You Don't Mess with the Zohan [2008]

You Don't Mess with the Zohan is a 2008 American\Israeli comedy film, directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler. The film is about Zohan Dvir (Hebrew : זוהאן דביר), Israel's hero and its greatest counter-terrorism army commando who, after growing tired of his Israeli post-draft's standing service, fakes his own death in order to pursue his dream: becoming a hairstylist in New York City. The story was written by Sandler, Judd Apatow, and Robert Smigel. Sandler's production company, Happy Madison, produced the film, and it was distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was released on June 6, 2008 and in the UK on August 15, 2008.
The movie begins with Zohan Dvir (Adam Sandler), an Israeli Special Forces soldier, hanging around at the Tel Aviv beach, attracting several women and capturing the attention of every beach-goer with his Hacky Sack prowess including a clumsy Fizzy Bubelech drinker. Then the film goes to his vacation in Eilat where he cooks fish in the nude, using copious amounts of hummus for himself, his friend and several women. His party favor, catching the fish between the cheeks of his buttocks. As he finishes cooking, an Israeli Defence Forces helicopter arrives, stealing him away from his presumed well-earned vacation.
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Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release: Jun 6, 2008 Wide
Starring: Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swardson, Lainie Kazan, Rob Schneider
Director: Dennis Dugan
Link: Imdb, Trailer, Official site

The Duchess [2008]

Swaddled in whalebone and wigs, Keira Knightley steps into the restricted world of the Duchess of Devonshire, a royal lady popular with her subjects but stuck in an unhappy marriage. If this situation recalls Princess Diana (a descendent of the Duchess's family), so much the better for the purposes of director Saul Dibb and company; this film is eager to draw parallels with the unfortunate Lady Di, even if she is never directly mentioned. Knightley's unsuspecting girl is married off to the Duke (Ralph Fiennes), a distracted jerk who craves male sons, and obviously has never thought of women as anything other than a means to achieve an heir. When the Duchess launches her procreative career with a couple of daughters, well, the Duke begins to get nervous--and partners outside the marriage become increasingly appealing. The Duchess serves up lavish portions of Brit-movie staples: costumes (which, in Knightley's case, are nothing short of spectacular), landscapes,! and gorgeous music (by Rachel Portman). If it falls short in some vague way, perhaps it's because the film is a mostly one-note affair, meaning exactly what it seems to mean at every moment. Charlotte Rampling appears too briefly as Knightley's mother, and Dominic Cooper and Hayley Atwell (from Brideshead Revisited), rising stars both, contribute attractive lures for the principals.

• Actors: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Rampling
• Format: PAL
• Region: Region 2
• Number of discs: 1
• Classification: To be announced
• Studio: Pathe Video
• DVD Release Date: 16 Mar 2009
• Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
• Genre: Dramas
  

Hunger [2008]

How Osama Bin Laden must laugh at the idea of a "hunger strike". Explaining the slo-mo business to him would be like putting an F-22 Raptor pilot at the controls of Louis Blériot's monoplane. History has lent a new perspective to the story of IRA man Bobby Sands and his 1981 hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze prison for political status, recreated here in Hunger, Steve McQueen's explicit, but icily brilliant and superbly acted film. It is a lacerating portrait of an agonised period of British and Irish history; I have watched it twice now, and each time have been unable to forget the famous "Chuckle Brothers" peace-process photo of a grinning Martin McGuinness next to a grinning Ian Paisley. Theirs, remarkably, was the rapprochement that the hunger strikes helped finally to bring about, by redefining terrorist prisoners as political bargaining chips, whose release can be quietly offered in part-exchange for a cessation of violence. The question of which side is the greater victor is difficult to answer.

• Actors: Liam Cunningham, Larry Cowan, Brian Milligan, Stuart Graham, Helena Bereen
• Directors: Steve McQueen
• Format: PAL
• Region: Region 2 ( DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Classification: 15
• Studio: Pathe Video
• DVD Release Date: 23 Feb 2009
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Link: Imdb
  

In Bruges [2008]

The considerable pleasures of In Bruges begin with its title, which suggests a glumly self-important art film but actually fits a rattling-good tale of two Irish gangsters "keepin' a low profile" after a murder gone messily wrong. Bruges, the best-preserved medieval town in Belgium, is where the bearlike veteran Ken (Brendan Gleeson) and newbie triggerman Ray (Colin Farrell) have been ordered by their London boss to hole up for two weeks. As the sly narrative unfolds like a paper flower in water, "in Bruges" also becomes a state of mind, a suspended moment amid centuries-old towers and bridges and canals when even thuggish lives might experience a change in direction. And throughout, the viewer has ample opportunity to consider whose pronunciation of "Bruges" is more endearing, Gleeson's or Farrell's. The movie marks the feature writing-directing debut of playwright Martin McDonagh, whose droll meditation on sudden mortality, Six Shooter, copped the 2005 Oscar for best live-action short. Although McDonagh clearly relishes the musicality of his boyos' brogue and has written them plenty of entertaining dialogue, In Bruges is no stageplay disguised as a film. The script is deceptively casual, allowing for digressions on the newly united and briskly thriving Europe, and annexing passers-by as characters who have a way of circling back into the story with unanticipatable consequences. That includes a film crew--shooting a movie featuring, to Ray's fascination, "a midget" (Jordan Prentice)--and a fetching blond production assistant (Clémence Poésy) whose job description keeps evolving. There's one other key figure: Harry, the Cockney gang boss whose omnipotence remains unquestioned as long as he remains offscreen, back in England, as if floating in an early Harold Pinter play. Harry has reasons inextricably tender and perverse for selecting Bruges as his hirelings' destination, and eventually he emerges from the aether to express them--first as a garrulous telephone voice and then in the volatile form of Ralph Fiennes. By that point the charmed moment of suspension, already shaken by several irruptions of violence, is pretty well doomed. But In Bruges continues to surprise and satisfy right up to the end. --Richard T. Jameson

