Avenged Sevenfold : Live In The LBC & Diamonds In The Rough

Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough is the first live album and DVD package released on September 16, 2008 by Avenged Sevenfold from Warner Bros. Records. The live DVD features the band's April 10, 2008 hometown show at Long Beach Arena headlining the Rockstar Taste of Chaos tour, while the CD contains previously unreleased B-sides that were recorded during the making of Avenged Sevenfold, plus various covers, and other never-before-heard material.

The DVD was directed by Core Entertainment's Rafa Alcantara, who also worked on the band's critically acclaimed 2007 road documentary All Excess.

On August 15, 2008, a trailer was released by Avenged Sevenfold on their YouTube channel. On September 5, 2008, Avenged Sevenfold released the live version of "Seize the Day" from the DVD through their imeem account. Unholy Confessions and Scream were later streamed as well before release.

There are two alternate mixes of songs on their self-titled album: -The CLA Mix of "Almost Easy" is simply the original song with one of the rejected vocal takes and small changes in the guitar riffs and drum beats. -The alternate version of "Afterlife" features a different bridge and a string section throughout the entire song.

As of November 5, 2008, Avenged Sevenfold’s CD/DVD combo “Live In The LBC & Diamonds In The Rough” has been certified Video Gold by the RIAA.

Live in the LBC (Live DVD)

1. "Critical Acclaim"
2. "Second Heartbeat"
3. "Afterlife"
4. "Beast and the Harlot"
5. "Scream"
6. "Seize the Day"
7. "Walk" (abridged) (Pantera cover)
8. "Bat Country"
9. "Almost Easy"
10. "Gunslinger"
11. "Unholy Confessions"
12. "A Little Piece of Heaven"

Diamonds in the Rough (CD)

1. "Demons" – 6:16
2. "Girl I Know" – 4:26
3. "Crossroads" – 4:33
4. "Flash of the Blade" (Iron Maiden cover) – 4:05
5. "Until the End" – 4:46
6. "Tension" – 4:51
7. "Walk" (Pantera cover) – 5:24
8. "The Fight" – 4:09
9. "Dancing Dead" – 5:54
10. "Almost Easy" (CLA Mix) – 3:57
11. "Afterlife" (Alternate version) – 5:55

Bonus tracks

1. "Almost Easy" (Live from Seattle) (Pre-order bonus track) - 4:17
2. "Bat Country" (Live from Fresno) (Pre-order bonus track) - 6:06

Funhouse

Funhouse is the fifth studio album by American pop singer/songwriter Pink, released by LaFace Records worldwide in October, 2008. Upon its release, the album has reached number one on the charts in Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Switzerland, Cyprus and United Kingdom, while debuting at number two in Germany, Ireland, Russia and United States.
The album's lead single, "So What", has been the biggest solo success of Pink's career to date, topping the charts in eleven countries so far, including her native United States, the UK, Germany and in Australia, and reaching the top 5 in many others. The Album also spawned hit single "Sober" which reached the top 20 in almost 20 countries including the United States , Canada and many others. The album's third single has been confirmed to be "Please Don't Leave Me", after the leak of its music video and cover art .
The album's original title was Heartbreak Is A Motherfucker, which is due to the fact that the album speaks openly about Pink's divorce from her ex-husband, motocross Carey Hart. However, the title was changed to avoid public reactions that may cause a decrease in the sales.

1."So What" 3:35
2."Sober" 4:11
3."I Don't Believe You" 4:36
4."One Foot Wrong" 3:24
5."Please Don't Leave Me" 3:52
6."Bad Influence" 3:37
7."Funhouse" 3:25
8."Crystal Ball" 3:26
9."Mean" 4:15
10."It's All Your Fault" 3:53
11."Ave Mary A" 3:17
12."Glitter In The Air" 3:45

Milk

Milk is a 2008 biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States of America as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant, the film stars Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White. The film was released to much acclaim and earned numerous accolades from film critics and guilds. Ultimately, it received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, winning two for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Penn and Best Original Screenplay for Dustin Lance Black.
Attempts to put Milk's life to film followed a 1984 Oscar-winning documentary of his life and the aftermath of his assassination, titled The Times of Harvey Milk, which was loosely based upon Randy Shilts' biography, The Mayor of Castro Street. Various scripts were considered in the early 1990s, but projects fell through for different reasons, until 2007. Much of Milk was filmed on Castro Street and other locations in San Francisco, including Milk's former storefront, Castro Camera.
Milk begins on Harvey Milk's 40th birthday, when he was living in New York City and had not yet settled in San Francisco. It chronicles his foray into city politics, and the various battles he waged in the Castro neighborhood as well as throughout the city, and political campaigns to limit the rights of gay people in 1977 and 1978 run by Anita Bryant and John Briggs. His romantic and political relationships are also addressed, as is his tenuous affiliation with troubled Supervisor Dan White; the film ends with White's double murder of Milk and Mayor George Moscone. The film's release was tied to the 2008 California voter referendum on gay marriage, Proposition 8, when it made its premiere at the Castro Theatre two weeks before election day.

Milk opens with archival footage of police raiding gay bars and arresting patrons during the 1950s and 1960s, followed by Dianne Feinstein's November 27, 1978, announcement to the press that Milk and Moscone have been assassinated. Milk is seen recording his will throughout the film, nine days (November 18, 1978) before the assassinations. The film then flashes back to New York City in 1970, the eve of Milk's 40th birthday and his first meeting with his much younger lover, Scott Smith.
Unsatisfied with his life and in need of a change, Milk and Smith decide to move to San Francisco in the hope of finding larger acceptance of their relationship. They open Castro Camera in the heart of Eureka Valley, a working class neighborhood in the process of evolving into a predominantly gay neighborhood known as The Castro. Frustrated by the opposition they encounter in the once Irish-Catholic neighborhood, Milk utilizes his background as a businessman to become a gay activist, eventually becoming a mentor for Cleve Jones. Early on, Smith serves as Milk's campaign manager, but his frustration grows with Milk's obsessive devotion to politics, and he leaves him. Milk later meets Jack Lira, a sweet-natured but unbalanced young man. As with Smith, however, Lira cannot tolerate Milk's devotion to political activism, and eventually hangs himself.
After two unsuccessful political campaigns in 1973 and 1975 to become a city supervisor and a third in 1976 for the California State Assembly, Milk finally wins a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977 for District 5. His victory makes him the first openly gay man to be voted into major public office in the United States. Milk subsequently meets fellow Supervisor Dan White, a Vietnam veteran and former police officer and firefighter. White, who is politically and socially conservative, has a difficult relationship with Milk. He has a growing resentment for Milk, largely due to the attention paid to Milk by the press and his colleagues.
Milk and White forge a complex working relationship. Milk is invited to, and attends, the christening of White's first child, and White asks for Milk's assistance in preventing a psychiatric hospital from opening in White's district, possibly in exchange for White's support of Milk's citywide gay rights ordinance. When Milk fails to support White, White feels betrayed, and ultimately becomes the sole vote against the gay rights ordinance. Milk also launches an effort to defeat Proposition 6, an initiative on the California state ballot in November 1978. Sponsored by John Briggs, a conservative state legislator from Orange County, Proposition 6 seeks to ban gays and lesbians (in addition to anyone who supports them) from working in California's public schools. It is also part of a nationwide conservative movement that starts with the successful campaign headed by Anita Bryant and her organization Save Our Children in Dade County, Florida to repeal a local gay rights ordinance.
On November 7, 1978, after working tirelessly against Proposition 6, Milk and his supporters rejoice in the wake of its defeat. The increasingly unstable White is in favor of a supervisor pay raise, but does not get much support, and shortly after supporting the proposition, resigns from the Board. He later changes his mind and asks the city to rescind his decision. Mayor Moscone denies his request, after having been lobbied by Milk to not reinstate White.
On the morning of November 27, 1978, White enters San Francisco City Hall through a basement window to conceal a gun from metal detectors. He requests another meeting with Moscone, who rebuffs his request for re-appointment. Enraged, White shoots Moscone and then Milk. The film suggests that Milk believed that White might be a closeted gay man. The last scene is an aerial shot of the candlelight vigil held by thousands for Milk and Moscone throughout the streets of the city. Pictures of the actual people depicted in the film, and brief summaries of their lives follow. This includes a note that Dan White's lawyers used the infamous Twinkie defense to get White's conviction reduced to voluntary manslaughter.

Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. Set and filmed in India, Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of a young man from the slums of Mumbai who appears on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Kaun Banega Crorepati in the Hindi version) and exceeds people's expectations, thereby arousing the suspicions of the game show host and of law enforcement officials.
After its world premiere at Telluride Film Festival and subsequent screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival and the London Film Festival, Slumdog Millionaire initially had a limited North American release on 12 November 2008 by Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, to critical acclaim and awards success. It later had a nationwide grand release in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2009 and in the United States on 23 January 2009. It premiered in Mumbai on 22 January 2009. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on 31 March 2009.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score and Best Original Song. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Slumdog Millionaire has stirred controversy concerning language use, its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism, and the welfare of its child actors.

Set in 2006, the film opens in Mumbai with a policeman torturing Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), a former street child from the Juhu slums. In the opening scene, a title card is presented: "Jamal Malik is one question away from winning 20 million rupees. How did he do it? (A) He cheated, (B) He's lucky, (C) He's a genius, (D) It is written." Jamal is a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Kaun Banega Crorepati) hosted by Prem Kumar (Anil Kapoor). He has already won 10,000,000 rupees (about US$200,000) and has made it to the final question, for 20,000,000 rupees, scheduled for the next day. Following up on a tip-off from Prem Kumar, the police now suspect Jamal of cheating, because the other possibilities — that he has a vast knowledge, or that he is very lucky — seem unlikely. For almost every question, Jamal had a life experience that enabled him to answer it.
Jamal then explains that, while at least the question about Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan was very simple, he knew the answers of most questions by chance, because of things that happened in his life, conveyed in a series of flashbacks documenting the details of his childhood. This includes scenes of him obtaining Bachchan's autograph, the death of his mother during anti-Muslim violence (rekindling memory of the 1993 anti-Muslim attacks in Mumbai in the slums), and how he and his brother Salim befriended Latika (Rubina Ali). He refers to Salim and himself as Athos and Porthos, and Latika as the third of the The Three Musketeers, the name of whom they never knew.
In Jamal's flashback, the children are eventually discovered by Maman (Ankur Vikal) while they are living in the trash heaps. Maman is a gangster (a fact they do not actually know at the time they meet him) who pretends to run an orphanage in order to "collect" street children so that he can ultimately train them to beg for money. Salim is groomed to become a part of Maman’s operation and is asked to bring Jamal to Maman in order to be blinded (which would improve his income potential as a singing beggar). Salim protects his brother, and the three children try to escape, but only he and Jamal are able to do so, catching up to a train which is departing. Latika catches up and takes Salim's hand, but Salim purposely lets go, and she is recaptured by the gangsters as the train accelerates away.
The brothers make a living, traveling on top of trains, selling goods, picking pockets, and cheating naive tourists at the Taj Mahal by pretending to be tour guides. Jamal eventually insists that they return to Mumbai since he wishes to locate Latika, which annoys Salim. They eventually find her, discovering that she had been raised by Maman to be a culturally talented prostitute whose virginity will fetch a high price. The brothers attempt to rescue her, but Maman intrudes, and in the resulting conflict Salim draws a gun and kills Maman. Salim then uses the fact that he killed Maman to obtain a job with Javed (Mahesh Manjrekar), a rival crime lord. Salim returns to the room where the three were staying and orders Jamal to leave. Jamal, knowing his brother is here to claim Latika as his own, attacks his brother violently before being overturned by Salim and confronted by a revolver as Salim threatens to kill him. Latika intervenes and tells Jamal to leave, breaking his heart and sacrificing herself to keep him safe. With Maman's men searching for Salim, Salim and Latika flee to an unknown location, leaving Jamal alone to fend for himself.
Years later, Jamal has a position as a "chai wallah" (tea server) at a call center. When he is asked to cover for a co-worker for a couple of minutes, he searches the database for Salim and Latika and succeeds in getting in touch with Salim, who has become a high-ranking lieutenant in Javed’s organization. Jamal confronts a regretful Salim on tense terms. Jamal asks him where Latika is. Salim, annoyed and bewildered that his brother still cares about her, responds she's "long gone." Salim invites Jamal to live with him, and after Jamal follows him to Javed's house, he sees Latika (Freida Pinto) there, and she also notices him. He bluffs his way in, pretending initially to be a dishwasher and then later a chef. Jamal and Latika have an emotional reunion, but elation quickly turns to despair after Jamal discovers that Latika is with Javed. Upon discovering this, Jamal tries to persuade Latika to leave. She rebuffs his advances and insists that he forget about her and leave, but instead Jamal confesses his love for her and promises to wait for her every day at 5 p.m. at Mumbai's largest train station, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (C.S.T.), until she comes. One day, while Jamal waits there, Latika attempts to rendezvous with him, but she is recaptured by Salim and Javed's men. Javed slashes her cheek with a knife as Salim drives off, leaving a furious Jamal behind with a crowd of onlookers.
Jamal again loses contact with Latika when Javed moves to another house outside of Mumbai. In another attempt to find Latika, Jamal tries out for the popular game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, because he knows she'll be watching. He makes it to the final question, despite the hostile attitude of the host who feeds Jamal a wrong answer during a break. At the end of the show, Jamal has one question left to win two crore, or 20 million rupees (about 400,000 U.S. dollars), but the host calls the police and Jamal is taken into police custody, where he is tortured as the police attempt to learn how he, a simple "slumdog," could know the answers to so many questions. After Jamal tells his whole story, explaining how his life experiences coincidentally enabled him to know the answer to each question, the police inspector calls Jamal's explanation "bizarrely plausible" and, knowing he's not in it for the money, allows him to return to the show for the final question.
At Javed's safehouse, Latika watches the news coverage of Jamal's miraculous run on the show. Salim gives Latika his phone and the keys to his car. He urges her to run away and to "forgive him for what he has done." The final question asked of Jamal is to name the third musketeer in the story of The Three Musketeers. When Jamal uses his Phone-A-Friend lifeline to call Salim, Latika barely succeeds in answering the phone in time and they reconnect. She does not know the answer to the final question, but she tells Jamal that she is safe and (in unsubtitled Hindi) says "I am yours" before the phone connection cuts off. Jamal simply guesses the correct answer (Aramis) to the question of the one musketeer whose name they never learned, and wins the grand prize. Simultaneously, Salim is discovered to have helped Latika escape and allows himself to be killed in a bathtub full of money after shooting and killing Javed. Salim's last words are "God is great." Later that night, Jamal and Latika meet at the railway station and they share a kiss. It is then revealed that the correct answer to the opening question is "D) it is written," implying that it is destiny. During the closing credits, Jamal and Latika — along with dozens of bystanders and even the juvenile versions of themselves — dance in the C.S.T. train station to the song "Jai Ho," the title of which epitomizes victory.

