The Children of Huang Shi
Theatrical Release Date: 05/23/2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Actors: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Guang Li, Matt Walker
Plot: A British journalist, George Hogg, finds himself saving an orphanage for boys during Japan's occupation of China in the 1930's.
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Theatrical Release Date: 05/23/2008
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Suroosh Alvi, Eddy Moretti
Actors: Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi, Faisal Talal, Firas al Lateef, Marwan Reyad
Plot: Follows the members of Iraq's only heavy-metal band, Acrassicauda, from 2003, just after Saddam's ouster, through 2008 as they struggle with life in Iraq to becoming refugees.
Machine Girl, The ( Kataude mashin gâru )
Theatrical Release Date: 05/23/2008
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Noboru Iguchi
Actors: Minase Yashiro, Asami, Kentaro Shimazu, Honoka, Nobuhiro Nishihara, Yûya Ishikawa
Plot: The life of a Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by the Yakuza. Her arm cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks to avenge her slain family members.
Mulligans
Theatrical Release Date: 05/23/2008
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Chip Hale
Actors: Dan Payne, Thea Gill, Charlie David, Derek Baynham, Grace Vukovic, Thomas Orr-Loney
Postal
Theatrical Release Date: 05/23/2008
Overall Rating: 1.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Uwe Boll
Actors: Chris Coppola, Erick Avari, Dave Foley, Jackie Tohn, Seymour Cassel, Michael Benyaer
Plot: A film loosely based on a video game of the same name that centers on jobless trailer-park resident Dude and his ethically challenged Uncle Dave, who are desperate for cash. The men cook up a scheme to pinch a shipment of Krotchy dolls and sell them on eBay. Unfortunately, Al-Qaeda has the same idea ... but plans to lace the toys with avian flu.
Radio Cape Cod
Theatrical Release Date: 05/23/2008
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrew Silver
Actors: Tamzin Outhwaite, O.T. Fagbenle, Tamzin Merchant, Julian Silver, Ana Kaczmarek, Debra Wise
Plot: Radio Cape Cod is a charming quartet of love stories, starring Tamzin Outhwaite as a radio interviewer coming to terms with the loss of her husband and a new love entering her life. All the while she copes with her young teenage daughter experiencing her first love and two close friends dealing with old and new loves.
War, Inc.
Theatrical Release Date: 05/23/2008
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joshua Seftel
Actors: John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei, Joan Cusack, Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd
The Beverages
Theatrical Release Date: 05/22/2008
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Scott Michael Adams, Adam Henry Garcia, Aden Hakimi
Actors: Aden Hakimi, Adam Henry Garcia, Scott Michael Adams, Gillian Mackay-Smith, Susie Schutt, Thomas Daniel
Plot: Mocumentary - a filmmaker wants to make a documentary about why rock bands fail, so he travels to Boston to film the worst band he can find.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Theatrical Release Date: 05/22/2008
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Ray Winstone, Cate Blanchett, John Hurt, Igor Jijikine
Plot: Dr. Jones is back again (for the last time?) and is put in place over 10 years since his last filmed adventure. This time it is during the cold war. The Nazis are gone, the WW II is over and now he is left with a sidekick and a couple of women to discover the myth and the truth about a mysterious Crystal Skull which may give great power to those who control it. Will Indy be able to handle the rigorous adventure so many years later?
Somewhere Only We Know
Theatrical Release Date: 05/22/2008
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jamie Lawrence
Actors: Camille Keenan, Yvette Reid, Matt Minto
Plot: An elderly woman reminisces about a lover she once had.
Thirteen or So Minutes
Theatrical Release Date: 05/22/2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Branden Blinn
Actors: Nick Soper, Carlos Salas
Plot: Immediately after sleeping with each other, two straight men talk through their actions and
what the consequences are.
Born in 68 ( Nés en 68 )
Theatrical Release Date: 05/21/2008
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Actors: Laetitia Casta, Yannick Renier, Yann Trégouët, Christine Citti, Marc Citti, Sabrina Seyvecou
Edge of Heaven, The ( Auf der anderen Seite )
Theatrical Release Date: 05/21/2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fatih Akin
Actors: Nurgül Yesilçay, Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz, Hanna Schygulla, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Nursel Köse
A Jihad for Love
Theatrical Release Date: 05/21/2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Parvez Sharma
Actors: Muhsin Hendricks, A.K. Hoosen, Abdellah Taia, Arsham Parsi, Syed Kalbe Jawad, Mazen
Death Note: The Last Name ( Desu nôto: The last name )
Theatrical Release Date: 05/20/2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Erika Toda, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Shunji Fujimura, Takeshi Kaga, Shin Shimizu
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Theatrical Release Date: 05/17/2008
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Paolo Barzman
Actors: Dougray Scott, Krista Bridges, Tom Skerritt, Danette Mackay, Cas Anvar, Ellen David
Plot: A modernized TV movie version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic.
