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The Haunting In Connecticut

2009-06-28T02:45:00.000-07:00

The Haunting in Connecticut Movie Review - Plot Based on a true story, Lionsgate’s The Haunting in Connecticut charts one family’s terrifying, real-life encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural. When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner’s clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now unspeakable terror awaits, when Jonah, the boy who communicated with the powerful dark forces of the supernatural, returns to unleash a new kind of horror on the innocent and unsuspecting family. The Haunting in Connecticut Movie Review - cast Virginia Madsen as Sara Campbell Kyle Gallner as Matt Campbell Martin Donovan as Peter Campbell Amanda Crew as Wendy Elias Koteas as Reverend Nicholas Popescu Michael Glen Forrester as Demon The Haunting in Connecticut Movie Review - Production Directed by Peter Cornwell Produced by Scott Niemeyer Norm Waitt Steve Whitney Paul Brooks Daniel Farrands Phyllis Laing Wendy Rhoads Andrew Trapani Written by Adam Simon Tim Metcalfe Distributed by Lionsgate, Gold Circle Films Release date March 27, 2009 Country United States Language English

The Haunting in Connecticut Movie Review - cast
Virginia Madsen as Sara Campbell
Kyle Gallner as Matt Campbell
Martin Donovan as Peter Campbell
Amanda Crew as Wendy
Elias Koteas as Reverend Nicholas Popescu
Michael Glen Forrester as Demon

The Haunting in Connecticut Movie Review - Production
Directed by Peter Cornwell
Produced by Scott Niemeyer
Norm Waitt
Steve Whitney
Paul Brooks
Daniel Farrands
Phyllis Laing
Wendy Rhoads
Andrew Trapani
Written by Adam Simon
Tim Metcalfe
Distributed by Lionsgate, Gold Circle Films
Release date March 27, 2009
Country United States
Language English

