Tuesday, March 25, 2008

..:: 2008 April Update ::..

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4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days / 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile [2007]
Genre: Drama

Plot Outline:
Drama about a woman who assists her friend to arrange an illegal abortion in 1980's Romania.




Alvin and the Chipmunks [2007]
Genre: Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Music

Tagline: Here comes trouble.

Plot Outline:
A struggling songwriter named Dave Seville finds success when he comes across a trio of singing chipmunks: mischievous leader Alvin, brainy Simon, and chubby, impressionable Theodore.




Appassionata [1974]
Genre: Drama

Plot Summary: Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households...




August Rush [2007]
Genre: Drama / Music

Tagline: An incredible journey moving at the speed of sound

Plot Outline:
A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.




The Band's Visit / Bikur Ha-Tizmoret [2007] [Israel] LiMiTED
Genre: Comedy / Drama

Tagline: Once-not long ago-a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this...It wasn't that important.

Plot Outline:
A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.




Bee Movie [2007]
Genre:Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy

Tagline:On November 2 Hold on to your honey

Plot Outline:
Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us.




Boarding Gate [2007]
Genre: Thriller

Plot Summary:
An Italian woman [Argento] who lives in London [and] has a passionate affair with a former financial big gun [Madsen]. She also had a second lover [a Leung], a contract killer who has to kill the big gun. Her second lover's wife [Yeoh] is behind the scenes, pulling the strings.




Brick Lane [2007]
Genre: Drama

Plot Summary:
A young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneem, arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London, and in a loveless marriage with the middle aged Chanu, she fears her soul is quietly dying.




Chapter 27 [2007]
Genre: Crime / Drama

Tagline: No one can survive becoming a legend.

Plot Outline:
A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.




Cocoon [1985]
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi

Tagline: It is everything you've dreamed of. It is nothing you expect.

Plot Outline:
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigour.




Coneheads [1993]
Genre: Comedy / Sci-Fi

Tagline: Heading your way

Plot Summary:
An alien couple known as Beldar and Prymatt with cone-shaped heads from the planet called Remulak is mistakingly ditched on earth...




Dan in Real Life [2007]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance

Tagline: Something's happening to Dan. It's confusing. It's awkward. It's family.

Plot Outline:
A widower finds out the woman he fell in love with is his brother's girlfriend.




Earth [2007]
Genre: Documentary

Plot Outline:
Feature-length version of the documentary TV series "Planet Earth" (2006), following the migration paths of four animal families.




The Devil Came on Horseback [2007]
Genre: Documentary

Tagline: A witness to evil. A force for peace. An unbelievable true story.

Plot Outline:
A documentary that exposes the genocide raging in Darfur, Sudan as seen through the eyes of a former U.S. marine who returns home to make the story public.



Enchanted [2007]
Genre: Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Romance

Tagline: The real world and the animated world collide.

Plot Outline:
A classic Disney fairytale collides with modern-day New York City in a story about a fairytale princess who is sent to our world by an evil queen. Soon after her arrival, Princess Giselle begins to change her views on life and love after meeting a handsome lawyer. Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?




Face Off [1997]
Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Tagline: In order to catch him, he must become him.

Plot Outline:
An FBI agent (John Travolta) has a captured bomber's face surgically
removed and attached to his head so that he can find out where the latest bomb has been placed. The faceless bomber (Nicolas Cage) wakes up and forces the doctors to attach the FBI agent's face to his head, beginning a deadly game of cat and mouse.




Flashdance [1983]
Genre: Drama / Romance / Music

Tagline: What a feeling.

Plot Outline:
A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.





The Game Plan [2007]
Genre: Comedy / Family / Sport

Tagline: Joe Kingman had the perfect game plan to win the championship... but first, he has to tackle one little problem.

Plot Outline:
An NFL quarterback living the bachelor lifestyle discovers that he has a 8-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.




Hitman [2007]
Genre: Action / Crime / Thriller

Plot Outline:
A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as 'The Agency' is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Eastern Europe.




