New Moon (marketed as The Twilight Saga: New Moon) is a 2009 American romantic fantasy movie. It is based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer and is the sequel to 2008's Twilight. It is directed by Chris Weitz, the feature film casts Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner, reprising their roles as Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and Jacob Black, respectively.
On her 18th birthday, Bella Swan wakes up from a dream in which she sees herself as an old lady. She tells her distaste to becoming older than her boyfriend Edward Cullen, a vampire who stopped aging at 17. Edward's family throws Bella a birthday bash. While opening a gift, Bella gets a paper cut, which causes Edward's adoptive brother, Jasper, to be overwhelmed by her blood's odor and makes an effort to kill her. Understanding the hazard he and his family pose to Bella, Edward decides to break up, and the Cullens move away from Forks, Washington.
Edward's exit leaves Bella dejected and miserable for months. However, when her father, Charlie, attempts to send her to live with her mother, Bella accepts to spend time with her friends. After seeing a picture with Jessica, Bella sees a crowd of men who prompt her of a time when Edward saved her previously, and she is stunned to see a vision of Edward alerting her against approaching them. Bella finds that all thrill-seeking behavior allow her visions of Edward. She also finds relief in her deepening friendship with Jacob Black, a jovial friend who soothes her disturbance over losing Edward. Bella then finds that Jacob is a werewolf. After learning that the vampire Victoria is searching for Bella, Jacob's gang members begin continuous patrols, giving Jacob little time for Bella. Alone, Bella returns to seeking thrill-inducing activities.
A series of misunderstandings leads Edward to think that Bella has committed suicide while cliff-diving. Distressed over her believed suicide, Edward flees to Italy to stir the Volturi, a powerful coven of vampires who are capable of killing him. Alice, Edward's adoptive sister. Bella rushes to Italy to save Edward, and save him in time. But, the Volturi decide that Bella, a human being who knows that vampires live, must either be murdered or changed into a vampire herself. Alice stops them from murder her by showing them a vision of the future in which Bella has been changed. Once they return home to Forks, Edward tells Bella that he has always loved her and only left town to protect her. She forgives him, and the Cullens vote in favor of Bella being changed into a vampire, to Edward's dismay. But, Edward gives Bella a choice: either she lets Alice change her after their graduation, or, if Bella accepts to wed him, he will change her himself.
The feature film was released on November 20, 2009 in most countries, and set domestic box office records as the biggest midnight screening with US$26.3 million surpassing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Based on 174 reviews collected by the movie aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, New Moon has received a "Rotten" rating of 29%, with a weighted average score of 4.7 out of 10.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
NINJA ASSASSIN
Ninja Assassin is an upcoming martial arts film directed by James McTeigue and starring Rain and Naomie Harris. The film was produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers.
It is a story of a competent assassin who was taught by a legendary secret society, and patiently waits for the day he will take revenge of the death of his good friend. Swept off the streets as a little boy, Raizo (Korean pop star Rain) is transformed into an unstoppable killing machine by a confidential society known as the Ozunu Clan. The Ozunu Clan is so adept at keeping their survival a secret that most people think they are only a story, but the moment Ozuno assassins slay Raizo's friend, their days in the darkness are numbered. In the aftermath of that murder, Raizo stages a heroic escape, subsequently biding his time until the day he can take the complete Ozunu Clan down.
Later on, in Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) finds a cash trail involving numerous political murders to a strange network of indescribable assassins from the Far East. While her chief Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles) commands Mika to back down and stop asking questions, she quietly begins searching throughout classified agency files on a unyielding venture to unearth the reality about the murders. Singled out as a goal as a direct result of her analysis, Mika is marked for death by lethal Ozunu assassin Takeshi (Rick Yune). Just as Mika is about to be silenced forever, Raizo saves her from certain demise. But Raizo knows that Takeshi and the rest of the Ozuno Clan won't stop until he and Mika are both dead. Now, as Raizo and Mika are sought through the meandering streets of Europe, their only faith for existance is to rely on one another and stay alive long enough to bring the Ozunu empire crumbling to the ground.
The feature film is scheduled to be released on November 25, 2009.It is alike Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino). It is rated R for violence and language.
It is a story of a competent assassin who was taught by a legendary secret society, and patiently waits for the day he will take revenge of the death of his good friend. Swept off the streets as a little boy, Raizo (Korean pop star Rain) is transformed into an unstoppable killing machine by a confidential society known as the Ozunu Clan. The Ozunu Clan is so adept at keeping their survival a secret that most people think they are only a story, but the moment Ozuno assassins slay Raizo's friend, their days in the darkness are numbered. In the aftermath of that murder, Raizo stages a heroic escape, subsequently biding his time until the day he can take the complete Ozunu Clan down.
Later on, in Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) finds a cash trail involving numerous political murders to a strange network of indescribable assassins from the Far East. While her chief Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles) commands Mika to back down and stop asking questions, she quietly begins searching throughout classified agency files on a unyielding venture to unearth the reality about the murders. Singled out as a goal as a direct result of her analysis, Mika is marked for death by lethal Ozunu assassin Takeshi (Rick Yune). Just as Mika is about to be silenced forever, Raizo saves her from certain demise. But Raizo knows that Takeshi and the rest of the Ozuno Clan won't stop until he and Mika are both dead. Now, as Raizo and Mika are sought through the meandering streets of Europe, their only faith for existance is to rely on one another and stay alive long enough to bring the Ozunu empire crumbling to the ground.
The feature film is scheduled to be released on November 25, 2009.It is alike Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino). It is rated R for violence and language.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL
A Christmas Carol is a 2009 feature film, an edition of Charles Dickens' 1843 story of the same name. The picture is written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, and casts Jim Carrey in a large number of roles, including Ebenezer Scrooge as a young, middle-aged, and old man, and the three spirits who haunt Scrooge.
On Christmas Eve in Victorian England, Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter and miserly old moneylender, holds everything that symbolizes the joys and spirit of Christmas in hatred, refusing to meet his nephew Fred's Christmas dinner party, and forcing his low paid employee Bob Cratchit to plead to take the day off for his own family. That night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his ex- business coworker, Jacob Marley, who had died seven years before on Christmas Eve and is now forced to spend his afterlife carrying heavy chains forged from his own stingy ways. Marley cautions Scrooge that he will endure an even worse outcome if he doesn't repent, and foretells that he will be haunted by three ghosts that will assist him.
The first spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Past, shows Scrooge visions of his own past that take place around the Christmas time, reminding him of how he ended up the stingy man he is now. He had spent much of his childhood neglected by his father over the holidays at boarding school until he was finally brought home by his loving sister Fan, who died too early after delivering to his nephew Fred. Scrooge afterward began a flourishing career in business and money lending and became engaged to a woman named Belle, though she later called off the engagement when he began to grow obsessed with accumulating his own wealth. Unable to bear having to see these events again, Scrooge extinguishes the ghost.
The second ghost, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows Scrooge the contentment of his fellow men on Christmas day. Among them are his nephew Fred, who jokes with his family at Scrooge's expense, and Bob Cratchit and his people, who are just hardly able to make do with what little wage Scrooge gives Cratchit. The Cratchits also lean to a ill young son, Tiny Tim, whose promise to the spirit of Christmas touches Scrooge, who is dismayed to learn from the spirit that he may not have much longer to survive. Before the spirit vanishes, it cautions Scrooge about the troubles of Ignorance and Want, showing them as petrifying, coarse children doomed to grow into savage, shameful persons.
The third and last spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, shows Scrooge the last consequences of his greed. Tiny Tim has died, leaving the Cratchits to weep for him on Christmas. Scrooge has also died, though there is more relief than misery in the wake of his funeral. Fred finds profit from inheriting his wealth, and Scrooge is even robbed by his former maid. Reluctant to let this grim future come to surpass, Scrooge pleads to be given a second chance as the spirit forces him into his deep and empty grave leading all the way to Hell.
Scrooge awakens to find himself in his bed on Christmas morning, the three spirits having guided him over the course of one night, and instantly sets out to atone for his mistakes, making donations to the poverty-stricken, attending Fred's dinner party, and giving Cratchit a raise to take care of his family, allowing Tiny Tim to be in this world. Scrooge spends the rest of his life as a new man embodying the spirit of Christmas itself.
It was released on 4th Nov and 6th Nov in UK and US respectively. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 56% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 159 reviews with an average score of 5.9/10, branding it 'Rotten'. It is alike A Christmas Carol (2004, Ric Machin).
On Christmas Eve in Victorian England, Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter and miserly old moneylender, holds everything that symbolizes the joys and spirit of Christmas in hatred, refusing to meet his nephew Fred's Christmas dinner party, and forcing his low paid employee Bob Cratchit to plead to take the day off for his own family. That night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his ex- business coworker, Jacob Marley, who had died seven years before on Christmas Eve and is now forced to spend his afterlife carrying heavy chains forged from his own stingy ways. Marley cautions Scrooge that he will endure an even worse outcome if he doesn't repent, and foretells that he will be haunted by three ghosts that will assist him.
The first spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Past, shows Scrooge visions of his own past that take place around the Christmas time, reminding him of how he ended up the stingy man he is now. He had spent much of his childhood neglected by his father over the holidays at boarding school until he was finally brought home by his loving sister Fan, who died too early after delivering to his nephew Fred. Scrooge afterward began a flourishing career in business and money lending and became engaged to a woman named Belle, though she later called off the engagement when he began to grow obsessed with accumulating his own wealth. Unable to bear having to see these events again, Scrooge extinguishes the ghost.
The second ghost, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows Scrooge the contentment of his fellow men on Christmas day. Among them are his nephew Fred, who jokes with his family at Scrooge's expense, and Bob Cratchit and his people, who are just hardly able to make do with what little wage Scrooge gives Cratchit. The Cratchits also lean to a ill young son, Tiny Tim, whose promise to the spirit of Christmas touches Scrooge, who is dismayed to learn from the spirit that he may not have much longer to survive. Before the spirit vanishes, it cautions Scrooge about the troubles of Ignorance and Want, showing them as petrifying, coarse children doomed to grow into savage, shameful persons.
The third and last spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, shows Scrooge the last consequences of his greed. Tiny Tim has died, leaving the Cratchits to weep for him on Christmas. Scrooge has also died, though there is more relief than misery in the wake of his funeral. Fred finds profit from inheriting his wealth, and Scrooge is even robbed by his former maid. Reluctant to let this grim future come to surpass, Scrooge pleads to be given a second chance as the spirit forces him into his deep and empty grave leading all the way to Hell.
Scrooge awakens to find himself in his bed on Christmas morning, the three spirits having guided him over the course of one night, and instantly sets out to atone for his mistakes, making donations to the poverty-stricken, attending Fred's dinner party, and giving Cratchit a raise to take care of his family, allowing Tiny Tim to be in this world. Scrooge spends the rest of his life as a new man embodying the spirit of Christmas itself.
It was released on 4th Nov and 6th Nov in UK and US respectively. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 56% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 159 reviews with an average score of 5.9/10, branding it 'Rotten'. It is alike A Christmas Carol (2004, Ric Machin).
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
PIRATE RADIO
The Boat That Rocked is a British humorous picture. The feature film was written and directed by Richard Curtis. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost and Kenneth Branagh.
Carl (Tom Sturridge) arrives on the pirate radio ship, Radio Rock, to stay with the boat's Captain, his Godfather, Quentin (Bill Nighy), to expectantly put his life on a different track after being barred from school. Here he meets Radio Rock's band of ramshackle disc jockeys, led by The Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman), along with the polished and coarse Dave (Nick Frost) and the immature but good hearted Simon (Chris O'Dowd), the self proclaimed New Zealand "nut," Angus (Rhys Darby), the mystifying Midnight Mark (Tom Wisdom) and the more mystifying, secluded and absolute disillusioned late-night Disc Jockey Smooth Bob (Ralph Brown). Helping as the ship's group are the bashful lesbian chef Felicity (Katherine Parkinson) and radio assistants, Harold (Ike Hamilton) and the suitably nicknamed Thick Kevin (Tom Brooke).
Dave introduces Carl to women, only for both of Carl's tries to be blocked by Dave himself, including Carl's first affair, Quentin's niece, Marianne (Talulah Riley), although, by the end of the feature film, Carl and Marianne make up and get together. Simon also is doomed in love, meeting and marrying Elenore (January Jones) only to find her love is really kept with the recurring "king of the airwaves", Gavin (Rhys Ifans). The Count objects to Gavin's antics with Elenore, leading to a conflict of egos that ends in a peace after both endure physical injuries jumping from the top of the boat's radio post in a match of courage.
Kevin points out to Carl that Radio Rock is clearly no place to be sent to clean up his action and suggests that the true reason Carl's mother sent him there is that his father, who he has never known, is among the group, nominating Quentin as the most likely suspect. When his mother Charlotte (Emma Thompson) visits for Christmas, Carl asks her about Quentin, but she declines it. As she leaves the boat, Carl leaves on a cryptic message from Smooth Bob ("Muddy Waters rocks"), which leads to the startling revelation that Bob, not Quentin, is Carl's father, something that throws both father and son.
