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Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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The Scalphunters (1968)
Comedy | Western
Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them. Before he can do anything, the Indians are raided themselves by a group of scalphunters under the greedy Howie. Not only the hides, but also Joseph falls into their hands. Now Joe follows them alone and tries to trick the numerical superior group out of his hides.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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Sasori / Female Convict Scorpion (2008)
Action
A ruthless pack of thugs force mild-mannered, caught-in-the-middle-of-something-bigger Nami to murder her fiance's sister, decidedly ruining her pending marriage and landing the poor girl in the most brutal women's prison ever seen. Inside the hellblocks, she decides to stop being a victim at all costs, and ends up becoming stronger and even more vicious than the craziest inmates in the pen. She eventually escapes in a most unusual way, gets valuable fight training from a mysterious mountain man and returns to the streets in order to make the thugs who ruined her life pay.
Starring: Miki Mizuno, Dylan Kuo, Emme Wong, Nana Natsume, Sam Lee, Siu-Lung Leung
Director: Joe Ma
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Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children / Fainaru fantajî VII: Adobento chirudoren (2005)
Action | Animation | Anime | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
This computer animated film picks up where the Playstation Final Fantasy VII video game left off. Cloud, the hero of the game, has retired into seclusion, but when a mysterious and lethal disease known as Geostigma begins to spread across the planet, and three powerful, villainous children appear, he reluctantly emerges to face the new and mysterious threats. Featuring some of the most spectacularly lavish computer graphics ever created, 'Advent Children' continues the complex and compelling tradition that has made the Final Fantasy series one of the most popular games of all time.
Starring: Takahiro Sakurai, Ayumi Ito, Shotaro Morikubo, Maaya Sakamoto, Keiji Fujiwara, Taiten Kusunoki, Yûji Kishi, Kenji Nomura
Director: Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue
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Tags: Ayumi Ito, Keiji Fujiwara, Kenji Nomura, Maaya Sakamoto, Shotaro Morikubo, Taiten Kusunoki, Takahiro Sakurai, Takeshi Nozue, Tetsuya Nomura, Yûji Kishi
Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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The Contract / Mai shen qi (1979)
Comedy
The contract is a piece of almost blank paper by which MTV binds all its employees to eight years of impecunious service. Chi-Man, an aspiring but frustrated artist, hates the contract since he is given no chance of getting ahead. He constantly thinks of moving to greener pastures. His brother Chi-Ying is a self-made investor who has just come up with a laugh bomb. By chance, Chi-Man becomes the host of a Cat TV program. With the aid of the laugh bomb, he becomes an instant success, yet…
Starring: Michael Hui, Ricky Hui, Samuel Hui
Director: Michael Hui
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Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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Treasure Inn / Cai Shen Ke Zhan (2011)
Action | Comedy
Master Kung and Lo Pa are two police officers of White Horse City, who have high skills but are underused. A robbery happened at he city's richest man Ho Pak Man's home where his whole family was killed and their family treasure the "White Jade Goddess of Mercy" was stolen and the "Police God" Tit Mo Ching investigates the case. Kung and Lo Pa cannot participate because of their low status.
Coincidentally, Master Kung and Lo Pa arrest a pair of twin sisters, Water Dragon Girl and Fire Dragon Girl, who always pretend to catch wanted criminals to get monetary rewards. The twin sisters know that the "White Jade Goddess of Mercy" would be brought to the "Treasure Inn" for an auction. Wanting to hit big, Master Kung and Lo Pa go to the "Treasure Inn" with the twin sisters to investigate the truth. During that time, Master Kung and Water Dragon Girl become lovers from a kiss.
Starring: Nick Cheung, Charlene Choi, Kenny Ho, Yi Huang, Philip Ng, Nicholas Tse, Yang Liu, Dawei Tong, Hei-Yi Cheng
Director: Jing Wong
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Tags: Charlene Choi, Dawei Tong, Hei-Yi Cheng, Jing Wong, Kenny Ho, Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung, Philip Ng, Yang Liu, Yi Huang
Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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The Sorcerer and the White Snake / Bai she chuan shuo (2011)
Action | Fantasy
Previously titled "It's Love" and "Madame White Snake", this is yet another movie adaptation of the popular old Chinese tale about a scholar who falls in love with a woman, not knowing she is a 1000-year-old serpent who has taken on human form. White Snake (Eva Huang), in the reincarnation of a beautiful lady, falls in love with a young herbalist Xu Xian (Raymond Lam). With help of Green Snake (Charlene Choi), she enters the human world to marry him. However, Fa Hai (Jet Li), a sorcerer from Jin Shan Temple, chances upon her and a fiery battle ensues.