Macbook Air

Detail Specifications
Platform
Portable Multimedia Notebook
Processor Type
Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Onboard
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz
Standard Memory
2 GB DDR3 SDRAM PC-8500
Max. Memory
4 GB (2 DIMM)
Video Type
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB
Display Size
13.3" WXGA TFT
Display Resolutions
1280 x 800
Audio Type
Integrated
Speakers Type
Integrated
Hard Drive Type
128 GB SSD
Optical Drive Type
Optional
Modem
Optional
Networking
Optional
Network Speed
Optional
Wireless Network Type
AirPort Extreme
Wireless Network Protocol
IEEE 802.11n
Wireless Bluetooth
Integrated
Keyboard
Full-size 78 keys
Trackpad
Solid-state trackpad
Slot Provided
Not Available
Expansion Provided
1x USB 2.0, Micro-DVI, Audio
O/S Provided
Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard
Battery Type
Rechargeable Lithium-polymer Battery
Avg. Battery Run Time
5 hours
Power Supply
AC Adapter
Dimension (WHD)
32.5 x 1.94 x 22.7 cm
Weight
1.36 kg
Standard Warranty
1 year Limited Warranty by Authorized Distributor
Others
Built-in iSight camera

Detail Specifications

Features Games Games designed for iPod touch technology are just a tap away. Music Flip through your library by album artwork. Create Genius Playlists on the go. Movies Watch movies in 3.5-inch widescreen display. Internet Browse the web with Wi-Fi. Get rich HTML email, including attachments. High Technology Its advanced technologies enable iPod touch to respond to both touch and movement. Audio Playback Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV Video Playback H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats Display 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 pixels per inch Storage 16GB Input Dock connector Output 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack PC Connectivity USB 2.0 port PC Compatibility Mac OS Mac computer with USB 2.0 port Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later iTunes 8 or later Windows PC with USB 2.0 port Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later iTunes 8 or later Battery Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery Battery Life Playback time Music playback time: Up to 36 hours when fully charged Video playback time: Up to 6 hours when fully charged External Power Charging via USB to computer system or power adapter (sold separately) Fast-charge time: about 2 hours (charges up to 80% of battery capacity) Full-charge time: about 4 hours Dimension (WHD) (WxHxD) : (61.8 mm)x(110 mm)x(8.5 mm) Weight 115gr

The Strangers

The Strangers is a 2008 horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino. The film revolves around a young couple, James Hoyt (Scott Speedman) and his girlfriend Kristen McKay (Liv Tyler), who spend the night in their remote country house. The couple are terrorized by three masked assailants, who break into the house and damage all means of escape. Bertino based the plot on an event from his childhood, when a stranger knocked on his door and asked for someone who was not there; Bertino later found out that several empty homes in the neighborhood had been robbed.
The Strangers took place in Florence, South Carolina on a budget of $9,000,000. Filming began on October 10, 2006 and finished in early 2007. After two postponements, the film was eventually released on May 30, 2008 in North America. The film was marketed as being inspired by a "true story", and grossed $81.6 million at the box office worldwide. Critical reaction to the film was mixed, with the consensus that while the film provided a few scares, it offered little else to distinguish itself from other slasher films.

The film opens with two young boys distributing religious pamphlets, who stumble upon a secluded vacation house. A burnt car is parked in the driveway. Inside there is blood everywhere and signs of a struggle. Over this the boys are heard on the phone with a police receptionist who asks them what happened.
The previous night, James Hoyt (Speedman) and his girlfriend Kristen McKay (Tyler) arrive at the vacation house owned by James' parents upon returning from a friend's wedding reception. It is shown through flashbacks that prior to their arrival James had proposed marriage to Kristen only to be rejected. Once James calls his best friend Mike to be picked up, he and Kristen feel that in the morning they will likely take some time apart. Later in the evening, a young blonde woman comes to their front door asking for a woman named "Tamara", her face hidden in the dark because she put off the outside light. They tell her she must have the wrong house and she leaves. After James goes for a drive to get Kristen a pack of cigarettes, several bizarre events occur: Mysterious noises are heard outside, a smoke alarm goes off, and the blonde girl comes back asking for the same person. Kristen, whose cell phone is dead, calls James from the landline as her cell phone charges. He reassures her that everything is fine, and suddenly the phone dies. Then finally a Man in a Mask is seen inside of the house watching Kristen from the back hallway. He soon leaves, making his presence known by closing a bedroom door down the hall. Kristen is then disturbed by a barrage of knocks on the door, while discovering that the smoke alarm has been moved and her cell phone is gone. Investigating a noise at the patio, she pulls back the curtain to find the Man in the Mask staring at her. She also sees the girl from before, known as Dollface and now wearing a mask, in the front doorway. Frightened, she retreats into her bedroom as they begin to pound on the doors and windows outside.
As the sounds stop, James returns but does not take her seriously. He goes out to the car, which is vandalized, to find his phone when he is then confronted by Dollface. After demanding her to "get the fuck out of here", he goes back in when he realizes that she is not alone.When James finds his phone (with its battery removed) inside, he decides that they must leave. When they try to leave in the car, they are cornered by a third masked stranger, called Pin Up Girl, who crashes into their car with a pickup truck. They are forced back inside where they find James' father's shotgun and prepare to make a run for it. They are interrupted when the Man in the Mask begins hacking through the door with an axe. James shoots at him but finds the man has dodged the round and fled. The couple then huddle up in a room corner and wait for help, James preparing to shoot whoever tries to come in. In the living room the strangers are heard, and they turn on a record player so the two cannot hear what is going on outside.
Nearby the house, James' best friend Mike arrives to pick up James. Stones are then thrown through his windshield. He proceeds to the house on foot and slowly walks through the house. The Man in the Mask follows behind him with an axe but disappears as Mike turns around and the music stops. Continuing further, Mike is soon shot and killed by James when he approaches the door. Having thought he was the Man in the Mask, James and Kristen are distraught. Outside they find the word "KILLER" written in blood, presumably Mike's. James decides to go outside alone to the barn to find his father's old radio to find help. He leaves Kristen alone and arrives at the barn to find Pin Up Girl already there. Before James is able to shoot her, he is ambushed by The Man in the Mask. Kristen waits in the house until she hears the Man in the Mask enter. She then tries to run away but sprains her ankle. She continues to crawl to the barn and gets into contact with somebody before Pin Up Girl smashes it. Kristen crawls back to the house, seeing Dollface and Pin Up Girl watch her. She finds that Mike's car has been set aflame.
Upon limping into the house, Kristen witnesses the power shutting off. The Man in the Mask enters but apparently doesn't notice her. She hides in a pantry and sees him again as he sits down at the dinner table for a moment before leaving. Dollface then appears and starts breaking through the pantry door before stopping abruptly and turning to the wedding ring on the table. Kristen confronts her, telling her that James will kill them. James is thrown through a window. Afterwards, The Man in the Mask enters with the shotgun. Once inside, he drags James to another location inside the house. Dollface whispers "You're gonna die." James urges Kristen to run, but she is cornered in the bedroom. The power comes on again and the door to the bedroom opens. When Kristen walks out she is grabbed and knocked out by the Man in the Mask, who proceeds to drag her into the living room. In the morning, James and Kristen are both tied up in the living room as the three strangers stand over them. Kristen asks "Why are you doing this to us?", to which Dollface responds plainly "Because you were home." James and Kristen, now without hope, they profess their love for each other. The strangers then remove their masks (though their faces are never seen) and stab them repeatedly.
Later, the strangers are seen driving down the road in their pickup truck. They stop upon seeing the two boys from the beginning on the road. Dollface goes to ask them for a pamphlet they are handing out. They ask if she is a sinner. After a pause, she replies "Sometimes." After she obtains one, the three leave in the truck, with Pin Up Girl stating to Dollface that "It'll be easier next time." (implying there will be a sequel) The scene from the beginning is shown again. The boys walk through the house and find the bodies of James, Kristen and Mike. When one of them reaches out to Kristen, she awakens and grabs his hand screaming in horror.

