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Transsiberian (2008)
The plot: An American couple, Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer) take a 7-day train ride from China, where they completed a church humanitarian mission, to Moscow on Trans-Siberian railroad. On the train they meet another young couple, a Spaniard Carlos (Eduardo Noriega) and his girlfriend Abby (Kate Mara). Carlos may be running drugs, [...]
Tags: DVD · Drama · Movies · Thrillers/Suspense · USA
Mad Money (2008)
Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes star in this comedy inspired by real events about janitors who stole money from Federal Reserve Bank. Directed by Callie Khouri.
The plot: Bridget Cardigan (Diane Keaton) is close to retirement and when her husband (Ted Danson) gets downsized they are two hundred thousand dollars in debt. [...]
Tags: Chick Flick · Comedy · Crime/Gangster · DVD · Movies · USA
In The Valley of Elah (2007)
This crime drama is based a true story by Mark Boal and published in Playboy Magazine. Written, directed and produced by Paul Haggis (Letters from Iwo Jima Crash and Million Dollar Baby) and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Josh Brolin and Jason Patric.
The plot: When his son is reported AWOL [...]
Tags: Crime/Gangster · Drama · Movies · Thrillers/Suspense
Death Race (2008)
The Death Race is an action movie based on 1975 film Death Race 2000 and written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Both movies were produced by Roger Corman. The original movie was starring David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone. The new movie has Jason Statham in the main role.
The plot: In the year [...]
Tags: "Guy" Films · Action · Movies · USA
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2006)
This award-winning picture was directed by Tommy Lee Jones, his first work as director, and based on the book by Guillermo Arriaga, an Oscar-nominated author and play-writer. Arriaga also wrote script for Universal/Focus feature film Amores Perros (2000) starring Benicio Del Torro, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, 21 Grams (2004) and finally [...]
Tags: Adventure · DVD · Dark comedy · Drama · Movies · Road Films · USA · Westerns
Paris, je t’aime (2006) R 120min
18 directors and writers combine their short stories into a collage declaring their love for Paris, a beautiful capital known as ”the city of love”. It stars many famous and wonderful French and American actors, including, but not limited to Steve Buscemi, Willem Dafoe, Juliette Binoche, Nick Nolte, Elijah Wood, Natalie Portman, [...]
Tags: Cult Films · Drama · Foreign · France · Liechtenstein · Movies · Romance · Switzerland
Love In Time Of Cholera (2007) R 1h 40min
This is an Golden Globe-nominated (2007) romantic drama directed by Mike Newell based on the novel by Gabriel García Márquez and starring Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno and John Leguizamo.
The plot: 19th century Colombia. An old man falls from a tree and before he dies he professes eternal love to his wife Fermina Daza/Urbino [...]
Tags: DVD · Drama · Movies · Romance · USA
Another wonderful movie based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri directed and produced by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding (2001), Vanity Fair (2004)) starring Irfan Khan and Kal Penn.
The plot: In the late 60s-early 70s Ashoke Ganguli (Irfan Khan) was traveling on the train to his grandfather in Calcutta and reading a book by Nicholai Gogol. [...]
Tags: Drama
Evan Almighty (2007)
A.k.a. “Bruce Almighty-2″, this is a sequel directed by same Tom Shadyac and starring Morgan Freeman as God and Steve Carell as TV anchorman-turned Congressman Evan Baxter.
The plot: Evan Baxter retires as Buffalo newscaster to become the Congressman for his state with the slogan “Change the World!”. Then magic begins to happen: The [...]
