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May 11, 2009

Hurt Locker, The

Sypnosis

Find a bomb, defuse it. Find a bomb, defuse it. The job is simple enough, but the room for error is zero. Fail to defuse it, and die. This is the daily work of the United States Army's Bravo Company. They patrol Baghdad during one of the Iraq war's most hellish times, trying each day not to get blown up.
James (Jeremy Renner) joins a tightly knit bomb-disposal unit where Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) is already the intelligence expert. James, by contrast, is a real cowboy. Even in the hulking shell of his bomb suit, his swagger is obvious. He has successfully disabled 873 devices, approaching the job with the no-nonsense grit of a Bigelow hero—and the recklessness too.
But as the unit faces tougher challenges with each new bomb, the men start to fight James's bullish methods. They have only thirty-eight days left in their rotation. They want to live to see day thirty-nine.

Cast
Jeremy Renner - Staff Sgt. William James
Anthony Mackie - Sgt, J.T. Sanborn
Brian Geraghty - Specialist Owen Eldrige
Guy Pearce - Sgt. Matt Thompson
Ralph Fiennes - Contractor Team Leader
David Morse - Col. Reed
Evangeline Lilly - Connie James
Christian Camargo - Col. John Cambridge
Christopher Sayegh - "Beckham"
Toby Kebbell - Johnny Quid
Jeremy Piven - Roman
Chris "Ludacris" Bridges - Mickey
Jimi Mistry - Councillor
Matt King - Cookie
Nonso Anozie - Tank

Crew
Kathryn Bigelow - Director, Producer
Greg Shapiro - Producer
Mark Boal - Producer, Screenwriter

Sky Crawlers, The


Synopsis
From Mamoru Oshii, the world-acclaimed director of Ghost In The Shell comes an award-winning story of an exciting but endless war with heroes too young to understand the reality of their battles.
A group of eternally young fighter pilots known as Kildren experience the sudden loss of innocence as they battle the enemy in astonishing dogfights above the clouds. With his only childhood memory consisting of intense flight training, the fearless teenage pilot Yuichi's dogfights coexist with his struggle to find his missing past. When his beautiful, young female commander Suito is reluctant to discuss the fate of the pilot that Yuichi is replacing - or the strangely perfect condition of that pilot's former aircraft - Yuichi's curiosity becomes heightened.


Cast & Crew
Directors:
• Mamoru Oshii

Zombie Strippers


Synopsis
They'll Dance For A Fee, But Devour You For Free.

When a secret government agency lets out a deadly chemical virus causing the reanimation of the dead, the first place to get hit is Rhino's, a hot underground strip club. As one of the strippers gets the virus, she turns into a supernatural, flesh-eating zombie stripper, making her the hit of the club. Do the rest of the girls fight the temptation to be like the star stripper, even if there is no turning back?

Also featuring Roxy Saint (of the Goth band Roxy Saint and the Blackouts) and Ultimate Fighting Champion Tito Ortiz, Zombie Strippers is a sexy, bloody, hilarious good time!

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Joey Medina
• Shamron Moore
• Roxy Saint
• Jenna Jameson
• Robert Englund

Writers:
• Jay Lee

Producers:
• Angela Lee
• Andrew Golov
• Larry Schapiro

Directors:
• Jay Lee

Sex Drive


Synopsis
Warning: Ruder. Cruder. Nuder.

Ian has a decision to make: stay home and stay a virgin or drive 800 miles to lose it with an online hottie. Decision made. Now Ian (Josh Zuckerman) and his horndog buddy Lance (Clark Duke) are off on a sex safari... with "BFF" baggage Felicia (Amanda Crew) in tow. Their epic quest features a stolen GTO, kinky trailer park sex, a prison fight, topless Abstinence Xtreme dancers, a smartass Amish super-mechanic (Seth Green) and his drunken, boob-flashing friends, a gun-wielding Mexican donut and Ian's "d-bag" brother (James Marsden) in hot pursuit.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Amanda Crew
• James Marsden
• Seth Green
• Clark Duke
• Josh Zuckerman

Writers:
• Sean Anders
• John Morris

Producers:
• Bob Levy
• Leslie Morgenstein
• John Morris

Living Proof


Synopsis
Top-rated movie based on a true story and the book Her-2! Harry Connick Jr. stars as Dr. Dennis Slamon at a breakthrough time in his career. He helped develop a new experimental drug called Herceptin, which he hopes will become a revolutionary treatment in the fight against breast cancer. However, when funding for his project is cut, Slamon must turn to philanthropists Lilly Tartikoff and Ron Perelman to help make his life's most important work a reality. With the backing of his new supporters, Slamon continues to perfect his treatment, but his new drug proves that while it has the ability to give life, it does not work for everyone. This gut-wrenching true story explores one doctor's difficult struggle to find a cancer treatment that can save thousands of lives while giving meaning to his own life.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Swoosie Kurtz
• Bernadette Peters
• Amy Madigan
• Regina King
• Jennifer Coolidge
• Amanda Bynes
• Angie Harmon
• Tammy Blanchard
• Trudie Styler
• Paula Cale Lisbe
• Harry Connick Jr.
• John Benjamin Hickey

Writers:
• Vivienne Radkoff

Producers:
• Robert J. Wilson

Directors:
• Dan Ireland

Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai


Synopsis
Live By The Code. Die By The Code.

East meets West in this hip-hop infused samurai-gangster pic in which Forest Whitaker plays a professional killer who goes by the name of Ghost Dog and who lives by the age-old code of the Samurai.

