Aug 12

The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

When a group of women are abducted in the hills of rural Virginia, the only clues to their disappearance are the grotesque human remains that begin to turn up in snow banks along the highway. With officials desperate for any lead, a disgraced priest’s questionable visions send local police on a wild goose chase and straight to a bizarre secret medical experiment that may or may not be connected to the women’s disappearance. Its a case right out of The X-Files. But the FBI closed down its investigations into the paranormal years ago. And the best team for the job is ex-agents Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully, who have no desire to revisit their dark past. Still, the truth of these horrific crimes is out there somewhere…and it will take Mulder and Scully to find it!

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Aug 12

The Dark Knight (2008)

The Dark Knight is a superhero film co-written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan’s Batman film series and a sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins, with Christian Bale in the lead role. The plot of the film focuses on Batman’s fight against a new villain, the Joker (Heath Ledger) and his relationships with district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) and his old friend and love interest assistant D.A. Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal).
Nolan was inspired by the Joker’s first two appearances in the comics and Batman: The Long Halloween. The Dark Knight was filmed primarily in Chicago, as well as in several other locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong.

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Jul 14

Death Race (2008)

Ex-con Jensen Ames (Statham) is forced by the warden of a notorious prison (Allen) to compete in our post-industrial world’s most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory.

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Jul 14

Hancock (2008)

John Hancock (Will Smith) is an unhappy and reluctant superhero who is living in his own world. For some unknown reason, Hancock is depressed and has started drinking very heavily. He has saved many lives in Los Angles over the years, but in doing so, he has no regards for damaging buildings, trains, roads, cars, or anything that gets in his way to get the job done. The public has had enough of Hancock, and they want him to stop or go to another city. Then one day, Hancock saves the life of Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman) from being run over by a train. Ray owes Hancock his life, and he makes it his mission to change his superhero’s image and have the public cheering him.

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Jun 17

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

The Hulk is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. After physicist Dr. Robert Bruce Banner was caught in the blast of a gamma bomb he created, he was transformed into the Hulk, a giant, raging monster. The character, both as Banner and the Hulk, is frequently pursued by the police or the armed forces, often as a result of the destruction he causes. While the coloration of the character’s skin varies during the course of its publication history, the Hulk is most often depicted as green. Hulk is one of Marvel Comics’ most recognized characters.
The character has appeared in a television series, with spin-off television movies, starring Bill Bixby as Dr. Banner and Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk; in animated series in 1966, 1982 and 1996; and in two feature films: Hulk (2003), directed by Ang Lee and starring Eric Bana as Banner, and The Incredible Hulk (2008) directed by Louis Leterrier and starring Edward Norton as Banner.

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Jun 17

The Happening (2008)

The Happening is a 2008 American apocalyptic film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It stars Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel.

The film revolves around a pandemic that begins in New York City, and quickly spreads across eastern United States. The pandemic is a toxin that has a devestating mental effect on humans: victims that breath in the toxin immediatly ceace what they are doing, have loss of speech and become physically disoriented. Finally, the victim unfreezes and commits suicide by the closest means possible: people jump from buildings, shoot or hang or cut themselves, throw themselves into barbed wire, drive vehicles off roads, and various other fatal means. The toxin is apparently spread by the wind.

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Jun 17

Sex and the City (2008)

The film is based in part on writer Candace Bushnell’s book of the same name, compiled from her column with the New York Observer. Bushnell has stated in several interviews that the Carrie Bradshaw in her columns is her alter ego; when she wrote the “Sex and the City” essays, she used her own name initially; for privacy reasons, however, she created the character of Carrie Bradshaw, a woman who was also working as a writer and living in New York City. Carrie also has the same initials, which reiterates her connection with Bushnell.
A movie by Michael Patrick King, with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon.

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May 25

Iron Man (2008)

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Iron Man is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Tales of Suspense #39 (March 1963), and was created by writer-editor Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby. Anthony “Tony” Edward Stark, after suffering a severe heart injury and being kidnapped, was forced to build a devastating weapon. He instead created a suit of power armor to save his life and help protect the world as the superhero Iron Man. He is a wealthy industrialist and genius inventor that created military weapons and whose metal suit is laden with technological devices that enable him to fight crime.

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May 25

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

New adventure of famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones, who is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.

With Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Shia LaBeouf, John Hurt.

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May 12

Monstra 08: 8 - 18 May, Lisbon (Portugal)

Category: Film festivals

The aims of the festival are presenting, teaching, confronting and experimenting the art of the moving image. Always searching for artistic innovation, the Festival produces and exhibits interdisciplinary projects in animation and moving image.

The program will comprise the following areas:

  • Animation Short Film Competition;
  • English retrospective;
  • Interdiciplinary Artistic Projects;
  • Workshops and Seminars;
  • Monstrinha - films for younger audiences;
  • exhibitions;
  • Monstra editions.

If you want more information regarding Monstra Festival, visit its official website.

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