Radio Rock's controversial on-air antics have tangled the feathers of a government minister, Dormandy, (Kenneth Branagh), who instructs his subordinate Twatt (Jack Davenport) to find a way to take down pirate radio, despite its popularity amongst the pop hungry masses. After a couple of tries to rob the center of marketing funding flop, Twatt comes across a news story of a fishing boat whose cry for assistance failed to get through because of Radio Rock's strong signal swamping the frequency and realises that this can be used to bar pirate radio for good. He offers the creation of the Marine Offences Act, which passes through Parliament without any shown resistance.
With the Act due to come into force, the troop of Radio Rock choose to defy the act, for various separate personal reasons, and continue to broadcast. Twatt leads a group of boats out into the North Sea to board the pirate boat and arrest the crew, only to find a fishing vessel anchored there instead. Quentin has given the instruction to fire up the ship's aging engines and move their position. Unfortunately, the strain proved too much for the old ship: the engines blow up and the boat begins to sink as the DJs broadcast their position. The group assemble on the upper deck, Carl rescuing the oblivious Bob from his cabin, leading to an apparent understanding between the pair, while the Count vows to continue broadcasting as long as possible. Dormandy prevents Twatt from sending out rescue craft, though, many fans have also heard the broadcast and come to rescue the group as the boat sinks below the waves, with the Count rising from the water at the very last minute.
It was released in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2009. After the feature film's commercial and critical failure in the UK it was re-edited and re-titled Pirate Radio for release in the United States and Canada on 13 November 2009. The film holds a 54% 'Rotten' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 39 reviews. It is alike Good Morning, Vietnam (1987, Barry Levinson) .
Carl (Tom Sturridge) arrives on the pirate radio ship, Radio Rock, to stay with the boat's Captain, his Godfather, Quentin (Bill Nighy), to expectantly put his life on a different track after being barred from school. Here he meets Radio Rock's band of ramshackle disc jockeys, led by The Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman), along with the polished and coarse Dave (Nick Frost) and the immature but good hearted Simon (Chris O'Dowd), the self proclaimed New Zealand "nut," Angus (Rhys Darby), the mystifying Midnight Mark (Tom Wisdom) and the more mystifying, secluded and absolute disillusioned late-night Disc Jockey Smooth Bob (Ralph Brown). Helping as the ship's group are the bashful lesbian chef Felicity (Katherine Parkinson) and radio assistants, Harold (Ike Hamilton) and the suitably nicknamed Thick Kevin (Tom Brooke).
Dave introduces Carl to women, only for both of Carl's tries to be blocked by Dave himself, including Carl's first affair, Quentin's niece, Marianne (Talulah Riley), although, by the end of the feature film, Carl and Marianne make up and get together. Simon also is doomed in love, meeting and marrying Elenore (January Jones) only to find her love is really kept with the recurring "king of the airwaves", Gavin (Rhys Ifans). The Count objects to Gavin's antics with Elenore, leading to a conflict of egos that ends in a peace after both endure physical injuries jumping from the top of the boat's radio post in a match of courage.
Kevin points out to Carl that Radio Rock is clearly no place to be sent to clean up his action and suggests that the true reason Carl's mother sent him there is that his father, who he has never known, is among the group, nominating Quentin as the most likely suspect. When his mother Charlotte (Emma Thompson) visits for Christmas, Carl asks her about Quentin, but she declines it. As she leaves the boat, Carl leaves on a cryptic message from Smooth Bob ("Muddy Waters rocks"), which leads to the startling revelation that Bob, not Quentin, is Carl's father, something that throws both father and son.
Radio Rock's controversial on-air antics have tangled the feathers of a government minister, Dormandy, (Kenneth Branagh), who instructs his subordinate Twatt (Jack Davenport) to find a way to take down pirate radio, despite its popularity amongst the pop hungry masses. After a couple of tries to rob the center of marketing funding flop, Twatt comes across a news story of a fishing boat whose cry for assistance failed to get through because of Radio Rock's strong signal swamping the frequency and realises that this can be used to bar pirate radio for good. He offers the creation of the Marine Offences Act, which passes through Parliament without any shown resistance.
With the Act due to come into force, the troop of Radio Rock choose to defy the act, for various separate personal reasons, and continue to broadcast. Twatt leads a group of boats out into the North Sea to board the pirate boat and arrest the crew, only to find a fishing vessel anchored there instead. Quentin has given the instruction to fire up the ship's aging engines and move their position. Unfortunately, the strain proved too much for the old ship: the engines blow up and the boat begins to sink as the DJs broadcast their position. The group assemble on the upper deck, Carl rescuing the oblivious Bob from his cabin, leading to an apparent understanding between the pair, while the Count vows to continue broadcasting as long as possible. Dormandy prevents Twatt from sending out rescue craft, though, many fans have also heard the broadcast and come to rescue the group as the boat sinks below the waves, with the Count rising from the water at the very last minute.
It was released in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2009. After the feature film's commercial and critical failure in the UK it was re-edited and re-titled Pirate Radio for release in the United States and Canada on 13 November 2009. The film holds a 54% 'Rotten' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 39 reviews. It is alike Good Morning, Vietnam (1987, Barry Levinson) .
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
THE FOURTH KIND
The Fourth Kind is a science fiction/thriller/horror feature film directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, starring Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas and Will Patton.
1n 1972, a scale of measurement was established for extraterrestrial encounters. When a Flying saucer is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When proof is collected, it is called as an encounter of the second kind. When contact is made with outer space, it is the third kind. The next level, kidnap, is the fourth kind. Modern-day, Alaska, where-strangely since the 1960s-a disproportionate number of the inhabitants has been reported missing every year. Despite numerous FBI investigations of the region, the fact has never been discovered. Here in this isolated region, psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing facts of extraterrestrial abduction ever documented. The Fourth Kind exposes the terrified revelations of numerous witnesses. Their accounts of being visited by extraterrestrial figures all share terrifyingly identical details, the authenticity of which is investigated during the movie.
It was released on 6th Nov '2009. The movie currently holds a 16% 'Rotten' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 75 reviews. It is similiar to Communion (1989, Philippe Mora). One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also view free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual pictures of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can view for free.
1n 1972, a scale of measurement was established for extraterrestrial encounters. When a Flying saucer is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When proof is collected, it is called as an encounter of the second kind. When contact is made with outer space, it is the third kind. The next level, kidnap, is the fourth kind. Modern-day, Alaska, where-strangely since the 1960s-a disproportionate number of the inhabitants has been reported missing every year. Despite numerous FBI investigations of the region, the fact has never been discovered. Here in this isolated region, psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing facts of extraterrestrial abduction ever documented. The Fourth Kind exposes the terrified revelations of numerous witnesses. Their accounts of being visited by extraterrestrial figures all share terrifyingly identical details, the authenticity of which is investigated during the movie.
It was released on 6th Nov '2009. The movie currently holds a 16% 'Rotten' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 75 reviews. It is similiar to Communion (1989, Philippe Mora). One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also view free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual pictures of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can view for free.
2012
2012 is a 2009 science fiction movie directed by Roland Emmerich. The picture has an assembly cast, including John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Woody Harrelson.
In 2009, American scientist Adrian Helmsley travels to India to meet his buddy Satnam, who has found that neutrinos from a massive solar flare have penetrated the Earth and are causing the temperature of its core to increase speedily. Adrian returns to Washington D.C. to inform White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser and US President Thomas Wilson that this will start a chain of events that will put an end to life in the world. At the 36th G8 summit in 2010, other heads of state and heads of government are made alert of the condition. They team up to begin a secret mission proposed to make sure the continuity of human life, intentionally choosing 400,000 people for admission on a series of enormous arks to be constructed in the Himalayas. To help fund the mission, extra persons are allowed to purchase tickets for one billion euros respectively.
In 2012, Jackson Curtis is a separated father who works as a limousine driver and writer in Los Angeles. His ex-wife Kate and their children Noah and Lily live with her new boyfriend, plastic surgeon and amateur pilot Gordon. Jackson takes Noah and Lily on a camping trip to Yellowstone National Park, where they meet Charlie Frost, a radio show host and conspiracy theorist. Charlie supports a hypothesis that says the Mayans predicted the world would be destroyed in 2012. The family returns home as cracks begin to build up along the San Andreas Fault in California and earthquakes occur in the San Francisco Bay area. Jackson grows suspicious and hires a private airplane to rescue his family. His family and Gordon when the Earth's crust dislocation begins and they flee Los Angeles as it collapses into the Pacific Ocean.
As millions begin dying worldwide, the group flies to Yellowstone to get from Charlie a map detailing the site of the arks. The group narrowly escapes as the Yellowstone Caldera erupts but Charlie is killed by the explosion. Realizing the arks are in China, the group meet Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov in Las Vegas, one of Jackson's limousine clients. Yuri, his twin sons, girlfriend Tamara, and pilot Sasha join up the group as they acquire a larger plane and go across the Pacific. Also bound for the arks aboard Air Force One are Anheuser, Adrian, and First Daughter Laura Wilson. President Wilson stayed back in Washington D.C. and addresses the nation one last time about what's happening. He is shortly killed by a tsunami. Anheuser appoints himself acting Commander-in-Chief.
Yuri, who bought ark tickets for himself and his sons, deserts the Curtis family, Gordon, and Tamara upon arriving in China in a crash-landing that kills Sasha. However, the deserted group is picked up by Nima, a Buddhist monk. Together, they begin sneaking on an ark with the help of Nima's brother Tenzin, an ark mission worker. Adrian gets a call from Satnam, who shortly dies in a tsunami. Learning that a second tsunami is approaching, Anheuser orders the arks be sealed before the boarding is complete, trapping thousands outside. Adrian manages to persuade the other G8 leaders to let the left behind people on board. As the ark's drawbridges are lowered, Gordon is crushed between the gears, which soon become tangled with a thick cable. Yuri sacrifices his life to get his two sons on in time, but the cable stops the gate from closing, rendering the ship incapable to start its engines. The tsunami arrives and starts to flood the ark, drowning Tamara and setting the ark helplessly drift. Jackson and Noah fix the closing mechanism.
When the floodwater from the worldwide tsunamis ultimately decreases, satellite data shows that Africa rose in relation to sea level and may not have flooded at all. In fact, the tallest mountains in the world have been repositioned from the Himalayas to the Drakensberg mountain range in South Africa. As three arks set sail for the Cape of Good Hope, Jackson reconciles with his family, and Adrian starts an affair with Laura. The movie ends with a view of the Earth showing the dramatically-changed African continent.
It was released on 13th Nov' 2009. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 39% of critics gave the movie a positive review, based upon a sample of 174 reviews, with an average score of 5 out of 10. It is similar to The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Roland Emmerich).
In 2009, American scientist Adrian Helmsley travels to India to meet his buddy Satnam, who has found that neutrinos from a massive solar flare have penetrated the Earth and are causing the temperature of its core to increase speedily. Adrian returns to Washington D.C. to inform White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser and US President Thomas Wilson that this will start a chain of events that will put an end to life in the world. At the 36th G8 summit in 2010, other heads of state and heads of government are made alert of the condition. They team up to begin a secret mission proposed to make sure the continuity of human life, intentionally choosing 400,000 people for admission on a series of enormous arks to be constructed in the Himalayas. To help fund the mission, extra persons are allowed to purchase tickets for one billion euros respectively.
In 2012, Jackson Curtis is a separated father who works as a limousine driver and writer in Los Angeles. His ex-wife Kate and their children Noah and Lily live with her new boyfriend, plastic surgeon and amateur pilot Gordon. Jackson takes Noah and Lily on a camping trip to Yellowstone National Park, where they meet Charlie Frost, a radio show host and conspiracy theorist. Charlie supports a hypothesis that says the Mayans predicted the world would be destroyed in 2012. The family returns home as cracks begin to build up along the San Andreas Fault in California and earthquakes occur in the San Francisco Bay area. Jackson grows suspicious and hires a private airplane to rescue his family. His family and Gordon when the Earth's crust dislocation begins and they flee Los Angeles as it collapses into the Pacific Ocean.
As millions begin dying worldwide, the group flies to Yellowstone to get from Charlie a map detailing the site of the arks. The group narrowly escapes as the Yellowstone Caldera erupts but Charlie is killed by the explosion. Realizing the arks are in China, the group meet Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov in Las Vegas, one of Jackson's limousine clients. Yuri, his twin sons, girlfriend Tamara, and pilot Sasha join up the group as they acquire a larger plane and go across the Pacific. Also bound for the arks aboard Air Force One are Anheuser, Adrian, and First Daughter Laura Wilson. President Wilson stayed back in Washington D.C. and addresses the nation one last time about what's happening. He is shortly killed by a tsunami. Anheuser appoints himself acting Commander-in-Chief.
Yuri, who bought ark tickets for himself and his sons, deserts the Curtis family, Gordon, and Tamara upon arriving in China in a crash-landing that kills Sasha. However, the deserted group is picked up by Nima, a Buddhist monk. Together, they begin sneaking on an ark with the help of Nima's brother Tenzin, an ark mission worker. Adrian gets a call from Satnam, who shortly dies in a tsunami. Learning that a second tsunami is approaching, Anheuser orders the arks be sealed before the boarding is complete, trapping thousands outside. Adrian manages to persuade the other G8 leaders to let the left behind people on board. As the ark's drawbridges are lowered, Gordon is crushed between the gears, which soon become tangled with a thick cable. Yuri sacrifices his life to get his two sons on in time, but the cable stops the gate from closing, rendering the ship incapable to start its engines. The tsunami arrives and starts to flood the ark, drowning Tamara and setting the ark helplessly drift. Jackson and Noah fix the closing mechanism.
