Archive for November, 2005

The Libertine
Johnny Depp stars in “The Libertine” as the scandalously decadent John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester. The film follows the Earl’s adventures in London, from his passionate romance with a young actress, Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton), to the writing of a scurrilous play which blisteringly and bawdily lampoons the very monarch who commissioned it, Charles II (John Malkovich), leading to the [...] »

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Alexandria
This movie start from a quiet and shy man named Bagas Gunawan (Marcel Chandrawinata), who keeps his feeling to Alexandra Yasmina (Julie Estelle), his new neighbor. Alex is a unique girl with her camera and comic collection and her main dream: go to the Alexandria city in Egypt, her origin name given by her father “Alexandra”.

Bagas enjoys all the strange feeling that continue to grow. Finally [...] »

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Yours, Mine & Ours
In this family comedy, single parents Frank (Dennis Quaid) and Helen (Rene Russo) plan to tie the knot… but with 18 children between them trying to sabotage the marriage, they discover that weddings ? and families ? can`t be built in a day. [...] »

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Syriana
From writer/director Stephen Gaghan, winner of the Best Screenplay Academy Award for “Traffic,” comes “Syriana,” a political thriller that unfolds against the intrigue of the global oil industry. From the players brokering back-room deals in Washington to the men toiling in the oil fields of the Persian Gulf, the film’s multiple storylines weave together to illuminate the human consequences of the [...] »

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Just Friends
The romantic comedy Just Friends stars Ryan Reynolds as a former high school geek turned trendy Los Angeles music executive. When he gets stranded in his New Jersey home town due to bad weather with a superstar singer he is trying to sign, he finds himself reunited with his high school crush and discovers she is his true love. The film co-stars Anna Faris (Scary Movie), Amy Smart (Road Trip) and Chr [...] »

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In The Mix
When New York’s hottest nightclub deejay Darrell (Usher) saves a mob boss’s life (Chazz Palminteri), he is rewarded for his bravery with the responsibilty of watching over the don’s beautiful daughter Dolly (Emmanuelle Chriqui). The sparks soon begin to fly between this attractive couple from very different worlds, against her formidable father’s wishes. Meanwhile, the don has other things on hi [...] »

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The Ice Harvest
It’s Christmas Eve in rainy, icebound Wichita, Kansas, and this year Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) just might have something to celebrate. Charlie, an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, and his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavenaugh (Billy Bob Thornton), have just successfully embezzled $2,147,000 from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid).

Even so, the real prize fo [...] »

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39 Pounds Of Love
Ami, who weighs only 39 pounds, works in Israel as a 3D animator and creates his art despite the fact that his bodily motion is limited to a single finger on his left hand and in doing so, continues to redefine notions of a “limited” life.

The film follows Ami’s journey in search of the doctor who predicted his early demise. Along his journey, Ami attempts to come to terms with another major [...] »

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Rent
Based on Puccini’s classic opera La Boheme, Jonathan Larson’s revolutionary rock opera “Rent” tells the story of a group of Bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent in the gritty background of New York’s East Village. “Measuring their lives in love,” these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, ilness and the AIDS epidemic.

One of [...] »

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Sha Po Lang
A crimelord (Sammo Hung) covers his tracks so well that he always gets away from all crimes he does, assisted by four fast-talking English lawyers. A professional assassin (Wu Jing), who never fails on his assignment, appearing out of nowhere. Four policemen so eager to nab the crimelord that they will stop at nothing, insofar as taking justice into their own hands. Standing in their ways is a new p [...] »

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The Aryan Couple
Occupied Hungary 1944. Hans and Ingrid Vassman are the perfect Aryan couple. Young, married, in love and expecting their first child, they work as valet and maid for an elderly Jewish couple, the Krauzenbergs, in their magnificent palace in the Hungarian Countryside. They have everything to look forward to ? or so they would have you believe. Hitler?s ?Final Solution? is sweeping through Europe. Him [...] »

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Walk The Line
?Locusts and honey … not since John The Baptist has there been a voice like that crying in the wilderness. … ?
- U2`s Bono in the liner notes for The Essential Johnny Cash

In 1955, a tough, skinny guitar-slinger who called himself J.R. Cash walked into the soon-to-be-famous Sun Studios in Memphis. It was a moment that would have an indelible effect on American culture. With his drivi [...] »

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Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
The pivotal fourth novel in the seven-part tale of Harry Potter’s training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the permicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event that’s supposed to take place [...] »

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