Ghost Town                 Comedy - Rated M

Stars  Ricky Gervais, Tea Leoni, Kristen Wiig, Greg Kinnear
In the comedy Ghost Town, Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear), who pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen (Tea Leoni).
Aust Box Office: $3,842,185       TOP  20 POSTER

Distributor: Paramount    RELEASE DATE 2/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 1

Ruslan          Action - Rated MA15

Stars  Steven Seagal, Laura Mennell, Mike Dopud.
Steven Seagal plays Ruslan, a former Russian mobster turned crime novelist on a mission of revenge against his former comrades and competitors. Ruslan is a successful crime writer his fiction a tribute to a past left behind. When he returns to his old neighborhood to attend his daughter's wedding, his dangerous past emerges. His estranged daughter Lanie is marrying the son of Ruslan's age-old nemesis, Mikhail Arban. Since their old days together, Arban has risen from the ranks to become the leader of the brutal East Coast Russian Mafia. When his family becomes involved, Ruslan's worst fears are realized.
Distributor: Paramount    RELEASE DATE 2/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 2

Mask Of Ninja          Action - Rated MA15+ 

Stars Casper Van Dien, Bellamy Young, Kristy Wu.
Their vengeance is relentless, their method is ritual, their weapon is secret, and the motive is in their blood. In a heavily wooded private estate in the Malibu Hills, towering above the Tumbling Pacific, millionaire CEO Kenji Takeo and his daughter, Miko, prepare for the arrival from Japan of Takeo's wife, Kumiko. But the calm of Solstice Canyon is shattered by a meticulously planned stealth attack on the Takeo home by a masked band of ninja assassins. In a flash, Takeo's guards are killed. The mansion is overtaken, Takeo is killed, and Miko is left for dead. Arriving at the bloody scene is Detective Jack Barrett (Casper Van Dien) who encounters Miko (Kristy Wu) the only living witness. In a state of shock, she repeats only one word like an eerie mantra: kokushibyu. In her native language, it means Black Death. Some subtitles throughout.

Distributor: Paramount    RELEASE DATE 2/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Mira Sorvino, Scott Foley, Victor Garber
Based on Raymond Khoury's #1 international best-seller, an ancient decoder has been stolen from a collection of Vatican art. When the daughter of a famed archaeologist discovers its connection to the history of the Knights Templar she enlists the help of a New York detective to find the decoder and the journal before they fall into the wrong hands. Clue by clue, continent by continent, murder by murder, the quest is on to discover a secret that could change the course of history. HAS BEEN ON TV A WHILE BACK

Distributor: Paramount    RELEASE DATE 2/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 2

Dora The Explorer: Saves The Snow Princess  Childrens - Rated G

Stars 
This is Dora's first full length movie,
Distributor: Paramount    RELEASE DATE 2/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 3 

Bolt                      Family - Rated G                                               Stars VOICES BY John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton
 Bolt, the coolest action hero on earth, and me, Rhino, his faithful partner and right-hand hamster, set off on a super secret mission! As one half of the Dynamic Duo, I'll let you in on the action. One day I'm watching Bolt on TV, and the next thing I know I'm working alongside my all-time favourite hero in stealth mode! We have to make it all the way from New York City to Hollywood to defeat the forces of evil and save the lovely Miss Penny from ultimate peril. But don't worry - armed with Bolt's Super-Bark and my rolling ball of thunder, we're ready for anything. You won't believe the high-flying, death-defying stunts we have to pull off along the way. Watch us in action as we unleash the power. It's awesome. No, it's beyond awesome. It's BE-awesome! There's danger at every turn, but with Bolt at my side I fear nothing. I feel alive!        Aust Box Office: $11,313,046      TOP  20 POSTER
Distributor WALT DISNEY    RELEASE DATE  1/7/09     BRETT'S  RATING 1

Battle In Seattle                 Action - Rated M 

Stars  Martin Henderson, Michelle Rodriguez, Woody Harrelson, Charlize Theron, Ray Liotta
This is one of the surprise packages of the monthSet around the WTO riots in Seattle in 1999, we follow an assortment of characters caught up in the turmoil. It's got a good cast (Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Rodriguez), the movie moves pretty quickly, and the story is compelling Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings     TOP  20 POSTER
Distributor WALT DISNEY    RELEASE DATE  1/7/09     BRETT'S  RATING 2

Space Buddies        Childrens - Rated G 

Stars  VOICES BY  F.T. Anderson, Diedrich Bader, Field Cate, Kendall Cross
Disney's irresistible talking puppies are back in an all-new movie that takes them where no Buddy has gone before - the moon! With the help of some stellar new friends, this out-of-this- world adventure is one small step for dog, one giant leap for dogkind. Moving at warp speed, dodging asteroids and more, the Buddies and their two new friends, Spudnick and Gravity, must summon their courage and ingenuity to launch plans for a moon landing and a rocketing trip back home. Will they have the right stuff? Overflowing with intergalactic action and heart, Space Buddies is an amazing tale of teamwork and loyalty that celebrates the journey of life and the friendships made along the way. It's Buddy- loving fun your family will enjoy again and again
Distributor WALT DISNEY    RELEASE DATE  1/7/09     BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman.
Casey Bell (Odette Yustman) hated her mother for leaving her as a child. But when inexplicable things start to happen, Casey begins to understand why she left. Plagued by merciless dreams and a tortured ghost that haunts her waking hours, she must turn to the only spiritual advisor, Sendak (Gary Oldman), who can make it stop. With Sendak's help, Casey uncovers the source of a family curse dating back to Nazi Germany a creature with the ability to inhabit anyone or anything that is getting stronger with each possession. With the curse unleashed, her only chance at survival is to shut a doorway from beyond our world that has been pried open by someone who was never born.        Aust Box Office: $2,136,087    TOP  20 POSTER
Distributor: UNIVERSAL      RELEASE DATE1/7/09       BRETT'S  RATING 2 