Fireflight : Unbreakable

Unbreakable is the third full-length studio album released by Christian rock band Fireflight, but second full-length to be released on Flicker Records. The album was released on March 4, 2008 on Flicker Records.

The band's female-fronted hard rock sound has been compared to Paramore and Evanescence, and Dawn Richardson's vocals on Unbreakable have been described as "riveting". Allmusic reviewer Jared Johnson labeled certain tracks as "pulsating rockers", such as the singles "Unbreakable" and "The Hunger"; he described the album's lyrics to be "victorious as a refuge for listeners struggling with loneliness, discouragement, and isolation." Guitarist Justin Cox said, "we push it as heavy as we can without being metal".
The title track "Unbreakable" is based on the Biblical account of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery. Dawn Richardson (lead vocalist) said: "the people in charge were ready to kill her, and Jesus speaks up for her, changes their minds and makes them feel ashamed for accusing her. [...] She knows she’s guilty, and yet she’s suddenly free and given a second chance."

The album debuted at #10 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers and #15 on the Top Christian Albums chart. The debut single "Unbreakable" was released in late 2007, and by February 2008 it reached number-one on Christian rock radio charts after only seven weeks of radio airplay. The song also peaked at #4 on Radio And Records CHR Chart April, 2008. It was the 14th most-played song on R&R magazine's Christian CHR chart for 2008.
"The Hunger", the second Christian Rock single release, also charted number-one July, 2008.

Track listing
"Unbreakable" – 3:21
"You Gave Me A Promise" – 3:32
"Brand New Day" – 4:11
"The Hunger" – 3:09
"Stand Up" – 3:16
"Forever" – 3:43
"Go Ahead" – 3:02
"The Love We Had Before" – 3:43
"So Help Me God" – 3:17
"Wrapped In Your Arms" – 3:40

Doomsday

Doomsday is a 2008 British science fiction action film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in the future, where Scotland has been quarantined due to the onset of a deadly virus. When the virus emerges in London, political leaders send Major Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) to Scotland to find a cure based on evidence of survivors. Sinclair and her team run into two groups of survivors: marauders and medieval warriors. Doomsday was conceived by Marshall based on his vision of a futuristic soldier facing a medieval knight. In producing the film, he drew from various cinema, including Mad Max, Escape from New York, and other post-apocalyptic films.
Marshall was financially supported by a budget three times the size of his previous two films, The Descent and Dog Soldiers, and the director filmed the larger-scale Doomsday in Scotland and South Africa, the latter which was used as backdrop for Scotland. Production involved filming in Blackness Castle and filming a high-speed car chase for the climax. The film was released on 14 March 2008 in the United States and Canada and in the United Kingdom on 9 May 2008. Doomsday did not perform well at the box office, and critics gave the film mixed and average reviews.

In 2008, the Reaper virus infects Scotland, resulting in the region being walled off by the British government. A Scottish woman brings her little daughter, injured in one eye but otherwise healthy, to soldiers for rescue. The mother convinces them to airlift her daughter and gives her daughter an envelope. Years pass after the successful quarantine, with the contained population apparently dying off. Decades later, the virus, thought to be contained, reappears in London. Prime Minister Hatcher (Alexander Siddig) and his puppeteer Canaris (David O'Hara) share with domestic security chief Captain Nelson (Bob Hoskins) news of survivors in Scotland, believing a cure may have been found. They ask him to send a team into the walled-off area to find medical researcher Dr. Kane (Malcolm McDowell), who was last known to be working on a cure when Scotland was quarantined. Nelson chooses Major Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), the little girl now grown up with a cybernetic eye replacing her lost eye, to lead the team.
Inside the wall, while investigating Kane's last known location, Sinclair and her team are ambushed by plague survivors. As some team members are killed, Sinclair and Dr. Talbot (Sean Pertwee) are captured while Sergeant Norton (Adrian Lester) and Dr. Stirling (Darren Morfitt) manage to escape. Sinclair is interrogated by the leader of the survivors, Sol (Craig Conway). Dr. Talbot is barbecued alive by the cannibalistic survivors. During the cookout, Sinclair escapes from her cell and comes across Kane's daughter, Cally (MyAnna Buring), also imprisoned. Freed by Sinclair, Cally leads her to a waiting train manned by her friend Joshua (Martin Compston), and Norton and Stirling meet up with them to escape from Sol and his men. The train takes them to the mountains, where they take a shortcut through a hidden military facility to the castle where Kane dwells. They are surrounded by Kane's medieval soldiers, Joshua is killed, and everyone else surrenders to Kane's medieval men. Sinclair discovers from Kane that the survivors are naturally immune and that he has been warring with his son, Sol. There is no cure for the virus. Sinclair defeats Kane's executioner, Telamon, in an open arena within the castle, and her teammates help her escape from the castle. They retreat to the facility and find a Bentley in storage to use as escape, though Norton is killed in the process.
In London, political leaders plan to seal off the "hot spot" where the virus is spreading. Canaris convinces Hatcher to let the infected population dwindle before sharing any cure Sinclair's team may provide so the population is more controllable against infection in the future. Although the government leaders are isolated, an infected man successfully infiltrates their location and infects Hatcher. Hatcher, knowing that he has the virus, commits suicide, and Canaris takes over Hatcher's position as Prime Minister.
In Scotland, Sinclair, Cally, and Stirling run into Sol's men on the highway and lead them on a car chase. Sol attempts to hijack the Bentley, but while he is on the roof, Sinclair plows the car through a roadblocked bus, decapitating him. Using a GPS cell phone also taken from the facility, Sinclair summons a government gunship and hands over the cure to Canaris: the immune survivor Cally from whose blood a vaccine can be replicated. Canaris, who arrives with the gunship, shares his plan with Sinclair to withhold the cure for political reasons and invites her back to London. Sinclair chooses to stay and goes to find her old home located at the address on the envelope her mother had left her. Nelson, having been given the envelope by Sinclair before she left on the mission, finds her there. Sinclair provides Nelson a video of her conversation with Canaris, which she recorded with her cybernetic eye. Nelson takes the recording back to London and is aired publicly, exposing Canaris' plan to hold back the cure. Sinclair returns to the location where she and her team were first attacked by the cannibalistic tribe and, presenting them with Sol's severed head, is cheered as their new leader

PARAMORE: The Final Riot!

The Final Riot! is the second official live album by Paramore and was released on November 25, 2008 with a bonus DVD containing the full live concert plus behind-the-scenes footage.
The DVD was filmed on August 12, 2008, at the Congress Theatre in Chicago on the The Final Riot! tour. It contains a documentary entitled "40 Days of Riot!", showing the band on tour. It is available in a standard and limited deluxe edition, which includes a 36-color-page booklet of the tour, along with another documentary, 40 MORE Days of Riot!
The Final Riot! was certified Gold by the RIAA on March 17, 2009, selling over 500,000 copies.