When the floodwater from the worldwide tsunamis ultimately decreases, satellite data shows that Africa rose in relation to sea level and may not have flooded at all. In fact, the tallest mountains in the world have been repositioned from the Himalayas to the Drakensberg mountain range in South Africa. As three arks set sail for the Cape of Good Hope, Jackson reconciles with his family, and Adrian starts an affair with Laura. The movie ends with a view of the Earth showing the dramatically-changed African continent.
It was released on 13th Nov' 2009. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 39% of critics gave the movie a positive review, based upon a sample of 174 reviews, with an average score of 5 out of 10. It is similar to The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Roland Emmerich).
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Mr. Bean's Holiday (also called as Bean 2, Bean on Holiday and French Bean) is a 2007 comedy movie starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. It is the second film based on the television series Mr. Bean, a sequel to 1997's Bean. Rowan Atkinson said that this is most likely the last appearance of the well-liked titular character.
The movie opens with Mr. Bean attending a raffle . His number is 919, the winning number. But Bean misreads it upside-down as 616. Upset that he lost, he throws the ticket onto a toy train. Seeing the ticket upside down reading 919, he grabs the ticket and yells out that he won in his mumbling deep voice. The reward is a holiday including a train journey to Cannes, a Sony video camera, and €200.
Because of a mistake, Bean is forced to make his way unorthodoxly towards the Gare de Lyon to enter his next train towards Cannes. So he has time to try French seafood at Le Train Bleu restaurant. He accidentally orders oysters and langoustine, which he cannot eat. He stealthily pours the oysters into a nearby lady's bag, and eats the whole langoustine without taking off the crust in front of everybody.
Back on the platform, Bean asks a man, who happens to be a Cannes feature film Festival jury member and Russian movie critic Emil Dachevsky (Karel Roden), to use his video camera to movie his walking onto the train. By the time they are done, the TGV is about to leave. Although Bean manages to get onto the train, the doors close before Dachevsky can get on. Dachevsky's son, Stepan (Max Baldry) is thus left on enter by himself. Bean tries to befriend Stepan, the boy slaps him in the face and when he gets off at the next station, Bean gets off too and accidentally misses the train, along with his bag on the train. The train that Stepan's father has boarded does not stop at the station, and he holds up a cell phone number, but with the last two digits covered. Their attempts at calling the number prove unproductive. They get on the next train, but since Bean has left his ticket and passport on the station public telephone, the duo are soon thrown out of the train.He attempts at busking by miming to Puccini's O mio babbino caro prove successful, and Bean buys them a bus ticket to Cannes. Bean loses his ticket by getting the ticket fixed on a chicken's foot. Mr. Bean then steals a nearby bicycle and follows the chicken which has been placed onto a Peugeot 504 pickup and ends up at a chicken pen. On his return, he notices that the bicycle has been run over by a tank, but the camera is still unbroken. After attempting to lift a motorcycle and almost getting killed by a lorry, Bean stumbles on to the set for a TV advertisement, which he accidentally blows up, injuring the director Carson Clay (Willem Dafoe).
Bean then tries to get a ride again; a yellow Mini picks him up, driven by actress Sabine (Emma de Caunes) who Bean encountered both at the commercial filming and earlier, who offers him a lift to Cannes. She is on her way to the 59th Cannes picture Festival where Carson Clay's picture in which she makes her first appearance is going to be presented. At a service station, Bean locates Stepan in a café. He joins them. Bean and Stepan now attempt, again in vain, to call Dachevsky with Sabine's phone. When Sabine falls deeply asleep, Bean then drives the car himself, but he keeps falling asleep. Bean and the other two finally make it to Cannes.
When Sabine goes into a gasoline station to change for the premiere, she sees a newsflash, wherein the police have made up a rumor about Mr. Bean kidnapping Stepan and Sabine being his accomplice. However, since she does not want to miss the premiere, she is hesitant to go to the cop to clear up the "mistake". They thus plan to get into Cannes without being identified. Stepan dresses up as Sabine's daughter, while Mr. Bean dresses up as Sabine's mother, who is allegedly Spanish and deaf. They manage to get through the hunt and Sabine arrives at the premiere on time.
After sneaking into the premiere, Bean is disappointed to see that Sabine's part has been (rather poorly) scratched from the picture (Carson Clay is seen nodding at the woman beside him at this point, implying that he cut down the scene as a favour to his green-eyed wife), and ends up plugging in his camcorder to the projector, where his video record is suddenly played out. But, the strange story it tells fits director Clay's narration well, so that the director, Sabine, and Bean all receive standing ovations. Stepan is finally reunited with his father.
It was released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2007 and on 24 August 2007 in the United States and Canada. On Rotten Tomatoes, 50% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 107 reviews (54 "fresh", 53 "rotten") and was rated PG13.
The movie opens with Mr. Bean attending a raffle . His number is 919, the winning number. But Bean misreads it upside-down as 616. Upset that he lost, he throws the ticket onto a toy train. Seeing the ticket upside down reading 919, he grabs the ticket and yells out that he won in his mumbling deep voice. The reward is a holiday including a train journey to Cannes, a Sony video camera, and €200.
Because of a mistake, Bean is forced to make his way unorthodoxly towards the Gare de Lyon to enter his next train towards Cannes. So he has time to try French seafood at Le Train Bleu restaurant. He accidentally orders oysters and langoustine, which he cannot eat. He stealthily pours the oysters into a nearby lady's bag, and eats the whole langoustine without taking off the crust in front of everybody.
Back on the platform, Bean asks a man, who happens to be a Cannes feature film Festival jury member and Russian movie critic Emil Dachevsky (Karel Roden), to use his video camera to movie his walking onto the train. By the time they are done, the TGV is about to leave. Although Bean manages to get onto the train, the doors close before Dachevsky can get on. Dachevsky's son, Stepan (Max Baldry) is thus left on enter by himself. Bean tries to befriend Stepan, the boy slaps him in the face and when he gets off at the next station, Bean gets off too and accidentally misses the train, along with his bag on the train. The train that Stepan's father has boarded does not stop at the station, and he holds up a cell phone number, but with the last two digits covered. Their attempts at calling the number prove unproductive. They get on the next train, but since Bean has left his ticket and passport on the station public telephone, the duo are soon thrown out of the train.He attempts at busking by miming to Puccini's O mio babbino caro prove successful, and Bean buys them a bus ticket to Cannes. Bean loses his ticket by getting the ticket fixed on a chicken's foot. Mr. Bean then steals a nearby bicycle and follows the chicken which has been placed onto a Peugeot 504 pickup and ends up at a chicken pen. On his return, he notices that the bicycle has been run over by a tank, but the camera is still unbroken. After attempting to lift a motorcycle and almost getting killed by a lorry, Bean stumbles on to the set for a TV advertisement, which he accidentally blows up, injuring the director Carson Clay (Willem Dafoe).
Bean then tries to get a ride again; a yellow Mini picks him up, driven by actress Sabine (Emma de Caunes) who Bean encountered both at the commercial filming and earlier, who offers him a lift to Cannes. She is on her way to the 59th Cannes picture Festival where Carson Clay's picture in which she makes her first appearance is going to be presented. At a service station, Bean locates Stepan in a café. He joins them. Bean and Stepan now attempt, again in vain, to call Dachevsky with Sabine's phone. When Sabine falls deeply asleep, Bean then drives the car himself, but he keeps falling asleep. Bean and the other two finally make it to Cannes.
When Sabine goes into a gasoline station to change for the premiere, she sees a newsflash, wherein the police have made up a rumor about Mr. Bean kidnapping Stepan and Sabine being his accomplice. However, since she does not want to miss the premiere, she is hesitant to go to the cop to clear up the "mistake". They thus plan to get into Cannes without being identified. Stepan dresses up as Sabine's daughter, while Mr. Bean dresses up as Sabine's mother, who is allegedly Spanish and deaf. They manage to get through the hunt and Sabine arrives at the premiere on time.
After sneaking into the premiere, Bean is disappointed to see that Sabine's part has been (rather poorly) scratched from the picture (Carson Clay is seen nodding at the woman beside him at this point, implying that he cut down the scene as a favour to his green-eyed wife), and ends up plugging in his camcorder to the projector, where his video record is suddenly played out. But, the strange story it tells fits director Clay's narration well, so that the director, Sabine, and Bean all receive standing ovations. Stepan is finally reunited with his father.
It was released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2007 and on 24 August 2007 in the United States and Canada. On Rotten Tomatoes, 50% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 107 reviews (54 "fresh", 53 "rotten") and was rated PG13.
FACE
Face is a 2004 South Korean horror picture directed by Yoo Sang-gon. It stars Song Yun-ah, Shin Hyeon-jun, and Kim Seung-wook.
Hyun-min works for the law, reconstructing faces by examining and interpreting their skulls. His daughter undergoes a heart transplant, and as her situation deteriorates, he loses his interest in his profession. Hyun-min suspects that his daughter's sickness after the surgery is caused by the heart, although her doctor, Dr. Yoon, tell him that his daughter is experiencing only minor complications.
Distraught, Hyun-min quits his occupation to care for his daughter full time. Meanwhile, the police are dealing with a sequence of bizarre murder cases, where the prey has had all their flesh dissolved away with acid, leaving only the bones behind. Sun-young (Song Yoon-ah) brings the skull of the fourth sufferer to Hyun-min, hoping that he'll be able to recreate the face. With the skull in their house, his daughter starts to go through visions of a upset woman in a white housecoat.
Hyun-min rebuilds the face of the prey, and it soon transpires that they all suffered from a (fictitious) suffering known as 'beta-allergy'. Tests reveal that Hyun-min's daughter has the condition, meaning that she has got the heart of someone who did. Romance blossoms between Hynu-min and Sun-young, and as they explore, they come across an organ transplant conspiracy: The murder sufferers were murdered for their body parts, and it becomes apparent that Dr. Yoon knows more than he's letting on.
It was released in 2004 and was rated 5.9 out of 10 from 491 votes. One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also view free pictures online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can view for open.
Hyun-min works for the law, reconstructing faces by examining and interpreting their skulls. His daughter undergoes a heart transplant, and as her situation deteriorates, he loses his interest in his profession. Hyun-min suspects that his daughter's sickness after the surgery is caused by the heart, although her doctor, Dr. Yoon, tell him that his daughter is experiencing only minor complications.
Distraught, Hyun-min quits his occupation to care for his daughter full time. Meanwhile, the police are dealing with a sequence of bizarre murder cases, where the prey has had all their flesh dissolved away with acid, leaving only the bones behind. Sun-young (Song Yoon-ah) brings the skull of the fourth sufferer to Hyun-min, hoping that he'll be able to recreate the face. With the skull in their house, his daughter starts to go through visions of a upset woman in a white housecoat.
Hyun-min rebuilds the face of the prey, and it soon transpires that they all suffered from a (fictitious) suffering known as 'beta-allergy'. Tests reveal that Hyun-min's daughter has the condition, meaning that she has got the heart of someone who did. Romance blossoms between Hynu-min and Sun-young, and as they explore, they come across an organ transplant conspiracy: The murder sufferers were murdered for their body parts, and it becomes apparent that Dr. Yoon knows more than he's letting on.
It was released in 2004 and was rated 5.9 out of 10 from 491 votes. One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also view free pictures online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can view for open.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
WILD THINGS 2
Wild Things 2 is the second episode in the Wild Things trilogy. It casts Susan Ward, Leila Arcieri, Isaiah Washington, Michael Chieffo and Linden Ashby. It recycles most of the plan and twists from the original movie, including the courtroom scenes, the inheritance, and the threesome scene. This movie, like the other two in the sequence, maintains a strong lesbian sexuality content theme throughout it.
Brittany Havers (Susan Ward), a well-to-do school-lass, is soon to inherit the fortune as her stepfather Niles Dunlap (Anthony John Denison) had accidentally died in a crash of a light plane. Her classmate Maya (Leila Arcieri) all of a sudden claims that she is an illegal daughter of Brittany's stepfather being a child of an extramarital affair when her mother was in love with by Niles Dunlap. She is asked to get a DNA test and the DNA test shows she is the daughter. Brittany is heading to the wine room suddenly she hears a noise in the corner and goes to see what it is and only turns out to be just rats. But Maya is there too and they make out and the doctor who did the DNA joins them. Terrence Bridge, an insurance researcher, considers both girls as criminals, believing they are trying to steal Dunlap's riches. Bridge investigates that it is all a corruption thus he asks them for the half money or he will tell the police. Brittany says she will not give up the money so she gets a gun to assassinate Bridge but instead she slays Maya. She tells him that he has to win it. They are at a traffic light and she goes out of the car and she ditches him and Bridge goes to lockup. Later Brittany runs away with her dad but murders him too, where her mother is waiting for her.
It was released on March 6th 2006. It is preceded by Wild Things (1998, John McNaughton). One can grab the initial DVDs at the nearest store or you can also view free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can view for open.
