The Legend is Born: Ip Man

September 17th, 2011

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 73

Language: Cantonese

Director: Herman Yau

Plot: A poignant tale of what it means to forge your own path, The Legend Is Born-Ip Man is a semi-biographical account of events in the early life of Wing Chun master and mentor to Bruce Lee-Ip Man. As a child, Ip Man learns the art of Wing Chun from master Chan Wah-shun, along with his adopted brother, Ip Tin-chi and childhood friend Lee Mei-wai. After Chan’s death, Ip Man continues to learn Wing
Chun from his senior, Ng Chung-sok, before leaving home to study in Hong Kong.

Along the way, Ip Man deals with issues of racism and studies under master Leung Bik to develop a new and improved style of Wing Chun. When Ip Man returns to his home town years later to reunite with his peers, new
challenges arise as Ip Man’s old master sees that Ip Man has developed a new style of Wing Chun which differs from the orthodox style. Things get further complicated when Ip Man falls in love with Cheung Wing-shing, the daughter of the vice-mayor of Foshan, leaving Lee Mei-wai, his childhood friend, to struggle with her feelings for Ip Man and accept Tin-chi’s marriage proposal. When Ip Man is arrested as the prime suspect in the murder of Lee Mei-wai’s godfather, what follows is a suspenseful climax of intrigue and betrayal.

 

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September 16th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 110

Language: Spanish

Director: Tom Tykwer

Plot: From the director of Run, Lola, Run and The International comes a sexy romantic drama with a nod to classic Hollywood’s screwball comedies. Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties, live together in Berlin. With their 20th anniversary looming, they both become restless despite being truly and deeply in love. Unbeknownst to one another, they become acquainted with Adam, a younger man.. Clearly not your typical 1930’s romp, this reinvention of those classic films with Tykwer’s sleek direction is a playful update: an intellectual study of a modern couple looking for redefinition in a world of absolutes.

 

Drive

September 16th, 2011

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Plot: Breakout Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn (THE PUSHER Trilogy, BRONSON, VALHALLA RISING) throttles into the Hollywood fast lane with the precision-crafted action caper DRIVE.

Ryan Gosling stars as a Los Angeles wheelman for hire, stunt driving for movie productions by day and steering getaway vehicles for armed heists by night. Though a loner by nature, Driver can’t help falling in love with his beautiful neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan), a vulnerable young mother dragged into a dangerous underworld by the return of her ex-convict husband Standard (Oscar Isaac).

After a heist intended to pay off Standard’s protection money spins unpredictably out of control, Driver finds himself driving defense for the girl he loves, tailgated by a syndicate of deadly serious criminals (Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman). But when he realizes that the gangsters are after more than the bag of cash in his trunk-that they’re coming straight for Irene and her son-Driver is forced to shift gears and go on offense.

 

I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT

September 16th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 149

Language: English

Director: Douglas McGrath

Plot: Sarah Jessica Parker, Greg Kinnear, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Munn, and Christina Hendricks star in I Don’t Know How She Does It, a comedy from director Douglas McGrath (Emma, Infamous) and producer Donna Gigliotti (The Reader, Let Me In). Based on the critically acclaimed bestseller by Allison Pearson, I Don’t Know How She Does It follows a Boston-based working mother trying desperately to juggle marriage, children, and a high-stress job.

Kate Reddy (Parker) devotes her days to her job with a Boston-based financial management firm. At night she goes home to her adoring, recently-downsized architect husband Richard (Kinnear) and their two young children. It’s a non-stop balancing act, the same one that Kate’s acerbic best friend and fellow working mother Allison (Christina Hendricks) performs on a daily basis, and that Kate’s super-brainy, child-phobic young junior associate Momo (Olivia Munn) fully intends to avoid. When Kate gets handed a major new account that will require frequent trips to New York, Richard also wins the new job he’s been hoping for-and both will be spreading themselves even thinner. Complicating matters is Kate’s charming new business associate Jack Abelhammer (Brosnan), who begins to prove an unexpected source of temptation.

 

Stay Cool

September 16th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 170

Language:

Director: Ted Smith

Plot: STAY COOL is a raucous and romantic comedy about one man’s return home for the commencement speech of a lifetime.

Henry McCarthy (MARK POLISH), the 30-something author of the popular 80s-themed novel How Lionel Got Me Laid, returns to his suburban hometown of Sacramento to deliver the commencement speech at his former high school. Despite his success as an author Henry’s return home has sparked all of the youthful dreams, desires and particularly disappointments he’s never quite gotten over, specifically his unrequited affection for the girl who is now the local pharmacist: the elusive Scarlet Smith (WINONA RYDER).