Interview [2007]
Genre: Drama

Tagline: Everything you say can and will be used against you

Plot Outline:
After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist (Buscemi) is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress (Miller).




Jason and the Argonauts [1963]
Genre: Action / Family / Fantasy / Adventure

Tagline: Greatest Odyssey Of The Ages - for the first time on the screen

Plot Outline:
The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece




John Rambo [2008]
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller

Tagline: Heroes never die.... They just reload.

Plot Outline:
In Thailand, John Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit.




Jumper [2008]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Tagline: anywhere is possible.

Plot Outline:
A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them.




Public Fears in Private Places / Couers [2006]
Genre: Drama / Romance

Tagline: For six strangers in search of love, the City of Lights can be a very lonely place.

Plot Outline:
In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.




Priceless / Hord de Prix [2008] LiMiTED
Genre: Comedy

Plot Outline:
Through a set of wacky circumstances, a young gold digger (Tautou) mistakenly woos a mild-mannered bartender (Elmaleh) thinking he's a wealthy suitor.




Seven Years in Tibet [1997]
Genre: Adventure / Biography / Drama

Tagline: At the end of the world his real journey began.

Plot Outline:
True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet.




The Shepherd Border Patrol [2008]
Genre: Action

Tagline: Welcome To Mexico

Plot Outline:
A texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.




Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [2007]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Musical / Thriller

Tagline: Never Forget. Never Forgive.

Plot Outline:
Based on the hit Broadway musical which tells the infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.




There Will Be Blood [2007]
Genre: Crime / Drama

Tagline: When Ambition Meets Faith

Plot Outline:
A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. more




Tinto Brass - Salon Kitty [Uncensored Directors Cut] [DVD Rip]
Genre: Drama

Tagline: Depraved. Decadent. Damned.

Plot Summary:
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty's help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.




The Valet / La Doublure [2006] [France.Italy.Belgium]
Genre: Comedy

Plot Outline:
A porter and a top-model have to pretend to be a couple in order to salvage a CEO's marriage.




A Very British Gangster [2006]
Genre: Documentary

Tagline: Look after those that look after you F*ck off those that f*ck off you

Plot Outline:
A documentary about one of Britain's most dangerous crime families and introduces us to its magnetic, larger-than-life leader, Dominic Noonan (aka Lattlay Fottfoy).




The Water Horse - Legend of the Deep [2007]
Genre: Adventure / Family / Fantasy

Tagline: Every big secret starts small.

Plot Outline:
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.




Wristcutters: A Love Story [2006]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance

Tagline: Life is a trip, but the afterlife is one hell of a ride.

Plot Outline:
A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide.




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Sunday, March 02, 2008

..:: 2008 March Update ::..

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21 Grams [2003]
Genre: Drama / Crime / Thriller

Tagline: Difference between dead and life

Plot Outline:
A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician (Penn), a grieving mother (Watts) and a born-again ex-con (Del Toro).




The Art of Fighting [2006] [Korea]
Director: Sin Han-sol
Cast: Baek Yun-sik, Jae-hui
Genre: Action
Language : Korean
Subtitles : English
Running Time : 95 minutes
Release Date : 20 Mar 06
Distributor : CJ Entertainment

Synopsis:
A coward by nature, Byung-tae has hard days enduring the bullies at school. One day, he meets Pan-su, an expert in martial arts, and under Pan-su's guidance, he learns how to fight back. He quickly learns how to avoid physical violence on him, but will he succeed in beating others? Now Byung-tae starts to learn what it really means to be in a duel and the true meaning of life.




The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford [2007]
Genre: Biography / Crime / Drama / Western

Plot Outline:
Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.




Atonement [2007]
Genre: Drama / Romance / War

Tagline: You can only imagine the truth.

Plot Outline:
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's (Keira Knightley) lover (James McAvoy) of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.




Beowulf [2007]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy

Tagline: Pride is the curse.

Plot Outline:
The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.




The Birdcage [1996]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Music

Tagline: Come as you are.