valkyrie

2009-06-28T02:39:00.000-07:00

Plot
During World War II, Wehrmacht Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) is severely wounded in Tunisia, and is evacuated home to Nazi Germany. Meanwhile, Major General Henning von Tresckow (Branagh) attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler by smuggling a bomb aboard the Führer’s private airplane. The bomb, however, fails to detonate and Tresckow safely retrieves it to conceal his intentions. After learning that the Gestapo has arrested Major Hans Oster, he orders General Olbricht (Nighy) to find a replacement. After recruiting von Stauffenberg into the German Resistance, Olbricht delivers von Stauffenberg to a meeting of the secret committee which has coordinated previous attempts on Hitler’s life. The members include General Ludwig Beck (Stamp), Dr. Carl Goerdeler (McNally), and Erwin von Witzleben (Schofield). The Colonel is stunned to learn that no plans exist for after Hitler’s assassination.
After a bombing raid on Berlin, he lights upon using the plan Operation Valkyrie, which involves the deployment of the Reserve Army to maintain order in the event of a national emergency. The plotters carefully redraft the plan so that they can dismantle the Nazi regime after assassinating Hitler. Realizing that only General Fromm (Wilkinson), the head of the Reserve Army, can initiateValkyrie, they offer him a position as head of the Wehrmacht in a Post-Nazi Germany and recruit him into the fold. With the rewritten plan needing to be signed off by Hitler (Bamber), von Stauffenberg visits the Führer at his Berghof estate in Bavaria. In the presence of his inner circle, Hitler praises von Stauffenberg’s heroism in North Africa and signs off on the plan without fully examining the modifications.
At Goerdeler’s insistence, von Stauffenberg is ordered to assassinate both Hitler and SS head Himmler at the bunker Wolf’s Lair. At a final briefing, Colonel Mertz von Quirnheim (Berkel) instructs the committee members in how to use pencil detonators. von Stauffenberg also reaches out to General Fellgiebel (Izzard), who controls all communications at Wolf’s Lair, to cut off communications after the bomb blast. On July 15, 1944, von Stauffenberg attends a strategy meeting at Wolf’s Lair with the bomb in his briefcase, but with Himmler not present at the meeting, von Stauffenberg does not get the go-ahead from the committee leaders until the meeting is over. Meanwhile, the Reserve Army is mobilized by Olbricht, unbeknownst to Fromm, to stand by. With no action taken, von Stauffenberg safely extracts himself and the bomb from the bunker, and the Reserve Army is ordered to stand down, believing that the mobilization was training. Enraged, von Stauffenberg goes to the committee to protest the indecisiveness and blames the bungling of Goerdeler, who has been selected to be chancellor after the coup. When Goerdeler demands that von Stauffenberg be relieved, Beck informs him that the SS is searching for him and implores him to leave the country immediately.
On July 20, 1944, von Stauffenberg and his adjutant Lieutenant Haeften (Parker) return to the Wolf’s Lair. To von Stauffenberg’s dismay, he discovers that the conference is being held in an open-window summer barrack, whereas the plotters had intended to detonate the bomb within the walls of the bunker for maximum damage. While his adjuntant waits with a getaway car, von Stauffenberg leaves the briefcase at the meeting. With the bomb armed, von Stauffenberg leaves the barrack for the getaway car. When the bomb explodes, von Stauffenberg is certain that Hitler is dead and flees the Wolf’s Lair. Before shutting down communications, Fellgiebel calls Mertz about the explosion but cannot clearly convey whether or not the Führer is dead.
As von Stauffenberg flies back to Berlin, Olbricht refuses to mobilize the Reserve Army until he knows without a doubt that Hitler is dead. Behind Olbricht’s back, Mertz forges his signature and issues the orders anyway. With Operation Valkyrie underway, von Stauffenberg and his fellow plotters order the arrest of Nazi party leaders and SS officers and begin to take control of Berlin’s government quarter, which will allow them to command the entire Reich. Rumors reach Berlin that Hitler survived the blast, but von Stauffenberg dismisses them as SS propaganda. Meanwhile, Fromm learns from Field Marshal Keitel that Hitler is still alive. The General refuses to join the plotters, resulting in his arrest. When Hitler reaches the Reserve Army by telephone, the SS officers are released and the plotters in turn are besieged inside the Bendlerblock. The headquarters staff flees, but the ringleaders are arrested. Most are eventually tried and executed, while some commit suicide. Von Stauffenberg is executed by a firing squad.

Valkyrie Movie Review -Directed by
Bryan Singer

Stop Dreaming Start Action

2009-06-20T17:00:00.001-07:00

this is the post about SEO contest, haha
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the title are Stop Dreaming Start Action
i hear the winner will get US$ 2500, small prices, but its big in indonesia
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i robot 2004

2009-06-20T16:49:00.000-07:00

Like the Matrix and many other major movies, I, Robot has its foundations in philosophy, in its case the question of epistemology(The study of knowledge itself and computers being self-aware).

Will Smith is Spooner, a cop with an apparent attitude problem. Set in the future, I Robot sees Spooner embarking on a puzzling case of suicide where he believes it was actually murder. By a robot.

In this future society (With more than a homage to Blade Runner) robots are used as slaves of humans in all facets of life. They have 3 rules of conduct hard coded into them which essentially state they cannot harm humans. So the postulation by Spooner that a robot killed a man after a history where no robot had ever committed so much as a mugging presents a big problem to both his peers and his boss.

Suffice to say the story's plot thickens and a number of twists and turns emerge before the truth is revealed.

Will Smith is an absolute surprise here. Having previously been a light-hearted comedy actor he puts in a truly excellent and believable shift as a wise-cracking cop with a dark past.

However, the real star is the special effects and visual trickery. Impossible but ingenious camerawork and some jawdropping animation really make I, Robot feel truly alive and utterly believable, while never being dull for a second.

It arguably doesn't delve too deep into its philosophical undertones, but it doesn't really need to. It's a traditional Hollywood blockbuster action flick but it unquestionably has a brain and is a clear cut above the likes of Armageddon et al.

