Adventureland
Theatrical Release Date: 04/03/2009
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Greg Mottola
Actors: Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Martin Starr, Jesse Eisenberg
Plot: In 1987 a recent college grad sees his European trip go up in smoke when his parents can't cover the cost. Forced into a menial job at a local amusement park, he finds out more about life and love than he would ever imagine.
Alien Trespass
Theatrical Release Date: 04/03/2009
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: R.W. Goodwin
Actors: Eric McCormack, Jenni Baird, Robert Patrick, Jody Thompson, Dan Lauria, Aaron Brooks
Plot: A throwback to early sci-fi films this tale, set in 1957, finds an alien spacecraft crash-landing in California with one occupant bent on Earth's destruction and a benevolent passenger, inhabiting the body of a local astronomer, looking to save mankind.
Bart Got a Room
Theatrical Release Date: 04/03/2009
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian Hecker
Actors: William H. Macy, Cheryl Hines, Steven Kaplan, Alia Shawkat, Chad Jamian Williams, Jon Polito
Plot: Amidst his parents failing marriage, a teen is desperate to find a prom
date, made all the more pathetic when he learns that Bart, the school's
biggest dweeb, not only has a date, but a hotel room.
C Me Dance
Theatrical Release Date: 04/03/2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Greg Robbins
Actors: Christina DeMarco, Greg Robbins, Laura Romeo, Hugh McLean, Lesley Bowen, Peter Kent
Dolls: A Woman from Damascus
Theatrical Release Date: 04/03/2009
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Diana El Jeiroudi
Embodiment of Evil ( Encarnação do Demônio )
Theatrical Release Date: 04/03/2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: José Mojica Marins
Actors: José Mojica Marins, Jece Valadão, Adriano Stuart, Milhem Cortaz, Rui Resende, José Celso Martinez Corrêa
The Escapist
Theatrical Release Date: 04/03/2009
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Actors: Brian Cox, Damian Lewis, Joseph Fiennes, Seu Jorge, Liam Cunningham, Dominic Cooper
Plot: The film follows a select group of prisoners who after learning one of their daughters is fatally ill, plan to escape.
Fast & Furious
Theatrical Release Date: 04/03/2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Justin Lin
Actors: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Laz Alonso, Gal Gadot
Plot: Released form prison, Dominic Toretto picks up his feud with FBI agent Brian O'Conner, but has to form a precarious alliance when a new rival appears as a common enemy. One thing is for certain, the score will be settled behind the wheel.
Gigantic
Theatrical Release Date: 04/03/2009
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matt Aselton
Actors: Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Edward Asner, Jane Alexander, Robert Stanton
Plot: A mattress salesman who plans to adopt a Chinese baby finds his life changed by a young woman who falls asleep on one of his beds and starts affecting his life upon waking.
Paris 36 ( Faubourg 36 )
Theatrical Release Date: 04/03/2009
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christophe Barratier
Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder, Pierre Richard, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Song of Sparrows, The ( Avaze gonjeshk-ha )
Theatrical Release Date: 04/03/2009
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Persian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Majid Majidi
Actors: Mohammad Amir Naji, Hossein Aghazi, Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan
Sugar
Theatrical Release Date: 04/03/2009
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sport
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Actors: Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Richard Bull, Ellary Porterfield, Michael Gaston, Karl Bury
Plot: A talented Dominican baseball player breaks into the American minor league at the age of 19 in hopes of making the majors to support his family. When his pitching arm starts to betray him, he has to reevaluate his life.
Conqueror, The ( Taras Bulba )
Theatrical Release Date: 04/02/2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vladimir Bortko
Actors: Bogdan Stupka, Igor Petrenko, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Magdalena Mielcarz, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Ada Rogovtseva
Laid to Rest
Theatrical Release Date: 04/02/2009
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Hall
Actors: Bobbi Sue Luther, Kevin Gage, Lena Headey, Sean Whalen, Richard Lynch, Johnathon Schaech
Plot: A serial killer is stalking major metropolitian areas and then dragging his prey into the country. Rumor has it that he wears a metal mask and videotapes all his kills as they happen.
