3-Day Weekend
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rob Williams
Actors: Chris Carlisle, Joel Harrison, Gaetano Jones, Derek Long, Derek Meeker, Douglas Myers
Bangkok Love Story
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Thai
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Poj Arnon
Actors: Rattanaballang Tohssawat, Chaiwat Thongsaeng, Wiradit Srimalai, Chutcha Rujinanon, Suchao Pongwilai, Chonprakhan Janthareuang
Beautiful Losers
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Aaron Rose & Joshua Leonard
Actors: Aaron Rose, Shepard Fairey, Jo Jackson, Mike Mills, Harmony Korine, Barry McGee
Beer for My Horses
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael Salomon
Actors: Toby Keith, Rodney Carrington, Claire Forlani, Ted Nugent, Barry Corbin, Tom Skerritt
Plot: When a drug lord abducts the girlfriend (Claire Forlani) of Deputy
Sheriff "Rack" Racklin (Toby Keith), he ignores his boss's orders and
hits the road to rescue her. A fellow lawman (Rodney Carrington) and a
loose cannon bow hunter named Skunk (Ted Nugent) tag along to help, but
things don't go as planned. Willie Nelson, Tom Skerritt and Barry Corbin
also star in this comic actioner inspired by the chart-topping country
single of the same name.
Bottle Shock
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Randall M. Miller
Actors: Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, Bill Pullman, Rachael Taylor, Freddy Rodríguez, Dennis Farina
Plot: The battle between the upstart California wine-makers and the time-honored French wine-makers comes to a head at the blind Paris taste-test in 1976 sending both markets into a frenzy.
Boystown ( Chuecatown )
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Juan Flahn
Actors: Ángel Burgos, Joan Crosas, Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Puyol, Edu Soto, Pedro Veral
Elegy
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Isabel Coixet
Actors: Patricia Clarkson, Penélope Cruz, Sonja Bennett, Ben Kingsley, Deborah Harry, Dennis Hopper
Plot: An older man struggles with insecurity and the pre-defined rules of dating younger women. When he becomes involved with a beautiful woman half his age, he is hesitant to believe it might last and preemptively sabotages the relationship.
Fly Me to the Moon
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Ben Stassen
Actors: Nicolette Sheridan, Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Robert Patrick, Kelly Ripa, Buzz Aldrin
Plot: Three young flies hitch a ride on Apollo 11 to become the first flies in history to walk on the moon.
Hell Ride
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 1.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Larry Bishop
Actors: Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, Dennis Hopper, Vinnie Jones, Eric Balfour, David Carradine
Plot: Larry Bishop stars as Pistolero, leader of the biker-gang known as "The Victors," who along with The Gent (Michael Madsen) and Comanche (Eric Balfour), hit the road to avenge the death of Pistolero’s old lady Cherokee Kisum (Julia Jones), by the deadly rival gang the "666ers." Vinnie Jones and bike riding legend also David Carradine star as members of the satanic biker gang.
I Dreamt Under Water ( J'ai rêvé sous l'eau )
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hormoz
Actors: Hubert Benhamdine, Caroline Ducey, Christine Boisson, Hicham Nazzal, Franck Victor, Hélène Michel
Make It Happen
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 1.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Darren Grant
Actors: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Tessa Thompson, Riley Smith, John Reardon, Julissa Bermudez, Ashley Roberts
Nothing is Private ( Towelhead )
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan Ball
Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Chase Ellison, Eugene Jones III, Summer Bishil, Peter Macdissi
Plot: A 13 year old girl is struggling with her family history of where she is from. She is shoved from her mother's home to her father's which is not much better. She doesn't know where she belongs in life, but more importantly, she struggles with sexuality and how it should be used.
Red
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Trygve Allister Diesen, Lucky McKee
Actors: Brian Cox, Tom Sizemore, Robert Englund, Amanda Plummer, Noel Fisher, Kyle Gallner
Plot: A reclusive man sets out for justice and redemption when three troublesome teens kill his dog for no good reason.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sanaa Hamri
Actors: Jesse Williams, Blake Lively, Amber Tamblyn, Rachel Nichols, Kyle MacLachlan, America Ferrera
Plot: Now in college, the sisterhood looks on from a far. Telling stories in honesty and humor have always kept them close. This time it is time for a new adventure that grows them up but keeps them having fun. Sequel to the first "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants."
What We Do is Secret
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rodger Grossman
Actors: Shane West, Bijou Phillips, Rick Gonzalez, Noah Segan, Ashton Holmes, Tina Majorino
Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon
Theatrical Release Date: 08/08/2008
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Actors: Jack Wrangler, Bruce Vilanch, Peter Ford, Chi Chi La Rue, Robert Patrick, Marc Shaiman
Jury of Our Peers
Theatrical Release Date: 08/07/2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ruhkiya S. Williams
Actors: Chaysen Beacham, Angell Conwell, Carrie Anne Hunt, Teri Johnson, Maurice McClain, Dorian Missick
Death Bell ( Gosa )
Theatrical Release Date: 08/06/2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yoon Hong-Seung
Actors: Beom-su Lee, Gyu-ri Nam, Shin-ae Yu, Bum Kim, Do-hyeoni Lee, Sung Jin
Plot: On the eve of the dreaded university entrance examinations, the lives of 24 of the smartest and brightest students at one high school, are on the line. Locked inside a classroom and nowhere to escape, a television monitor broadcasts a terrified Hae-yeong, the top student at the high school, tied up and seated on a chair inside an aquarium that slowly begins to fill with water. A voice from the monitor announces if the 24 cannot finish the exam administered within the allotted time given, Hae-yeong will die and so will everyone held captive inside the classroom. Thus begins the examination that will determine whether they live or die.
Dorothy Mills
Theatrical Release Date: 08/06/2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Agnès Merlet
Actors: Carice van Houten, Jenn Murray, David Wilmot, Ger Ryan, David Ganly, Gavin O'Connor
Pineapple Express
Theatrical Release Date: 08/06/2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Gordon Green
Actors: James Franco, Seth Rogen, Bill Hader, James Remar, Amber Heard, Brian Scannell
Plot: A comedy along the likes of Superbad meets The Big Lebowski meets Knocked up follows a couple of like minded losers in which one of them happens to witness a horrible crime. While one tells the other of what he just saw and how he was chased and almost killed, they take it upon themselves to get revenge, trust themselves, and try to solve the mystery on their own. In the end they find themselves running for their lives and that thug life is not as easy as it seems.
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
Theatrical Release Date: 08/05/2008
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edward Neumeier
Actors: Casper Van Dien, Jolene Blalock, Stephen Hogan, Boris Kodjoe, Amanda Donohoe, Marnette Patterson
Plot: A federation starship crashlands on the distant planet OM-1. Johnny Rico, hero of the first bug invasion of Planet P, and his troops must defend the planet and lead a daring rescue mission against the bug forces.
Sky Crawlers ( Sukai kurora )
Theatrical Release Date: 08/02/2008
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Actors: Rinko Kikuchi, Chiaki Kuriyama, Shosuke Tanihara, Bryce Hitchcock, Ryo Kase
