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Films I am Looking Forward To Seeing On The Big Screen

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Upcoming films I hope to see at the local cinema this year.

1

The Tale Of Despereaux
2008	MPAA: G	Avg. Rating: N/A
Tiny and graced with oversized ears, Despereaux was born too big for his little world. Refusing to live his life cowering, he befriends a Princess named Pea and learns to read (rather than eat) books -- reveling in stories of knights, dragons and fair maidens. Banished from Mouseworld for being...

2

Valkyrie
2008	MPAA: NR	Avg. Rating: N/A
Superstar Tom Cruise heads an international cast as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, the aristocratic German officer who led the heroic attempt to bring down the Nazi regime and end the war by planting a bomb in Hitler's bunker. The "July 20 Plot" on Hitler's life is one of the most heroic but least...

3

Marley & Me
2008	MPAA: NR	Avg. Rating: N/A
A family learns important life lessons from their adorable, but naughty and neurotic dog. Based on the memoir by John Grogan.

4

Seven Pounds
2008	MPAA: NR	Avg. Rating: N/A
Academy Award nominee Will Smith reunites with the directors and producers of The Pursuit of Happyness for the emotional drama Seven Pounds. In the film, Smith plays Ben Thomas, an IRS agent with a fateful secret who embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives...

5

The Day the Earth Stood Still
2008	MPAA: NR	Avg. Rating: N/A

6

Soul Men
2008	MPAA: R	Avg. Rating: N/A
Though it's been some twenty years since they have spoken with one another, two estranged soul-singing legends (Jackson and Mac) agree to participate in a reunion performance at the Apollo Theater to honor their recently deceased band leader.

7

Milk
2008	MPAA: R	Avg. Rating: N/A
The story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White.

8

Twilight
2008	MPAA: NR	Avg. Rating: N/A
In the small town of Forks, Washington, a young girl is about to endure the hardship of what is our modern Romeo and Juliet. Bella swan was about to start her new life as a junior. In a new school, and in a new town. When she moved to be with her father, she expected days of rain, school, and the...

9

Changeling
2008	MPAA: R	Avg. Rating: 7.5/10
A mother's prayer for her kidnapped son to return home is answered, though it doesn't take long for her to suspect the boy who comes back is not hers.

10

Henry Poole Is Here
2008	MPAA: PG	Avg. Rating: N/A
When a man discovers that he has only six weeks to live, he leaves his job, his fiancee and his overbearing mother and tries to spend his remaining days in seclusion. But when a miracle transforms his life, his quirky neighbors disrupt his plan to live out his days in quiet desperation.

11

Four Christmases
2008	MPAA: NR	Avg. Rating: N/A
A couple struggle to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day.

12

Role Models
2008	MPAA: R	Avg. Rating: 8/10
Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott star in Role Models as Danny and Wheeler, two salesmen who trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however,...

13

Lakeview Terrace
2008	MPAA: PG-13	Avg. Rating: 6/10
A young interracial couple move into their dream home and are increasingly harassed by their next-door neighbor, a tightly wound black LAPD officer. When the couple decides to fight back the feud turns deadly.

14

Tropic Thunder
2008	MPAA: R	Avg. Rating: 6.9/10
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film. But after ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

15

Pineapple Express
2008	MPAA: R	Avg. Rating: 7/10
Lazy stoner Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver (James Franco): to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city's most...

16

The Longshots
2008	MPAA: NR	Avg. Rating: N/A
The true story of Jasmine Plummer, an 11-year old quarterback, who led her team to the Pop Warner football tournament, and became the first female player in the event's 56-year history.

17

The House Bunny
2008	MPAA: NR	Avg. Rating: 7/10
Shelley Darlington has lived at the Playboy mansion for the last nine years. She is Hef's favorite and acts like a den mother to the other girls. On her birthday, she is unceremoniously evicted from Hef's pad for 'being too old.' Homeless and without essential skills, Shelley wanders around L.A....

18

Blindness
2008	MPAA: R	Avg. Rating: 8.1/10
A doctor's wife becomes the only person with the ability to see in a town where everyone is struck with a mysterious case of sudden blindness

19

Babylon A.D.
2008	MPAA: R	Avg. Rating: 3.5/10
Hong Kong action icon Michelle Yeoh stars alongside American muscle Vin Diesel in this science fiction {thriller} concerning a nun who is charged with the task of caring for a young girl who may be the carrier of a deadly virus. Based on author Maurice Dantec's Babylon Babies, this tale of genetic...

20

The Duchess
2008	MPAA: PG-13	Avg. Rating: 6.4/10
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who reviled for her extravagant political and personal lives. She is a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. But she is trapped in an unhappy triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls...

21

City of Ember
2008	MPAA: PG	Avg. Rating: 7.5/10
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing ... and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers in a race against time, must search Ember for clues...

22

Australia
2008	MPAA: NR	Avg. Rating: N/A
A romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II, AUSTRALIA centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to...

23

Harry Potter And The Half-blood Prince
2009	MPAA: NR	Avg. Rating: 5/10
Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was. Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching....

24

Quantum of Solace
2008	MPAA: PG-13	Avg. Rating: 6.6/10
Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's water supply.

25

Amusement
2008	MPAA: NR	Avg. Rating: N/A
A traumatized woman is questioned by a cop and a psychiatrist about three stories involving a clown, a hotel and a convoy, that involve her and two of her female friends from childhood.

26

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
2008	MPAA: PG	Avg. Rating: N/A
The sequel of the first movie, the New York Zoo Animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, still stranded on Madagascar, started to leave the island. All of a sudden, they landed in the wilderness of Africa. There, Alex soon meet the rest of his family and...

27

Mongol
2007	MPAA: R	Avg. Rating: 7.1/10
In the 12th century, an orphaned young slave named Temudjin (Tadanobu Asano) escapes from his captors and begins the journey that will lead him to become one of the greatest conquerors the world has ever known. Honglei Sun and Ying Bai co-star in this Oscar-nominated epic adventure from...

28

Whiteout
2008	MPAA: NR	Avg. Rating: N/A
A U.S. Marshall (Kate Beckinsale) tracking a vicious murderer through the Antarctic must locate the killer before the sun sets for six months or risk being trapped in the dark with the madman for months on end in director Dominic Sena's adaptation of the graphic novel series by Greg Rucka.

29

Bolt
2008	MPAA: NR	Avg. Rating: N/A
For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue%u2014at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet%u2014a...

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