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Satellite: Hotbird Position: 13 east
Frequency: 11996V, 12073V, 12341V, 12616H & 12635V
Programming hours: 24 Hours
Encryptions: Videoguard

June 19 to June 26


Bolt

Starring John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton and Greg Germann.
For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet - a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions - a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) - Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.







The Burning Plain

Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquim de Almeida and Tessa Ia.
Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents.







Deception (Sex List)

Starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, LisaGay Hamilton, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Lynn Cohen, Danny Burstein, Malcolm Goodwin and Charlotte Rampling.
"Are you free tonight?" A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper crust. For these power brokers, whose eighteen-hour workdays leave no time for a personal life, there's 'The List' - a sex club, of sorts, where the right cell-phone number and four simple words ("Are you free tonight?") can lead to an evening's sexual fulfillment. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy', as Jonathan's first conquest (or vice versa) explains to him, and through The List Jonathan discovers a side of himself that he didn't know existed. But an affair with a ravishing and mysterious stranger known to Jonathan only by her first initial 'S' (Michelle Williams), will expose him to yet another world he never imagined - one of betrayal, treachery and murder.







Drillbit Taylor

Starring Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, David Dorfman, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, Alex Frost and Andrew Caldwell.
It all begins on the first day of high school, when a trio of anxious freshmen - chubby Ryan (Troy Gentile), freakishly skinny Wade (Nate Hartley) and their shrimpy tagalong, Emmit (David Dorfman) - become the instant target of the school's senior psycho-in-residence, Filkins (Alex Frost), the ultimate school bully. As what they were hoping to be the best years of their lives are suddenly turned into a daily living hell, the boys realize they have only one choice - to hire their own personal bodyguard. Enter Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), not the best but definitely the cheapest of the mercenaries, hit men and bodyguards who answer their online ad. Drillbit is steely, dangerous and skilled in covert black-ops and exotic martial arts. He's also a complete fraud. He bluffs and cajoles the credulous trio through his cockamamie boot camp and, after several hilarious missteps, instills in them new skills and some muchneeded confidence. But when push comes to shove - and more pushing and more shoving - Drillbit seems to be no match for Filkins' reign of terror. Now it's up to Ryan, Wade and Emmit to transform this down-and-out drifter into the savior he originally promised to be.







Giu' Al Nord (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'Tis)

Con Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Michel Galabru, Line Renaud, Zoé Félix, Philippe Duquesne. Il film racconta la storia di un funzionario delle Poste trasferito in un piccolo villaggio del nord che viene a contatto con gli strani costumi della popolazione locale, ovvero gli Ch'tis, la loro lingua e la loro calda ospitalità.







High School Musical 3

Starring Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Olesya Rulin, Kaycee Stroh, Bart Johnson, Alyson Reed, Matt Prokop and Justin Martin.
Disney's "High School Musical" phenomenon leaps onto the big screen in High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which finds high school seniors Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) facing the prospect of being separated from one another as they head off in different directions to college. Joined by the rest of the Wildcats, they stage an elaborate spring musical reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about their future. With incredible new music and exciting dance numbers designed to take maximum advantage of the big screen, this motion picture extravaganza delivers plenty of high-energy entertainment from East High's talented ensemble.







La Fidanzata Di Papa'

Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.







The Lodger

Starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Simon Baker, Shane West, Phillip Baker Hall, Rebecca Pidgeon, Rachel Leigh Cook and Mel Harris.
Grizzled detective Chandler Manning is on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger called Malcolm Slaight rents a guesthouse from Joe (Donal Logue) and Ellen Bunting, a married couple struggling to preserve their fragile union after their plans to start a family have ended in tragedy. Manning, shunned both by his daughter Amanda and his suicidal wife Margaret as a result of his single-minded dedication to police work, teams up with unlikely rookie partner Street Wilkenson, only to make a startling discovery. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, Manning soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer Manning incarcerated years ago.







L'uomo Che Ama

Con Pierfrancesco Favino, Ksenia Rappoport, Monica Bellucci, Piera Degli Esposti, Marisa Paredes.
Cosa prova un uomo quando viene lasciato dalla donna che ama? E cosa invece quando capisce di non amare più, e sceglie di mettere la parola fine ad una storia d'amore? L'amore che racconta il film, l'amore di Roberto, é un amore assoluto. Quello che spezza le gambe o ti riempie la vita. Una pellicola adulta sull'amore, un film che racconta la passione dal punto di vista maschile. L'uomo abbandona e viene abbandonato, diventa carnefice e poi vittima.







Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?







Mirrors (Riflessi Di Paura)

Starring Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Jason Flemyng and Julian Glover.
A mall security guard (Kiefer Sutherland) becomes wrapped up in a mystery involving a particular department store¡s mirrors which seem to bring out the worst in people. Down through the ages, mirrors have always been gateways to other worlds; they have protected us from evil, they have told us the future, and they have told us the truth. Mirrors reflect back at the viewer a glimpse of the human soul. In stories handed down through folk beliefs of generations, and stitched into the fabric of fairy tales and myths worldwide, mirrors have been the gateways to other worlds. is this a realm inhabited by angels, demons, and spirits of the dead? Or, does it reflect back to the viewer a glimpse of the human soul?







No Problem

Con Vincenzo Salemme, Giorgio Panariello, Sergio Rubini, Aylin Prandi, Iaia Forte.
Arturo Cremisi è (o, meglio, era) il protagonista di una soap opera dal titolo 'Un bambino a metà'. ¡Era' perché Federico, il bambino che interpreta il ruolo di suo figlio, gli ruba costantemente la scena grazie anche agli appoggi ¡in alto' di cui gode la madre Barbara che nel passato ha avuto una breve relazione proprio con Arturo. Sul set la tensione è alle stelle ma la situazione si complica all'estremo quando negli studi di registrazione giunge il piccolo Mirko che, avendo perso il padre e vivendo con una madre sempre in tensione, si è identificato nel protagonista della soap e ha deciso che Arturo è il padre che gli manca. All'istintivo tentativo di liberarsi dell'importuno da parte dell'attore fa da scudo l'intraprendenza del suo agente Enrico Pignataro. Costui, naif quanto basta a storpiare una parola su cinque ma estremamente attento a tutto quanto può accrescere la sua parcella, vede in questo incontro un affare. I settimanali e le rubriche televisive andranno a nozze con la storia dell'attore che diventa ¡nella realtà' il padre dell'orfano. Ci sono però due ostacoli: la madre di Mirko che non vuole che il figlio venga sfruttato mediaticamente e uno zio del bambino simpaticamente alienato. A loro si aggiunge la rabbia di Barbara che rischia di vedere il proprio pupillo entrare in un cono d'ombra. Dopo l'incontestabile successo di SMS-Sotto mentite spoglie Salemme decide di conservare un elemento prezioso della squadra (Panariello a cui permette di svariare su più registri espressivi) e di farsi affiancare da due cavalli di razza dall'altrettanto indiscutibile e consolidata carriera come Sergio Rubini e Iaia Forte. Memore della lezione dei De Filippo (di Eduardo, certo, con cui ha a lungo lavorato ma anche di Peppino) sa che uno dei mezzi per far pensare è quello di far sorridere. Lo fa con delicatezza e misura per gran parte di un film che mette alla berlina il mondo della serialità televisiva nostrana con i suoi miti effimeri destinati a un'altrettanto effimera ascesa agli altari con spesso conseguente caduta nella polvere dei dati dell'Auditel e affini. Il suo Arturo è un ex essere umano ormai solo attento a chi gli ruba i primi piani e (cor)roso da una sterile lotta per uno pseudosuccesso. Il piccolo Mirko, che è sprofondato (come accade non solo al cinema ma anche nella patologia scientificamente studiata) nella commistione totale tra finzione e realtà nel tentativo di suturare una ferita troppo profonda, lo trascina con sé nel mondo di una realtà che è fatta di piccole meschinità (come quelle rappresentate con grottesca misura da Oreste Lionello e Gisella Sofio) che non sono poi troppo distanti da quelle che lui stesso si porta dentro. Tutto questo viene raccontato non dimenticando mai lo spettatore e le sue attese salvo in due casi. Il tormentone della degustazione di vini fa deviare il film sul piano della farsa di cui non si sentiva il bisogno e il finale (di cui ovviamente non anticipiamo il contenuto) rischia di rientrare proprio negli schemi narrativi di quella soap opera che così abilmente si era messa alla berlina. Peccato. Anzi due peccati. Veniali? Al pubblico l'ardua sentenza.







The Orphanage

Starring Belén Rueda, Fernando Caya, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla and Geraldine Chaplin.
Laura spent the happiest years of her childhood growing up in an orphanage by the seaside, cared for by the staff and fellow orphans whom she loved as brothers and sisters. Now, thirty years later, she returns with her husband Carlos and Simon, their 7-year-old son, with a dream of restoring and reopening the long-abandoned orphanage as a home for disabled children. The new home and mysterious surroundings awaken Simon¢s imagination and the boy starts to spin a web of fantastic tales and not-so-innocent games... A troubling web that begins to disturb Laura, drawing her into the child¢s strange universe which resonates with echoes of long-forgotten, deeply unsettling memories of her own childhood. As the opening day draws near, tension builds within the family. Carlos remains sceptical, believing that Simon is making everything up in a desperate bid for attention. But Laura slowly becomes convinced that something long-hidden and terrible is lurking in the old house, something waiting to emerge and inflict appalling damage on her family.







Reno 911!: Miami

Starring Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong and Wendi McLendon-Covey.
Lt. Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon) and the rest of the gang from the Washoe County Sheriff's Department are transported from landlocked Reno to the sunny shores of Miami in this big-screen version of Comedy Central's cop spoof. While attending a police convention at the height of spring break, the Reno cops prove their crime-fighting abilities are as sharp as ever (meaning not very!) after a biological attack occurs and they race to save the day.







The Rocker

Starring Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Jeff Garlin, Jane Lynch, Will Arnett, Josh Gad, Teddy Geiger, Howard Hesseman and Emma Stone.
Robert "Fish" Fishman (Rainn Wilson), was the drummer for an eighties hair band. He was living the rock 'n' roll dream... until he was kicked out of the group. Twenty years later, the desperate rocker joins his nephew's band, "A.D.D.," finally reclaiming the rock-god throne he's always thought he deserved - while taking his much younger bandmates along for the ride of their lives. When we first meet Fish, he and his bandmates from Vesuvius are in full '80s glory - knocking out headbanging songs and sporting big hair, scarves, and impossibly tight leather pants. Just as Vesuvius is about to break big, Fish is tossed out of the band. Flash-forward twenty years: the ex-drummer extraordinaire, who lived, ate, breathed, slept - and most of all, sweated - rock n' roll, works for an insurance company and is living with his sister, brother-in-law and nephew Matt. In short, Fish is a broken man, stuck in a mid-life crisis. But when he learns that Matt's band, A.D.D. is searching for a new drummer, Fish volunteers - well, really, he begs - for a shot. Fish is over two decades older than his bandmates, yet somehow he completes A.D.D.: the brooding, hair-in-the-face singer Curtis; the stiff-as-a-board supernerd Matt; the ironic post-modern punk girl Amelia - and now the ancient rocker, Fish. Spurred by Fish's habit of rehearsing in the buff (and hip new moniker "The Naked Drummer"), A.D.D. becomes an internet sensation. They hit the road for their first big tour - along with Curtis' mom, Kim, as a chaperon. But as Fish once again lives the rock and roll life he thought was almost a birthright, he begins a journey that will take him to a place even he never thought possible: adulthood.







Tropic Thunder

Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Coogan, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Brandon T. Jackson, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte and Tom Cruise.
Pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced. He sets out to Southeast Asia with a "Who's Who" of celebrity co-stars. They include Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an intense, three-time Oscar-winning actor; Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), star of the popular gross-out comedy franchise "The Fatties"; multi-platinum hip-hop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson); and first-timer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel). Soon after the production begins the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they're portraying, in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece.







Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Starring Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson and Kevin Dunn.
Two young American women, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) come to Barcelona for a summer holiday. Vicky is sensible and engaged to be married; Cristina is emotionally and sexually adventurous. In Barcelona, they're drawn into a series of unconventional romantic entanglements with Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), a charismatic painter, who is still involved with his tempestuous ex-wife Maria Elena (Penélope Cruz). Set against the luscious Mediterranean sensuality of Barcelona, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is Woody Allen's funny and open-minded celebration of love in all its configurations.
 

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June 26 to July 3


Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Starring Piper Perabo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis.
A pampered Beverly Hills Chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected new friends--including a street-hardened German Shepherd named Delgado (voice of Andy Garcia) and an amorous pup named Papi (voice of George Lopez) - to lend her a paw and help her to find her inner strength on their incredible journey back home.







Bolt

Starring John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton and Greg Germann.
For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet - a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions - a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) - Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.







The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)

Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.







The Burning Plain

Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquim de Almeida and Tessa Ia.
Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents.







Deception (Sex List)

Starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, LisaGay Hamilton, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Lynn Cohen, Danny Burstein, Malcolm Goodwin and Charlotte Rampling.
"Are you free tonight?" A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper crust. For these power brokers, whose eighteen-hour workdays leave no time for a personal life, there's 'The List' - a sex club, of sorts, where the right cell-phone number and four simple words ("Are you free tonight?") can lead to an evening's sexual fulfillment. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy', as Jonathan's first conquest (or vice versa) explains to him, and through The List Jonathan discovers a side of himself that he didn't know existed. But an affair with a ravishing and mysterious stranger known to Jonathan only by her first initial 'S' (Michelle Williams), will expose him to yet another world he never imagined - one of betrayal, treachery and murder.







