January 2008 Movies

Best Movies Released January 2008

Action

Rambo

76%

Action

First Sunday

54%

Comedy

27 Dresses

64%

Drama

Cloverfield

72%

Comedy

Meet the Spartans

81%

Drama

How She Move

89%

Suspense

Untraceable

53%

Animation

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie

100%

Animation

Persepolis

Comedy

Cassandra's Dream

43%

Adventure

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

63%

Horror

One Missed Call

50%

Comedy

Mad Money

100%

Documentary

U2 3D

25%

Drama

Teeth

75%

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January 4 • January 11 • January 18 • January 25

Beth Raymond is traumatized when she witnesses the gruesome deaths of two friends just days apart. Even more disturbing, she knows that both of them had received chilling cell phone messages--actual recordings of their own horrifying last moments. Impossibly, the calls were received days before they died, but each death occurred precisely when and how the messages foretold. The police think Beth is delusional--except for Detective Jack Andrews, whose own sister was killed in a freak accident that bears a strange similarity to the deaths of Beth''s friends. Together, Jack and Beth work feverishly to unravel the mystery behind the ominous calls. But even as they get closer to the truth, Beth''s cell phone begins to ring with an eerie tune, and the readout displays: "One Missed Call".

Lauren C. Weissman, Torrey DeVitto, Eric Valette, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Jennie Lew Tugend, Scott Kroopf, Andrew Klavan

PG-13 Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 27 mins

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Released Friday, January 11th

First Sunday

Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When Durell learns that his ex-girlfriend plans to move to another state with their son--unless they can get her $17,000 to pay off a debt--they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. But when the duo fumbles their way through the break-in, they discover someone has beaten them to the punch. In order to get their hands on the money, Durell and LeeJohn are forced to spend the night in the presence of the Lord and his followers--and end up getting a lot more than they bargained for.

Loretta Devine, Regina Hall, Tracy Morgan, Ice Cube, Julie Yorn, Katt Williams, Matt Alvarez, David McIlvain

PG-13 Action Adventure

54% WILL SEE

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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anythin...

Three lazy misfits - very timid Elliot (Larry the Cucumber), lazy Sedgewick (Mr. Lunt) and no self-confident George (Pa Grape) - dream of the day of putting on a show about pirates. With their own problems of might not having this dream come true, they soon find themselves traveling back in time into the 17th century and begin a quest to rescue a royal family from an evil tyrant, and learn about being pirates.

David Pitts, Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki, Phil Vische

G Comedy Sequel

100% WILL SEE

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In the Name of the King: A Dunge...

The film, which is based on best-selling fantasy PC game franchise, follows the journey of Farmer from simple family man to heroic prince. Amidst a fantasy backdrop of war in the Kingdom of Ehb between the evil Gallian and the ruling King Konreid, Farmer sets out to find his kidnapped wife, Solana, and avenge the death of his son, who was killed by animal warriors called Krugs.

Jason Statham, Burt Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Matthew Lillard, Kristanna Loken, Brian J. White, Claire Forlani, Shawn Williamson

PG-13 Drama Adventure 2 hrs, 30 mins

63% WILL SEE

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Released Friday, January 18th

27 Dresses

Jane is idealistic, romantic and completely selfless--a perennial bridesmaid whose own happy ending is nowhere in sight. But when younger sister Tess captures the heart of Jane's boss--with whom she is secretly in love--Jane begins to reexamine her "always-a-bridesmaid..." lifestyle.

Malin Akerman, Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Anne Fletcher, Jonathan Glickman, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Aline Brosh McKenna

PG-13 Comedy Romance 1 hr, 47 mins

64% WILL SEE

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Cloverfield

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

J.J. Abrams, T.J. Miller, Guy Riedel, Matt Reeves, Sherryl Clark, Guy Reidel, Michael Stahl-David, Lizzy Caplan

PG-13 Drama Suspense

72% WILL SEE

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Cassandra's Dream

Set in contemporary London, "Cassandra's Dream" is a powerful and thrilling story about two brothers (Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell) who are desperate to better their troubled lives. One is a chronic gambler in debt over his head, and the other is a young man in love with a beautiful actress (newcomer Hayley Atwell) he has recently met. Their lives gradually become entangled into a sinister situation with intense and unfortunate results.

Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor, Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, Gareth Wiley, Woody Allen, Hayley Atwell, Tom Wilkinson

PG-13 Comedy

43% WILL SEE

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Mad Money

A comedy about three ordinary women who form an unlikely friendship and decide to do something extraordinary--rob one of the most secure banks in the world. Bridget Cardigan is shocked to learn that she is on the verge of losing her home and comfortable upper middle class lifestyle when her husband Don is downsized from his job. Armed only with a decades old English degree and years as a dedicated mother and corporate wife, Bridget is forced into the unfamiliar labor market with no job skills. Finally, she accepts the only position she can find--janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank. The one-time suburban mom soon discovers she has more in common with her new co-workers than she thought. Bridget forges an unexpected bond with Nina, a hard-working single mom with two kids to raise, and Jackie, an exuberant free spirit with nothing to lose. Caught up in a system that underestimates their talents and keeps their dreams just out of reach, Bridget, Nina and Jackie set out to even the score. After a lifetime of playing by the rules, the three devise a plan to smuggle soon-to-be destroyed currency out of the supposedly airtight Reserve. As the unlikely crime syndicate amasses piles of cash, it looks like they have pulled off the perfect crime--until a minor misstep alerts the authorities. With more money than they know what to do with, the women are pushed to the limits of their ingenuity to stay one step ahead of the law!

Katie Holmes, Ted Danson, Glenn Gers, Callie Khour, Glen Gers, Goldie Hawn, Jay Cohen, Emily Cummins

PG-13 Comedy Remake

100% WILL SEE

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Teeth

High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group''s most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boy stepbrother Brad''s increasingly provocative behavior at home. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth.

John Hensley, Mitchell Lichtenstein, Julia Garro, Hale Appleman, Paul Galvan, Trent Moore

R Drama Romance 1 hr, 28 mins

75% WILL SEE

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Released Friday, January 25th

Rambo

John Rambo has retreated to northern Thailand, living a solitary and peaceful life in the mountains and jungles. A group of human rights missionaries search him out and ask him to guide them into Burma to deliver medical supplies. When the aid workers are captured by the Burmese army, Rambo decides to venture alone into the war zone to rescue them.

Sylvester Stallone, Kevin King, Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, George Furla, Julie Benz, Sam Elliott, Matthew Marsden

R Drama Action

76% WILL SEE

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Meet the Spartans

After successfully skewering Hollywood's scariest movie (as two of the writers on "Scary Movie"), romantic comedy franchises ("Date Movie"), and Hollywood blockbusters ("Epic Movie"), writers/directors/producers Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer now set their sights on "300". The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing by leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13 - count' em, 13! -- Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include "Ghost Rider", "Rocky Balboa", the "Transformers", and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton).

Peter Safran, Carmen Electra, Diedrich Bader, Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, Sean Maguire, Ken Davitian, Kevin Sorbo

PG-13 Comedy

81% WILL SEE

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Persepolis

The poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine year old Marjane that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power – forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly excecuted and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran / Iraq war, the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable.

Simon Abkarian, Gabrielle Lopes, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Francois Jerosme

PG-13 Drama Animation

0% WILL SEE

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How She Move

Raya Green is seventeen-years-old, incredibly bright and full of promise. She attends a prestigious private school outside her tough, crime-ridden neighborhood. When a family tragedy leaves her family unable to pay her tuition, Raya is forced to return to the old community she so desperately wants to escape. She soon finds herself drawn into the world of underground dance competitions and smells an opportunity to win some money, get out of the neighborhood, help her family and return to her old school. But as the dance tournament unfolds, Raya realizes that real success only comes to those brave enough to tackle it on their own terms.

Tracey Armstrong, Brent Barclay, Nina Dobrev, Kevin Duhaney, Ian Iqbal Rashid, Annemarie Morais, Cle Bennett, Romina D'Ugo

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 38 mins

89% WILL SEE

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Untraceable

Within the FBI, there exists a division dedicated to investigating and prosecuting criminals on the internet. Welcome to the front lines of the war on cybercrime, where Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) has seen it all……until now. A tech-savvy internet predator is displaying his graphic murders on his own website – and the fate of each of his tormented captives is left in the hands of the public: the more hits his site gets, the faster his victims die. When this game of cat and mouse becomes personal, Marsh and her team must race against the clock to track down this technical mastermind who is virtually untraceable.

Billy Burke, Steven Pearl, Erin Carufel, Gary Lucchesi, Robert Fyvolent, Diane Lane, Colin Hanks, Gregory Hoblit

R Thriller Suspense

53% WILL SEE

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U2 3D

Concert film of rock band U2 as they trek from Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Brazil.

Catherine Owens, Mark Pellington, Larry Mullen Jr, Michael Peyser, Jon Shapiro, Bono, Adam Clayton, Dave Evans

G Musical Documentary

25% WILL SEE

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