Plot Outline:
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents.




Blue Velvet [1987]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

Tagline: The Most Talked About Film of the Decade (US Laserdisc release)

Plot Outline:
After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town.




Caligula [1980] [Tinto Brass]
Genre: Drama / History / Adult

Tagline: What would you have done if you had been given absolute power of life and death over everybody else in the whole world?

Plot Outline:
Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.




Charlie Wilson's War [2007]
Genre: Biography / Drama

Tagline: A stiff drink. A little mascara. A lot of nerve. Who said they couldn't bring down the Soviet empire.

Plot Outline:
Charlie Wilson's War is the true story of how a playboy congressman, a renegade CIA agent and a beautiful Houston socialite joined forces to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history. Their efforts contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, with consequences that reverberate throughout the world today.




Control - The Ian Curtis Story [2007]
Genre: Biography / Drama / Music

Plot Outline:
A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.




The Customer is always right [2006] [Korea] [EngSub]
Alt Title: Son-nim-eun Wang-i-da
Film Director: Oh Ki-hyeon
Cast: Seong Ji-roo, Myeong Kye-nam, Seong Hyeon-ah, Lee Seon-gyoon, Lee Myeong-jin
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Synopsis:
An Chang-jin is a barber, a third-generation barber, in fact. He chats with customers, cuts their hair, shaves them. His everyday life is so ordinary and dull at the peaceful barbershop, except that his wife is young and beautiful. Then, one day a strange customer, Kim Yang-gil, visits the barbershop. He has “HATE” tattooed upon each finger joint. He gets a shave, a haircut and demands money three times a week. The intimidator takes double money each time he visits. The barber gradually is driven into a corner and he wants to escape from the bully but it is beyond his capacity because he is smart, minute, violent, mean and sly. Moreover, the intimidator casts an amorous glance at the barber’s wife and the barber, who can’t bear this anymore, hires a detective. The appearance of the detective seems to bring him peace but it’s just for a while. On the contrary, the curious detective watches for a chance to catch the barber unawares plus his riddling wife complicates this affair. The odd encounter with the barber, the stranger, the detective and the barber’s wife comes to an unexpected end.




The Day After Tomorrow [2004]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Tagline: This year, a sweater won't do.

Plot Outline:
A climatologist tries to figure out a way to save the world from abrupt global warming. He must get to his young son in New York, which is being taken over by a new ice age.




Drugstore Cowboy [1989]
Genre: Crime / Drama

Plot Outline:
A realistic road movie about a drug addict, his 'family', and their inevitable decline into crime.

Movie Synopsis:
DRUGSTORE COWBOY was one of a group of films that led to the explosion of American independent cinema.




Duck Soup - The Marx Brothers [1933]
Genre: Comedy / Musical

Plot Outline:
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.



Everybody Has Secrets [2004] [Korea] [Eng.sub]
Artist Name(s) : Lee Byung Hun | Kim Hyo Jin | Chu Sang Mi
Release Date : October 7, 2004
ee Byung Hun takes on a hot sister trio in Everybody Has Secrets!


Ever wondered what it would be like to date three beauties in a row?
Top heartbreaker Lee Byung Hun gets the chance to fulfill his heart's
desire in this appealing new blockbuster that captures viewers with a
bold mixture of comedic and erotic flair.



Gone Baby Gone [2007]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery

Tagline: Everyone Wants The Truth... Until They Find It.

Plot Outline:
Based on the Dennis Lehane novel about two Boston area detectives investigating a little girl's kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally.




The Great Dictator [1940]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / War

Tagline: The Comedy Masterpiece! Charlie Chaplin's first talkie...

Plot Outline:
In Chaplin's satire on Nazi Germany, dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double... a poor Jewish barber... who one day is mistaken for Hynkel.




The Ground Truth: After the Killing Fields [2007]
Genre: Documentary / Biography / War

Plot Summary:
The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans - ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq - as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities.




Guys and Dolls [1955]
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance / Crime

Plot Outline:
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.