Stars  VOICE BY Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver
The Tale of Despereaux follows a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears who dreams of becoming a knight. Banished from his home for having such lofty ambitions, Despereaux sets off on an amazing adventure with his good-hearted rat friend Roscuro that eventually leads him, at long last, on a very noble quest to rescue an endangered princess. Set in the far away kingdom of Dor, this magical fable harkens back to a time of honour and chivalry, inspiring fans of all ages to be the best mouse they can be!  Aust Box Office: $1,745,964   Every DVD includes a bonus 75 minute game, giving this further value      TOP  20 POSTER
Distributor: UNIVERSAL      RELEASE DATE1/7/09       BRETT'S  RATING 2

Flash of Genius                Drama - Rated PG 

Stars Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Alan Alda.
Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns' long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. But this determined engineer refused to be silenced, and he took on the corporate titans in a battle that nobody thought he could win.  TOP  20 POSTER
Distributor:  ROADSHOW     RELEASE DATE 2/7/09  BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Matthew Knight, Shawnee Smith.
A young Japanese woman who holds the key to stopping the evil spirit of Kayako, travels to the haunted Chicago apartment from the sequel, to stop the curse of Kayako once and for all and save a family who are currently being haunted by her malicious spirit.                                            TOP  20 POSTER
Distributor:  ROADSHOW     RELEASE DATE 2/7/09  BRETT'S  RATING 2

Bindi The Jungle Girl - Wildlife Detective  Childrens - Rated G

Stars BINDI IRWIN
More adventures from Australia's most enthusiastic Wildlife Warrior as she continues her mission to save the planet's most vulnerable animals, and show kids that conservation is lots of fun. This extended volume from the award-winning Bindi the Jungle Girl series include two bonus episodes.

Distributor:  ROADSHOW     RELEASE DATE   2/7/09  BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars  Josh Flitter, Emma Lockhart, Austin Rogers
I will try to be normal 12-year-old Ace Ventura Jr. promises. Thats cool, except whats normal for him is finding missing mutts, kidnapped kitties or gone gators and creating hilarious chaos every step of the way. Like father, like son, it's in his nature to be a pet defective detective! And when a zoo's baby panda is stolen and Ace's mom is Suspect #1, our young hero sets out to clear the family name. It's a new generation of family fun and goof-brained comedy panda-monium as Ace Ventura Jr. (Josh Flitter of Nancy Drew and License to Wed) teams with adventurous girl-next-door Laura (Emma Lockhart) and nerdish gizmo-wiz A-Plus (Austin Rogers) to chase down leads and laughs. Ready for fun? Allriiiighty-then. Ace - Ace Jr. is on the case!
Distributor: WARNER       RELEASE DATE  1/7/09            BRETT'S  RATING 2

Grow Your Own      Comedy - Rated M

Stars  Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Benedict Wong
Some people keep allotments because they like the taste of fresh vegetables. Some go there for the company. Some of them are looking for love. Some of them are looking for the perfect manure. Some go there to escape from their marriages. One of them is there to escape from something much, much worse. Grow Your Own takes us through one year of growing, pruning and harvesting in the Little Blacktree Road Allotments. Grow Your Own is a touching and hilarious homegrown comedy starring a host of British stars including Olivia Colman (Hot Fuzz, Peep Show), Eddie Marsan (Vera Drake, Mission Impossible 3), and Benedict Wong (A Cock and Bull Story, Sunshine).
Distributor:   DV1       RELEASE DATE1/7/09      BRETT'S  RATING 2

Small Town Folk     Horror - Rated MA15+ 

Stars  Warwick Davis Simon Stanley-Ward
High atop a scenic hillside in Grockleton stands the lonely Beesley's Manor, governed by the ominous Landlord and his gallery of violent rogues. Always on the lookout for females to carry on the Beesley name (willingly or not), the Landlord keeps a watchful eye over all of his land and brutally dispatches those outsiders who dare set foot upon it. When three improbable heroes stumble unsuspectingly into Beesley's realm, they are cruelly snared into a menacing hunt and an unstoppable frenzy of blood-pumping mayhem! Will the Landlord triumph and collect his 'trophies' (and a future bride?), or can the unlikely trio emerge unscathed
Distributor: SHOCK       RELEASE DATE1/7/09     BRETT'S  RATING 3

Buddies                  Drama - Rated M

Stars COLIN FREILS 
Mike (Colin Friels) and his buddy, Johnny (Harold Hopkins), are miners in search of sapphires in the Emerald region of Central Queensland. They are likeable battlers who take on the might of the big corporate dollar who move in on their turf with the new machines, bulldozers, and guns! But with the help of a travelling city doctor (Norman Kaye), these unyielding buddies play the big new miners at their own game. Shot on location near Emerald and Rubyvale, this rollicking Aussie favourite won the Australian Film Institute Award in 1983 for Best Screenplay and was the follow-up to John Dingwall's classic screenplay Sunday Too Far Away This Australian film from 1983 has been unavailable for years
Distributor: SHOCK       RELEASE DATE1/7/09     BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars  Gareth Reeves, Matthew Sunderland, Ian Mune
A Song of Good is the story of 28 year old Gary Cradle's struggle for redemption after committing a horrific crime. During a desperate burglary to pay for drugs, Gary is confronted by a middle-aged woman. Cornered and scared, he overpowers the woman and attacks her. Disgusted by this senseless assault, he flees home to where he lives with his retired father Ron. After locking himself away in his bedroom, Gary decides to turn his life around, get clean and do some good in this world. Standing in his way is a simmering drug and alcohol problem, low self-esteem and a very motley peer group. When his sister reluctantly asks him to look after his eight-year-old nephew (Lachie) they form a bond, but Gary's attempts to keep Lachie safe in the world appears to be an insuperable battle as his demons draw closer.
Distributor:   DV1       RELEASE DATE1/7/09      BRETT'S  RATING 3

Poison Ivy       Thriller - Rated R18+ 

Stars  Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, Tom Skerritt, Cheryl Ladd
Ivy (Drew Barrymore) the sexy, streetwise new girl in a posh private school, will do anything to fit in. Sylvie (Sara Gilbert) rich, smart, but misunderstood - needs a friend. When Ivy is invited into Sylvie's privileged world, she is instantly intrigued. Sylvie's father (Tom Skerritt) is a handsome TV newscaster; her mother (Cheryl Ladd) is a beautiful Beverly Hills wife. Yet tensions in the home run deep - providing a license for malice that Ivy is quick to sieze.With one slick seduction, Ivy sets off a chain reaction that makes Poison Ivy one of the most provocative and erotic thrillers ever filmed.
Distributor   REEL   RELEASE DATE       4/7/09       BRETT'S  RATING 2

