Sam Rockwell plays Sam Bell a Luna Industries employee coming to the end of a three year contract as the lone employee mining on the moon. His only companion in his lonely existence is the computer GERTY (voiced by Spacey), and sporadic messages from earth as there is no direct communication link available.
The story of the rise of Ozploitation an era in which Australian cinema exploded with low budget films, which centred around sex, violence, horror and road movies. The film covers mainly the 70's to the mid 80's and details the rise of the low budget filmmakers whos film making paralleled that of US and European cinema at the time.
Following on from the three previous Terminator films, Salvation finds us in 2018 amidst the 'battle of the machines' that was predicted in the first film. We are with John Conner (Bale) as he leads a group of human resistance fighters against the HK's (Hunter Killers) and Terminators.
Religulous is American comedian Bill Maher's documentary about his search for the reasons for faith. Maher interviews Muslims, Jews and Christians Mormons, scientists and even a Vatican astrologer to try to understand why people have faith. He visits a Creationist museum, which shows dinosaurs and humans living together, and even the Holy Land theme park in Florida where they enact recreations of Jesus being crucified on an hourly basis!
A film from the archives of the new 'King' of spinning of adult twisted fairy tales Del Toro's early film Cronos doesn't disappoint, and shows all of the imagination, thought and psyche that brought us Pan's Labyrinth and the soon to be (but not soon enough) The Hobbit.
The director of the classic Ground Hog Day has joined together with Jack Black to bring to film a comedy inhabited with biblical characters.
Drag Me to Hell seems Sam Rami return to the horror genre after directing the Spiderman franchise. Written ten years ago with his brother Ivan, Drag Me to Hell centres on easy-going bank employee Christine (Lohman) who tries to impress her boss by refusing a loan extension to Mrs Ganush (Raver). Later that day when Christine returns to her car Ganush attacks her and places a curse on her. Christine then has three days to lift the curse before she is dragged to hell.
Looking for Eric is Ken Loach's latest film where he introduces us to Eric Bishop (Evets) a middle-aged postman who has managed to mess up his life. The film begins with Eric in a state of despair and depression he's alone, he has two disrespectful stepsons, and he is finding it difficult to cope and cannot see a future. Enter into this Eric Cantona, Eric's football hero who helps him get his life on track.
Danny Boyle's multi Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire centres on Jamal Malik (Patel) an orphan from the slums of Mumbai. Jamal is appearing on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire and is one question away from the 20 million-rupee question when the programme finishes filming for the night. Off air Jamal is arrested accused of cheating and is forced to explain how he knows each answer. The answers form a sequence of events in Jamals adventure filled life.
Based on Neil Gaiman's book of the same name Henry Selick (the man behind The Nightmare Before Christmas), Coraline tells the story of young Coraline Jones (Fanning) an inquisitive bored girl, who's parents have just moved into an apartment which forms one of many in a rambling run down house.