• Actors: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Mark Donovan, Ann Elsley
• Directors: Martin McDonagh
  
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Studio: Universal Studios
• DVD Release Date: June 24, 2008
• Run Time: 107 minutes
• Link: Imdb, Trailer
  

Hancock [2008]

Would you buy Will Smith as John Hancock, an amnesiac, grab-­ass, booze-swilling superhero who flies under the influence and disdains the punk-ass citizens of Los Angeles for thinking he's a superasshole? Trust me, you will. There also exists in L.A. a publicist, Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman), committed to making the world a better place. Now, that's pushing it. Director Peter Berg has a feel for guys who screw up (see Very Bad Things), and he mines the herky-jerky script for every toxic glint of macho posturing. It's all hugely entertaining until the final reel, when the film tries for a tragic dimension it can't handle. Leave that to The Dark Knight. The actors save the day. Bateman doesn't make a false move, and a stellar Charlize Theron springs her own bolts from the blue as Ray's wife. As for Smith, he's on fire. There's nothing like a star shining on his highest beams. You follow him anywhere. - Peter Travers -

IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 (36,033 Votes)
Director: Peter Berg
Writers: Vincent Ngo, Vince Gilligan
Release Date: 2 July 2008 (USA)
Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Link: Imdb, Official site

Connected [2008]

Bob’s life isn’t going well at all. A single father in a dead-end job as a debt collector, he’s trapped in a job that goes against his usual easy-going helpful nature and he’s under tremendous pressure to be a better dad, a better brother, a better worker, even a better person. While dealing with all this and his sister’s threat to move to Australia with his son to force him to clean up his act, Bob receives a call out of the blue. It’s a stranger called Grace who claims a mysterious kidnapper is keeping her against her will and begs him to save her and her young daughter. Is it just a prank? The detective he tried reporting the call to seem to think so but Bob’s instincts tell him that he may just be the only thing standing between them and a painful death. But does he have the mettle to rise above his own self-centered concerns and risk everything – including his own son – for two people he has never met and who may not even exist?

Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Benny Chan
Cast: Louis Koo, Barbie Hsu, Nick Cheung, Liu Ye, Flora Chan
RunTime: 1 hr 50 mins
Released By: Shaw, MediaCorp Raintree Pictures & Scorpio East
Rating: PG
Link: Imdb, Official Website

Ocean’s Thirteen [2007]

Ocean's Thirteen is a 2007 heist film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring an ensemble cast. It is the third (and reportedly final) in the Soderbergh series following the 2004 sequel Ocean's Twelve and the 2001 film Ocean's Eleven, which itself was a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack film of the same name. All of the cast members reprised their roles from the previous installments except for Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin joined the cast as their new targets.

Some time after Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his crew payed back the millions they stole to ruthless casino mogul Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), their friend Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould), one of the original eleven, plans to open a new casino. But he is double-crossed by one of the investors Willy Banks (Al Pacino), and Reuben lands in the hospital, down on life, luck and money. Danny gathers the team once again to sabotage the new casino opening.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Produced by: Jerry Weintraub
Written by: Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Scott Caan, Don Cheadle, Casey Affleck, Ellen Barkin
Music by: David Holmes
Cinematography: Steven Soderbergh
Editing by: Stephen Mirrione
Distributed by: Warner Bros.
Release date(s): June 8, 2007
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Suspense/Thriller
Running time: 113 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Link: Imdb, Official site, Trailer

Young People Fucking [2007][18++]

Young People Fucking, also called Y.P.F., is a 2007 romantic comedy directed, written and produced by Martin Gero and Aaron Abrams. It debuted at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. "Our generation makes an effort to separate love and sex," says Gero. "They're all trying to do this thing, and they're all failing miserably ... we're saying, 'Listen, people our age. This is really hard to do without being emotionally involved.'"[2]
In spite of the unconventionally explicit title, like other mainstream films it is fairly modestly filmed.
"Young People Fucking" is a smart and fast-paced comedy that intertwines the stories of 5 couples over the course of one sexual encounter. As the couples attempt to have some seemingly straight forward sex, they run into all sorts of problems.
Directed by: Martin Gero
Produced by: Martin Gero, Aaron Abrams
Written by: Martin Gero, Aaron Abrams
Starring: Aaron Abrams, Diora Baird, Sonja Bennett, Callum Blue, Kristin Booth, Josh Cooke, Josh Dean, Ennis Esmer, Natalie Lisinska, Peter Oldring, Carly Pope
Cinematography: Arthur E. Cooper
Distributed by: Maple Pictures (Canada), Revolver Entertainment (UK), THINKFilm (USA)
Running time: 90 minutes
Country: Canada
Language: English
Link: Imdb

Empire Of The Sun [1987]

In 1987, when Steven Spielberg released Empire of the Sun, he was fighting a reputation as a lightweight filmmaker, something not even his previous effort, The Color Purple, had dispelled. This label would dog him until 1993, when Schindler's List defined him as a director with equal command of serious and popular material. Because most of Spielberg's best substantive movies came after 1993, Empire of the Sun is often overlooked. Although it isn't entirely successful - there are times when Spielberg's vision exceeds his grasp - the picture is a good predictor of things to come as well as a successful examination of a setting that rarely gets treatment in Western films.

