movies

The Brothers Bloom (2008)

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Weisz, Rachel | Brody, Adrien | Ruffalo, Mark | Kikuchi, Rinko | Coltrane, Robbie | Schell, Maximilian | Jay, Ricky | Gordon, Zachary | Records, Max | Nyman, Andy | Segan, Noah | Zehetner, Nora | Bergman, Ram | Johnson, Craig | Jovanovic, Dubravko
Directors: Johnson, Rian
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Brothers – older Stephen and three years junior Bloom – have been con artists since they were kids. Stephen is the mastermind, for who the intricacy of the story used in the con is as important as the positive outcome of the swindle. Bloom is the main character of Stephen’s stories, the character he considers the anti-hero. As adults, they travel the world and never enlist the same people twice in their cons, except for their consistent sidekick, the mysterious and primarily silent Bang Bang, a Japanese woman who just appeared in their lives one day and who has a penchant for blowing things up. As Bloom hits his mid-thirties, he wants to quit the business as he is losing his own identity to that of the characters he portrays; he doesn’t know anymore what is real and what is make-believe. Stephen talks him into one last con, the mark to be the eccentric, lonely but beautiful New Jersey heiress, Penelope Stamp. Penelope’s primary past-time in life is to, as she calls it, “borrow hobbies”: when she sees something she likes, she learns how to do it solely through reading books. As the brothers go through their final con on Penelope, three main problems may occur to thwart the plan. First, the brothers’ former mentor and now arch enemy, Diamond Dog, may exact his long awaited revenge on the brothers. Second, Penelope may end up being more unpredictable than all their former marks. And third, Bloom, who has let love slip by in his life, may fall for Penelope. But through the process, no one ever really knows who is conning who.

Rise of the Gargoyles (2009)

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Genres: Horror
Countries: Canada | France | USA
Actors: Balfour, Eric | Dafydd, Ifan Huw | Mancuso, Nick | Salinger, Justin | Clarke, Tanya | Néron, Caroline
Directors: Corcoran, Bill
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The gargoyle grows a stone skin during daylight as camouflage and is affected by UV or simulated sunlight lamps. This makes it freeze in place but only if sunlight hits it. Otherwise, it reverts back in darkness. This turning to stone motif is exactly like Disney’s Gargoyles cartoon (except Disney’s stayed stone all day). This creature actually flies and bullets just nick the skin! Also Eric Balfour reminds me of David Naughton in “An American Werewolf in London”. A pretty decent film shot entirely in Paris. This beast is vicious and shows no mercy with moves like a flyby decapitation. I like the underground tunnels and rooms of the egg nest (it’s a female) and that they are …”older than Rome”.

Command Performance (2009)

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Smith, Melissa | Shopov, Hristo | Legeno, Dave | Baharov, Zahary | von Franckenstein, Clement | Geraskov, Ivaylo | Varod, Shelly | Wolejnio, Katarzyna | Lundgren, Ida | Dobson, Robin | Vasilev, Raicho | Slavov, Slavi | Chalke, James | Shopov, Naum
Directors: Lundgren, Dolph
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A Moscow charity concert turns bloody when armed extortionists take the head liner American pop-star Venus and the Russian President with his family hostage. Help is on the way when the drummer of a heavy metal warm-up band, an ex-bad ass biker played by Lundgren, and a young Russian F.S.B. agent team up to fight back. But our two heroes are seriously outnumbered and things aren’t as simple as they appear when old ghosts from the Soviet Union appear to haunt the present in this fast paced action piece.

Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey (2009)

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Genres: Animation
Countries: USA
Actors:
Directors: Virgien, Norton
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The film chronicles George’s adventures as he befriends Kayla, a baby elephant, at a magic circus show and helps her travel across the country to be reunited with her family. Accompanied by his friend, the Man with the Yellow Hat, George travels by foot, train, and truck to reach Kayla’s brother and sister in California, only to be accused of elephant-napping and brought all the way back to New York City. Luckily, Kayla’s owner sees what a good friend George is and realizes how much Kayla misses her family. Kayla’s brother and sister are brought to the circus in New York.