Drillbit Taylor

Starring Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, David Dorfman, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, Alex Frost and Andrew Caldwell.
It all begins on the first day of high school, when a trio of anxious freshmen - chubby Ryan (Troy Gentile), freakishly skinny Wade (Nate Hartley) and their shrimpy tagalong, Emmit (David Dorfman) - become the instant target of the school's senior psycho-in-residence, Filkins (Alex Frost), the ultimate school bully. As what they were hoping to be the best years of their lives are suddenly turned into a daily living hell, the boys realize they have only one choice - to hire their own personal bodyguard. Enter Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), not the best but definitely the cheapest of the mercenaries, hit men and bodyguards who answer their online ad. Drillbit is steely, dangerous and skilled in covert black-ops and exotic martial arts. He's also a complete fraud. He bluffs and cajoles the credulous trio through his cockamamie boot camp and, after several hilarious missteps, instills in them new skills and some muchneeded confidence. But when push comes to shove - and more pushing and more shoving - Drillbit seems to be no match for Filkins' reign of terror. Now it's up to Ryan, Wade and Emmit to transform this down-and-out drifter into the savior he originally promised to be.







Giu' Al Nord (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'Tis)

Con Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Michel Galabru, Line Renaud, Zoé Félix, Philippe Duquesne. Il film racconta la storia di un funzionario delle Poste trasferito in un piccolo villaggio del nord che viene a contatto con gli strani costumi della popolazione locale, ovvero gli Ch'tis, la loro lingua e la loro calda ospitalità.







La Fidanzata Di Papa'

Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.







The Lodger

Starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Simon Baker, Shane West, Phillip Baker Hall, Rebecca Pidgeon, Rachel Leigh Cook and Mel Harris.
Grizzled detective Chandler Manning is on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger called Malcolm Slaight rents a guesthouse from Joe (Donal Logue) and Ellen Bunting, a married couple struggling to preserve their fragile union after their plans to start a family have ended in tragedy. Manning, shunned both by his daughter Amanda and his suicidal wife Margaret as a result of his single-minded dedication to police work, teams up with unlikely rookie partner Street Wilkenson, only to make a startling discovery. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, Manning soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer Manning incarcerated years ago.







L'uomo Che Ama

Con Pierfrancesco Favino, Ksenia Rappoport, Monica Bellucci, Piera Degli Esposti, Marisa Paredes.
Cosa prova un uomo quando viene lasciato dalla donna che ama? E cosa invece quando capisce di non amare più, e sceglie di mettere la parola fine ad una storia d'amore? L'amore che racconta il film, l'amore di Roberto, é un amore assoluto. Quello che spezza le gambe o ti riempie la vita. Una pellicola adulta sull'amore, un film che racconta la passione dal punto di vista maschile. L'uomo abbandona e viene abbandonato, diventa carnefice e poi vittima.







Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?







The Orphanage

Starring Belén Rueda, Fernando Caya, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla and Geraldine Chaplin.
Laura spent the happiest years of her childhood growing up in an orphanage by the seaside, cared for by the staff and fellow orphans whom she loved as brothers and sisters. Now, thirty years later, she returns with her husband Carlos and Simon, their 7-year-old son, with a dream of restoring and reopening the long-abandoned orphanage as a home for disabled children. The new home and mysterious surroundings awaken Simon¢s imagination and the boy starts to spin a web of fantastic tales and not-so-innocent games... A troubling web that begins to disturb Laura, drawing her into the child¢s strange universe which resonates with echoes of long-forgotten, deeply unsettling memories of her own childhood. As the opening day draws near, tension builds within the family. Carlos remains sceptical, believing that Simon is making everything up in a desperate bid for attention. But Laura slowly becomes convinced that something long-hidden and terrible is lurking in the old house, something waiting to emerge and inflict appalling damage on her family.







Qualcuno Con Cui Correre

Con Bar Belfer, Yonatan Bar Or, Yuval Mendelson, Rinat Matatov, Tzahi Grad.
Assaf, un adolescente impiegato temporaneamente alla Protezione animali, ha una (com)missione da compiere: restituire un cane alla sua padrona e recapitare alla stessa una multa di centocinquanta shekel per la negligenza mostrata nella cura dell¢animale. Sarà proprio Dinka, un magnifico Labrador color miele a guidare Assaf per le strade di Gerusalemme alla ricerca di Tamar, una ragazzina fuggita da casa con un cane e una chitarra nel tentativo disperato di trovare il fratello tossicodipendente. I loro destini si incroceranno presto e sarà l¢ostinata volontà di Assaf a salvare i due fratelli da Pesach, un protettore criminale che sfrutta il talento artistico dei ragazzi di strada, nascondendo sotto le note loschi traffici di droga. Tratto dall¢omonimo libro di David Grossman, Qualcuno con cui correre è un romanzo di formazione dal sapore dickensiano, ambientato in uno spazio cittadino che grava sui protagonisti, imprigionandoli nell¢infelicità di un¢adolescenza maltrattata. I ragazzini allo sbando non sono un¢invenzione neppure a Gerusalemme e tutta la storia si concentra nella sfida di Assaf alla paura, all¢assenza e al disorientamento per l¢eclissarsi e il disfacimento della figura genitoriale. Il protagonista, correndo con un cane e una speranza mai sopita, prova a cambiare la vita di una sua coetanea. La sua è una lotta eroica normale che vorrebbe riconsegnare Tamar al tempo di un¢innocenza ancora possibile, una lotta sulla capacità e necessità di sopravvivere in un contesto di inarrestabile decadenza. Eppure lo sguardo di Oded Davidoff non appare mai sinceramente integrato nella prospettiva dei giovani protagonisti, mostrandosi piuttosto incline alla retorica del mondo salvato dai ragazzini. Ciò che risulta totalmente assente è l¢ineliminabile componente sociale, da intendere non tanto come ricognizione delle problematiche contemporanee, quanto come immersione in quella realtà dalla cui esperienza scaturisce la presa di consapevolezza dei protagonisti. Personaggi che oscillano fra la costipazione e la deflagrazione: l¢impossibilità di sopportare oltre e di esprimere appieno. Ma è il film stesso a coltivare questa indecisione al punto che la rabbia e il disagio rimangono in superficie, assunti senza essere indagati, ogni gesto è fine a se stesso, non facendosi rivelatore di nulla. Tamar mortifica se stessa in un continuo gioco di allontanamento da sé e dalla resa dei conti che sembra non arrivare mai. Certo, trattandosi di un film di formazione con incluso apologo morale, i cattivi vanno puniti a prescindere, anche se tardivamente, e così il film, che voleva stupire con una narrazione diluita a base di analessi e prolessi, si riconsegna ad una prevedibilità più generale. Qualcuno con cui correre paga lo scotto di una regia senza lampi (di genio) e, in Italia, di un doppiaggio che vanifica l¢espressività dei personaggi.







Reno 911!: Miami

Starring Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong and Wendi McLendon-Covey.
Lt. Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon) and the rest of the gang from the Washoe County Sheriff's Department are transported from landlocked Reno to the sunny shores of Miami in this big-screen version of Comedy Central's cop spoof. While attending a police convention at the height of spring break, the Reno cops prove their crime-fighting abilities are as sharp as ever (meaning not very!) after a biological attack occurs and they race to save the day.







Tropic Thunder

Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Coogan, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Brandon T. Jackson, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte and Tom Cruise.
Pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced. He sets out to Southeast Asia with a "Who's Who" of celebrity co-stars. They include Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an intense, three-time Oscar-winning actor; Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), star of the popular gross-out comedy franchise "The Fatties"; multi-platinum hip-hop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson); and first-timer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel). Soon after the production begins the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they're portraying, in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece.







Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Starring Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson and Kevin Dunn.
Two young American women, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) come to Barcelona for a summer holiday. Vicky is sensible and engaged to be married; Cristina is emotionally and sexually adventurous. In Barcelona, they're drawn into a series of unconventional romantic entanglements with Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), a charismatic painter, who is still involved with his tempestuous ex-wife Maria Elena (Penélope Cruz). Set against the luscious Mediterranean sensuality of Barcelona, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is Woody Allen's funny and open-minded celebration of love in all its configurations.
 

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Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Starring Piper Perabo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis.
A pampered Beverly Hills Chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected new friends--including a street-hardened German Shepherd named Delgado (voice of Andy Garcia) and an amorous pup named Papi (voice of George Lopez) - to lend her a paw and help her to find her inner strength on their incredible journey back home.







Bolt

Starring John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton and Greg Germann.
For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet - a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions - a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) - Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.







The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)

Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.







The Burning Plain

Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquim de Almeida and Tessa Ia.
Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents.







Deception (Sex List)

Starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, LisaGay Hamilton, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Lynn Cohen, Danny Burstein, Malcolm Goodwin and Charlotte Rampling.
"Are you free tonight?" A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper crust. For these power brokers, whose eighteen-hour workdays leave no time for a personal life, there's 'The List' - a sex club, of sorts, where the right cell-phone number and four simple words ("Are you free tonight?") can lead to an evening's sexual fulfillment. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy', as Jonathan's first conquest (or vice versa) explains to him, and through The List Jonathan discovers a side of himself that he didn't know existed. But an affair with a ravishing and mysterious stranger known to Jonathan only by her first initial 'S' (Michelle Williams), will expose him to yet another world he never imagined - one of betrayal, treachery and murder.







Drillbit Taylor

Starring Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, David Dorfman, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, Alex Frost and Andrew Caldwell.
It all begins on the first day of high school, when a trio of anxious freshmen - chubby Ryan (Troy Gentile), freakishly skinny Wade (Nate Hartley) and their shrimpy tagalong, Emmit (David Dorfman) - become the instant target of the school's senior psycho-in-residence, Filkins (Alex Frost), the ultimate school bully. As what they were hoping to be the best years of their lives are suddenly turned into a daily living hell, the boys realize they have only one choice - to hire their own personal bodyguard. Enter Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), not the best but definitely the cheapest of the mercenaries, hit men and bodyguards who answer their online ad. Drillbit is steely, dangerous and skilled in covert black-ops and exotic martial arts. He's also a complete fraud. He bluffs and cajoles the credulous trio through his cockamamie boot camp and, after several hilarious missteps, instills in them new skills and some muchneeded confidence. But when push comes to shove - and more pushing and more shoving - Drillbit seems to be no match for Filkins' reign of terror. Now it's up to Ryan, Wade and Emmit to transform this down-and-out drifter into the savior he originally promised to be.







Giu' Al Nord (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'Tis)

Con Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Michel Galabru, Line Renaud, Zoé Félix, Philippe Duquesne. Il film racconta la storia di un funzionario delle Poste trasferito in un piccolo villaggio del nord che viene a contatto con gli strani costumi della popolazione locale, ovvero gli Ch'tis, la loro lingua e la loro calda ospitalità.







La Fidanzata Di Papa'

Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.







The Lodger

Starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Simon Baker, Shane West, Phillip Baker Hall, Rebecca Pidgeon, Rachel Leigh Cook and Mel Harris.
Grizzled detective Chandler Manning is on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger called Malcolm Slaight rents a guesthouse from Joe (Donal Logue) and Ellen Bunting, a married couple struggling to preserve their fragile union after their plans to start a family have ended in tragedy. Manning, shunned both by his daughter Amanda and his suicidal wife Margaret as a result of his single-minded dedication to police work, teams up with unlikely rookie partner Street Wilkenson, only to make a startling discovery. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, Manning soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer Manning incarcerated years ago.







L'uomo Che Ama

Con Pierfrancesco Favino, Ksenia Rappoport, Monica Bellucci, Piera Degli Esposti, Marisa Paredes.
Cosa prova un uomo quando viene lasciato dalla donna che ama? E cosa invece quando capisce di non amare più, e sceglie di mettere la parola fine ad una storia d'amore? L'amore che racconta il film, l'amore di Roberto, é un amore assoluto. Quello che spezza le gambe o ti riempie la vita. Una pellicola adulta sull'amore, un film che racconta la passione dal punto di vista maschile. L'uomo abbandona e viene abbandonato, diventa carnefice e poi vittima.







Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?







Mirrors (Riflessi Di Paura)

Starring Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Jason Flemyng and Julian Glover.
A mall security guard (Kiefer Sutherland) becomes wrapped up in a mystery involving a particular department store¡s mirrors which seem to bring out the worst in people. Down through the ages, mirrors have always been gateways to other worlds; they have protected us from evil, they have told us the future, and they have told us the truth. Mirrors reflect back at the viewer a glimpse of the human soul. In stories handed down through folk beliefs of generations, and stitched into the fabric of fairy tales and myths worldwide, mirrors have been the gateways to other worlds. is this a realm inhabited by angels, demons, and spirits of the dead? Or, does it reflect back to the viewer a glimpse of the human soul?







Qualcuno Con Cui Correre

Con Bar Belfer, Yonatan Bar Or, Yuval Mendelson, Rinat Matatov, Tzahi Grad.
Assaf, un adolescente impiegato temporaneamente alla Protezione animali, ha una (com)missione da compiere: restituire un cane alla sua padrona e recapitare alla stessa una multa di centocinquanta shekel per la negligenza mostrata nella cura dell¢animale. Sarà proprio Dinka, un magnifico Labrador color miele a guidare Assaf per le strade di Gerusalemme alla ricerca di Tamar, una ragazzina fuggita da casa con un cane e una chitarra nel tentativo disperato di trovare il fratello tossicodipendente. I loro destini si incroceranno presto e sarà l¢ostinata volontà di Assaf a salvare i due fratelli da Pesach, un protettore criminale che sfrutta il talento artistico dei ragazzi di strada, nascondendo sotto le note loschi traffici di droga. Tratto dall¢omonimo libro di David Grossman, Qualcuno con cui correre è un romanzo di formazione dal sapore dickensiano, ambientato in uno spazio cittadino che grava sui protagonisti, imprigionandoli nell¢infelicità di un¢adolescenza maltrattata. I ragazzini allo sbando non sono un¢invenzione neppure a Gerusalemme e tutta la storia si concentra nella sfida di Assaf alla paura, all¢assenza e al disorientamento per l¢eclissarsi e il disfacimento della figura genitoriale. Il protagonista, correndo con un cane e una speranza mai sopita, prova a cambiare la vita di una sua coetanea. La sua è una lotta eroica normale che vorrebbe riconsegnare Tamar al tempo di un¢innocenza ancora possibile, una lotta sulla capacità e necessità di sopravvivere in un contesto di inarrestabile decadenza. Eppure lo sguardo di Oded Davidoff non appare mai sinceramente integrato nella prospettiva dei giovani protagonisti, mostrandosi piuttosto incline alla retorica del mondo salvato dai ragazzini. Ciò che risulta totalmente assente è l¢ineliminabile componente sociale, da intendere non tanto come ricognizione delle problematiche contemporanee, quanto come immersione in quella realtà dalla cui esperienza scaturisce la presa di consapevolezza dei protagonisti. Personaggi che oscillano fra la costipazione e la deflagrazione: l¢impossibilità di sopportare oltre e di esprimere appieno. Ma è il film stesso a coltivare questa indecisione al punto che la rabbia e il disagio rimangono in superficie, assunti senza essere indagati, ogni gesto è fine a se stesso, non facendosi rivelatore di nulla. Tamar mortifica se stessa in un continuo gioco di allontanamento da sé e dalla resa dei conti che sembra non arrivare mai. Certo, trattandosi di un film di formazione con incluso apologo morale, i cattivi vanno puniti a prescindere, anche se tardivamente, e così il film, che voleva stupire con una narrazione diluita a base di analessi e prolessi, si riconsegna ad una prevedibilità più generale. Qualcuno con cui correre paga lo scotto di una regia senza lampi (di genio) e, in Italia, di un doppiaggio che vanifica l¢espressività dei personaggi.







