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American Gangster (2007)

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Russell Crowe | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Josh Brolin | Lymari Nadal | Ted Levine | Roger Guenveur Smith | John Hawkes | RZA | Yul Vazquez | Malcolm Goodwin | Ruby Dee | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Carla Gugino | Skyler Fortgang
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.

Seabiscuit (2003)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: David McCullough | Jeff Bridges | Paul Vincent O'Connor | Chris Cooper | Michael Ensign | James Keane | Valerie Mahaffey | David Doty | Carl M. Craig | Michael O'Neill | Annie Corley | Michael Angarano | Cameron Bowen | Noah Luke | Mariah Bess
Directors: Gary Ross
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In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters’fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit “fixed us, every one of us.”

Hackers (1995)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jonny Lee Miller | Angelina Jolie | Jesse Bradford | Matthew Lillard | Laurence Mason | Renoly Santiago | Fisher Stevens | Alberta Watson | Darren Lee | Peter Y. Kim | Ethan Browne | Lorraine Bracco | Wendell Pierce | Michael Gaston | Marc Anthony
Directors: Iain Softley
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A young boy is arrested by the US Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. Years later, he and his new-found friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Robert Duvall | Diane Keaton | Robert De Niro | John Cazale | Talia Shire | Lee Strasberg | Michael V. Gazzo | G.D. Spradlin | Richard Bright | Gastone Moschin | Tom Rosqui | Bruno Kirby | Frank Sivero | Francesca De Sapio
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Enchanted (2007)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Amy Adams | James Marsden | Idina Menzel | Susan Sarandon | Patrick Dempsey | Timothy Spall | Rachel Covey | Samantha Ivers | Matt Servitto | Joseph Siravo | Michaela Conlin | Jeff Bennett | Emma Rose Lima | Teala Dunn
Directors: Kevin Lima
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In an animated fairy tale world, a young girl meets and falls in love with the handsome prince of her dreams. News of this romance upsets the prince’s mother, the evil queen, who uses her black magic to send the girl hurtling out of the animated world into the one place in the universe where there is no true love: modern day Manhattan. The now-real girl has to survive in New York City and find her way home again to her true love.

The Producers (2005)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Nathan Lane | Matthew Broderick | Uma Thurman | Will Ferrell | Gary Beach | Roger Bart | Eileen Essell | Michael McKean | David Huddleston | Debra Monk | Andrea Martin | Jon Lovitz | Bryn Dowling | Meg Gillentine | Kevin Ligon
Directors: Susan Stroman
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New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he’s visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. To this end, they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. Finally, they hire as a lead actress the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla (whose last name has over 15 syllables). As opening night draws near, what can go wrong? Well, there’s no accounting for taste…

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Meg Ryan | Bill Pullman | Ross Malinger | Rosie O'Donnell | Gaby Hoffmann | Victor Garber | Rita Wilson | Barbara Garrick | Carey Lowell | David Hyde Pierce | Dana Ivey | Rob Reiner | Tom Riis Farrell | Le Clanché du Rand
Directors: Nora Ephron
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Sam is a recent widower who is seeking someone new. Sam’s son Jonah, is also looking for a new mother, so when Jonah puts his father on national radio, hundreds of women write to him. One of the women is Annie. She’s engaged to Walter, but he’s a bit strange. Annie goes to great lengths to meet Sam.

Factory Girl (2006)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sienna Miller | Guy Pearce | Hayden Christensen | Jimmy Fallon | Jack Huston | Armin Amiri | Tara Summers | Mena Suvari | Shawn Hatosy | Beth Grant | James Naughton | Edward Herrmann | Illeana Douglas | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Don Novello
Directors: George Hickenlooper
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A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality…

I Am Legend (2007)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Ciesla | Dash Mihok | Thomas J. Pilutik | Paradox Pollack | Will Smith | Charlie Tahan | Sterling Wolfe | Alice Braga | Salli Richardson
Directors: Francis Lawrence
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Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and man-made. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague — The Infected — lurk in the shadows… watching Neville’s every move… waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind’s last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered… and quickly running out of time.

Dedication (2007)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bob Balaban | Peter Bogdanovich | Bobby Cannavale | Billy Crudup | Martin Freeman | Jason Evans Lee | Christopher Grey Misa | Antonio Parisi | Jeremy Shamos | Steven Wargo | Tom Wilkinson | Charlene Biton | Cassidy Hinkle | Mandy Moore | Jicky Schnee
Directors: Justin Theroux
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The romantic comedy follows a misogynistic children’s book author (Crudup) who is forced to work closely with a female illustrator (Moore) instead of his long-time collaborator and only friend (Wilkinson). Balaban is the book’s publisher.