Poison Ivy II: Lily         Thriller - Rated MA15+ 

Stars  Alyssa Milano, Xander Berkely, Johnathon Schaech.
Lily, (Alyssa Milano) is just the average new girl at scholl until she discovers an old diary containing Ivy's deepest darkest secrets. The more she reads, the more she becomes lured into Ivy's world - a world of seductions and powerplays - until she herself becomes the uninhibited risk-taker she has always dreamt of being. But when a dangerous affair with her married professor (Xander Berkeley) spirals out of control, Lily becomes involved in a chilling series of events that makes Poison Ivy II: Lily as provocative an erotic thriller as the original.
Distributor   REEL   RELEASE DATE       4/7/09       BRETT'S  RATING 2

Poison Ivy III: The New Seduction          Thriller - Rated   MA15

Stars  Jaime Pressly, Michael Des Barres, Megan Edwards
The quiet home of a suburban family is suddenly destroyed when Ivy's beautiful but evil sister Violet returns to her childhood home and shatters the life of her former best friend Joy. Using her unbridled sexuality as a weapon, she seduces both Joy's father and fiance. No deception is too treacherous, no seduction too dangerous, and no crime too heinous for this twisted temptress, whose young life was torn apart by an ill-fated affair between her mother and Joy's father. Introducing sexy newcomers Jaime Pressly and Megan Edwards, Poison Ivy III: The New Seduction is a steamy, pulse-pounding erotic thriller that continues the same provocative and chilling tradition of Poison Ivy and Poison Ivy II: Lily.
Distributor   REEL   RELEASE DATE       4/7/09       BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Kierston Wareing, Juliet Ellis, Joe Siffleet
Angie may not have much formal education but she's got energy, wit and ambition, and she's in her prime. Not for the first time she's out of a job. She has a point to prove.Angie and her flatmate Rose decide they can be their own boss. They set up a recruitment agency in for immigrant workers, which operates in a twilight world where labour is cheap and laws are made to be ignored. Maybe they represent these times: the chance to make as much money as possible, regardless of the consequences, is tempting. But at what cost?
Distributor   REEL   RELEASE DATE       4/7/09       BRETT'S  RATING 2

Dorothy Mills       Horror - Rated   MA15

Stars  Carice van Houten, Jenn Murray, David Wilmot.
Dorothy Mills is eerie, suspenseful and truly frightening. When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the murder of a young child, a psychologist is called to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' resistance, the therapist soon suspects that Dorothy suffers from multiple personality disorder. But when the girl speaks in the voice of the woman's own deceased son, what first seemed like madness may as the locals believe be Dorothy channelling the dead.
Distributor   REEL   RELEASE DATE       4/7/09       BRETT'S  RATING 2

Lakeview Terrace             Drama / Thriller - Rated MA15+

Stars   Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Jay Hernandez
A young couple (Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington) has just moved into their California dream home when they become the target of their next-door neighbor, who disapproves of their relationship. A stern, single father, this tightly wound LAPD officer (Samuel L. Jackson) has appointed himself the watchdog of the neighborhood. His nightly foot patrols and overly watchful eyes bring comfort to some, but he becomes increasingly aggressive to the newlyweds. These persistent intrusions into their lives cause the couple to fight back.
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Distributor : SONY             RELEASE DATE 8/7/09           BRETT'S  RATING 1

Stars  Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Jesse Bradford, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn, Thandie Newton

A chronicle on the life and presidency of George W. Bush.   This look at the life of George W. Bush by Oliver Stone isn't exactly flattering (especially during his earlier years), but he's played incredibly well by Josh Brolin, who delivers a performance to remember. He's ably supported by a huge cast of great actors, and the story flits around eras to keep the pace up. So, this is a quality drama
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Distributor : SONY             RELEASE DATE 8/7/09           BRETT'S  RATING 2

Rachel Getting Married           Drama - Rated M

Stars Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mather Zickel, Bill Irwin, Anna Deavere Smith, Debra Winger
Rachel Getting Married is a contemporary drama with an aggressive sense of humor about the return of an estranged daughter about a girl coming out of rehab for a weekend to see her sister get married.to the family home for her sister's wedding. Kym's (Anne Hathaway) reemergence throws a wrench into the family dynamics, forcing long-simmering tensions to surface in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking. Rachel Getting Married paints a colorful, nuanced family portrait and is filled with the rich characters that have always been a hallmark of Jonathan Demme's films
Distributor : SONY             RELEASE DATE 8/7/09           BRETT'S  RATING  2

Stars  Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Paul Bettany
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens, a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping
Aust Box Office: $500,000    TOP  20 POSTER
Distributor: FOX       RELEASE DATE 8/7/09        BRETT'S  RATING 2

Picture This!      Comedy - Rated PG

Stars  Ashley Tisdale, Lauren Collins, Cindy Busby, Kevin Pollack
Ashley Tisdale stars in this hilarious teen comedy as Mandy, an unpopular high school senior who lands a date to the biggest party of the year with Drew, the school's hottest guy. But while her dreams are finally coming into focus, with the help of her friends, she'll have to battle her overprotective dad and Drew's ex-girlfriend, who's determined to keep Mandy away from the bash. In one crazy, adventure-filled day, Mandy strives to get to the party and discovers that popularity can come and go, but good friends will always be in the picture!
Distributor: FOX       RELEASE DATE 8/7/09        BRETT'S  RATING 3

Legally Blonde  3     Comedy - Rated PG

Stars  Rebecca Rosso, Camilla Rosso, Babby Campo, Chad Broskey
Elle's British cousins, Izzy and Annie Woods move from the old country to Beverly Hills in this all-new third installment of the hit Legally Blonde franchise!