Brittany Havers (Susan Ward), a well-to-do school-lass, is soon to inherit the fortune as her stepfather Niles Dunlap (Anthony John Denison) had accidentally died in a crash of a light plane. Her classmate Maya (Leila Arcieri) all of a sudden claims that she is an illegal daughter of Brittany's stepfather being a child of an extramarital affair when her mother was in love with by Niles Dunlap. She is asked to get a DNA test and the DNA test shows she is the daughter. Brittany is heading to the wine room suddenly she hears a noise in the corner and goes to see what it is and only turns out to be just rats. But Maya is there too and they make out and the doctor who did the DNA joins them. Terrence Bridge, an insurance researcher, considers both girls as criminals, believing they are trying to steal Dunlap's riches. Bridge investigates that it is all a corruption thus he asks them for the half money or he will tell the police. Brittany says she will not give up the money so she gets a gun to assassinate Bridge but instead she slays Maya. She tells him that he has to win it. They are at a traffic light and she goes out of the car and she ditches him and Bridge goes to lockup. Later Brittany runs away with her dad but murders him too, where her mother is waiting for her.
It was released on March 6th 2006. It is preceded by Wild Things (1998, John McNaughton). One can grab the initial DVDs at the nearest store or you can also view free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can view for open.
Friday, November 13, 2009
THE BOX
The Box is a 2009 horror movie based on the 1970 short story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson, which was earlier modified into an episode of the 1980s incarnation of The Twilight Zone. The film is written and directed by Richard Kelly and stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a pair who receive a box from a mysterious man that offers them one million dollars if they push the button sealed within the dome on top of the box.
Once at the daybreak Norma and Arthur get a box up on their doorstep. Inside, they find a wooden box with a button protected by a glass dome, locked with a key, and a note, reading Mr. Steward will come at 5:00 pm.
Arthur goes to work at NASA, where he works in optics, and helped in designing the camera on the Viking Mars probe. Norma goes to her job as a educator at an elite private school teaching literature, where they are discussing Sartre's idea of Hell. Later that day Norma returns home and confesses her fear of losing their home, due to lack of money. That is when Arlington Steward appears and offers them one million dollars if they press the button sealed in the dome. The catch is that somebody they do not know will go dead. Norma and Arthur think of whether or not they would be able to deal with with somebody's death on their hands.
Arlington returns and presents Norma and Arthur with the million, without asking whether they pressed the button or not. He informs the couple that whoever gets the offer next, they will surely not know, implying that when the next people press the button, one of them, or their son, will be at risk. Arthur storms after Arlington and tries to give back the million, but Arlington drives off. A 911 call is shown, where somebody has been shot. The police enter the house and get a lady shot through the heart, and a little girl locked in the washroom upstairs.
Arthur and Norma then attend a marriage ceremonial dinner, where Arthur is instructed to select a present from a table. Arthur then sees a box much like the one left on their front door, with the button in it, and chooses that one. He and Norma find a bad quality picture of Arlington inside. Arthur meets and asks Norma's dad (who is a police officer) to run the license plate number of Arlington's car. Norma gets a phone call from Arlington, who scolds her for letting her husband to contact with the police. He then storms out of the party, with Norma following him. As they shock their car, they see "No Exit" (the title of the Sartre play they went to see earlier) written into the frost on their windshield.
When they get home, Arthur takes their babysitter, Dana, home. Dana had earlier gone down into the basement with their child Walter, to see Arthur's Mars collection. As they are driving, Dana acts oddly, telling Arthur to "look into the light" to work out his problems. Her nose begins to bleed and she faints. Arthur tries to wake her up and finds her drivers license, which shows her name is not Dana, but Sara, and she is from Boston. He reaches the motel, where "Dana" has been staying and she wakes up with a shock. She tells Arthur it's not secure for him there, and to look in the mirror because that's the only place with the answer. She then hurries away in the motel. She reaches her room, where she has a large chart and photos of Arthur, Norma, and Walter.
At a supermarket, Norma is approached by a panicked woman who tells her to look up a certain call number in the library, and not to rely on her husband, before passing out with a bleeding nose. Arthur finds out that Arlington's license plate is registered to the NASA. He asks Norma's father if he can go with him to see the house where the shooting mentioned earlier took place. Once there, he finds photos of Arlington and a picture of a Human Resources book, and a library call number. Norma and Arthur both visit the library, separately. Norma discover a feature film reel, which shows Arlington prior to his disfigurement. Arthur approaches a woman he learns is Arlington's wife, and she tells him to follow her. He is presented with three "gateways", made of floating water. Two lead to everlasting damnation, one to salvation. Remembering the student who held up two fingers, Arthur picks gate two.
More drama takes place and eventually, at the wedding of Norma's sister, their child Walter is abducted. Arthur is taken away by a gun-toting former employee of NASA. He is the same man who shot his wife, as earlier seen in the 911 call. He reveals to Arthur that he had to choose between his wife or his daughter. He shows Arthur the book seen earlier in the picture, and the water portals or "triptychs". Arthur and Norma give back home and see Arlington in their kitchen. He informs them they get two final options. Their son, Walter, is now deaf and blind. They can either live on with their million dollars, and their disabled son, or Arthur can shoot Norma through the heart, at which point Walter's sight and hearing will be back and the million will be placed in a high interest bank account for Walter.
Arlington leaves, telling Norma and Arthur on his way out that their son is in the bathroom, locked upstairs. The two of them run upstairs and try to get him out, but cannot. They decide that they must make a choice. Arthur then shoots Norma through the heart, and runs upstairs to find Walter. Walter is passed out on the floor. Soon the cop get there, having been called about the shooting. Walter wakes up and calls out, as Arthur is lead out of the house. While this is happening, we see another pair make the decision to push the button. As Arthur leaves, we see Arlington arrive at the new pair' house. Arthur's NASA friend informs him he and his son will be taken care of, and Arthur is taken away by policemen.
The movie was released on 6th November 2009. The Box currently has a certified "Rotten" rating of 47% at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 76 ratings from critics.
Once at the daybreak Norma and Arthur get a box up on their doorstep. Inside, they find a wooden box with a button protected by a glass dome, locked with a key, and a note, reading Mr. Steward will come at 5:00 pm.
Arthur goes to work at NASA, where he works in optics, and helped in designing the camera on the Viking Mars probe. Norma goes to her job as a educator at an elite private school teaching literature, where they are discussing Sartre's idea of Hell. Later that day Norma returns home and confesses her fear of losing their home, due to lack of money. That is when Arlington Steward appears and offers them one million dollars if they press the button sealed in the dome. The catch is that somebody they do not know will go dead. Norma and Arthur think of whether or not they would be able to deal with with somebody's death on their hands.
Arlington returns and presents Norma and Arthur with the million, without asking whether they pressed the button or not. He informs the couple that whoever gets the offer next, they will surely not know, implying that when the next people press the button, one of them, or their son, will be at risk. Arthur storms after Arlington and tries to give back the million, but Arlington drives off. A 911 call is shown, where somebody has been shot. The police enter the house and get a lady shot through the heart, and a little girl locked in the washroom upstairs.
Arthur and Norma then attend a marriage ceremonial dinner, where Arthur is instructed to select a present from a table. Arthur then sees a box much like the one left on their front door, with the button in it, and chooses that one. He and Norma find a bad quality picture of Arlington inside. Arthur meets and asks Norma's dad (who is a police officer) to run the license plate number of Arlington's car. Norma gets a phone call from Arlington, who scolds her for letting her husband to contact with the police. He then storms out of the party, with Norma following him. As they shock their car, they see "No Exit" (the title of the Sartre play they went to see earlier) written into the frost on their windshield.
When they get home, Arthur takes their babysitter, Dana, home. Dana had earlier gone down into the basement with their child Walter, to see Arthur's Mars collection. As they are driving, Dana acts oddly, telling Arthur to "look into the light" to work out his problems. Her nose begins to bleed and she faints. Arthur tries to wake her up and finds her drivers license, which shows her name is not Dana, but Sara, and she is from Boston. He reaches the motel, where "Dana" has been staying and she wakes up with a shock. She tells Arthur it's not secure for him there, and to look in the mirror because that's the only place with the answer. She then hurries away in the motel. She reaches her room, where she has a large chart and photos of Arthur, Norma, and Walter.
At a supermarket, Norma is approached by a panicked woman who tells her to look up a certain call number in the library, and not to rely on her husband, before passing out with a bleeding nose. Arthur finds out that Arlington's license plate is registered to the NASA. He asks Norma's father if he can go with him to see the house where the shooting mentioned earlier took place. Once there, he finds photos of Arlington and a picture of a Human Resources book, and a library call number. Norma and Arthur both visit the library, separately. Norma discover a feature film reel, which shows Arlington prior to his disfigurement. Arthur approaches a woman he learns is Arlington's wife, and she tells him to follow her. He is presented with three "gateways", made of floating water. Two lead to everlasting damnation, one to salvation. Remembering the student who held up two fingers, Arthur picks gate two.
More drama takes place and eventually, at the wedding of Norma's sister, their child Walter is abducted. Arthur is taken away by a gun-toting former employee of NASA. He is the same man who shot his wife, as earlier seen in the 911 call. He reveals to Arthur that he had to choose between his wife or his daughter. He shows Arthur the book seen earlier in the picture, and the water portals or "triptychs". Arthur and Norma give back home and see Arlington in their kitchen. He informs them they get two final options. Their son, Walter, is now deaf and blind. They can either live on with their million dollars, and their disabled son, or Arthur can shoot Norma through the heart, at which point Walter's sight and hearing will be back and the million will be placed in a high interest bank account for Walter.
Arlington leaves, telling Norma and Arthur on his way out that their son is in the bathroom, locked upstairs. The two of them run upstairs and try to get him out, but cannot. They decide that they must make a choice. Arthur then shoots Norma through the heart, and runs upstairs to find Walter. Walter is passed out on the floor. Soon the cop get there, having been called about the shooting. Walter wakes up and calls out, as Arthur is lead out of the house. While this is happening, we see another pair make the decision to push the button. As Arthur leaves, we see Arlington arrive at the new pair' house. Arthur's NASA friend informs him he and his son will be taken care of, and Arthur is taken away by policemen.
The movie was released on 6th November 2009. The Box currently has a certified "Rotten" rating of 47% at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 76 ratings from critics.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
S.W.A.T
S.W.A.T. is a 2003 action crime picture and is based on the 1975 television series of the same name. It was directed by Clark Johnson and stars Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, LL Cool J and Michelle Rodriguez.
The movie begins with a hostage situation in Los Angeles. Officer Jim Street (Farrell), a hot-shot cop from the Los Angeles Police Department and his SWAT team are sent to prevent a mob of robbers who have taken over a bank. His high-tempered collaborator and best friend Brian Gamble (Jeremy Renner) declines an instruction, and hurts a hostage. Gamble and Street are demoted by Captain Fuller (Larry Poindexter), the commander of LAPD's Metropolitan Division, who is portrayed as a picky martinet. Gamble quits following difference in opinion with Fuller and Street, the latter of whom is taken off the SWAT team and sent to work in the "gun cage," where he looks after gear and armaments.The Head of Police calls on Sergeant Dan "Hondo" Harrelson (Jackson) to help re-organize the SWAT division. Hondo is transferred in, and soon puts together a diverse team, including himself, Street, Chris Sánchez (Rodriguez), Deacon Kaye (LL Cool J), T.J. McCabe (Josh Charles), and Michael Boxer (Brian Van Holt). The team trains together and develops bonds of friendship.
Meanwhile, a drug lord by the name of Alex Montel (Olivier Martinez) murders his father and uncle for control of the family's corruption empire. The L.A.P.D. stop Montel for a ruined taillight, confine him, and find out through Interpol he is an international escapee. As they are transferring him, his friends, clothed as LAPD officers, attack the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department bus Montel is on, in an attempt to free him. Hondo's SWAT team foils the assault. As Montel is being brought into the police station in front of a group of journalists, he yells to them, "I will give one hundred million dollars to whoever gets me out of here."
The L.A.P.D. makes plans to transfer Montel into federal custody. They plan to fly him away, but a strange assailant (later exposed to be Gamble) shoots down the helicopter. The police next send out a big fleet, which is attacked by mob members. It turns out to be a trap, and Hondo's team has spirited Montel away in two S.U.V.s. However, T.J. has been planning with Gamble, and the two win in taking Montel from the other officers. Hondo and the rest give chase, and there is a final violent war, Gamble's group against the SWAT officers. Hondo's team is victorious. T.Jcommits suicide rather than be captured, and there is a nasty hand to hand war between Street and Gamble, with Street emerging the eventual victor when he kicks Gamble under the wheels of a passing train. The SWAT team delivers Montel to a federal prison to await judgment.
It was released in the United States on August 8, 2003. Reception for the picture was mixed, with a 48 (out of 100) on the movie reviews website Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie begins with a hostage situation in Los Angeles. Officer Jim Street (Farrell), a hot-shot cop from the Los Angeles Police Department and his SWAT team are sent to prevent a mob of robbers who have taken over a bank. His high-tempered collaborator and best friend Brian Gamble (Jeremy Renner) declines an instruction, and hurts a hostage. Gamble and Street are demoted by Captain Fuller (Larry Poindexter), the commander of LAPD's Metropolitan Division, who is portrayed as a picky martinet. Gamble quits following difference in opinion with Fuller and Street, the latter of whom is taken off the SWAT team and sent to work in the "gun cage," where he looks after gear and armaments.The Head of Police calls on Sergeant Dan "Hondo" Harrelson (Jackson) to help re-organize the SWAT division. Hondo is transferred in, and soon puts together a diverse team, including himself, Street, Chris Sánchez (Rodriguez), Deacon Kaye (LL Cool J), T.J. McCabe (Josh Charles), and Michael Boxer (Brian Van Holt). The team trains together and develops bonds of friendship.
