Head In The Clouds
British director John Duigan (WIDE SARGASSO SEA, FLIRTING, SIRENS) takes on epic grandeur with HEAD IN THE CLOUDS, a relentless tale of love and romance, war and high society, personal sacrifice and the greater good. Charlize Theron, fresh off her Oscar for MONSTER, stars as the very rich and free-spirited Gilda, a beautiful blonde socialite who enjoys parties, champagne, and sex. However, she gets a little more serious upon meeting Guy (Stuart Townsend), an Irishman studying at Cambridge who be…
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Closer
Are humans meant to mate for life? What drives someone in a perfectly good relationship to cheat and risk losing the one that they love and that loves them? Is it possible to love more than one person at the same time? How well does anyone really know the one that they love? Directed by Mike Nichols (THE GRADUATE, BIRDCAGE, WORKING GIRL), CLOSER questions the nature of relationships and fidelity as it follows the tangled web created by Dan (Jude Law), Alice (Natalie Portman), Anna (Julia Roberts…
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Cruel Intentions 3 (Wide Screen)
This is the second sequel to the 1999 hit which transferred the sexual manipulation and double-crossing of DANGEROUS LIAISONS to an exclusive prep school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. This time Jason (Nathan Wetherington) and Patrick (Kerr Smith) lay bets on who can bed which girl but come unstuck when they meet their match in Cassie (CURSED’s Kristina Apanau) an equally calculating bitch, who really gives our two mere boys a manipulative run for their money….
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Layer Cake (2 Disc)
As deeply cool and urbane as its unnamed hero, LAYER CAKE follows the precise, articulate XXXX (Daniel Craig) as he manoeuvres through what he intends to be his last business deal in modern-day London. His business…Drugs. On the cusp of turning 30, XXXX has amassed a personal fortune, deftly avoiding the violence and ugliness so many others in his trade fall prey to by following a strict personal code defined by discretion and clean detachment from the products he sells. Just as XXXX is poised…
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Being Julia (Wide Screen)
As she enters her early 40s, London theatre actress Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) starts having a nervous breakdown. She still rules the West End, but is growing too old for ingenue parts. When Tom Fennell (Shaun Evans), an adoring lad half her age, comes into her life, a clandestine affair begins. Though she’s happy for a while, Julia eventually winds up in a face-off with a Tom’s other, much younger lover (Lucy Punch). Luckily, the spirit of Julia’s cantankerous old acting coach (London theat…
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20:30:40 (Subtitled)
The tale of three women, aged 20, 30 and 40, as they tackle the complexity of modern relationships. One woman is leaving home for the first time to pursue a music career; one a flight attendant juggling affairs with a married man and a young lover; and the third plays a divorcee facing life as a single woman….
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You Got Served
Dedicated to the art of street dancing, ‘You Got Served’ features some of the most talented and prominent kids on the scene in a drama filmed in the streets of Los Angeles. The picture opens at the warehouse of Mr. Rad (Steve Harvey), where dance battles take the place of actual fighting. Elgin (Marques Houston) and David (Omarion) are childhood friends who are determined to make a splash in the world as street dancers. But when they lose a battle to a rival crew from Orange County, and when Dav…
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The Missing (Wide Screen)
Director Ron Howard, who impressed audiences with BACKDRAFT (1991) and A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001), has outdone himself with THE MISSING, a wrenching family drama that unfolds in the midst of a classic 1880s Western. This extraordinarily beautiful film offers astounding panoramic photography and inspired performances that enrich a truly hair-raising journey. As ever, Cate Blanchett brings intense realism to the role of Maggie Gilkeson, a New Mexico cattle rancher who dabbles in the healing arts. Her…
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Lockdown (Wide Screen)
Three friends from the hood–all honest men–are bound to prison sentences they don’t deserve after being wrongly convicted of murdering a cop. Once behind bars, they must quickly learn to cope with the brutality of prison life in order to simply survive, and each man reacts to the experience in his own way. College athlete Avery (Richard T. Jones) clings to the encouragement he receives from his girlfriend (Melissa De Sousa), his wise cellmate (Clifton Powell), and the swimming coach (Bill Nunn…
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Le Pacte Du Silence (Subtitled)(Wide Screen)
A horrifying French thriller where Sarah, a young Carmelite nun, is urgently brought into hospital in great pain. She is harbouring a terrible secret that her twin sister shares–some thousands of miles away. Gerard Depardieu plays Joachim, the Jesuit doctor who attempts to treat her, and has an awful violent secret of his own to come to terms with. But he channels this into his concern for Sarah, which turns to obsession as he travels half way around the world in search of her sister Gaelle, re…
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Big Fish