When Ghost Dog's code is dangerously betrayed by the dysfunctional mafia family that occasionally employs him, he must find a way to defend himself without breaking the code of the Samurai.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Forest Whitaker
• Henry Silva
• Richard Portnow
• Cliff Gorman
• Tricia Vessey
• Camille Winbush
• Victor Argo
• Isaach De Bankole
• Gene Ruffini
• John Tormey

Writers:
• Jim Jarmusch

Producers:
• Jim Jarmusch
• Richard Guay

Directors:
• Jim Jarmusch

Cargo 200


Synopsis
The film, a gritty thriller based on actual events that becomes the blackest of black comedies, is set in 1984, provincial Russia, where the gloom of Soviet life has reached extreme depths. Balabanov presents an unremittingly dark and unflinching portrait of the decline of the Soviet era. The title refers to the Soviet term for military corpses returning from Afghanistan. Guaranteed to shock even the most strong-stomached of moviegoers, Cargo 200 is one of the most controversial movies ever to emerge from Russia.

Cast & Crew
Writers:
• Alexey Balabanov

Directors:
• Alexey Balabanov

Eden Lake


Synopsis
Like a bad dream turned worst nightmare, Eden Lake is a "relentlessly tense and immaculately paced" (Twitch Film) horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival. Eden Lake is "fierce, thought-provoking...and genuinely shocking" (Time Out London).

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Kelly Reilly
• Michael Fassbender

Writers:
• James Watkins

Producers:
• Christian Colson
• Richard Holmes

Directors:
• James Watkins

May 6, 2009

Showdown, The


Synopsis
US Marshal Canfield finds himself up against the local gang of horse thieves and gunslingers in a showdown to save his love Dixie and her son from death.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Jace Fletcher
• Ann Hagemann
• Tim Hopper
• Justin Fletcher
• Bob Handegan
• Bill Homel
• Bob Krouse

Writers:
• Jim Conover

Producers:
• Jim Conover

Directors:
• Jim Conover

Sam's Lake


Synopsis
Inspired by a murder-mystery-turned-legend surrounding a massacre near "Sam's Lake," the film follows Sam, a young woman who, every summer, returns home to the secluded lakeside cottage she grew up in, to reconnect with her traditions and memories of the past deep within an isolated forest. This year's guests are a group of hip, young urbanites, who join Sam on her annual trip. But when Sam and her childhood friend and local to the area, Jesse, take the group on an adventure to revisit the site of the murder they all come face to face with the terrifying legend of "Sam's Lake."

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Sandrine Holt
• Fay Masterson
• William Gregory Lee

Writers:
• Andrew C. Erin

Producers:
• Mark Morgan
• Guy Oseary

Directors:
• Andrew C. Erin

My Bloody Valentine


Synopsis
Ten years ago in the town of Harmony, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. But Harry Warden wanted revenge. Exactly one year later, on Valentine's Day, he woke up...and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed. Now, after years of peace, something from Harmony's dark past has returned. Wearing a miner's mask and armed with a pickaxe, an unstoppable killer is on the loose. And as his footsteps come ever closer, the townspeople realize in terror that it just might be Harry Warden who's come back...

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Jaime King
• Jensen Ackles
• Kerr Smith

Writers:
• Todd Farmer
• Zane Smith

Directors:
• Patrick Lussier

Chandni Chowk to China

***Please note this movie is spoken in Hindi with English subtitles***

Synopsis
Have you ever dreamed of being more than your circumstances? Sidhu (Askay Kumar) longs to escape his dreary existence cutting vegetables at a road-side food stand in Chandni Chowk, one of the oldest and busiest markets in Delhi, India. When two strangers from China proclaim he is the reincarnation of a Chinese war hero, Sidhu envisions fame, fortune and adventure. Journeying with them back to China, Sidhu meets the alluring Sakhi (Deepika Padukone) and love blossoms. But can it survive the vicious smuggler, Hojo (Gordon Liu) and his cadre of kung-fu assassins?
Megalomaniacal villains, crazy inventors and Chinese mystics all get thrown together in this joyful, uplifting adventure full of beautiful landscapes, attention-grabbing songs, and high energy dancing. Featuring top Bollywood actors Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone and produced by acclaimed father and son duo, Ramesh and Rohan Sippy, Chandni Chowk To China promises to excite.


Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Akshay Kumar
• Deepika Padukone
• Mithun Chakraborty
• Ranvir Shorey
• Roger Yuan

Writers:
• Rajat Aroraa
• Shridhar Raghavan

Producers:
• Rohan Sippy
• Mukesh Talreja

Directors:
• Nikhil Advani

Defiance


Synopsis
Daniel Craig (James Bond: The Quantum of Solace) stars as Tuvia Bielski, an ordinary citizen turned hero, in this action-packed epic of family, honor, vengeance and salvation. Defiance is a riveting adventure that showcases the extraordinary true story of the Bielski brothers, simple farmers - outnumbered and outgunned - who turned a group of war refugees into powerful freedom fighters. Tuvia, along with his unyielding brother, Zus (Liev Schreiber, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), motivate hundreds of civilians to join their ranks against the Nazi regime. Their "Inspirational story" (David Densby, The New Yorker) is a true testament to the human spirit.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Jamie Bell
• Alexa Davalos
• Liev Schreiber
• Daniel Craig

Writers:
• Edward Zwick
• Clayton Frohman

Directors:
• Edward Zwick