Very enjoyable.

alien 1979

2009-06-20T16:46:00.000-07:00

The beginning of one of the greatest series of all time. This film will always remain a classic. It's scary, influential and insanely entertaining. Not just that but Ridley Scott actually has a great sense of style and mood and he plays with that a lot, to make us shiver. There's also an interesting mystery surrounding the Alien which we know practically nothing about. Sigourney Weaver is just as powerful as usual and really brings strength to the film; they make one. Last but not least, the musical score. Wow! It's fantastic. I think the Alien series is known for that aspect as well. Let's hope they'll continue the series and dang we need it all on DVD !

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drag me to hell

2009-06-20T16:44:00.000-07:00

There's no truth in the title. Drag Me to Hell is horror-movie heaven. Director Sam Raimi, breaking the shackles of mainstream success with his Spider-Man trilogy, returns to the down-and-dirty cheapies that spawned him with The Evil Dead in 1983. The result, again co-written with his brother Ivan Raimi, plays like a gross-out competition put on by very talented frat boys. I couldn't be happier. The laughs are as explosive as the screams. The loudest shriek comes from the PG-13 rating being squeezed of its last link to good taste. There's less blood and fewer f-bombs, but the movie never stops spewing scares at you.

(Watch Peter Travers' video review of Drag Me to Hell)

Alison Lohman was an 11th-hour replacement for Juno's Ellen Page as Christine, a bank officer who denies a mortgage to Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver), an old hag with yellow, rotting teeth. Wrong move. When Mrs. G. dies, the curse of the Lamia (great name) kicks in. Lohman is the ultimate good sport. Poor Christine is slimed and penetrated in every orifice. Even her sweet fiancé (nice work from Justin Long) can't help. No tattling, or the Lamia will get me. But watch for the "here, kitty kitty" moment. Only those expecting elegant storytelling will be disappointed. Raimi's job is to keep us revolted and riveted. Consider the job done.

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100 movies to see before you die

2009-06-20T16:22:00.000-07:00

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100 Movies To See Before You Die
by The Yahoo! Movies Editorial Staff

Many movies are good, some are great, but only a select few can be called truly "essential." After heated discussions, long negotiations, and a shouting match or two, the staff at Yahoo! Movies has put together this list of the 100 films you must see before you die. To choose the titles for the list, we considered factors like historical importance and cultural impact. But we also selected films that we believe are the most thrilling, most dramatic, scariest, and funniest movies of all time. Some of these films you've seen, and some you may not have heard of, but we believe that each one is a timeless classic that you absolutely have to see.
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12 Angry Men (1957)

Directed By: Sidney Lumet

Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Directed By: Stanley Kubrick

Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
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The 400 Blows (1959)

Directed By: Francois Truffaut

Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffay

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8 ½ (1963)

Directed By: Federico Fellini

Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee

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The African Queen (1952)

Directed By: John Huston

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
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Alien (1979)

Directed By: Ridley Scott

Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright
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All About Eve (1950)

Directed By: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
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Annie Hall (1977)

Directed By: Woody Allen

Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
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Apocalypse Now (1979)

Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola

Starring: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall

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The Battle of Algiers (1967)

Directed By: Gillo Pontecorvo

Starring: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag

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The Bicycle Thief (1948)

Directed By: Vittorio De Sica

Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola

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Blade Runner (1982)

Directed By: Ridley Scott

Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
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Blazing Saddles (1974)

Directed By: Mel Brooks

Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
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Blow Up (1966)

Directed By: Michelangelo Antononi

Starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles
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Blue Velvet (1986)

Directed By: David Lynch

Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper

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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Directed By: Arthur Penn

Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
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Breathless (1960)

Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard

Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Directed By: David Lean

Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins,
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Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Directed By: Howard Hawks

Starring: Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Directed By: George Roy Hill

Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

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Casablanca (1942)

Directed By: Michael Curtiz

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
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Chinatown (1974)

Directed By: Roman Polanski

Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
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Citizen Kane (1941)

