MOVIES THIE WEEK

Last updated: Thursday, August 21, 2008

MOVIES THIE WEEK

Release Date: August 20, 2008 (The Rocker); August 22, 2008 (Death Race, The House Bunny, The Longshots)

THE ROCKER

Cast: Christina Applegate, Emma Stone, Josh Gad, Rainn Wilson, Teddy Geiger

Synopsis: 'The Rocker' is Robert 'Fish' Fishman, the drummer for an eighties hair band. He's living the rock n' roll dream... until he is kicked out of the group. Twenty years later, the desperate rocker joins his nephew's band, 'A.D.D.,' finally reclaiming the rock-god throne he's always thought he deserved -- while taking his much younger bandmates along for the ride of their lives.

DEATH RACE

Cast: Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, Natalie Martinez

Synopsis: Terminal Island: The very near future.
The world's hunger for extreme sports and reality competitions has grown into reality TV bloodlust. Now, the most extreme racing competition has emerged and its contestants are murderous prisoners. Tricked-out cars, caged thugs and smoking-hot navigators combine to create a juggernaut series with bigger ratings than the Super Bowl.
The rules of the Death Race are simple: Win five events, and you're set free. Lose and you're road kill splashed across the Internet.
International action star Jason Statham leads the action-thriller's cast as three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames, an ex-con framed for a gruesome murder. Forced to don the mask of the mythical driver Frankenstein, a Death Race crowd favorite who seems impossible to kill, Ames is given an easy choice by Terminal Island's ruthless Warden Hennessey (Joan Allen): Suit up and drive or never see his little girl again.
His face hidden by a hideous mask, one convict will enter an insane three-day challenge in order to gain freedom. But to claim the prize, Ames must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals—including nemesis Machine Gun Joe (Tyrese Gibson)—in the country's toughest prison. Trained by his coach (Ian McShane) to drive a monster Mustang V8 Fastback outfitted with 2 mounted mini-guns, flamethrowers and napalm, an innocent man will destroy everything in his path to win the most twisted spectator sport on Earth.

THE HOUSE BUNNY

Cast: Anna Faris, Beverly D'Angelo, Colin Hanks, Katharine McPhee, Monet Mazur

Synopsis: Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have -- a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.

THE LONGSHOTS

Cast: Ice Cube, Dash Mihok, Keke Palmer, Jill Marie Jones, Tasha Smith

Synopsis: From Ice Cube, the star of such hits as Are We There Yet?, Are Done Yet? and First Sunday, comes a feel-good family comedy, THE LONGSHOTS -- a hilarious and heartwarming story of the first and only girl quaterback in Pop Warner football history. Curtis Plummer (Ice Cube) - a down-on-his-luck former high school football star- turns his niece, Jasmine (Keke Palmer from Akeelah & The Bee), into the quaterback of the local team, the Minden Browns, and gets his stride back when he becomes the team coach. With Curtis as their new leader and their pigtail-wearing star player, this team of misfits wins its way to the Pop Warner Super Bowl and the small city of Minden, Illinois, is ignited with team spirit, town pride and the glory it once knew.

Source: CelebrityWonder.com

| Thursday, August 21, 2008

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