Release date: Friday April 3, 2009
Genre: Action
Director: Justin Lin
Studio: Universal Pictures
Screenplay: Chris Morgan
Producer(s): Michael Fottrell, Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel
Cast: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, John Ortiz, Laz Alonso
Official Site: thefastandthefurious.com
Rating: This film is not rated
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Synopsis
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker reteam for the ultimate chapter of the franchise built on speed—Fast and Furious. Heading back to the streets where it all began, they rejoin Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster to blast muscle, tuner and exotic cars across Los Angeles and floor through the Mexican desert in the new high-octane action-thriller. When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto (Diesel) reignites his feud with agent Brian O’Conner (Walker). But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmanuever him. And from convoy heists to precision tunnel crawls across international lines, two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what’s possible behind the wheel.

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Release date: Friday February 6, 2009
Genre: Thriller/Drama
Director: Paul McGuigan
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Screenplay: David Bourla
Producer(s): Bruce Davey, Glenn Williamson, William Vince
Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen
Official Site: push-themovie.com
Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, brief strong language, smoking and a scene of teen drinking
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A riveting action-thriller, Push burrows deep into the deadly world of psychic espionage where artificially enhanced paranormal operatives have the ability to move objects with their minds, see the future, create new realities and kill without ever touching their victims. Against this setting, a young man and a teenage girl take on a clandestine agency in a race against time that will determine the future of civilization.

The Division, a shadowy government agency, is genetically transforming citizens into an army of psychic warriors—and brutally disposing of those unwilling to participate. Nick Gant (Chris Evans), a second-generation telekinetic or “mover,” has been in hiding since the Division murdered his father more than a decade earlier. He has found sanctuary in densely populated Hong Kong—the last safe place on earth for fugitive psychics like him—but only if he can keep his gift a secret.

Nick is forced out of hiding when Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning), a 13-year-old clairvoyant or “watcher,” seeks his help in finding Kira, (Camilla Belle), an escaped “pusher” who may hold the key to ending the Division’s program. Pushers possess the most dangerous of all psychic powers: the ability to influence others’ actions by implanting thoughts in their minds. But Cassie’s presence soon attracts the attention of the Division’s human bloodhounds, forcing Nick and Cassie to flee for their lives.

With the help of a team of rogue psychics, the unlikely duo traverses the seedy underbelly of the city, trying to stay one step ahead of the authorities as they search for Kira. But they find themselves square in the crosshairs of Division Agent Henry Carver (Djimon Hounsou), a pusher who will stop at nothing to keep them from achieving their goal.

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Release date: Friday February 13, 2009
Genre: Thriller
Director: Tom Tykwer
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Screenplay: Eric Warren Singer
Producer(s): Charles Roven, Lloyd Phillips, Richard Suckle, Steve Chasman
Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen
Official Site: everybodypays.com
Rating: R for sequences of violence and language
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Synopsis
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world’s most powerful banks. Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing — even murder — to continue financing terror and war.

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One of the remarkable things about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the films ability to resonate with every audience, yound and old.

Here’s the beautiful thing about film: Movies speak differently to different people. That’s a simple truth. And what a film truly means — which is to say, what one takes away from it — can change and evolve and grow along with its audience. We bring into every theater our age, our experience, our successes and failures, our joys and our longings. We sit in the dark, gazing at the screen, subject only to ourselves. This is the very same reason why a movie which sparks a flame in some people ultimately fails to find its tinder with others. Yet it’s this remarkable quality that makes The Curious Case of Benjamin Button such an achievement — that it is capable of speaking to every audience, young and old, and that while its message will be vastly different for grandchild and grandfather, it will only ever age, backward or forward, as we do.

And the concept is simple — that Benjamin Button begins life as an old man and ends life as a child. Whoever said that we enter the world weeping and weak and bald and in diapers, and leave it the very same way, spoke to one of the underlining truths of Benjamin Button, a philosophy heightened by the love story at the film’s center. Born as a shriveled infant — eyes blind, joints swollen — Benjamin (Brad Pitt) is abandoned by his father, Thomas Button, on the doorstep of an old-folks home and taken in by Queenie, an African-American nurse. Slowly, Benjamin takes on the frame of a man well into his ’80s. In a departure from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s original story, Benjamin has only the mental faculties of a child, growing into a kind of mental adulthood as his body knits itself back into boyhood.