Distributor: FOX       RELEASE DATE 8/7/09        BRETT'S  RATING 3

Cutting Edge 3        Drama - Rated PG

Stars Mat Lanter, Francia Paisa, Christy Carlson Romano, Ben Hollinsworth
Zach Conroy and Celeste Mercier are the hottest couple on and off the ice until a nasty spill knocks Celeste out of competition. With their dreams of gold medals put in ice and their romance chilling as a result, Zach has to find another partner for the championship in Paris, and fast. In glides Alejandra Alex Delgado, a beautiful, tough talking hockey player with fierce moves and a fearless skating style.
Distributor: FOX       RELEASE DATE 8/7/09        BRETT'S  RATING 3

Charlie Bartlett          Comedy - Rated  M

Stars  Anton Yechin, Robert Downey Jr, Hope Davis, Kat Denning
Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at a new public high school run by the world-weary Principal Ggardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likeability positions him as the resident psychiatrist dishing out advice, and the occasional prescription with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, to other students in need. Along the way, he decides to take some of his own advice, find romance, and learn to accept who he is, thus wielding a witty dark comedy about the angst-filled years before college.

Distributor: FOX       RELEASE DATE 8/7/09        BRETT'S  RATING 2

Heavy Petting                      Comedy - Rated M 

Stars  Malin Akerman, Brendon Hines, Kevin Sussman
When Charlie (Hines) meets Daphne (Akerman), the girl of his dreams, he never expects he will have to battle past her pet dog Babydoll to win her heart. Just when it seems he can't beat the beast and all is lost, something unexpected happens. Charlie begins to fall in love with the dog himself, realizing he never really needed a girlfriend in the first place. Now, in order to keep hanging out with man's best friend, Charlie must scramble to keep the relationship with Daphne going at all costs, or risk losing them both   TOP  20 POSTER
Distributor: AI ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE DATE 10/7/09   BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Dylan Moran, Keith Allen, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
One death is an accident. Two are a coincidence. Three and a dead dog, well, that's just bad DIY. In this coal-black farce, the luck of the Irish is dreadful. Indolent actor Mark and his neighbour, failed film writer and failed recovering alcoholic Pierce, are wastrels with no lives. But they quickly become the only characters left alive after a series of accidental deaths in the ill-repaired house they share. Like a Final Destination movie with a Harold Pinter script, the entire ramshackle edifice becomes a Rube Goldberg machine of death, adding a ghoulish hilarity to proceedings as the two protagonists, stone-faced and sweaty-palmed, concoct plausible reasons for why Mark's apartment has more cadavers than a funeral home in midwinter. Hiding the bodies has rarely been so bleakly hilarious.
Distributor: BEYOND    RELEASE DATE     8/7/09   BRETT'S  RATING 2

Bilitis          Erotic - Rated R18

Stars  Patti D'Arbanville, Mona Kristensen, Bernard Giraudeau, Gillis Kohler
During her summer vacation, a young woman, Bilitis, experiences her sexual awakening. After witnessing the lovemaking between her friend Melissa and her husband, Bilitis is encouraged on her own course to love. She explores her new found sexuality by pursuing a young photographer, Lucas, developing a crush on Melissa and, upon discovering the Melissa's husband is having his own affair, trying to find a suitable male lover for her friend.     

Made in 1977 and never been released before, this is one for the foreign/arthouse sections starring Patti D'Arbanville. This is in the same vane as The Story Of O, which should tell you everything you need to know right there. This is strictly for the arthouse crowd.
Distributor: BEYOND    RELEASE DATE     8/7/09   BRETT'S  RATING 3

Fugitive Pieces    Drama - Rated MA15+

Stars  Stephane Dillane, Rade Sherbedgia, Rosamund Pike, Ayelet Zurer
Fugitive Pieces is a powerful, poetic and emotionally charged drama about love, loss and redemption. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WW2. As a child in Poland he is orphaned during wartime then saved by a compassionate Greek archeologist. Over the course of his life, he attempts to deal with the losses he has endured. Through his writing and then through the discovery of true love, Jakob is ultimately freed from the legacy of the past. Based on the beloved best-selling novel by award winning writer Anne Michaels.     It won best film at the Sydney Film Festival,
Distributor: SHOCK       RELEASE DATE10/7/09     BRETT'S  RATING 2

Righteous Kill             Thriller - Rated MA15+

Stars  Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg, Carla Gugino, Curtis Jackson
Academy Award Winners Robert De Niro and Al Pacino star as a pair of New York City police detectives on the trail of a vigilante serial killer in this adrenaline fuelled psychological thriller, directed by Jon Avnet (Red Corner) and written by Russell Gewirtz (Inside Man). After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated detectives David Frisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren't. Before they can hang up their badges they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. When more similar crimes take place, it raises a nagging question: did they put the wrong man behind bars?   TOP  20 POSTER
Distributor: MAGNA    RELEASE DATE 15/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 1

Stars  Jeremy Irons, Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris
Adapted from Robert B. Parker's novel of the same name, the story is centered on a pair of friends hired to protect a lawless town suffering at the hands of a renegade rancher. The arrival of an attractive widow disrupts their plans
Distributor:  ROADSHOW     RELEASE DATE 16/7/09  BRETT'S  RATING  2

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Last Chance Harvey              Drama - Rated PG   

Stars  Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson.
New Yorker Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman) who is on the verge of losing his dead-end job goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's wedding, only to learn she has chosen to have her stepfather walk her down the aisle instead of him. Devastated by this news he leaves the wedding early but misses his plane and is fired on the spot. Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate (Emma Thompson), a slightly prickly, 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics. Kate, whose life is limited to work, the occasional humiliating blind date and endless phone calls from her smothering mother, is touched by Harvey, who finds himself energized by her intelligence and compassion. The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another's lives.
Aust Box Office: $2,372,584  TOP  20 POSTER
Distributor: ICON   RELEASE DATE      15/7/09         BRETT'S  RATING 1

Boogeyman 3  Horror - Rated MA15+   

Stars  Erin Cahill
When college student Sarah Morris witnesses the alleged suicide of her roommates, it sets into motion a series of horrific events that cause Sarah to fear the supernatural entity known as the Boogeyman. As she tries to convince the rest of her dorm that the Boogeyman does exist, the evil force grows stronger and her friends begin to pay the price. Now Sarah must stop this ultimate evil before the entire campus falls prey because the question isn't whether or not the Boogeyman is going to get themit's how and when! 
Distributor: ICON   RELEASE DATE      15/7/09         BRETT'S  RATING 3