It's Shanghai in December 1941, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is about to change everything for the British citizens living there. The city has been under Japanese occupation for some time, but the invading army has allowed the British and American quarters to continue operating autonomously. However, on December 8, the Japanese move in, confiscating property and consigning British and American citizens to concentration camps. Jim Graham (Christian Bale), a teenager living with his British parents, Mary (Emily Richard) and John (Rupert Frazer), becomes separated from them during the chaos that erupts after Pearl Harbor. He spends time in hiding before joining with American soldiers of fortune Baise (John Malkovich) and Frank (Joe Pantoliano). Eventually, all three end up in the Soo Chow camp, next to a Japanese air base. From there, Jim, who has had a lifelong affair with flying machines, can watch the Zeroes take off and land. As the experience in the camp toughens him, Jim becomes an important cog in the day-to-day activities of the prisoners, although he dreams of a time when he can escape and locate his parents.

United States, 1987
U.S. Release Date: 12/9/87
Running Length: 2:33
MPAA Classification: PG (Violence, profanity)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Cast: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano, Leslie Phillips, Masatô Ibu, Emily Richard, Rupert Frazer, Peter Gale
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay: Tom Stoppard, based on the novel by J.G. Ballard
Cinematography: Allen Daviau
Music: John Williams
U.S. Distributor: Warner Brothers
Link: Imdb

Eagle Eye [2008]

In the fast-paced race-against-time-thriller, Eagle Eye, two strangers become the pawns of a mysterious woman they have never met, but who seems to know their every move. Realizing they are being used to further her diabolical plot, they must work together to outwit the woman before she has them killed. (Paramount Pictures)
Director D.J. Caruso takes the next step forward towards being Hollywood’s newest blockbuster thriller director in Eagle Eye. He re-teams with star Shia LaBeouf, whom he found success with in Disturbia by borrowing generously from Rear Window. But Caruso doesn’t want to be Hitchcock, far from it. With Eagle Eye he’s making his play to become the next Michael Bay.

The movie casts the always engaging Shia LaBeouf as Jerry Shaw, a hapless nobody caught up in the cogs of domestic intrigue. He has just returned home to New York after his brother’s funeral, and stops at an ATM where he discovers his normally empty bank account now contains $750,000. As anyone would, he withdraws as much as he can fit in his pockets and heads home, wondering what the hell is going on. He arrives at his dinky apartment to find it too is no longer empty. It is now full, with all the chemicals and weaponry one might need to commit a major act of terrorism. His phone rings. A mysterious voice on the other end warns him he has only seconds to leave his apartment before the FBI arrives to arrest him. Jerry ignores the warning and in shock, remains rooted to the floor until moments later when the FBI’s foot soldiers come crashing through his window and drag him off to jail...

Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release: Sep 26, 2008 Wide
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie, Billy Bob Thornton
Director: D.J. Caruso
Produced: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Pat Crowley
Written: Travis Wright, John Glenn, Hillary Seitz
Link: Imdb, Official site

Just Business [2008]

Elizar Perla is a recently retired catburglar who has succumbed to the temptation of one final score. The target is David Gray, Famous for his collection of art and other rarities. Soon after the job, Elizar disappears, leaving his daughter Marty distraught. Desperate, Gray approaches Marty suggesting that her father will turn up as soon as the stolen artwork is recovered. She begrudgingly accepts the offer to help him locate the art, but all is not as it seems, as the rarest of stolen pieces has value beyond ordinary currency.

• Directed by: Jonathan Dueck
• Starring: Gina Gershon, Zachary Bennett
  
  
• Year: 2008
• MPAA Rating: NR
• Genres: Mystery, Suspense
• Running Time: 1:25
• Language: English
• Country: Canada
• Color type: Color
• Link: Imdb
  

Hamlet 2 [2008]

Hamlet 2, which is directed by Andrew Fleming, centers on David Marschz (Steve Coogan), a failed actor who now works at a high school in Tucson, teaching drama to kids. When the principal informs him that the drama department is being shut down at the end of the semester due to budget cuts, Marschz (pronounced Mars-chhh-zzz) sets out to produce a play in the hopes of inspiring people to donate funds to save the department. Marschz decides that he doesn’t like how things ended for the characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and works to write a sequel to the play, which involves a time machine and some other famous people from history.

While working on the play, Coogan has to deal with his perpetually grumpy wife (Catherine Keener), strange and boring boarder, Gary (David Arquette), rag-tag bunch of street kids who don’t get along with the only two drama-geeks participating in the play as well as the resistance of the principal and some of the parents who think the play is too offensive and controversial . Fortunately, Hamlet 2 gives Marschz new direction and the opportunity to show people what he’s capable of.

IMDB Rating: 6.5/10 (3,222 votes)
RT Critics: 6.2/10 (126 votes)
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Comedies, High School Students
Theatrical Release: Aug 27, 2008 Wide
Starring: Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, David Arquette, Amy Poehler, Elisabeth Shue, Melonie Diaz
Director: Andrew Fleming

Burn After Reading [2008]

All the Academy Awards that Joel and Ethan Coen won for No Country for Old Men produced an unintended effect: It made the outlaw brothers respectable. That's got to be driving them nuts. (Have any Oscar winners ever looked more miserable on camera?) Luckily, the idiot-boy side of the Coens barrels out whenever prestige threatens to choke their rebel spirit. Blood Simple begat Raising Arizona, Barton Fink begat The Hudsucker Proxy, and Fargo begat (hello, stoner heaven) The Big Lebowski. For me, the only time the slide into silly didn't work was when The Man Who Wasn't There begat the twin low points in the Coen canon, Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers.