He Was a Quiet Man [2007]
Genre: Comedy / Drama

Tagline: He seemed like such a nice guy.. He pretty much kept to himself...

Plot Outline:
An office worker inadvertently becomes a hero after he saves a woman's life.




I Am Legend [2007]
Genre: Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Tagline: The last man on earth is not alone

Plot Outline:
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.




I'm Not There [2007] [LiMiTED]
Genre: Biography / Drama / Music

Plot Outline:
Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.

Movie Synopsis:
Todd Haynes (VELVET GOLDMINE, FAR FROM HEAVEN) delivers this dazzling, experimental take on the life of popular music’s most revered and enigmatic artist: Bob Dylan.




In Debt We Trust [2006]
Genre: Documentary

Plot Synopsis:
The alarming rise of personal debt is charted in this exploratory program. After observing the widening gap between spending and salary, ABC News and CNN producer Danny Schechter decided to make IN DEBT WE TRUST. But Schechter also uncovers sinister practices in the credit card companies themselves, linking them to George W. Bush's administration and to some powerful media companies.




In The Land of Women [2007]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance

Tagline: Get ready to fall

Plot Summary:
IN THE LAND OF WOMEN is a surprisingly somber yet funny coming-of-age tale from director Jonathan Kasdan, and stars Adam Brody in a role not too different from his beloved Seth Cohen on the night-time teen soap THE O.C. Brody, playing a character his own age, breezily inhabits Carter, a loveable but somewhat directionless screenwriter (if you count soft-core porn films) who is dumped by his beautiful but shallow starlet girlfriend Sofia at the start of the film.




Jackie Brown [1997]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller

Tagline: This Christmas, Santa's Got A Brand New Bag

Plot Outline:
A female flight attendant becomes a key figure in a plot between the police and an arms dealer.




Juno [2007]
Genre: Comedy / Drama

Tagline: A comedy about growing up... and the bumps along the way.

Plot Outline:
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.




Last Holiday [2006]
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Drama

Tagline: She Always Thought She Was Somebody... And She Was

Plot Outline:
After she's diagnosed with a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to take a European vacation.




Mapado [2005][Korea][EngSub]

Director: Chu Chang-min
Written by: Jo Joong-Hoon
Starring: Lee Mun-shik, Lee Jeong-jin


Synopsis:
A gangster and a corrupt police officer travel to the tiny remote island of Mapado to hunt down a young woman who has run off with a winning lottery ticket. Upon arriving, they discover that no one lives there except for five old women who have not once seen a man for 20 years. Both men soon experience a nightmare of hard labour and harassment.




Michael Clayton [2007]
Genre: Drama / Thriller

Tagline: The Truth Can Be Adjusted

Plot Outline:
An attorney known as the Fixer in his law firm comes across the biggest case of his career that could produce disastrous results for those involved.




Monday [2000] [Japan]
Genre: Comedy / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller / Action

Plot Outline:
A simple funeral turns a man's world topsy turvy.



Mr. Holland's Opus [1995] [kvcd]

Genre: Drama / Music

Tagline: We are your symphony Mr. Holland. We are the melodies and the notes of your opus. We are the music of your life.

Plot Outline:
A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.




Mrs. Doubtfire [1993]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Family

Tagline: She will rock your world.

Plot Outline:
After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend secret time with his children held in custody by his Ex.




Mulholland Drive [2001]
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Tagline: A Love Story In The City Of Dreams

Plot Outline:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.




The Nines [2007]
Genre: Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Tagline: Y9u never kn9w when y9ur number is up

Plot Outline:
A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.




No Country for Old Men [2007]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller

Tagline: There Are No Clean Getaways m

Plot Outline:
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.




