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Posted on April 6, 2012 |
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I Love Hong Kong 2012 / I Love Hong Kong 2 / Wo Ai Xiang Gang: Xi Shang Jia Xi (2012)
Comedy
Kuok is famous weather forecast announcer, who dreams to be in the headlines, but failed to do so even when he is about to retire. One day, he finds out that the world is facing a deadly threat and the chance arises to him to become a news sensation. This is when the fun, laughter and havoc come in place.
Starring: Eric Tsang, Teresa Mo, Bosco Wong, Denise Ho, Shui-Fan Fung, Shaw Yin Yin, Chi Wah Wong, Xinyu Zhang, William So, Cheung-Ching Mak
Director: Wilson Chin, Shu-Kai Chung
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Tags: Bosco Wong, Cheung-Ching Mak, Chi Wah Wong, Denise Ho, Eric Tsang, Shaw Yin Yin, Shu-Kai Chung, Shui-Fan Fung, Teresa Mo, William So, Wilson Chin, Xinyu Zhang
Posted on April 5, 2012 |
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The Darkest Hour (2011)
Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When aliens attack and swiftly conquer the world by frying our electronic grid and systematically hunting down the disorganized, pathetically under-defended survivors, a small band of tourists in Moscow combine to find a way to annihilate the aliens' powerful defenses.
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor
Director: Chris Gorak
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Posted on April 5, 2012 |
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Born to be Wild (2011)
Documentary
'Born to Be Wild' observes various orphaned jungle animals and their day-to-day behavioral interactions with the individuals who rescue them and raise them to adulthood. The film unfurls in two separate geographic spheres, one following baby orangutans and other, baby elephant calves.
Starring: Birute Galdikas, Daphne Sheldrick, Morgan Freeman
Director: David Lickley
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Posted on April 5, 2012 |
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200 Pounds Beauty / Minyeo-neun goerowo (2006)
Comedy | Romance
A vastly overweight woman who works as a "ghost singer" for a famous pop star is in love. One day, she decides to resort to drastic surgery in order to make herself thin and attractive.
Starring: Ah-jung Kim, Jin-mo Ju, Yong-geon Kim, Dong-il Song, Hyeon-shik Lim
Director: Yong-hwa Kim
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Posted on April 5, 2012 |
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Paradise Kiss / Paradaisu kisu (2011)
Drama
A chance encounter leads Yukari, a burnt out high school student, to a group of dedicated fashion design students. She becomes their model for their graduating exhibition and discovers her talent for modeling.
Starring: Keiko Kitagawa, Shunji Igarashi, Kento Kaku, Natsuki Katô, Fumino Kimura
Director: Takehiko Shinjo
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Posted on April 3, 2012 |
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Little Murder (2011)
Drama | Thriller
In post-Katrina New Orleans, a disgraced detective encounters the ghost of a murdered woman who wants to help him identify her killer.
Starring: Josh Lucas, Terrence Howard, Lake Bell
Director: Predrag Antonijevic
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Posted on April 3, 2012 |
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Punisher: War Zone (2008)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss, Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias: Jigsaw. With the "Punisher Task Force" hot on his trail and the FBI unable to take Jigsaw in, Frank must stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before more of his evil deeds go unpunished.
Starring: Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Julie Benz, Doug Hutchison, Colin Salmon
Director: Lexi Alexander
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Tags: Colin Salmon, Dominic West, Doug Hutchison, Julie Benz, Lexi Alexander, Ray Stevenson
Posted on April 3, 2012 |
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The Punisher (2004)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
The Punisher walks through the world we all know, a world darkened by war, crime, cruelty and injustice. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees – only his fierce intelligence, his years of combat experience, and above all, his iron determination to avenge those wronged by society's villains.
Starring: Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Will Patton, Roy Scheider, Laura Elena Harring
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
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Posted on April 3, 2012 |
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Casablanca (1942)
Drama | Romance | War
Rick Blaine owns a nightclub in Casablanca during World War II. Ilsa, a woman Rick was once in love with when he lived in Paris and never quite got over, walks into his nightclub. She's in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo, a resistance leader with Nazis hot on his trail.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Posted on April 3, 2012 |
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You Only Live Once (1937)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.
Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane
Director: Fritz Lang
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Posted on April 3, 2012 |
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Go for It! / Dance for It! (2011)
Drama
Carmen is a good student with a bad attitude who lives for dancing in the underground clubs of Chicago. She yearns to be 'somebody' but is afraid to believe in herself. Her immigrant Mexican, working-class parents want her to stay in school and get an education, so she attends junior college while working at a grocery store. Carmen's professor catches her performing one day in the neighborhood and challenges her to audition to a formal dance school in California. She gets into a fight with her chaotic family and runs away to her best friend Gina's place only to find out Gina's been getting beat up by her boyfriend. Meanwhile, Carmen's boyfriend, Jared wants her to commit and move in with him.