Quantum Of Solace

Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.







Reno 911!: Miami

Starring Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong and Wendi McLendon-Covey.
Lt. Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon) and the rest of the gang from the Washoe County Sheriff's Department are transported from landlocked Reno to the sunny shores of Miami in this big-screen version of Comedy Central's cop spoof. While attending a police convention at the height of spring break, the Reno cops prove their crime-fighting abilities are as sharp as ever (meaning not very!) after a biological attack occurs and they race to save the day.







Tropic Thunder

Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Coogan, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Brandon T. Jackson, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte and Tom Cruise.
Pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced. He sets out to Southeast Asia with a "Who's Who" of celebrity co-stars. They include Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an intense, three-time Oscar-winning actor; Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), star of the popular gross-out comedy franchise "The Fatties"; multi-platinum hip-hop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson); and first-timer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel). Soon after the production begins the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they're portraying, in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece.
 

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Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Starring Piper Perabo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis.
A pampered Beverly Hills Chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected new friends--including a street-hardened German Shepherd named Delgado (voice of Andy Garcia) and an amorous pup named Papi (voice of George Lopez) - to lend her a paw and help her to find her inner strength on their incredible journey back home.







Bolt

Starring John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton and Greg Germann.
For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet - a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions - a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) - Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.







The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)

Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.







The Burning Plain

Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquim de Almeida and Tessa Ia.
Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents.







The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)

Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.







Deception (Sex List)

Starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, LisaGay Hamilton, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Lynn Cohen, Danny Burstein, Malcolm Goodwin and Charlotte Rampling.
"Are you free tonight?" A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper crust. For these power brokers, whose eighteen-hour workdays leave no time for a personal life, there's 'The List' - a sex club, of sorts, where the right cell-phone number and four simple words ("Are you free tonight?") can lead to an evening's sexual fulfillment. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy', as Jonathan's first conquest (or vice versa) explains to him, and through The List Jonathan discovers a side of himself that he didn't know existed. But an affair with a ravishing and mysterious stranger known to Jonathan only by her first initial 'S' (Michelle Williams), will expose him to yet another world he never imagined - one of betrayal, treachery and murder.







Drillbit Taylor

Starring Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, David Dorfman, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, Alex Frost and Andrew Caldwell.
It all begins on the first day of high school, when a trio of anxious freshmen - chubby Ryan (Troy Gentile), freakishly skinny Wade (Nate Hartley) and their shrimpy tagalong, Emmit (David Dorfman) - become the instant target of the school's senior psycho-in-residence, Filkins (Alex Frost), the ultimate school bully. As what they were hoping to be the best years of their lives are suddenly turned into a daily living hell, the boys realize they have only one choice - to hire their own personal bodyguard. Enter Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), not the best but definitely the cheapest of the mercenaries, hit men and bodyguards who answer their online ad. Drillbit is steely, dangerous and skilled in covert black-ops and exotic martial arts. He's also a complete fraud. He bluffs and cajoles the credulous trio through his cockamamie boot camp and, after several hilarious missteps, instills in them new skills and some muchneeded confidence. But when push comes to shove - and more pushing and more shoving - Drillbit seems to be no match for Filkins' reign of terror. Now it's up to Ryan, Wade and Emmit to transform this down-and-out drifter into the savior he originally promised to be.







Giu' Al Nord (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'Tis)

Con Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Michel Galabru, Line Renaud, Zoé Félix, Philippe Duquesne. Il film racconta la storia di un funzionario delle Poste trasferito in un piccolo villaggio del nord che viene a contatto con gli strani costumi della popolazione locale, ovvero gli Ch'tis, la loro lingua e la loro calda ospitalità.







La Fidanzata Di Papa'

Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.







The Lodger

Starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Simon Baker, Shane West, Phillip Baker Hall, Rebecca Pidgeon, Rachel Leigh Cook and Mel Harris.
Grizzled detective Chandler Manning is on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger called Malcolm Slaight rents a guesthouse from Joe (Donal Logue) and Ellen Bunting, a married couple struggling to preserve their fragile union after their plans to start a family have ended in tragedy. Manning, shunned both by his daughter Amanda and his suicidal wife Margaret as a result of his single-minded dedication to police work, teams up with unlikely rookie partner Street Wilkenson, only to make a startling discovery. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, Manning soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer Manning incarcerated years ago.







L'uomo Che Ama

Con Pierfrancesco Favino, Ksenia Rappoport, Monica Bellucci, Piera Degli Esposti, Marisa Paredes.
Cosa prova un uomo quando viene lasciato dalla donna che ama? E cosa invece quando capisce di non amare più, e sceglie di mettere la parola fine ad una storia d'amore? L'amore che racconta il film, l'amore di Roberto, é un amore assoluto. Quello che spezza le gambe o ti riempie la vita. Una pellicola adulta sull'amore, un film che racconta la passione dal punto di vista maschile. L'uomo abbandona e viene abbandonato, diventa carnefice e poi vittima.







Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?







Never Back Down

Starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Djimon Hounsou, Evan Peters and Wyatt Smith.
Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler (Sean Faris), a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler. Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja (Amber Heard), Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet). While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou). It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua will take Jake under his wing, but it is up to Jake to find the patience, discipline, willingness and reason within him to succeed. For Jake, there is much more at stake than mere victory. His decision will not just settle a score; it will define who he is.







Qualcuno Con Cui Correre

Con Bar Belfer, Yonatan Bar Or, Yuval Mendelson, Rinat Matatov, Tzahi Grad.
Assaf, un adolescente impiegato temporaneamente alla Protezione animali, ha una (com)missione da compiere: restituire un cane alla sua padrona e recapitare alla stessa una multa di centocinquanta shekel per la negligenza mostrata nella cura dell¢animale. Sarà proprio Dinka, un magnifico Labrador color miele a guidare Assaf per le strade di Gerusalemme alla ricerca di Tamar, una ragazzina fuggita da casa con un cane e una chitarra nel tentativo disperato di trovare il fratello tossicodipendente. I loro destini si incroceranno presto e sarà l¢ostinata volontà di Assaf a salvare i due fratelli da Pesach, un protettore criminale che sfrutta il talento artistico dei ragazzi di strada, nascondendo sotto le note loschi traffici di droga. Tratto dall¢omonimo libro di David Grossman, Qualcuno con cui correre è un romanzo di formazione dal sapore dickensiano, ambientato in uno spazio cittadino che grava sui protagonisti, imprigionandoli nell¢infelicità di un¢adolescenza maltrattata. I ragazzini allo sbando non sono un¢invenzione neppure a Gerusalemme e tutta la storia si concentra nella sfida di Assaf alla paura, all¢assenza e al disorientamento per l¢eclissarsi e il disfacimento della figura genitoriale. Il protagonista, correndo con un cane e una speranza mai sopita, prova a cambiare la vita di una sua coetanea. La sua è una lotta eroica normale che vorrebbe riconsegnare Tamar al tempo di un¢innocenza ancora possibile, una lotta sulla capacità e necessità di sopravvivere in un contesto di inarrestabile decadenza. Eppure lo sguardo di Oded Davidoff non appare mai sinceramente integrato nella prospettiva dei giovani protagonisti, mostrandosi piuttosto incline alla retorica del mondo salvato dai ragazzini. Ciò che risulta totalmente assente è l¢ineliminabile componente sociale, da intendere non tanto come ricognizione delle problematiche contemporanee, quanto come immersione in quella realtà dalla cui esperienza scaturisce la presa di consapevolezza dei protagonisti. Personaggi che oscillano fra la costipazione e la deflagrazione: l¢impossibilità di sopportare oltre e di esprimere appieno. Ma è il film stesso a coltivare questa indecisione al punto che la rabbia e il disagio rimangono in superficie, assunti senza essere indagati, ogni gesto è fine a se stesso, non facendosi rivelatore di nulla. Tamar mortifica se stessa in un continuo gioco di allontanamento da sé e dalla resa dei conti che sembra non arrivare mai. Certo, trattandosi di un film di formazione con incluso apologo morale, i cattivi vanno puniti a prescindere, anche se tardivamente, e così il film, che voleva stupire con una narrazione diluita a base di analessi e prolessi, si riconsegna ad una prevedibilità più generale. Qualcuno con cui correre paga lo scotto di una regia senza lampi (di genio) e, in Italia, di un doppiaggio che vanifica l¢espressività dei personaggi.







Quantum Of Solace

Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.







Reno 911!: Miami

Starring Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong and Wendi McLendon-Covey.
Lt. Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon) and the rest of the gang from the Washoe County Sheriff's Department are transported from landlocked Reno to the sunny shores of Miami in this big-screen version of Comedy Central's cop spoof. While attending a police convention at the height of spring break, the Reno cops prove their crime-fighting abilities are as sharp as ever (meaning not very!) after a biological attack occurs and they race to save the day.
 

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Awake

Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin and Christopher McDonald.
Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. A young man named Clay (Hayden Christensen) undergoes heart surgery while experiencing a common occurrence called "anaesthetic awareness," a horrifying phenomenon which leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient's charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple.







Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Starring Piper Perabo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis.
A pampered Beverly Hills Chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected new friends--including a street-hardened German Shepherd named Delgado (voice of Andy Garcia) and an amorous pup named Papi (voice of George Lopez) - to lend her a paw and help her to find her inner strength on their incredible journey back home.







Bolt

Starring John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton and Greg Germann.
For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet - a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions - a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) - Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.







The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)

Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.







The Burning Plain

Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquim de Almeida and Tessa Ia.
Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents.







The Code aka Thick As Thieves

Starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Tom Hardy and Rade Serbedzija.
Master thief, Keith (Freeman), recruits a small-time hood, Gabriel (Banderas), to help him steal a pair of Faberge eggs in order to pay off a debt to a Russian mobster (Rade Serbedzija, 24). But things aren't always what they seem in the criminal underworld, especially when Gabriel becomes involved with Keith's goddaughter (Radha Mitchell) and a persistent cop (Robert Forster) begins trailing the thieves' every move.







The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)

Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.







Deception (Sex List)

Starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, LisaGay Hamilton, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Lynn Cohen, Danny Burstein, Malcolm Goodwin and Charlotte Rampling.
"Are you free tonight?" A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper crust. For these power brokers, whose eighteen-hour workdays leave no time for a personal life, there's 'The List' - a sex club, of sorts, where the right cell-phone number and four simple words ("Are you free tonight?") can lead to an evening's sexual fulfillment. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy', as Jonathan's first conquest (or vice versa) explains to him, and through The List Jonathan discovers a side of himself that he didn't know existed. But an affair with a ravishing and mysterious stranger known to Jonathan only by her first initial 'S' (Michelle Williams), will expose him to yet another world he never imagined - one of betrayal, treachery and murder.







Doubt (Il Dubbio)

Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.







Giu' Al Nord (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'Tis)

Con Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Michel Galabru, Line Renaud, Zoé Félix, Philippe Duquesne. Il film racconta la storia di un funzionario delle Poste trasferito in un piccolo villaggio del nord che viene a contatto con gli strani costumi della popolazione locale, ovvero gli Ch'tis, la loro lingua e la loro calda ospitalità.







How She Move

Starring Rutina Wesley, Dwain Murphy, Tré Armstrong, Brennan Gademans, Keyshia Cole, Shawn Desmon, DeRay Davis and Andrew Wagner.
An energetic, gritty and ultimately inspiring coming of age tale about a gifted young woman who defies all the rules as she step dances her heart out to achieve her dreams. Raya (Rutina Wesley) is a gifted student who grew up in Toronto's Jane-Finch Corridor, a community with a reputation for conflict. She's been attending a private school outside the city. But with family resources exhausted, Raya is forced to return to her old neighborhood. Realising she could win some serious prize money by entering underground dance competitions, Raya fights her way onto the all-male JSJ (Jane Street Junta) "step" crew, led by the charismatic Bishop (Dwain Murphy).







La Fidanzata Di Papa'

Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.







The Lodger

Starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Simon Baker, Shane West, Phillip Baker Hall, Rebecca Pidgeon, Rachel Leigh Cook and Mel Harris.
Grizzled detective Chandler Manning is on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger called Malcolm Slaight rents a guesthouse from Joe (Donal Logue) and Ellen Bunting, a married couple struggling to preserve their fragile union after their plans to start a family have ended in tragedy. Manning, shunned both by his daughter Amanda and his suicidal wife Margaret as a result of his single-minded dedication to police work, teams up with unlikely rookie partner Street Wilkenson, only to make a startling discovery. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, Manning soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer Manning incarcerated years ago.







Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?







Never Back Down

Starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Djimon Hounsou, Evan Peters and Wyatt Smith.
Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler (Sean Faris), a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler. Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja (Amber Heard), Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet). While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou). It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua will take Jake under his wing, but it is up to Jake to find the patience, discipline, willingness and reason within him to succeed. For Jake, there is much more at stake than mere victory. His decision will not just settle a score; it will define who he is.







Quantum Of Solace

Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.
 