When Benjamin first meets Daisy (Cate Blanchett), she’s perhaps 10 years old to Benjamin’s 70, but it’s a meeting of children nonetheless. It’s also the start of a love story that develops slowly, and eloquently, over the course of decades. The film itself spans the entire course of Benjamin’s life, following his “childhood” spent in the home to his “adolescence” spent at sea with Captain Mike, following the currents directly into the events of World War II and home once again, back into the company of Daisy. It’s not a complicated film, just a broad one and its magic is simply in the depth of Benjamin’s point of view. Though he thinks and behaves and acts contrary to his own physical appearance, Benjamin allows the audience to apply their own understandings of life to the journey. Certainly, introspective twentysomethings will find a vastly different meaning in the film than those older and closer to death, but there’s honest, moving and emotional meaning to be found there by both… and in plenty.

This is in large part attributable to the absolute triumph of director David Fincher, whose visual mastery and unsentimental approach never spoon-feeds the audience or over-sweetens the narrative. As with any life, there’s equal parts suffering and celebration, and Fincher treats this inevitability fairly and with respect. One never feels forced into a particular emotion, which, given the premise, might easily have been the case with a lesser director. Rather, he applies his painterly eye for framing and his expert understanding of visual effects to tell a story which allows the audience to take from it whatever they will, offering much yet giving nothing. And that neither Fincher nor writer Eric Roth wink too heavily or acknowledge too overtly the magic realism of the premise allows for the audience to do the same.

Many an effects-person has long said that if an audience fails to notice the illusion, they’ve done the job to their own satisfaction, and if such is the barometer for success, then Benjamin Button boasts perhaps the finest use of visual effects ever put to film. The aging techniques applied to Pitt throughout the movie virtually disappear into his performance, so seamless and smoothly integrated that beyond some initial sense of admiration, the effect drifts away into the narrative. No doubt, there’s some top-notch CG wizardry on display here, but rarely, if ever, is there a moment when one becomes acutely aware of it.

But none of it works if Benjamin himself doesn’t prove to be somebody with whom the theater is willing to pass a lifetime. Fortunately, Pitt’s performance offers the range of human experience — from the innocent eyes of an 80 year old child to the experienced, world-weary gaze of a teenager who’s been alive almost a century. Pitt creates not only the singular character of Benjamin Button, but various versions of the man glimpsed at a number of points throughout his life. The acting here, while certainly never showy, is expert in its subtlety. And Blanchett does some wonderful work as Benjamin’s counterbalance, providing not only a gut-wrenching visual contrast as the two age beyond one another, but an emotional core, as well. Together, the two have created a love story that says as much about life as it does about love.

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Release date: Wednesday April 8, 2009
Genre: Action/Adventure/Fantasy
Director: James Wong
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Screenplay: James Wong, Ben Ramsey
Producer(s): Stephen Chow
Cast: Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Emmy Rossum, Chow Yun-Fat, Texas Battle
Official Site: dbthemovie.com
Rating: Not yet rated
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Synopsis
[Based on] The King Piccolo Saga [Dragonball], also known as the Piccolo Daimaoh Saga (Demon Lord Piccolo Saga) is the penultimate saga from the anime Dragonball. It occurs after the Tien Shinhan Saga and precedes the Piccolo Junior Saga. It includes the battles between Goku and King Piccolo’s sons, Goku’s first encounter with the Samurai warrior, Yajirobe, Goku’s quest to find the Holy Water, his final battle with young King Piccolo, and the birth of Piccolo Junior.

Appearances also made by Yamcha and Bulma but regretably not Pu’ar or Oolong, nor even Krillin. Ox King and his Daughter Chi Chi are speculated.

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Release date: Friday October 23, 2009
Genre: Animation/Adventure/Sci-fi
Director: David Bowers
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Screenplay: Timothy Harris
Producer(s): Maryann Garger
Cast: Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucas, Donald Sutherland
Official Site: astroboy-themovie.com
Rating: None This film is not yet rated
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Synopsis
“AstroBoy” was created by the “god of manga,” Japan’s Osamu Tezuka, in the early 1950s. The animated television series first aired in 1963 in Japan and found great acclaim and success around the world. In the U.S., it quickly became a top syndicated children’s show. The iconic character’s fame grew in the 1980s and 2003 with two new “AstroBoy” TV series attracting new generations of fans.

“AstroBoy” tells the story of a powerful robot boy created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he has lost. Our hero journeys to find acceptance in the human world, and ultimately discovers true friendship as he uses his incredible powers to help others and save Metro City from destruction.