Starring: Jet Li, Shengyi Huang, Raymond Lam, Charlene Choi, Zhang Wen, Vivian Hsu, Miriam Yeung, Kar-Ying Law, Suet Lam, Chapman To, Sonija Kwok, Alfred Hsing, Wu Jiang
Director: Siu-Tung Ching
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Tags: Alfred Hsing, Chapman To, Charlene Choi, Jet Li, Kar-Ying Law, Miriam Yeung, Raymond Lam, Shengyi Huang, Siu-Tung Ching, Sonija Kwok, Suet Lam, Vivian Hsu, Wu Jiang, Zhang Wen
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Love is the Only Answer / Ren Yue Li Hun Hou (2011)
Romance
At BO and CHEONG wedding reception, the projected was initially showing their journey of love, but suddenly a flash of a clip of CHEONG and a sexy girl being intimate came up. BO calmly ran up to the stage and announced that the wedding is cancelled. The incident rapidly became a hot topic on the internet.
Starring: Lik-Sun Fong, Charmaine Sheh, Kay Tse, Chung Him Law
Director: Patrick Kong
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Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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Beginning of the Great Revival / The Founding of a Party / Jian Dang Wei Ye (2011)
Drama | History
A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Starring: John Woo, Yun-Fat Chow, Andy Lau, Daniel Wu, Bingbing Fan, Leehom Wang, Ye Liu, Xun Zhou, Nick Cheung, Jie Dong, Xueqi Wang, Kun Chen, Daoming Chen, Alex Fong, Chao Deng, Miriam Yeung, Xiaodong Guo, Lei Huang, Benshan Zhao, Wei Fan, Tao Guo, Xuebing Wang, Guoli Zhang
Director: Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang
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Tags: Alex Fong, Andy Lau, Benshan Zhao, Bingbing Fan, Chao Deng, Daniel Wu, Daoming Chen, Guoli Zhang, Jianxin Huang, Jie Dong, John Woo, Kun Chen, Leehom Wang, Lei Huang, Miriam Yeung, Nick Cheung, Sanping Han, Tao Guo, Wei Fan, Xiaodong Guo, Xuebing Wang, Xueqi Wang, Xun Zhou, Ye Liu, Yun-Fat Chow
Posted on May 8, 2012 |
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
A gallery of high-living lowflies will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade wants to find out why – and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre
Director: John Huston
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Posted on May 8, 2012 |
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Hello Goodbye (2008)
Comedy
French film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian couple in their fifties who share a comfortable life, a beautiful home, a posh country club and a midlife crisis.
Following a dream vacation to Israel where Alain (Depardieu) explores his Jewish roots, Gisèle (Ardant) insists they change their life and move to Tel Aviv. While Gisèle, a Jewish convert, finds her new life inspiring; Alain fights to embrace Hebrew, Jewish tradition and a new circumcision. Will Alain and Gisèle learn whether Shalom represents Hello or Goodbye?
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Benguigui, Lior Ashkenazi, Sasson Gabai
Director: Graham Guit
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Tags: Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu, Graham Guit, Jean Benguigui, Lior Ashkenazi, Sasson Gabai
Posted on May 8, 2012 |
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The Gore Gore Girls / Blood Orgy (1972)
Comedy | Horror | Mystery
Strippers at a sleazy club are being mutilated at an alarming rate. A pretty reporter enlists the aid of a debonair detective to solve the case and land her a front-page story. Soon, the two are wading through evidence against a vegetable-pulverizing freak, a creepy college student, and a group of angry feminists.
Starring: Frank Kress, Amy Farrell, Hedda Lubin
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
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Father of the Bride Part II (1995)
Comedy | Family | Romance
In this sequel to "Father of the Bride", George Banks must accept the reality of what his daughter's ascension from daughter to wife, and now, to mother means when placed into perspective against his own stage of life. As the comfortable family unit starts to unravel in his mind, a rapid progression into mid-life crisis is in his future. His journey to regain his youth acts as a catalyst for a kind of "rebirth" of his attitude on life when he and his wife, Nina, find how their lives are about to change as well.
Starring: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Martin Short, Kimberly Williams, Kieran Culkin
Director: Charles Shyer
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Father of the Bride (1991)
Comedy | Family | Romance
In this remake of the Spencer Tracy classic, George and Nina Banks are the parents of young soon-to-be-wed Annie. George is a nervous father unready to face the fact that his little girl is now a woman. The preparations for the extravagant wedding provide additional comic moments.