Oh My God / Guseju [Korean.Eng.sub] [2006]
Director: Kim Jeong-u
Cast: Choe Seong-guk, Sin-i

Synopsis:
A notorious playboy becomes the romantic target of a tough-talking prosecutor who aims to break him of his bad ways




Once Upon a Time in High School [2001]
Genre: Action
Director:Yoo Ha
Cast: Kwon Sang-woo as Hyun soo
Lee Jeong-jin as Woo-Sik
Han Ga-in as Eunjoo

Synopsis:
In the spring of 1978, Hyun Soo transfer to JungMoon High School in KangNam. Yet, JungMoon High School is notorious for severe corporal punishment by teachers and power struggles between school gangs. One day, he plays basketball with his classmates and brings his team to victory, which allow him to become chumy with Woo Sik, a kingpin of the school.
Before long, they find out that they both are huge fans of Bruce Lee and become best friends. After school, on the bus, Hyun Soo and Woo Sik see a girl. Her name is Eun Ju, a senior at the nearby girls school. Both of them fall in love with her at first sight..




Outsourced [2007]
Genre: Comedy

Tagline: Todd just lost his job. Now he has to find his life.

Plot Outline:
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman (Hamilton) heads to India to train his replacement.

Movie Synopsis:
Outsourced is a modern day comedy of cross-cultural conflict and romance. Todd Anderson (Josh Hamilton) spends his days managing a customer call center for American novelty products in Seattle, until his job, along with those of the entire office, are outsourced to India.




The Perfect Storm [2000]

Genre: Adventure / Drama / Action / Thriller

Tagline: In the Fall of 1991, the "Andrea Gail" left Gloucester, Mass. and headed for the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. Two weeks later, an event took place that had never occurred in recorded history.

Plot Outline:
An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.




The Pervert's Guide to Cinema [2006]
Genre: Documentary

Plot Summary:
THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made.

Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, acclaimed philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves.




Pirates of the Carribean - At World's End [2007]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy

Tagline: At the End of the World, the Adventure Begins

Plot Outline:
Captain Barbossa, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann must sail off the edge of the map, navigate treachery and betrayal, and make their final alliances for one last decisive battle.




Quiz King / Miseuteo Jubu Kwijeuwang [2004]
Director: Yu Seon-dong
Cast: Han Seok-gyu, Sin Eun-gyeong, Gong Hyeong-jin
Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 107 min

Synopsis:
A housewife...Euh Man Jin-Man does all the jobs a woman is supposed to do while his wife works around the clock to support the family with money. One day he loses the family savings and has no clue how to get the money back, until his friend decides he should participate with a tvshow for housewifes. With no other options he dresses up as a woman and wins the preliminaries. But unfortunately the TVhosts find out before the show starts and almost try to disqualify him until they find it a good idea for him to be the first man on the show. Jin Man happily joins the show, but will his wife like it?



Red Shadow / Akakage [2002] [Japan][Eng.sub]
Running Time: 108 minutes
Audio: Japanese
Subtitle: English
Genre: action, drama

Synopsis:
The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the Ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the Ninja were trained to work in shadows, gather information and defeat the enemy to build a world of peace. Red Shadow, Blue Shadow and Aska are neophyte ninjas under the tutelage of White Shadow. Their life is a series of perilous missions that entail intrigue, deception and intimidation.




Rendition [2007]
Genre: Drama / Thriller

Tagline: What if someone you love...just disappeared?

Plot Outline:
A CIA analyst questions his assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation at a secret detention facility outside the US.




Rise of the Footsoldier [2007]
Genre: Action

Plot Summary:
Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late eighties and early nineties. It is three decades of his life following him from football hooliganism, through to his burgeoning career as a bouncer, his involvement in the criminal aspects of the early 'rave' scene and subsequently to his rise to power as one of the most feared and respected criminals in the country. The story concludes with three members of his firm being brutally murdered in the infamous shot-gun slaying at Rettenden.




Rocky Balboa [2006]
Genre: Drama / Sport

Tagline: It ain't over 'til it's over.

Plot Outline:
Rocky Balboa comes out of retirement to step into the ring for the last time and face the heavyweight champ Mason 'The Line' Dixon.