Meanwhile, a drug lord by the name of Alex Montel (Olivier Martinez) murders his father and uncle for control of the family's corruption empire. The L.A.P.D. stop Montel for a ruined taillight, confine him, and find out through Interpol he is an international escapee. As they are transferring him, his friends, clothed as LAPD officers, attack the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department bus Montel is on, in an attempt to free him. Hondo's SWAT team foils the assault. As Montel is being brought into the police station in front of a group of journalists, he yells to them, "I will give one hundred million dollars to whoever gets me out of here."
The L.A.P.D. makes plans to transfer Montel into federal custody. They plan to fly him away, but a strange assailant (later exposed to be Gamble) shoots down the helicopter. The police next send out a big fleet, which is attacked by mob members. It turns out to be a trap, and Hondo's team has spirited Montel away in two S.U.V.s. However, T.J. has been planning with Gamble, and the two win in taking Montel from the other officers. Hondo and the rest give chase, and there is a final violent war, Gamble's group against the SWAT officers. Hondo's team is victorious. T.Jcommits suicide rather than be captured, and there is a nasty hand to hand war between Street and Gamble, with Street emerging the eventual victor when he kicks Gamble under the wheels of a passing train. The SWAT team delivers Montel to a federal prison to await judgment.
It was released in the United States on August 8, 2003. Reception for the picture was mixed, with a 48 (out of 100) on the movie reviews website Rotten Tomatoes.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
JURASSIC PARK
Jurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction thriller feature film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the work of fiction of the same name by Michael Crichton. John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) invites a group of scientists, played by Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern, to examine the park before its public opening. Interference sets the dinosaurs unfastened, and the technicians and visitors attempt to flee the island.
In Jurassic Park, located on Isla Nublar, an member of staff for the genetic engineering company InGen is attacked and killed, prompting a lawsuit from his family. CEO John Hammond is pressured by his investors to let a safety scrutiny by experts before opening the park. He invites paleontologist Alan Grant, paleobotanist Ellie Sattler, chaos theorist Ian Malcolm, and his investors' lawyer Donald Gennaro to carry out the scrutiny. At the park, they learn that InGen produced the dinosaurs by cloning genetic material found in mosquitoes that fed on dinosaur blood, preserved in Dominican amber. The DNA from these samples was spliced with DNA from frogs to fill in sequence gaps. Only female dinosaurs are created in order to avoid uncontrolled reproduction within the park. The team is also shown the inclusion of the Velociraptor, dubbed "raptors", extremely intelligent, aggressive and ferocious predators.
Malcolm, Sattler and Grant meet Hammond's grandchildren, Tim and Alexis "Lex" Murphy, and go on a vehicular tour of the park. Ellie leaves the visit to superintend and take care of a sick Triceratops with Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Gerry Harding. A tropical tempest hits the island as most InGen employees leave for the day leaving only Hammond, game warden Robert Muldoon, chief engineer Ray Arnold, and leading computer programmer Dennis Nedry to manage the park and the visitors. Bribed by InGen's rival Lewis Dodgson, Nedry takes an opportunity to shut down the park's security system so he can pilfer dinosaur embryos and deliver them to an informant at the secondary dock. As a result, the safety systems of the whole park are shut down, allowing the Tyrannosaurus to break through the deactivated electric barrier surrounding its pen, devouring Gennaro, attacking Tim and Lex hiding in the car, and wounding Malcolm. Just after they flee the wreck, Sattler and Muldoon arrive. At first, they believe the only survivor of the attack is Malcolm, but upon further search they find footprints belonging to Grant and the kids. Just then, the T-rex returns and Malcolm, Muldoon, and Sattler barely run off her in their Jeep. Meanwhile, Nedry crashes his Jeep and, while trying to lift it, is killed by a Dilophosaurus. Grant, Tim, and Lex spend the night in a tree. While hiking to security the next morning, they notice hatched eggs, indicating that the dinosaurs are actually reproduction. Grant learns that the frog DNA is liable: some species of frog are known to unexpectedly change sex in a single-sex atmosphere.
Arnold tries to hack Nedry's computer to turn the fences back on but fails. When he does not return from the shed, Sattler and Muldoon follow and notice the raptors have escaped, the shutdown having cut off power to the electric fences around their pen. Muldoon comes to know that they are near and tells Sattler to go to the utility shed herself and turn the power back on while he tries to distract the raptors and chase them down. Sattler arrives at the shed and manages to reset the breakers when she is chased by a raptor, finds Arnold's corpse, and manages to escape the maintenance shed. Muldoon is attacked and killed by a second raptor while hunting the third raptor. Grant and the kids finally arrive at the Visitor Center, after Tim is electrocuted when the fences turned back on and revived by Grant. Grant leaves them to find the others and finds Sattler first, then joins Malcolm and Hammond in the emergency bunkers.
Raptors enter the Visitor Center and Lex and Tim closely flee them in the kitchen (locking one in the freezer). Grant and Sattler take Lex and Tim to the Control Room where Lex is finally able to restore the Park's computer systems in order to call Hammond to request a helicopter rescue of the survivors. Grant and Sattler hold off a raptor trying to open the door to the computer room, until the power is restored and the electromagnetic locks begin working. With the door secure, the raptor breaks into the room through the window, and the unit climbs up into the ceiling crawlspace and arrives at the Visitors Center rotunda, help comes from an unlikely source: the Tyrannosaurus abruptly appears and strikes the raptors. The T-rex and raptors fight while Grant, Sattler, Lex, and Tim flee. The four escape, climb into Hammond and Malcolm's jeep and leave. Grant says he will not endorse the park, a choice with which Hammond concurs. Meanwhile inside the T-rex tears apart one of the raptors and kills the other by hurling it at a Tyrannosaurus skeleton on display. As the unit fly away in the helicopter, the children fall asleep beside Grant, who thoughtfully looks out the window over the horizon at a flock of birds flying nearby, the current relatives of the dinosaurs that once lived.
Jurassic Park became the most financially successful picture released worldwide as of that time, beating Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Based upon a sample of 33 reviews Jurassic Park bagged 83% on the tomatometer.
In Jurassic Park, located on Isla Nublar, an member of staff for the genetic engineering company InGen is attacked and killed, prompting a lawsuit from his family. CEO John Hammond is pressured by his investors to let a safety scrutiny by experts before opening the park. He invites paleontologist Alan Grant, paleobotanist Ellie Sattler, chaos theorist Ian Malcolm, and his investors' lawyer Donald Gennaro to carry out the scrutiny. At the park, they learn that InGen produced the dinosaurs by cloning genetic material found in mosquitoes that fed on dinosaur blood, preserved in Dominican amber. The DNA from these samples was spliced with DNA from frogs to fill in sequence gaps. Only female dinosaurs are created in order to avoid uncontrolled reproduction within the park. The team is also shown the inclusion of the Velociraptor, dubbed "raptors", extremely intelligent, aggressive and ferocious predators.
Malcolm, Sattler and Grant meet Hammond's grandchildren, Tim and Alexis "Lex" Murphy, and go on a vehicular tour of the park. Ellie leaves the visit to superintend and take care of a sick Triceratops with Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Gerry Harding. A tropical tempest hits the island as most InGen employees leave for the day leaving only Hammond, game warden Robert Muldoon, chief engineer Ray Arnold, and leading computer programmer Dennis Nedry to manage the park and the visitors. Bribed by InGen's rival Lewis Dodgson, Nedry takes an opportunity to shut down the park's security system so he can pilfer dinosaur embryos and deliver them to an informant at the secondary dock. As a result, the safety systems of the whole park are shut down, allowing the Tyrannosaurus to break through the deactivated electric barrier surrounding its pen, devouring Gennaro, attacking Tim and Lex hiding in the car, and wounding Malcolm. Just after they flee the wreck, Sattler and Muldoon arrive. At first, they believe the only survivor of the attack is Malcolm, but upon further search they find footprints belonging to Grant and the kids. Just then, the T-rex returns and Malcolm, Muldoon, and Sattler barely run off her in their Jeep. Meanwhile, Nedry crashes his Jeep and, while trying to lift it, is killed by a Dilophosaurus. Grant, Tim, and Lex spend the night in a tree. While hiking to security the next morning, they notice hatched eggs, indicating that the dinosaurs are actually reproduction. Grant learns that the frog DNA is liable: some species of frog are known to unexpectedly change sex in a single-sex atmosphere.
Arnold tries to hack Nedry's computer to turn the fences back on but fails. When he does not return from the shed, Sattler and Muldoon follow and notice the raptors have escaped, the shutdown having cut off power to the electric fences around their pen. Muldoon comes to know that they are near and tells Sattler to go to the utility shed herself and turn the power back on while he tries to distract the raptors and chase them down. Sattler arrives at the shed and manages to reset the breakers when she is chased by a raptor, finds Arnold's corpse, and manages to escape the maintenance shed. Muldoon is attacked and killed by a second raptor while hunting the third raptor. Grant and the kids finally arrive at the Visitor Center, after Tim is electrocuted when the fences turned back on and revived by Grant. Grant leaves them to find the others and finds Sattler first, then joins Malcolm and Hammond in the emergency bunkers.
Raptors enter the Visitor Center and Lex and Tim closely flee them in the kitchen (locking one in the freezer). Grant and Sattler take Lex and Tim to the Control Room where Lex is finally able to restore the Park's computer systems in order to call Hammond to request a helicopter rescue of the survivors. Grant and Sattler hold off a raptor trying to open the door to the computer room, until the power is restored and the electromagnetic locks begin working. With the door secure, the raptor breaks into the room through the window, and the unit climbs up into the ceiling crawlspace and arrives at the Visitors Center rotunda, help comes from an unlikely source: the Tyrannosaurus abruptly appears and strikes the raptors. The T-rex and raptors fight while Grant, Sattler, Lex, and Tim flee. The four escape, climb into Hammond and Malcolm's jeep and leave. Grant says he will not endorse the park, a choice with which Hammond concurs. Meanwhile inside the T-rex tears apart one of the raptors and kills the other by hurling it at a Tyrannosaurus skeleton on display. As the unit fly away in the helicopter, the children fall asleep beside Grant, who thoughtfully looks out the window over the horizon at a flock of birds flying nearby, the current relatives of the dinosaurs that once lived.
Jurassic Park became the most financially successful picture released worldwide as of that time, beating Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Based upon a sample of 33 reviews Jurassic Park bagged 83% on the tomatometer.
Monday, November 9, 2009
ABSOLUTE ZERO
Absolute Zero is a catastrophe film, directed by Robert Lee, and written by Sarah Watson. It stars Jeff Fahey, and Erika Eleniak. The picture is about polar shift, which brings a new ice age in Florida.
David Koch (Jeff Fahey), a climatologist employed by Inter Sci, offers a theory that the last ice age was triggered by Earth's polar shift in a single day. When strangely cold weather attacks Miami and the birds start to return from the south a few months earlier he is sent to Antarctica to find out what is happening.
Once there, he unearths a frozen body of a person which is at least 10,000 years old. What is interesting is his look as he would be at once ice-covered in place. He also discovers cave paintings that show the Sun falling down. A sudden blizzard then destroys a base camp and kills some members of his team.
Back in Miami, he presents his findings to his co-workers and his superior. He claims that another polar shift is only a couple of hours away and the new ice age is unavoidable. However, nobody believes him. As per the existing theories the shifting of the poles should last at least 200 years so the climate changes (if any) wouldn't appear overnight. David's one-time love Bryn (Erika Eleniak) supports his hypothesis with many stories about the falling sun followed by a darkness and severe cold.
When the climate in Miami starts getting colder and colder the evacuation is ordered and the people start to move towards north. David, Bryn and a group of people miss the chance to escape and their only hope is to hide in a special room at Inter Sci. In a couple of hours, everything from 30° north and south of the equator turns to absolute zero (- 273°C) turning Florida, Mexico, Central America, north of South America, Africa, and Miami into an ice desert.
They manage to survive although everything is ice-covered outside the room. When the polar shift is over and the Sun appears again they are rescued.As a consequence of polar shift many people die and the world's weather changes absolutely - Florida is fully ice-covered, Canada and Siberia become scorching deserts; Greenland, Iceland, Northern Europe and New York have now tropical weather.
It was released on March 2006. It was influenced by The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Roland Emmerich). One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also view free pictures online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual movies of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for boundless.
David Koch (Jeff Fahey), a climatologist employed by Inter Sci, offers a theory that the last ice age was triggered by Earth's polar shift in a single day. When strangely cold weather attacks Miami and the birds start to return from the south a few months earlier he is sent to Antarctica to find out what is happening.
Once there, he unearths a frozen body of a person which is at least 10,000 years old. What is interesting is his look as he would be at once ice-covered in place. He also discovers cave paintings that show the Sun falling down. A sudden blizzard then destroys a base camp and kills some members of his team.
Back in Miami, he presents his findings to his co-workers and his superior. He claims that another polar shift is only a couple of hours away and the new ice age is unavoidable. However, nobody believes him. As per the existing theories the shifting of the poles should last at least 200 years so the climate changes (if any) wouldn't appear overnight. David's one-time love Bryn (Erika Eleniak) supports his hypothesis with many stories about the falling sun followed by a darkness and severe cold.
