M3RLIN-CINEMA: 04/07/10

Rabu, 07 Juli 2010

Date Night

Comedy, Romance, Action
USA / English

Phil (Steve Carell) and Claire Foster (Tina Fey) are a loving couple and have two kinds. They try dating each other every week though it does not add any romance to their life due to both of them being exhausted and burdened. After the divorce of two of their friends, Brad (Mark Ruffalo) and Haley (Kristen Wiig), they are scared about their marriage and future. Phil decides to add romance to their life by going to Manhattan’s hottest new restaurant for their date. However, they do not have reservation and thus enter the restaurant as the Tripplehorns who had a reservation but did not come. The Tripplehorns turn out to be thieves who have police after them. Now Phil and Claire have to save their lives along with their marriage. However, they eventually discover their love for each other.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Crime, Mystery, Thriller
USA / English

Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), a middle-aged investigative journalist who writes for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case against corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström (Stefan Sauk) and is sentenced to three months in jail. Before beginning his sentence, Blomkvist is hired by Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), the aged former CEO of a group of companies owned by a wealthy dynasty. Vanger wants him to solve the disappearance, thirty-seven years ago, of Vanger’s great-niece when she was sixteen. Vanger is convinced that the girl was killed by someone in his family. Blomkvist is ultimately helped in his quest by Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace), a young punk who has been victimized or misunderstood by those in authority throughout her whole life, but who is also a brilliant computer hacker and has a photographic memory. The unlikely couple become a classic detective pair.

Saint John Of Las Vegas

Comedy, Drama
USA / English

A compulsive gambler attempts to cure his addiction by moving from Las Vegas to Albuquerque and working at an auto insurance company, only to find old temptations cropping up once again when he’s sent out to investigate a dubious car accident just outside of Sin City. After a string of bad luck at the tables, John (Steve Buscemi) decides to give up gambling and take a shot at a “normal” life. Arriving in Albuquerque and landing a job at an auto insurance company, John goes to work for Mr. Townsend (Peter Dinklage), who pairs him with the company’s top fraud debunker, Virgil (Romany Malco), and sends them out on an investigation together. While John is eager to get a promotion, he’s reluctant to go anywhere near Las Vegas, and before he leaves he strikes up a tenuous romance with his eccentric co-worker, Jill (Sarah Silverman)…

Hamlet

Drama
USA / English

Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) is an updated, very modern version of the Shakespearean character, living in New York City and surrounded by technology and skyscrapers. He yearns for Ophelia (Julia Stiles) while mourning his dead father (Sam Shepard) and being hurt by the new relationship between his mother, Gertrude (Diane Venora), and stepfather, Claudius (Kyle MachLachlan). Hamlet's friend Horatio (Karl Geary) helps him while Hamlet also clashes with Ophelia's brother Laertes (Liev Schreiber) and their hapless father, Polonius (Bill Murray). Also, Hamlet's friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Steve Zahn and Dechen Thurman) are duped by Gertrude and Claudius into an attempt to betray Hamlet, who is trying to find out how his father really died.

Cop Out

Comedy, Crime, Action
USA / English

Mismatched partners on the New York City police force actually blend together as a team. Jimmy Monroe (Bruce Willis) and Paul Hodges (Tracy Morgan) are separated by race and age and attitude, but have a chemistry that puts them in great tradition of sidekicks with lethal weapons. When Jimmy’s baseball card collection goes missing, they team up unofficially and off-duty to find the culprit in the memorabilia business. The thief is Dave (Seann William Scott) who finds himself victim of unorthodox buddy justice usually reserved for drug dealers like Poh Boy (Guillermo Diaz). Already in trouble with Captain Romans (Sean Cullen) for their lackadaisical approach to the job, the cops spend forty-eight hours to solve the crime.