Milk in the Land: Ballad of an American Drink
Theatrical Release Date: 04/02/2009
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ariana Gerstein, Monteith McCollum
Actors: Rozz Berman, Daniel R. Block, Jinny Brodesky, Robert Cohen, Melanie Dupuis, Noelle Foster
Shinjuku Incident ( San suk si gin )
Theatrical Release Date: 04/02/2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tung-Shing Yee
Actors: Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka, Daniel Wu, Jinglei Xu, Masaya Katô, Tôru Minegishi
Plot: Steelhead is an illegal Chinese immigrant in Japan who comes to Tokyo to find his childhood sweetheart Xiu Xiu. He teams up with a group of Chinese workers who help him get a roof, some manual labor and sharing a tricks on how to survive living shadowy live. Life in Japan isn’t easy; the Chinese work at odd jobs, but have to bolt every time the cops show up for an illegal worker raid. From other side, they are constantly oppressed by Japanese yakuza gangs. Soon Steelhead discovers that Xiu Xiu has adopted a Japanese identity and married Eguchi, an ambitious up and coming yakuza chief.
The Way We Get By
Theatrical Release Date: 04/02/2009
Overall Rating: 2.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Aron Gaudet
Actors: Joan Gaudet, William Knight, Gerald Mundy
Plot: The documentary follows three troop greeters at the Maine Bangor International Airport - the first stop for many service men and women returning home after their tours of duty. The volunteers, some veterans, most elderly, shake the hands of each returning soldier. It explores not only community but mortality.
Arn: The Knight Templar ( Arn - Tempelriddaren )
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Flinth
Actors: Joakim Nätterqvist, Sofia Helin, Stellan Skarsgård, Michael Nyqvist, Simon Callow, Vincent Perez
Plot: Coming from nobility Arn is raised as a monastic warrior but forbidden love sends him and the woman he was with to 20 years in separate monasteries. But Arn is given a higher calling - to become a Templar and help the holy order stop Saladin and his army from taking Jerusalem.
The Back Nine
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ron Vignone
Actors: Jon Fitzgerald
Beast Stalker ( Ching yan )
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dante Lam
Actors: Nicholas Tse, Jingchu Zhang, Nick Cheung, Philip Keung, Kai Chi Liu, Suet-yin Wong
Blank City
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Celine Danhier
Actors: Deborah Harry, Jim Jarmusch, Fab 5 Freddy, Ann Magnuson, Charlie Ahearn, Amos Poe
Can Go Through Skin ( Kan door huid heen )
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Dutch
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Esther Rots
Actors: Rifka Lodeizen, Wim Opbrouck, Chris Borowski, Elisabeth van Nimwegen, Tina de Bruin, Mattijn Hartemink
Crush (2009/I)
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jeffrey Gerritsen, John V. Soto
Actors: Christopher Egan, Emma Lung, Kane Manera, Christian Clark, Jenna Lind, Brooke Harmon
Plot: An American studying abroad in Australia housesits for a rich family on their own vacation when he gets involved with a mysterious young woman who is highly unbalanced.
Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Feifer
Actors: Antonio Sabato Jr., John Diehl, Kostas Sommer, Kelly Curran, Caia Coley, John Burke
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 1.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Christopher Felver
Actors: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Dennis Hopper, Billy Collins, Michael McClure, Amiri Baraka
Plot: Lawrence Ferlinghetti - poet, artist - literary mercenary. For half a century the man has influenced the face of poetic literature even as his ideologies put him in direct conflict with the government around him.
A Film with Me in It
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon
Actors: Dylan Moran, Mark Doherty, Keith Allen, Amy Huberman, Aisling O'Sullivan, David O'Doherty
Plot: Down-on-his-luck actor Mark has what is essentially the worst day of his life when a series of disastrously timed accidents turn his flat into a morgue.