Burn After Reading will have No Country converts running for cover. Instead of a subtle walk through Cormac McCarthy territory, the brothers have conjured a crazy-quilt comic thriller that takes on our growing national stupidity in the form of a sex farce. The result is wildly funny, but just as wildly uneven. Such things happen when the Coens wield their wit like a blunt instrument. But if their control falters this time by pressing too hard on the "quirky" button, it's still a small price to pay for their indisputable daring.

The movie begins with an aerial map of the U.S. as the camera — in a game of "pin the tail on the donkey" — lands on the Beltway, where assholes wag in profusion. At CIA headquarters, perpetually pissed-off analyst Osborne Cox (John Malkovich, never funnier or more frazzled) quits his post before he can be demoted for drunken incompetence. He tells Katie (Tilda Swinton), his doctor wife, that he plans to write his memoirs. "Who'd read that?" she says. Props to the freshly Oscar-ed Swinton for flashing a delicious look of contempt that could freeze lava....

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Comedy / Crime

Theatrical Release: Sep 12, 2008 Wide

Starring: George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton

Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Link: Imdb

Death Race [2008]

The synopsis for Death Race looks something like this: “In 2012, the United States economy collapses and life for everyone is not the same. Once a NASCAR champion, Jensen Ames, (Jason Statham), hits rock bottom and spent several years in prison. His life was improving and changing for the better after meeting and marrying Suzy (Janaya Stephens) and having a baby girl. Then the steel mill closes, and he loses his job. But that was not the worst thing to happen to Jenson that day. Suzy is brutally murdered, and he is framed for her murder. Jenson is sent to Terminal Island, the worst and toughest for-profit prison in the country run by Warden Hennessey (Joan Allen). She has created the country’s most popular pay-per-view sport, a kill-or-be-killed car race where the inmates race to win their freedom from prison after 5 wins. Every inmate driver is driving a monster car that they built which is loaded with machine guns, missiles, flamethrowers, napalm, and no rules. Warden Hennessey convinces Jensen to secretly take the place of the late 4-time superstar winner, Frankenstein, and wear his metallic mask in the race. If Jensen wins just one race, he can go home to his baby daughter. To get to the finish line, Jensen must kill his competition before they kill him.”

Starring: Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, Natalie Martinez, and Jason Clarke
Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-fi | Suspense/Thriller
Writer: Ib Melchior (1975 story Death Race 2000) | Charles B. Griffith (1975 screenplay Death Race 2000) | Robert Thom (1975 screenplay Death Race 2000) | Paul W.S. Anderson
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Release date: DVD: December 16, 2008
Theatrical: August 22, 2008
Origin: USA
Link: Imdb, Official site

Babylon A.D. [2008]

It is the not-too-distant future, a hardened mercenary known only as Toorop lives by a simple survivor's code: kill...or be killed. His latest assignment has him smuggling a young woman named Aurora from a convent in Kazakhstan to New York City. Toorop, his new young charge Aurora and Aurora's guardian Sister Rebeka embark on a 6,000 mile journey. Facing obstacles at every turn, Toorop, the killer for hire, is tested like never before, in ways he could never have imagined - as he comes to understand that he is the custodian of the only hope for the future of mankind. For the first time in his life, Toorop has to make a choice: to make a difference or walk away and save himself. Too bad it came on the day he died. (20th Century Fox)

Starring: Vin Diesel, Mélanie Thierry, Michelle Yeoh, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong, Jérôme Le Banner, Charlotte Rampling, and Joel Kirby
Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-fi | Suspense/Thriller
Writer: Maurice G. Dantec (novel), Eric Besnard, Mathieu Kassovitz, Joseph Simas
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Theatrical: August 29, 2008
Running time: 90 minutes, Color
ORIGIN: USA | France
Link: Imdb, Official site

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) [+18]

Perfume is the long-awaited adaptation of Patrick Süskind's bestselling novel about murder (and smells) most foul in 18th century Paris. Ben Whishaw (Enduring Love) stars as Grenouille, a perfumery apprentice born with an incredible nose and an obsessive desire to bottle the scent of a woman. Gloriously grotesque in its recreation of pungent Paris, it's a Grimm fairy tale for grown ups, slightly spoilt by a plodding, bloated script, and multiplex cinemas' inevitable lack of smell-o-vision.

Whishaw plays the anti-hero of Süskind's novel brilliantly, an idiot savant with remarkable nostrils and a desire to distil the essence of every smell. An equal opportunities sniffer, he's happy hoovering up the scents of dead rats and offal until an apprenticeship with perfumier Baldini (Dustin Hoffman) perfects his olfactory talents - and brings the movie to life. Camping it up with a powdered wig and rouge like the Tootsie of the 1700s, Hoffman steals the show, chewing his way through scenery to bite into lines like "You can no more distil a cat than you can distil the smell of you and me".


