The list is long this week! Alien vs Predator 2: Reqiem, My Sassy Girl, Bloodrayne, Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium, P.S. I Love You, The Wendell Baker Story, Already Dead and Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story. PHEW!!
The titans of terror square up for round two of the gore-fest deep in the woods of Colorado. Returning to their home planet with several alien captives and a dead comrade on board, two Predator pilots are killed when an alien hybrid, unknowingly concealed in the body of their dead buddy, bursts forth. Before he dies however, the pilot manages to send off a distress signal to his home planet, where a Predator receives it before heading off to Earth in response. The spacecraft meanwhile, has crashlanded in the woods of Colorado, spilling its deadly cargo, who immediately set about culling the local population with extreme professionalism. Its not long before the Predator arrives, unleashing another almighty killing spree, as he tries to stop the hybrid reproducing in quantities that will soon overrun the county.
2 copies in store 8th May 2008!
Comedy about how a nice midwestern boy's life gets turned upside down when he meets, and falls for, a wildchild. When shy, respectable Charlie (Jesse Bradford) leaves the safety of his midwest roots to study in New York, his carefully planned life takes a major detour when he happens upon, and saves the life of, beautiful, crazy-chick Jordan (Elisha Cuthbert). Although his head's telling him she's not the one, his heart has other plans, and before long he's fallen hopelessly in love - despite himself.
1 copy in store 8th May 2008!
Gothic action adventure prequel to the popular video game. In medieval Romania, the evil Lord Kagan (Ben Kingsley), vampire supreme, seeks to increase his dominion over the land. On hearing of three magical talismans that can bestow immortality, Kagan scours the country in his quest for ultimate power. Ranged against him are the Brimstone Society, devoted to restoring order to the land, and stripping Kagan of his power once and for all. They soon enlist the help of Bloodrayne (Kristanna Loken), a half-human, half-vampire warrior, who they train to hunt down the forces of darkness. Her lust for vengeance, and blood, eventually leads her to the man who raped and brutally murdered her mother - her father, Lord Kagan.
1 copy in store 8th May 2008!
Comedy starring Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium is the strangest, most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world. It's a tantalising toy haven in which everything inside literally comes to life - including the store itself - and where marvels of every imaginable, possible kind, and beyond, never cease... until now. When Mr. Magorium, the store's extraordinary 243 year-old proprietor (Hoffman), announces that he will at long last hand over the reigns of his wonder-expanding Emporium to his unconfident young manager, Molly Mahoney (Portman), the store decides to throw an unusual tantrum. As a skeptical accountant named Henry (Jason Bateman) comes in to audit the Legos and Lincoln Logs, not to mention the Whodathoughts and Whatchamacallits, the once sparkling, colour-saturated Emporium is suddenly embattled by mysterious changes. The playful toys are all still there, but they've turned gray and quiet - and only Mahoney and Henry can revive them if, with the help of a superdexterous 9 year-old (Zach Mills), they can find the source of magic inside themselves.
1 copy in store 8th May 2008!
Holly Kennedy (Swank) is beautiful, smart and married to the love of her life - a passionate, funny, and impetuous Irishman named Gerry (Butler). So when Gerry's life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is the person who is no longer there; nobody knows Holly better than Gerry. And it's a good thing he planned ahead. Before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief, but in rediscovering herself. The first message arrives on Holly's 30th birthday in the form of a cake, and to her utter shock, a tape recording from Gerry, who proceeds to tell her to get out and 'celebrate herself'. In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way: 'P.S. I Love You'. Holly's mother and best friends begin to worry that Gerry's letters are keeping Holly tied to the past, but in fact, each letter is pushing her further into a new future.
2 copies in store 8th May 2008!
Comedy written by and starring Luke Wilson. When conman Wendell Baker's (Wilson) latest hustle backfires, he ends up behind bars. The optimistic Wendell makes the most of his time in jail by reading several books about hotel management as he plans his next scam. After his release, Wendell gets a job at a Retirement Hotel where he meets Boyd (Seymour Cassel), Skip (Harry Dean Stanton) and Nasher (Kris Kristofferson). However, Wendell is distraught to discover that while he was in jail, his long-term girlfriend, Doreen (Eva Mendes), left him for another man - bad-tempered grocer, Dave (Will Ferrell). With the help of his new friends, Wendell makes a spirited attempt to win Doreen back, while simsimultaneously leading a rebellion against the hotel's evil head nurse, Neil King (Owen Wilson), and his right-hand man, McTeague (Eddie Griffin).
