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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Friends With Benefits


Plot: A young female headhunter (Mila Kunis) in New York convinces a potential recruit (Justin Timberlake) to leave his job in San Francisco behind and accept a job in the big apple. Despite an attraction to each other, both realize they’re everything they’ve been running from in a relationship and decide to become friends…with benefits. It’s the perfect arrangement–until they realize there’s no such thing as no strings attached.






Genre: Comedy | Romance
IMDB rating: 6.7/10
Directed by: Will Gluck
Starring: Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake and Patricia Clarkson









Thursday, November 17, 2011

Moneyball

Plot: Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the team.

Genre: Biography | Drama | Sport
IMDB rating: 8.1/10 (10,003 users)
Directed by: Bennett Miller
Starring: Brad Pitt, Robin Wright and Jonah Hill








Panic Button

Plot: Four young people win a competition of a lifetime; Jo (Scarlett Alice Johnson – Adulthood), Max (Jack Gordon – Heartless) Gwen (Elen Rhys – Season Of The Witch) and Dave (Michael Jibson – The Bank Job) head off on an all expenses paid trip to New York, courtesy of social network All2gethr.com. As they board the private jet, they are asked to relinquish their mobile phones and take part in the in-flight entertainment – a new online gaming experience.

Genre: Horror | Thriller
IMDB rating: 6.3/10
Directed by: Chris Crow
Starring: Scarlett Alice Johnson, Jack Gordon and Michael Jibson








Melancholia

Plot: Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland). Meanwhile, the planet, Melancholia, is heading towards Earth… Melancholia is a psychological disaster movie from director Lars von Trier.

Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi
IMDB rating: 7.7/10
Directed by: Lars von Trier
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland








Hunting The Lost Symbol

Plot:
Explore the fact in the fiction surrounding some of Washington DC’s most famous symbols, images, and legends. Be hot on the trail of the secret codes and clues introduced in Dan Brown’s book “The Lost Symbol.” By using dramatic re-creations of pivotal moments in American history together with visits to the contemporary locations visited by Brown’s protagonist Robert Langdon, the special provides a compelling and provocative bookend to the action and suspense of the book. From Capitol crypts to hidden monuments, this DVD illuminates the world of Dan Brown. Extras include Secret America – a series that uncovers conspiracy, theories, myths, and lies about the most iconic symbols in America; and deleted scenes.

Genre: Documentary | History
iMDB Rating: 6.5/10 from 48 users
Directed by: John Tindall
Starring: Caleb Brinson, Jay Callaham and Devy Collins








Texas Killing Fields


Plot: Inspired by true events, this tense and haunting thriller follows a local homicide detective (Sam Worthington) in a small Texan town and his partner, a transplanted cop from New York City (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims’ mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call “The Killing Fields”.
The killer changes the game and begins hunting the detectives, teasing them with possible clues at the crime scenes while always remaining one step ahead. When a familiar local girl, Anne (Chloe Grace Moretz) goes missing the detectives find themselves in a race against time to find the killer and save her life.

Genre: Crime | Drama | History
iMDB Rating: 5.5/10 from 305 users
Directed by: Ami Canaan Mann
Starring: Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Chloë Grace Moretz








Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Life In A Day

Plot: A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010. What do you get when you ask the people of the world to chronicle a single day in their lives? You get 80,000 submissions, 4500 hours of footage, from 192 countries. Kevin Macdonald has taken this raw material, all shot on July 24, 2010, and created a 90-minute paean to what it means to be human in the world today.

Genre: Documentary | Drama
iMDB Rating: 8.1/10 from 1,642 users
Directed by: Kevin Macdonald, Natalia Andreadis
Starring: Cindy Baer, Moica and Caryn Waechter