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Troy (2004)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | Romance
Countries: Malta | UK | USA
Actors: Glover, Julian | Cox, Brian | Jones, Nathan | Maropis, Adoni | Smith, Jacob | Pitt, Brad | Shrapnel, John | Gleeson, Brendan | Kruger, Diane | Bana, Eric | Bloom, Orlando | Svegler, Siri | Barat, Lucie | Bones, Ken | Cauchi, Manuel
Directors: Petersen, Wolfgang
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer’s “The Iliad.”

Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Skarsgård, Stellan | Scorupco, Izabella | D'Arcy, James | Sweeney, Remy | Wadham, Julian | French, Andrew | Brown, Ralph | Cross, Ben | Bradley, David | Ford, Alan | Kamerling, Antonie | Osei, Eddie | Aduramo, Israel | O'Kane, Patrick | Bellamy, James
Directors: Harlin, Renny
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Father Lankester Merrin thinks that he has glimpsed the face of Evil. In the years following World War II, Merrin is relentlessly haunted by memories of the unspeakable brutality perpetrated against the innocent people of his parish during the War. In the wake of all the horror he has seen, both his faith in his fellow man and his faith in the Almighty have deserted him, and he can no longer honestly call himself a man of God. Merrin has traveled far from his native Holland in a desperate attempt to try to forget and escape all the evil that he had witnessed there. While currently in Cairo, Egypt, he is approached by a collector of rare antiquities and asked to participate in a British archeological excavation in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. They have unearthed something extraordinary and unusual…a Christian Byzantine church dating from the 5th century, long before Christianity arrived in East Africa, and in inexplicably perfect condition–like it had been buried immediately after it was completed. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find an ancient relic hidden within the church before the British do. Interested, Merrin agrees to take the job. But beneath the church, something much older and malevolent sleeps, waiting to be awoken. When the archeologists start excavating, strange things begin occuring, and the local Turkana tribesmen who were hired to work refuse to enter the site. Things only get worse and worse, ultimately resulting in madness and death. Merrin watches helplessly as the atrocities of war are repeated against another innocent village–atrocities he had hoped and prayed never to see again. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, but the horror has only just begun. In the place where Evil was born, Merrin will finally see its true face.

Biker Boyz (2003)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Fishburne, Laurence | Luke, Derek | Jones, Orlando | Hounsou, Djimon | Bonet, Lisa | Fehr, Brendan | Tate, Larenz | Kid Rock | Gonzalez, Rick | Good, Meagan | Richardson, Salli | Calloway, Vanessa Bell | Basco, Dante | Basco, Dion | Beckford, Tyson
Directors: Bythewood, Reggie Rock
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A mythic motorcycle tale of father and son”, this is the story of Manuel Galloway (Fishburne), also known as “the King of Cali”, the president of a motorcycle club whose members are all African-American men, mostly white-collar workers who exchange their suits and ties at night and on weekends for leather outfits and motorcycle helmets. The focus of this story takes place at an annual drag-racing event in Fresno, as Manuel tries to retain his championship title.

Empire (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Leguizamo, John | Sarsgaard, Peter | Richards, Denise | Laresca, Vincent | Rossellini, Isabella | Braga, Sonia | Cotto, Delilah | Serrano, Nestor | Criss, Anthony 'Treach' | Báez, Rafael | Joe, Fat | Leon, Carlos | Solis, Félix | Pastran, Omar | Campbell, Rob B.
Directors: Reyes, Franc.
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Victor (Leguizamo), is trying to escape his life as a drug dealer in the South Bronx. Enter Jack (Sarsgaard), a Wall Street investment banker with a business proposal that has Victor’s name (and money) written all over it.