When the climate in Miami starts getting colder and colder the evacuation is ordered and the people start to move towards north. David, Bryn and a group of people miss the chance to escape and their only hope is to hide in a special room at Inter Sci. In a couple of hours, everything from 30° north and south of the equator turns to absolute zero (- 273°C) turning Florida, Mexico, Central America, north of South America, Africa, and Miami into an ice desert.
They manage to survive although everything is ice-covered outside the room. When the polar shift is over and the Sun appears again they are rescued.As a consequence of polar shift many people die and the world's weather changes absolutely - Florida is fully ice-covered, Canada and Siberia become scorching deserts; Greenland, Iceland, Northern Europe and New York have now tropical weather.
It was released on March 2006. It was influenced by The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Roland Emmerich). One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also view free pictures online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual movies of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for boundless.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
FUNNY PEOPLE
Funny People is an American comedy-drama movie, written, co-produced, and directed by Judd Apatow, and casting Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen as stand-up comedians.
George Simmons (Adam Sandler) is a very flourishing yet self-involved stand-up comic who realizes that he has an incurable blood illness and is given less than a year to live. Ira Wright (Weiner is his actual last name) (Seth Rogen) is a struggling up-and-coming stand-up humorist who works at a deli and has yet to find out his onstage qualities. One thing these different men have in common is that neither of them have any dear acquaintances. One night, George sees Ira when they perform at the same disco and he hires him to be his semi-private assistant and opening act at his performances. George and Ira started having an affair as George teaches Ira how to win the crowd and Ira helps the dying George find closure in his heritage. However, when George learns that his disorder has reduced and an old glow (Leslie Mann) reenters his life, his recent near death suffering inspires him to reconsider what is vital to him and what really gives meaning to his life.
The feature film was released on July 31, 2009 in North America, and on August 28, 2009 in the United Kingdom. amusing People currently has a 68% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is similar to Punchline (1988, David Seltzer) and Der Himmel Kann Warten (2001, Brigitte Muller). One can grab the original DVDs at the nearby store or you can also watch free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for open.
George Simmons (Adam Sandler) is a very flourishing yet self-involved stand-up comic who realizes that he has an incurable blood illness and is given less than a year to live. Ira Wright (Weiner is his actual last name) (Seth Rogen) is a struggling up-and-coming stand-up humorist who works at a deli and has yet to find out his onstage qualities. One thing these different men have in common is that neither of them have any dear acquaintances. One night, George sees Ira when they perform at the same disco and he hires him to be his semi-private assistant and opening act at his performances. George and Ira started having an affair as George teaches Ira how to win the crowd and Ira helps the dying George find closure in his heritage. However, when George learns that his disorder has reduced and an old glow (Leslie Mann) reenters his life, his recent near death suffering inspires him to reconsider what is vital to him and what really gives meaning to his life.
The feature film was released on July 31, 2009 in North America, and on August 28, 2009 in the United Kingdom. amusing People currently has a 68% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is similar to Punchline (1988, David Seltzer) and Der Himmel Kann Warten (2001, Brigitte Muller). One can grab the original DVDs at the nearby store or you can also watch free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for open.
Friday, November 6, 2009
NOTORIOUS
Notorious is a 2009 American biopic about the life of iconic hip hop star Christopher Wallace / Biggie Smalls / The Notorious B.I.G., who is played by Jamal Woolard. The feature film co-stars Angela Bassett as his mother Voletta Wallace, Derek Luke as Sean Combs, and Anthony Mackie as Tupac Shakur. Other roles include Naturi Naughton as Lil' Kim and Antonique Smith as Faith Evans.
The picture opens at a celebration in Los Angeles in March 1997. Biggie Smalls is seen sitting at his chair smoking. People, including Faith Evans (Antonique Smith) and Sean Combs (Derek Luke), move to the music on the dance floor. Moments later, Biggie, Combs, and friends are driving away from the celebration.Biggie's cousin Lil' Cease, (Marc John Jefferies) is flirting with women outside. A black Chevrolet Impala pulls up and someone inside fires a gunshot at Biggie.
The movie then flashes back to Biggie's childhood in the early 1980s, recounting his rough upbringing in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn. Biggie (Christopher "CJ" Wallace, Jr.) writes numerous rap songs, enduring the ridicule of some classmates. Biggie then starts selling drugs at the height of the crack epidemic. In 1990, after winning an important rap battle and meeting Lil' Kim (Naturi Naughton) for the first time, Biggie's mother, Voletta (Angela Bassett), throws him out of the house after discovering his involvement with drugs.
After serving time in prison, he goes to see his girlfriend Jan (Julia Pace Mitchell), and their new daughter, T'yanna (Taylor Dior). After reconciling with his mother, he goes to find D-Roc and Lil' Cease and records a demo called "Microphone Murderer." Shortly thereafter, Biggie meets Sean Combs, an striving producer for Uptown Records. Combs promises Biggie that he will sign him to a record deal only accept if he gives up drug dealing. Biggie agrees and then leaves.A few days later. Biggie and D-Roc, have a run-in with the police thus they are caught by the police after a chase. D-Roc finally decides to "take the fall" for the both of them because he believes that Biggie can do well as a rapper.
Biggie learns that Combs has lost his job at Uptown Records. Perturbed, he leaves Combs and goes back home only to see that his mother has breast cancer. Biggie becomes miserable, but soon recovers when Combs starts his own record label, Bad Boy Records, and signs him. Biggie starts recording songs for his first album, Ready To Die, thereafter.Biggie meets Faith Evans at a photo shoot. They begin a hasty love affair, marrying nine days later. Meanwhile, Biggie continues to discount his relationship with Jan and their child. When Faith discovers Biggie's relationship with Jan, she goes to threaten Biggie, seeing him with yet another woman. The two later settle despite the fact that tensions between him, Faith, Jan, and Lil' Kim, yet another of Biggie's paramours, continue to grow.
Biggie opens a friendship with rapper/actor Tupac Shakur (Anthony Mackie). Biggie celebrates his album Ready To Die with Tupac, flattering the other rapper. When Tupac is shot in Quad Studios, however, he accuses Combs, Biggie and Bad Boy Records for instigating it. At The Source Awards in 1995, demise Row Records exec, Suge Knight, makes a speech "dissing" Combs and Bad Boy Records, claiming demise Row is the superior label. Soon the discrepancy escalates into the East Coast-West Coast beef and the friendship between Biggie and Tupac is broken. A track called "Who Shot Ya?" is released, a song which claims to diss Tupac. Biggie and Combs claim that "Who Shot Ya?" was recorded before Tupac was shot, but Suge and Tupac claim otherwise. Tupac comes out with "Hit 'Em Up" which disses Biggie along with talking about having sex with Faith. Then after seeing a magazine photo of Tupac and Faith hugging each other, Biggie becomes enraged. Later, Faith explains that she and Tupac met at the House of Blues and only took a photo. Biggie attempts to renovate the relationship, but tensions continue to grow between them.
The East Coast-West Coast enmity continues until September 1996 when Tupac is assasinated in Las Vegas. Voletta tells Biggie that Tupac probably died as a result of difference in their opinions. Biggie is perturbed by Tupac's sudden demise.Biggie and D-Roc rekindle their friendship after D-Roc is released from prison. Biggie states that he's done with the rap game, a small importance upon the obvious change of heart that he had while in the hospital (he was injured in a car accident). Biggie decides to go Los Angeles to promote his upcoming album Life After death and brings D-Roc and Lil' Cease with him. The three men, along with Combs and Faith, all travel to Los Angeles. Biggie gets several death threats and is shot and killed moments after calling Lil' Kim to apologize and to set up a meeting with her.
The picture was free in American theaters on January 16, 2009. Rotten Tomatoes noted an average score of 5.5/10. It is similar to Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005, Jim Sheridan) Cadillac Records (2008, Darnell Martin).
The picture opens at a celebration in Los Angeles in March 1997. Biggie Smalls is seen sitting at his chair smoking. People, including Faith Evans (Antonique Smith) and Sean Combs (Derek Luke), move to the music on the dance floor. Moments later, Biggie, Combs, and friends are driving away from the celebration.Biggie's cousin Lil' Cease, (Marc John Jefferies) is flirting with women outside. A black Chevrolet Impala pulls up and someone inside fires a gunshot at Biggie.
The movie then flashes back to Biggie's childhood in the early 1980s, recounting his rough upbringing in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn. Biggie (Christopher "CJ" Wallace, Jr.) writes numerous rap songs, enduring the ridicule of some classmates. Biggie then starts selling drugs at the height of the crack epidemic. In 1990, after winning an important rap battle and meeting Lil' Kim (Naturi Naughton) for the first time, Biggie's mother, Voletta (Angela Bassett), throws him out of the house after discovering his involvement with drugs.
After serving time in prison, he goes to see his girlfriend Jan (Julia Pace Mitchell), and their new daughter, T'yanna (Taylor Dior). After reconciling with his mother, he goes to find D-Roc and Lil' Cease and records a demo called "Microphone Murderer." Shortly thereafter, Biggie meets Sean Combs, an striving producer for Uptown Records. Combs promises Biggie that he will sign him to a record deal only accept if he gives up drug dealing. Biggie agrees and then leaves.A few days later. Biggie and D-Roc, have a run-in with the police thus they are caught by the police after a chase. D-Roc finally decides to "take the fall" for the both of them because he believes that Biggie can do well as a rapper.
Biggie learns that Combs has lost his job at Uptown Records. Perturbed, he leaves Combs and goes back home only to see that his mother has breast cancer. Biggie becomes miserable, but soon recovers when Combs starts his own record label, Bad Boy Records, and signs him. Biggie starts recording songs for his first album, Ready To Die, thereafter.Biggie meets Faith Evans at a photo shoot. They begin a hasty love affair, marrying nine days later. Meanwhile, Biggie continues to discount his relationship with Jan and their child. When Faith discovers Biggie's relationship with Jan, she goes to threaten Biggie, seeing him with yet another woman. The two later settle despite the fact that tensions between him, Faith, Jan, and Lil' Kim, yet another of Biggie's paramours, continue to grow.
Biggie opens a friendship with rapper/actor Tupac Shakur (Anthony Mackie). Biggie celebrates his album Ready To Die with Tupac, flattering the other rapper. When Tupac is shot in Quad Studios, however, he accuses Combs, Biggie and Bad Boy Records for instigating it. At The Source Awards in 1995, demise Row Records exec, Suge Knight, makes a speech "dissing" Combs and Bad Boy Records, claiming demise Row is the superior label. Soon the discrepancy escalates into the East Coast-West Coast beef and the friendship between Biggie and Tupac is broken. A track called "Who Shot Ya?" is released, a song which claims to diss Tupac. Biggie and Combs claim that "Who Shot Ya?" was recorded before Tupac was shot, but Suge and Tupac claim otherwise. Tupac comes out with "Hit 'Em Up" which disses Biggie along with talking about having sex with Faith. Then after seeing a magazine photo of Tupac and Faith hugging each other, Biggie becomes enraged. Later, Faith explains that she and Tupac met at the House of Blues and only took a photo. Biggie attempts to renovate the relationship, but tensions continue to grow between them.
The East Coast-West Coast enmity continues until September 1996 when Tupac is assasinated in Las Vegas. Voletta tells Biggie that Tupac probably died as a result of difference in their opinions. Biggie is perturbed by Tupac's sudden demise.Biggie and D-Roc rekindle their friendship after D-Roc is released from prison. Biggie states that he's done with the rap game, a small importance upon the obvious change of heart that he had while in the hospital (he was injured in a car accident). Biggie decides to go Los Angeles to promote his upcoming album Life After death and brings D-Roc and Lil' Cease with him. The three men, along with Combs and Faith, all travel to Los Angeles. Biggie gets several death threats and is shot and killed moments after calling Lil' Kim to apologize and to set up a meeting with her.
The picture was free in American theaters on January 16, 2009. Rotten Tomatoes noted an average score of 5.5/10. It is similar to Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005, Jim Sheridan) Cadillac Records (2008, Darnell Martin).
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
ANGELS AND DEMONS
Angels & Demons is a 2000 bestselling mystery-thriller novel written by American writer Dan Brown and published by Pocket Books. A feature film adaptation was released on May 15, 2009, though it was set after the events of The Da Vinci Code picture, which had been released in 2006.
Under the watchful eyes of Father Silvano Bentivoglio and Dr. Vittoria Vetra, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) activates the Large Hadron Collider and captures three vials of antimatter. Instantly afterward, someone kills Father Silvano, using his retina to infiltrate the containment chamber, and steals one vial.The Roman Catholic Church mourns the demise of Pope Pius XVI in Rome. Vatican City prepares for the College of Cardinals' papal assembly, which will choose the next Pope. Until that time, Camerlengo Patrick McKenna, a papal court officer and former helicopter pilot, assumes brief power of the Vatican. Reporters, nuns, priests, and other faithful members of the Church crowd into Saint Peter's Square, waiting for the white smoke from the conclave, signalling a successful vote. But the Illuminati, a 400-year old, underground secret society, capture the four most likely candidates before the assembly enters isolation. The Illuminati threaten to assassinate one every hour, beginning at 8:00 pm, and then destroy the Vatican in a burst of light at midnight. A stolen security camera shows the lost antimatter vial, which will disastrously detonate when the vial's battery dies and the magnetic containment field fails.