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Awake

Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin and Christopher McDonald.
Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. A young man named Clay (Hayden Christensen) undergoes heart surgery while experiencing a common occurrence called "anaesthetic awareness," a horrifying phenomenon which leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient's charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple.







Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Starring Piper Perabo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis.
A pampered Beverly Hills Chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected new friends--including a street-hardened German Shepherd named Delgado (voice of Andy Garcia) and an amorous pup named Papi (voice of George Lopez) - to lend her a paw and help her to find her inner strength on their incredible journey back home.







Bolt

Starring John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton and Greg Germann.
For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet - a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions - a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) - Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.







The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)

Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.







The Burning Plain

Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquim de Almeida and Tessa Ia.
Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents.







The Code aka Thick As Thieves

Starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Tom Hardy and Rade Serbedzija.
Master thief, Keith (Freeman), recruits a small-time hood, Gabriel (Banderas), to help him steal a pair of Faberge eggs in order to pay off a debt to a Russian mobster (Rade Serbedzija, 24). But things aren't always what they seem in the criminal underworld, especially when Gabriel becomes involved with Keith's goddaughter (Radha Mitchell) and a persistent cop (Robert Forster) begins trailing the thieves' every move.







The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)

Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.







Doubt (Il Dubbio)

Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.







Drillbit Taylor

Starring Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, David Dorfman, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, Alex Frost and Andrew Caldwell.
It all begins on the first day of high school, when a trio of anxious freshmen - chubby Ryan (Troy Gentile), freakishly skinny Wade (Nate Hartley) and their shrimpy tagalong, Emmit (David Dorfman) - become the instant target of the school's senior psycho-in-residence, Filkins (Alex Frost), the ultimate school bully. As what they were hoping to be the best years of their lives are suddenly turned into a daily living hell, the boys realize they have only one choice - to hire their own personal bodyguard. Enter Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), not the best but definitely the cheapest of the mercenaries, hit men and bodyguards who answer their online ad. Drillbit is steely, dangerous and skilled in covert black-ops and exotic martial arts. He's also a complete fraud. He bluffs and cajoles the credulous trio through his cockamamie boot camp and, after several hilarious missteps, instills in them new skills and some muchneeded confidence. But when push comes to shove - and more pushing and more shoving - Drillbit seems to be no match for Filkins' reign of terror. Now it's up to Ryan, Wade and Emmit to transform this down-and-out drifter into the savior he originally promised to be.







How She Move

Starring Rutina Wesley, Dwain Murphy, Tre Armstrong, Brennan Gademans, Keyshia Cole, Shawn Desmon, DeRay Davis and Andrew Wagner.
An energetic, gritty and ultimately inspiring coming of age tale about a gifted young woman who defies all the rules as she step dances her heart out to achieve her dreams. Raya (Rutina Wesley) is a gifted student who grew up in Toronto's Jane-Finch Corridor, a community with a reputation for conflict. She's been attending a private school outside the city. But with family resources exhausted, Raya is forced to return to her old neighborhood. Realising she could win some serious prize money by entering underground dance competitions, Raya fights her way onto the all-male JSJ (Jane Street Junta) "step" crew, led by the charismatic Bishop (Dwain Murphy).







La Fidanzata Di Papa'

Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, fara girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.







Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?







Never Back Down

Starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Djimon Hounsou, Evan Peters and Wyatt Smith.
Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler (Sean Faris), a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler. Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja (Amber Heard), Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet). While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou). It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua will take Jake under his wing, but it is up to Jake to find the patience, discipline, willingness and reason within him to succeed. For Jake, there is much more at stake than mere victory. His decision will not just settle a score; it will define who he is.







Quantum Of Solace

Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.







Un Giorno Perfetto

Con Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Stefania Sandrelli, Monica Guerritore, Nicole Grimaudo.
Emma e Antonio, sposati e con due figli (Valentina e Kevin) sono separati da circa un anno. Antonio, che fa l'autista dell'onorevole Fioravanti, non ha per nulla riassorbito il trauma del distacco. Un giorno la polizia viene chiamata dalla sua vicina di casa che ha udito dei colpi di arma da fuoco. Passiamo cosi a conoscere le vicende della giornata precedente, non solo in relazione a questo nucleo familiare ma legate anche a moglie e figli dell'onorevole nonche ad altri personaggi. La tragedia umana e in agguato. Ferzan Ozpetek questa volta rinuncia a scrivere in proprio un oggetto affidandosi a un testo letterario di Melania Mazzucco. Stanno proprio in questa operazione i pregi e difetti del film. La parte iniziale e asciutta (colonna musicale a parte) e riesce a collocare narrativamente tutti i personaggi (che non sono pochi e la cui condizione psicologica ed esistenziale e complessa. L'interesse che il regista nutre per l'uso dei primi piani lo spinge a scavare nel loro animo, quasi tentando di scoprire il mistero profondo che sta alla base della relazione amorosa. Mentre gli adulti la vivono con grande tormento e con una fragilita che deborda nella patologia i giovani (per quell'eterno ciclo che presiede al dipanarsi della vita) provano, nonostante la negativiita che li circonda, a riaccendere un bagliore di speranza nella possibilita dell'amore. Ozpetek riesce a gestire il succedersi dei personaggi e l'intrecciarsi delle loro emozioni grazie anche a un casting particolarmente ben scelto. Le note di inconsapevole volgarita che Isabella Ferrari offre al personaggio di Emma o il tormento di Antonio che esplode nel tentativo di stupro sono solo due degli esempi possibili. Purtroppo pero nella parte finale il film diventa 'letterario' e molto di quanto nella pagina scritta trovava una sua giustificazione finisce con l'essere didascalicamente sottolineato privandolo di quell'autenticita che l'inizio prometteva. Tre stelle nonostante.
 

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Australia

Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown.
Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.







Awake

Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin and Christopher McDonald.
Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. A young man named Clay (Hayden Christensen) undergoes heart surgery while experiencing a common occurrence called "anaesthetic awareness," a horrifying phenomenon which leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient's charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple.







Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Starring Piper Perabo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis.
A pampered Beverly Hills Chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected new friends--including a street-hardened German Shepherd named Delgado (voice of Andy Garcia) and an amorous pup named Papi (voice of George Lopez) - to lend her a paw and help her to find her inner strength on their incredible journey back home.







The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)

Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.







The Code aka Thick As Thieves

Starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Tom Hardy and Rade Serbedzija.
Master thief, Keith (Freeman), recruits a small-time hood, Gabriel (Banderas), to help him steal a pair of Faberge eggs in order to pay off a debt to a Russian mobster (Rade Serbedzija, 24). But things aren't always what they seem in the criminal underworld, especially when Gabriel becomes involved with Keith's goddaughter (Radha Mitchell) and a persistent cop (Robert Forster) begins trailing the thieves' every move.







The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)

Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.







Doubt (Il Dubbio)

Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.







How She Move

Starring Rutina Wesley, Dwain Murphy, Tré Armstrong, Brennan Gademans, Keyshia Cole, Shawn Desmon, DeRay Davis and Andrew Wagner.
An energetic, gritty and ultimately inspiring coming of age tale about a gifted young woman who defies all the rules as she step dances her heart out to achieve her dreams. Raya (Rutina Wesley) is a gifted student who grew up in Toronto's Jane-Finch Corridor, a community with a reputation for conflict. She's been attending a private school outside the city. But with family resources exhausted, Raya is forced to return to her old neighborhood. Realising she could win some serious prize money by entering underground dance competitions, Raya fights her way onto the all-male JSJ (Jane Street Junta) "step" crew, led by the charismatic Bishop (Dwain Murphy).







La Fidanzata Di Papa'

Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.







Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?







Never Back Down

Starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Djimon Hounsou, Evan Peters and Wyatt Smith.
Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler (Sean Faris), a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler. Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja (Amber Heard), Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet). While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou). It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua will take Jake under his wing, but it is up to Jake to find the patience, discipline, willingness and reason within him to succeed. For Jake, there is much more at stake than mere victory. His decision will not just settle a score; it will define who he is.







Quantum Of Solace

Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.







The Savages (La Famiglia Savage)

Starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Philip Bosco.
The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father's domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies and ****** her very married neighbor. Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father's final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.







Un Giorno Perfetto

Con Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Stefania Sandrelli, Monica Guerritore, Nicole Grimaudo.
Emma e Antonio, sposati e con due figli (Valentina e Kevin) sono separati da circa un anno. Antonio, che fa l'autista dell'onorevole Fioravanti, non ha per nulla riassorbito il trauma del distacco. Un giorno la polizia viene chiamata dalla sua vicina di casa che ha udito dei colpi di arma da fuoco. Passiamo così a conoscere le vicende della giornata precedente, non solo in relazione a questo nucleo familiare ma legate anche a moglie e figli dell'onorevole nonché ad altri personaggi. La tragedia umana è in agguato. Ferzan Ozpetek questa volta rinuncia a scrivere in proprio un oggetto affidandosi a un testo letterario di Melania Mazzucco. Stanno proprio in questa operazione i pregi e difetti del film. La parte iniziale è asciutta (colonna musicale a parte) e riesce a collocare narrativamente tutti i personaggi (che non sono pochi e la cui condizione psicologica ed esistenziale è complessa. L'interesse che il regista nutre per l'uso dei primi piani lo spinge a scavare nel loro animo, quasi tentando di scoprire il mistero profondo che sta alla base della relazione amorosa. Mentre gli adulti la vivono con grande tormento e con una fragilità che deborda nella patologia i giovani (per quell'eterno ciclo che presiede al dipanarsi della vita) provano, nonostante la negativiità che li circonda, a riaccendere un bagliore di speranza nella possibilità dell'amore. Ozpetek riesce a gestire il succedersi dei personaggi e l'intrecciarsi delle loro emozioni grazie anche a un casting particolarmente ben scelto. Le note di inconsapevole volgarità che Isabella Ferrari offre al personaggio di Emma o il tormento di Antonio che esplode nel tentativo di stupro sono solo due degli esempi possibili. Purtroppo però nella parte finale il film diventa 'letterario' e molto di quanto nella pagina scritta trovava una sua giustificazione finisce con l'essere didascalicamente sottolineato privandolo di quell'autenticità che l'inizio prometteva. Tre stelle nonostante.
 

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Australia

Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown.
Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.







Awake

Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin and Christopher McDonald.
Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. A young man named Clay (Hayden Christensen) undergoes heart surgery while experiencing a common occurrence called "anaesthetic awareness," a horrifying phenomenon which leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient's charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple.







The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)

Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.







The Code aka Thick As Thieves

Starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Tom Hardy and Rade Serbedzija.
Master thief, Keith (Freeman), recruits a small-time hood, Gabriel (Banderas), to help him steal a pair of Faberge eggs in order to pay off a debt to a Russian mobster (Rade Serbedzija, 24). But things aren't always what they seem in the criminal underworld, especially when Gabriel becomes involved with Keith's goddaughter (Radha Mitchell) and a persistent cop (Robert Forster) begins trailing the thieves' every move.







The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)

Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.







Doubt (Il Dubbio)

Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.







How She Move

Starring Rutina Wesley, Dwain Murphy, Tré Armstrong, Brennan Gademans, Keyshia Cole, Shawn Desmon, DeRay Davis and Andrew Wagner.
An energetic, gritty and ultimately inspiring coming of age tale about a gifted young woman who defies all the rules as she step dances her heart out to achieve her dreams. Raya (Rutina Wesley) is a gifted student who grew up in Toronto's Jane-Finch Corridor, a community with a reputation for conflict. She's been attending a private school outside the city. But with family resources exhausted, Raya is forced to return to her old neighborhood. Realising she could win some serious prize money by entering underground dance competitions, Raya fights her way onto the all-male JSJ (Jane Street Junta) "step" crew, led by the charismatic Bishop (Dwain Murphy).







La Fidanzata Di Papa'

Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.







Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?







Max Payne

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Chris O'Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco and Olga Kurylenko.
Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is a maverick cop, a mythic anti-hero, determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murders of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.







Never Back Down

Starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Djimon Hounsou, Evan Peters and Wyatt Smith.
Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler (Sean Faris), a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler. Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja (Amber Heard), Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet). While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou). It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua will take Jake under his wing, but it is up to Jake to find the patience, discipline, willingness and reason within him to succeed. For Jake, there is much more at stake than mere victory. His decision will not just settle a score; it will define who he is.







Quantum Of Solace

Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.







The Savages (La Famiglia Savage)

Starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Philip Bosco.
The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father's domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies and ****** her very married neighbor. Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father's final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.







Un Giorno Perfetto

Con Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Stefania Sandrelli, Monica Guerritore, Nicole Grimaudo.
Emma e Antonio, sposati e con due figli (Valentina e Kevin) sono separati da circa un anno. Antonio, che fa l'autista dell'onorevole Fioravanti, non ha per nulla riassorbito il trauma del distacco. Un giorno la polizia viene chiamata dalla sua vicina di casa che ha udito dei colpi di arma da fuoco. Passiamo così a conoscere le vicende della giornata precedente, non solo in relazione a questo nucleo familiare ma legate anche a moglie e figli dell'onorevole nonché ad altri personaggi. La tragedia umana è in agguato. Ferzan Ozpetek questa volta rinuncia a scrivere in proprio un oggetto affidandosi a un testo letterario di Melania Mazzucco. Stanno proprio in questa operazione i pregi e difetti del film. La parte iniziale è asciutta (colonna musicale a parte) e riesce a collocare narrativamente tutti i personaggi (che non sono pochi e la cui condizione psicologica ed esistenziale è complessa. L'interesse che il regista nutre per l'uso dei primi piani lo spinge a scavare nel loro animo, quasi tentando di scoprire il mistero profondo che sta alla base della relazione amorosa. Mentre gli adulti la vivono con grande tormento e con una fragilità che deborda nella patologia i giovani (per quell'eterno ciclo che presiede al dipanarsi della vita) provano, nonostante la negativiità che li circonda, a riaccendere un bagliore di speranza nella possibilità dell'amore. Ozpetek riesce a gestire il succedersi dei personaggi e l'intrecciarsi delle loro emozioni grazie anche a un casting particolarmente ben scelto. Le note di inconsapevole volgarità che Isabella Ferrari offre al personaggio di Emma o il tormento di Antonio che esplode nel tentativo di stupro sono solo due degli esempi possibili. Purtroppo però nella parte finale il film diventa 'letterario' e molto di quanto nella pagina scritta trovava una sua giustificazione finisce con l'essere didascalicamente sottolineato privandolo di quell'autenticità che l'inizio prometteva. Tre stelle nonostante.
 

