Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! - Season Two
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim
Starring: Bob Odenkirk, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The program has featured a wide range of actors, spanning from big name stars such as Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly and Zach Galifianakis, to alternative comedians like Neil Hamburger, to television actors like Alan Thicke, celebrity look-alikes and impressionists.
Darker than Black - Ryuusei no Gemini
Genres: Animation
Year: 2008
Country: Japan
Director: Tensai Okamura
Starring: Christopher Sabat, Hidenobu Kiuchi, Jason Liebrecht
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
The series has also been adapted into two manga series, which are serialized in Monthly Asuka and in Young Gangan. The anime also was awarded Best Original Anime of The Year by GoGoplex, a popular magazine for teens.
Mayday - Season Six
Genres: Action, Drama, Documentary
Year: 2008
Country: Canada
Director: Andre Barro, Greg Gransden, Bernard Vaillot
Starring: Jonathan Aris, Gerry Mendicino, Stephen Bogaert
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Cineflix started production on 13 August 2002, with a CDN$2.5 million budget. Cineflix secured deals with France 5, the Discovery Channel, Canal D, TVNZ, the Seven Network, the Holland Media Group and the National Geographic Channel, to take Mayday to 144 countries and 26 languages. The series was received well by critics and nominated for a number of awards. Sharon Zupancic won a Gemini Award for her work on the Mayday episode, "Lockerbie Disaster" UNSW's senior lecturer, Raymond Lewis, conducted a study on teaching strategy loosely based on the series. Lewis' results indicated using the strategy had "a positive effect on learning outcomes."
FutureWeapons - Season Three
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Richard Machowicz
Starring: Richard Machowicz
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Host Richard "Mack" Machowicz, a former Navy SEAL, reviews and demonstrates the latest modern weaponry and military technology. The program is currently broadcast on the Discovery Channel and Military Channel.
The Whitest Kids U'Know - Season Two
Genres: Comedy
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Zach Cregger, Trevor Moore, Sam Brown, Timmy Williams, Darren Trumeter
Starring: Zach Cregger, Trevor Moore, Sam Brown
Available Quality: iPod
The Whitest Kids began in 2000 when Trevor Moore, a young comedian from Charlottesville, Virginia, transferred to New York's School of Visual Arts film program. Moore previously produced a local TV sketch-comedy show back in Virginia titled The Trevor Moore Show, but it was later canceled due to offensive content. Moore decided to start a comedy troupe with the eventual goal of replicating his earlier success on a national level.
Felon
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Starring: Anne Archer, Nick Chinlund, Stephen Dorff, Val Kilmer, Harold Perrineau, Sam Shepard, Nate Parker
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
The family man Wade Porter is living the American Dream with his girlfriend Laura and their son Michael: they have a nice house, he has just raised a loan to make his company grow and they are going to get married. However their dream becomes a nightmare when Wade unintentionally kills a burglar that had broken into their house in the middle of the night on his lawn. He is sent to trial and accepts a deal proposed by the prosecutor, being sentenced to three years in prison. During the transportation, there is an incident in the bus and Wade is framed and sent to the maximum security wing under the command of the corrupt Lieutenant Jackson. Hi...
Fool's Gold
Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Kate Hudson, Ewen Bremner, Michael Mulheren, Brian Hooks, Donald Sutherland, Ray Winstone, Adam LeFevre
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Benjamin Finnegan is a deep-sea treasure hunter certain he's onto the find of the century in waters near an island close to Key West owned by a murderous rap star to whom Ben is in debt. Ben's flat broke and recently divorced from Tess, his long-time research and diving partner whom he still loves. She's nearby, working as a steward aboard the yacht of Nigel Honeycutt, a multimillionaire. The rapper has hired a rival treasurer hunter. Can Ben convince Nigel to bankroll his search, convince Tess to work with him, keep the rapper and his thugs at bay, and find a Spanish treasure hidden for centuries and rich beyond imagination?
Living Hell
Genres: Action, Thriller, Horror
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Richard Jefferies
Starring: Diego Joaquin Lopez, Josh Berry, Dylan Kenin, Erica Leerhsen, Johnathon Schaech, Terence Jay, James McDaniel
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
All his life schoolteacher Frank Sears has carried with him a strange scar given to him by his mother before she committed suicide. The markings lead Frank to a top secret Cold War military project where an unstoppable, malignant organism is unleashed. Unaware that the creature feeds on light and energy, and moves with exponential speed, the army prepares to deploy its most sinister of all weapons - a nuclear bomb. Facing certain global catastrophe, Frank discovers his father had a diabolical connection to the creature's origin. With a ticking nuclear clock, Frank, along with the help of a hazmat specialist Carrie Freeborn, must confront the ...
Is Anybody There?
Genres: Drama
Year: 2008
Country: UK
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Michael Caine, Rosemary Harris, Leslie Phillips, David Morrissey, Peter Vaughan, Ralph Riach, Elizabeth Spriggs
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Set in 1980s seaside England, this is the story of Edward, an unusual ten year old boy growing up in an old people's home run by his parents. Whilst his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat, and his father copes with the onset of mid-life crisis, Edward is busy tape-recording the elderly residents to try and discover what happens when they die. Increasingly obsessed with ghosts and the afterlife, Edward's is a rather lonely existence until he meets Clarence, the latest recruit to the home, a retired magician with a liberating streak of anarchy. Is There Anybody There? tells the story of this odd couple - a boy and an old man - ...
H2O: Just Add Water - Season Three
Genres: Family, Fantasy, Drama
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Jonathan M. Shiff
Starring: Phoebe Tonkin, Cariba Heine, Angus McLaren
Available Quality: DivX
Only two series with a total of 52 episodes were originally planned, but due to popular demand, a third series was filmed. Series one premiered in July 2006, followed by series two in September 2007. Series three first aired in the United Kingdom in October 2009, with the Australian premiere occurring in May 2010.
