Rating: 7.3/10Release Date: 12 July 2001 (Hong Kong)
Genre:Sports
Plot:A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Shaolin Soccer
Rating: 7.3/10Release Date: 12 July 2001 (Hong Kong)
Genre:Sports
Plot:A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Hostel 2
Hostel 1
The Karate Kid
Behind Enemy Lines
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Rating:7.1/10Release Date:18 May 2003 (USA)
Genre:Drama
Plot:A unique slant, profiling the life of Adolf Hitler as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National German Workers' Party prior to World War II
Defiance
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Goal II: Living the Dream
Goal :Dream Begins
Rating:6.9/10Release Date:12 May 2006 (USA)
Genre:Sports
Plot:The film starts with a clip showing Santiago Munez playing football as a child in Mexico. The same night, his family illegally enter into the United States to find a better living. Santi grows up in the USA and works with his father as a gardener. At night he works as a busboy in a Chinese restaurant. He also plays football for a small local team called AJFC. He goes to play a match one day after his work with his father, where he is forced to use a pair of cardboard pieces as shin guards as he cannot afford any. He saves his money and hides it in his shoes every night to purchase a football kit
Gone in 60 seconds
Rating:6.0/10Release Date:9 June 2000 (USA)
Genre:Crime
Plot:A retired master car thief must come back to the industry and steal 50 cars with his crew in one night to save his brother's life
Face Off
Orphan
Rating:7.2/10Release Date:18 September 2009 (India)
Genre:Horrror
Plot:Kate and John Coleman are rebuilding their marriage after a troubled relationship, since Kate had drinking problem but is under therapy with Dr. Browning and has been sober for one year. Her addiction cost her job; a serious accident with their deaf-dumb daughter Maxine; and the abortion of their stillborn baby Jessica and John had a love affair ten years ago. They decide to adopt a child and when they meet the nine year-old Russian girl Esther at the St. Marina Orphanage, they immediately fall in love for the well-educated orphan. Max becomes close to Esther while her reluctant brother Daniel does not welcome his newcomer stepsister. Sooner Kate feels that Esther is manipulative and has some disturbance and she believes it could be hormone or borderline personality disorder but John refuses to listen to his wife and the wounds in their marriage reopen. Kate calls Sister Abigail in the orphanage and the sister advises Kate that Esther had been involved in many troubles in the past. When Sister Abigail visits Kate, Esther kills her with a hammer and is witnessed by the scared Max. When Kate goes further in the investigation of the past of Esther, she contacts the Saarne Institute, a mental hospital in Estonia, and discovers that the girl is not who she tells she is
Mean Girls
Rating:7.0/10Release Date:3 September 2004 (India)
Genre:Comedy
Plot:Raised in African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady Heron thinks she knows about survival of the fittest. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home-schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today
Number 23
Rating:6.2/10
Release Date:23 February 2007 (USA)
Genre:Drama
Plot:On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She's browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dreams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by "23," he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth.
Secret window
Rating:6.4/10Release Date:12 March 2004 (USA)
Genre:Horror
Plot:Famed mystery writer, Mort Rainey (Depp) is confronted by a mysterious stranger outside his house. This stranger calls himself John Shooter (Turturro) and claims that Mort has stolen an idea for a story from him. Mort says he can prove he wrote his first, but whilst Mort waits for the evidence to appear, Shooter starts to become more and more violent.
Into the wild
Rating:8.2/10Release Date:21 September 2007 (USA)
Genre:Drama
Plot:After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life
The Girl Next Door
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Rating:7.8/10
Release Date:21 December 2007 (USA)
Genre:Drama
Plot:In the Victorian London, the barber Benjamin Barker is married to the gorgeous Lucy and they have a lovely child, Johanna. The beauty of Lucy attracts the attention of the corrupt Judge Turpin, who falsely accuses the barber of a crime that he did not commit and abuses Lucy later after gaining custody of her. After fifteen years in exile, Benjamin returns to London under the new identity of Sweeney Todd, seeking revenge against Turpin. He meets the widow Mrs. Lovett who is the owner of a meat pie shop who tells him that Lucy committed suicide with arsenic many years ago, and Turpin assigned himself tutor of Johanna. He opens a barber shop above her store, initiating a crime rampage against those who made him suffer and lose his beloved family.
Release Date:21 December 2007 (USA)
Genre:Drama
Plot:In the Victorian London, the barber Benjamin Barker is married to the gorgeous Lucy and they have a lovely child, Johanna. The beauty of Lucy attracts the attention of the corrupt Judge Turpin, who falsely accuses the barber of a crime that he did not commit and abuses Lucy later after gaining custody of her. After fifteen years in exile, Benjamin returns to London under the new identity of Sweeney Todd, seeking revenge against Turpin. He meets the widow Mrs. Lovett who is the owner of a meat pie shop who tells him that Lucy committed suicide with arsenic many years ago, and Turpin assigned himself tutor of Johanna. He opens a barber shop above her store, initiating a crime rampage against those who made him suffer and lose his beloved family.
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
No man's land
Rating:8.0/10
Release Date:19 September 2001 (France)
Genre:War
Plot:Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier is becomes a living booby trap
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Rating:6.5/10Release Date: 11 January 2008 (India)
Genre: Action, Adventure.