100 Feet              Thriller - Rated MA15+   

Stars  Famke Janssen
When a woman serving time for the murder of her husband is released under house arrest, her past strikes back with a supernatural vengeance. Marnie Watson (Famke Janssen) was suffering under the brutal hand of her violent husband, when she struck back in a fatal act of self-defence. She is given strict orders to remain in her house until her sentence is served in full, but there's something else lurking in the shadows. Now, having thought her nightmare was finally over, Marnie is about to discover that it's only just begun as she realises her husband is just as evil in death as he was in life, and determined to strike back at the woman who killed him with savage ferocity. 
Distributor: ICON   RELEASE DATE      15/7/09         BRETT'S  RATING 3

Notorious               Drama - Rated MA15+

Stars  Jamal Woodard, Angela Bassett, Anthony Mackie, Derek Luke.
Notorious is the story of Christopher Wallace who, through raw talent and sheer determination, transforms himself from a Brooklyn street hustler to become the greatest rapper of all time, The Notorious B.I.G. This story charts his meteoric rise to fame and his refusal to succumb to expectation. Produced by Voletta Wallace (Big's mother), Wayne Barrowman and Mark Pitts (Big's managers), Notorious challenges us all to redefine our notion of what is the American dream.

Aust Box Office: $1,678,046
Distributor: FOX       RELEASE DATE 15/7/09        BRETT'S  RATING 2

Drawn In Blood       Drama - Rated MA15

Stars  Anna Finn, Dan Van Husen, Tim Williams
When love turns into suspicion and mourning becomes fear ... a chilling thriller about mysterious murders and the revealing power of images

Distributor: FOX       RELEASE DATE 15/7/09        BRETT'S  RATING 3

Far Cry             Action - Rated MA15

Stars  Til Schweiger, Michael Pare, Udo Kier, Emmanuelle Vaugier
A rocket hurtles towards Jack Carver's boat. He barely manages to escape before the ship is torn into pieces by the explosion. Not quite how Carver had imagined the journey, when journalist Valerie Constantine had hired him for the trip. The captain was supposed to take her to a meeting with an informant on a remote island, but everything went terribly wrong. Jack and Valerie make a narrow escape into the jungle. Hunted recklessly by a team of mercenaries, they attempt to reach the other side of the island where they can access a ship in the harbour. Once arriving, they discover the island's secret: dangerous experiments, through which scientist Dr Krieger attempts to create the perfect killing machine
Distributor: FOX       RELEASE DATE 15/7/09        BRETT'S  RATING 3

Wedding Daze                Comedy - Rated M

Stars Jason Biggs, Isla Fisher
Wedding Daze is a comedy that shows us that love has nothing to do with perfection. After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. but at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously proposes to a dissatisfied waitress named Katie and an innocent dare evolves into the kind of love that both have been looking for all along.
Distributor: FOX       RELEASE DATE 15/7/09        BRETT'S  RATING 3

Midnight Meat Train           Horror - Rated R18+

Stars  Bradley Cooper, Vinnie Jones, Brooke Shields.
Bradley Cooper (He's Just Not That Into You) plays a photographer who is intrigued by a serial killer stalking the city's subway. However, the killer (played by a mute Vinnie Jones) has a reason for the bloodshed. And there is a lot of bloodshed (it's rated R18+ for a reason). You could argue that it's more of a thriller/horror than an out-and-out horror flick, and that might make it more accessible to customers.  TOP  20 POSTER
Distributor : SONY             RELEASE DATE 15/7/09           BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Doug Hutchison
Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias: Jigsaw. With the Punisher Task Force hot on his trail and the FBI unable to take Jigsaw in, Frank must stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before more of his evil deeds go unpunished.The hook is that it's incredibly violent (how it didn't get an R18+ rating is beyond me), which makes it very true to its comic book roots.

Distributor : SONY             RELEASE DATE 15/7/09           BRETT'S  RATING 2

Frozen River        Crime / Drama - Rated MA15+ 

Stars  Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Michael O'Keefe, Charlie McDermott
Life in Massena is as harsh and barren as the frigid landscape. In this bleak terrain, two hardened single mothers are trying to make lives for their children. Lila is a widowed Mohawk whose mother-in-law stole her newborn son a year ago. Ray is a mother of two whose gambling-addicted husband just left town with the down payment for their new trailer home. Faced with little opportunity to make ends meet, Ray and Lila embark on an illegal venture transporting immigrants into the U.S. across Mohawk territory. With the money for the down payment within Ray's grasp, the women are determined to make one last run. When circumstances spiral out of control, the two women must make life or death decisions based on their friendship and love for their children.
Distributor : SONY             RELEASE DATE 15/7/09           BRETT'S  RATING 2

Love the Beast       Documentary - Rated M 

Stars Eric Bana, Dr Phil McGraw, Jay Leno, Jeremy Clarkson.
Eric Bana's perfect role: exploring his 25-year relationship with his first car, The Beast, and the importance of bonds of a common passion. The Hollywood star takes us on a journey from inside his race car to the surreal world of the red carpet as he traces the importance of family, friends and keeping your dreams alive. Love the Beast is as much about the defining moments in life as it is about driving fast... really fast.
Aust Box Office: $633,806
Distributor Madman  RELEASE DATE  15/7/09      BRETT'S  RATING 3

Hush            Horror / Thriller - Rated MA15

Stars  William Ash Shaun Dingwall Claire Keelan
Zakes Abbott is driving home late at night along the motorway, his girlfriend asleep beside him. Failing to spot his exit he cuts off a white truck and, for a brief shocking moment, the tailgate flips up revealing a woman bound and bloodied in the back. Zakes is left bewildered and wondering if what he saw was real. After a quick stop, his own girlfriend goes missing. Desperate, Zakes begins his own tense cat and mouse game.
Distributor Madman  RELEASE DATE  15/7/09      BRETT'S  RATING 2

Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin' with the Godmother  Documentary - Rated 

Stars 
Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin' With the Godmother picks up where the rip-roaring original left off. We move from the blow trade in '80s Miami to the crack epidemic in '90s Oakland; the bloodthirsty Colombian drug baroness Griselda Blanco is behind barsher name attached to more than 250 murdersbut still managing to run her business thanks to disciple-cum-toy-boy Charles Cosby. How far will the Black Widow go to keep control?