Fragments (2009)

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Genres: Short | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Kirwan, Robin | Nield, James | Drive, Lucy | Johnson, Joey | Lin, Wing-Ho | Clements-Marsden, Chantelle | Clarke, Andrew | Nolan, Shane
Directors: Clayton, Jonathon
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In an ordinary day, a deranged man has a rampage in a diner and randomly shoots the costumers. The survivors of the tragic episode are deeply affected by the shooting and have the most different reactions: the youngster, Anne Hagen, becomes popular at school telling her version of the shooting; her friend Jimmy Jaspersen becomes mute and closes himself to the outer world; the waitress Carla Davenport neglects her baby and has several vulgar relationships with men; Dr. Bruce Laraby loses his self-confidence and tries an experimental treatment to the migraine of his wife; and the compulsive gambler Charlie Archenault believes that he is lucky in the game and gambles all his money but he has a jinx.

Telstar (2008)

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: UK
Actors: O'Neill, Con | Spacey, Kevin | Ferris, Pam | Feild, JJ | Corden, James | Burke, Tom | Little, Ralf | Mitchell, Sid | Baynton, Mathew | Evans, Shaun | Dixon, Callum | Harper, Tom | Lee, Jon | Harman, Nigel | Barât, Carl
Directors: Moran, Nick
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Blackly comic, music-infused biopic about the life – and tragic death – of maverick British songwriter and record producer Joe Meek. Flamboyantly gay in a time when homosexuality remained outlawed, tone deaf, drug addicted, famously paranoid and obsessed with black magic, Meek (Con O’Neill) was responsible for a string of 1960s chart-toppers including ‘Have I the Right’, ‘Just Like Eddie’, ‘Johnny, Remember Me’ and the groundbreaking ‘Telstar’. Kevin Spacey co-stars as ‘Major’ Wilfred Banks, the businessman who bankrolls Meeks’s home studio at 304 Holloway Road in North London.

Moonshot (2009)

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Dillane, Richard | Hope, William | Lapaine, Daniel | Lincoln, Andrew | Marsters, James | Marullo, Callum | McDougall, Martin | Nolan, Nathan | Poletti, Patrick | Porter, Ian | Reynolds, Michael J. | Stinton, Colin | White, Trevor | Whitmey, Nigel | Burton, Ursula
Directors: Dale, Richard
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Man’s landing on the moon was our greatest technological achievement. The Apollo 11 mission was truly the stuff of dreams. For the first time, our species walked on another celestial body. Even more remarkable was their ability to make it back. This is the story of the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing. Drama with digitally remastered original footage.

Sappho (2008)

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Ukraine
Actors: Barrie, Avalon | Soley, Todd | Shiryaeva, Lyudmila | Stupka, Bogdan | Vlachos, Elissaios | Psihoyiopoulos, Vassilis | Osipova, Oksana | Kosenko, Sergey | Semenov, Anatoly | Leontaritis, Alexander
Directors: Crombie, Robert
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“And? What comes next?” “It’s lost. We’ll never know.” “Perhaps we should decide for ourselves” Sappho is a provocative and passionate love story set in the 1920s – not to be watched with children or with parents. Millionaire’s daughter Sappho Lovell arrives on the Greek island of Lesbos for her honeymoon with her artist husband Phil. There she meets Helene, the daughter of a Russian archaeologist, and she falls in love with her. As our three lovers live out a complex girl-boy-girl sexual triangle, Sappho also comes to believe that she is the reincarnation of the ancient poetess Sappho – that Sappho who first put the “lesbian” in Lesbos. However, our modern Sappho does realize how the ancient Sappho’s legend ends… Inspired by the poems of Sappho

The Thaw (2009)

Friday, September 25th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: MacIsaac, Martha | Kilmer, Val | Ashmore, Aaron | Schmid, Kyle | Song, Steph | Leacock, Viv | Callander, John | Gacki, Sebastian | Rae, Alejandro | Blair, Lisa Marie | DeLuise, Anne Marie
Directors: Lewis, Mark A.
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At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what’s frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.

The Thaw (2009)

Friday, September 25th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: MacIsaac, Martha | Kilmer, Val | Ashmore, Aaron | Schmid, Kyle | Song, Steph | Leacock, Viv | Callander, John | Gacki, Sebastian | Rae, Alejandro | Blair, Lisa Marie | DeLuise, Anne Marie
Directors: Lewis, Mark A.
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At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what’s frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.