Director: Tom Tykwer
Writer: Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger, Tom Tykwer
Stars: Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Dustin Hoffman
Genre: Drama
Length: 147 minutes
Cinema: 22 December 2006
Country: Germany/France/Spain
Link: Imdb, Official Site

Death Proof [2007]

Master director Quentin Tarantino (PULP FICTION) indulges his inner fanboy by paying homage to his favorite B-movies in DEATH PROOF. Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) stalks beautiful women with his deadly vintage car, but when he picks a trio of tough girls (Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, and Zoe Bell), he learns they aren’t such easy prey. As with any Tarantino film, there are plenty of nods to pop culture. Most of the scenes are deliberately short on plot development, the dialogue comes thick and fast throughout, and the film stock is often cleverly manipulated to perfectly replicate the B-movie aesthetic. DEATH PROOF was originally released as part of the GRINDHOUSE double feature with Robert Rodriguez’s PLANET TERROR.

Genre: Crime/Thriller/Horror
IMDB rating: 8.0/10 (8,653 votes)
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd

Links: IMDB, Homepage, Trailer
Samples: #1, #2, #3, #4, Multiple View, Video Sample
NFO: here

Mr. & Mrs. Smith [2005]

John and Jane Smith are an ordinary suburban couple with an ordinary, lifeless suburban marriage. But each is hiding something the other would kill to know: Mr. and Mrs. Smith are actually highly paid, incredibly efficient assassins--and they work for competing organizations. Mr. and Mrs. Smith both discover a new source of excitement in their marriage, when they're hired to assassinate each other--and that's when the real fun starts. The result is a total action spectacle, as Mr. and Mrs. Smith put their formidable skills to work and their marriage to the ultimate test.

IMDB Ratings: 6.4/10
Yahoo Ratings: B
Starring: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody, Kerry Washington
Directed by: Doug Liman
Genres: Action/Adventure, Romance and Thriller
Running Time: 1 hr. 52 min.
Release Date: June 10th, 2005 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, intense action, sexual content and brief strong language.
Distributors: 20th Century Fox Distribution

Naruto Movie 4 Shippuuden

Demons that once almost destroyed the world have been revived by someone. To prevent the world from being destroyed, Naruto is to guard Shion, but she predicts Naruto's death. The only way to escape it is to get away from Shion, which would leave her unguarded, in which case the demons would kill her.

Naruto the Movie 4 is the fourth film in the animation installment which is based on the Naruto manga and anime series created Masashi Kishimoto. News of the upcoming movie was announced on November 22, 2006, in that week's issue of Shonen Jump.

The movie will take place during Naruto: Shippūden Hurricane Chronicles. According to teasers in issue 20 of Weekly Shonen Jump, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, Neji Hyuga, and Rock Lee will be the main characters. The only detail about the plot given is the vague headline that "Naruto dies".

A trailer for the movie confirms this to be a literal detail. In the trailer, Naruto is attacked and presumably killed by ten figures, all of whom glow dark purple and can fire similarly-colored energy blasts. His headband is cut off during the attack. Several Konoha-nin, the movie's main characters among them, are then seen over a gravestone, Naruto's torn headband hanging from one edge. It is not yet announced whether or not Naruto will be revived or not, but seeing Naruto as the main character, it is well assumed that he will probably live on.

Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English
Link: Imdb

Resident Evil: Degeneration [2008]

The "Umbrella Incident" that took place in Raccoon City was ended with the eradication of the deadly virus by a missile attack ordered by the government. As its operations were suspended on a global scale, Umbrella Corporation stock plummeted. This serious blow to the business giant resulted in its complete dissolution.

7 years later, at an airport somewhere in the United States. An ordinary autumn afternoon. One zombie is unleashed into this peaceful scene to attack everyone. In the airport starting to fill up with the undead, the horrific disaster is about to be repeat itself...

Release Date: 18th October 2008
Director: Makoto Kamiya
Writer: Shotaro Suga
Starring: Alyson Court, Paul Mercier, Christy Hall, Rick Marcus
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Animation | Horror | Sci-Fi
Official Site: http://sonypictures.com/homevideo/residentevildegeneration
Link: Imdb

The Women [2008]

The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary’s man. Naturally, this situation becomes the hot talk amongst Mary’s catty friends, especially the scandalmonger Sylvia Fowler, who has little room to talk - she finds herself on a train to Reno and headed for divorce right after Mary.

Genre: Comedy | Drama
Ratings: IMDB: 4.5/10 (2,261 votes) RT: 13% (135 reviwes)
Directed by: Diane EnglishDiane English, Diane English
Starring: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bette Midler, Candice Bergen, Carrie Fisher, Cloris Leachman, Debi Mazar, India Ennenga, Natasha Alam, Ana Gasteyer, Joanna Gleason, Tilly Scott Pedersen

Links: IMDB, RT, Homepage, Trailer
Samples: #1, #2, #3
NFO: Here

Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa [2008]

The sequel to 2005’s “MadagascarR21;, in which New York Zoo animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, still stranded on Madagascar, start to leave the island. All of a sudden, they land in the wilderness of Africa, where Alex meets the rest of his family, but has trouble communicating with them after spending so much time at the Central Park Zoo.

Rated: 7.3/10 5,977 votes
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Childrens
Theatrical Release: May 27, 2005 Wide
Starring: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter
Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
Link: Imdb

Open Season 2 [2008]

Boog and Elliot are back for more crazy adventures. After falling head over hooves in love with Giselle, Elliot's road to the altar takes a slight detour when Mr. Weenie is kidnapped by a group of pampered pets determined to return him to his owners. Boog, Elliot, McSquizzy, Buddy and the rest of the woodland creatures launch a full-scale rescue mission for their sausage-shaped friend and soon find themselves in enemy camp: the world of the pets. Led by a toy poodle named Fifi, the pets do not plan to let Mr. Weenie go without a fight. Can a toy poodle REALLY bring down an 900-pound grizzly bear? Will Elliot ever marry Giselle? Find out in "Open Season 2."



