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The Cold Light of Day (2012)
Action | Thriller
Story of Will Shaw, a young Wall Street trader whose family is kidnapped on a vacation to Spain. He's left with only hours to find them, uncover a government conspiracy and the connection between their disappearance and his father's secrets.
Starring: Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, Verónica Echegui, Roschdy Zem, Joseph Mawle
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
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Tags: Bruce Willis, Henry Cavill, Joseph Mawle, Mabrouk El Mechri, Roschdy Zem, Sigourney Weaver, Verónica Echegui
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For Greater Glory / For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada (2012)
Drama | History | War
A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), a war against the atheistic Mexican government by the people of Mexico led by General Gorostieta, the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake.
Starring: Andy Garcia, Oscar Isaac, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Santiago Cabrera, Eva Longoria, Peter O'Toole
Director: Dean Wright
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Weekend (2011)
Drama | Romance
On a Friday night after a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club, alone and on the pull. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special. That weekend, in bars and in bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling stories and having sex, the two men get to know each other. It is a brief encounter that will resonate throughout their lives. The Weekender is both an honest and unapologetic love story between two guys and a film about the universal struggle for an authentic life in all its forms. It is about the search for identity and the importance of making a passionate commitment to your life.
Starring: Tom Cullen, Chris New
Director: Andrew Haigh
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King of California (2007)
Comedy | Drama
At age sixteen, Miranda has already been abandoned by her mother, dropped out of school and has been supporting herself as an employee at McDonald's while her father Charlie resides in a mental institution. When Charlie is released and sent back to their home, the relatively peaceful existence Miranda's built for herself becomes completely disrupted. Charlie has become obsessed with the notion that a long-lost Spanish treasure is buried underneath their local suburban California Costco. Initially skeptical, Miranda soon finds herself joining in Charlie's questionable antics in an effort to give him one last shot at accomplishing his dreams in this darkly funny, exciting and surprisingly hopeful take on the modern family and the American dream.
Starring: Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood, Willis Burks II, Laura Kachergus, Paul Lieber, Kathleen Wilhoite
Director: Michael Cahill
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Tags: Evan Rachel Wood, Kathleen Wilhoite, Laura Kachergus, Michael Cahill, Michael Douglas, Paul Lieber, Willis Burks II
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Alone in the Dark II / Alone in the Dark 2 (2008)
Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
When the night falls, and the creatures of the dark are crawling out of the shadows, there is only one man who stands between us and evil: Edward Carnby. One of the most popular characters in video game history, Edward Carnby returns for a second mission
Starring: Rick Yune, Rachel Specter, Lance Henriksen, Danny Trejo, Jason Connery, Zack Ward, Ralf Moeller, Bill Moseley
Director: Michael Roesch, Peter Scheerer
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Tags: Bill Moseley, Danny Trejo, Jason Connery, Lance Henriksen, Michael Roesch, Peter Scheerer, Rachel Specter, Ralf Moeller, Rick Yune, Zack Ward
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Alone in the Dark (2005)
Action | Horror
Based on the video game, Alone in the Dark focuses on Edward Carnby, a detective of the paranormal, who slowly unravels a mysterious events with deadly results.
Starring: Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff, Frank C. Turner, Matthew Walker, Will Sanderson, Mark Acheson, Darren Shahlavi, Karin Konoval
Director: Uwe Boll
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Tags: Christian Slater, Darren Shahlavi, Frank C. Turner, Karin Konoval, Mark Acheson, Matthew Walker, Stephen Dorff, Tara Reid, Uwe Boll, Will Sanderson
Posted on September 11, 2012 |
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9 Songs (2004)
Drama | Music | Romancec
Matt meets Lisa during a mobbed rock concert at London's Brixton Academy. By night's end, they are in bed together. Over the next few months, their growing sexual passion is balanced only by their love of music and the concerts they attend.
Starring: Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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Layer Cake (2004)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Planning to retire and begin a new life, Mr. X (Daniel Craig, Casino Royale), a successful West End drug dealer, has been asked for one last favor: to negotiate the sale of one million hitsof Ecstasy. Unfortunately for Mr. X, the pills were stolen from a Serbian drug lord who'll cut offhis head if he sells them. And with a London crime czar (Michael Gambon, Open Range & The Insider)promising to retire him permanently if he doesn't, Mr. X may be rightfully concerned about his future. Nothing worth losing his head over.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham, George Harris, Jamie Foreman, Tom Hardy, Sienna Miller, Michael Gambon
Director: Matthew Vaughn
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Presumed Innocent (1990)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A prosecutor is accused of murdering a beautiful colleague with whom he was having an extramarital affair.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Raul Julia, Greta Scacchi, Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Dennehy, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Mean Machine (2001)
Comedy | Drama | Sport
Disgraced ex-England captain (Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan) is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. Whilst in jail, he doesn't recieve any favours because of his celebrity status in the outside world. He is out numbered and many prisoners constantly barrage him with insults for letting down his country in a crucial World Cup game. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. These prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards. The prisoners are lead by Danny and the whole of the prison, guards aside, are behind them. Game on……
Starring: Vinnie Jones, Jason Statham, David Kelly, David Hemmings, Ralph Brown, Vas Blackwood, Stephen Walters
Director: Barry Skolnick
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Triple Tap / Cheung wong chi wong (2010)
Action | Thriller
Champion competitive marksman Ken comes across an armoured Van Robbery. He sees a policeman help hostage and shoots and kills four of the robbers. One of the robbers escapes and the policeman survives. The case is handled by Jerry Chang, whom Ken knows from having recetly beaten him in a shooting match. Ken is found not guilty in court. Soon after, Ken is attacked by the escaped robber Pang Tao. Their confrontation reveals a very different background story and brings about a myriad of lies and traps and changes in relationships as Jerry and Ken try to outsmart each other.