Directed By: Orson Welles

Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Directed By: Ang Lee

Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang

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Die Hard (1988)

Directed By: John McTiernan

Starring: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman

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Do the Right Thing (1989)

Directed By: Spike Lee

Starring: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

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Double Indemnity (1944)

Directed By: Billy Wilder

Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Directed By: Stanley Kubrick

Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
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Duck Soup (1933)

Directed By: Leo McCarey

Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Directed By: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Dee Wallace Stone, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore
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Enter the Dragon (1973)

Directed By: Robert Clouse

Starring: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly
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The Exorcist (1973)

Directed By: William Friedkin

Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair,

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Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)

Directed By: Amy Heckerling

Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold,
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The French Connection (1971)

Directed By: William Friedkin

Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider

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The Godfather (1972)

Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola

Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan,
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The Godfather, Part II (1974)

Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola

Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
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Goldfinger (1964)

Directed By: Guy Hamilton

Starring: Sean Connery, Honor Blackman

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)

Directed By: Sergio Leone

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
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Goodfellas (1990)

Directed By: Martin Scorsese

Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
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The Graduate (1967)

Directed By: Mike Nichols

Starring: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross,
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Grand Illusion (1938)

Directed By: Jean Renoir

Starring: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim
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Groundhog Day (1993)

Directed By: Harold Ramis

Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott

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A Hard Day's Night (1964)

Directed By: Richard Lester

Starring: The Beatles

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In the Mood For Love (2001)

Directed By: Wong Kar-Wai

Starring: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung
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It Happened One Night (1934)

Directed By: Frank Capra

Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Directed By: Frank Capra

Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore

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Jaws (1975)

Directed By: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

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King Kong (1933)

Directed By: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack

Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong

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The Lady Eve (1941)

Directed By: Preston Sturges

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Directed By: David Lean

Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
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The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003)

Directed By: Peter Jackson

Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen

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M (1931)

Directed By: Fritz Lang

Starring: Peter Lorre, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke

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M*A*S*H (1970)

Directed By: Robert Altman

Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Directed By: John Huston

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet
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The Matrix (1999)

Directed By: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
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Modern Times (1936)

Directed By: Charlie Chaplin

Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Directed By: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

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National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

Directed By: John Landis

Starring: John Belushi, Tim Matheson

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Network (1976)

Directed By: Sidney Lumet

Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
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Nosferatu (1922)

Directed By: F.W. Murnau

Starring: Max Schreck, Gustave Von Wagenheim, Greta Schroeder,

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On the Waterfront (1954)

Directed By: Elia Kazan

Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Directed By: Milos Forman

Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield

P

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Paths of Glory (1958)

Directed By: Stanley Kubrick

Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou

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Princess Mononoke (1999)

Directed By: Hayao Miyazaki

Starring: Billy Crudup, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver
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Psycho (1960)

Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh
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Pulp Fiction (1994)

Directed By: Quentin Tarantino

Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman

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Raging Bull (1980)

Directed By: Martin Scorsese

Starring: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty-Gentile, Joe Pesci
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Directed By: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman
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Raise the Red Lantern (1992)

Directed By: Zhang Yimou

Starring: Gong Li, He Caifei, Cao Cuifeng
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Rashomon (1951)

Directed By: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo

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Rear Window (1954)

Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr
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Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Directed By: Nicholas Ray

Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
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Rocky (1976)

Directed By: John Avildsen

Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
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Roman Holiday (1953)

Directed By: William Wyler

Starring: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert

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Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Directed By: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore

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Schindler's List (1993)

Directed By: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
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The Searchers (1956)

Directed By: John Ford

Starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles
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Seven Samurai (1954)

Directed By: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Directed By: Frank Darabont

Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Directed By: Jonathan Demme

Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
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Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Directed By: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelley

Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Directed By: David Hand

Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell

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Some Like It Hot (1959)

Directed By: Billy Wilder

Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
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The Sound of Music (1965)

Directed By: Robert Wise

Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
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Star Wars (1977)

Directed By: George Lucas

Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
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Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Directed By: Billy Wilder

Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Directed By: James Cameron

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton
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The Third Man (1949)

Directed By: Carol Reed

Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
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This is Spinal Tap (1984)

Directed By: Rob Reiner

Starring: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest
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Titanic (1997)

Directed By: James Cameron

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet

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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Directed By: Robert Mulligan

Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford
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Toy Story (1995)

Directed By: John Lasseter

Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles

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The Usual Suspects (1995)

Directed By: Bryan Singer

Starring: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne

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Vertigo (1958)

Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak

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When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

Directed By: Rob Reiner

Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher
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Wild Strawberries (1957)

Directed By: Ingmar Bergman

Starring: Victor Sjostrom, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin
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Wings of Desire (1988)

Directed By: Wim Wenders

Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander
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The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Directed By: Victor Fleming

Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

Directed By: Pedro Almodovar

Starring: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas

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The World of Apu (1959)

Directed By: Satyajit Ray

Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Swampan Mukerjee,

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2009-06-20T11:32:00.000-07:00

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hot movie

2009-06-20T09:36:00.000-07:00

Here and there different friends have pitched me on a movie idea they have. Loosely quoting it usually starts with, "I have this great idea for a movie." The same thing when I receive emails from aspiring screenwriters. Making movies is experience. You learn at every stage and with time you learn more. A trend I've noticed with most movie ideas I get is they're not realistic for true grunt independent filmmakers to make. I have a friend who has a phenomenal idea for a heist movie set in the late 80's.

I was glued to his pitch. After he was done I told him there was nothing I could do with his story. I already knew the movie idea was way too big for any budget I might be able to put together. What he said to me lead to this article. "Then what do I have to do? How come we can't make it a movie?"

The following advice is directed towards aspiring filmmakers that want to go from movie idea to movie treatment to script they can shoot outside of Hollywood. This won't help you if you want to write a blockbuster script to pitch to producers, studios, or agents. It's for people who need to write a script based on the resources they have to get through an entire film shoot. Write down a dozen movie ideas you have, see what is realistic to shoot yourself within your budget and resources.

You've come up with a movie idea you really believe in. Now it's time to flesh it out and see if it can be shot with the resources you have. When fleshing out your movie idea be honest with yourself about what type of story you can bring to life as a movie. When I flesh out a movie idea I start by making notes of creative elements I want to include in the story.

Next I note what locations and vehicles I know I will have access to during filming. These two elements lend a great deal to the overall style and look of a film. Don't underestimate what locations and vehicles can add or detract from a movie. Problems are an absolute guarantee when you make a movie. I'll share what I did to solve problems to finish a movie and get distributed to viewers. There are many moving pieces when making a movie, friction develops, and the entire production can break down quickly if you're not prepared for what to expect. I'm here to share my real life experiences making movies.

The First Movie is the Toughest grew out of the tough lessons I've learned making independent movies with limited money, time and resources. It covers how to deal with making, selling, and promoting your movie using practical information that really works. Learn more about making movies by picking up The First Movie is the Toughest

My approach is to share useful filmmaking information with behind the scenes examples and stories you can only experience getting your hands dirty making movies.

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superhero movies

2009-06-09T22:41:00.000-07:00

Once bitten by dragonfly, high school student Rick Riker (Drake Bell) develop human capabilities with insects (although you can not fly). Rick decides to use the new power for good and starting to use the cloak, known as "The dragonfly". Even so, he must be dealing with criminals Lou Landers (Christopher McDonald). After ekperimennya not running properly, Lou develops the power power to steal other people to keabadiannya as "The hourglass"

Through this film, Rick tries to attract girls dreams (Sara Paxton), and fight successfully against the hourglass to fly

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2009-06-06T22:04:00.000-07:00

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wolferine on x-men the origins

2009-06-03T03:17:00.000-07:00

In the early 1980s I was an "X-Men" fanatic, eagerly devouring every comic book I could get my hands on. But my favorite, and it remains my favorite to this day, was a 1982 four-issue mini-series written by Chris Claremont, drawn by Frank Miller and devoted exclusively to Wolverine. In it, Wolvie goes to Japan to find out what happened to his true love Mariko. He's a magnificent warrior and he understands Japan's ancient codes and rules but also understands his own raging animal instincts and his need to abandon the rules. He constantly battles these two sides, and in one sublime image, after a fight, he smoothes the disturbed pebbles in a Zen garden, making the connection between chaos and order.

