Based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel is the story of feisty firecracker Hagar Shipley (Christine Horne, Oscar Winner Ellen Burstyn). Her passionate heart has always ruled her head and her choices have put her at odds with family and friends. With her life nearly behind her, she sets out in…
Category: Period Films
Valkyrie (2008)
Tagline: Many saw evil. They dared to stop it. In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world where justice and honor have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action. Tom Cruise stars…
W. (George W. Bush Movie) (2008)
Tagline: A Life Misunderestimated. A Yale graduate, a transplanted son of Texas, a onetime drunk, a recent convert, George W. Bush was many things but, fundamentally, he was a baseball fan. He always appreciated the elegance of baseball and certainly respected the game’s doubleheaded elements of luck and skill. Had things gone differently, he would…
The Wrestler (2008)
Back in the late ’80s, Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, twenty years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of diehard wrestling fans in high school gyms and community centers around New Jersey. Estranged from his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and unable to sustain any real…
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (2008)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is Cristian Mungiu’s staggering story of friendship and sacrifice during the last days of Romanian communism. This stunning film, which won the 2007 Cannes Palme d’Or and the Fipresci Prize for Film of the Year, was also featured at the Telluride, Toronto and New York film festivals and…
10,000 B.C. (2008)
Tagline: It takes a hero to change the world. The film centers on a 21-year-old who lives among a primitive tribe that survives by hunting a mammoth each year as the herd migrates through the tribe’s homeland. It was a time when man and beast were untamed and the mighty mammoth roamed the earth. A…