MOVIES THIS WEEK

Last updated: Thursday, March 13, 2008

MOVIES THIS WEEK

Release Date: March 14, 2008

DOOMSDAY

Cast: Rhona Mitra, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig, Bob Hoskins, Malcolm McDowell

Synopsis: In the action-packed new thriller from writer/director Neil Marshall ('The Descent'), authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades – until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

HORTON HEARS A WHO

Cast: Jaime Pressly, Jim Carrey, Seth Rogen, Steve Carell, Will Arnett

Synopsis: A new CG animated feature film from 20th Century Fox Animation, the makers of 'Ice Age' films based on the beloved book, first published in 1954, by Theodor Seuss Geisel, who wrote under the pen name Dr. Seuss. Seuss books are among the defining works of family literature, have sold over 200 million copies, and have been translated into fifteen languages. The 'Horton' series ('Horton Hears a Who,' 'Horton Hatches the Egg') are consistently among the top-selling of all Seuss titles -- generation after generation. Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! is about an imaginative elephant who hears a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Suspecting there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community that thinks he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to help.

NEVER BACK DOWN

Cast: Amber Heard, Djimon Hounsou, Cam Gigandet, Leslie Hope, Sean Faris

Synopsis: Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler, a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler, played by Sean Faris, is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler.
Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja ( Amber Heard) Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McDonald (Cam Gigandet). While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Marshall Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua, played by Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond, In America).
It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua will take Jake under his wing, but it is up to Jake to find the patience, discipline, willingness and reason within him to succeed. For Jake, there is much more at stake than mere victory. His decision will not just settle a score; it will define who he is.

FUNNY GAMES

Cast: Michael Pitt, Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart

Synopsis: In this provocative and brutal thriller from director Michael Haneke, a vacationing family gets an unexpected visit from two deeply disturbed young men. Their idyllic holiday turns nightmarish as they are subjected to unimaginable terrors and struggle to stay alive.

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