Starring: Aimee Garcia, Al Bandiero, Jossara Jinaro, Gina Rodriguez
Director: Carmen Marron
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Posted on April 3, 2012 |
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Freeway Killer (2009)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer easily avoided police at first. But as police closed in and the killer's pattern grew more erratic, the only question was how many more will die?
Starring: Michael Rooker, Helen Wilson, James Babson, Cole Williams, Scott Anthony Leet, Dusty Sorg
Director: John Murlowski
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Tags: Cole Williams, Dusty Sorg, Helen Wilson, James Babson, John Murlowski, Michael Rooker, Scott Anthony Leet
Posted on April 3, 2012 |
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Re-Cycle / Gwai wik (2006)
Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Re-Cycle, a romance novelist (Angelica Lee) announces the title of her next project – Land of the Dead. After running out of ideas, she deletes all drafts from her computer. Then she starts seeing a strange woman over and over again and stories described in her drafts all come alive. She decides to follow the woman, who leads her to an unknown land.
Starring: Angelica Lee, Siu-Ming Lau, Zeng Qi Qi, Rain Li, Lawrence Chou
Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
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Tags: Angelica Lee, Danny Pang, Lawrence Chou, Oxide Pang, Rain LI, Siu-Ming Lau, Zeng Qi Qi
Posted on April 2, 2012 |
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Sleepless Night / Nuit blanche (2011)
Action | Thriller
A drug heist goes wrong, as one of the drug carriers escapes after stabbing the robbers, gets a glimpse of their faces. The two masked men are actually two police officers, who decided to plan the heist. Vincent, a lieutenant who now has a bad stab wound, ends up with a huge bag of coke. The bag of coke belongs to a powerful mob boss/nightclub owner named Jose, who kidnaps Vincent's son in hopes to reclaim his property. Vincent has until the end of the night to return the stash and save his son.
Starring: Tomer Sisley, Joey Starr, Julien Boisselier
Director: Frédéric Jardin
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Posted on April 1, 2012 |
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Faust (2011)
Drama | Fantasy
A version of the German legend in which a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge.
Starring: Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk, Georg Friedrich
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
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Posted on April 1, 2012 |
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Oh My Friend (2011)
Romance
Chandu is passionate about music and he wants to become a lead singer and guitarist. His father is a government employee and wants his son to become a corporate employee. Siri is ChanduΓÇÖs childhood friend and neighbor. Both of them are extremely close friends. Siri has a boy friend Uday and Chandu falls in love with Ritu Sharma. The rest of the story is all about the confusions and conflict between and love and friendship.
Starring: Siddharth, Shruti K. Haasan, Hansika Motwani
Director: Venu Sriram
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Posted on April 1, 2012 |
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La voz dormida / The Sleeping Voice (2011)
Drama | War
Benito Zambrano has adaptated Dulce Chacon’s book of the same name, set in the terrible years immediately following the end of the Spanish civil war. The film focuses on the relationship between two sisters: Hortensia is pregnant and in jail in Madrid; Pepita has come from Cordoba to be with her and look after the child she is going to have. They are both in relationships with guerrillas fighting in the underground in the mountains.
Starring: María León, Inma Cuesta, Javier Godino, Marc Clotet, Daniel Holguín, Fanny de Castro
Director: Benito Zambrano
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Tags: Benito Zambrano, Daniel Holguín, Fanny de Castro, Inma Cuesta, Javier Godino, Marc Clotet, María León
Posted on April 1, 2012 |
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The Villain / Le vilain (2009)
Comedy
With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, Maniette, still lives. An unscrupulous property developer, Korazy, is buying up the neighborhood to turn it into a gleaming new banking district, but to her son's disgust Maniette leads the inhabitants resistance. Her ingenious methods provoke her boy's admiration, but he fights back with sneaky traps and underhand tricks when Maniette tries to force him to do the right thing just once in his life.
Starring: Catherine Frot, Albert Dupontel, Bouli Lanners, Nicolas Marié, Christine Murillo, Bernard Farcy
Director: Albert Dupontel
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Posted on April 1, 2012 |
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Miss Nobody (2010)
Comedy | Crime
A mild-mannered secretary discovers that she has a talent for murder as she ascends the corporate ladder.
Starring: Leslie Bibb, Adam Goldberg, Kathy Baker, Missi Pyle, Brandon Routh
Director: Tim Cox
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Posted on April 1, 2012 |
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Romancing in Thin Air / Gao hai ba zhi lian II (2012)
Drama | Romance
A Hong Kong movie megastar jilted at the altar by his actress bride finds true love in a neurotic fan while licking his wound in high-altitude Yunnan in China.
Starring: Louis Koo, Sammi Cheng, Yuanyuan Gao, Yi Huang, Wilfred Lau, Guangjie Li, Niu Tien, Baoqiang Wang
Director: Johnnie To
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Tags: Baoqiang Wang, Guangjie Li, Johnnie To, Louis Koo, Niu Tien, Sammi Cheng, Wilfred Lau, Yi Huang, Yuanyuan Gao