Sadly, there's nothing in the new X-Men Origins: Wolverine even remotely as good or as interesting as that one image. This Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) no longer struggles between his two sides. He's smack dab on the side of good, and beholden to the unwritten Hollywood rule, which says that no hero can kill anyone in cold blood (only in self-defense, or in response to senseless acts of cruelty and violence). Sure, he can rage and howl from time to time, but he must pull back at the last second -- to set a good example for the kiddies, I guess. To spur him to action, the film brutally dispatches everyone who's nice to him, from his kind-hearted father/guardian in the opening flashback to the sweet farmer couple that gives him refuge, to his own sweetheart Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins). So there's some bad foreshadowing for you: if you help an old lady across the street or tell a romantic story about the moon, you're toast.

The plot has Wolverine -- a.k.a. Logan -- growing up on the run alongside his older brother Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber); we see them fighting in the American Civil War, World War II and Vietnam, before Victor starts turning recklessly violent. Logan walks out, but years later he is forced back into the fray to avenge his loved ones. His old boss, Col. Stryker (Danny Huston), offers to help by lacing Logan's skeleton with "adamantium," an indestructible alloy. This will also change his original "bone claws" into new, razor-sharp blades. Unfortunately, there's a sinister deception behind it all.

If Logan is all good, his brother (soon to be known as Sabretooth) is one of those paper-thin, one-dimensional villains who spends the entire movie devoting himself to pure evil for no reason; his behavior consists of sneering and chortling and saying things like "Well, well, well..." There's very little emotional, fraternal connection between the two. They could never sit down for coffee together the way that Batman and the Joker could have in The Dark Knight (2008). The movie's whitewashing of all the gray areas between good and evil is just one side effect of its dubious approach. I think that most comic book/superhero fans would agree that the "origin" part of the movie is the dullest part, which is why the sequels are almost always better: X2: X-Men United (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), The Dark Knight, etc.

But now we have an entire two hours devoted to nothing but origin, and all the subsequent exposition and ham-fisted dialogue that goes with it. Every line feels lazily copied from other movies. (They even bring out old chestnuts like "We had a deal!" and "Let's do this!") The screenplay was co-written by David Benioff and Skip Woods, each with a list of lousy credits (one exception: Benioff's superb 25th Hour). Besides the dialogue, the writers also throw in a few plot holes, one glaring math error, two "surprise" last-minute rescues, and several stupid ideas, such as Stryker having to manually type out commands to his new evil mutant soldier.

This dud was directed by Gavin Hood, who inexplicably won a Best Foreign Language Oscar for the awful Tsotsi (2005). He can't seem to find a groove either in South African neo-realist art house films or Hollywood blockbuster sequels. He directs with a kind of glum soullessness, throwing in auto pilot action sequences and less-than-seamless visual FX. Bryan Singer came to the first two films in the series, X-Men (2000) and X2 -- the latter still one of the three best superhero movies of all time -- and brought with him a genuine love for the characters as well as a feel for their liberal tale of intolerance. Singer was able to find connections to the modern world (mutants get the same treatment as gays), but Hood clearly has no interest in this. The paradox of Stryker's mutant son sparking his father's hatred of all things mutant is glossed over in one or two lines of dialogue.