Upside of Anger, The (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Allen, Joan | Costner, Kevin | Christensen, Erika | Russell, Keri | Witt, Alicia | Wood, Evan Rachel | Binder, Mike | Harper, Tom | Christensen, Dane | Webb, Danny (IV) | Manville, Magdalena | Bertish, Suzanne | Firth, David | Woodruff, Rod | Greif, Stephen
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A sharp-witted suburban wife, Terry Wolfmeyer, is left to raise her four headstrong daughters when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Things get even more hectic when she falls for her neighbor Denny, a once-great baseball star turned radio d.j. This leaves her daughters out on a limb. They are forced to juggle their mom’s romantic dilemmas as well as their own.

Godfather, The (1972)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Brando, Marlon | Pacino, Al | Caan, James | Castellano, Richard S. | Duvall, Robert | Hayden, Sterling | Conte, Richard | Lettieri, Al | Keaton, Diane | Vigoda, Abe | Shire, Talia | Russo, Gianni | Marley, John | Bond, Rudy
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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The story begins as “Don” Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia “family”, oversees his daughter’s wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father’s business. Through Michael’s life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don’t want to follow the old ways and look out for community and “family”. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don’s influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don’s fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.

Identity (2003)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cusack, John | Liotta, Ray | Peet, Amanda | Hawkes, John | Molina, Alfred | DuVall, Clea | McGinley, John C. | Scott, William Lee | Busey, Jake | Vince, Pruitt Taylor | De Mornay, Rebecca | Argenziano, Carmen | Bell, Marshall | Kenzle, Leila | Letscher, Matt
Directors: Mangold, James
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Strangers from all different walks of life: a limo driver escorting a movie star, parents with a young son, a cop transporting a convict, a prostitute, a young couple, and a motel manager are caught up in a nasty rainstorm, stuck at a motel in desolate Nevada. Soon they realize they may be at the motel for another reason when one by one, people start getting killed off. As tensions flare and fingers are pointed, they have to get to the bottom of why they’re there. Meanwhile in an undisclosed location, a psychiatrist is trying to prove the innocence of a man accused of murder in an eleventh hour trial. How these two through-lines are related can only be found in Identity.

Big Fish (2003)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: McGregor, Ewan | Finney, Albert | Crudup, Billy | Lange, Jessica | Bonham Carter, Helena | Lohman, Alison | Guillaume, Robert | Cotillard, Marion | McGrory, Matthew | Denman, David | Pyle, Missi | Wainwright III, Loudon | Tai, Ada | Tai, Arlene | Buscemi, Steve
Directors: Burton, Tim
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The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father’s elusive life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father’s great feats and his great failings.

Ladder 49 (2004)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hernandez, Jay | Phoenix, Joaquin | Travolta, John | Barrett, Jacinda | Chestnut, Morris | Burke, Billy | Getty, Balthazar | Guinee, Tim | Chapman, Kevin | Kevin Daniels | Maye, Steve | Patrick, Robert | Hamlin, Brooke | Berglund, Spencer
Directors: Jay Russell
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Under the watchful eye of his mentor Captain Mike Kennedy (Travolta), probationary firefighter Jack Morrison (Phoenix) matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. Jack has reached a crossroads, however, as the sacrifices he’s made have put him in harm’s way innumerable times and significantly impacted his relationship with his wife and kids. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. And as he reflects on his life, now Assistant Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save him.

Crash (1996)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Spader, James | Hunter, Holly | Koteas, Elias | Unger, Deborah Kara | Arquette, Rosanna | MacNeill, Peter | Julian, Yolande | Swarts, Cheryl | Katz, Judah | Guadagni, Nicky | Sarosiak, Ronn | Banks, Boyd | Parilo, Markus | Poon, Alice | Stoneham Jr., John
Directors: Cronenberg, David
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Since a road accident left him with serious facial and bodily scarring, a former ‘TV scientist’ has become obsessed by the marriage of motor car technology with what he sees as the ‘raw sexuality’ of car-crash victims. The scientist, along with a crash victim he has recently befriended, sets about performing a series of sexual acts in a variety of motor vehicles, either with other crash victims or with prostitutes who they contort into the shape of trapped-corpses. Ultimately, the scientist craves a suicidal union of blood, semen and engine coolant, a union with which he becomes dangerously obsessed.