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
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