Real-life comic book readers probably identify more personally with Spider-Man, and his awkward existence as Peter Parker, but Wolverine is just as popular for more primal reasons. He represents the bridge between unguarded feelings and polite behavior, and the frustration and confusion we may feel at having to choose one side over the other. The saddest thing about X-Men Origins: Wolverine is that it's all polite behavior. It's pre-planned, committee-made, audience-tested and risk-free, with no room for authentic, messy, personal emotions. The movie never takes the chance that, even if Wolverine does something horrible in the heat of the moment, we may forgive him -- and still love him.

the simpson

2009-06-01T16:20:00.000-07:00

it no doubt that this is a legend movie, and it is old, but still funny on every new release, here the movie poster :

and lets see what people say about the simpsons :

Critics' reviews of new Simpsons episodes praised the show for its wit, realism, and intelligence.[7][153] In the late 1990s, the tone and emphasis of the show began to change. Some critics started calling the show "tired".[154] By 2000, some long-term fans had become disillusioned with the show and pointed to its shift from character-driven plots to what they perceived as an overemphasis on zany antics.[155][156] Author Douglas Coupland described claims of declining quality in the series as "hogwash", saying "The Simpsons hasn't fumbled the ball in fourteen years, it's hardly likely to fumble it now."[157] Mike Scully, who was show runner during seasons nine through twelve, has been the subject of criticism.[158][159] Chris Suellentrop of Slate wrote "under Scully's tenure, The Simpsons became, well, a cartoon. [...] Episodes that once would have ended with Homer and Marge bicycling into the sunset now end with Homer blowing a tranquilizer dart into Marge's neck. The show's still funny, but it hasn't been touching in years."[158]
In 2003, to celebrate the show's 300th episode "Barting Over", USA Today published a pair of Simpsons related articles: a top-ten episodes list chosen by the webmaster of The Simpsons Archive fansite,[160] and a top-15 list by The Simpsons' own writers.[161] The most recent episode listed on the fan list was 1997's "Homer's Phobia"; the Simpsons' writers most recent choice was 2000's "Behind the Laughter". In 2004, Harry Shearer criticized what he perceived as the show's declining quality: "I rate the last three seasons as among the worst, so Season Four looks very good to me now."[162] In response, Dan Castellaneta stated "I don't agree, [...] I think Harry's issue is that the show isn't as grounded as it was in the first three or four seasons, that it's gotten crazy or a little more madcap. I think it organically changes to stay fresh."[163]
The Simpsons managed to maintain a large viewership and attract new fans. While the first season enjoyed an average of 13.4 million viewers per episode in the U.S.,[103] the nineteenth season had an average of 7.7 million viewers.[164] In an April 2006 interview, Matt Groening said, "I honestly don't see any end in sight. I think it's possible that the show will become too financially cumbersome... but right now, the show is creatively, I think, as good or better than it's ever been. The animation is incredibly detailed and imaginative, and the stories do things that we haven't done before. So creatively there's no reason to quit.

whoaaaaa, there is too many comments i take from wikipedia, hope it usefull to all of you.

regards

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2009-06-01T16:17:00.001-07:00

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terminator salvation

2009-06-01T11:36:00.000-07:00

just watching terminator salvation on 21cineplex with my girl last week, this is cool movie, check it out men

this is what they say about it :

the Terminator Salvation: Future Begins will reinvent the cyborg saga with a storyline to be told over a three-movie span. The film is set in the future, in a full-scale war between robot factory called Skynet and humankind.

the maker of this movie John Middleton had had opinion about the movie: "It's post-apocalyptic. It's set after the events of [Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines], where we see the nuclear exchange at the end of the movie, and we show what the world is like after this event, and we show how people try to deal in a post-apocalyptic world. And we introduce a new character, who becomes very important to the resistance and to John Connor, a new hero. It's really about the birth of a new hero."

About John Conner, he said: "I would look at him as a character that is introduced and that will grow in the second and third movies of the trilogy."

On Arnold Schwarzenegger's involvement in the film: "He has been approached, and in the early days of our development of T4, one of our producers, Andy Vajna, who's a good friend of his, spoke to him about doing a cameo. This was even before he was governor. But we know now that he is governor, he's got priorities that are above doing movies."

the story :

on the year 2018, john connor lead an human army to fight against robot created by sky net

But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past.