Romantic Assassins / Romantic Killers [2003] [Korea][EngSubs]
Starring: Kim Min-Jong, Choe Seong-Guk, Jin Jae-Young
Director: Yun Je-Gyun
Genre: Action, Comedy
Audio: Korean
Subtitle: English

Synopsis:
At first, four swordsmen hired to bring back a runaway concubine appear to be competent mercenaries, but soon prove themselves to be a bunch of incompetent buffoons. Their leader, Yae-rang, only has one fighting stance: to drop his sword, make faces at the enemy and pinch his own nipples. Yo-i, is just as idiotic, but at least has a touch of humanity as he works as a mercenary only to earn money for his kid sister. The four take the concubine and her lover into custody, but also accidentally manage to somehow ruin the chance for the ghosts of five murdered courtesans to ascend to heaven. The warriors agree to kill the man responsible which will set the ghosts free, but they must be taught a few tricks by the ghosts as their existing martial arts skills are nearly useless.




Sex is Zero / Saekjeuk Shigong [2003] [S.Korea]
Genre: Comedy
Director: Yun Je Gyun
Cast: Chang Jung, Ha Jin Won, Choi Seong-Guk, Jin Jae-Yeong

Eun-shik is a 28 year old college student, always ending up in awkward situations, especially once he falls for one of the most popular girls on campus, an aerobics dancer, Eun-hyo. Eun-shik’s group of friends, a team of martial arts performers, end up going out with Eun-hyo’s friends, while Eun-shik is left pining after Eun-hyo over her obligatory jerk of a boyfriend.




Shoot Em Up [2007]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / Thriller

Tagline: Just another family man making a living.

Plot Outline:
A man named Mr. Smith (Owen) delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.




Shutter [2004] [Thailand]
Genre: Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Tagline: Have you ever carefully looked at your pictures?

Plot Outline:
A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.




Steal This Movie [2000]
Genre: Biography / Drama

Plot Summary:
Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left. The skeptical reporter interview's Anita, Hoffman's wife, a single mom on welfare in New York City; Hoffman's attorney, Gerry Lefcourt; and others. As they talk, we see Hoffman's career in flashbacks, from early civil rights organizing through the trial of the Chicago Eight. While underground, as mental illness takes its toll, he meets Johanna Lawrenson, and an odd family develops: Abbie, Anita, their son, and Johanna. Will vindication ever arrive?

Movie Synopsis:
Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property and was a talking point in the British Documentary Festival.[2] Part One, produced in Sweden and released in 2006, takes account of the prominent players in the Swedish piracy culture: The Pirate Bay, Piratbyrån, and the Pirate Party. This film includes a critical analysis of an alleged regulatory capture[3] performed by the Hollywood film industry to leverage economic sanctions by the United States government on Sweden through the WTO. Alleged aims included the application of pressure to Swedish police into conducting a search and seizure against Swedish law for the purpose of disrupting The Pirate Bay's BitTorrent tracker.




Super Vixens - Russ Meyer [1975]
Genre: Comedy / Crime / Thriller

Tagline: Too much...for one movie!

Plot Summary:
Clint Ramsey has to leave his job working at Martin Bormann's gas station and flee after his wife is murdered by psycho cop Harry Sledge...




To Hell and Back [1955]
Genre: Action / Biography / Drama / War

Tagline: The Exciting True-Life Story Of America's Most Decorated Hero

Plot Outline:
The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.




Tobacco Roody / Sexploitation [1970]
Genre: Comedy

Tagline: He conquered the hills--piece by piece!

Plot Outline:You can always count on Something Weird Video when your in the mood for some sleazy delights from the saucy days of the 70's. There is no story here, there is just flesh and more flesh. Wonton nudity is ubiquitous throughout this
raunchy ride that has all the lascivious beauty's running amok.




West Side Story [1961]
Genre: Musical / Romance / Drama

Tagline: "BEST PICTURE!" Winner of 10 Academy Awards! - 1961 (post-Oscar)

Plot Outline:
Musical about two youngsters from rival NYC gangs who fall in love.


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