Archive for September, 2009
Three Kingdoms: Resurrection Of The Dragon
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The powerful war epic about three battling kingdoms in ancient China is logically too huge to be adapted completely into a two-hour film. As such, Three Kingdoms feels like a four-hour film crammed into two hours. The books are so rich that you can pick literally any part of it and develop it into a standalone film. Three Kingdoms has as its focus, the story of Zhao Zilong?s (Andy Lau) rise to power.You?d wish the film would slow down and take whatever time?s needed to flesh out the characters and their relationships, but I suspect there might be a three- or four-hour version somewhere in Daniel Lee?s head, or that one day we might see a full-fledged version on DVD. It does feel like so.
Ghost-in-law
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Nuan (Morakot Aimee Kittisara - Miss Thailand Universe 2004), a pretty nurse, is engaged to Chai (Noppon Phitaklopanit), a son of the wealthy Wongwuttiporn family who own a huge mansion. The mansion is eventually given to the young couple as a wedding gift. However, Khun Ying (Naowarat Yuktanan), Chai’s mother, plots to take the mansion back for herself in order to trade it to someone to get money for her debts. In order to do so, she has to get rid of Nuan. Unexpectedly, Nuan is killed and comes back to the mansion as a vengeful ghost to haunt Khun Ying and the people who caused her death.
The Red Shoes
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Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself. Under his near-obsessive guidance, young ballerina Victoria Page is poised for superstardom, but earns Lermontov’s scorn when she falls in love with Julian Craster, composer of “The Red Shoes,” the ballet Lermontov is staging to showcase her talents. Vicky leaves the company and marries Craster, but still finds herself torn between Lermontov’s demands and those of her heart.
Wild Hogs
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In Cincinnati, the dentist Doug Madsen is in crisis, bored with his middle-class life and missing his reckless youth when he was known as the Golden Biker. The aspirant writer Bobby Davis feels pressed by his wife and hates his job. The shy geek computer analyst Dudley Frank is unsuccessful with women. The wealthy Woody Stevens is married with a top-model. Together, the four middle-aged friends in their motorcycles self-call the “Wild Hogs”. When Woody loses his wife and is completely broken, he invites his friends to take a road trip to the Pacific, in a quest for freedom. After many incidents, they stop for a beer in a bar owned by the dangerous biker gang “Del Fuegos”.
Alien Invasion Arizona
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The strongest military force in the U.S. faces off against the most powerful predator in the galaxy as the desert sands run red with blood in a sci-fi action epic from director Dustin Rikert. A nightmarish extraterrestrial force has touched down in the Arizona desert, and the U.S. Marines have been deployed to terminate the barbarous beats with extreme prejudice. When all but one of the marines are systematically slaughtered, the remaining soldier crosses paths with a group of escaped convicts whose murderous impulses may be the only thing that stands between ultimate annihilation and the very future of the human species. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Direct Contact
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Mike Riggins, an imprisoned ex-US Special forces operative in Eastern Europe, is offered his freedom and money to rescue an American woman, Ana Gale, who has been kidnapped by a ruthless warlord. But, shortly after freeing her, Mike discovers that the kidnap story was just a ruse to bring Ana out into the open. Our hero suddenly finds himself and his charge being hunted by ruthless government, para-military, and underworld organizations - all who want him dead and Ana under their control. With no one to turn to, and the enemies closing in, Mike must uncover the truth about Ana and bring her to the safety of the U.S. Embassy.
Kokoda
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Director Alister Grierson teams with screenwriter John Lonie for this Aussie war drama exploring the fate of a missing patrol of Australian soldiers in World War II-era New Guinea. As Japanese troops continue their advance towards Port Moresby with an eye on invading Australia next, the task of defending the treacherous Kokoda Trail is left to uninitiated volunteers (derisively known as “chocos”) due to the fact that the big guns are on deployment elsewhere. When the ramshackle platoon receives confirmation of the impending assault and their supply lines are cut off without warning, mud-caked “choco” Jack Scholt (Jack Finsterer), his brother Max (Simon Stone), die-hard Darko (Travis McMahon), and skittish Johnno (Tom Budge) all prepare for the worst. Their ranks fast thinning thanks to the deadly accurate sharp shooting of an unseen enemy, the hardened Aussie soldiers do their best to protect the homeland or die trying.
DoReMiPaSolLaSiDo
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The year 2006 was a boom year in a number of different respects. Production reached its highest level in a decade and a half, with 108 films released in theaters, and many more which were waiting for release at the end of the year. Two films broke records at the box office: King and the Clown, which was released in the closing days of 2005 (on this site it is listed on the 2005 page) and which sold 12.3 million tickets, and Bong Joon-ho’s monster movie The Host, which sold just over 13 million tickets (the equivalent of over $90 million). Several other films did quite well too, including gambling film Tazza: The High Rollers and comedy 200 Pounds Beauty. Taken all together, the 2006 box office set a new record for revenues (over $1 billion) and sold the highest number of tickets since the late 1960s.
The Memory
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“The Memory” is a warm love story between Film, a superstar who has lost his memory and Jaa, a paparazzi photographer who follows him, snapping shots of Film to sell to the magazines. They meet up somewhere in the North of Thailand, surrounded by the Thai jungle, hill tribes people and romantic scenery. The enemies end up falling in love…until Film gets his memory back….After this, he is unable to recognize the girl he met in the North. All of his memories about her are blurred, and he believes she’s waiting for him somewhere far far away.