In My Sleep

Thriller / Drama
USA / English

Marcus (played by Philip Winchester) wakes up in a cemetery with no memory of how he got there. He suffers from parasomnia, a sleep disorder which causes him to do things while asleep which he cannot remember, and so is plagued with questions: “Where was I last night? Who was I with?” Hoping to deal with his use of one-night-stands to escape his problems, Marcus joins a Sexaholics Anonymous support group, where SA sponsor Derek (Michael Badalucco) helps him work through his problems. His disorder takes a turn for the worse when he wakes up and finds himself covered in blood with a knife at his side and the police banging at his door. In a panic he hides the evidence and then learns from the police that Ann (Kelly Overton), wife of his best friend Justin (Tim Draxl), was found stabbed to death. Marcus is terrified to put together the pieces of how she might have been murdered. A series of mysterious phone calls make him believe that someone is watching him. Desperate to figure out what happens after he goes to sleep at night, he investigates his own nocturnal activities. His quest for the truth ends in a shocking revelation.

The Runaways

Drama, Music
USA / English

The Runaways were the ground-breaking, all girl, teenage rock band of the 1970s. Friends, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie went from rebellious Southern California kids to rock stars of the now legendary group that paved the way for future generations of girl bands. Under the Svengali-like influence of rock impresario Kim Fowley the group became an outrageous success and a family of misfits. With its tough-chick image and raw talent, the band quickly earned a name for itself-and so did its two leads.

Fame

Comedy, Family, Musical
USA / English

Fame is a remake of the 1980 film of the same name. It follows the students of the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. The students are all aspiring and talented actors, dancers, singers, and musicians. The film shows the same group of students, particularly pianist Denise Dupree (Naturi Naughton) and dancer Kevin Barrett (Paul McGill), as nervous hopefuls at auditions, insecure freshman, confused sophomores, more put together juniors, and then excited seniors ready to take on the world of the arts. The teens are aided in their search for fame by their teachers, including dance instructor Ms. Kraft (Bebe Neuwirth), vocal coach Mrs. Rowan (Megan Mullally), and music teacher Mr. Cranston (Kelsey Grammer).

Greenberg

Comedy, Drama
USA / English

Roger Greenberg [Ben Stiller], single, fortyish and at a crossroads in his life, finds himself in Los Angeles, house-sitting for six weeks for his more successful/married-with-children brother. In search of a place to restart his life, Greenberg tries to reconnect with old friends including his former bandmate Ivan [Rhys Ifans]. But old friends aren’t necessarily still best friends, and Greenberg soon finds himself spending more and more time with his brother’s personal assistant Florence [Greta Gerwig], an aspiring singer and also something of a lost soul. Despite his best attempts not to be drawn in, Greenberg and Florence manage to forge a connection, and Greenberg realizes he may at last have found a reason to be happy

The Losers

Adventure, Mystery, Action
USA / English

The members of an elite U.S. Special Forces are sent on a extremely dangerous mission to "search and destroy" in Bolivia. The team featuring Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Roque (Idris Elba), Jensen (Chris Evans), Pooch (Columbus Short) and Cougar (Oscar Jaenada) gets betrayed by no else than their superior, a shameless boss called Max (Jason Patric). The team must work together to reveal that they're not dead to the world in one of the most treacherous environments in the world, the Bolivian jungle. They get a special backup from a mysterious but gorgeous woman called Aisha. A battle featuring high-tech gadgets, powerful weapons and amazing action scenes begins.

Micmacs

Comedy, Crime
USA / French

Bazil (Dany Boon) wants revenge. His target is a large corporation that manufactured the landmine that killed his father on a military mission and, if that is not cause enough, the same company that made the bullets that severely wounded Bazil, an innocent victim of a drive-by shooter. With one bullet embedded into his brain, Bazil has some disability with speech, and the pressure of the ammunition on his cortex could be causing his emotional turmoil. At the least he is suffering psychologically. He targets the company executive Nicholas Thibault de Fenouillet (Andre Dussolier) and Francois Marconi (Nicolas Marie) who are not exactly innocent victims. But, Bazil assembles a motley crew of eccentrics to help him carry out the mission.