Distributor Madman  RELEASE DATE  15/7/09      BRETT'S  RATING 3

Jerusalema                           Action/Adventure - Rated M

Stars  Robert Hobbs Daniel Buckland
Lucky Kunene lives at home with his mother in one of the poorest areas of South Africa. Intelligent and resourceful, he dreams of university, but when he is not awarded the scholarship that would make his dreams a reality, he falls into a life of crime. Set in the townships of Johannesburg, Jerusalema is a visually arresting and compelling story of one man's meteoric rise from the slums to the top of the city's crime world It reminds us a little of Tsotsi, but that was a much higher profile film. However, just like Tsotsi, it's a high quality film.    It is in English with minimal sub-titles
Distributor Madman  RELEASE DATE  15/7/09      BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Chris Waitt Alexandra Boyarskaya
Dumped and despondent over an endless string of disastrous relationships, filmmaker Chris Waitt attempts to root out the source of his romantic woes by asking each of his ex-girlfriends point-blank about his shortcomings as a boyfriend. Later taken to task by his own mother, the long-suffering relationship bungler eventually turns to therapy, acupuncture, and even Viagra to learn the secrets to loving like a true grown-up.
Distributor Madman  RELEASE DATE  15/7/09      BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Val Kilmer, Armand Assante, Eric Roberts, Megan Brown, Patrick Muldoon, Eve Mauro, Quinn Duffy
Chaos descends when he turns up the heat. Former university professor, James Pettis, boasts to the local newspaper that he has trapped six people and is holding them hostage in a steam room - to prove his hypothesis that humans will fall into chaos under the pressures of global warming. Unless the newspaper publishes a front page story on the professor's theory, he'll turn up the heat on the steam room lab rats. Meanwhile as the temperature increases inside, the nerves of the hostages begin to shatter. Tempers flare, fights break out, people begin to die but the professor refuses to break. The only way out of this deadly situation is for Detective Mancini to engage in an intellectual game of cat-and-mouse against an opponent who truly has nothing left to lose.Will the steam room become their tomb?
Distributor: ANCHOR BAY  RELEASE DATE       15/7/09   BRETT'S  RATING 3

Table for Three           Comedy - Rated  MA15

Stars  Jennifer Morrison, Sophia Bush, Johnny Galecki, Jesse Bradford
The story of a lonely, heartbroken guy who lets a couple move into his cool apartment as roommates, only to find that they don't understand the word boundaries. When three is two too many. Scott is suddenly single and alone after his girlfriend dumps him during his marriage proposal and his room mate moves thousands of miles away. To try and get his life back on track he invites a super-nice couple, Ryan and Mary, to share his apartment. They soon begin to intrude on every aspect of his life including his new relationship with the girl of his dreams. Is Scott just being paranoid or does this seemingly 'perfect couple' need a third wheel to keep them rolling?
Distributor: ANCHOR BAY  RELEASE DATE       15/7/09   BRETT'S  RATING 2

Duplicity                Thriller - Rated M

Stars  Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Tom Wilkinson
CIA officer Claire Stenwick and MI6 agent Ray Koval have left the world of government intelligence to cash in on the highly profitable cold war raging between two rival multinational corporations. Their mission? Secure the formula for a product that will bring a fortune to the company that patents it first. For their employers--industry titan Howard Tully and buccaneer CEO Dick Garsik--nothing is out of bounds. But as the stakes rise, the mystery deepens and the tactics get dirtier, the trickiest secret for Claire and Ray is their growing attraction. And as they each try to stay one double-cross ahead, two career loners find their schemes endangered by the only thing they can't cheat their way out of: love.
Aust Box Office:  $5,220,535  TOP  20 POSTER
Distributor: UNIVERSAL      RELEASE DATE    22/7/09       BRETT'S  RATING 1

Stars  Dennis Quaid, Rob Brown.
Based on the incredible true story, The Express follows the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis (Rob Brown). Under the guidance of tough coach Schwartzwalder (Dennis Quaid) - Davis would overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to become a sporting legend in this powerful story of triumph on and off the field that will have you cheering! Think along the lines of Remember The Titans and Friday Night Lights

Distributor: UNIVERSAL      RELEASE DATE    22/7/09       BRETT'S  RATING 2

Friday The 13th           Horror - Rated  R18

Stars  Danielle Panabaker, Derek Mears, Amanda Righetti, Jared Padaleki
Jason is back in the reimagining of one of the most iconic, genre defining characters in horror movie history. After he supposedly drowned at Camp Crystal Lake as a boy due to the negligence of the teenage counselors, his mother sought bloody vengeance. Decades later, after seeing his mother brutally murdered, the lake is rumored to be cursed, and is the setting for a series of mass murders. Let the splatterfest continue!

Aust Box Office: $1,802,418  TOP  20 POSTER
Distributor: Paramount    RELEASE DATE    23/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, David Strathairn, Elizabeth Banks
In the suspense thriller The Uninvited, based on the 2003 Korean motion picture Changhwa, Hongryon, Anna (Emily Browning) returns discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel (Elizabeth Banks), has moved into their house and become engaged to her father, Steven (David Strathairn). Soon after she learns this shocking news, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her that Rachel has evil intentions. Together, Anna and her sister (Arielle Kebbel) must convince their father that his new fiancee is not who she pretends to be, and what should have been a happy family reunion becomes a lethal battle of wills between stepdaughters and stepmother.   Aust Box Office: $1,360,630  TOP  20 POSTER
Distributor: Paramount    RELEASE DATE    23/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 2

17 and Missing            Thriller - Rated M 

Stars Dedee Pfeiffer, Matthew Harrison, Tegan Moss
Emilie Janzen has always had a keen sense of woman's intuition which kicks into high overdrive when her 17-year-old daughter, Laurie, goes to a party and doesn't come home. The police say Laurie's a runaway, but Emilie's premonitions tell her otherwise. She's convinced that her daughter has been kidnapped, and she recruits Nick her estranged husband, to help her track their daughter down with Emilie's visions as their only guide.
Distributor: PEACOCK     RELEASE DATE 22/7/09        BRETT'S  RATING 3