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Australia

Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown.
Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.







Awake

Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin and Christopher McDonald.
Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. A young man named Clay (Hayden Christensen) undergoes heart surgery while experiencing a common occurrence called "anaesthetic awareness," a horrifying phenomenon which leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient's charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple.







Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Starring Piper Perabo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis.
A pampered Beverly Hills Chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected new friends--including a street-hardened German Shepherd named Delgado (voice of Andy Garcia) and an amorous pup named Papi (voice of George Lopez) - to lend her a paw and help her to find her inner strength on their incredible journey back home.







The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)

Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.







The Code aka Thick As Thieves

Starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Tom Hardy and Rade Serbedzija.
Master thief, Keith (Freeman), recruits a small-time hood, Gabriel (Banderas), to help him steal a pair of Faberge eggs in order to pay off a debt to a Russian mobster (Rade Serbedzija, 24). But things aren't always what they seem in the criminal underworld, especially when Gabriel becomes involved with Keith's goddaughter (Radha Mitchell) and a persistent cop (Robert Forster) begins trailing the thieves' every move.







The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)

Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.







Doubt (Il Dubbio)

Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.







How She Move

Starring Rutina Wesley, Dwain Murphy, Tré Armstrong, Brennan Gademans, Keyshia Cole, Shawn Desmon, DeRay Davis and Andrew Wagner.
An energetic, gritty and ultimately inspiring coming of age tale about a gifted young woman who defies all the rules as she step dances her heart out to achieve her dreams. Raya (Rutina Wesley) is a gifted student who grew up in Toronto's Jane-Finch Corridor, a community with a reputation for conflict. She's been attending a private school outside the city. But with family resources exhausted, Raya is forced to return to her old neighborhood. Realising she could win some serious prize money by entering underground dance competitions, Raya fights her way onto the all-male JSJ (Jane Street Junta) "step" crew, led by the charismatic Bishop (Dwain Murphy).







Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?







Max Payne

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Chris O'Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco and Olga Kurylenko.
Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is a maverick cop, a mythic anti-hero, determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murders of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.







Never Back Down

Starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Djimon Hounsou, Evan Peters and Wyatt Smith.
Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler (Sean Faris), a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler. Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja (Amber Heard), Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet). While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou). It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua will take Jake under his wing, but it is up to Jake to find the patience, discipline, willingness and reason within him to succeed. For Jake, there is much more at stake than mere victory. His decision will not just settle a score; it will define who he is.







Quantum Of Solace

Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.







Revolutionary Road

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour and Kathy Bates.
The story of a young couple (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) trying to find fulfillment in an age of conformity. Trapped in a world of encoded convention, they dream without faith, as lies and self-deceptions build to explosive consequences.







The Savages (La Famiglia Savage)

Starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Philip Bosco.
The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father's domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies and ****** her very married neighbor. Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father's final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.







Un Giorno Perfetto

Con Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Stefania Sandrelli, Monica Guerritore, Nicole Grimaudo.
Emma e Antonio, sposati e con due figli (Valentina e Kevin) sono separati da circa un anno. Antonio, che fa l'autista dell'onorevole Fioravanti, non ha per nulla riassorbito il trauma del distacco. Un giorno la polizia viene chiamata dalla sua vicina di casa che ha udito dei colpi di arma da fuoco. Passiamo così a conoscere le vicende della giornata precedente, non solo in relazione a questo nucleo familiare ma legate anche a moglie e figli dell'onorevole nonché ad altri personaggi. La tragedia umana è in agguato. Ferzan Ozpetek questa volta rinuncia a scrivere in proprio un oggetto affidandosi a un testo letterario di Melania Mazzucco. Stanno proprio in questa operazione i pregi e difetti del film. La parte iniziale è asciutta (colonna musicale a parte) e riesce a collocare narrativamente tutti i personaggi (che non sono pochi e la cui condizione psicologica ed esistenziale è complessa. L'interesse che il regista nutre per l'uso dei primi piani lo spinge a scavare nel loro animo, quasi tentando di scoprire il mistero profondo che sta alla base della relazione amorosa. Mentre gli adulti la vivono con grande tormento e con una fragilità che deborda nella patologia i giovani (per quell'eterno ciclo che presiede al dipanarsi della vita) provano, nonostante la negativiità che li circonda, a riaccendere un bagliore di speranza nella possibilità dell'amore. Ozpetek riesce a gestire il succedersi dei personaggi e l'intrecciarsi delle loro emozioni grazie anche a un casting particolarmente ben scelto. Le note di inconsapevole volgarità che Isabella Ferrari offre al personaggio di Emma o il tormento di Antonio che esplode nel tentativo di stupro sono solo due degli esempi possibili. Purtroppo però nella parte finale il film diventa 'letterario' e molto di quanto nella pagina scritta trovava una sua giustificazione finisce con l'essere didascalicamente sottolineato privandolo di quell'autenticità che l'inizio prometteva. Tre stelle nonostante.
 

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August 21 to August 28


Australia

Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown.
Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.







Awake

Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin and Christopher McDonald.
Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. A young man named Clay (Hayden Christensen) undergoes heart surgery while experiencing a common occurrence called "anaesthetic awareness," a horrifying phenomenon which leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient's charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple.







The Code aka Thick As Thieves

Starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Tom Hardy and Rade Serbedzija.
Master thief, Keith (Freeman), recruits a small-time hood, Gabriel (Banderas), to help him steal a pair of Faberge eggs in order to pay off a debt to a Russian mobster (Rade Serbedzija, 24). But things aren't always what they seem in the criminal underworld, especially when Gabriel becomes involved with Keith's goddaughter (Radha Mitchell) and a persistent cop (Robert Forster) begins trailing the thieves' every move.







Confessions Of A Shopaholic (I Love Shopping)

Starring Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Fred Armisen and Julie Hagerty.
Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door - that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company. Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity, but when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control ... and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.







The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)

Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.







Doubt (Il Dubbio)

Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.







Imago Mortis

Starring Geraldine Chaplin, Oona Chaplin and Alberto Amarilla.
In the 17th century, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Girolamo Fumagalli was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing the victim's eyeballs, it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on that person's retinas. He named this technique 'thanatography'. Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crime recurs within the walls of an international school of cinema.







Max Payne

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Chris O'Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco and Olga Kurylenko.
Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is a maverick cop, a mythic anti-hero, determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murders of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.







Quantum Of Solace

Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.







The Reader

Starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz and Linda Bassett.
In post-WWII Germany, teenager Michael Berg (David Kross) becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna (Kate Winslet), a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn," and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives.







Revolutionary Road

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour and Kathy Bates.
The story of a young couple (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) trying to find fulfillment in an age of conformity. Trapped in a world of encoded convention, they dream without faith, as lies and self-deceptions build to explosive consequences.







The Savages (La Famiglia Savage)

Starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Philip Bosco.
The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father's domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies and ****** her very married neighbor. Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father's final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.







Un Giorno Perfetto

Con Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Stefania Sandrelli, Monica Guerritore, Nicole Grimaudo.
Emma e Antonio, sposati e con due figli (Valentina e Kevin) sono separati da circa un anno. Antonio, che fa l'autista dell'onorevole Fioravanti, non ha per nulla riassorbito il trauma del distacco. Un giorno la polizia viene chiamata dalla sua vicina di casa che ha udito dei colpi di arma da fuoco. Passiamo cosi a conoscere le vicende della giornata precedente, non solo in relazione a questo nucleo familiare ma legate anche a moglie e figli dell'onorevole nonche ad altri personaggi. La tragedia umana e in agguato. Ferzan Ozpetek questa volta rinuncia a scrivere in proprio un oggetto affidandosi a un testo letterario di Melania Mazzucco. Stanno proprio in questa operazione i pregi e difetti del film. La parte iniziale e asciutta (colonna musicale a parte) e riesce a collocare narrativamente tutti i personaggi (che non sono pochi e la cui condizione psicologica ed esistenziale e complessa. L'interesse che il regista nutre per l'uso dei primi piani lo spinge a scavare nel loro animo, quasi tentando di scoprire il mistero profondo che sta alla base della relazione amorosa. Mentre gli adulti la vivono con grande tormento e con una fragilita che deborda nella patologia i giovani (per quell'eterno ciclo che presiede al dipanarsi della vita) provano, nonostante la negativiita che li circonda, a riaccendere un bagliore di speranza nella possibilita dell'amore. Ozpetek riesce a gestire il succedersi dei personaggi e l'intrecciarsi delle loro emozioni grazie anche a un casting particolarmente ben scelto. Le note di inconsapevole volgarita che Isabella Ferrari offre al personaggio di Emma o il tormento di Antonio che esplode nel tentativo di stupro sono solo due degli esempi possibili. Purtroppo pero nella parte finale il film diventa 'letterario' e molto di quanto nella pagina scritta trovava una sua giustificazione finisce con l'essere didascalicamente sottolineato privandolo di quell'autenticita che l'inizio prometteva. Tre stelle nonostante.
 

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Australia

Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown.
Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.







Awake

Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin and Christopher McDonald.
Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. A young man named Clay (Hayden Christensen) undergoes heart surgery while experiencing a common occurrence called "anaesthetic awareness," a horrifying phenomenon which leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient's charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple.







Bedtime Stories (Racconti Incantati)

Starring Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, Courteney Cox, Lucy Lawless, Teresa Palmer, Russell Brand, Aisha Tyler and Jonathan Pryce.
Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) is a hotel handyman whose life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. When he tries to help his family by telling one outlandish tale after another, it's the kids' unexpected contributions that turn all of their lives upside down.







The Code aka Thick As Thieves

Starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Tom Hardy and Rade Serbedzija.
Master thief, Keith (Freeman), recruits a small-time hood, Gabriel (Banderas), to help him steal a pair of Faberge eggs in order to pay off a debt to a Russian mobster (Rade Serbedzija, 24). But things aren't always what they seem in the criminal underworld, especially when Gabriel becomes involved with Keith's goddaughter (Radha Mitchell) and a persistent cop (Robert Forster) begins trailing the thieves' every move.







Confessions Of A Shopaholic (I Love Shopping)

Starring Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Fred Armisen and Julie Hagerty.
Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door - that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company. Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity, but when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control ... and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.







The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)

Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.







Doubt (Il Dubbio)

Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.







Imago Mortis

Starring Geraldine Chaplin, Oona Chaplin and Alberto Amarilla.
In the 17th century, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Girolamo Fumagalli was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing the victim's eyeballs, it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on that person's retinas. He named this technique 'thanatography'. Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crime recurs within the walls of an international school of cinema.







Max Payne

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Chris O'Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco and Olga Kurylenko.
Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is a maverick cop, a mythic anti-hero, determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murders of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.







Quantum Of Solace

Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.







The Reader

Starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz and Linda Bassett.
In post-WWII Germany, teenager Michael Berg (David Kross) becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna (Kate Winslet), a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn," and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives.







Revolutionary Road

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour and Kathy Bates.
The story of a young couple (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) trying to find fulfillment in an age of conformity. Trapped in a world of encoded convention, they dream without faith, as lies and self-deceptions build to explosive consequences.







The Savages (La Famiglia Savage)

Starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Philip Bosco.
The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father's domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies and ****** her very married neighbor. Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father's final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.







Un Giorno Perfetto

Con Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Stefania Sandrelli, Monica Guerritore, Nicole Grimaudo.
Emma e Antonio, sposati e con due figli (Valentina e Kevin) sono separati da circa un anno. Antonio, che fa l'autista dell'onorevole Fioravanti, non ha per nulla riassorbito il trauma del distacco. Un giorno la polizia viene chiamata dalla sua vicina di casa che ha udito dei colpi di arma da fuoco. Passiamo così a conoscere le vicende della giornata precedente, non solo in relazione a questo nucleo familiare ma legate anche a moglie e figli dell'onorevole nonché ad altri personaggi. La tragedia umana è in agguato. Ferzan Ozpetek questa volta rinuncia a scrivere in proprio un oggetto affidandosi a un testo letterario di Melania Mazzucco. Stanno proprio in questa operazione i pregi e difetti del film. La parte iniziale è asciutta (colonna musicale a parte) e riesce a collocare narrativamente tutti i personaggi (che non sono pochi e la cui condizione psicologica ed esistenziale è complessa. L'interesse che il regista nutre per l'uso dei primi piani lo spinge a scavare nel loro animo, quasi tentando di scoprire il mistero profondo che sta alla base della relazione amorosa. Mentre gli adulti la vivono con grande tormento e con una fragilità che deborda nella patologia i giovani (per quell'eterno ciclo che presiede al dipanarsi della vita) provano, nonostante la negativiità che li circonda, a riaccendere un bagliore di speranza nella possibilità dell'amore. Ozpetek riesce a gestire il succedersi dei personaggi e l'intrecciarsi delle loro emozioni grazie anche a un casting particolarmente ben scelto. Le note di inconsapevole volgarità che Isabella Ferrari offre al personaggio di Emma o il tormento di Antonio che esplode nel tentativo di stupro sono solo due degli esempi possibili. Purtroppo però nella parte finale il film diventa 'letterario' e molto di quanto nella pagina scritta trovava una sua giustificazione finisce con l'essere didascalicamente sottolineato privandolo di quell'autenticità che l'inizio prometteva. Tre stelle nonostante.
 

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Australia

Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown.
Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.







Bedtime Stories (Racconti Incantati)

Starring Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, Courteney Cox, Lucy Lawless, Teresa Palmer, Russell Brand, Aisha Tyler and Jonathan Pryce.
Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) is a hotel handyman whose life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. When he tries to help his family by telling one outlandish tale after another, it's the kids' unexpected contributions that turn all of their lives upside down.







Confessions Of A Shopaholic (I Love Shopping)

Starring Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Fred Armisen and Julie Hagerty.
Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door - that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company. Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity, but when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control ... and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.