Track listing

"Born for This" – 5:46
"That's What You Get" – 3:34
"Here We Go Again" – 4:10
"Fences" – 3:31
"Crushcrushcrush" – 3:15
"Let the Flames Begin" – 5:38(also includes video on the limited deluxe edition)
"When It Rains" – 4:04
"My Heart" – 5:31
"Decoy" – 3:14
"Pressure" – 3:02
"For a Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic" – 4:27
"We Are Broken" – 5:25
"Emergency" – 5:22
"Hallelujah" – 4:57 (contains excerpt from Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah")
"Misery Business" – 4:40

Punisher: War Zone

Punisher: War Zone is a 2008, action, crime film directed by Lexi Alexander; based on the fictional Marvel Comics vigilante/anti-hero the Punisher. The film is a reboot and an original telling of Frank Castle's war on crime and corruption rather than a sequel to 2004's The Punisher, and is the first film to be produced under the Marvel Knights production banner, which will focus on films for mature audiences. Irish actor Ray Stevenson replaces Thomas Jane as Frank Castle. In the film, Castle wages a one-man war against a horribly disfigured mob boss known as Jigsaw (Dominic West). Punisher: War Zone was released in North America by Lionsgate on December 5, 2008, and was released February 6, 2009 in the United Kingdom.

Frank Castle (Ray Stevenson) has been the Punisher for six years as the story opens. He assaults a "beat the rap" party for a mob boss, Gaitano Cesare. Billy Russoti (Dominic West) escapes to his recycling plant hideout, and Detectives Martin Soap (Dash Mihok), and Saffiotti (Tony Calabretta), who were staking out the party, inform Castle. Castle infiltrates Russoti's hideout and kills one thug as he is exiting the bathroom. The gunshot alerts Russoti, and a brief fire fight between Castle and him ensues. During the battle, Russoti is thrown into a glass-crushing machine which ends up leaving the gangster hideously disfigured. Castle, who has taken cover behind the body of Nicky Donatelli (Romano Orzari), discovers that the first man he killed in the facility was an undercover FBI Agent.
Agent Paul Budiansky (Colin Salmon), the partner of the deceased agent, joins the NYPD's "Punisher Task Force", partnering with Soap to help bring Castle to justice. Meanwhile, a facially mutilated Russoti, recovered from his run-in with the Punisher, frees his deranged brother, "Loony Bin Jim" (Doug Hutchison), using a new alias - "Jigsaw."
Distraught that he has become the evil he swore to battle, Castle attempts to make reparations to Donatelli's wife, Angela (Julie Benz) and daughter, Grace (Stephanie Janusauskas) to no avail. Castle considers retiring from the vigilante business, but reconsiders upon hearing information from his partner, Microchip (Wayne Knight), that Jigsaw is going after Donatelli's family for revenge.
Jigsaw, Loony Bin Jim, and two goons, Ink and Pittsy, break into Donatelli's house and hold the family hostage. Meanwhile the Punisher pursues Maginty(T. J. Storm), leader of a small group of acrobatic criminals who are seen using parkour. Agent Budiansky and Detective Soap arrive and attempt to arrest the Punisher but are easily disarmed and the Punisher warns Budiansky to leave him alone. Just as the Punisher is about to walk away, Budiansky gets up and handcuffs himself to the Punisher. The Punisher tells him that Jigsaw went after Donatelli's family, but Budiansky sends one police car to check on the Donatelli house, intending to take the Punisher back to the station. When the patrol car fails to respond, he is convinced to check on the house. Budiansky enters the house, and is caught by Ink and Pittsy. Soap frees the Punisher, who kills Ink, and Pittsy. Budiansky then arrests Jigsaw and Loony Bin Jim after a short gun fight.
Jigsaw and his brother escapes custody by giving up Cristu Bulat (David Vadim), who was smuggling in a biological weapon to Arab terrorists in Queens to the FBI, in exchange for total immunity, the money Donatelli hid and a file on Microchip. They take Microchip hostage, killing his mother in the process; hire a small private army of criminals, including African-American gangbangers, Irish mobsters and Asian-American thugs; and then hole up in the Bradstreet Hotel. Castle enlists the help of Agent Budiansky, who sets up a distraction for him at the Bradstreet Hotel by offering up Jigsaw to Cristu's father, Tiberiu Bulat (Aubert Pallascio), who sends in his goons to start a shootout in the hotel's lobby. Castle enters by jumping through a second-floor window, leading to a brutal firefight with Jigsaw's hired guns. After the shootout, Loony Bin Jim attacks Castle. Quickly realizing that he will probably not survive the fight, Loony Bin Jim runs off. Castle chases him and confronts Jigsaw along with Loony Bin Jim, both holding Microchip and the Donatelli family at gunpoint. Jigsaw gives Castle a choice: If Frank shoots one of his friends, Jigsaw will let the others go free. Microchip boldly offers his life to save the Donatellis, but Castle chooses to shoot Loony Bin Jim instead. As a result, Jigsaw kills Microchip. Enraged by the loss of his partner, Castle attacks Jigsaw, which ends with the Punisher impaling Jigsaw with a metal rod and then throwing him onto a fire. As Jigsaw burns to death, Castle calmly tells him that "This is just the beginning."
Outside the building, Castle is forgiven by Angela and bids farewell to Budiansky and the Donatelli family. As Castle and Soap are walking past a church, Soap tries to persuade Frank to give up his role as the Punisher. Soap has a change of heart, however, when he is attacked by a mugger, who quickly becomes another victim of the Punisher.

The Reader

The Reader is a 2008 drama film based on the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink. The film adaptation was written by David Hare and directed by Stephen Daldry. Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet star along with the young actor David Kross. It was the last film for producers Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack, both of whom died before it was released. Production began in Germany in September 2007, and the film opened in limited release on 10 December 2008.
It tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who as a teenager in the late 1950s had an affair with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. Michael realizes that Hanna is keeping a personal secret she believes is worse than her Nazi past - a secret which, if revealed, could help her at the trial
Winslet and David Kross, who plays the young Michael, have received much praise for their performances. Winslet received praise and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress and the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 81st Academy Awards for her role in the film. The film has also been nominated for several other major awards.

The Reader begins in 1995 Berlin, where Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes) is preparing breakfast for a woman who has spent the night with him. After she leaves, Michael watches a U-Bahn pass by, flashing back to a tram in 1958 Neustadt. A teenage Michael (David Kross) gets off because he is feeling sick and wanders around the streets afterwards, finally pausing in the entryway of a nearby apartment building where he vomits. Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), the tram conductor, comes in and assists him in returning home.

Michael (Kross) reads to Hanna (Winslet).
Michael, diagnosed with scarlet fever, must rest at home for the next three months. After he recovers he visits Hanna. The 36 year old Hanna seduces and begins an affair with the 15 year old boy. During their liaisons, at her apartment, he reads to her literary works he is studying, such as The Odyssey, The Lady with the Little Dog, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tintin. After a bicycling trip, Hanna learns she is being promoted to a clerical job at the tram company. She abruptly moves without leaving a trace.
After seeing the adult Michael, a lawyer, we see him (played again by David Kross) at Heidelberg University law school in 1966. As part of a special seminar taught by Professor Rohl (Bruno Ganz), a camp survivor, he observes a trial (similar to the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials) of several women who were accused of letting 300 Jewish women die in a burning church when they were SS guards on the death march following the 1944 evacuation of Auschwitz. Hanna is one of the defendants.
Stunned, Michael visits a former camp himself. The trial divides the seminar, with one student angrily saying there is nothing to be learned from it other than that evil acts occurred and that the older generation of Germans should kill themselves for their failure to act then.
The key evidence is the testimony of Ilana Mather (Alexandra Maria Lara), author of a memoir of how she and her mother survived. Hanna, unlike her fellow defendants, admits that Auschwitz was an extermination camp and that the ten women she chose during each month's Selektion were gassed. She denies authorship of a report on the church fire, despite pressure from the other defendants, but then admits it rather than complying with a demand to provide a handwriting sample.
Michael then realizes Hanna's secret: she is functionally illiterate and has concealed that her whole life. The other female guards who claim that she wrote the report are lying in order to place the brunt of the responsibility on Hanna. Michael informs Rohl that he has information favorable to one of the defendants but is not sure what to do since she wants to avoid disclosing this. Rohl tells him that if he has learned nothing from the past there is no point in having the seminar.
Hanna receives a life sentence for her admitted but untrue leadership role in the church deaths while the other defendants get shorter terms. Michael meanwhile marries, has a daughter and divorces. Rediscovering his books and notes from the time of his affair, he begins reading them into a tape recorder. He sends the cassette tapes, a tape recorder, and the books to Hanna. Eventually she learns to read and write, and she writes back to him.
Michael does not write back or visit, but keeps sending tapes, and in 1988 a prison official (Linda Bassett) telephones him to seek his help with Hanna's transition into society upon her upcoming release. He finds a place for her to live and a job, and finally visits. The night before her release Hanna hangs herself and leaves a tea tin with cash in it and a note to Michael, asking him to give the cash from the tea tin and some money in a bank account to Ilana.
Michael travels to New York. He meets Ilana (Lena Olin) and confesses his past relationship with Hanna. He tells her about the suicide note, and that Hanna was illiterate for most of her life. Ilana tells Michael there is nothing to be learned from the camps. Michael suggests that he donate the money to an organization that combats adult illiteracy, preferably a Jewish one, and she agrees. Ilana keeps the tea tin since it is similar to one stolen from her in Auschwitz.
The film ends with Michael getting back together with his daughter, Julia, at Hanna's grave and beginning to tell her the story.

