Archive for May, 2008

Twilight
Twilight is a drama horror movie about girl named Isabella Swan who moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret. What Bella doesn’t realize is the closer she gets to him, the more she is putting herself and those around her at risk. And, it might be to late to turn back. [...] »

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Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited is a provocative and suspenseful drama movie about forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in the pre-WWII era. Based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh, the movie stars Matthew Goode from “Match Point” and “The Lookout”, as Charles Ryder. Ben Whishaw plays as Sebastian Flyte. The movie is the memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family and in particular brother and sister Sebastian and Julia. [...] »

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Finding Amanda
Finding Amanda is a drama comedy movie starring Matthew Broderick and Brittany Snow. The movie is from director Peter Tolan, creator of the hit television series Rescue Me. The story is about a television producer who just recovers from drinking and gambling problem, trying to find his niece in Las Vegas to convince her to enter rehab. [...] »

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Miss Conception
Miss Conception is a comedy movie starring Heather Graham. She plays an ambitious young London professional named Georgina. She learns she has only one month left in which to conceive a child. After exhausting all possibilities with her baby-phobic boyfriend, Georgina turns to her wildly optimistic friend Clem, with whom she sets out to identify and “land” the perfect father for her child. [...] »

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The Escapist
The Escapist is a thriller movie about a man named Frank Perry who institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined he make peace with her before it’s too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence. Much of the action takes place within the tunnels, sewers and underground rivers of subterranean London. [...] »

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Towelhead
“Towelhead” is a drama movie about a life of Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, as she navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening. When Jasira’s mother sends her to Houston to live with her strict Lebanese father, she quickly learns that her new neighbors find her and her father a curiosity. Worse, her budding womanhood makes her traditional and hot-tempered father uncomfortable. Lonely in this new environment, Jasira seeks friendship and acceptance from her neighbors Mr. Vuoso, an Army reservist, and Melina, a meddling but caring expectant mother. Thrown into an unfamiliar suburban world, Jasira must confront racism and hypocrisy at home and at school - and at the same time struggle to make sense of her raging hormones and newfound sexuality. Her boyfriend, Thomas, though a few years older, provides some comfort - but even that relationship causes problems when her father discovers that Thomas is black. Surrounded by adults who are just as lost as she is, Jasira yearns for understanding, even amidst often brutal acts. Based on the critically acclaimed novel by Alicia Erian and written for the screen and directed by Alan Ball (Oscar® winning writer of “American Beauty” and creator of “Six Feet Under”), “Towelhead” stars Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello, Peter Macdissi and newcomer Summer Bishil as Jasira. [...] »

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It's a Boy Girl Thing
It’s a Boy Girl Thing is a comedy movie about a boy and a girl who strangely, at a morning wake up with their body switched. They are Woody and Nell who have been next door neighbors since childhood. He’s a jock, she’s a nerd, she’s graduating to Yale, he’s going to second rate college on football scholarship. Now they have to live on switched life. [...] »

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The Wackness
It’s the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop and wafting with the sweet aroma of marijuana–but change is in the air. The newly-inaugurated mayor, Rudy Giuliani, is beginning to implement his anti-fun initiatives against “crimes” like noisy portable radios, graffiti and public drunkenness. Set against this backdrop, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) spends his last summer before college selling dope throughout New York City, trading it with his shrink (Ben Kingsley) for therapy, while crushing on his step-daughter (Olivia Thirlby). [...] »

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Hotel California
Hotel California is a thriller movie about a man named Troy who on crime boss Dmitri Debartolla. He was forced to leave Los Angeles and lay low in Miami. After two years, and the loss of his leg in a shootout with a Cuban crime syndicate, Troy returns to LA to reclaim what is rightfully his. A reunion with his former partners in a rundown hotel sets the stage for an explosive encounter where past and present collide. [...] »

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American Teen
American Teen is a documentary movie which follows the lives of five teenagers who have difference characters. A jock, a popular girl, a heartthrob, an artsy girl and a geek. They are senior high school students in a small town in Indiana. We see the insecurities, the cliques, the jealousies, the first loves and heartbreaks, and the struggle to make profound decisions about the future. [...] »

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Bloodline
One man’s journey into the world of the so-called ‘Bloodline’ conspiracy, at the heart of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, where a secret society, the Priory of Sion, claims to have guarded evidence of the marriage of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ, their children and their descendants down through the centuries. [...] »

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Brick Lane
A young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneem, arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London, and in a loveless marriage with the middle aged Chanu, she fears her soul is quietly dying. Her sister Hasina, meanwhile, continues to live a carefree life back in Bangladesh, stumbling from one adventure to the next. Nazneen struggles to accept her lifestyle, and keeps her head down in spite of life’s blows, but she soon discovers that life cannot be avoided - and is forced to confront it the day that the hotheaded young Karim comes knocking at her door. [...] »

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Four Minutes
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was [...] »

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