In Tim Burton’s family film BIG FISH, a wonderful storyteller named Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), who lives in a small town in Alabama, recounts tall tales of his wild worldly adventures. These are shown in flashback with Ewan McGregor playing the young Bloom. Wonderful special effects and vibrant colours that pop off the screen make this Burton film a much sunnier experience than his macabre gems EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and BEETLEJUICE. Yet his signature quirky artistry is unmistakable, and the mov…
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Carandiru
Acclaimed Argentinean director Hector Babenco (KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, PIXOTE), blends pathos and black comedy in this adaptation of the autobiographical book CARANDIRU STATION by Dr. Drauzio Varella, who worked inside Sao Paulo’s now-defunct Carandiru Prison. In 1992, overcrowded Carandiru gained international infamy when military police troops, called to quell a riot, killed 111 inmates. The Carandiru population contained murderers, drug dealers, and all manner of petty criminals–all guilty…
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Mona Lisa Smile (Wide Screen)
Mike Newell’s MONA LISA SMILE is a pretty period film that combines a quaint pedagogical tale with a feminist dissection of traditional female roles in 1950s society. Julia Roberts leads an impressive cast of top young actresses including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kirsten Dunst, and Julia Stiles. Roberts is Katherine Watson, a revolutionary art history teacher at Wellesley College in 1953. Though she has true admiration for her intelligent all-female students, she is perturbed that their interest in fi…
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The Code (Wide Screen) (Subtitled)
A couple of inner-city criminals Dris (Samuel Le Bihan, 3 COLOURS RED) and Yanis (Samy Naceri, TAXI) learned their craft together, are a devoted double-act and see crime as a way of escaping their urban existence. Their partners in crime are Niglo the gypsy, Fooued, and Dris’ lover Nina, herself a beautiful and brilliant thief. Dris is just out of prison and hopes to go straight and settle down but Feche–the godfather of Paris–turns up to disrupt their lives. He tries to corrupt the bond betwe…
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Joe And Max
American boxer Joe Louis (Leonard Roberts) meets German champion Max Schmeling (Til Schweiger) in the ring in 1936, and Schmeling emerges victorious. They fight in the ring once again in 1938, and Louis hospitaliSes his German counterpart. Schmeling, a member of the Nazi party, survives WWII, hears of the hard times that Louis has fallen on, and seeks out his former sparring partner to help him. This begins a touching, long-term friendship between the former opponents….
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Taboo (Wide Screen)
Six recent college graduates retreat to a remote estate for relaxation and debauchery. But when they play a game called Taboo, it brings out some dirty secrets and desires among the group of friends, causing one of them to become mentally unhinged and begin murdering the others in variously gruesome ways. The cast of bright, young actors includes Nick Stahl (IN THE BEDROOM), Eddie Kaye Thomas (AMERICAN PIE), and Amber Benson (TV’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer)….
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El Crimen Del Padre Amaro
Gael Garcia Bernal (Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN, AMORES PERROS) stars in EL CRIMEN DEL PADRE AMARO, a controversial drama that was a box office smash in its native Mexico. Directed by Carlos Carrera, the film tells the story of a young priest who succumbs to temptation and corruption. Father Amaro (Bernal) is a handsome 24-year-old who has recently been assigned to a new church in Los Reyes. Upon arrival, he discovers that his mentor, Father Benito (Sancho Garcia), is having an affair with a local restaur…
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Zhou Yu’s Train (Subtitled)
Gong Li, star of such epics as RAISE THE RED LANTERN and JU DOU, is unforgettable as the title character in ZHOU YU’S TRAIN, the poignant story of an unusual love triangle set in the Chinese countryside. Zhou Yu is an impulsive woman who makes porcelain pottery for a living, painting each one exquisitely. After meeting shy poet Cheng Ching (Tony Leung Ka Fai), she starts visiting him, taking a two-hour train ride twice a week from Sanming to Chongyang. On that train she is pursued by Dr. Zhang (…
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Big Girls Don’t Cry (Subtitled)(Wide Screen)
Kati and Steffi, both seventeen, are best friends. But where Steffi seems to have the perfect life–a great boyfriend and a loving home–Kati can’t find a boyfriend and her parents are often arguing. The tables suddenly turn, though, when Kati discovers that Steffi’s father is having an affair. As Steffi’s perfect world falls apart, the girls try to find out all they can about her father’s new lover. Filled with rage, the two best friends decide to carry out a plot that will change their lives f…
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All The Real Girls
David Gordon Green directs ALL THE REAL GIRLS, an achingly sincere drama that captures the complexities of first love–and loss–with breathtaking honesty. Paul (Paul Schneider), a small town charmer, has spent his life living it up with his buddies Tip (Shea Whigham), Bo (Maurice Compte), and Bust-Ass (a scene-stealing Danny McBride), in addition to sleeping with every girl in town. But when Tip’s virginal younger sister, Noel (Zooey Deschanel), returns from boarding school, Paul’s priorities c…
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