24: Redemption

24: Redemption (working title 24: Exile) is a television movie that bridges the gap between the sixth and seventh seasons of the TV series 24. The narrative in the episode takes place during a presidential inauguration and is split between the fictional African nation Sangala and the United States: in Sangala, Jack Bauer finds himself caught up in a military coup while trying to find a place where he can 'be at peace'; and in the United States, where President-elect Allison Taylor is being sworn in to office. The movie takes place in real-time, covering two hours, 3:00pm to 5:00pm, Sangala time.
The movie premiered on November 23, 2008 in the USA with the extended DVD released two days later. The movie aired on November 24, 2008 on Sky1 in the UK and on December 5, 2008 on the Seven Network in Australia. The extended version features the removal of the 24 clock that would appear at commercial breaks, and as such the time of day varies between the two versions at some specific areas where a time of day clock is shown. The clock is still seen at the beginning and ending of the extended version.
The storyline takes place on Inauguration Day for the next U.S. President, Allison Taylor, and is filmed partially in South Africa. "Jack is a soul in turmoil and has been moving from place to place trying to find somewhere he can be at peace," says co-executive producer, Manny Coto. "But he winds up in Africa in the middle of a military coup." Meanwhile, Bauer is subpoenaed to appear before a Senate hearing while in Africa, but doesn't want to go.
Kiefer Sutherland was nominated for this performance as "Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Film" at the 66th Golden Globe Awards.

Redemption begins with a brief prologue showing a young boy being kidnapped at night, indoctrinated, and drafted along with other boys into a rebel militia
Jack Bauer is now at the Okavango school in Sangala, a fictional African country, helping his old friend Carl Benton (Robert Carlyle) with missionary work, attempting to find peace. He has been served a subpoena to appear before the U.S. Senate regarding torture charges, but refuses to go. A U.S. State Department official, Frank Trammel, hints that the Embassy will cut funding for Benton's school if Benton continues to protect Jack, so Jack decides to leave. Meanwhile, two boys from the school are playing football with some other boys at a field in town when they are ambushed by soldiers in General Juma's militia, intending to recruit them as soldiers for Juma's coup d'etat, which Juma is planning and arming with aid from a secret organisation within the U.S. government. The two boys run, but are shot, leaving one dead and the other wounded.
Benton drives to town to investigate the missing children, and soon finds the two boys. He calls Jack, who is leaving, telling him that Juma's men are heading for the school. Jack hides the children in an underground shelter and then arms himself from Benton's weapons cache. As the soldiers arrive, Jack ambushes them and kills several men before getting captured. The rebels torture Jack to obtain the location of the hidden children, but Jack instead sends them into the bush, where Benton has returned and is waiting. Benton ambushes the remaining three soldiers, while Jack kills the leader, the brother of Iké Dubaku, a high-ranking rebel commander. Iké soon learns of his brother's death and plots revenge, while Jack and Benton decide to drive the children to the U.S. Embassy in the capital city to evacuate them. However, they only have until 5 PM, when the last helicopter will leave. On the way, rebel patrols force them to abandon their bus and travel the remainder of the journey on foot.
In Washington, D.C., Chris Whitley (Kris Lemche) is ordered by the conspirators to erase all information that would incriminate them. Instead, he decides to call his friend Roger Taylor (Eric Lively), the son of President-elect Allison Taylor, who is only hours away from being sworn in. Whitley meets Roger and tells him about the possible conspiracy. Roger reluctantly agrees to help, but when Whitley returns home to retrieve the data he was instructed to erase, he is stopped by men who work for Jonas Hodges (Jon Voight), one of the conspirators. The men take the information and kill Whitley, burying him in concrete to hide the body.
Jack, Benton, and the children are walking along a river when they are spotted by Iké's helicopter, and take cover in the forest. Iké and his men follow them on foot and are gaining ground on them when Benton accidentally steps on a land mine after a boy nearly steps on one himself. Jack tries to disarm it, but with little time Benton begs him to leave so he can buy time. Jack reluctantly leaves with the children. Benton waits until he is surrounded by Iké and his men before taking his foot off the trigger, detonating the mine and killing himself as well as the rebels. However, Iké himself survives, wounded (as revealed in the extended edition). Jack and the children continue to the capital, where everyone is fleeing to the embassy. As Jack and the children approach, they are ambushed by several rebels, whom Jack is able to defeat. He then encounters the boy who was brainwashed in the prologue, and manages to convince him to put down his rifle. With minutes to go Jack reaches the embassy with the children. However since Benton (their legal guardian) is dead, Trammel is able to blackmail Jack into surrendering himself in order to guarantee the children's safety. Meanwhile in Washington D.C, Allison Taylor is inaugurated as President of the United States. Jack is arrested and leaves with the children by helicopter, as hundreds of Sangalans are left behind outside the embassy gates.

Role Model

Role Models is a 2008 American comedy film directed by David Wain about two energy drink salesmen who are ordered to perform 150 hours of community service as punishment for various offenses. For their service, the two men work at a program designed to pair kids with adult role models. The film stars Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bobb'e J. Thompson, and Elizabeth Banks.

Danny (Paul Rudd) and Wheeler (Seann William Scott) are two salesmen in the greater Los Angeles area for an energy drink, Minotaur. They promote it as a way to keep kids off drugs. Wheeler loves the job. Danny on the other hand, hates the job and possesses a constant negative attitude toward life, which results in the collapse of his relationship with his girlfriend, attorney Beth (Elizabeth Banks). One day after making one of their presentations at a high school, the duo find that their company truck is being towed for parking in a "No Parking" zone. They protest by trying to drive it away from the tow-truck, but they end up driving it up a statue in front of the school.

They are arrested and the judge sentences the two to a 30 day jail sentence. Beth, however, manages to strike a deal with the judge in which they have to log 150 hours of community service over the next thirty days at the judge's favorite charity, a big-brother style program called Sturdy Wings, led by Gayle Sweeny (Jane Lynch). Gayle, who takes an instant dislike to Danny and Wheeler, is aware that their presence at Sturdy Wings is court-ordered and warns them that if they fail to carry out their tasks to her satisfaction, she will have them sent to prison. Wheeler is paired up with Ronnie Shields (Bobb'e J. Thompson), a foulmouthed, streetwise miscreant obsessed with breasts who has driven away all the other "Bigs" he has been paired with, while Danny is paired up with Augie Farks (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), a nerdy teenager obsessed with live action role-playing games.