Plot:Treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates looks to discover the truth behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, by uncovering the mystery within the 18 pages missing from assassin John Wilkes Booth's diary.
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum
Saving Private Ryan
Rating:8.5/10Release Date:24 July 1998 (USA)
Genre: War, Action.
Plot:Following the Normandy Landings, a group of US soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
Saw II
Rating:6.7/10Release Date:28 October 2005 (USA) (USA)
Genre: Horror
Plot:Jigsaw locks a few unlucky people in a booby trapped shelter and they must find a way out before they inhale too much of a lethal nerve gas and die. But they must watch out, for the traps Jigsaw has set in the shelter lead to death also.
Saw I
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Stranger than Fiction
Definitely,maybe
Rating:7.4/10
ReleaseDate:14 February 2008 (USA)
Genre:Romance
Genre:Romance
Plot:A political consultant tries to explain his impending divorce and past relationships to his 11-year-old daughter.
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Black Hawk Down
Rating:7.7/10Release Date:29 March 2002 (India)
Genre:War
Plot:Action/war drama based on the best-selling book detailing a near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993. On this date nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. Mike Steele, were dropped by helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord. This lead to a large and drawn-out firefight between the Rangers and hundreds of Somali gunmen, leading to the destruction of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters. This film focuses on the heroic efforts of various Rangers to get to the downed black hawks, centering on Sgt. Eversmann, leading the Ranger unit Chalk Four to the first black hawk crash site, Warrant Officer Durant who was captured after being the only survivor of the second black hawk crash, as well as many others who were involved.
Paranormal Activity
Rating:7.1/10Release Date:16 October 2009 (USA)
Genre:Horror
Plot:After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Rating:7.4/1000
Release Date:3 October 2008 (India
Genre:Action, Adventure.
Plot:The mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, so Hellboy and his team must save the world from the rebellious creatures.
Release Date:3 October 2008 (
Genre:Action, Adventure.
Plot:The mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, so Hellboy and his team must save the world from the rebellious creatures.
V for Vendetta
The Godfather II
Rating:9.0/10
ReleaseDate:20 December 1974 (USA)
Genre:Crime
Genre:Crime
Plot:The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-revolution 1958 Cuba.
The Godfather
The Departed
Rating:8.5/10Release Date:6 October 2006 (USA)
Genre:Crime, Drama.
Plot:Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy's identities
The Proposal
Friday, November 20, 2009
Youngblood
Rating:5.5/10
Release Date:31 January 1986 (USA)
Genre:Sports.
Plot:A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. His on-ice activities are complicated by his relationship with the coach's daughter.
Release Date:31 January 1986 (USA)
Genre:Sports.
Plot:A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. His on-ice activities are complicated by his relationship with the coach's daughter.
Longest Yard
Rating:6.2/10
Release Date:27 May 2005 (USA)
Genre:Sports
Plot:When ex-football star Paul Crewe is thrown into prison, he is assigned the job of creating a football team to take on Warden Hazen's team. Together with the Warden and the legendary Coach Nate Scarborough, Crewe begins to recruit his new team
Release Date:27 May 2005 (USA)
Genre:Sports
Plot:When ex-football star Paul Crewe is thrown into prison, he is assigned the job of creating a football team to take on Warden Hazen's team. Together with the Warden and the legendary Coach Nate Scarborough, Crewe begins to recruit his new team
August Rush
Rating:7.5/10
ReleaseDate:21 November 2007 (USA
Genre:Romance
Genre:Romance
Plot:The story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Elizabethtown
Rating:6.4/10Release Date:14 October 2005 (USA)
Genre:RomancePlot:After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should bring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life.
Step Up 2: The Street
Rating:5.5/10
Release Date:14 February 2008 (USA)
Genre:Drama.
Plot:Andie (Briana Evigan) is a member of the 410 crew, she goes around showcasing her talents illegally.Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum)one of her oldest friends from her younger years, understands her love for street dancing to save her from being sent away to texas he gets her an audition for MSA - Maryland School of Arts. she gets in but only by the kindness of one guy Chase (Robert Hoffman) also a student at MSA. However, not only is he the most popular guy in school but his brother is it's new director
Release Date:14 February 2008 (USA)
Genre:Drama.
Plot:Andie (Briana Evigan) is a member of the 410 crew, she goes around showcasing her talents illegally.Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum)one of her oldest friends from her younger years, understands her love for street dancing to save her from being sent away to texas he gets her an audition for MSA - Maryland School of Arts. she gets in but only by the kindness of one guy Chase (Robert Hoffman) also a student at MSA. However, not only is he the most popular guy in school but his brother is it's new director
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Rating:7.5/10
ReleaseDate:5 January 2007 (USA)
ReleaseDate:5 January 2007 (USA)
Genre:Drama
Plot:Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.
Plot:Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.
National Treasure
Rating:6.9/10
ReleaseDate:21 January 2005 (India)
Genre:Action Adventure
Plot:Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a family of treasure-seekers who've all hunted for the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Founding Fathers after the Revolutionary War. Ben's close to discovering its whereabouts, as is his competition, but the FBI is also hip to the hunt.
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