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Movies Releasing: the Week of January 25, 2008 |
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Meet the Spartans |
Réalisateur : Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer. |
Starring : Diedrich Bader, Kevin Sorbo, Method Man, Ken Davitian, Jim Piddock, Sean Maguire, Greg Ellis, Crista Flanagan, Nicole Parker, Emily Wilson. |
Runtime : 84 minutes. Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.meetthespartans.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
Regency Enterprises and Twentieth Century Fox invite you to MEET THE SPARTANS, from the new masters of the parody genre - writers-directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. After successfully skewering Hollywood's scariest movie (as two of the writers on "Scary Movie"), romantic comedy franchises ("Date Movie"), and Hollywood blockbusters ("Epic Movie"), they now set their sights on "300," as well as on other movies that have become part of our pop culture zeitgeist.
The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing by leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13 - count 'em, 13! - Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton...no one is safe when the Spartans take on the biggest icons in pop culture).
With "Meet the Spartans," Friedberg and Seltzer bring together what they call "the highly stylized and oh-so-cool" world of the Sparta depicted in "300," with a non-s... |
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John Rambo |
DVD Release Date : ( France : September 23, 2008 ) |
Réalisateur : Sylvester Stallone. |
Starring : Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Rey Gallegos, Jake LaBotz, Tim Kang, Paul Schulze. |
Runtime : 90 minutes. Genre : Action. |
Official Website : http://movies.break.com/rambo/ |
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Twenty years after the last film in the series, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) has retreated to northern Thailand, where he's running a longboat on the Salween River. On the nearby Thai-Burma (Myanmar) border, the world's longest-running civil war, the Burmese-Karen conflict, rages into its 60th year. But Rambo, who lives a solitary, simple life in the mountains and jungles fishing and catching poisonous snakes to sell, has long given up fighting, even as medics, mercenaries, rebels and peace workers pass by on their way to the war-torn region.
That all changes when a group of human rights missionaries search out the "American river guide" John Rambo. When Sarah (Julie Benz) and Michael Bennett (Paul Schulze) approach him, they explain that since last year's trek to the refugee camps, the Burmese military has laid landmines along the road, making it too dangerous for overland travel. They ask Rambo to guide them up the Salween and drop them off, so they can deliver medical supplies a... |
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Be Kind Rewind |
Réalisateur : Michel Gondry. |
Starring : Jack Black, Danny Glover, Mos Def, Paul Dinello, Mia Farrow, Chandler Parker, Melonie Diaz, Arjay Smith, Marcus Carl Franklin, P.J. Byrne. |
Runtime : 94 minutes. Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.bekindrewindmovie.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
A man (Black) whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films. |
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4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days |
Réalisateur : Cristian Mungiu. |
Starring : Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean. |
Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.ifcfilms.com/4months |
Plot Summary : |
During the final days of communism in Romania, two college roommates Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) and Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) are busy preparing for a night away. But rather than planning for a holiday, they are making arrangements for Gabita's illegal abortion and unwittingly, both find themselves burrowing deep down a rabbit hole of unexpected revelations. Transpiring over the course of a single day, Mungiu's film is a masterwork of modern filmmaking, by parts poignant and shocking. Nominated for 4 European Film Awards including Best Picture and one of the standout hits of the Telluride, Toronto and New York Film Festivals, "4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days" is a modern classic that will stay with you long after you've left the theater. |
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The Air I Breathe |
Réalisateur : Jieho Lee. |
Starring : Kevin Bacon, Forest Whitaker, Andy Garcia, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Brendan Fraser, Julie Delpy, Emile Hirsch. |
Runtime : 97 minutes. Genre : Drama, Crime, Romance. |
Official Website : http://www.theairibreathemovie.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
Four short fables in which characters collide with fate – and each other – comprise "The Air I Breathe," an ambitious and absorbing drama from debuting director/writer Jieho Lee. Boasting a brilliant ensemble cast, the film is inspired by a Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four key emotions – Happiness, Sorrow, Pleasure, and Love – and each vignette is built around a character who embodies one of these key emotions.
In "Happiness," 2006 Best Actor Oscar Winner Forest Whitaker stars as a timid banker who impulsively bets every cent he has, and then some, on a supposedly "sure thing." In "Sorrow," Sarah Michelle Gellar is a rising pop star whose contract falls under the control of a ruthless crime boss (Oscar-nominee Andy Garcia), and his corrupt nephew (Emile Hirsch). In "Pleasure," Brendan Fraser stars as a man who can see into the future of everyone he meets, but is totally blind when it comes to his own; and in "Love," Kevin Bacon plays a doctor who pines for a woman he ca... |
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Untraceable |
DVD Release Date : ( France : September 23, 2008 ) |
Réalisateur : Gregory Hoblit. |
Starring : Diane Lane, Colin Hanks, Erin Carufel. |
Runtime : 100 minutes. Genre : Crime, Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.sony.com/untraceable |
Plot Summary : |
The story of a technology-savvy serial killer who displays his graphic murders on his own website. The FBI Internet Crimes division must work quickly to track him down. |
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