Heaven's Heart ( Himlens hjärta )
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Simon Staho
Actors: Mikael Persbrandt, Lena Endre, Jakob Eklund, Maria Lundqvist, Ingemar Carlehed
The House That Jack Built
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bruce Reisman
Actors: Kris Black, Joe Mantegna, Gail O'Grady, Michael Guarnera, Justin Shilton, Peter Onorati
Kabuli kid
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Barmak Akram
Actors: Hadji Gul, Valéry Schatz, Amélie Glenn, Mohammad Chafi Sahel, Helena Alam, Messi Gul
Melvin
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry Weintraub
Actors: Leif Fuller, Patrick O'Driscoll, Lilly Maher, Yonatan Schultz, Lloyd Kaufman, Ben Chinburg
Nomad's Land - Sur les traces de Nicolas Bouvier
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Documentary/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gael Metroz
Actors: Eliane Bouvier
Oktapodi
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi
Plot: Two octopuses are separated and attempt to return to each other's company.
One Week
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael McGowan
Actors: Joshua Jackson, Liane Balaban, Campbell Scott, Caroline Cave, Gabriel Hogan, Gage Munroe
Only When I Dance
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Beadie Finzi
Actors: Irlan Santos da Silva, Isabela Coracy Alves Nascimento Santos, Mariza Estrella
Stone of Destiny
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Actors: Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Stephen McCole, Ciaron Kelly, Billy Boyd, Robert Carlyle
Plot: Based on real events, this is a story of four Glaswegian students who stole back to Scotland the Stone of Scone on Christmas Day 1950.
Team Qatar
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Liz Mermin
Tulpan
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Actors: Tolepbergen Baisakalov, Ondas Besikbasov, Samal Esljamova, Askhat Kuchencherekov, Bereke Turganbayev
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Julien Nitzberg
Actors: Jesco White
Plot: A portrait of America's last outlaw family.
The English Surgeon
Theatrical Release Date: 03/31/2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Geoffrey Smith
Actors: Henry Marsh
Plot: Documentary following Henry Marsh, a brain surgeon who devotes his skills to the desperate patients in an under-equipped Ukrainian hospital.
Marsh is faced with both moral and ethical challenges as he tries to save the life of a poor young man dying of a brain tumor--while holding the memory of a former circumstance in which he was unable to do so.
Enlighten Up!
Theatrical Release Date: 03/31/2009
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kate Churchill
Actors: Nick Rosen, B.K.S. Iyengar, Dharma Mitra, Cyndi Lee, Dallas Page, Sharon Gannon
Aversion
Theatrical Release Date: 03/30/2009
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gaius Roberts
Actors: Mary Amy, Josh Berresford, Melantha Blackthorne, Christopher Illing, Marc Raco, Andrew Roth
Amerika Idol
Theatrical Release Date: 03/28/2009
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Barry Avrich
Actors: Barry Avrich, Sylvester Stallone
Beatrock Love ( Bîto rokku rabu )
Theatrical Release Date: 03/28/2009
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Eiji Uchida
Actors: Hirofumi Araki, Ren Kiriyama, Takeru
Chef's Special ( Fuera de carta )
Theatrical Release Date: 03/28/2009
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nacho G. Velilla
Actors: Javier Cámara, Lola Dueñas, Fernando Tejero, Benjamín Vicuña, Chus Lampreave, Luis Varela
Midnight Bayou
Theatrical Release Date: 03/28/2009
Overall Rating: 1.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ralph Hemecker
Actors: Jerry O'Connell, Lauren Stamile, Isabella Hofmann, Alan Ritchson, Faye Dunaway, Ashley LeConte Campbell
Plot: Haunted by ghostly visions from a century past, Declan Fitzgerald is drawn to his beautiful neighbor, Angelina.