Between run-ins with the outcast friends he left behind Big Girl (SEAN ASTIN) and Wino (JOSH HOLLOWAY), the school principal (CHEVY CHASE) and a seductive senior, Shasta O’Neil (HILARY DUFF) who clearly has the hots for him, Henry is sent spinning through a time warp that incites all the old emotions and challenges of the world he grew up in. Teetering between unsettling memories of his teenage past and his all too uncertain adult future, Henry can only hope to “Stay Cool” and make it, once again, to graduation day.

 

Muran

September 16th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 149

Language:

Director: Rajan Madhav

Plot: After finishing a successful meeting with his movie producers in Bangalore, Nanda, a jingles composer catches the highway to Chennai. On his way his car breaks down and he hitchhikes with Arjun, a businessman’s son on his way to the same destination. During their journey together they discuss their personal lives till Arjun proposes a deal; a deal that is marked with murder but promises to better their personal lives. However this deal does not work in Nanda’s favor and he soon finds himself in deeper complications.

 

Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace

September 16th, 2011

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 147

Language:

Director: Harry Hunkele

Plot: Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace is the true story of the men who brought lasting Peace to the Middle East. For the first time ever, the filmmakers take the audience behind the public veil obscured by a first of its kind White House issued media blackout on the events. Behind the press conferences and into the smoke-filled backroom corridors of power during one of the world’s greatest historical moments – the 1979 Camp David Peace Accord and Treaty between Egypt and Israel. For one brief moment in time, Arab and Jew put their differences aside and embraced peace. Menachem Begin, Anwar El-Sadat, and Jimmy Carter – were the strategic geniuses that crafted the peace, but it was the men behind-the-scenes, some driven by deeply held faith and conviction, others merely by raw ambition, who found a way to get them together and drive the peace process. It is a tale of secret missions, internal power struggles and diplomatic brinkmanship by a cast of characters never before revealed – until now.

 

Happy, Happy

September 16th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 124

Language:

Director: Anne Sewitsky

Plot: Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys and isn’t interested in having sex with her anymore because she “isn’t particularly attractive.” Whatever. That’s life.

But when “the perfect couple” moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check. Not only do these successful, beautiful, exciting people sing in a choir, they have also adopted a child – from Ethiopia! These new neighbors open a whole new world to Kaja, with consequences for everyone involved. And when Christmas comes around, it becomes evident that nothing will ever be like before – even if Kaja tries her very best.

 

The WHALE

September 16th, 2011

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Michael Parfit

Plot: Set on the rugged western coast of Vancouver Island, THE WHALE describes what happens when Luna, a baby orca, gets separated from his family and unexpectedly starts making contact with people along a scenic fjord called Nootka Sound. Because orcas are highly social creatures who spend their lives traveling with their pods, Luna attempts to find a surrogate family among the area residents, much to their delight. But as word spreads about Luna, people become torn between their love for the lonely young whale and fears that human contact might harm him.

Luna’s saga is seen through the eyes of the colorful characters who live and work along the Sound and who fall in love with the whale — including a cook on an old freighter, a fisheries officer conflicted by what he thinks Luna needs and what he is told to do, a grandmother who is arrested for petting Luna, and a Native American elder whose tribe believes Luna is the reincarnation of a chief.

The film also describes how Parfit and Chisholm themselves, who first went to Nootka Sound on assignment for Smithsonian, grow so concerned about Luna’s fate that they get involved in trying to help him, crossing the traditional line between journalist and subject and becoming characters in the very story they are telling. Their efforts to find ways to safely give Luna the attention he seems so determined to get are a major part of the film’s climax.

 

Johnny English Reborn

September 16th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 125

Language: English

Director: Oliver Parker

Plot: Rowan Atkinson returns to the role of the improbable secret agent who doesn’t know fear or danger in the comedy spy-thriller Johnny English Reborn. In his latest adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer in Her Majesty’s Secret Service must stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos.

In the years since MI-7’s top spy vanished off the grid, he has been honing his unique skills in a remote region of Asia. But when his agency superiors learn of an attempt against the Chinese premier’s life, they must hunt down the highly unorthodox agent. Now that the world needs him once again, Johnny English is back in action.

