Wu) deep undercover in the heart of Hong Kong's lucrative heroin trade. He is forced to deal with the hypocrisy and despair in a life of drugs and crime, as he plays protégé to one of the key players of the game, "Banker" (Andy Lau). In the eight years he has been infiltrating the heroin industry Nick has amassed enough evidence to indict Banker, but has just received orders to remain undercover in an attempt to expose the identity of the man behind Banker in order to bring down the entire organisation. However as Nick becomes more embroiled with Banker's craft and is increasingly entrusted with his confidences, he finds himself corrupted by the easy money and new found power. Unable to separate himself from his undercover persona, he immerses himself into his role as a drug trafficker. Nick meets Jane (Zhang Jing Chu), a single mother living in poverty who has fallen prey to the dangerous narcotics that has also claimed her estranged husband (Louis Koo). Her brief affair with Nick, gives her a new hope for life, an escape from the past, but the re-emergence of her husband brings with it dire consequences. In the seedy underbelly of heroin culture, where every redemption comes at a price and the borders of justice, loyalties and truth are permeable; Nick will have to grapple with some dangerous choices and may find himself flirting with more than the devil.
1 copy in store 31st July 2008!
Rome 1948: In an attempt to recover from his failed marriage to Rita Hayworth and to restart his career, Orson Welles (Danny Huston) travels to Italy to make his come-back film, but when an actor is murdered on set, he is drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue, murder and politics. Based on true events. Starring: Danny Huston, Christopher Walken, Paz Vega and Diego Luna.
1 copy in store 31st July 2008!
14th century Italy and a beautiful princess (Barton) in left penniless and alone after her wealthy parents perish during an outbreak of plague. Seizing on this opportunity the evil Gerbino de la Ratta (Roth) pressures her to marry him as an escape from financial ruin. The fate of the Princess now rests with a mysterious stranger, Lorenzo (Christensen), a travelling rogue who swears to win her affection and overthrow his long-time nemesis, the brutal de la Ratta. With an all-star cast, Virgin Territory is a fantastic tale of adventure, fantasy and the fight to secure true love.
1 copy in store 31st July 2008!
Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror. When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide. In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker), an American tourist videotaping the historic event to show his kids when he returns home. Also there is Rex (Sigourney Weaver), an American TV news producer who is reporting on the conference. It's only as we follow each person's perspective of the same 15 minutes prior to and immediately after the shooting that the terrifying truth behind the assassination attempt is revealed.
4 copies in store 31st July 2008!
When med school student Ted Gray (Milo Ventimiglia) graduates top of his class he joins one of the nation's most prestigious Pathology programs. With talent and determination Ted is quickly noticed by the program's privileged and elite band of pathology interns who invite him into their crowd. Intrigued by his new friends he begins to uncover secrets he never expected and finds that he has unknowingly become a pawn in their dangerous and secret after-hours game at the morgue of who can commit the perfect undetectable murder. As Ted becomes seduced into their wild extracurricular activities the danger becomes real and he must stay one step ahead of the game before he is the next victim.
1 copy in store 31st July 2008!
