Archive for April, 2008

First Saturday In May
40,000 baby horses are born each year. Only 20, however, will make it to the gate in the Kentucky Derby. Known as “the most exciting two minutes in sports,” the Kentucky Derby is racing’s holy grail and every horseman’s ultimate goal. Just to get a horse to the gate in the world’s most prestigious race defies all odds. The path to the first Saturday in May remains long and unpredictable. Euphoria and heartbreak abound. But as a racetracker, you’re prepared for everything.Follow six diverse trainers - as well as the mighty Barbaro - as they jockey for position along the 2006 Kentucky Derby trail. From Hot Springs in Arkansas to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, you’re along for the ride with the dedicated men and women that make the “sport of kings” tick.John and Brad Hennegan’s journey turned out to be more than they bargained for as they became involved with one of the most famous race horses of the last 60 years. Since May 2006, Barbaro has been featured on the cover of the New York Times over fifty times as well in Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and publications all over the world. Although the rest of the world might consider Barbaro the heart of the 2006 Derby trail story, the diverse cast of compelling characters makes this rollercoaster ride unforgettable. [...] »

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Bra Boys
“Bra Boys” is a film about the cultural evolution of the inner-Sydney beachside suburb of Maroubra and the social struggle of its youth – the tattooed and much maligned surf community known as the Bra Boys. Central to the story is the true-life struggle of the Abberton brothers – Sunny, Koby, Jai and Dakota … one charged with murdering a Sydney standover man, another pursuing a professional surf career but charged as an accessory in his brother’s legal fight, another trying to hold the family together and a young brother whose inheritance is his siblings’ notoriety. The story is narrated by Academy Award-winning Australian actor Russell Crowe, and is told through the eyes of members of the Bra Boys. [...] »

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Jack and Jill vs the World
Jack and Jill vs The World is a drama movie about a life of a NYC advertising executive named Jack. There I s a woman named Jill who is new to the city, with nothing to stand on but her fiery personality and romantic ideals. Opposites attract, and together they author their own manifesto of “rules to live by.” But Jill betrays Jack by violating rule one - Be Honest. [...] »

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Chapter 27
Chapter 27 is a movie about the killing of John Lennon. On December 8, 1980 Mark David Chapman shocked the world by murdering the beloved purveyor of peace, 40-year old musician and activist, John Lennon, outside The Dakota, his New York apartment building. Chapman’s motives were fabricated from pure delusion, fueled by an obsession with the fictional character Holden Caulfield and his similar misadventures in J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. In one instant, an anonymous, mentally unstable 25-year old, socially awkward Beatles fan who had fluctuated between idealizing Lennon and being overcome with a desire to kill him - altered the course of history. Jared Leto, 60 pounds heavier for the role, bears an uncanny physical resemblance to the real Chapman, who to this day, is incarcerated in Attica Prison, on a guilty plea. Aside from a Larry King interview in 1992, he has not spoken with the media. However, Chapman did reveal the mechanics of his unraveling during those three fateful days in New York City, to crime journalist Jack Jones. The interviews were published in 1992 as Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman, a book of Chapman’s recollections of his unthinkable act of violence. From this text, the film CHAPTER 27 is based. The film takes its title from the idea that through his actions in New York, Chapman was attempting to “write” his own additional, 27th chapter to Catcher in the Rye (which ends with chapter 26). Leto’s embodiment of a man whose painfully restless mind thrashes about uncontrollably between paranoia, socio-pathic lying and delusion is summed up in such character revealing comments as “I’m too vulnerable for a world full of pain and lies” and “Everyone is cracked and broken. You have to find something to fix you. To give you what you need. To make you whole again.” From his lies to cab drivers (identifying himself as the Beatles sound engineer) to his socially unacceptable behavior around Jude (Lindsay Lohan) a young fan he meets outside the Dakota — to his argument with paparazzi photographer Paul (Judah Friedlander), Leto’s Chapman keeps the psychoses bubbling below the surface as his grasp on reality deteriorates into a completely misguided rage. [...] »

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Bangkok Dangerous
Bangkok Dangerous is a movie by Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang, starring Nicholas Cage. The story is about the life of an anonymous assassin named his self as just Joe (Nicolas Cage). Joe travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. His order is to kill four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), a street punk and pickpocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment. Strangely, Joe, the ultimate lone wolf, instead finds himself mentoring the young man while simultaneously being drawn into a tentative romance with a local shop girl. As he falls further under the sway of Bangkok’s intoxicating beauty, Joe begins to question his isolated existence and let down his guard …just as Surat decides it’s time to clean house. [...] »

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The Tracey Fragments
15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz (Best Actress Oscar-nominee Ellen Page) is riding around a pre-blizzard urban wasteland on the back of a city bus, naked except for the tattered curtain she’s wrapped in, and looking for her missing brother (whom she fears she has hypnotized). Based on screenwriter Maureen Medved’s novel of the same name, THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS uses highly inventive and dynamic Mondrian-like split screens to tell the story of exactly how she wound up there. On screen for nearly every frame of the film, Page delivers a tour-de-force performance that cements her status as one of the most exciting young actresses on screen today. [...] »

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Meet Dave
Eddy Murphy stars in his new sci-fi movie, Meet Dave. The story is about a crew of tiny, human-looking aliens which arrives on earth. They disguise in a spaceship that look like an ordinary man. They learn the human culture and seeking way to save their doomed world. [...] »

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Water Lilies
Water Lilies is a drama movie about young girls named Marie, Anne and Floriane. They live at suburb outside Paris. Their paths cross in the corridors at the local swimming pool, where love and desire make a sudden, dramatic appearance. [...] »

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The Children of Huang shi
The Children of Huang Shi is a movie base on a true story of a young British Journalist, George Hogg. The movie sets in 1937 in China during the Japanese occupation. The story is about George Hogg (Rhys Meyers), who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse (Mitchell) and a Chinese partisan fighter (Chow Yun Fat), saves a group of orphaned children. [...] »

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Deception
Deception is a thriller movie about an accountant who enters to a mysterious sex club known as The List. The accountant (played by Ewan McGregor) is introduced to the club by his lawyer friend (Jackman). But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman’s disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist. [...] »

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Mister Lonely
Mister Lonely is a drama movie set in Paris about a young American (Luna) who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike. He meets Marilyn Monroe (Morton), who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin (Lavant) and her daughter, Shirley Temple. [...] »

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Standard Operating Procedure
Standard Operating Procedure is a documentary movie about Photographs which taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison. The photographs changed the war in Iraq and changed America’s image of itself. Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison. [...] »

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Big Stan
Big Stan is a comedy movie starring Rob Schneider. David Carradine and Jennifer Morrison also play in this funny movie. The comedy, written by Josh Lieb, tells the story of Stan (Schneider), a white collar con man who, after being sentenced to prison, spends his last remaining free days trying to figure out ways to avoid being violated in “the big house.” Seeking help from a mysterious martial arts guru known only as “The Master” (Carradine), Stan transforms himself into a combat expert ultimately bringing the warring prison gangs together and establishing a hysterical peace within its walls. [...] »

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