August 2011
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Celda 211 (2009)
Celda 211 (2009)
Directed by: Daniel Monzon
Starring: Alberto Ammann, Luis Tosar, Fernando Soto
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nILFxniHLRw
Juan Oliver (Ammann) wants to make an impression at his new place of work, so he comes to work a day early, where he is to start as a newly recruited guard of a state prison. As Juan is being toured inside the prison...
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Everything Must Go (2010)
Everything Must Go (2010)
Directed by: Dan Rush
Starring: Will Farrell, Rebecca Hall, Laura Dern
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2kXUY7SmkE
Nick Halsey (Farrell) is having a bad day. He just lost his job and comes home to find out that his wife has left him as well, locking him out of his home and leaving all of his belongings on the front yard. With nowhere...
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Mad Detective (2007)
Mad Detective (2007)
Directed by: Johnnie To and Ka-Fai Wai
Starring: Ching Wan-Lau, Andy On, Ka Tung Lam
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AL1fZqfvgA
A cop has mysteriously gone missing, and his gun has turned up as a murder weapon in several robbery cases. When rookie cop, Inspector Ho (Andy On) hits a road block in his investigation, he seeks the help of...
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The Dreamers (2003)
The Dreamers (2003)
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnzz93nE8oo
Paris 1968, Matthew (Pitt), an American university student studying French, and a self confessed movie buff, meets Isabelle (Green) and Theo (Garrel), a brother and sister who are also movie enthusiasts who share the...
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One Day (2011)
One Day (2011)
Directed by: Lone Scherfig
Starring: Jim Sturgess, Anne Hathaway
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU4qLmIXbOE
Dexter (Sturgess) and Emma (Hathaway) meet for the first time on the night of their graduation, that is July 15, 1988. The years that follow celebrate that same date, and sees where Dex and Emma are at that point in time, finding...
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Insidious (2010)
Insidious (2010)
Directed by: James Wan
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1YbOMDI59k
Josh (Wilson) and Renai (Byrne) Lambert are in desperate need of help for their son, Dalton (Simpkins), who has just fallen into a deep sleep coma. Upon further investigation, they discover that their comatose son has been...
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Starman (1984)
Starman (1984)
Directed by: John Carpenter
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgF2lbAL6RA
An unidentified spacecraft is shot down over Wisconsin. Its pilot, otherwise known as Starman (Bridges), makes his way to a remote cabin owned by a depressed, young, and widowed woman, Jenny Hayden (Allen). Starman takes the form of...
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Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2005)
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Starring: Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Terrence Howard, Joy Bryant
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrLEvrKywxY
Shot and left for dead in a near death experience, Marcus (50 Cent) recalls his past life. A journey that sees him orphaned after his mother’s death, hustling the streets...
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Confessions (2010)
Confessions (2010)
Directed by: Tetsuya Nakashima
Starring: Takako Matsu, Nukito Nishii, Ai Hashimoto
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnws8ZymxME
Yuko Moriguchi (Matsu), a grieving mother and teacher to a grade school class, reveals her chilling plot of revenge to her students, who are responsible for her daughter’s death.
Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima...
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Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
Directed by: Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK68Y3oMEk8
Cal (Carell) and Emily (Moore) are a happily married couple. That is, until Emily asks Cal for a divorce. He moves out and spends most of his nights lonely and depressed, getting drunk at the...
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Minority Report (2002)
Minority Report (2002)
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max Von Sydow
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH-6UImAP7c
In the future, Washington D.C. is crime free thanks to the efforts of a specialized elite squad called Precrime, lead by Detective John Aderton (Cruise) and his team. They use pre-visions of future crimes using the...
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The Others (2001)
The Others (2001)
Directed by: Alejandro Amenabar
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu494-Dr5po
A mother and her two children are living in an old mansion, taking refuge in the huge space while waiting for her husband, the father to her children to return home from war. The family lives by the word of the...
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Kalifornia (1993)
Kalifornia (1993)
Directed by: Dominic Sena
Starring: Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Ducovny, Michelle Forbes
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzObsDDrlpQ
Journalist Brian Kessler (Ducovny) and his girlfriend Carrie (Forbes), go on a cross country road trip of famous serial killer murder sites. They allow a couple, Early (Pitt) and Adele (Lewis) to accompany...
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Ang Babae sa Septic Tank (2011)
Ang Babae sa Septic Tank (2011)
Directed by: Marlon N. Rivera
Starring: Eugene Domingo, JM de Guzman, Kean Cipriano
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqDG_P96Rb0
The film chronicles a day alongside ambitious independent film makers Rainier (Cipriano), Bingbong (de Guzman), and their production assistant, who are in the pre-production stage of creating an...
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Moon (2009)
Moon (2009)
Directed by: Duncan Jones
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElliot
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuScTcDP_Q
In the future, astronaut Sam Bell’s (Rockwell) 3-year stint with Lunar Industries is about to expire. He has been isolated on the moon’s surface working alongside an intelligent computer named GERTY (Spacey),...