As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

according to me this movie was a good enough, but i still little confuse why there are T100 didn't show him off.

but its okey aniway

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2009-06-01T11:19:00.000-07:00

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mobil arina

2009-05-27T22:15:00.001-07:00

mobilarina is a new car made by indonesian, this is the picture mobilarina
picture mobilarina menyusul ya

across the universe

2008-09-05T09:56:00.001-07:00

Just watching a musical movie, across the universe, it's a good movie aniway.

forrest gump

2008-08-31T19:02:00.000-07:00

"oukay...."

I can't forget this word sayed by forrest gump. this movie are so inspiring, how the experience of mental disorder and how he got sucess. forrest gump acted by the legend tom hanks. this movie are sometimes funny, make me laugh and sometimes make me cry and touched.

"life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get"

here the synopsis on the CD:
Forrest gump is the movie triumph that became a phenomenon. Tom hanks gives an astonishing performance as Forrest, an everyman whose simple innocence comes to embody a generation. The winner of six Academy Awards, including best picture, Best Director (robert Zemeckis) and Best actor (Tom Hanks)

this movie produced by paramount pictures

wait for my new old reviews

2008-08-30T20:16:00.000-07:00

momment ago, i just saw the mummy "tomb of the dragon emperror" on the cinema "blitzmegaplex" and wanted on a personal computer, i'll write the reviews soon nr later

just stay up to date with this blog.

borat!

2008-08-19T05:24:00.000-07:00

it is a comedy movie, but according to me it is not funny at all. shame on the director (Larry Charles),

"hello my name is borat"

a kazhaktan journalist named borat Borat sagdiyef travel to america to make a documentary. as a zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situation with hysterical consequences. his backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him, exposing prejudices and hipocrisies in american culture. in some cases, Borat's interview subjects embrace his outrageous views on race and sex by agreeing with him, while others attempt to offer a patriotic lesson in western values.

here the comment from Ty Burr, Boston Globe
"...by a long shot the funniest film of the year"

and Peter Travers, Rolling stones
"Borat will make you laugh till it hurt, and you'll beg for more"

what? funny from hongkong? and comments from me
"not funny at all, not recommended to watch except you got it free"

before sunrise

2008-08-16T14:07:00.000-07:00

this movies acted by ethan hawke and julie delpy, the story is about accidentally soulmates meet on the train and talk each other all the time until the movies end ;P

here the synopsis on the cd

Yesterday strangers, today inseparable soulmates. but separate they must in just few hours. jesse and celine are making every moment count, pouring as much living as they can into the time before sunrise.

From Richard linklater ( Dazed and Confused ) comes another smartly observed tale of young people at a crossroads. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy play twentysomething who meet on train in Europe, sense of connection and explore after-hours Vienna together. The people, places and allure of the city become their sudden itineraries. Love is their destination. On the way there's the mutual sharing and hopes, jokes, dreams, worry and wonder. It's a day to linger in their memories. And a valentine to young love forever.

not too good to me, but many people out there recommended this movie to me. maybe I'am not a romantic person ;P

enjoy and see ya

ironman

2008-08-16T13:55:00.000-07:00

directed by jon favreau and acted by Robert Downey Jr. as a tony stark (iron man) and Gwyneth Paltrow as a Pepper Potts. this movies reminds me of batman movies, it is a little bit similar plot. a rich man who mastering on technology. iron man movies winning a Golden Trailer Summer 2008 Blockbuster For "Escaped".

eurotrip

2008-08-16T13:50:00.000-07:00

as usually, i watch movies are always by recomendation of my friend. and they lend me this movie so i can watching it freely. if we are like traveling, i recommended this movie very much. the main topic of the movie are, the journey of american guy to find his online or chat girlfriends, matt damon also play on this movie.

the departed

2008-08-16T13:44:00.000-07:00

this movies was funny, all of the caracter was died on the end of the story. this movies is to complicated to me. but, almost all of leonardo di caprio movies are intersting to watch.

hello

2008-08-16T13:42:00.000-07:00

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