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Weird Science (1985)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Michael Hall | Ilan Mitchell-Smith | Bill Paxton | Robert Downey Jr. | Robert Rusler | Vernon Wells | Britt Leach | Michael Berryman | Ivor Barry | John Kapelos | Fred D. Scott | Vince Townsend Jr. | Chino 'Fats' Williams | Wallace Langham | Johnny Timko
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Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Thier desperation to be liked leads them to “create” a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, who’s purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men. On their road to become accepted they encounter many hilarious obstacles which gives the movie an overall sense of silliness.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Segel | Russell Brand | Bill Hader | Jack McBrayer | Taylor Wily | Davon McDonald | Steve Landesberg | Jonah Hill | Paul Rudd | Kala Alexander | Kalani Robb | Branscombe Richmond | Billy Green Bush | William Baldwin | Jason Bateman
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Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah’s traveling to the same resort as her ex … and she’s bringing along her new boyfriend.

21 (2008)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Sturgess | Kevin Spacey | Aaron Yoo | Jacob Pitts | Laurence Fishburne | Jack McGee | Josh Gad | Sam Golzari | Jack Gilpin | Butch Williams | Jeffrey Ma | Frank Patton | Steven Richard Vezina | Chaska T. Werner | Kyle Morris
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

Factotum (2005)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: France | Germany | Norway | Sweden | USA
Actors: Matt Dillon | Lili Taylor | Marisa Tomei | Fisher Stevens | Didier Flamand | Adrienne Shelly | Karen Young | Thomas Lyons | Dean Brewington | James Cada | James Michael Detmar | Kurt Schweickhardt | Dee Noah | James Noah | Michael Egan
Directors: Bent Hamer
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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of “Factotum” author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don’t interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.

Moonlight Mile (2002)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal | Dustin Hoffman | Susan Sarandon | Ellen Pompeo | Aleksia Landeau | Richard Messing | Lev Friedman | Bob Clendenin | Jim Fyfe | Mary Ellen Trainor | Richard Fancy | Marcia Mitzman Gaven | Allan Corduner | Holly Hunter | Careena Melia
Directors: Brad Silberling
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A young man lingers in the family home of his fiancee, after her accidental death. While grieving along with her parents and drawn into legal issues presented by a district attorney seeking justice for the family, he finds himself falling in love with another woman, against his own best intentions.

My Blueberry Nights (2007)

Friday, April 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: China | France | Hong Kong
Actors: Norah Jones | Jude Law | David Strathairn | Natalie Portman | Hector A. Leguillow | Rachel Weisz | Nate Bynum | Chad R. Davis | Trent Dee | Geoff Falk | Bill Hollis | Benjamin Kanes | Miller Pipkin | Markus Seaberry | Kenon Walker
Directors: Kar Wai Wong
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A young woman takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the way.

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Robert Duvall | Diane Keaton | Robert De Niro | John Cazale | Talia Shire | Lee Strasberg | Michael V. Gazzo | G.D. Spradlin | Richard Bright | Gastone Moschin | Tom Rosqui | Bruno Kirby | Frank Sivero | Francesca De Sapio
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

The Apartment (1960)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Lemmon | Shirley MacLaine | Fred MacMurray | Ray Walston | Jack Kruschen | David Lewis | Hope Holiday | Joan Shawlee | Naomi Stevens | Johnny Seven | Joyce Jameson | Willard Waterman | David White | Edie Adams | Benny Burt
Directors: Billy Wilder
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On 1st November 1959, in New York, C.C. “Bud” Baxter is a popular clerk of “Consolidate Life”, an insurance company with 31,259 employees. The secret of his success is a well located apartment where he lives that he sublets for his superiors, making him climb to the executive position of 2nd Administrative Assistant very early. He likes the elevator girl Fran Kubelik, a reserved woman considered a “jackpot” among the executives. Fran is the secret lover of the director Jeff D. Sheldrake, a married man that seduced her convincing that he will divorce his wife to stay with her. When Fran tries to commit suicide in Baxter’s apartment after a meeting with Jeff, she stays with Baxter while recovering, and he falls in love for her. Later he has to come up to a decision between his excellent position in the company and his love.

Jackie Brown (1997)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denise Crosby | Pam Grier | Samuel L. Jackson | Robert Forster | Bridget Fonda | Michael Keaton | Robert De Niro | Michael Bowen | Chris Tucker | Lisa Gay Hamilton | Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr. | Hattie Winston | David Haig | Aimee Graham | Ellis Williams | Tangie Ambrose
Directors: Quentin Tarantino
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Jackie Brown is the name of a flight attendant who gets caught smuggling her boss’ gun money on the airline she works for. Luckily for her, the Fed Ray Nicolet and the LA Cop Mark Dargus decide to team up in order to arrest the arms dealer she works for, whose name they don’t even know. Here’s when she has to choose one way: tell Nicolet and Dargus about Ordell Robbie (the arms dealer) and get her freedom -except that if Ordell suspects you’re talking about him, you’re dead- or keep her mouth shut and do some time. That’s when she meets Max Cherry -her bail bondsman-, a late fifties, recently separated, burnt-out man, who falls in love with her. Then Jackie comes up with a plan to play the Feds off against Ordell and the guys he works with -Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston, among others- and walk off with their money. But she needs Max’s help. No one is going to stand in the way of his million dollar payoff…

Oxygen (1999)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Maura Tierney | Adrien Brody | James Naughton | Laila Robins | Terry Kinney | Paul Calderon | Dylan Baker | Olek Krupa | Frankie Faison | Slavko Stimac | Michael Henderson | Robert Shepard | Eddie Perez | Gene Canfield | Christopher J. Quinn
Directors: Richard Shepard
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A masochistic cop (Maura Tierney), who hides her predilection from her cop husband (Terry Kinney), gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini (Adrien Brody), who has kidnapped a rich woman (Laila Robins) and has buried her somewhere in Manhattan while demanding a ransom from her tycoon husband (James Naughton). Failure to pay the ransom within 24 hours will lead the kidnapper to abandoning the woman. Dylan Baker also appears as the fed that is assigned to the case.