Khasa Best Buys

KATHMANDU, April 1: Thanks to the Chinese and the advent of the internet, here are the latest box office releases of the week from our very own Khasa Mart. [break]

Knowing

Starring Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, and Chandler Canterbury

In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule´s contents and the girl´s cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler, who´s father, professor John Koestler, makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years.

12 rounds

Starring John Cena, Steve Harris, Ashley Scott, Aidan Gillen, Brian White, and Gonzalo Menendez

When New Orleans Police Detective, Danny Fisher, stops a brilliant thief, Miles, from getting away with a multi-million-dollar heist, the thief´s girlfriend is accidentally killed. After escaping from prison, the criminal mastermind enacts his revenge, taunting Danny with a series of near-impossible puzzles and tasks ...12 rounds...that Danny must somehow complete to save the life of his fiancee.

Friday the 13th

Starring Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker and Amanda Righetti

Welcome back to Crystal Lake in a chilling re-imagining of the classic horror film. Searching for his missing sister, Clay Miller heads up to the eerie woods of legendary Crystal Lake. Against the advice of police and cautions from the locals, Clay pursues what few leads he has in the search for his missing sister, Whitney, with the help of Jenna, a young woman he meets among a group of college kids up for an all-thrills weekend. But they are all about to find much more than they bargained for. Little do they know, they´ve entered the domain of Jason Voorhees.

Notororius

Starring Jamal Woolard, Angela Bassett, Derek Luke, Anthony Mackie, Antonique Smith, Naturi Naughton, Dennis White, and Julia Pace Mitchell

In just a few short years, Notorious B.I.G. rose from the streets of Brooklyn to become one of the most influential hip hop artists of all time. B.I.G. was a gifted storyteller; his narratives about violent life on the streets were told with a gritty, objective realism that won him enormous respect and credibility. His stories were universal and gave a voice to his generation.

Watchmen

Starring Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino, Stephen McHattie, and Matt Frewer

Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the outlawed but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion--a disbanded group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers--Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity...but who is watching the Watchmen?

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Starring Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, and Fred Armisen

In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping - little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can´t quite get her foot in the door, until ironically, she snags a job as an advice columnist for a financial magazine published by the same company. As her dreams are finally coming true, she goes to ever more hilarious and extreme efforts to keep her past from ruining her future.

Slumdog Millionaire

Starring Dev Patel, Madhur Mittal, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor, and Irrfan Khan

Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India´s "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? He answers with his life´s story.

Two lovers

Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Isabella Rossellini, Elias Koteas, and Moni Moshonov

Leonard is a charismatic but troubled young man who moves back into his childhood home following a recent heartbreak. While recovering under the watchful eye of his parents, Leonard meets two women in quick succession: Michelle, a mysterious and beautiful neighbour who is exotic and out-of-place in Leonard´s staid world, and Sandra, the lovely and caring daughter of a businessman who is buying out his family´s dry-cleaning business.

Winged Creatures

Starring Kate Beckinsale, Forest Whitaker, Guy Pearce and Dakota Fanning

While in a restaurant, Carla Davenport, Charlie Archenault, Bruce Laraby, Anne Hagen and her best friend Jimmy Jasperson suddenly hear gunshots. Anne and Jimmy retreat under a table to watch a suicidal gunman shoot several people (including Anne´s father) and then himself.

The movie follows these five traumatized people as they struggle to regain their trust in the ordinary world.

Extreme Movie

Starring Michael Cera, Frankie Muniz and Jamie Kennedy

This feature-length vignette-style comedy boasts a smorgasbord of young comedic talent, including Michael Cera, Ryan Pinkston, Frankie Muniz, and Jamie Kennedy. In the tradition of Kentucky Fried Movie, the film is comprised of a series of sketches, most of which revolve around teenagers and sex. Matthew Lillard and Andy Milonakis also make appearances in this ribald offering from the team behind The Comebacks and numerous MTV Movie Award parody sketches. Andy Samberg and Will Forte are among the numerous Saturday Night Live writers to have contributed Extreme Movie´s uproarious script.