FRIDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER:MOVIE OF THE WEEK & NEW RELEASES

Surrogates is my movie choice of the week, though this week week there is a few decent movies out as well, like Paul Bettnay in Creation and The Soloist starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jnr which has had as many delays as THE ROAD, (Soloist was due to be out September 2008!). Once again as say every week the movie choice of the week is an personal preference and go for the movie you want to see and would be great if you could review your movie and post it back here.

Here’s the trailers and movie synophsis:

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**MOVIE OF THE WEEK**

SURROGATES (12A0

Science Fiction (1hr 28mins)

Director: Jonathan Mostow

Stars: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Cromwell,

Ving Rhames.

FBI agents investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves ? fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles ? enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. The murder spawns a quest for answers: in a world of masks, who’s real and who can you trust?

THE OTHER  RELEASES:

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MANAGEMENT (15)

Comedy (1hour 33mins)

director: Stephen Belber

Stars: Jennifer Anniston, Steve Zhan, Woody Harrelson

A travelling saleswoman sells cheap art to small companies and motels. She has a fling with an aimless, underachieving assistant motel manager at one of her stops, and he pursues her all over the United States…

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FAME (PG)

Musical, Drama (1hr 47mins)

Director: Kevin Tancharoen

Stars: Naturi Naughton, Kherington Payne, Walter Perz, Kelsey Grammer

A reinvention of the original 1980 hit film, the 21st-Cntury Fame follows a talented group of dancers, singers, actors, and artists over four years at the prestigious New York City High School of Performing Arts. In an incredibly competitive atmosphere, each student’s passion will be put to the test and, in addition to their artistic goals, they have to deal with everything else that goes along with high school – including a busy schedule of schoolwork, tempestuous freindships and budding romances.

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THE SOLOIST (12A)

Drama, Biopic  (1hour 57mins)

Director: Joe Wright

Stars: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jnr, Catherine Keener

Journalist Steve Lopez discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, a former classical music prodigy, playing his violin on the streets of L.A. As Lopez endeavours to help the homeless man find his way back, a unique friendship is formed, one that transforms both their lives.

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CREATION (PG)

Biopic (1hr 48mins)

Director: Joel Amiel

Stars: Paul Bettnay, Jennifer Connolly, Jeremy Northam

English naturalist Charles Darwin, the author of The Origin of the Species, struggles to find a balance between his revolutionary theories on evolution and his relationship with his religious wife, whose faith contradicts his work

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THE GODFATHER (18)

Classic, Drama

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall

Old-fashioned Mafia Don, Vito Corleone is overseeing the marriage of his daughter. His son, Michael, who is determined not to continue in the mafia lineage manages to return from the war in time for the wedding. Around this time, drug-dealing Virgil Sollozzo is refused a deal by the Don, and he exacts his revenge with murder. By crossing this line, Sollozzo enfuriated Michael to the extent that all Michael’s convictions were crushed until the red-mist before his eyes was appeased.

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BORN IN ’68 (15)

Drama (2hours 53mins)

Director: Oliver Duecastel

Stars; Laetita Casta, Yannick Renier, Yann Tregouet

A pair of young lovers find their lives going in opposite directions after the turmoil of the student protests and social revolt in 1968 Paris.

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CRIMSON WING (PG)

Documentary (1hr 18mins)

Walt Disney pictures

Director: Matthew Aeberhard

In a remote and forgotten wilderness, one of nature’s last great mysteries unfolds: The birth, life and survival of a million crimson-winged flamingos. Against the dramatic backdrop of unforgiving, never-before filmed landscapes, we follow the birth of a tiny flamingo hatchling, and the perils and fortunes of her life in the extraordinary “other world” of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania.

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WHITE LIGHTNIN’ (18)

Drama (1hour 32mins)

director: Donomic Murphy

Stars: Edward Hogg, Carrie Fisher, Kirk Bovill

Dominic Murphy’s debut feature is a semi-fantasised biography of the Appalachian mountain dancer Jesco White, here transformed into a figure of increasingly deranged and gory legend. Born into poverty and in trouble with the law from his earliest childhood, Jesco (Edward Hogg) finds respite in his dancing – but his demons are never far away.

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HEART ON FIRE (15)

Drama (1hr 32mins)

Director: Luigi Forlini

Stars: Letekidin Micael, Solomie Micael,

Set in Eritrea during the last stages of the second Ethiopian civil war in the early 80s, Heart Of Fire traces the story of young Awet, who is taken from a Catholic orphanage and reunited with her father, a former freedom fighter, only to be conscripted into service as a child soldier.

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