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The Spirit arrive in theaters, December 26th. Check out this video interview with Samuel L. Jackson (the Octopus).

Adapted from the legendary graphic novels, Will Eisner’s The Spirit is a classic action-adventure-romance told by genre-twister Frank Miller (creator of 300 and Sin City). It is the story of a former rookie-cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as The Spirit (Gabriel Macht) to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy, The Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson) has a different mission: he’s going to wipe out Spirit’s beloved city as he pursues his own version of immortality. The Spirit tracks this cold-hearted killer from Central City’s rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront … all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill our masked crusader. Surrounding him at every turn are Ellen Dolan (Sarah Paulson), the whip-smart girl-next-door; Sand Saref (Eva Mendes), the jewel thief with dangerous curves; Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson), a punk secretary and frigid vixen; Plaster of Paris (Paz Vega), a murderous French nightclub dancer; Lorelei (Jaime King), a phantom siren; and Morgenstern (Stana Katic), a sexy young cop. In the vein of Batman Begins and Sin City, The Spirit takes us on a sinister, gut-wrenching ride with a hero who is born, murdered and born again.

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A few good DVDs being released this week.

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“Doubt” has earned five nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Film drama “Doubt” on Thursday earned five nominations for Screen Actors Guild awards, including for best ensemble cast, as Hollywood continued its march toward the Oscars.

Joining “Doubt,” about a Catholic priest and nun engaged in a battle of wits over charges of sexual abuse, in the race for best ensemble cast were “Milk,” about slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk, and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” which tells of a man who ages backward. Those movies each earned three SAG award nods.

“Slumdog Millionaire,” a tale of romance and money set in India, and “Frost/Nixon,” which recounts the interviews of disgraced former U.S. President Richard Nixon by British TV host David Frost, also saw their actors land in the race for best ensemble cast and pulled down two nominations apiece.

The Screen Actors Guild represents some 120,000 film and television actors, and winning a SAG award at the group’s January 25 ceremony can give actors momentum heading toward February’s Oscars, the world’s top film honors which are given out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The race for best actor in a movie will see Brad Pitt, who plays Benjamin Button, competing against Frank Langella for his portrayal of Richard Nixon and Sean Penn as Harvey Milk.

Joining them are Mickey Rourke, who is enjoying a comeback in his career as a faded sports star in “The Wrestler,” and Richard Jenkins in the low-budget immigration drama “The Visitor.”

The best leading actress race has Meryl Streep, who plays the nun in “Doubt,” up against Kate Winslet as a frustrated housewife in “Revolutionary Road” and Angelina Jolie as a mother fighting to find her lost son in “Changeling.”

Along with those three in the best actress race are Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” and Melissa Leo for the independent film “Frozen River.”

Nominees for supporting actor in a film included Philip Seymour Hoffman as the priest in “Doubt,” the late Heath Ledger for “The Dark Knight” and Dev Patel in “Slumdog Millionaire. They were joined by Josh Brolin in “Milk” and Robert Downey Jr. in the comedy “Tropic Thunder.”

Rounding out the nominees for best supporting actress were Amy Adams and Viola Davis in “Doubt,” Spanish actress Penelope Cruz for “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” Kate Winslet for “The Reader” and Taraji P. Henson in “Benjamin Button.”

SAG also gives out awards for television and, as in the film arena, SAG split its nominations among a variety of shows.

Competing for best cast in a TV drama will be the actors in “Boston Legal,” “Dexter,” “House,” “Mad Men” and “The Closer,” and nominated for best comedy casts were the actors in “30 Rock,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Entourage,” “The Office” and “Weeds.”

The ceremony airs on TNT Jan. 25. Here is the full list of nominations:

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

DOUBT

FROST/NIXON

MILK

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Richard Jenkins, THE VISITOR

Frank Langella, FROST/NIXON

Sean Penn, MILK

Brad Pitt, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN

Mickey Rourke, THE WRESTLER

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Anne Hathaway, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED

Angelina Jolie, CHANGELING

Melissa Leo, FROZEN RIVER

Meryl Streep, DOUBT

Kate Winslet, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Josh Brolin, MILK

Robert Downey Jr., TROPIC THUNDER

Philip Seymour Hoffman, DOUBT

Heath Ledger, THE DARK KNIGHT

Dev Patel, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Amy Adams, DOUBT

Penélope Cruz, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA

Viola Davis, DOUBT

Taraji P. Henson, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN

Kate Winslet, THE READER

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