The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)

Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.







Defiance

Starring Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Allan Corduner and Mark Feuerstein.
The year is 1941 and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being massacred by the thousands. Managing to escape certain death, three brothers take refuge in the dense surrounding woods they have known since childhood. There they begin their desperate battle against the Nazis. Three brothers turn a primitive struggle to survive into something far more consequential - a way to avenge the deaths of their loved ones by saving thousands of others. At first it is all they can do to stay alive. But gradually, as whispers of their daring spreads, they begin to attract others - men and women, young and old - willing to risk everything for the sake of even a moment's freedom. Tuvia (Daniel Craig) is a reluctant leader and his decisions are challenged by his brother, Zus (Liev Schreiber) who worries that Tuvia's idealistic plans will doom them all. Asael (Jamie Bell) is the youngest, caught between his brothers' fierce rivalry. As a brutal winter descends, they work to create a community, and to keep faith alive when all humanity appears to be lost.







Imago Mortis

Starring Geraldine Chaplin, Oona Chaplin and Alberto Amarilla.
In the 17th century, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Girolamo Fumagalli was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing the victim's eyeballs, it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on that person's retinas. He named this technique 'thanatography'. Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crime recurs within the walls of an international school of cinema.







Lies & Illusions

Starring Christian Slater, Cuba Gooding Jr., Sarah Ann Schultz, Christa Campbell, Al Madrigal and Lochlyn Munro.
Best-selling author Wes Wilson (Christian Slater) has it all. But when menacing smuggler Isaac (Cuba Gooding Jr.) coolly insists that he take a chauffeured backseat ride, Wilson's charmed life explodes into a world of violence, espionage and stolen diamonds. As lies and illusions give way to a harsh reality, Wilson learns shocking truths about two women in his life.







Max Payne

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Chris O'Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco and Olga Kurylenko.
Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is a maverick cop, a mythic anti-hero, determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murders of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.







Rachel Getting Married (Rachel Sta Per Sposarsi)

Starring Anne Hathaway, Debra Winger, Bill Irwin and Rosemarie DeWitt.
When Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie Dewitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party's abundant cast of friends and relations have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym - with her black-comic one-liners and knack for bombshell drama - is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic.







The Reader

Starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz and Linda Bassett.
In post-WWII Germany, teenager Michael Berg (David Kross) becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna (Kate Winslet), a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn," and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives.







Red Sands

Starring Shane West, Leonard Roberts, Aldis Hodge, Callum Blue and Brendan Miller.
A group of U.S. soldiers encounter a powerful supernatural force in this taut psychological horror film from Dead Birds director Alex Turner. Afghanistan, present day: a U.S. military unit is dispatched to secure a strategic road. During the course of their mission, the soldiers notice an ancient stone statue nestled deep in a narrow gorge. When one of the soldiers takes a shot at the sculpture, a vengeful supernatural spirit is awakened from its centuries-long slumber. Now, as the ancient entity unleashes hell on the unsuspecting soldiers, a simple mission turns into a desperate struggle against a force that won't rest until the entire squadron is dead.







Revolutionary Road

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour and Kathy Bates.
The story of a young couple (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) trying to find fulfillment in an age of conformity. Trapped in a world of encoded convention, they dream without faith, as lies and self-deceptions build to explosive consequences.







Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)

Starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Freida Pinto.
An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.
 

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Bedtime Stories (Racconti Incantati)

Starring Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, Courteney Cox, Lucy Lawless, Teresa Palmer, Russell Brand, Aisha Tyler and Jonathan Pryce.
Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) is a hotel handyman whose life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. When he tries to help his family by telling one outlandish tale after another, it's the kids' unexpected contributions that turn all of their lives upside down.

________________________________________

Confessions Of A Shopaholic (I Love Shopping)

Starring Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Fred Armisen and Julie Hagerty.
Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door - that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company. Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity, but when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control ... and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.

________________________________________

Defiance

Starring Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Allan Corduner and Mark Feuerstein.
The year is 1941 and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being massacred by the thousands. Managing to escape certain death, three brothers take refuge in the dense surrounding woods they have known since childhood. There they begin their desperate battle against the Nazis. Three brothers turn a primitive struggle to survive into something far more consequential - a way to avenge the deaths of their loved ones by saving thousands of others. At first it is all they can do to stay alive. But gradually, as whispers of their daring spreads, they begin to attract others - men and women, young and old - willing to risk everything for the sake of even a moment's freedom. Tuvia (Daniel Craig) is a reluctant leader and his decisions are challenged by his brother, Zus (Liev Schreiber) who worries that Tuvia's idealistic plans will doom them all. Asael (Jamie Bell) is the youngest, caught between his brothers' fierce rivalry. As a brutal winter descends, they work to create a community, and to keep faith alive when all humanity appears to be lost.

________________________________________

The Horsemen

Starring Dennis Quaid, Zhang Ziyi, Lou Taylor Pucci, Clifton Collins Jr. and Patrick Fugit.
Emotionally distanced from his two young sons following the untimely death of his devoted wife, a troubled detective investigates a series of murders that seem to be based on the Biblical prophecies concerning the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in this dark psychological thriller starring Dennis Quaid and Zhang Ziyi.

________________________________________

Lies & Illusions

Starring Christian Slater, Cuba Gooding Jr., Sarah Ann Schultz, Christa Campbell, Al Madrigal and Lochlyn Munro.
Best-selling author Wes Wilson (Christian Slater) has it all. But when menacing smuggler Isaac (Cuba Gooding Jr.) coolly insists that he take a chauffeured backseat ride, Wilson's charmed life explodes into a world of violence, espionage and stolen diamonds. As lies and illusions give way to a harsh reality, Wilson learns shocking truths about two women in his life.

________________________________________

Pineapple Express (Strafumati)

Starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Danny McBride, Kevin Corrigan, Craig Robinson, Amber Heard, Ed Begley Jr, Nora Dunn and Bobby Lee.
Process server Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has a grudging business relationship with the laconic Saul Silver (James Franco), deigning to visit only to purchase Saul's primo product - a rare new strain of pot called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city's most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps the Pineapple Express at the scene. When it's traced back to him, Dale and Saul run for their lives ... and they quickly discover that they're not just suffering from weed-fueled paranoia. If they survive, these two just might become real friends. All aboard the Pineapple Express.

________________________________________

Rachel Getting Married (Rachel Sta Per Sposarsi)

Starring Anne Hathaway, Debra Winger, Bill Irwin and Rosemarie DeWitt.
When Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie Dewitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party's abundant cast of friends and relations have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym - with her black-comic one-liners and knack for bombshell drama - is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic.

________________________________________

The Reader

Starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz and Linda Bassett.
In post-WWII Germany, teenager Michael Berg (David Kross) becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna (Kate Winslet), a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn," and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives.

________________________________________

Red Sands

Starring Shane West, Leonard Roberts, Aldis Hodge, Callum Blue and Brendan Miller.
A group of U.S. soldiers encounter a powerful supernatural force in this taut psychological horror film from Dead Birds director Alex Turner. Afghanistan, present day: a U.S. military unit is dispatched to secure a strategic road. During the course of their mission, the soldiers notice an ancient stone statue nestled deep in a narrow gorge. When one of the soldiers takes a shot at the sculpture, a vengeful supernatural spirit is awakened from its centuries-long slumber. Now, as the ancient entity unleashes hell on the unsuspecting soldiers, a simple mission turns into a desperate struggle against a force that won't rest until the entire squadron is dead.

________________________________________

Revolutionary Road

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour and Kathy Bates.
The story of a young couple (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) trying to find fulfillment in an age of conformity. Trapped in a world of encoded convention, they dream without faith, as lies and self-deceptions build to explosive consequences.

________________________________________

Seven Pounds (Sette Anime)

Starring Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper and Madison Pettis.
Using his cell phone while driving, Ben Thomas' (Will Smith) car wandered across lanes. He became responsible for the deaths of seven others, including his beloved wife. Unable to forgive himself or raise the dead, Ben sets out to give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. He poses as brother Tim (Michael Ealy), who works for the IRS to gain access the IRS database and to find and meet people who he believes worthy of his gifts, including body organs and material possessions. Ben's plan threatens to unravel when he begins to fall in love with one of the people he is trying to help.

________________________________________

Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)

Starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Freida Pinto.
An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.

________________________________________

Space Chimps

Starring Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth, Stanley Tucci, Kenan Thompson, Jane Lynch and Kath Soucie.
When a $5 billion NASA probe disappears into an intergalactic wormhole, the agency recruits Ham III, grandson of the first chimpanzee in space, to help retrieve the wayward craft. But Ham is a free-spirited circus performer more interested in zero gravity high jinks than living up to his illustrious heritage. The simian slacker becomes a reluctant hero and learns the true meaning of courage as he and his crewmates, the fearless Lt. Luna and their uptight commander, Titan, risk everything in an effort to save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from an evil dictator.
 

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September 18 to September 25


Bride Wars

Starring Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Johnston, Bryan Greenberg, Chris Pratt, Steve Howey and Candice Bergen.
Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are best friends who since childhood have planned every detail of their respective weddings. At the top of their bridal "must have" list: a ceremony at New York's ultimate bridal destination, the Plaza Hotel. Now, at age 26, they're both about to get married; they're about to realize their dreams; and they're about to live happily ever after. Or maybe not... When a clerical error causes a clash in wedding dates - they're now to be married on the same date! Liv, Emma and their lifelong friendship are put to the ultimate test. Liv, a successful lawyer who is used to getting what she wants, including the perfect job and the perfect man, won't settle for anything less than the perfect wedding she has dreamed of for years. Emma, a schoolteacher who has always been good at taking care of others, but not so much in looking after herself, discovers her inner Bridezilla and comes out swinging when her own dream wedding is imperiled. Now, the two best friends who'd do anything for each other, find themselves in a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners struggle that threatens to erupt into all-out war.







Confessions Of A Shopaholic (I Love Shopping)

Starring Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Fred Armisen and Julie Hagerty.
Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door - that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company. Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity, but when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control ... and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.







Defiance

Starring Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Allan Corduner and Mark Feuerstein.
The year is 1941 and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being massacred by the thousands. Managing to escape certain death, three brothers take refuge in the dense surrounding woods they have known since childhood. There they begin their desperate battle against the Nazis. Three brothers turn a primitive struggle to survive into something far more consequential - a way to avenge the deaths of their loved ones by saving thousands of others. At first it is all they can do to stay alive. But gradually, as whispers of their daring spreads, they begin to attract others - men and women, young and old - willing to risk everything for the sake of even a moment's freedom. Tuvia (Daniel Craig) is a reluctant leader and his decisions are challenged by his brother, Zus (Liev Schreiber) who worries that Tuvia's idealistic plans will doom them all. Asael (Jamie Bell) is the youngest, caught between his brothers' fierce rivalry. As a brutal winter descends, they work to create a community, and to keep faith alive when all humanity appears to be lost.







Eagle Eye

Starring Shia LaBeouf, Billy Bob Thornton, Rosario Dawson and Michelle Monaghan.
Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. As the situation escalates, these two ordinary people become the country's most wanted fugitives, who must work together to discover what is really happening - and more importantly, why.







The Horsemen

Starring Dennis Quaid, Zhang Ziyi, Lou Taylor Pucci, Clifton Collins Jr. and Patrick Fugit.
Emotionally distanced from his two young sons following the untimely death of his devoted wife, a troubled detective investigates a series of murders that seem to be based on the Biblical prophecies concerning the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in this dark psychological thriller starring Dennis Quaid and Zhang Ziyi.







Lies & Illusions

Starring Christian Slater, Cuba Gooding Jr., Sarah Ann Schultz, Christa Campbell, Al Madrigal and Lochlyn Munro.
Best-selling author Wes Wilson (Christian Slater) has it all. But when menacing smuggler Isaac (Cuba Gooding Jr.) coolly insists that he take a chauffeured backseat ride, Wilson's charmed life explodes into a world of violence, espionage and stolen diamonds. As lies and illusions give way to a harsh reality, Wilson learns shocking truths about two women in his life.







Pineapple Express (Strafumati)

Starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Danny McBride, Kevin Corrigan, Craig Robinson, Amber Heard, Ed Begley Jr, Nora Dunn and Bobby Lee.
Process server Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has a grudging business relationship with the laconic Saul Silver (James Franco), deigning to visit only to purchase Saul's primo product - a rare new strain of pot called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city's most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps the Pineapple Express at the scene. When it's traced back to him, Dale and Saul run for their lives ... and they quickly discover that they're not just suffering from weed-fueled paranoia. If they survive, these two just might become real friends. All aboard the Pineapple Express.







Quarantine (Quarantena)

Starring Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Columbus Short, Greg Germann, Steve Harris, Dania Ramirez, Rade Sherbedgia and Johnathon Schaech.
Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape.







Rachel Getting Married (Rachel Sta Per Sposarsi)

Starring Anne Hathaway, Debra Winger, Bill Irwin and Rosemarie DeWitt.
When Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie Dewitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party's abundant cast of friends and relations have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym - with her black-comic one-liners and knack for bombshell drama - is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic.







Red Sands

Starring Shane West, Leonard Roberts, Aldis Hodge, Callum Blue and Brendan Miller.
A group of U.S. soldiers encounter a powerful supernatural force in this taut psychological horror film from Dead Birds director Alex Turner. Afghanistan, present day: a U.S. military unit is dispatched to secure a strategic road. During the course of their mission, the soldiers notice an ancient stone statue nestled deep in a narrow gorge. When one of the soldiers takes a shot at the sculpture, a vengeful supernatural spirit is awakened from its centuries-long slumber. Now, as the ancient entity unleashes hell on the unsuspecting soldiers, a simple mission turns into a desperate struggle against a force that won't rest until the entire squadron is dead.







Seven Pounds (Sette Anime)

Starring Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper and Madison Pettis.
Using his cell phone while driving, Ben Thomas' (Will Smith) car wandered across lanes. He became responsible for the deaths of seven others, including his beloved wife. Unable to forgive himself or raise the dead, Ben sets out to give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. He poses as brother Tim (Michael Ealy), who works for the IRS to gain access the IRS database and to find and meet people who he believes worthy of his gifts, including body organs and material possessions. Ben's plan threatens to unravel when he begins to fall in love with one of the people he is trying to help.







Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)

Starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Freida Pinto.
An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.







Space Chimps

Starring Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth, Stanley Tucci, Kenan Thompson, Jane Lynch and Kath Soucie.
When a $5 billion NASA probe disappears into an intergalactic wormhole, the agency recruits Ham III, grandson of the first chimpanzee in space, to help retrieve the wayward craft. But Ham is a free-spirited circus performer more interested in zero gravity high jinks than living up to his illustrious heritage. The simian slacker becomes a reluctant hero and learns the true meaning of courage as he and his crewmates, the fearless Lt. Luna and their uptight commander, Titan, risk everything in an effort to save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from an evil dictator.
 

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September 25 to October 2


Bedtime Stories (Racconti Incantati)

Starring Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, Courteney Cox, Lucy Lawless, Teresa Palmer, Russell Brand, Aisha Tyler and Jonathan Pryce.
Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) is a hotel handyman whose life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. When he tries to help his family by telling one outlandish tale after another, it's the kids' unexpected contributions that turn all of their lives upside down.







Bride Wars

Starring Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Johnston, Bryan Greenberg, Chris Pratt, Steve Howey and Candice Bergen.
Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are best friends who since childhood have planned every detail of their respective weddings. At the top of their bridal "must have" list: a ceremony at New York's ultimate bridal destination, the Plaza Hotel. Now, at age 26, they're both about to get married; they're about to realize their dreams; and they're about to live happily ever after. Or maybe not... When a clerical error causes a clash in wedding dates - they're now to be married on the same date! Liv, Emma and their lifelong friendship are put to the ultimate test. Liv, a successful lawyer who is used to getting what she wants, including the perfect job and the perfect man, won't settle for anything less than the perfect wedding she has dreamed of for years. Emma, a schoolteacher who has always been good at taking care of others, but not so much in looking after herself, discovers her inner Bridezilla and comes out swinging when her own dream wedding is imperiled. Now, the two best friends who'd do anything for each other, find themselves in a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners struggle that threatens to erupt into all-out war.







Confessions Of A Shopaholic (I Love Shopping)

Starring Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Fred Armisen and Julie Hagerty.
Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door - that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company. Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity, but when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control ... and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.







Eagle Eye

Starring Shia LaBeouf, Billy Bob Thornton, Rosario Dawson and Michelle Monaghan.
Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. As the situation escalates, these two ordinary people become the country's most wanted fugitives, who must work together to discover what is really happening - and more importantly, why.







The Horsemen

Starring Dennis Quaid, Zhang Ziyi, Lou Taylor Pucci, Clifton Collins Jr. and Patrick Fugit.
Emotionally distanced from his two young sons following the untimely death of his devoted wife, a troubled detective investigates a series of murders that seem to be based on the Biblical prophecies concerning the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in this dark psychological thriller starring Dennis Quaid and Zhang Ziyi.







Hotel For Dogs (Hotel Bau)

Starring Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Kyla Pratt, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle.
When their new guardians forbid 16-year old Andi (Emma Roberts) and her younger brother, Bruce (Jake T. Austin) to have a pet, Andi has to use her quick wit to help find a new home for their dog, Friday. The resourceful kids stumble upon an abandoned hotel and using Bruce's talents as a mechanical genius, transform it into a magical dog-paradise for Friday - and eventually for all Friday's friends. When barking dogs make the neighbors suspicious, Andi and Bruce use every invention they have to avoid anyone discovering "who let the dogs in."







The House Bunny (La Coniglietta Di Casa)

Starring Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone, Kat Dennings, Katharine McPhee, Rumer Willis and Tyson Ritter.
Shelley Darlington (Anna Faris) is a Playboy Bunny who teaches an awkward sorority about the opposite sex - only to learn that what boys really like is what's on the inside. Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have - a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.







Iago

Starring Nicolas Vaporidis, Aurelien Gaya, Laura Chiatti, Gabriele Lavia, Lorenzo Gleijeses, Giulia Steigerwalt, Fabio Ghidoni, Luana Rossetti and Diome Mamadou.
As the title suggests, this film finds Italian helmer (Volfango de Biasi) giving Shakespeare's classic tragedy Othello a slightly unique spin, with a heightened emphasis on Iago; it also reverses the roles by turning Othello into the manipulative monster and Iago into the wronged party. The action unfurls in the early 21st century at the University of Venice, where student Iago (Nicolas Vaporidis) has risen above his financially limited origins and shows enormous promise in his chosen field of architecture. Othello (Aurelien Gaya), an aristocratic architect's son, stabs Iago in the back by manipulatively damaging his academic stature and usurping his place as the designer of a project on the Biennale. Othello also steals Iago's love, chancellor's daughter Desdemona (Laura Chiatti), with whom he himself has been smitten for ages. Iago responds by creating a series of elaborate deceptions, designed to pay Othello back for his thoughtless Machiavellian acts.







Pineapple Express (Strafumati)

Starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Danny McBride, Kevin Corrigan, Craig Robinson, Amber Heard, Ed Begley Jr, Nora Dunn and Bobby Lee.
Process server Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has a grudging business relationship with the laconic Saul Silver (James Franco), deigning to visit only to purchase Saul's primo product - a rare new strain of pot called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city's most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps the Pineapple Express at the scene. When it's traced back to him, Dale and Saul run for their lives ... and they quickly discover that they're not just suffering from weed-fueled paranoia. If they survive, these two just might become real friends. All aboard the Pineapple Express.







Quarantine (Quarantena)

Starring Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Columbus Short, Greg Germann, Steve Harris, Dania Ramirez, Rade Sherbedgia and Johnathon Schaech.
Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape.







Seven Pounds (Sette Anime)

Starring Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper and Madison Pettis.
Using his cell phone while driving, Ben Thomas' (Will Smith) car wandered across lanes. He became responsible for the deaths of seven others, including his beloved wife. Unable to forgive himself or raise the dead, Ben sets out to give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. He poses as brother Tim (Michael Ealy), who works for the IRS to gain access the IRS database and to find and meet people who he believes worthy of his gifts, including body organs and material possessions. Ben's plan threatens to unravel when he begins to fall in love with one of the people he is trying to help.







Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)

Starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Freida Pinto.
An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.







Space Chimps

Starring Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth, Stanley Tucci, Kenan Thompson, Jane Lynch and Kath Soucie.
When a $5 billion NASA probe disappears into an intergalactic wormhole, the agency recruits Ham III, grandson of the first chimpanzee in space, to help retrieve the wayward craft. But Ham is a free-spirited circus performer more interested in zero gravity high jinks than living up to his illustrious heritage. The simian slacker becomes a reluctant hero and learns the true meaning of courage as he and his crewmates, the fearless Lt. Luna and their uptight commander, Titan, risk everything in an effort to save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from an evil dictator.







The Spirit

Starring Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Eva Mendes, Dan Lauria, Paz Vega, Jaime King and Scarlett Johansson.
Adapted from the legendary graphic novels, Will Eisner's The Spirit is a classic action-adventure-romance told by genre-twister Frank Miller (creator of 300 and Sin City). It is the story of a former rookie-cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as The Spirit (Gabriel Macht) to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy, The Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson) has a different mission: he's going to wipe out Spirit's beloved city as he pursues his own version of immortality. The Spirit tracks this cold-hearted killer from Central City's rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront ... all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill our masked crusader. Surrounding him at every turn are Ellen Dolan, the whip-smart girl-next-door; Sand Saref (Eva Mendes), the jewel thief with dangerous curves; Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson), a punk secretary and frigid vixen; Plaster of Paris, a murderous French nightclub dancer; Lorelai, a phantom siren; and Morganstern, a sexy young cop. In the vein of Batman Begins and Sin City, The Spirit takes us on a sinister, gut-wrenching ride with a hero who is born, murdered and born again.
 

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Hotel For Dogs (Hotel Bau)


The House Bunny (La Coniglietta Di Casa)


Iago


Lies & Illusions


Max Payne


Quarantine (Quarantena)


Saw 4


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Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)


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Seven pounds (Sette Anime)

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Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)

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The Spirit

Taken (IO Trovero')

Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans

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Albakiara

Starring Raz Degan, Laura Gigante, Davide Rossi, Alessandro Haber, Dario Bandiera, Kelly Renee Potts, and Fabrizio Sabatucci.
Albakiara is the nickname of Chiara, whose angelic face makes her seem like the perfect little girl everyone wants as their daughter. She resembles the girl described by Vasco Rossi in Albachiara but looks deceive. Chiara is in high school, though, unlike Albachiara, she has no use for it. Her ignorance is endless, and she manages to move on to the next grade only by cheating and copying. What she does study is her look, paying attention to the latest fashions. She loves being the centre of attention... And she simply adores the gangster evenings (as she calls them) spent with her girlfriends in pursuit of sex and drugs and rock ¢n roll.







Babylon A.D.

Starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson and Mark Strong.
It is the not-too-distant future. Thousands of satellites scan, observe and monitor our every move. Much of the planet is a war zone; the rest, a collection of wretched way stations, teeming megalopolises, and vast wastelands punctuated by areas left radioactive from nuclear meltdowns. It is a world made for hardened warriors, one of whom, a mercenary known only as Toorop (Vin Diesel), lives by a simple survivor's code: kill... or be killed. His latest assignment has him smuggling a young woman named Aurora from a convent in Kazakhstan to New York City. Toorop, his new young charge Aurora (Mélanie Thierry) and Aurora's guardian Sister Rebeka (Michelle Yeoh) embark on a 6,000 mile journey that takes them from Eastern Europe, through a refugee camp in "New Russia," across the Bering Straight in a pilfered submarine, then through the frozen tundra of Alaska and Canada, and finally to New York. Facing obstacles at every turn, Toorop, the killer for hire, is tested like never before, in ways he could never have imagined - as he comes to understand that he is the custodian of the only hope for the future of mankind. For the first time in his life, Toorop has to make a choice: to make a difference or walk away and save himself.







Eagle Eye

Starring Shia LaBeouf, Billy Bob Thornton, Rosario Dawson and Michelle Monaghan.
Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. As the situation escalates, these two ordinary people become the country's most wanted fugitives, who must work together to discover what is really happening - and more importantly, why.







Frontière(s)

Starring Karina Testa, Aurelien Wiik and Patrick Ligardes.
As the banlieues of Paris burn due to riots protesting the election triumph of an extreme right-wing party, a group of youths use the chaos as cover for smash-and-grab robberies. For Yasmina (Karina Testa), the money is an escape from the slums she has known all her life. With the police on their tail, her gang splits up, planning to meet at an inn near the Luxembourg border. Arriving at their destination, they encounter their hosts, the Von Geisler clan, who seem to be stuck in time: a jackbooted patriarch, his savagely flirtatious daughters and his thuggish sons. Revealing themselves as neo-Nazi fanatics, they see Yasmina as a fresh bloodline for their fascistic fantasy of starting a new Aryan brotherhood. Her friends find themselves trapped in a grim abattoir as Yasmina fights against the Von Geisler¢s invitation to become ¡one of the family¢ in their twisted Gothic household.







Galantuomini

Con Donatella Finocchiaro, Fabrizio Gifuni, Beppe Fiorello, Giorgio Colangeli, Gioia Spaziani.
Ignazio, Lucia e Fabio sono stati bambini felici e inseparabili nel Salento degli anni Sessanta. Adesso sono adulti tormentati e divisi nel Salento della Sacra Corona Unita. Ignazio è diventato un giudice stimato, rientrato a Lecce dopo aver esercitato la professione nel Nord Italia, Lucia è madre di un ragazzino e braccio destro del boss Carmine Zà, Fabio un appassionato giocatore di biliardo col vizio della cocaina. Al funerale di Fabio, stroncato da un¢overdose, Lucia e Ignazio si ritrovano e si innamorano senza dichiararsi. Durante le indagini sul traffico di cocaina, Ignazio scopre il coinvolgimento di Lucia. Ferito e addolorato dalle bugie della donna e dalla rivelazione della sua vera natura, l¢affronta, spingendola suo malgrado alla latitanza. Ma il giudice sedotto e la dark lady hanno ancora un conto d¢amore da regolare e da consumare. Edoardo Winspeare, cognome inglese e cuore salentino, torna nei borghi antichi del Salento dopo il miracolo di Taranto, muovendosi lungo la frontiera tra noir e mélo. Dentro un ambiente luminoso e denso di umori abita un personaggio femminile di stupefacente bellezza, cupa e sgomenta davanti alla radicalità delle proprie decisioni: ispirare e guidare una squadra di criminali organizzati. Femmina folle e lupa tragica, Lucia è portatrice di un segreto sepolto che minaccia la sua vita apparentemente solare e l¢amore ancora imploso per il giudice Ignazio De Rao, l¢uomo che potrebbe forse permetterle di sottrarsi al disagio della sua condizione. Ma Winspeare non sceglie per i suoi amanti la redenzione. Rivedersi e scoprirsi nei rispettivi ruoli è per Lucia e Ignazio vertigine ulteriore, innamoramento sovrapposto a quello già esistente. Fuggiranno dentro una notte per amarsi. Si nasconderanno in quell¢unica notte per amarsi. Quando il giudice di Gifuni si trova di fronte alla donna, di cui conosce ormai il volto scellerato, il suo sentimento ne frena l¢azione, improntata altrimenti e altrove a grande sicurezza e condotta morale. L¢amore reciproco impedisce all¢uomo dietro al giudice di denunciarla e alla donna dietro alla criminale di comprometterlo. Agli amanti è possibile darsi e possedersi senza mai guardarsi negli occhi, fino all¢alba e a una telefonata che risveglierà Lucia dall¢evidenza dell¢impossibilità del loro amore e della messa fra parentesi del mondo, fondale lontano eppure presente.







The House Bunny (La Coniglietta Di Casa)

Starring Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone, Kat Dennings, Katharine McPhee, Rumer Willis and Tyson Ritter.
Shelley Darlington (Anna Faris) is a Playboy Bunny who teaches an awkward sorority about the opposite sex - only to learn that what boys really like is what's on the inside. Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have - a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.