With one shot at redemption, he must employ the latest in hi-tech gadgets to unravel a web of conspiracy that runs throughout the KGB, CIA and even MI-7. With mere days until a heads of state conference, one man must use every trick in his playbook to protect us all. For Johnny English, disaster may be an option, but failure never is.

 

JANE’S JOURNEY

September 16th, 2011

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 88

Language: English

Director: Lorenz Knauer

Plot: Jane’s Journey movie trailer – starring Jane Goodall, Angelina Jolie, Kofi Annan. Directed by Lorenz Knauer. Theatrical Release Date: 9/16/2011
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated

 

Straw Dogs

September 16th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Rod Lurie

Plot: Straw Dogs movie trailer – starring Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd, James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Dominic Purcell, Laz Alonso, James Woods. Directed by Rod Lurie. Theatrical Release Date: 9/16/2011
Genre: Thriller
Rating: Pending

 

The Treasure Hunter

September 15th, 2011

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 126

Language:

Director: Kevin Chu

Plot: In the boundless desert, countless prosperous dynasties have begun and evolved innumerable cultural legends. For centuries countless dynasties raised up and fell off, the only thing hasn’t changed is this desert.

Numerous treasures sleep silently beneath this desert. However, for the group of mysterious guardians, there’s none can walk in and open the door to treasures. The guardians are capable of everything and ward the desert for generations to defend the fortune that belongs to none.
Their leader is Desert Eagle, born with extraordinary oriental martial art. In this desert that power says everything, Desert Eagle is the victor and his rival had to leave. No one remember the name of the failure. Nevertheless, a fierce rivalry is happening to the quiet desert for an ancient city
treasure map recording the treasures that has been missing for thousand years. The map has caused people to scramble for it.

Ciao Fei has been conducting ancient relics protection and primarily fighting against tomb robbery and ancient relics smugglers. Boss Tu’s only daughter, Lan Ting, was kidnapped by another group of treasure hunters, and they threaten Ciao Fei to hand over the map. After a thrilling violent battle, Ciao Fei saved Lan Ting but the map was taken away. Simply intending to accomplish the mission,
Chio Fei did not anticipate the company of three, Lan Ting, Chop, and the archeologist, Hua Dingbang.

Hua Dingbang used to be a star in archeology. He was bent on hunting treasure that led to his family break-up. Hua Dingbang was brought down by it and became an alcoholic. Now, he again steps on the treasure hunting journey for a reason none knows so far.

Lan Ting insists to stay for seeking an answer, regardless of future uncertainty and danger. She wants to know what kind of charm made her father spend a lifetime in this desert. This is the only way she can get to know her deceased father. Ciao Fei has a question to be answered urgently. The desert has become a chaos for the missing guardian, Damo Eagle. His strong connection to the guardians and self-awareness drove him to unravel the mystery of missing Eagle and bring peace and beauty back to the desert.
The four encounter unpredictable dangers from the desert, cruel killing interference and arguments and conflicts among each other along the way. But they end up with a strong brotherhood in the relentless desert.

Finally, after getting through difficulties, the ancient city in legend has appeared. Missing Eagle comes to resume and end the unfinished battle years ago. Ciao Fei faced the battle he has been avoided and eventually untied the knot that constrained him and his good friend, Desert Eagle.
More and more traps and challenges come up to these people since they have walked into the imperial tomb. Their lives are tied together, but who is the friend in such a critical moment? What buried is treasure or unrevealed secrets.

 

Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

September 14th, 2011

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 169

Language:

Director: Pamela Yates

Plot: Sometimes a film makes history; it doesn’t just document it. So it is with “Granito: How to Nail a Dictator”, the astonishing new film by Pamela Yates. Part political thriller, part memoir, Yates transports us back in time through a riveting, haunting tale of genocide and returns to the present with a cast of characters joined by destiny and the quest to bring a malevolent dictator to justice.

In 1982 Yates risked her life making the documentary “When the Mountains Tremble” in Guatemala, in order to bring the hidden story of the massacre of the Mayan people to the attention of the world. She filmed combat missions with both guerrillas and the army, and survived a troop transport helicopter crash to tell the tale. The film didn’t stop the killings, but destiny gave Yates another chance. Her old film and its 16mm out-takes may be the only footage of the Guatemalan genocide, so lawyers building the case against former dictator General Ríos Montt recently asked Yates for her footage as evidence to help convict him.