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Directed by: Rupert Wyatt
Starring: James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaK6khs8aMw
While researching a breakthrough cure for brain disease, Dr. Will Rodman (Franco), discovers his research to be much more than he suspected. His efforts with genetic engineering lead to the development...
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Hesher (2011)
Hesher (2011)
Directed by: Spencer Susser
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainin Wilson, Natalie Portman
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXKRKpvv3SU
Hesher (Gordon-Levitt) is a homeless loner living in his beat up van. He loves pornography, rock and roll, anarchy, and violence. When TJ and his grief stricken father Paul (Wilson), arrive home and find Hesher...
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Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990)
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990)
Some of the most lovable and likable cartoon characters come to life and try to convince a boy to stop using drugs.
Yes, that is exactly the plot of this anti-drug cartoon, released as a tv special in the 90’s. Their slogan on the movie poster reads “DRUGS DON”T STAND A CHANCE AGAINST THESE GUYS”.
What a ridiculous and hilarious...
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THX 1138 (1971)
THX 1138 (1971)
Directed by: George Lucas
Starring: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zONGiyFDvg8
In an underground future city, surveillance is constant and countless public service announcements are being broadcast 24/7. Sexual contact has been outlawed and mind control is implemented by the mandatory use of...
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Alpha Kappa Omega: Batch '81 (1982)
Alpha Kappa Omega: Batch ‘81 (1982)
Directed by: Mike de Leon
Starring: Mark Gil, Jimmy Javier, Noel Trinidad, Ward Luarca
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhI3-LEc0yI
Sid Lucero (Gil), a college student mastering a course in zoology in the Philippines, aspires to be part of Alpha Kappa Omega, a well respected fraternity in his university. Him and seven...
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Cowboys and Aliens (2011)
Cowboys and Aliens (2011)
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Starring: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqbUVMjndx4
A man (Craig) wakes up in the middle of the desert with a metal device attached to his wrist. He has no memory of his past or identity. He rides his way into the town of Absolution, a western town run with an iron...
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I Saw the Devil (2010)
I Saw the Devil (2010)
Directed by: Kim Jee-woon
Starring: Lee Byung-hun, Choi Min-sik, Oh San-ha
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkwEFKdTckk
Kyung-chul (Choi), a serial killer who drives along the streets at night, is searching for his next victim, an unsuspecting women to pleasure and kill. He comes across Joo-yeon (Oh), and she becomes his latest victim....
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The Exorcist (1973)
The Exorcist (1973)
Directed by: William Friedkin
Starring: Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIYPQwvktlA
When a visiting actress (Burstyn) in Washington D.C. notices dramatic changes in her 12-year-old daughters (Blair) attitude and physical presence, and at the same time supernatural events start...
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Stuck (2007)
Stuck (2007)
Directed by: Stuart Gordon
Starring: Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z14NEY-pSfE
Brandi (Suvari), a nurse assistant, is days away from getting her big promotion. After a night of partying, she runs over Thomas Brando (Rea), a recently evicted and unemployed homeless man. In a panic, she drives straight...
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The Quick and the Dead (1995)
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Starring: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo Di Caprio, Russell Crowe
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJXpcSUGeYk
A woman gunslinger rides into the small town of Redemption to exact revenge on her fathers killer. She gets caught in a deadly quick draw tournament, and in order to finally settle her score,...
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Wrecked (2011)
Wrecked (2011)
Directed by: Michael Greenspan
Starring: Adrien Brody
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKUtFGg09xk
A man wakes to carnage inside a wrecked car. Trapped and badly injured in what looks to be an accident, he has no memory of his identity or how he even got there in the first place. Determined to live, he must trust his primal instincts in order to...
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Black Water (2007)
Black Water (2007)
Directed by: David Nerlich and Andrew Traucki
Starring: Diana Glenn, Maeve Dermody, Andy Rodoreda
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yBWq-75DX0
While on board the small fishing boat of the Black Water Barry Tours in Northern Australia, Lee (Dermody), her sister Gracie (Glenn), and her husband Adam (Rodoreda), find themselves in a terrifying...
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The Killer (1989)
The Killer (1989)
Directed by: John Woo
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_mfMDNdkuk
After terminating his mark at a night club, assassin Jeffrey (Chow) falls for Jennie (Yeh), a night club pianist whom he blinds by accident during gunfire. He accepts one more big contract kill to pay for Jennie’s eye surgery, and...
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Survival of the Dead (2009)
Survival of the Dead (2009)
Directed by: George A. Romero
Starring: Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Kathleen Munroe
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuoG64HfrqY
Sarge “Nicotine” Crockett (Van Sprang) and a group of ex-guardsmen head south and board a boat off the coast of Delaware to Plum Island, a peaceful little island community, where they hope...
July 2011
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Falling Down (1993)
Falling Down (1993)
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Michael Douglas, Robert DuVall
Link to trailer on youtube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM1qhqXoTzc
William “D-Fens” Foster (Douglas) is having a bad day. The kind where nothing seems to be going his way. He decides to leave his car in the middle of a traffic jam and walk his way home. Irritated by the flaws of...