Britannic              Action War - Rated M 

Stars  Jacqueline Bisset, John Rhys Davies, Edward Atterton, Amanda Ryan, Bruce Payne
Based on the true story of Britannic, the sister ship of Titanic, which sank under mysterious circumstances during the early days of World War I.  A romantic spy thriller which follows the events surrounding the fateful voyage of the Britannic. The ship is commissioned as a hospital vessel for wounded soldiers.  Everything is not as it appears aboard the great ship, as a beautiful British secret agent posing as a nanny will soon discover. She must confront the sceptical commander and double agents in a delicate and harrowing attempt to discover the dangerous truth of Britannic's last voyage. 
Distributor: PEACOCK     RELEASE DATE 22/7/09        BRETT'S  RATING 3

Countdown Armageddon       Sci Fi - Rated M

Stars  Kim Little, Clint Browning, G. Russell Reynolds
A journalist searches for her daughter as a series of catastrophic disasters push a destabilized society toward the brink of global war.
Distributor: PEACOCK     RELEASE DATE 22/7/09        BRETT'S  RATING 3

Language of the Enemy             Action Drama - Rated M 

Stars  Eion Bailey, Murray Abraham, Linda Hardy, Toyah Feldshuh.
An American Jewish businessman travels to Israel for the funeral of his father, who has been killed in a bus bombing. While there, he is persuaded to do a brief reconnaissance for the Israeli Secret Service inside the city of Ramallah. However, the assignment goes awry and the American Jew finds himself trapped behind enemy lines with a mysterious, beautiful Palestinian woman. As he fights to save his life, the American Jew is forced to re-examine his own world view, as well as those of the Palestinian woman (a Christian Arab) and her grandfather (a Muslim). But can he really trust them? And can they trust him? More importantly, can they keep each other alive after being caught in the crossfire between opposing sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict?
Distributor: PEACOCK     RELEASE DATE 22/7/09        BRETT'S  RATING 3

Simon Says          Horror - Rated MA15+ 

Stars  Crispin Glover, Margo Harshman, Greg Cipes
Acclaimed actor Crispin Glover stars as Simon and Stanley, a pair of evil twins who grew up in a family divided and ultimately destroyed by jealousy, brutality and seething hatred between brothers. Violence is the ultimate outcome and becomes the solution to all situations that invade their morbid world. Good and evil irrationally change places as the twins meet and greet the unwitting victims who happen by the derelict shop that once was the family business. On a glorious summer day, a group of college students on a party-down camping trip lose their way and find themselves not just players, but victims in the twins bloody rampage.
Distributor: PEACOCK     RELEASE DATE 22/7/09        BRETT'S  RATING 3

Knowing               Sci-Fi - Rated M   

Stars  Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne.
Starring Academy Award Winner Nicolas Cage, Knowing is a gripping action-thriller of global proportions. After his son brings home a letter found in a 50 year old time capsule, John Koestler (Cage) deciphers the encrypted numbers on the letter revealing a list of dates and death tolls for every major disaster over the last five decades. There are three more numbers in the sequence. This sets John on a journey to save his son and the world from a global catastrophe.
Aust Box Office: $7,544,187      TOP  20 POSTER
Distributor: ICON   RELEASE DATE      29/7/09         BRETT'S  RATING 1

Easy Virtue                     Comedy - Rated M 

Stars  Jessica Biel, Kristen Scott Thomas, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth
Young upper-class John Whittaker (Ben Barnes) returns home from holiday married to the wrong sort of girl. Larita (Jessica Biel) is a widow and a racing car driver, sophisticated, fiercely independent and gasp! American. John's frosty mother Veronica (Kristen Scott Thomas) is horrifed, his father Jim (Colin Firth) enthralled, and his sisters are first delighted with, then despairing, of the new addition to the family. Pretty soon the battle lines are drawn. While Jim sees a kindred spirit in Larita's willingness to flout English society rules, Veronica and her two daughters do all they can to sabotage the marriage. Larita does her best to ingratiate herself, but the gloves soon come off, with the only question being whether Larita and John's love is strong enough to withstand the onslaught.
Aust Box Office: $2,602,371
Distributor:21st Century     RELEASE DATE  29/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 2

Immigrants               Animated Comedy - Rated M                               Stars voices by Eric McCormack, Hank Azaria. It's an 87 minute feature length film
From the animators of The Simpsons, Rugrats and Duckman comes a wild and crazy adult cartoon feature. More people immigrate to America than to all other countries in the world combined. Why? Is it because they love hot dogs and hamburgers? Or because they want to meet Snoop Dogg or have a close encounter with Pamela Anderson? Maybe The real reason is immigrants go to the US to chase the American dream. Here's the hilarious story of Vladislav (A Russian) and Joska (a Hungarian). Both are immigrants and best friends, living and chasing the American dream together, along with Flaco from Mexico, Mr. Chea, who runs a Chinese restaurant, Nazim, a former Pakistani nuclear scientist who now drives a tour bus, Mr. Splits, an old black pimp and landlady Greta Knight, a failed actress constantly chasing Vlad for sexual favours. Vlad is looking for a way to make a life for himself and his daughter. Joska, well, Joska is mainly looking for women. A movie that is both hilarious and poignant, Immigrants is for anyone who has had a dream.:
Distributor:21st Century     RELEASE DATE  29/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 3

Foreign Exchange          Comedy - Rated M

Stars  Jennifer Coolidge
Four friends think they've got it made for senior year easy classes, booze fuelled parties and ridiculously hot babes. But when they take in a group of foreign exchange students, their master plan is put on hold as hilarity ensues! Senior year just got a whole lot hotter!
Distributor:21st Century     RELEASE DATE  29/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 3

Beautiful              Drama - Rated MA15+ 

Stars  Peta Wilson, Aaron Jeffery, Asher Keddie, Erik Thomson, Sebastian Gregory, Tahyna Tozzi, Socratis Otto, Deborra-Lee Furness
Searing and luscious Beautiful tells the story of Sunshine Hills, a suburb living in the grip of fear following the rumoured abductions of three teenage girls, and of Daniel, a shy introverted 14 year old boy whose two main obsessions are photography and Suzy a sixteen year old Lolita, a dangerous combination of youth and sexuality. Using his crush to her advantage Suzy asks Daniel that in exchange for her friendship he has to get her secrets and photographs of the neighbours and houses that surround them. Thus begins a journey into the underbelly of suburbia, taking them on the trail of a killer ending in murder. Beautiful is suburbia as never seen before sexual, funny, sensuous strange and terrifying
Distributor : GRYPHON       RELEASE DATE   28/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 2

Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door   True Story/Crime - Rated R18

Stars  Blythe Auffarth, Blanche Baker, William Atherton
The Girl Next Door unfolds in a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958. 12-year old David Moran (Daniel Manche) discovers that his next-door neighbours, the Chandlers, have adopted two girls; Megan Loughlin (Blythe Auffarth) and her younger sister Susan (Madeline Taylor), recently orphaned in a terrible car crash, leaving them in the care of their mentally unstable aunt Ruth (Blanche Baker). David befriends the older of the two girls, and as he falls in love with her, he begins to notice that the girls' presence in the house next door seems to provoke inexplicable jealousy and resentment from their aunt. Ruth's hostility towards the two girls soon escalates from mere verbal insults to physical abuse, involving her three young sons, the neighbourhood children, and 12-year-old David whose life will be changed forever
Distributor : GRYPHON       RELEASE DATE   28/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Alfred Molina
This captivating coming-of-age story of a precocious young Israeli boy, Proffy, and his inconceivable friendship with British Sergeant Dunlop (Alfred Molina), takes place in Palestine in 1947. Based on the best-selling novel by Amos Oz, the film parallels the maturation of the impressionable young boy with Israel, as it transitions into statehood, and revolves around the poignant but problematic alliance of the boy and the sergeant, whose mutual friendship is judged harshly. Writer/Director Lynn Roth, seamlessly blends the touching tale of friendship, trust and betrayal, against the larger backdrop of the last days of British occupation of Palestine.
Distributor : GRYPHON       RELEASE DATE   28/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  David Fandila
The Matador is the epic tale of David El Fandi Fandila's quest to become the world's top-ranked bullfighter. Heart-wrenching setbacks and thrilling successes dramatize El Fandi's three-year journey across Spain and Latin America and into the pages of bullfighting history. More than one man's quest for greatness, The Matador is a story of love -- of a son for his family, of audiences for their heroes, of a people for their cultural traditions, and of the bullfighter's paradoxical love for the majestic beast that he must kill to create his art. As David struggles to achieve his place in the pantheon of Spain's greatest bullfighters, he is confronted by those who question the place of this ancient and brutal ritual in the modern world
Distributor : GRYPHON       RELEASE DATE   28/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 3

Princess Protection Program        Family - Rated G

Stars  Demi Lovato, Robert Adamson, Selena Gomez, Samantha Droke, Johnny Ray.
When a tiny country is invaded by a dictator, a young Princess (known as Rosie) is taken into custody by the Princess Protection Program. She is whisked away to rural Wisconsin where she must learn the ins and outs of behaving like a normal American teenager. In the process of adapting to her new life, Rosie gives her new friend and roommate, Carter, a few lessons in how to act with royal aplomb
Distributor WALT DISNEY    RELEASE DATE  29/7/09     BRETT'S  RATING 3

Sugarhouse                           Thriller - Rated MA15+

Stars  Steven Mackintosh, Ashley Walters, Andy Serkis
A middle-class accountant (Steven Mackintosh) attempts to purchase a .38 from an inner-city addict (Ashley Walters), unaware that the gun actually belongs to a psychotic drug lord (Andy Serkis) who would kill to get his weapon back. Gritty and suspenseful, Sugarhouse is an edgy urban thriller about deception and a gun to die for.
Distributor: EAGLE       RELEASE DATE 28/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 2

American Swing                Documentary - Rated R18+

Stars 
The Seventies were sexy and sleazy. At the epicentre of it all was Plato's Retreat, the controversial, first-ever swingers club. In New York's conservative Upper West Side, Plato's embraced adventurous couples who came to dance, to swim, and... to swap. It was the start of a revolution. Plato's Retreat quickly emerged as the mainstay of public sex for the me generation, welcoming anyone and everyone. For only $35, couples checked their judgments and pedigrees at the door of this clothing-optional Disneyland; debutantes got it on next to bus drivers, as movie stars gave secretaries the starlet treatment. Plato's was a utopia.The doco about sex has a sexy cover and features a lot of real sex scenes. I am surprised it got through with an R rating. This may just help it rent to a broader audience than just doco fans
Distributor: EAGLE       RELEASE DATE 28/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 3

I Tried         Drama - Rated MA15+

Stars  Layzie Bone, Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone.
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony took a leap of faith in order make it in the music game. Boarding a bus bound for Los Angeles, they had a plan to get an audience with Eazy E and get signed to Ruthless Records. Though things didn't go exactly as planned, they eventually made it happen. The rest is, as they say, is history with Bone Thugs becoming the luminaries of hip hop they are known as today. But what if they never boarded that Greyhound? What if life spiralled in a different direction and interfered? What if that bus left without them and they never got out of Cleveland? I Tried is the action-packed, thrilling tale of what could have happened if Krayzie, Layzie, and Wish never made it on their life changing voyage to Los Angeles.
Distributor: EAGLE       RELEASE DATE 28/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 3

Passage To Zarahemla             Family Adventure - Rated PG 

Stars  Summer Naomi Smart, Moronai Kanekda, Brian Kary
In a certain forest hollow of southern Utah there exists a place where the centuries converge and where the civilizations of two separate worlds overlap. On the run from their troubles in Los Angeles, orphaned teenager Kerra and her eleven year-old brother Brock stumble through the time vortex and in to the middle of a war between two ancient civilizations. Passage To Zarahemla is a tale of daring rescues, breathtaking adventure, and constant danger from forces both ancient and modern.

Distributor: EAGLE       RELEASE DATE 28/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 3

Saving God     Drama - Rated M15+

Stars  Ving Rhames, Dean McDermott, Dwain Murphy
After serving 15 years in prison for manslaughter, Armstrong Cane returns to his old neighbourhood to take over as Pastor from his recently deceased father at the First Community Church of God. Gangs, drug dealers, and addicts surround the tiny, rundown church and Cane, soon realizes that he faces a great challenge, not only from his new surroundings, but also because of his tainted past.

Distributor: EAGLE       RELEASE DATE 28/7/09    BRETT'S  RATING 3