The Vatican order symbologist Robert Langdon from Harvard University and Vittoria Vetra from CERN to help them solve the Illuminati's threat, save the four preferiti, and replace the vial's batteries. Langdon listens to the Illuminati message and deduces that the four cardinals will die at the four altars of the "Path of Illumination." However, no one knows where these altars are placed. Vetra demands that Commander Richter, the commandant of the Swiss Guard, to bring Father Silvano's diaries from Switzerland, hopeful that they enclose the name of the person with whom Silvano discussed the antimatter experiment. Langdon also asks access to the Vatican Secret Archives (something he has requested for 10 years) to see the original copy of Galileo Galilei's banned book, which may enclose the locations of the four "altars of science." Using the hints from this book, Langdon, Vetra, Inspector General Ernesto Olivetti, and Lieutenant Valenti of the Vatican Gendarmerie Corps chase to the first church, only to find the first cardinal, Cardinal Ebner, dead, suffocated with dirt, eaten by rats and branded with the word "Earth." They verify the second altar's site and get there, only to witness the demise of the second cardinal, Cardinal Lamassa, his lungs lacerated and his body identified with the word "Air." While Vetra studies Silvano's diaries, Langdon and the Vatican officers locate the third church and try to save the third cardinal, Cardinal Gudiera, from burning to demise, but the assassin appears and murders everyone but Langdon. The cardinal succumbs to the fire, his body branded with the word "Fire."
After escaping, Langdon persuades two Carabinieri officers to chase with him to the last church of the "Water" altar, but the slayer slays the officers and drops the fourth cardinal, Cardinal Baggia, into the Fountain of the Four Rivers. However, Langdon saves the cardinal, who tells him the location of the Illuminati's lair: Castel Sant'Angelo. When Langdon and Vetra get there, they are confronted by the executioner, who spares their lives as they are not armed and he has not been paid to murder them. He makes them aware that his contractors were from the Catholic Church. The executioner flees and finds a vehicle containing his fee, but is killed by a car bomb upon igniting the engine. Langdon and Vetra realize that the last prey of the plan will be Camerlengo McKenna. After arriving at the Vatican via a secret road, they and some Swiss Guards enter the Camerlengo's office and find him in the floor identified with the Vatican's symbol on his chest and Commander Richter near him with a gun. The Guards promptly assassinate Richter to save the camerlengo. During the muddle, the dying commander gives Langdon a key to his office. Then the camerlengo, Langdon, Vetra, and the Swiss Guards learn the spot of the stolen antimatter vial. By the time they find it, the battery is about to expire, the deadly explosion just minutes away. The camerlengo seizes the vial and uses a helicopter meant for escape from the Vatican to fly above the church. He then activates the autopilot and escapes with a parachute. After several seconds, the bomb explodes and the camerlengo lands, now considered a hero by the crowd and even as the best candidate to be the new Pope by the College of Cardinals. Meanwhile, Langdon and Vetra use Richter's key to watch a security video showing that the mastermind behind the murders of the original Pope and the preferiti and the antimatter robbery, in fact, is the camerlengo and not the Illuminati. While Richter tries to seize McKenna, the priest brands himself with a seal that resembles Saint Peter's upside-down crucifixion and blames the commander being a member of the Illuminati. Langdon shows the video to the College. After the camerlengo realizes his plot has been revealed, he immolates himself with oil from one of the 99 holy lamps inside St. Peter's Basilica.
The Vatican announces that the camerlengo died due to internal wounds suffered during his landing, while the public asks he be canonized. The College designate the Cardinal Baggia as the new Pope (who chooses to take on the name Luke), and Cardinal Strauss as the new camerlengo. The new camerlengo thanks Robert Langdon for saving the Vatican and the new Pope, and as a mark of his gratitude loans Galileo's "Diagramma Veritas" to Langdon for his reference. The movie ends with the new Pope walking out on the balcony to the cheering crowd in St. Peter's Square.
Rotten Tomatoes reported an average rating of 5.1/10. One can grab the original DVDs at the nearby shop or you can also watch free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for open.
Under the watchful eyes of Father Silvano Bentivoglio and Dr. Vittoria Vetra, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) activates the Large Hadron Collider and captures three vials of antimatter. Instantly afterward, someone kills Father Silvano, using his retina to infiltrate the containment chamber, and steals one vial.The Roman Catholic Church mourns the demise of Pope Pius XVI in Rome. Vatican City prepares for the College of Cardinals' papal assembly, which will choose the next Pope. Until that time, Camerlengo Patrick McKenna, a papal court officer and former helicopter pilot, assumes brief power of the Vatican. Reporters, nuns, priests, and other faithful members of the Church crowd into Saint Peter's Square, waiting for the white smoke from the conclave, signalling a successful vote. But the Illuminati, a 400-year old, underground secret society, capture the four most likely candidates before the assembly enters isolation. The Illuminati threaten to assassinate one every hour, beginning at 8:00 pm, and then destroy the Vatican in a burst of light at midnight. A stolen security camera shows the lost antimatter vial, which will disastrously detonate when the vial's battery dies and the magnetic containment field fails.
The Vatican order symbologist Robert Langdon from Harvard University and Vittoria Vetra from CERN to help them solve the Illuminati's threat, save the four preferiti, and replace the vial's batteries. Langdon listens to the Illuminati message and deduces that the four cardinals will die at the four altars of the "Path of Illumination." However, no one knows where these altars are placed. Vetra demands that Commander Richter, the commandant of the Swiss Guard, to bring Father Silvano's diaries from Switzerland, hopeful that they enclose the name of the person with whom Silvano discussed the antimatter experiment. Langdon also asks access to the Vatican Secret Archives (something he has requested for 10 years) to see the original copy of Galileo Galilei's banned book, which may enclose the locations of the four "altars of science." Using the hints from this book, Langdon, Vetra, Inspector General Ernesto Olivetti, and Lieutenant Valenti of the Vatican Gendarmerie Corps chase to the first church, only to find the first cardinal, Cardinal Ebner, dead, suffocated with dirt, eaten by rats and branded with the word "Earth." They verify the second altar's site and get there, only to witness the demise of the second cardinal, Cardinal Lamassa, his lungs lacerated and his body identified with the word "Air." While Vetra studies Silvano's diaries, Langdon and the Vatican officers locate the third church and try to save the third cardinal, Cardinal Gudiera, from burning to demise, but the assassin appears and murders everyone but Langdon. The cardinal succumbs to the fire, his body branded with the word "Fire."
After escaping, Langdon persuades two Carabinieri officers to chase with him to the last church of the "Water" altar, but the slayer slays the officers and drops the fourth cardinal, Cardinal Baggia, into the Fountain of the Four Rivers. However, Langdon saves the cardinal, who tells him the location of the Illuminati's lair: Castel Sant'Angelo. When Langdon and Vetra get there, they are confronted by the executioner, who spares their lives as they are not armed and he has not been paid to murder them. He makes them aware that his contractors were from the Catholic Church. The executioner flees and finds a vehicle containing his fee, but is killed by a car bomb upon igniting the engine. Langdon and Vetra realize that the last prey of the plan will be Camerlengo McKenna. After arriving at the Vatican via a secret road, they and some Swiss Guards enter the Camerlengo's office and find him in the floor identified with the Vatican's symbol on his chest and Commander Richter near him with a gun. The Guards promptly assassinate Richter to save the camerlengo. During the muddle, the dying commander gives Langdon a key to his office. Then the camerlengo, Langdon, Vetra, and the Swiss Guards learn the spot of the stolen antimatter vial. By the time they find it, the battery is about to expire, the deadly explosion just minutes away. The camerlengo seizes the vial and uses a helicopter meant for escape from the Vatican to fly above the church. He then activates the autopilot and escapes with a parachute. After several seconds, the bomb explodes and the camerlengo lands, now considered a hero by the crowd and even as the best candidate to be the new Pope by the College of Cardinals. Meanwhile, Langdon and Vetra use Richter's key to watch a security video showing that the mastermind behind the murders of the original Pope and the preferiti and the antimatter robbery, in fact, is the camerlengo and not the Illuminati. While Richter tries to seize McKenna, the priest brands himself with a seal that resembles Saint Peter's upside-down crucifixion and blames the commander being a member of the Illuminati. Langdon shows the video to the College. After the camerlengo realizes his plot has been revealed, he immolates himself with oil from one of the 99 holy lamps inside St. Peter's Basilica.
The Vatican announces that the camerlengo died due to internal wounds suffered during his landing, while the public asks he be canonized. The College designate the Cardinal Baggia as the new Pope (who chooses to take on the name Luke), and Cardinal Strauss as the new camerlengo. The new camerlengo thanks Robert Langdon for saving the Vatican and the new Pope, and as a mark of his gratitude loans Galileo's "Diagramma Veritas" to Langdon for his reference. The movie ends with the new Pope walking out on the balcony to the cheering crowd in St. Peter's Square.
Rotten Tomatoes reported an average rating of 5.1/10. One can grab the original DVDs at the nearby shop or you can also watch free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for open.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
TAKEN
Taken is a 2008 French action murder mystery movie starring Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, and Maggie Grace. It is based on a script by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen and was directed by Pierre Morel. Neeson plays an ex- Central Intelligence Agency operative who sets about tracking down his teenage daughter after she is kidnapped by slave traders while traveling in Europe.
Retired CIA agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) goes to Kim's house (Maggie Grace) his seventeen year old daughter, for her birthday and gifts her Karaoke machine, but is upstaged by Kim's rich step father Stuart (Xander Berkeley), who gives her a horse.
After partying, three of his friends turn up at his house for the steak bash that was forgotten by Mills. As they depart, Bryan's friend and ex- CIA collaborator Sam (Leland Orser) convinces Bryan to take up a occupation with him: working as bodyguards for the eminent singer Sheerah (Holly Valance). When the concert ends Bryan escorts Sheerah out of the venue and manages to fend off an assailant. The next day, he has lunch with his daughter, only to find that Lenore (Famke Janssen) has followed her so they can persuade Bryan to sign a parental authority form allowing Kim to go to Paris with her 19-year-old friend, Amanda (Katie Cassidy). Bryan agrees on the condition that Kim calls him immediately once she lands and every night thereafter.
When they turn up, Kim and Amanda meet Peter (Nicolas Giraud) who persuades the two to share a cab. When they turn up where the girls are staying, he tells the girls that his friend is having a gathering and offers to pick them up, obtaining their house number. As he leaves, he gives information about the girls to an unknown person on mobile phone.
While on the mobile phone with Bryan, Kim witnesses Amanda being capsized. Bryan informs her that she will be taken as well, and gives her directives. As Kim is being taken, she shouts out as much about her kidnapper as she can before she is knocked out. One of the kidnappers takes the phone and listens to a threat from Bryan before smashing the telephone. Bryan made a recording of the call, and Sam analyzes it. Sam tells Bryan that the kidnappers are the Albanian Mafia, and they are part of a mob dealing largely in sex slaves. Bryan contacts Stuart to secure a private plane, and travels immediately to Paris.
In Paris, Bryan tracks down Peter, who is hit by a bus after trying to escape, and then meets up with his old friend, Jean-Claude (Olivier Rabourdin). Bryan needs to know where the Albanians could be. Jean-Claude claims that there are many Albanians in Paris. Bryan then learns of an Albanian-run brothel at a nearby construction site. At the brothel Bryan is unable to find Kim or Amanda but instead saves another girl who was in possession of Kim's jacket. After rescuing the girl, Bryan takes her to a hotel and meets up with another friend, Gilles, who is working as a hotel manager. Next day, the girl tells him that she had been given the jacket at a particular house where Kim and the mob may be. He follows the girl's advice and finds the house. Bryan slays almost the entire gang after recognizing the voice from the telephone call. Bryan searches the rooms of the house and finds many drugged, captive sex slaves, including Kim's friend Amanda, who died from an evident overdose.
Bryan then tortures the surviving gang leader for information. The mob leader reveals that Kim was sold to a man named Patrice Saint-Clair (Gérard Watkins) before Bryan leaves him in an active electric chair. Bryan then appears at Jean-Claude's home and confronts him about his apparent transactions with the Albanian smugglers, threatening him by shooting his wife but not killing her. Bryan, posing as Jean-Claude, then goes to a gathering hosted by Saint-Clair.
Bryan tracks down Kim just as she is being sold in a unlit room but is subdued before he can free her. After regaining consciousness and liberating himself from his captors, Bryan finds Saint-Clair and murders him, but not before finding out where Kim was taken. Bryan tracks down the yacht belonging to the Arab sheikh that bought Kim. Bryan boards the yacht and murders all the guards on plank. He then murders the sheikh and frees his daughter. Bryan comforts Kim and takes her back to the United States. At the L.A. airport, Kim is reunited with Lenore and Stuart. A couple of days later, Bryan surprise Kim with a visit to Sheerah's house to help improve her singing.
Taken was released on 30th Jan 2009. The movie opened to mixed to favorable reviews with a 57% rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is similar to Target (1985, Arthur Penn) and Frantic (1988, Roman Polanski). One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also watch free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for open.
Retired CIA agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) goes to Kim's house (Maggie Grace) his seventeen year old daughter, for her birthday and gifts her Karaoke machine, but is upstaged by Kim's rich step father Stuart (Xander Berkeley), who gives her a horse.
