Kamis, 10 Juni 2010
Green Zone
War, Thriller, Action
USA / English
Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) is behind enemy lines inside Baghdad and must fight for survival in order to capture the notorious General Al-Rawi (Yigal Naor). When Miller begins his duty he is dedicated to the military operation, and motivated to track down Iraqi leaders and discover weapons of mass destruction. However, as he the story unwinds and Miller begins to analyze his military intel, he transforms as a soldier. Miller discovers the intel may all not be true, and falls into a tug of war between telling the world what he really knows and the duties of a good soldier.
You Don't Know Jack
Drama, Biography
USA / English
Dr. Jack Kevorkian (Al Pacino) is well known today as a champion of assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, but his career began without that fame. As a one time pathologist, the doctor who became known as Dr. Death, begins offering death counseling services with the help of his friend Neal Nicol (John Goodman) and sister Margo Janus (Brenda Vaccaro). He quickly gains a following, with people on his side such as Hemlock Society activist Janet Good (Susan Sarandon), and attorney Geoffrey Fieger (Danny Huston). Of course he also earns a lot of negative attention and repeated attempts to prosecute him for his efforts, but Fieger manages to keep him clean and allow him the opportunity to work towards changing laws about the right to die.
When In Rome
Comedy, Romance
USA / English
Art and life do not always imitate each other. Such is the case for art curator Beth (Kristen Bell), a beautiful woman who has no luck in love. When she meets Nick (Josh Duhamel), who is smitten with her, she dismisses him too. In an effort to find the right man, she reverses the coins in the fountain concept by taking five coins out of the water. She is then magically followed from Rome to New York by the men who threw the coins into the Fountain of Love, looking for romance. The result is not much better. Suitors show up at her New York City residence, and not one is to her liking, much to the chagrin of her father (Don Johnson). Her boss at the Guggenheim, Celeste (Anjelica Huston), is not any help.
Unthinkable
Thriller
USA / English
Steven Arthur Younger (Michael Sheen) was a nuclear expert employed by the US government, who changed his ways. He converted to Islam and became a "radical" or "extremist" in the views of many Americans. As a result of his position with the government, Younger gets his hands on some nuclear material, and he plants devices in three separate cities. Younger is found and arrested, but will not give up the locations of the devices. FBI agent Helen Brody (Carrie-Ann Moss) is called on to interrogate Younger, along with a man known only as H (Samuel L. Jackson), who has a reputation for getting results in interrogation, using whatever means necessary. With the two interrogators on the case, can they find a way to get answers out of Younger before his devices go off in 3 American cities?
From Paris With Love
Thriller, Action
USA / English
A state department functionary with dreams of becoming a superspy who is named James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) becomes involved with a thuggish and violent spy named Charlie Wax (John Travolta). Working out of the office of Ambassador Bennington (Richard Durden) in Paris, Reece has a propensity for prejudice against terrorists and anyone who looks like one, usually appalling Reece with his snide put-downs of Chinese, Arabs, and Iranians. As a protégé to a man with a license to kill, Reece learns all too quickly how to dispatch any suspicious figure lurking around Paris for a terror cell that wants to attack a humanitarian group eager to feed hungry Africans.
The 41 Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall
Comedy
USA / English
Story Follows Andy, who needs to hook up with a hottie, pronto, because he hasn’t had sex in… well, forever – and his luck isn’t the only thing that’s hard. His equally horny teenage roommates also need it superbad, and with the help of their nerdy pal, McAnalovin’ and his fake I.D., they may tap more than just a keg. “The 40 Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It,” is spoof of Judd Apatow movies. The R-rated film also spoofs “Slumdog Millionaire” and was actually called “Slumdog Virgin” at one point before the filmmakers came up with the other brilliant title.
I Love You Phillip Morris
Comedy
USA / English
A sleazy conman named Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) lives a lie with his wife Debbie (Leslie Mann) and daughter. He is actually a closet-case gay man who engages in secret encounters, but only when put into prison does he allow the true self to emerge. In jail he meets Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor), a soft-spoken and slightly effeminate Texan, and, of course, true love ensues. As a result, Russell plans a con job to give Phillip Morris a get out of jail opportunity. Once a free man, Morris can join his lover Russell by creating new identities and scamming people with their frauds. Their lives together merely continue the deceptions by which they have always lived.
Holy Water
Comedy
USA / English
The village of Kilcoulins Leap was once a thriving spa town, and was home to a famous Holy Well, but now offers little by way of employment for its people, and its decline seems inexorable. When local Postie, Podger Byrnes, comes up with a plan to hijack a consignment of Viagra, and sell it on the open market in Amsterdam, his friends are desperate enough to try it. Not counting on the muscular response of Viagra’s makers, the boys panic and hide the lorry load of Viagra down the town’s Holy Well.
She's Out My League
Comedy, Romance
USA / English
Ordinary and pedestrian Kirk (Jay Baruchel) is an airport security worker, whose social network more or less is a group of dull guys he works with. When he comes to the rescue of a beautiful young woman named Molly (Alice Eve) while she is in airport distress, he becomes smitten. Finding and returning her cell phone opens up a possible dating relationship. His friends like Jack (Mike Vogel) and Stainer (T.J. Miller) feel he has gone above his station, even though he has failed with a girl Marnie (Lindsay Sloane) who was on his level. Molly may have jettisoned the usual scale, having found a simple and funny fellow preferable to an egotistical one. Kirk plans to try his luck.
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