Starring: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Martin Short, Kimberly Williams, Kieran Culkin
Director: Charles Shyer
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The African Queen (1951)
Adventure | Romance
Charlie Allnut is the slovenly, gin-swilling captain of a tramp steamer called the African Queen, which ships supplies to small East African villages during World War I. Rose Sayer is the maiden-lady sister of a prim British missionary, Rev. Samuel Sayer. When Germans invade and Sayer dies, Allnut offers to take Rose back to civilization.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull
Director: John Huston
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Slice / Cheun (2010)
Thriller
A serial killer is preying on the rich and influential, exposing their sexual proclivities, dismembering them and dumping them and their severed body parts in various locations around Thailand. The police officer on the case is not even close to finding the killer, but given an ultimatum to solve it in 15 days, Papa Chin (Chatchai Plenpanich) turns to the one man he doesn't want to use — an imprisoned hitman named Tai (Arak Amornsupasiri), who thinks the killer is a friend of his from childhood. Tai let out of prison while his girlfriend Noi is kept under close watch by Chin.
Starring: Arak Amornsupasiri, Sonthaya Chitmanee, Jessica Pasaphan, Chatchai Plengpanich, Sikarin Polyong, Artthapan Poolsawad
Director: Kongkiat Khomsiri
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Tags: Arak Amornsupasiri, Artthapan Poolsawad, Chatchai Plengpanich, Jessica Pasaphan, Kongkiat Khomsiri, Sikarin Polyong, Sonthaya Chitmanee
Posted on May 8, 2012 |
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Lan Kwai Fong / Xi ai ye pu (2011)
Drama | Romance
Lan Kwai Fong (LKF), a well-known party location in Hong Kong with loads of nightclubs and bars. Everyone likes to go to LKF for fun, one night stands or even true love. LKF has captured the joys and sorrows of many… One night, Steven – a regular of LKF met the flight attendant – Jennifer. They had sex on the first night they met but both could feel love come along. They had another date on New Year's Eve. Unfortunately, misunderstanding tore them apart and Jennifer decided to disappear from LKF. After eight months, Steven meets with Jennifer again and hopes to restart a relationship with her. However, Jennifer is no longer single, she's now his boss, Leslie's girlfriend. At the same time, Steven receives a call that his close friend collapsed and had to be sent to hospital. His friend encouraged him to follow his heart. When he finally decides to tell Jennifer about his feelings, Jennifer is already engaged to Leslie. Steven is heart-broken. He accepts the job promotion to stay at an overseas' branch office. His friends throw him a farewell party. He reunites with Jennifer again at the party. Will the two be together again after everything they've been through in this place with tons of one night stands happening every night?
Starring: Pak-yu Chan, Yung Cheng, Steven Dasz, Jun Kung, Seth Leslie, Shiga Lin, Emme Wong, Seli Xian, Miki Yeung
Director: Wilson Chin
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Tags: Emme Wong, Jun Kung, Miki Yeung, Pak-yu Chan, Seli Xian, Seth Leslie, Shiga Lin, Steven Dasz, Wilson Chin, Yung Cheng
Posted on May 8, 2012 |
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Appleseed / Appurushîdo (2004)
Action | Animation | Sci-Fi
Set in a post-apocalyptic 2131 A.D.A.D., girl mercenary Deunen Knute finds herself spirited away from the badlands to the gleaming utopian city of Olympus. There she's reunited with her ex-b.f. Briareos, now half-man, half-cyborg. Deunen learns from new handler Hitomi that Olympus' serenity is founded on the use of bioroids, genetically engineered clones who hold key positions in the city's government. Hitomi herself is one. Superpowerful computer Gaia monitors all, through the mediation of seven Yoda-esque elders. When a shadowy faction opposed to the bioroids' civic control start blowing stuff up, Deunen and Briareos team up to protect the city.
Starring: Ai Kobayashi, Jûrôta Kosugi, Yuki Matsuoka, Asumi Miwa, Akimoto Tsubasa
Director: Shinji Aramaki
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Posted on May 8, 2012 |
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Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur / Doraemon: Nobita no kyôryû (2006)
Animation
After bringing a fossilized egg back to life with the Time Cloth, Nobita finds himself the owner of a baby dinosaur. Everything is fine until it grows up. Nobita and friends use Doraemon's time machine to return it back to its own time.
Starring: Gekidan Hitori, Yumi Kakazu, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Subaru Kimura, Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Oohara, Tomokazu Seki
Director: Ayumu Watanabe
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Posted on May 7, 2012 |
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The Woman in Black (2012)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Young lawyer Arthur Kipps travels to a remote village to organize a recently deceased client's papers, where he encounters the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer, Roger Allam, Sophie Stuckey, Misha Handley
Director: James Watkins
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Posted on May 7, 2012 |
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One for the Money (2012)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Unemployed and newly-divorced Stephanie Plum lands a job at her cousin's bail-bond business, where her first assignment puts her on the trail of a wanted local cop from her romantic past.
Starring: Katherine Heigl, Jason O'Mara
Director: Julie Anne Robinson
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