Initially, the pair find their task extremely difficult, with Danny unable to find any common ground with Augie and his narrow interests, and Ronnie taking virtually no interest in Wheeler. The pair initially consider simply completing their sentence in prison, but doing that will cost them their jobs and their careers. After a few days they gradually bond with their respective partners; Ronnie takes an interest in Wheeler's favorite band Kiss and discovers that Wheeler shares his obsession with breasts, whilst Danny joins Augie's medieval live action role playing game, LAIRE (Live Action Interactive Role-playing Explorers). At the same time, Danny tries to make up with Beth for his mistakes, but to no avail; Beth must commit to this breakup.

Unfortunately, their success is cut short after Danny gets himself and Augie permanently banned from LAIRE after causing a fight with the "king" and then earns the animosity of Augie's parents after criticizing their hostility towards his interests. Wheeler, meanwhile, takes Ronnie to a party and leaves him unsupervised while he has sex with another guest, resulting in Ronnie walking home by himself. Ronnie's and Augie's parents consequently ask Sturdy Wings to assign them new mentors. As such, the pair are given a court appointment where they will likely be sentenced to some jail time. In the elevator, Danny berates Wheeler for leaving Ronnie behind while Wheeler scolds him about his whining. The two fight and as they get off, have a falling out.

Danny looks through his closet and finds the battle attire Augie had given him. He then goes to the Burger Hole (where the LAIRE King and his men eat before every battle) and asks for forgiveness and to be able to fight in that afternoon's Battle Royale, the final battle of the year. Meanwhile, Wheeler goes to Ronnie's house and gets permission from Ronnie's mother to hang out with Ronnie after he gets out of jail.

In the after-battle party, Augie finally hits it off with Esplen, who asks him to become her King, which he accepts, and the two kiss. Gayle, impressed with the pair's efforts, tells them that due to a long standing relationship with the judge, she will be able to get their names cleared. The movie ends with Danny serenading Beth in front of everyone with an off-key and improvised version of the KISS song "Beth" (a reference to him saying "getting up in front of a large group of people and singing isn't my idea of fun" at the beginning of the movie) and the two reconcile.

Over Her Dead Body

Over Her Dead Body is a comedy film starring Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs, Lindsay Sloane, Colin Fickes and Stephen Root. It was written and directed by Jeff Lowell. Kate (Eva Longoria Parker) dies on the day of her wedding to fiancé Henry (Paul Rudd). He subsequently begins a relationship with psychic Ashley (Lake Bell) who becomes haunted by Kate trying to sabotage their relationship.

The film was released in the United States and Canada on February 1, 2008.

Kate (Eva Longoria Parker) and Henry (Paul Rudd) are about to be married, but on the day of their wedding, Kate is accidentally killed by an ice sculpture angel when it falls on her, after an argument with the sculptor about the lack of wings. After a year, Henry reluctantly agrees to consult a psychic named Ashley (Lake Bell) at the urging of his sister Chloe, arguing that Kate may tell him to get on with his life. Chloe gives Ashley Kate's diary so that Ashley learns information about Kate which seemingly demonstrates psychic abilities. Despite his initial skepticism over these abilities, Henry is impressed. Moreover, Henry and Ashley fall in love.

On the other hand, Kate, after realizing that she is back on Earth, is unsure of what she's supposed to do. She bumps into the ghost of the sculptor to find out that he died as well. He tells her that they are supposed to deal with their unfinished business. Thus, Kate is led to believe that her job is to protect Henry. Later on, Kate, who only Ashley can see, harasses Ashley to force her to break up with Henry. Ashley persists, but Henry discovers the fraud with the diary and breaks up the relationship.

The ghost of the sculptor meets Kate again. And after chatting with him, she realizes that she wants Henry to be happy after all. The movie ends with Henry and Ashley getting married and Kate going back to the room where she originally met the mysterious angel woman who doesn't let her enter heaven because she had not settled her unfinished business.

An extra storyline is about Ashley's assistant Dan (Jason Biggs) who has claimed for years to be gay, allowing him to be Ashley's best friend without sexual connotations. She is upset when Dan confesses to be heterosexual, and to have lied to her because he liked the intimacy, even though it was non-sexual. Nevertheless, they go on vacation together after Ashley and Henry break up. Being in love with her, Dan is disappointed that Ashley chooses Henry. However, Dan and Chloe fall in love during Henry & Ashley's wedding.

Quarantine

Quarantine is a 2008 American horror film directed by John Erick Dowdle and starring Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Steve Harris, Rade Serbedzija, Greg Germann, Bernard White, and Johnathon Schaech. The film is a remake of the Spanish horror film REC. Shot in the cinéma vérité style, it was released on October 10, 2008 by Screen Gems Pictures. The film features no incidental music, being "scored" with sound effects.

The film opens with reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman Scott Percival (Steve Harris) doing a report on the night shift of a Los Angeles fire station. Angela and Scott are introduced to firefighters Fletcher (Johnathon Schaech) and Jake (Jay Hernandez), whom they will be following for the evening.

A medical emergency at an apartment complex is reported and the night shift is sent in. Yuri (Rade Serbedzija), the Russian American building manager, explains that a woman has been screaming, but is now silent. They are joined by two police officers, James (Andrew Fiscella) and Danny (Columbus Short), in the lobby. They are led to the apartment of Mrs. Espinoza (Jeannie Epper), the source of the screaming. Yuri unlocks the door when she does not answer, and a dog runs out. Within the apartment, Espinoza is struggling to breathe, covered in blood, and foaming at the mouth. She bites James in the neck, severely wounding him, before being subdued by Fletcher. The others take James downstairs to get medical assistance, but find the building sealed shut by the authorities. Fletcher falls from the top floor, bitten, breaking his leg. Lawrence (Greg Germann), a veterinarian, tends to the injured men to find a cure and assist him.

Danny and Jake go upstairs to subdue Espinoza, where they find the cleaning lady dead in her apartment. Danny shoots Espinoza when she charges at them. They all return to the lobby, meeting Bernard (Bernard White) and Sadie (Dania Ramirez) on the way. By this time, all exterior windows and doors are being sealed, and cell phones are being jammed. Anyone who attempts to leave is forced back at gunpoint. Jake believes they are being quarantined due to a nuclear, biological, or chemical emergency. Danny and Jake round up the tenants and bring them to the lobby, including Elise (Stacy Chbosky), who is displaying the same symptoms as Espinoza.

While Fletcher, James, and Elise are treated by Lawrence, Angela begins interviewing tenants. One little girl, Briana (Joey King), is sick. Briana claims that she has a dog named Max who was sick and taken to an animal hospital. Lawrence states that the symptoms of those infected are similar to rabies, only much more fast-acting.

Downstairs, Fletcher shambles into the lobby on his severely broken leg, but Lawrence injects him with a sedative, while Angela and Scott notice Bernard and Sadie sneaking away, looking for a TV to try to discover what is happening outside. Espinoza's infected dog appears and attacks one of the tenants. They reach Bernard's apartment and turn on the news, where the chief of police claims that everyone has been evacuated from the building, just before the power is shut off. The group is then attacked by Elise, whom Scott kills with his camera.

Danny rounds everyone up in the textile shop and states that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agents are coming in to give blood tests. The residents are also told that anyone who is not infected will be released. Lawrence points out that the only way to test for rabies is through a brain sample, not a blood test, but Danny insists on following procedure. During roll call, Yuri reveals that the penthouse apartment of the building is being rented by a man from Boston who is absent.