Beauty and the Geek - Season Four
Genres: Reality Show
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Trace Slobotkin
Starring: Sam Horrigan, Mike Richards, Nicole Morgan
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The theme song, "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" by the Pet Shop Boys (originally released in 1985), is used also on the British, Danish and Belgian-Dutch versions. Commercial promos for the show featured a different theme song, "The Geeks Get the Girls" by American Hi-Fi.
The Other Man
Genres: Drama
Year: 2008
Country: USA, UK
Director: Richard Eyre
Starring: Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Romola Garai, Pam Ferris, Paul Ritter, Sophie Wu, Craig Parkinson
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A taut thriller, THE OTHER MAN is an intimate tale of a man who discovers his wife's infidelity and sets out to track down his rival. Driven to pursue the mystery surrounding his wifes adultery, Liam Neeson embarks on a global pursuit with a haunted passion that begins to probe the nature not simply of jealousy, but of loss and forgiveness. The film is beautifully shot on location in Milan and Lake Como as well as in London and Ely by renowned cinematographer Harris Zambarloukos (Mama Mia!, Heart in the Sand.)
Rush - Season One
Year: 2008
Country: Australia
Director: Rodger Corser, Callan Mulvey, Nicole da Silva, Ashley Zukerman
Starring: Josef Ber, Samuel Johnson, Callan Mulvey, Catherine McClements, Rodger Corser, Nicole da Silva, Ashley Zukerman
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Headstrong Kerry is dismissive of her own safety but when the threats are redirected to her son, her anger at the perpetrators can't be contained.
Cut Loose aka Los
Genres: Drama
Year: 2008
Country: Belgium
Director: Jan Verheyen
Starring: Achmed Akkabi, Chayb Abdeslam, Sougaipov Abouezed, Raisa Akijeva, Cem Akkanat, Ato Amissa, Mohamed Azzaoui
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Tom, a young and idealistic left wing journalist, is about to settle with his girl friend when his life and views get shaken up by the young and beautiful Pakistani refugee Nadia. At work his ideals are more and more confronted with the harsh reality of modern urban society, while his flamboyant grandfather fights his last personal battle - a battle for his right to die. Cut Loose is a funny, heartfelt and emotional film about very serious issues. Cut Loose is the first comedy about euthanasia and the confusions of the multicultural society.
IMAX: Wild Ocean
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Luke Cresswell, Steve McNicholas
Starring: Unknown
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Each year an unbelievable feeding frenzy takes place in the oceans of South Africa as billions of sardines migrate up the KwaZulu-Natal Coast...
Lake Mungo
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Year: 2008
Country: Australia
Director: Joel Anderson
Starring: Tamara Donnellan, Talia Zucker, Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe, Steve Jodrell, Scott Terrill
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Sixteen-year-old ALICE PALMER drowns while swimming in the local dam. When her body is recovered and a verdict of accidental death returned, her grieving family buries her. The family then experiences a series of strange and inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Profoundly unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist, RAY KEMENY. Ray discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. A series of clues lead the family to Lake Mungo where Alice's secret past emerges. Lake Mungo is a mystery, a thriller and a ghost story.
Flipping Out - Season Two
Genres: Reality Show
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Jeff Lewis, Ryan Brown, Jenni Pulos
Starring: Jenni Pulos, Jeff Lewis, Ryan Brown
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Lewis born on March 24, 1970 in Orange County, California, and is a 1988 graduate of Mater Dei High School. He attended both the University of Southern California and Chapman University where he was Pre-Law and Political Science major. After graduating from college in 1993, Lewis began working for a real estate agent. In 1999, Lewis began his current occupation as a real-estate speculator and interior decorator. He purchases properties, sometimes for over a million dollars each, and then renovates them to sell for a profit. Jeff is openly gay, and formerly had a relationship with his ex-business partner Ryan Brown. The New York Times called J...
The Eye
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Drama
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: David Moreau, Xavier Palud
Starring: Parker Posey, Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Rade Serbedzija, Karen Austin, Danny Mora, Tamlyn Tomita
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
The violinist Sydney Wells has been accidentally blinded by her sister Helen since she was five years old. She submits to a surgery of cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people. With the support of Dr. Paul Faulkner, Sidney finds who the donor of her eyes was and they travel to Los Llanos in Mexico to resolve the mystery of her visions.
The Wrestler
Year: 2008
Country: USA, France
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Marcia Jean Kurtz, Mark Margolis, Evan Rachel Wood, Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Todd Barry, Wass Stevens
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
This is a drama about an aging professional wrestler, decades past his prime, who now barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. As he faces health problems that may end his wrestling career for good he attempts to come to terms with his life outside the ring: by working full time at the grocery store, trying to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and forming a closer bond with a stripper he has romantic feelings for. He struggles with his new life and an offer of a high-profile rematch with his 1980s arch-nemesis, The Ayatollah, which may be his ticket back to stardo...
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Sanaa Hamri
Starring: America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Blythe Danner, Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn, Ernie Lively, Rachel Ticotin
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Carmen Lowell is working on the backstage of a play in Yale. When the lead actress and friend Julia invites her to travel to Vermont with her to work in a play with professional cast, she decides to stay with her friends and her pregnant mother. However she finds that Lena Kaligaris will travel to a course of drawing. Bridget Vreeland is in existential crisis missing her mother and decides to travel to an archaeological dig in Turkey. Tibby Tomko-Rollins is working in a rental and still editing her documentary. Therefore, Carmen accepts the invitation and travels to Vermont. She has a crush on the lead actor Ian, who convinces her to particip...