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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
Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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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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Tags: Charmaine Sheh, Chung Him Law, Kay Tse, Lik-Sun Fong, Patrick Kong
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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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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Tags: Amy Farrell, Frank Kress, Hedda Lubin, Herschell Gordon Lewis
Posted on May 8, 2012 |
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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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Tags: Charles Shyer, Diane Keaton, Kieran Culkin, Kimberly Williams, Martin Short, Steve Martin
Posted on May 8, 2012 |
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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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Tags: Charles Shyer, Diane Keaton, Kieran Culkin, Kimberly Williams, Martin Short, Steve Martin
Posted on May 8, 2012 |
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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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Posted on May 8, 2012 |
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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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Tags: Ai Kobayashi, Akimoto Tsubasa, Asumi Miwa, Jûrôta Kosugi, Shinji Aramaki, Yuki Matsuoka
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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Tags: Ciarán Hinds, Daniel Radcliffe, James Watkins, Janet McTeer, Misha Handley, Roger Allam, Sophie Stuckey
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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Posted on May 7, 2012 |
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Outpost: Black Sun (2012)
Action | Horror
The year is 1945, the closing stages of WW2, and a German scientist by the name of Klausener is working on a frightening new technology that has the power to create an immortal Nazi army. Flash forward to present day, and a NATO task force is hurriedly deployed to Eastern Europe, where a sinister enemy appears to be mercilessly killing everything in its path. But this is no ordinary foe. Only Helena, a gutsy investigator on the trail of the notorious war-criminal Klausener, accepts the reality of that they are facing a battalion of Nazi Storm-Troopers, a veritable zombie army on the march. With the help of Wallace, a man who's been chasing Nazi secrets for years, the two of them team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep behind enemy lines.
Starring: Catherine Steadman, Richard Coyle, Ali Craig
Director: Steve Barker
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Posted on May 7, 2012 |
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The Mechanic (2011)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Jason Statham, Ben Foster and Donald Sutherland star in this remake of Michael Winner's 1972 action thriller. When his best friend and mentor Harry (Donald Sutherland) is murdered, professional hitman Arthur 'The Mechanic' Bishop (Statham) sets out to wreak his revenge on those responsible. When Harry's son Steve (Ben Foster) asks if Arthur will take him on as an apprentice, the two look set to become the deadliest duo in town, but complications arise as the young student starts to outstrip his master.
Starring: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Tony Goldwyn, Donald Sutherland, Jeff Chase
Director: Simon West
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Tags: Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland, Jason Statham, Jeff Chase, Simon West, Tony Goldwyn
Posted on May 7, 2012 |
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Stir Crazy (1980)
Comedy | Crime
Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.
Starring: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, JoBeth Williams, Georg Stanford Brown, Craig T. Nelson
Director: Sidney Poitier
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Tags: Craig T. Nelson, Gene Wilder, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams, Richard Pryor, Sidney Poitier
Posted on May 7, 2012 |
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The Green Berets (1968)
Action | Drama | War
Story centers around the operations of a Special Forces Unit in Vietnam, their colonel, and a reporter who covers the action.
Starring: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton
Director: Ray Kellogg, John Wayne
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Posted on May 6, 2012 |
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T-ARA: Cry Cry & Lovey-Dovey Music Video Collection (2012)
Documentary | Music
First music video collection Blu-ray release from T-ARA. This is a drama-like music video collection. Features director's cut version and rare making-of. Also includes music videos "Cry Cry (dance version & ballad version)," "Lovey-Dovey (zombie version & in Tokyo version)," and "Watashi Tachi Aishiattajanai" collaborating with Davinchi. Comes with a 72-page photo book (B5 size).
Starring: T-ARA
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