Reviewer: Donna Rolfe
Source: Video
Company: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Writer: David L. Stern
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan
Producer: Matthew O'Callaghan, Todd Wilderman
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 77 min.
MPAA Rating: PG
Starring: Voices By: Joel McHale,Crispin Glover, Jane Krakowski, Mike Epps, Olivia Hack, Steve Schirripa, Jacquie Barnbrook, Hans Tester, Sean Mullen

IMDB rate : 5.9/10 255 votes

aXXo Torrents : MiniNova

The Incredible Hulk [2008]

In this new beginning, scientist Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) desperately hunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him: The Hulk. Living in the shadows—cut off from a life he knew and the woman he loves, Betty Ross (Liv Tyler)—Banner struggles to avoid the obsessive pursuit of his nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt), and the military machinery that seeks to capture him and brutally exploit his power. As all three grapple with the secrets that led to The Hulk’s creation, they are confronted with a monstrous new adversary known as The Abomination (Tim Roth), whose destructive strength exceeds even The Hulk’s own. And on June 13, 2008, one scientist must make an agonizing final choice: accept a peaceful life as Bruce Banner or find heroism in the creature he holds inside

Release Date: Sept 4, 2008
Source: Screener
Subtitles: English
Genre : Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director : Louis Leterrier
Cast : Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Ty Burrell, Stan Lee, Robert Downey Jr.
IMDB rate : 7.5/10 (39,146 votes)
aXXo Torrents : MiniNova

Lakeview Terrace [2008]

Abel Turner (Samuel L Jackson) has HAD IT with these motherfucking INTER-RACIAL COUPLES in this motherfucking suburban street. Actually, he's had it with one in particular - Chris (Little Children's Patrick Wilson) and Lisa (Fantastic Four's Kerry Washington). They move in next door to the disapproving widower and father of two, and he begins a campaign of harassment and intimidation to try and force them out. Worse still, the shellshocked newlyweds can't get any help from the cops because Turner himself is an LAPD officer. They soon realise they're going to have to tough this out – and that's when things get really ugly. There goes the neighborhood...

Produced by Will Smith and directed by Neil LaBute this is a tense, edgy thriller which asks awkward questions (including: "can LaBute redeem himself after that appalling Wicker Man remake?") and touches on difficult racial themes.

Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Justin Chambers, Jay Hernandez

Directed by Neil LaBute ('The Wicker Man', 'Nurse Betty', 'In the Company of Men')

Written by David Loughery & Howard Korder

Thriller, Drama | | Origin: US

Link: Imdb

Fly Me to the Moon [2008]

Nat (Trevor Gagnon) is a fly who was born for adventure. Hearing his granfather's (Christopher Lloyd) exciting tales, including the one about the time he flew with Amelia Earhart, has inspired Nat to do something just as grand. Now, he has the perfect opportunity -- the year is 1969, and the humans are about to send a manned rocket ship to the moon. All Nat has to do is convince his pals, IQ (Philip Daniel Bolden) and Scooter (David Gore), to come along for the ride.

Nat is able to sneak past his mother (Kelly Ripa) and get himself and his friends onto Apollo 11, but that turns out to be the easy part. Among other mishaps involving Nat and his friends, NASA realizes that there are "contaminants" in the spacecraft, and the astronauts are instructed to catch the flies. Meanwhile, as the three fly friends are struggle to get to the moon, the mission is endangered by sabotage from the ground.

Angry about the American's imminent success in space, Russian spy flies are out to ensure the mission fails. Luckily, Grandpa's old friend Nadia (Nicolette Sheridan) warns him of the danger, and he sets out to handle things at ground control. Between the trouble in space and what's going on at ground control, NASA will never know how much they owe to the brave McFly family.

Genre : Animation, Adventure, Family
Runtime : 01:24:58
Size : 701 MB
File name : Fly.Me.To.The.Moon[2008]DvDrip-aXXo.avi
Language : English
Director : Ben Stassen
Cast : Animation
IMDB rate : 5.1/10 (525 votes)
aXXo Torrents : MiniNova

Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special [2008]

Jeff Dunham and his cast of characters join to make Christmas very special -- and hilarious -- like only they know how. All new show also includes never-before-seen material with numerous DVD extras, including the music video, "Roadkill Christmas." Share this must-have event with the entire family for Christmas and all year long!

Popular funnyman Jeff Dunham makes this Christmas the most hilarious holiday ever in this release that will keep the entire family in stitches. Laugh along as Dunham is joined by a colorful cast of characters who are always ready with a good joke or a quotable quip. Bonus “Roadkill Christmas music video highlights why it’s best for furry little critters to stay off the icy roads during the holiday season.

