Ballroom, The ( Chega de Saudade )
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Laís Bodanzky
Actors: Leonardo Villar, Tônia Carrero, Cássia Kiss, Betty Faria, Stepan Nercessian, Maria Flor
Boarding Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Olivier Assayas
Actors: Asia Argento, Carl Ng, Michael Madsen, Kelly Lin, Alex Descas, Kim Gordon
Bokura no ai no kanade
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yôka Kusano
Actors: Tsuyoshi Hayata, Teru Toko, Masato Uchiyama, Namihiko Ômura
Plot: Maki, a struggling college student, suddenly becomes obsessed with a gifted boy who
joins his piano class.
Bonneville
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Christopher N. Rowley
Actors: Jessica Lange, Joan Allen, Kathy Bates, Tom Skerritt, Christine Baranski, Tom Amandes
Plot: The story follows recently widowed Arvilla (Lange), who is accompanied by her best friends Margene (Spacek) and Carol (Bates) as she takes her husband Joe's vintage Bonneville and heads towards Santa Barbara to deliver Joe's ashes to his resentful daughter, Francine.
Bunny Chow
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Barker
Actors: David Kibuuka, Kim Engelbrecht, Kagiso Lediga, Joey Yusuf Rasdien, Jason Cope, Keren Neumann
Drillbit Taylor
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Brill
Actors: Owen Wilson, Josh Peck, Alex Frost, Casey Boersma, Dylan Boersma, Beth Littleford
Plot: Ryan, Wade and Emmit attend their first day at high school and they're pumped... until they meet up with Filkins, a school bully who comes off like a little Hannibal Lecter. Before they become completely engulfed in Filkins' reign of terror, they seek out some protection by placing an ad in Soldier of Fortune magazine. Their best response - and the cheapest - comes from Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), a down-on-his luck soldier of fortune who lives a homeless - he likes to say "home free" - existence on the beach. He enrolls them in some physical and mental training.
The Grand
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Zak Penn
Actors: David Cross, Shannon Elizabeth, Julie Claire, Mike Epps, Woody Harrelson, Dennis Farina
Love Songs ( chansons d'amour, Les )
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Musical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Christophe Honoré
Actors: Louis Garrel, Chiara Mastroianni, Clotilde Hesme, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Brigitte Roüan
Plot: A very modern musical, in which the lives of several Parisians intertwine after a young couple's relationship comes to a sudden and very bleak end -- and that's just the beginning.
Meet the Browns
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tyler Perry
Actors: Sofía Vergara, Tyler Perry, Rick Fox, Jenifer Lewis, Angela Bassett, Lance Gross
Plot: A mother reruns to Georgia with her family in order to attend the funeral of her estranged father. There, they are all introduced to the Brown family.
Planet B-Boy
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Benson Lee
Actors: Knucklehead Zoo, Skwall
Shelter
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jonah Markowitz
Actors: Tricia Pierce, Trevor Wright, Matt Bushell, Christina Blevins, Cherese, Caitlin Crosby
Shutter
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Masayuki Ochiai
Actors: Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, David Denman, James Kyson Lee, John Hensley, Megumi Okina
Plot: An American photographer movies to a new job in Japan where he starts to become haunted by his past. The ghost tries to revile herself in his photos.
Snow Angels
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Gordon Green
Actors: Sam Rockwell, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Angarano, Griffin Dunne, Olivia Thirlby, Amy Sedaris
Plot: A drama that interweaves the life of a teenager, with his old babysitter,
her estranged husband and their daughter.
Under the Same Moon ( misma luna, La )
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Patricia Riggen
Actors: America Ferrera, Adrian Alonso, Jesse Garcia, Kate del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez, Jacqueline Voltaire
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
Theatrical Release Date: 03/20/2008
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Cathy Randall
Actors: Toni Collette, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Jonny Pasvolsky, Christian Byers, Danielle Catanzariti, Russell Dykstra
Plot: A coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl trying to fit into both a posh private school and an ordinary public school.
An Empress and the Warriors ( Kong saan mei yan )
Theatrical Release Date: 03/19/2008
Overall Rating: 2.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Siu-Tung Ching
Actors: Donnie Yen, Xiaodong Guo, Zhenghai Kou, Kelly Chen, Leon Lai, Weihua Liu
Plot: After the death of her father, a woman is forced to take over as empress and fight to save her kingdom.
Kissing Cousins
Theatrical Release Date: 03/19/2008
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Amyn Kaderali
Actors: Samrat Chakrabarti, Rebecca Hazlewood, Rachael C. Smith, P.J. Byrne, Zack Ward, Jaysha Patel
Just Add Water
Theatrical Release Date: 03/18/2008
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Hart Bochner
Actors: Dylan Walsh, Tracy Middendorf, Danny DeVito, Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Anika Noni Rose
The Sick House
Theatrical Release Date: 03/18/2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Curtis Radclyffe
Actors: Gina Philips, Alex Hassell, Kellie Shirley, Andrew Knott, Jack Bailey, John Lebar
War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave
Theatrical Release Date: 03/18/2008
Overall Rating: 1.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: C. Thomas Howell
Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Fred Griffith, Danna Brady, Jonathan Levit, Jason S. Gray, Darren Dalton
Plot: A low-budget sequel to the low budget knock off of 'War of the Worlds' - picks up 2 years after the original when, luck would have it, the walkers have returned to subject humanity to another 90 minutes of B-movie madness!
John Adams
Theatrical Release Date: 03/16/2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tom Hooper
Actors: Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Stephen Dillane, John Dossett, Sarah Polley, David Morse
Plot: HBO presents a 7 part miniseries based on David McCullough's popular book/biography of the second president of the United States. The series chronicles Adams' defense of the Boston Massacre offenders, his influence in writing the Declaration of Independence, his rise in politics through the vice presidency and presidency to his final days in retirement.