After partying, three of his friends turn up at his house for the steak bash that was forgotten by Mills. As they depart, Bryan's friend and ex- CIA collaborator Sam (Leland Orser) convinces Bryan to take up a occupation with him: working as bodyguards for the eminent singer Sheerah (Holly Valance). When the concert ends Bryan escorts Sheerah out of the venue and manages to fend off an assailant. The next day, he has lunch with his daughter, only to find that Lenore (Famke Janssen) has followed her so they can persuade Bryan to sign a parental authority form allowing Kim to go to Paris with her 19-year-old friend, Amanda (Katie Cassidy). Bryan agrees on the condition that Kim calls him immediately once she lands and every night thereafter.
When they turn up, Kim and Amanda meet Peter (Nicolas Giraud) who persuades the two to share a cab. When they turn up where the girls are staying, he tells the girls that his friend is having a gathering and offers to pick them up, obtaining their house number. As he leaves, he gives information about the girls to an unknown person on mobile phone.
While on the mobile phone with Bryan, Kim witnesses Amanda being capsized. Bryan informs her that she will be taken as well, and gives her directives. As Kim is being taken, she shouts out as much about her kidnapper as she can before she is knocked out. One of the kidnappers takes the phone and listens to a threat from Bryan before smashing the telephone. Bryan made a recording of the call, and Sam analyzes it. Sam tells Bryan that the kidnappers are the Albanian Mafia, and they are part of a mob dealing largely in sex slaves. Bryan contacts Stuart to secure a private plane, and travels immediately to Paris.
In Paris, Bryan tracks down Peter, who is hit by a bus after trying to escape, and then meets up with his old friend, Jean-Claude (Olivier Rabourdin). Bryan needs to know where the Albanians could be. Jean-Claude claims that there are many Albanians in Paris. Bryan then learns of an Albanian-run brothel at a nearby construction site. At the brothel Bryan is unable to find Kim or Amanda but instead saves another girl who was in possession of Kim's jacket. After rescuing the girl, Bryan takes her to a hotel and meets up with another friend, Gilles, who is working as a hotel manager. Next day, the girl tells him that she had been given the jacket at a particular house where Kim and the mob may be. He follows the girl's advice and finds the house. Bryan slays almost the entire gang after recognizing the voice from the telephone call. Bryan searches the rooms of the house and finds many drugged, captive sex slaves, including Kim's friend Amanda, who died from an evident overdose.
Bryan then tortures the surviving gang leader for information. The mob leader reveals that Kim was sold to a man named Patrice Saint-Clair (Gérard Watkins) before Bryan leaves him in an active electric chair. Bryan then appears at Jean-Claude's home and confronts him about his apparent transactions with the Albanian smugglers, threatening him by shooting his wife but not killing her. Bryan, posing as Jean-Claude, then goes to a gathering hosted by Saint-Clair.
Bryan tracks down Kim just as she is being sold in a unlit room but is subdued before he can free her. After regaining consciousness and liberating himself from his captors, Bryan finds Saint-Clair and murders him, but not before finding out where Kim was taken. Bryan tracks down the yacht belonging to the Arab sheikh that bought Kim. Bryan boards the yacht and murders all the guards on plank. He then murders the sheikh and frees his daughter. Bryan comforts Kim and takes her back to the United States. At the L.A. airport, Kim is reunited with Lenore and Stuart. A couple of days later, Bryan surprise Kim with a visit to Sheerah's house to help improve her singing.
Taken was released on 30th Jan 2009. The movie opened to mixed to favorable reviews with a 57% rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is similar to Target (1985, Arthur Penn) and Frantic (1988, Roman Polanski). One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also watch free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for open.
Monday, November 2, 2009
SPEED
Speed is an Indian Bollywood comedy movie directed by Vikram Bhatt and produced by Harry Baweja. The movie is based on the 2004 American movie Cellular. It stars Zayed Khan, Urmila Matondkar, Aashish Chaudhary, Aftab Shivdasani and Sanjay Suri.
Zayed goes to London to win over his lady Minisha to give him another chance to prove his love for her. Meanwhile, Sanjay, an secret MI5 agent, receives a CD from Sohail Khan and his girlfriend, Tanushree, which contains the recording of his captured wife, Urmila, and is asked to follow the information. He asks his associate Amrita to crack the secret code and moves off. He's fully perplexed about what's happening. Shortly he realizes that he is being used as a weapon to kill the PM of India on his London tour. As he is still not in favor to plans, Sohail finally decides to take hostage his kid. Sanjay's kidnapped wife, Urmila, starts trying to escape. Her only ray of hope is the telephone call she's out of the blue made to Zayed Khan. He's in touch with her throughout the movie on his cell phone. Continuously talking with her and giving her moral support. As Zayed decides to help Urmila, his love of life, Sanjana gets mad and threatens to break up again. A happy-go-lucky brat Zayed, who never takes anything seriously, risks his own life to save an strange family just because of a call. Aashish Chaudhary - the super-cop of London is in charge of security of the visiting Prime Minister. But as his lady has her birthday the very same day, Ashish is caught between his personal life and job. He obviously chooses the later. Will Sohail and tanushree succeed in their ominous plans? And will Zayed be able to save his love life with Minisha?, Will Urmila and her kid live another day just with the help of Zayed's phone? Will Ashish be able to protect the life of the Prime Minister?
It was released on October19th 2007. One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also watch free pictures online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for released.
Zayed goes to London to win over his lady Minisha to give him another chance to prove his love for her. Meanwhile, Sanjay, an secret MI5 agent, receives a CD from Sohail Khan and his girlfriend, Tanushree, which contains the recording of his captured wife, Urmila, and is asked to follow the information. He asks his associate Amrita to crack the secret code and moves off. He's fully perplexed about what's happening. Shortly he realizes that he is being used as a weapon to kill the PM of India on his London tour. As he is still not in favor to plans, Sohail finally decides to take hostage his kid. Sanjay's kidnapped wife, Urmila, starts trying to escape. Her only ray of hope is the telephone call she's out of the blue made to Zayed Khan. He's in touch with her throughout the movie on his cell phone. Continuously talking with her and giving her moral support. As Zayed decides to help Urmila, his love of life, Sanjana gets mad and threatens to break up again. A happy-go-lucky brat Zayed, who never takes anything seriously, risks his own life to save an strange family just because of a call. Aashish Chaudhary - the super-cop of London is in charge of security of the visiting Prime Minister. But as his lady has her birthday the very same day, Ashish is caught between his personal life and job. He obviously chooses the later. Will Sohail and tanushree succeed in their ominous plans? And will Zayed be able to save his love life with Minisha?, Will Urmila and her kid live another day just with the help of Zayed's phone? Will Ashish be able to protect the life of the Prime Minister?
It was released on October19th 2007. One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also watch free pictures online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for released.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
ICE AGE : DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, also known as Ice Age 3, is a 2009 3-D computer cartoon feature film. It is the third and final chapter of the Ice Age series, produced by Blue Sky Studios.
Ellie (Queen Latifah) and Manny (Ray Romano) are expecting their first child, and Manny is obsessed with making life ideal and protected for the family. At the same time, Diego (Denis Leary) finds himself not capable to catch a overconfident gazelle (Bill Hader) he has been stalking and decides to leave the herd, believing that he is losing his predatory nature as a tiger. Sid (John Leguizamo) grows envious of Manny and Ellie and adopts three abandoned eggs that he finds in an icy underground cave. Manny tells him to put them back, but Sid instead looks after the eggs, which hatch into baby Tyrannosaurus.
The three dinosaurs' rambunctious behavior scares away all the other animals' babies and ruins a playground Manny built for Ellie's baby. Tyrannosaurus, Momma, whose eggs Sid stole, soon returns and carries both Sid and her young underground, with Diego in pursuit. Manny, Ellie, Crash, and Eddie (Seann William Scott, Josh Peck) follow as well and realize that the icy cavern leads to a big jungle populated by dinosaurs thought to be extinct. Here, an Ankylosaurus threatens the flock despite Diego's efforts to fend it off; they are saved from a further crowd of angry reptiles by a weasel named Buckminster, or Buck (Simon Pegg).
Buck is chasing Rudy (a huge albino Baryonyx), intending to take vengeance the eye he lost to it. He accepts to guide the herd through the jungle. The next day, however, Sid is estranged from the family and attacked by Rudy. Sid is knocked onto a loose rock slab that is floating on a river of lava and about to tumble over the falls.
As the herd moves toward Lava Falls, Ellie goes into labor and a Guanlong pack strikes, causing a rock slide that separates her from Manny and Diego. Manny doubles back to protect her and Diego fends off further attacks, while Buck takes Crash and Eddie ahead to rescue Sid. Just as he goes over the falls, the trio swoops in on a commandeered Pteranodon only to been chased by a flock of Quetzalcoatlus on the way and saves his life. Manny reaches Ellie, and there is the cry of a newborn baby girl. Ellie names her Peaches (and the codeword they had chosen for Ellie to use if she went into labor during the tour). Sid is disappointed at the fact that he never had a chance to say goodbye to "his" children as he returns to the flock and learns of Peaches' birth.
Before they can exit the forest, Rudy attacks at full force; Buck lures Rudy away from the group and is nearly eaten himself, before Diego saves him at the last second. They then snare him briefly, but he escapes and resumes his onslaught. The group is saved by the timely arrival of Momma, who charges at Rudy and knocks him off a cliff before roaring her victory. As she and her children wish Sid well, Buck now without a reason in life since Rudy is gone decides to join the group and live on the surface. However, a distant roar tells him that Rudy is still alive; he changes his mind and sends the herd home, blocking off the path to the underground forest at the same time so that no one else can go down there. Manny and Ellie welcome Peaches into their icy world and admit that Sid did a good job looking after Momma's kids (though Manny tells Diego that he will never let Sid baby-sit Peaches). Diego decides to remain with the pack.
It was released on 1st July 2009.As of August 12, 2009. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 44% of critics gave positive reviews based on 140 reviews with an average score of 5.4/10. It is the second highest-grossing picture of 2009 behind Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and the second highest gross for an animation, behind Shrek 2.
Ellie (Queen Latifah) and Manny (Ray Romano) are expecting their first child, and Manny is obsessed with making life ideal and protected for the family. At the same time, Diego (Denis Leary) finds himself not capable to catch a overconfident gazelle (Bill Hader) he has been stalking and decides to leave the herd, believing that he is losing his predatory nature as a tiger. Sid (John Leguizamo) grows envious of Manny and Ellie and adopts three abandoned eggs that he finds in an icy underground cave. Manny tells him to put them back, but Sid instead looks after the eggs, which hatch into baby Tyrannosaurus.
The three dinosaurs' rambunctious behavior scares away all the other animals' babies and ruins a playground Manny built for Ellie's baby. Tyrannosaurus, Momma, whose eggs Sid stole, soon returns and carries both Sid and her young underground, with Diego in pursuit. Manny, Ellie, Crash, and Eddie (Seann William Scott, Josh Peck) follow as well and realize that the icy cavern leads to a big jungle populated by dinosaurs thought to be extinct. Here, an Ankylosaurus threatens the flock despite Diego's efforts to fend it off; they are saved from a further crowd of angry reptiles by a weasel named Buckminster, or Buck (Simon Pegg).
Buck is chasing Rudy (a huge albino Baryonyx), intending to take vengeance the eye he lost to it. He accepts to guide the herd through the jungle. The next day, however, Sid is estranged from the family and attacked by Rudy. Sid is knocked onto a loose rock slab that is floating on a river of lava and about to tumble over the falls.
As the herd moves toward Lava Falls, Ellie goes into labor and a Guanlong pack strikes, causing a rock slide that separates her from Manny and Diego. Manny doubles back to protect her and Diego fends off further attacks, while Buck takes Crash and Eddie ahead to rescue Sid. Just as he goes over the falls, the trio swoops in on a commandeered Pteranodon only to been chased by a flock of Quetzalcoatlus on the way and saves his life. Manny reaches Ellie, and there is the cry of a newborn baby girl. Ellie names her Peaches (and the codeword they had chosen for Ellie to use if she went into labor during the tour). Sid is disappointed at the fact that he never had a chance to say goodbye to "his" children as he returns to the flock and learns of Peaches' birth.
Before they can exit the forest, Rudy attacks at full force; Buck lures Rudy away from the group and is nearly eaten himself, before Diego saves him at the last second. They then snare him briefly, but he escapes and resumes his onslaught. The group is saved by the timely arrival of Momma, who charges at Rudy and knocks him off a cliff before roaring her victory. As she and her children wish Sid well, Buck now without a reason in life since Rudy is gone decides to join the group and live on the surface. However, a distant roar tells him that Rudy is still alive; he changes his mind and sends the herd home, blocking off the path to the underground forest at the same time so that no one else can go down there. Manny and Ellie welcome Peaches into their icy world and admit that Sid did a good job looking after Momma's kids (though Manny tells Diego that he will never let Sid baby-sit Peaches). Diego decides to remain with the pack.
It was released on 1st July 2009.As of August 12, 2009. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 44% of critics gave positive reviews based on 140 reviews with an average score of 5.4/10. It is the second highest-grossing picture of 2009 behind Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and the second highest gross for an animation, behind Shrek 2.
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