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Taxi To The Dark Side (2007)
Director Alex Gibney’s “Taxi To The Dark Side” won 2008 Oscar for Best Documentary.
The plot: “Taxi To The Dark Side” focuses on the story of an innocent Afghani taxi driver who was tortured to death by U.S. forces in Bagram airbase in Iraq in 2002. But his story is just [...]
Tags: DVD · Documentary · Drama · Movies · USA
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
Written and directed by Kevin Smith (”Catch and Release“, “Dogma“) this romantic comedy starring Seth Rogen (Pineapple Express, Superbad, Knocked up etc.) and Elizabeth Banks (”Definitely, Maybe“, “The 40 Year Old Virgin“, “Catch me if you can“ and more), albeit R-rated, is a good movie to see on Friday [...]
Tags: Comedy · Movies · Romance · USA
RocknRolla (2008)
This is the first installment of director Guy Ritchie’s trilogy, also written by him.
The plot: When Russian mobster sets up a real-estate scam in London, all the underworld characters appear to get their share of the multi-million euro deal up for grabs. Some of those characters are small-time crooks like One-Two (Gerard Butler), [...]
Tags: "Guy" Films · Action · Comedy · Crime/Gangster · Foreign · Movies · UK
The Counterfeiters (2007)
A.k.a. Die Fälscher, this 2007 Oscar-winning drama was written and directed by Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky (All The Queen’s Men) based on “The Devil’s Workshop”, the book by Adolf Burger.
The plot: This movie is based on real events, when in 1932 Nazis during World War II created a largest counterfeiting operation in history [...]
Tags: DVD · Drama · Foreign · Movies · War
Wanted (2008)
Russian director Timur Bekmambetov is already known to American audience by his films Night Watch: Nochnoy Dozor and Day Watch: Dnevnoy Dozor and the next part, Twilight Watch: Sumerechniy Dozor based on Sergei Lukyanenko’s bestselling book. That movie went out in limited release. Those who are old enough remember two dramatic movies he made about Soviet soldiers [...]
Tags: Action · Movies · Thrillers/Suspense · USA
Harold And Kumar From Guantanamo Bay (2008)
John Cho and Kal Penn of “Harold & Kumar go to White Castle” are back for a sequel written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, who also directed the film this time around.
The plot: The plot picks up right when Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) come back [...]
Tags: Adventure · Comedy · Movies · Road Films · USA
Basic Instinct (1992)
Just watched the original 1992 “Basic Instinct”, director’s cut. This was one of the most controversial and talked-about movies when it came out. Brought me back to the days when I saw it when I was in high-school.
The plot: everyone saw it.
The good: one of the most memorable movies of 20th century, at [...]
Tags: DVD · Drama · Movies · Sexual/Erotic · Thrillers/Suspense · USA
The plot: Four high-school boys who inherited superpowers from their parents uncover that there’s a fifth powerful person who was thought to be long dead. Their powers come a the cost: each time they are used, the body of the warlock ages and they become more addicted. Now that the four warlocks are about to [...]
Tags: Action · Adventure · DVD · Fantasy · Horror · Movies · Supernatural · USA
From Judd Apatow, the guy who brought you Knocked Up and Superbad - a new comedy starring John C. Reilly!
The plot: America loves larger-than-life musician and songwriter Dewey Cox (a composite character in whom you can recognize Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Johnny Cash and others). But behind the music is the up-and-down-and-up-again story of a [...]
