Russian filmmaker, Sergei Bodrov utilizes authentic locations, and a healthy smattering of Mongolian actors in this epic film of Genghis Khan’s rise to power. Young Temudjin (Odnyam Odsuren) and his (adult) first lady Borte (Khulan Chuluun) stand out in their authenticity as well as Japanese leading man Tadanobu Asano as adult Temudjin and Chinese [...]
Entries from June 2008
Mongol
June 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Foreign Language · history · war
Brick Lane
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Nazneen (Tannishtha Chatterjee), a young Bangladeshi woman, longs for her village and lost youth, when she is uprooted to London’s East End and an arranged marriage to an older man (Satish Kaushik). When the requisite hot guy (Christopher Simpson) appears on the scene peddling piece work to the local home seamstresses, a new world opens [...]
Tags: Relationships · drama
The Happening
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
A science teacher (Mark Walhberg) , his wife (Zooey Deschanel), and a young girl (Ashlyn Sanchez) set out to escape a mysterious force that has taken over New York and is spreading quickly. The “force” drives people to kill themselves with whatever implement is in close proximity, resulting in numerous grossly graphic scenes.
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What Happens in Vegas
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
A sexy stock broker (Cameron Diaz) and a good-looking guy (Ashton Kutcher) find themselves thrown together after a night of drunken bingeing in Las Vegas.
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Savage Grace
June 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Be prepared to squirm in your seat as you sit through the true story of Barbara Daly Baekeland (Julianne Moore) and her twisted relationship with her husband Brooks (Stephen Dillane), heir to the inventor of Bakelite, and their son Tony (Eddie Redmayne ), who narrates.
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Tags: Sex · dysfunctionality
Roman de gare
June 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Claude Lelouche’s adaptation keeps audiences questioning: is crime novelist Judith Ralitzer (Fanny Ardant) imitating her own novels, is Dominique Pinon really her ghost writer or a serial killer, and how does Hughette, (Audrey Dana) a frustrated hairdresser, ditched by her boyfriend fit into all this frenzy? Fun and very French!
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Tags: Foreign Language · comedy · drama
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Director/writer, Chris Bell turns the camera on himself and his family as they frankly discuss addiction to steroids.
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Tags: Documentary
The Visitor
June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
A stuck-in-a-rut economics professor (Richard Jenkins) finds his inner drum beat when he befriends two young immigrants (Haaz Sleiman and Danai Jekesai Gurira) in Manhattan.
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Tags: Relationships · comedy · drama