1 copy in store 8th May 2008!
Psychological thriller about a grieving father's desperate search for justice. Arriving home one night, successful architect Thomas Archer (Ron Eldard) is confronted by an armed intruder who brutally attacks his wife and needlessly murders his young son. While he continually pleads with the police to find the culprit, Thomas visits a top therapist (Christopher Plummer) to help him overcome his grief and try to rebuild his shattered life. With the police unable to act on any leads, his therapist suggests contacting a shadowy vigilante group who specialise in tracking down fugitives and letting the victim decide what punishment to exact.
1 copy in store 8th May 2008!
John C. Reilly plays it strictly for laughs in this irreverent spoof biopic of fictional rock and roll legend Dewey Cox. Friend of Elvis and the Beatles, the iconic figure of Dewey Cox bestrides the decades, churning out the hits in a career that has taken him from hick balladeer to national institution. Although he's tried every drug known to man, and bedded more than his fair share of beautiful women, the time has come for Dewey to face his greatest test - trying to win the heart of his beautiful backing singer Darlene (Jenna Fischer). But with his popularity showing no signs of abating, will the rock and roll maverick finally be able to put his hell-raising life behind him and settle down to a life of domestic bliss?
1 copy in store May 8th 2008!
4 new releases this week, including Nicholas Cage in National Treasure Book Of Secrets, and the Coen Brothers' award winning No Country For Old Men.
Heart-pounding adventure sequel starring Nicolas Cage as artefact hunter and archaeologist, Ben Franklin Gates. When a missing page from the diary of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, surfaces, one of Ben's ancestors is implicated as a conspirator in the murder. In an attempt to clear their family's name, Ben and his father, Mitch (Jon Voight), travel the globe in search of the other missing pages from Booth's diary. The journey leads Ben and his crew not only to surprising revelations, but to the trail of the world's most treasured secrets.
The Coen brothers' stripped down and gritty chase thriller has a Vietnam vet desperately trying to give the slip to a relentless killer. While out hunting in the barren wilds of Texas, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) discovers the aftermath of a drugs deal gone wrong, with dead bodies, heroin and a case filled with $2million in cash. Deciding to take the money, Moss says goodbye to his wife (Kelly MacDonald) and takes off to plan his next move. It's not long before he discovers he's being followed by psychopathic ex-special forces hitman, Chigurh (Javier Bardem), who decides his victim's fate, guilty or not, on the toss of a coin. As Chigurh raises the bodycount, gaining ever nearer to Moss, he in turn is hunted by local Sheriff Ed Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a seen-it-all-before cop, who could do without the excitement.
Director Marc Forster's adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's bestseller about one man's search for redemption from a childhood betrayal in his native Afghanistan. Childhood friends Amir (Zekeriah Ebrahimi) and Hassan (Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada) spend their days on the streets of Kabul getting up to mischief and eagerly awaiting the spectacular kite-fighting contests. But the joyous excitement of the day is ruined by a shocking act that changes the two boys' relationship forever, with Amir leaving soon after to live in America, just as the threat of war becomes a grim reality. 20 years later, and still haunted by the past, Amir (played as an adult by Khalid Abdalla) returns to Afghanistan, now in the grip of the Taliban, determined to finally redeem himself.
Comedy about a father and daughter on a hunt for buried treasure. After spending several years in a mental institution, Charlie (Michael Douglas) is sent home to his 16-year old daughter Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood). Since being abandoned by her mother, Miranda has managed to survive by quitting school and taking a job in a burger bar. When her father is released and sent back to their home, Miranda finds her relatively calm world turned upside down. Charlie is convinced that the long-lost treasure of Spanish explorer Father Juan Florismarte Garces is buried somewhere beneath the local Costco store, and encourages the initially skeptical Miranda to get a job there so that they can devise a way to do some after-hours excavation work. Miranda goes along with the questionable plan in the hope of helping her dad realise his outlandish dream.
