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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








Monday, November 7, 2011

Rise of the Planet of the Apes


Plot: A single act of both compassion and arrogance leads to a war unlike any other — and to the “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” The Oscar-winning visual effects team that brought to life the worlds of “Avatar” and “Lord of the Rings” is breaking new ground, creating a CGI ape that delivers a dramatic performance of unprecedented emotion and intelligence, and epic battles on which rest the upended destinies of man and primate. The Escapist director Rupert Wyatt takes the helm for this Planet of the Apes prequel centering on genetically engineered chimp Caesar (Andy Serkis), who was created in a San Francisco lab by an ambitious scientist (James Franco), and who uses his powerful intellect to lead an ape uprising against all of humankind.

Genre: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
IMDB rating: 7.8/10
Directed by: Rupert Wyatt
Starring: James Franco, Andy Serkis and Freida Pinto