Now, as if a watchful Maya god were weaving back together threads of a story unraveled by the passage of time, forgotten by most, our characters become integral to the overarching narrative of wrongs done and justice sought that they have pieced together, each adding their granito, their tiny grain of sand, to the epic tale.

 

Creature

September 9th, 2011

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 124

Language:

Director: Fred M. Andrews

Plot: An ex-Navy seal, Niles (Mehcad Brooks, True Blood), his girlfriend Emily (Serinda Swan, Tron) and their friends head out on a road trip to New Orleans. When the group decides to stop at a roadside convenience store owned by Chopper (Sid Haig, Devils Rejects) they are introduced to the legend of Lockjaw, a Creature who is part man, part alligatorThe Legend has it that an inbred local man by the name of Grimley (Daniel Bernhardt, The Matrix: Reloaded), lost his family to a monstrous white alligator, and because of the devastating loss of his family was driven to madness and was transformed into the Creature. Their curiosity peaked, the group decides to head deeper into the swamps to check out the birthplace of this Creature legend. As they journey further into the backwoods the group arrives at an old dilapidated cabin and decide to camp there for the night and inadvertently unleash the Creature who terrorizes the group.

When the group decides to stop at a roadside tourist trap along the Louisiana back-roads, they are introduced to the legend of Lockjaw, the local’s version of bigfoot, a Creature who is part man, part alligator…The Legend has it that an inbred local man by the name of Grimley, lost his family to a monstrous white alligator and was driven to madness when he realized that he was too late to save his pregnant bride, who was also his ssters, and in his madness ate the ancient alligator and was transformed into the Creature that the locals call Lockjaw.

 

Shaolin

September 9th, 2011

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 134

Language: Mandarin

Director: Benny Chan

Plot: As feuding warlords fight to expand their power, the noble monks of the Shaolin temple clean up the mess left behind, tending to the injured while trying their best to protect the poor and weak. The young general Hao Jie (Andy Lau, WARLORDS, INFERNAL AFFAIRS) has caused much of this mess, with his violent and ruthless tactics that rarely discriminate between soldiers and civilians.

When Hao is betrayed by fellow general Cao Man (Nicolas Tse, THE PROMISE, SHAOLIN SOCCER), he is forced into hiding, and takes refuge with the monks (including Jackie Chan) at their hidden mountain temple. As the days pass, he finds himself more and more at ease, as he learns the ways of peace. But Cao is not far behind, and war soon reaches the temple, where the monks are ready to fight back with a fierce style that none of the warlords have ever seen- their unstoppable Shaolin Kung Fu.

 

Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star

September 9th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 142

Language:

Director: Tom Brady

Plot: There are no small actors. Just small parts.

Bucky learns his parents were once porn stars so he decides to move to Hollywood and follow in their footsteps.

 

Main Street

September 9th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 119

Language:

Director: John Doyle

Plot: From Horton Foote, Oscar winning screenwriter of To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies, comes MAIN STREET, a moving ensemble drama starring Oscar winner Colin Firth, Orlando Bloom, Oscar nominee Patricia Clarkson, Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn, and Andrew McCarthy. The lives of the residents of a small Southern city are changed forever by the arrival of a stranger with a controversial plan to save their decaying hometown.

 

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

September 9th, 2011

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 140

Language:

Director: Goran Hugo Olsson

Plot: THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement-Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them-the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection was found languishing in the basement of Swedish Television. Director Göran Olsson and co-producer Danny Glover bring this footage to light in a mosaic of images, music and narration chronicling the evolution one of our nation’s most indelible turning points, the Black Power movement. Music by Questlove and Om’Mas Keith, and commentary from prominent African- American artists and activists who were influenced by the struggle – including Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Talib Kweli, and Melvin Van Peebles – give the historical footage a fresh, contemporary resonance and makes the film an exhilarating, unprecedented account of an American revolution.

 

Laugh at My Pain

September 9th, 2011

Genre: Non-Fiction

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 94

Language:

Director: Leslie Small

Plot: Funnyman Kevin Hart is BACK and starring in the theatrical version of his 2011 LAUGH AT MY PAIN comedy tour that swept the nation and earned more than $15,000,000 in ticket sales! The 90-city LAUGH AT MY PAIN tour is one of the most successful Comedy Concerts in history. Hart’s 2-day performance of LAUGH AT MY PAIN (at LA Live’s Nokia Theatre), raised the bar and broke Eddie Murphy’s long standing record of being the first African-American Comedian to surpass over $1.1 million two-day live Comedy show ticket sales.