When upscale, happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation–and unable to escape–they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities, increasingly mortified to find childhood…
Author: madeinatlantis
Frontier(s) (2008)
Tagline: What are your boundaries? Set during the recent riots in Paris’ outlying suburbs. Features neo-Nazis, stolen loot and a twisted Gothic household. Samuel Le Bihan (Brotherhood of the Wolf) stars in this horror film set in France and revolves around Yasmine, her ex-boyfriend and his two friends who are entrenched in the Paris riots,…
Frost / Nixon (2008)
Tagline: Laugh like your country depends on it. In summer 1977, the televised David Frost / Richard Nixon interviews attracted the largest audience for a news program in the history of American TV. More than 45 million viewers-hungry for a glimpse into the mind of their disgraced former commander-in-chief and anxious for him to acknowledge…
Funny Games (2008)
Tagline: You must admit, you brought this on yourself. Michael Haneke (Caché) remakes his own 1997 horror-thriller about two psychopaths who kidnap a mother, father and son in their vacation cabin and make them play sadistic games with each other into English. In this provocative and brutal thriller from director Michael Haneke, a vacationing family…
George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead (2008)
Tagline: Shoot the dead. Fiction turns into reality for a group of film students who set out to shoot a low-budget horror flick in the woods of Pennsylvania. When the dead come to life before their eyes, director Jason Creed decides to capture these startling events with his camera, even as members of his cast…
Get Smart (2008)
Tagline: Saving the World… And Loving It. Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief (Alan Arkin) has no choice…