Starring: Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Charlene Choi, Bingbing Li, Alex Fong, Suet Lam, Chapman To
Director: Tung-Shing Yee
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Tags: Alex Fong, Bingbing Li, Chapman To, Charlene Choi, Daniel Wu, Louis Koo, Suet Lam, Tung-Shing Yee
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Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son / Big Mama 3 (2000)
Comedy
FBI agent Malcolm Turner and his son, Trent, go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. Posing as Big Momma and Charmaine, they must find the murderer before he finds them.
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Brandon T. Jackson, Jessica Lucas
Director: Raja Gosnell
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Big Momma's House 2 / Big Mama 2 (2006)
Action | Comedy | Thriller
Undercover Agent Malcolm Turner is back and this time he's out to expose the suspected designer of a deadly computer "worm" that would allow outside forces access to sophistical and critical government intelligence files. But unfortunately, the only way the crafty agent can get next to the worm's creator, Tom Fuller, is to access the programmer's Orange County home as the new "nanny" to Fuller and his wife Leah's children: toddler Andrew and his two older sisters, Carrie and Molly. This means that Malcolm must once again rely on his sure-fire alter ego, the take-no-prisoners Hattie Mae Pierce, a.k.a. "Big Momma," to bring down the bad guys and prove that a woman's work is never done! But once undercover, the job proves another tough juggling act for Big Momma as "she" must manage the hectic lives of the three Fuller kids, keep up with their myriad of daily activities…
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Emily Procter
Director: John Whitesell
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Big Momma's House / Big Mama (2000)
Action | Comedy | Crime
FBI agent Malcolm Turner is known best for being a brilliant, master of disguise. Malcolm's latest assignment sends him to small-town Georgia, where he's assigned to trap a brutal bank robber (and a recent prison escapee) who they suspect will be coming down to visit his ex-girlfriend Sherry and her son. Malcolm sets up a stakeout across from the home of a larger-than-life southern matriarch known as Big Momma, who's about to be visited by Sherry. It's a simple plan, but there's one big problem: Unbeknownst to Sherry, Big Momma has unexpectedly left town. So Malcolm, decides to impersonate the cantankerous Southern granny. Using a few tricks of disguise, he completely transforms himself into Big Momma, even taking on the corpulent septuagenarian's everyday routine-from cooking soul food to delivering babies to "testifying" at the local church. In the mean time…
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti
Director: Raja Gosnell
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Life Happens / L!fe Happens (2011)
Comedy
Unabashed party girl, Kim, is in for a rush of reality after a one night stand results in unexpected motherhood. Clearly not ready for the dating "buzz kill" that having a baby can bring, Kim eventually comes to realize that being a good parent to a precious little boy has its own rewards…
Starring: Krysten Ritter, Kate Bosworth, Rachel Bilson, Geoff Stults, Justin Kirk, Fallon Goodson, Rhys Coiro, Jason Biggs, Kristen Johnston
Director: Kat Coiro
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Les Tuche / The Tuche Family (2011)
Comedy
Everyone in the village of Bouzolles knows the Tuche family. Jeff, Cathy and their three children get by on the fringes of society. In keeping with the Tuche philosophy “Man is not made to work”, the whole family strives to be happy despite the lack of money. They know exactly what the future holds: they will be forever poor, but content. Then their hand-to-mouth existence is turned on its head. The Tuches get rich, and rich beyond their wildest dreams! They win 100 million euros in the Euro-lottery that will change their lives forever. If you’re going to change your lifestyle, you may as well change location. And what better for the Tuche family than moving to Monaco, where Cathy has always dreamed of living? They need to fit in and be accepted in their swanky new homeland, which means changing their habits whilst staying true to themselves.
Starring: Jean-Paul Rouve, Isabelle Nanty, Claire Nadeau, Théo Fernandez, Sarah Stern, Pierre Lottin, Sami Outalbali
Director: Olivier Baroux
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The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Connie Nielsen, Tamara Tunie, Judith Ivey
Director: Taylor Hackford
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Tags: Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Connie Nielsen, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey, Keanu Reeves, Tamara Tunie, Taylor Hackford
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Hitman / Sat sau ji wong (1998)
Action | Comedy
A dying old man hires a mysterious rogue assassin known as the 'King of Assassins' to kill the former yakuza boss who murdered his family during the Sino-Japanese war. Ironically, the yakuza boss forsees his own death and establishes a $100 million dollar revenge fund to reward the person who kills the instigator.
Starring: Jet Li, Eric Tsang, Simon Yam, Gigi Leung, Keiji Sato
Director: Wei Tang
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Posted on September 10, 2012 |
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Men in Black 3 / MIIIB (2012)
Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Agent Jay travels back in time to 1969, where he teams up with a younger version of Agent Kay to stop an evil alien from destroying the future.
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Emma Thompson, Michael Stuhlbarg
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Posted on September 10, 2012 |
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Afghan Luke / Afghan Luke and the Burgundy of Hash (2011)
Drama
Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers possibly mutilating corpses in Afghanistan is buried, Luke quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to get the real story. With his offbeat buddy, Tom, tagging along, Luke returns to Afghanistan and intends to gather enough evidence to get his old story into print. But he soon finds that the country is an even more dangerous place than when he left. To make matters worse, his old friend and fixer, Mateen has been hired away by Luke's journalistic nemesis, Imran Sahar. Soon the trip for Luke and Tom in Afghanistan turns into a surreal and perilous adventure, a journey into an alternate reality, filtered through a haze of gun smoke.
Starring: Nick Stahl, Stephen Lobo, Ali Liebert, Nicolas Wright, Steve Cochrane
Director: Mike Clattenburg
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