1 CD, 700 MB, jdcs-unrated-xvid
85 min, 982 kbps, 640×352, 150 kbps mp3
Link: NFO, Torrent,Trailer


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1295909/

Basic Instinct 2 [2006]

Despite its inevitable fate as a critically reviled box-office flop, Basic Instinct 2 sure has a funny way of holding your attention. It's not just Sharon Stone's trash-talk and occasional nudity that keeps you watching, but also the way she gamely earns every cent of her $14 million paycheck, vamping like a real pro in her second outing as mystery novelist and alleged serial killer Catherine Tramell. Now living in London, Catherine sets her lethal sights on Michael Glass (David Morrissey), the control-freak psychiatrist assigned to evaluate her as a risk-addicted suspect in the "accidental" killing of a star soccer player. Turns out Catherine's just getting started (or is she?), and that's bad news for Glass's ex-wife, a tabloid journalist, and the Scotland Yard detective (David Thewlis) who's desperate to put Catherine in jail. With plenty of sex, murder and salacious dialogue, BI2 is certainly never boring, especially with the morbid fascination of seeing the once formidable Stone torpedo her career in a sequel that took 14 years (and countless drafts of screenplays and at least one high-profile lawsuit) to bring to the screen. She's still impressively hot at age 47, prompting critic Roger Ebert to observe, "the Catherine Tramell role cannot be played well, but Sharon Stone can play it badly better than any other actress alive." So, while this ill-fated sequel falls just short of being a guilty pleasure (if only because Morrissey is no match for Michael Douglas in the 1992 original), it's enjoyably absurd and slickly produced, and the hot-tub scene is guaranteed to wear out the freeze-frame function on a lot of DVD players.

Actors: Stan Collymore, Sharon Stone, Neil Maskell, David Thewlis, Jan Chappell
Director: Michael Caton-Jones


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430912/

JCVD

NEPTUNE releases a new movie by Jean Claude Vandamme. It’s not the usual B-action flicks, this is an actual movie about himself. It’s a really good movie, comparing to the things he made before. I’m definately going to watch this, as he is a Belgian too;)

Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! In JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States.

Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama
IMDB rating: 7.9/10 (1221 votes)
Directed by: Mabrouk El Mechri
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme,..
Release Name: JCVD.LIMITED.DVDRip.XviD-NEPTUNE
Size: 1CD 700mb
Quality: DVDRip - XviD | 624×256 @ 916 kb/s | 128 kb/s 2ch VBR MP3
Runtime: 92 min

Sample: Video
Links: Trailer
NFO: Here
Torrent: NewTorrents Search

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130988/

The Son Of A Preacher [2008]

DOMiNO just released a Documentary including a one on one interview with Shaka. Quality is Pretty good. The colours are saturated and clear and the audio quality is high.

THE SON OF A PREACHER: THE BLACK HAND THAT RULED HARLEM - Panama Films The Black Hand That Ruled Harlem! The Son Of Preacher includes a 1-on-1 interview with Shaka. This story is about one of the most notorious, feared, extortionist in Harlem who the FBI claims ran an organization called “The Black Hand Of Death” aka The Preacher Crew. In New York City, Harlem specifically, the word “Extortion” is synonymous with the Black Hand Preacher Crew. These men are reportedly responsible for over 50 murders, including the death of Richard Porter’s little brother (the story told in Street Stars GAME OVER documentary DVD)

Genre: Documentary
Ratings: IMDB: N/A RT: N/A
Directed by: N/A
Starring: Shaka

Links:Homepage
Sample: Here
NFO: Here
Torrent: Here

Elegy [2008](DVDrip/R18++)

Group RUSTLE bring us a DVDrip of this romantic drama starring Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley. (Warning video sample contains Penelope Cruz nudity)
Driven by Isabel Coixets visually assured and deeply observant direction, “Elegy” charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes him. As their intimate connection transforms them more than either could imagine, a charged sexual contest evolves into an indelible love story. With humanistic warmth, wry wit and erotic intensity, Elegy explores the power of beauty to blind, to reveal and to transform.

Release Name: Elegy.LiMiTED.DVDRiP.XViD-RUSTLE
Size: 700MB
Quality: DVDrip - XviD | 592×320 - 773kbps | MP3 - 126kbps
Runtime: 108 minutes

Links: Trailer
Sample: Video Sample
NFO: Here
Torrent: NTi | TPB | NZB

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0974554/

Slap Shot 3: The Junior League [2008][DVDRip]

iGNiTE releases a PROPER for Slap Shot 3. First version was released yesterday and got nuked. Here’s the good version without any errors.

The Hanson Brothers are back delivering more hard-hitting action and outrageous, unforgettable laughs in an all-new installment of this classic sports comedy franchise. Also starring comic genius Leslie Neilson, this irreverent sports comedy about a group of underdogs proves that with a little hard work and a whole lot of spirit, even the impossible is possible.

Release Name: Slap.Shot.3.The.Junior.League.2008.PROPER.DVDRIP.XVID-iGNiTE
Size: 700MB
Quality: DVDrip - XviD | 608×352 | MP3 - 160kbps
Runtime: 91 minutes

Sample: Video Sample
NFO: Here
Torrent: NTi | TPB

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245734/

Basic Instinct I [1992]

Basic Instinct (1992) is a suspenseful, cat-and-mouse erotic thriller with psychosexual overtones. Its director-writer team of Paul Verhoeven (known for earlier films Robocop (1987) and Total Recall (1990) and then Showgirls (1995)) and Joe Eszterhas (known for Jagged Edge (1985)) created this exploitative, soft-porn, excessive, controversial film known for its negative portrayal of lesbianism, violence, initial X-rating, and voyeuristic, sensational, gratuitous sex.

Womens' groups called the film misogynistic, and gay-rights groups in San Francisco called it stereotypically-homophobic and gay-bashing. They charged that the main murderess suspect in the film was a denegrating portrayal since she was a mentally-unstable, psychotic lesbian and bi-sexual. The film was also criticized for its confrontational scene between the detective and the main suspect's leather-clad lesbian lover.

