Saturday, 4th October 2008 - 00:00CET
Films on release
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
comedy
Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media-obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York-based Sharps magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-Bafta party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes (Megan Fox) - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst), that will either make him or break him.
The Strangers
thrillerThe horrifying events that took place in the Hoyt family's vacation home at 1801, Clark Road on February 11, 2005 are still not entirely known.
Writer/first-time director Bryan Bertino explores our most universal fears in The Strangers, a terrifying suspense thriller about a couple whose remote getaway becomes a place of terror when masked strangers invade.
Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler play James Hoyt and Kristen McKay, a couple who at an awkward point in their relationship are besieged by masked psychopaths in their idyllic home. After attending a friend's wedding the young couple return to their holiday home in a street full of other such homes which appear to be empty. A fact which is of little interest to the young couple until they hear an unexpected knock at the door. Things are already tense between them, as Kristin has been less than receptive to James's marriage proposal. Just when it seems that they may enter a conversation that leads them to say things they'll regret forever, Kristin is relieved by the knock at the door. Until they open the door. A night of unbelievable terror ensues.
Step Brothers
comedyBrennan Huff (Will Ferrell) is a sporadically employed 39-year-old who lives with his mother, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen). Dale Doback (John C. Reilly) is a terminally unemployed 40-year-old who lives with his father, Robert (Richard Jenkins).
When Robert and Nancy marry and move in together, Brennan and Dale are forced to live with each other as step brothers. As their narcissism and downright aggressive laziness threaten to tear the family apart, these two middle-aged, immature, overgrown boys will orchestrate an insane, elaborate plan to bring their parents back together. To pull it off, they must form an unlikely bond that maybe, just maybe, will finally get them out of the house.
Taken
actionWhen divorced former CIA agent Bryan (Liam Neeson) consents to allow his 17-year-old daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) to travel from Los Angeles to Europe with her girlfriend Amanda (Katie Cassidy), he does so reluctantly after his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Jenssen) pressures him.
His worst fears are soon realised when the two young women are taken by an underworld gang which uses travelling females to feed an extensive sex slave trafficking trade. Bryan, who has retired to be closer to Kim and spend more time with her, is catapulted back into his old profession, and has to use every trick in and out of the book to try and track down the gang and save his daughter before she disappears forever in the belly of the trafficking beast.
• All films are released by KRS
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