Archive for June, 2006

The Devil Wears Prada
Based on the best-selling novel, “The Devil Wears Prada” stars two-time Academy Award? winner Meryl Streep as high-powered fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, and Anne Hathaway, as Miranda’s new assistant ? a small-town girl trying to survive her impossibly demanding new boss. [...] »

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Superman Returns
Following a mysterious absence of several years, the Man of Steel comes back to Earth in the epic action-adventure, Superman Returns, a soaring new chapter in the saga of one of the world`s most beloved superheroes. While an old enemy plots to render him powerless once and for all, Superman faces the heartbreaking realization that the woman he loves, Lois Lane, has moved on with her life. Or has s [...] »

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The Motel
Thirteen-year-old Ernest lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way with his Mother, his Grandfather and his little sister. This is the family business.

Even though he’s only thirteen, Ernest has to take on the responsibilities of man of the house since his father has abandoned the family. After school, Ernest cleans all the vacant rooms making sure [...] »

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Who Killed The Electric Car?
It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert?

“Who Killed the Electric Car?” chronicles the life and [...] »

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Strangers With Candy
Already a cult classic, this latest release from THINKFilm, “Strangers With Candy,” is a daring leap backwards. A prequel to the critically acclaimed Comedy Central series of the same name. It is the tale of Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris also co-writer), a forty-seven year old ex-con, junky whore who decides to return home after thirty-two years as a runaway. She discovers that her earlier disappearance [...] »

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The Great New Wonderful
“Shock can be a tricky thing. Sometimes our emotional response to horrific events can be hidden from us at first, only to appear after some time has passed.”

“The Great New Wonderful” is populated by people you know: New Yorkers you see on the elevator, in the supermarket, at the gym. Without a trace of sentimentality, director Danny Leiner, a Brooklyn native, and his extraordinary cast paint [...] »

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Say Uncle
Portland-based artist Paul Johnson (Peter Paige), who happens to be gay, returns from his telemarketing job one day to some very distressing news - his closest friends, the Fabers are moving to Japan, and they’re taking Paul’s two year-old godson Morgan with them. Shifting into serious denial mode, Paul misses their final departure and faces the truth the Faber’s are gone and aren’t coming back. [...] »

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The Road To Guantanamo
Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross’ “The Road to Guantanamo” is the terrifying first-hand account of three British citizens who were held for two years without charges in the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Known as the “Tipton Three,” in reference to their home town in Britain, the three were eventually ret [...] »

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Click
In Columbia Pictures/Revolution Studios` comedy Click, Adam Sandler portrays Michael Newman, a family man whose busy career as an architect doesn`t leave much time for his wife, Donna (Kate Beckinsale), and two kids. Unable to figure out which of his many remotes turns on the television, he goes shopping for a universal remote and finds the perfect device through Morty (Christopher Walken), who give [...] »

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Waist Deep
In the urban action thriller Waist Deep, director Vondie Curtis Hall (Redemption) takes audiences on a ride through contemporary Los Angeles ? where a sexy 21st-century Bonnie and Clyde hit the streets.

?I`ll always come back for you,? single father O2 (Tyrese Gibson of Four Brothers) tells his young son Junior (screen newcomer H. Hunter Hall). This parental promise is put to the test when O2 [...] »

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Leonard Cohen: I`M Your Man
Songwriter. Poet. Counter-culture icon. Consummate ladies’ man.

Since bursting onto the scene in 1967, Leonard Cohen has inspired generations with his unique personality and haunting music, becoming one of the most original and enduring artists to emerge from the 1960s. Now, Lions Gate is proud to celebrate Cohen’s legacy with director Lian Lunson’s “Leonard Cohen I’m Your Man,” an intim [...] »

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Only Human
Starring Oscar-nominated Norma Aleandro (Gaby), this gloriously irreverent family comedy fuses brilliant characterization and unrelenting humor to rework the age-old story of meeting the parents with a hilarious modern twist. With its astute blend of warmth and humor, “Only Human” is able to address head-on some of today’s most salient issues: the meaning of family and community in an ever-shrinkin [...] »

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Land Of The Blind
Land of the Blind is a satiric and timely political drama about terrorism, revolution, and the power of memory. In an unnamed place and time, an idealistic soldier named Joe (Ralph Fiennes) strikes up an illicit friendship with a political prisoner named Thorne (Donald Sutherland), who eventually recruits him into a bloody coup d’etat. But in the post-revolutionary world, what Thorne asks of Joe le [...] »

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