A critically-lambasted, belated sequel by director Michael Caton-Jones, Basic Instinct 2 (2006) (originally subtitled Risk Addiction) found the now 47 year-old Sharon Stone character (ice-pick suspected murderess and novelist Catherine Tramell) living in London where she was being treated by a psychiatrist (David Morrissey) - who fell for her game of seduction.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103772/

Zack And Miri Make A Porno [2008]

"Zack and Miri Make a Porno" goes roughly the direction you'd expect it to go. Zack and Miri make a porno, for example. Then the two late-20s roommates, played by the supernaturally easygoing Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks, discover that having sex on camera in order to pay the rent will change the temperature of whatever room they're in together. Permanently.

The film, the latest from writer-director Kevin Smith, pushes its R rating pretty hard, though as with most Smith characters this side of Silent Bob, there's a lot more raunch in the talk -- the sheer, voluminous, often hilarious verbosity -- than in the action.

Genre: Comedy
IMDB rating: 7.8/10 (10,285 votes)
Directed by: Kevin Smith
Starring: Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Jason Mewes

Release Name: Zack.and.Miri.Make.A.Porno.R5.LINE.XViD-BaLD
Size: 700MB
Quality: R5 - XviD | 640×352 - 897kbps | MP3 - 126kbps
Runtime: 102 minutes
Filename: bald-zak

Links: Trailer
Samples: Video Sample
NFO: Here
Torrent: NTi | TPB | NZB

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1007028/

Fire & Ice: The dragon chronicles [2008]

Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles is about a princess named Luisa who enlists the help of a knight to save her kingdom from a fire breathing dragon. The fantasy film aired on the Sci-Fi channel October 18th for anxious fantasy fans. The film’s credits include “A-List” actors Arnold Vosloo (The Mummy) and John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings), and director Pitof (Catwoman).

The film had the potential to be a great fantasy, it had some beautiful locations and a very interesting concept, but it fell short on the supporting casts acting, art design, pacing and some story structure.

Arnold Vosloo and John Rhys-Davis are seasoned actors and they gave great performances for their parts, but they alone can not carry an entire film. At certain points in the movie the dialogue from the supporting cast sounded very dry, almost like they were reading cue cards.

The art design of the dragons was very innovative, but poorly chosen. The art designers relinquished the traditional reptile nature of the dragon and gave them Godzilla like facial features with the body of a stingray fish.

The pacing of the film wasn’t the worst, but it could have been better. We established the main characters in the beginning of the film and a great bulk of the conflict. The audience had to wade through various character interactions, back-story and dialogue before they were introduced to key action and plot points towards the end of the film.

Link: Trailer

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135493/

Fireflies in the Garden [2008]

An interesting looking drama pre’d not long ago with some pretty good actors in it, got a pretty good score of 7/10 on IMDB (although thats with only 390 votes). Video and sound quality look/sound pretty good judging from the sample, enjoy!

To an outsider, the Taylors are the very picture of the successful American family; Charles (Willem Dafoe) is a tenured professor on track to become university president; son Michael (Ryan Reynolds) is a prolific and well-known romance novelist; daughter Ryne (Shannon Lucio) is poised to enter a prestigious law school; and on the day we are introduced to them, matriarch Lisa (Julia Roberts) will graduate from college–decades after leaving to raise her children. But when a serious accident interrupts the celebration, the far more nuanced reality of this Midwestern family’s history and relationships come to light.

IMDB rating: 7/10 (390 votes)
Directed by: Dennis Lee
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Julia Roberts, Willem Dafoe, Hayden Panettiere

Release Name: Fireflies In The Garden 2008 DVDRiP XViD-HLS
Size: 704.43
Quality: DVDRip - XviD | 624×352 - 902kb/s | VBR MP3 - 123kb/s
Runtime: 95 minutes
Filename: hls-fitg

Links:Trailer
Samples: 1, 2, 3 | Video Sample
NFO: Here
Torrent: NTi | ThePirateBay
NZB: Search

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0961108/

Wild Child [2008]

Wild Child (2008) [DVDRip][DoNE]

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- Wild.Child.DVDRip.XviD-DoNE -
Directed by Nick Moore

RELEASE INFO

original name .... : Wild Child (2008)
also known as .....: Wild Child (2008)
ripper.............: Team DoNE
video codec........: XviD MPEG 4 Codec
video bitrate......: 891 kbps
audio codec........: MP3 VBR 131kbits/s
disks..............: 1CDs (50x15MB)
aspect ratio.......: 1.85:1
resolution.........: 592 x 320
genre..............: Drama  Romance
runtime............: 98 min
country............: USA  UK  France
language...........: English
subtitles..........: EN, SE, FI, NO
XviD release.......: 03/12/2008
DVD release........: ??/12/2008
UK.theatre release.: 17/08/2008 (359 Screens)
US.theatre release.: 09/11/2008 (1 Screen)

iMDB

iMDB rating.: 6.1/10 (778 votes)
iMDB link...: http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1024255/

PLOT SUMMARY

A rebellious Malibu princess is shipped off to a strict
English boarding school by her father.

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Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging [2008]

Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging [DVDRip][DoNE]

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Genre: Comedy | Drama
Ratings: IMDB: 6.8/10 (912 votes)
Directed by: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Georgia Groome, Eleanor Tomlinson, Aaron Johnson, Alan Davies, Karen Taylor

Release Name: Angus.Thongs.and.Perfect.Snogging.DVDRip.XviD-DoNE
Video: XviD @ ~874 kbps - 576 x 240 -  FPS: 25.000
Audio: MP3 VBR 131kbits/s
Size: 1 CD
Runtime: 100 min
Filename: angus-done

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