The CDC agents arrive and examine the infected victims, taking a brain sample from Fletcher. Fletcher breaks his restraints and attacks one of the agents. Danny, Jake, and the other agent escape, leaving Lawrence locked in the room with the infected. Lawrence gets infected, the textile shop is locked and the surviving CDC agent is forced to explain the situation: A dog was brought to a vet with an unknown illness and infected all the animals there. The dog was traced back to the apartment building. After realizing that the dog was Max, Briana's fever is then called into question. Briana then bites her mother, Kathy (Marin Hinkle), before running upstairs. Kathy is now hysterical about the others harming her daughter, so the others handcuff her to the stairwell. The CDC agent gives Danny a needle to inject Briana with. So Danny, Jake, Angie, and Scott go to find Briana.

Angela, Scott, and Jake make their way to Yuri's apartment to get his keys, avoiding and killing several infected while doing so. Jake is bitten by Yuri along the way, and the infected Danny chase Angela and Scott into the penthouse apartment. Within, they find newspapers with articles related to a doomsday cult. They discover that the man from Boston, who was renting the penthouse, was a member of it. One of the articles tells how the cult broke into a military biological facility to steal the virus. A noise from the attic prompts Scott to investigate, and he finds an infected boy. The boy destroys the light on Scott's camera, so he turns on the night vision. Angela and Scott then see an emaciated man (Doug Jones), who is presumably the man from Boston, emerge from another room. He walks past them initially but attacks Scott when Angela inadvertently makes a noise. Angela watches through the night vision of the camera as the infected man eats Scott. The man then attacks her, causing her to drop the camera. The final shot is of Angela crawling back to the camera only to be dragged into the darkness, screaming.

Crank 2: High Voltage

Crank: High Voltage (Crank 2: High Voltage in some regions) is a 2009 American action/thriller film, and sequel to the 2006 action film, Crank. It picks up 3 months after the first film left off, retaining its "real-time" feel and adding surrealism. Crank: High Voltage was written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, who both wrote and directed the previous film. The film was released in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2009, one day prior to its North American release date.

The film opens with a sequence designed to look like a classic video game, depicting Chev Chelios' (Jason Statham) fall from a helicopter during the final moments of the original Crank. Immediately after his fall, he is scooped off the street via snow shovel by group of Chinese medics and removed from the scene.

He wakes up in a makeshift hospital and sees doctors removing his heart while Johnny Vang (Art Hsu) watches. The doctors place Chev's heart in a red cooler with a padlock, and place a clear plastic artificial heart in his chest. Chev passes out. He wakes up, and escapes. He notices a yellow battery pack is attached to him. After a gunfight and the interrogation of a thug, Chev learns the location of Johnny Vang - the Cypress Social Club.

Chev calls Doc Miles (Dwight Yoakam), who tells him that he has been fitted with an AbioCor Artificial heart. Once the external battery pack runs out, the internal battery will kick in and he will have 60 minutes before it stops working. He crashes his car right after the conversation, destroying his external battery pack. In order to keep going, Chev has the driver use his jumper cables on himself, and runs to the Club.

Upon arriving, Chev inadvertently saves a prostitute named Ria (Bai Ling) from a customer. Ria is infatuated with Chev and claims she knows where Vang is (who escaped, carrying the red, padlocked cooler). She takes Chev to Strip Please, where Chev finds his old girlfriend Eve Lydon (Amy Smart), who thought he was dead. In a back room, Vang has been cornered by a group of Mexican gangsters, led by Chico (Joseph Julian Soria), who shows he means business by chopping off a man's elbow. Vang agrees to let them have Chev, and apparently escapes. Chev is confronted by the Mexicans, and a gunfight breaks out. Everyone gets gunned down by Chev, except Chico, who escapes out a back door. Chev interrogates a wounded gangster, who informs him that El Huron (Clifton Collins, Jr.) is trying to kill him, but doesn't know why. Chev picks up Eve and they walk out.

Outside, he is met by a group of cops, who begin beating him down. He is weakened, but one of them inadvertently charges Chev by using a taser on him. Another stripper tells Chev that he should look at the Hollywood horse racetrack for Johnny Vang. They encounter a group of porn stars protesting low wages, and Chev is forced to escape, leaving Eve in the back of the cop car. Chev is picked up by Venus (Efren Ramirez), who reveals himself to be Kaylo's brother. He also has Full Body Tourette's Syndrome. At first, Chev tells Venus that everyone responsible for his brother's death is dead, but this prompts Venus to leave. Wanting his help, Chev tells Venus that El Huron was involved but escaped.

At the horse tracks, Chev is losing energy. He learns that the heart can be charged through the skin by means of friction. Eve shows up and they have sex on the racetrack while the crowd cheers, and Chev is restored to full energy. Chev spots Vang and once again leaves Eve behind. Vang escapes, and Chev is about to be subdued by security when Don Kim picks Chev up in his limo. He informs Chev that there is a leader in the Triads named Poon Dong (David Carradine), who was in need of a heart transplant. When he heard of Chev's ability to withstand the Chinese adrenaline poison, he put out an order for Chev's heart. Don Kim then tells Chev that he wishes to return him to Poon Dong for a reward. Upon hearing this, Chev kills all of Don Kim's henchmen, including the limo driver, and shoots Don Kim several times. Meanwhile, Eve is arrested, and Venus calls in Orlando (Reno Wilson) to assist in tracking down El Huron.

While driving, Chev is cut off by an ambulance. He boards the ambulance and is surprised to see the EMTs are working on one of Don Kim's henchmen that he shot. He demands a new battery pack for his artificial heart, and the EMT is forced to stop working while he hooks it up. Don Kim dies, and Chev exits the ambulance upon seeing Johnny Vang on the street outside. Vang tries to escape in a car, but the car drives off without him, and Chev chases Vang to an electric plant, where there is a Godzilla-inspired fight where Chev and Vang fight. Upon winning, Chev discovers that Vang's red cooler holds something other than his heart (the contents of which are unknown, but make Chev recoil in disgust). Chev learns from Doc Miles that his heart is already transplanted into Poon Dong, but promises to find him for Chev. Chev goes to ask Johnny Vang, but Johnny Vang is shot and killed by Chico, and they knock Chev unconscious.

There is a dream sequence showing Chev as a youngster, with his mother (Geri Haliwell) on the Luke Canard show talking about his violent tendencies as a boy. Eve is interrogated by police, but refuses to rat Chev out. Doc Miles uses his assistant Chocolate to lure Poon Dong in, and knocks him out.

Chev is awakened by electric shocks to his testicles, and is dragged by speedboat to an island where El Huron awaits. El Huron explains to Chev that he is the third Verona brother, and is very upset that Chev killed Ricky (Jose Pablo Cantillo) and Alex Verona (Jay Xcala). He reveals Ricky Verona's head being kept alive in a tank by a group of scientists, speaking in an electronic voice. Chev is whipped for Verona's pleasure, and is about to die when Orlando, Venus, and Ria show up, each with their own group of gunfighters, and chaos breaks out.

Chev smashes open Verona's tank and kicks his head into a pond, but starts to slow down. He climbs an electric pylon nearby and grabs the insulators to recharge, but is flung off of it upon contact. Venus is fighting El Huron and is about to lose when Chev reappears, still partially on fire from the electricity. He beats El Huron to death (while still burning), and throws his body in the pond next to Ricky's head. In a hallucinogenic state, Chev then tries to hug Ria (thinking she is Eve) but accidentally sets her on fire as well, and she runs off screaming. His flesh burning and his face melting, Chev walks towards the camera, giving the middle finger to the audience in the final moment of the film.

During the credits, Doc Miles places Chev's heart back in. At first, it looks like a failure, but after everyone leaves, Chev's eyes open, and his heart is heard beating.