Iago

Starring Nicolas Vaporidis, Aurelien Gaya, Laura Chiatti, Gabriele Lavia, Lorenzo Gleijeses, Giulia Steigerwalt, Fabio Ghidoni, Luana Rossetti and Diome Mamadou.
As the title suggests, this film finds Italian helmer (Volfango de Biasi) giving Shakespeare's classic tragedy Othello a slightly unique spin, with a heightened emphasis on Iago; it also reverses the roles by turning Othello into the manipulative monster and Iago into the wronged party. The action unfurls in the early 21st century at the University of Venice, where student Iago (Nicolas Vaporidis) has risen above his financially limited origins and shows enormous promise in his chosen field of architecture. Othello (Aurelien Gaya), an aristocratic architect's son, stabs Iago in the back by manipulatively damaging his academic stature and usurping his place as the designer of a project on the Biennale. Othello also steals Iago's love, chancellor's daughter Desdemona (Laura Chiatti), with whom he himself has been smitten for ages. Iago responds by creating a series of elaborate deceptions, designed to pay Othello back for his thoughtless Machiavellian acts.







Seven Pounds (Sette Anime)

Starring Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper and Madison Pettis.
Using his cell phone while driving, Ben Thomas' (Will Smith) car wandered across lanes. He became responsible for the deaths of seven others, including his beloved wife. Unable to forgive himself or raise the dead, Ben sets out to give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. He poses as brother Tim (Michael Ealy), who works for the IRS to gain access the IRS database and to find and meet people who he believes worthy of his gifts, including body organs and material possessions. Ben's plan threatens to unravel when he begins to fall in love with one of the people he is trying to help.







Shrooms

Starring Lindsey Haun, Jack Huston, Max Kasch, Maya Hazen and Alice Greczyn.
When five American college students arrive in Ireland to go on camping trip with their old college buddy Jake, they are in high spirits. Jake has promised them the 'trip' of a lifetime because he claims Ireland has the best magic mushrooms in the world. It sounded like it would be great fun. Now that they are tripping things don't seem so funny. Bluto, one of the gang is missing. Tara thinks he's dead because she feels she has seen his death before but nobody believes her they think she is just out of it. They're out of it too. That was the whole point of coming here, but there is something out there, something watching them, something that will kill them if they don't get out of the forest and get help.







Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)

Starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Freida Pinto.
An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.







The Spirit

Starring Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Eva Mendes, Dan Lauria, Paz Vega, Jaime King and Scarlett Johansson.
Adapted from the legendary graphic novels, Will Eisner's The Spirit is a classic action-adventure-romance told by genre-twister Frank Miller (creator of 300 and Sin City). It is the story of a former rookie-cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as The Spirit (Gabriel Macht) to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy, The Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson) has a different mission: he's going to wipe out Spirit's beloved city as he pursues his own version of immortality. The Spirit tracks this cold-hearted killer from Central City's rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront ... all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill our masked crusader. Surrounding him at every turn are Ellen Dolan, the whip-smart girl-next-door; Sand Saref (Eva Mendes), the jewel thief with dangerous curves; Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson), a punk secretary and frigid vixen; Plaster of Paris, a murderous French nightclub dancer; Lorelai, a phantom siren; and Morganstern, a sexy young cop. In the vein of Batman Begins and Sin City, The Spirit takes us on a sinister, gut-wrenching ride with a hero who is born, murdered and born again.







Taken (Io Vi Trovero')

Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Katie Cassidy, Holly Valance and Famke Janssen.
When his teenage daughter (Maggie Grace) is kidnapped in Paris, a former spy (Liam Neeson) sets out to find her at any cost. Relying on his special skills, he tracks down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launches a one-man war to bring them to justice and to rescue his daughter.







Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans

Starring Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Aston, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Larry Rew and Craig Parker.
The third film in the Underworld franchise delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). A young Lycan, Lucian (Michael Sheen), emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has persecuted them for hundreds of years. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, the beautiful vampire Sonja (Rhona Mitra), in his battle to free the Lycans from their brutal enslavement.







Un Gioco Da Ragazze

Con Filippo Nigro, Chiara Chiti, Desiree Noferini, Nadir Caselli, Chiara Paoli.
Elena Chiantini e le sue amiche Michela e Alice sono le bad girl di un prestigioso liceo privato. Figlie viziate di ricchi imprenditori, hanno come modello Kate Moss e Paris Hilton e si atteggiano ad adulte assumendo pose spregiudicate sotto le strobo e l'effetto di ecstasy, cannabis e cocaina. Annoiate dalla quotidianità, dai genitori e dalle istituzioni, non accolgono di buon grado l'arrivo di un nuovo professore, un giovane idealista deciso ad aprire gli occhi e le menti dei suoi alunni con le letture di Philip Roth e J.D. Salinger. Elena, che del gruppetto è la leader indiscussa, decide di coinvolgere l'insegnante in un gioco pericoloso. Un gioco da ragazze, che sembra essere la risposta borghese al proletario Albakiara, si propone di analizzare il lato oscuro degli adolescenti contemporanei ma finisce per essere fuorviante. La condizione privilegiata delle giovani protagoniste ritratte a colpi di cliché - sono tutte ricche, belle, magre, stupide, tossiche e anoressiche - potrebbe indurre in tentazione le ragazzine che nel mondo reale sognano una vita diversa leggendo i gossip sulle stesse eroine di Elena, Michela e Alice. La realtà raccontata da Matteo Rovere rappresenta oltretutto una piccolissima percentuale dell'adolescenza italiana che non conosce il lusso di domestici, cani con pedigree, scuole private e feste inondate da champagne. La vita di borgata, quella che più spesso finisce sulla pagina della cronaca e in rete - con i filmati di violenze carnali, mobbing e atti vandalici - non sarebbe stata altrettanto cinematografica, probabilmente. La scelta di "imbellettare" la violenza e la perversione giovanile attraverso uno scenario sfarzoso della provincia benestante risulta perciò diseducativo e altamente pericoloso. Lontano dai crimini sessuali di John McNaughton, dalle cattive ragazze di Mark Waters e da quelle interrotte di James Mangold, lontano dalle crudeli intenzioni di Roger Kumble e dalle regole dell'attrazione di Roger Avary (che pure sembrano aver offerto un immaginario ideale al regista romano), il film di Rovere è un gioco fine a se stesso che si abbandona alla bellezza della fotografia e dell'elegante contorno scenico. Tingendo di nero le ultime battute lascia in sospeso le sorti delle protagoniste senza offrire alcuna soluzione al malessere sociale né l'ombra del pentimento sui volti acerbi delle tre ragazzacce.
 

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Bride Wars

Starring Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Johnston, Bryan Greenberg, Chris Pratt, Steve Howey and Candice Bergen.
Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are best friends who since childhood have planned every detail of their respective weddings. At the top of their bridal "must have" list: a ceremony at New York's ultimate bridal destination, the Plaza Hotel. Now, at age 26, they're both about to get married; they're about to realize their dreams; and they're about to live happily ever after. Or maybe not... When a clerical error causes a clash in wedding dates - they're now to be married on the same date! Liv, Emma and their lifelong friendship are put to the ultimate test. Liv, a successful lawyer who is used to getting what she wants, including the perfect job and the perfect man, won't settle for anything less than the perfect wedding she has dreamed of for years. Emma, a schoolteacher who has always been good at taking care of others, but not so much in looking after herself, discovers her inner Bridezilla and comes out swinging when her own dream wedding is imperiled. Now, the two best friends who'd do anything for each other, find themselves in a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners struggle that threatens to erupt into all-out war.







The Comebacks (Il Peggior Allenatore Del Mondo)

Starring David Koechner, Carl Weathers, Melora Hardin, Matthew Lawrence, Brooke Nevin, Nick Searcy, George Back, Noureen DeWulf and Jesse Garcia.
As Coach Lambeau Fields (David Koechner) puts together Heartland State's new football team, he and his misfit squad manage to mock every sport movie of the last couple decades. As they hit the field on the way to the championship game, they take on the likes of Rocky, Field of Dreams, Seabiscuit, Blue Crush, Stick It and The Longest Yard among countless others. It all starts when a voice-in-the-sky tells Coach, "If you build it, he will come" - that is, the quarterback that will lead The Comebacks to victory. But the team will also need a kicker who can Bend It Like Beckham, an assistant coach with a love for the game and his Radio ... or rather iPod; and a little guy with heart whose name sounds a lot like Rudy. Once the team is in place, Coach Fields watches his team forget the Titans under the glaring Friday Night Lights, and leads them all the way to the state championship where they battle a Gridiron Gang of footballers and manage to turn out the biggest Miracle the little Texas town of Plainfolk has seen since that Invincible bartender from Philly tried out for the team and made it. Oh wait. In The Comebacks, he doesn't make it.







Friday The 13th (Venerdi' 13)

Starring Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, Aaron Yoo, Derek Mears, Jonathan Sadowski, Julianna Guill, Ben Feldman and Arlen Escarpeta.
Welcome back to Crystal Lake in a chilling re-imagining of the classic horror film Friday the 13th. Searching for his missing sister, Clay Miller (Jared Padalecki) heads up to the eerie woods of legendary Crystal Lake, where he stumbles on the creaky remains of rotting old cabins behind moss-covered trees. And that's not the only thing lying in wait under the brush. Against the advice of police and cautions from the locals, Clay pursues what few leads he has in the search for his missing sister, Whitney (Amanda Righetti), with the help of Jenna (Danielle Panabaker), a young woman he meets among a group of college kids up for an all-thrills weekend. But they are all about to find much more than they bargained for. Little do they know, they've entered the domain of one of the most terrifying specters in American film history, the infamous killer who haunts Crystal Lake, armed with a razor-sharp machete ... Jason Voorhees.







Frontière(s)

Starring Karina Testa, Aurelien Wiik and Patrick Ligardes.
As the banlieues of Paris burn due to riots protesting the election triumph of an extreme right-wing party, a group of youths use the chaos as cover for smash-and-grab robberies. For Yasmina (Karina Testa), the money is an escape from the slums she has known all her life. With the police on their tail, her gang splits up, planning to meet at an inn near the Luxembourg border. Arriving at their destination, they encounter their hosts, the Von Geisler clan, who seem to be stuck in time: a jackbooted patriarch, his savagely flirtatious daughters and his thuggish sons. Revealing themselves as neo-Nazi fanatics, they see Yasmina as a fresh bloodline for their fascistic fantasy of starting a new Aryan brotherhood. Her friends find themselves trapped in a grim abattoir as Yasmina fights against the Von Geisler¢s invitation to become ¡one of the family¢ in their twisted Gothic household.







Hannah Montana: The Movie

Starring Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Musso, Moises Arias, Lucas Till, Vanessa Williams, Margo Martindale and Melora Hardin.
Miley Stewart's (Miley Cyrus) life is out of balance. Taken under the wing of a gungho and glamorous publicist, Vita (Vanessa Williams), Miley's letting Hannah begin to dominate her life. When she keeps choosing Hannah over her commitments to family members - to say goodbye to Jackson (Jason Earles) as he leaves for college, to attend Lilly's (Emily Osment) long-anticipated sweet-16 party or her grandmother's birthday celebration - it is clear Miley's beginning to forget why the Hannah Montana secret was created in the first place. When Hannah Montana ends up in a paparazzi-captured fight with Tyra Banks over a pair of designer shoes, Miley's father (Billy Ray Cyrus) quietly takes control. Having attempted to reason with her to no avail, Robby Ray tricks Miley into thinking she's going to New York as Hannah to perform when he's really taking her from Los Angeles back home to Crowley Corners, Tennessee. Miley's double life becomes even more complicated when she returns to Crowley Corners. She discovers that a reporter has somehow managed to track Hannah Montana to her hometown and is asking lots of questions of the locals. She also meets up with an old childhood friend, Travis Brody (Lucas Till), and soon finds herself in her first serious romance. When Miley tries to impress Travis by telling him about her friend Hannah Montana, she suddenly finds her alter ego enlisted in a concert fundraiser to help save her hometown's pristine Crowley Meadows from developers. Once again, having taken on more than she can handle, Miley has to call on her best friend, Lilly, and ask her for help. When Lilly finally arrives in Crowley Corners pretending to be Hannah Montana, events really spin out of control.







Saw V

Starring Tobin Bell, Julie Benz and Meagan Good.
Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) might be dead, but his traps live on in this fifth Saw entry, which finds the series' production designer David Hackl at the helm for his debut directing gig. Costas Mandylor reprises his role as Hoffman, the detective whose involvement in the string of grisly murders turns out to be more than meets the eye. Picking up where the fourth entry left off, Hoffman is revealed to be a hidden accomplice in Jigsaw's grisly games of death, which look to be continued by the lawman. The plot bounces back and forth from the beginning of their relationship to the present, as Agent Strahm (Scott Patterson) delves farther into the case. Also in the cast are Dexter's Julie Benz and One Missed Call's Meagan Good as victims of another one of Jigsaw's lessons in morality.







Seven Pounds (Sette Anime)

Starring Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper and Madison Pettis.
Using his cell phone while driving, Ben Thomas' (Will Smith) car wandered across lanes. He became responsible for the deaths of seven others, including his beloved wife. Unable to forgive himself or raise the dead, Ben sets out to give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. He poses as brother Tim (Michael Ealy), who works for the IRS to gain access the IRS database and to find and meet people who he believes worthy of his gifts, including body organs and material possessions. Ben's plan threatens to unravel when he begins to fall in love with one of the people he is trying to help.







Shrooms

Starring Lindsey Haun, Jack Huston, Max Kasch, Maya Hazen and Alice Greczyn.
When five American college students arrive in Ireland to go on camping trip with their old college buddy Jake, they are in high spirits. Jake has promised them the 'trip' of a lifetime because he claims Ireland has the best magic mushrooms in the world. It sounded like it would be great fun. Now that they are tripping things don't seem so funny. Bluto, one of the gang is missing. Tara thinks he's dead because she feels she has seen his death before but nobody believes her they think she is just out of it. They're out of it too. That was the whole point of coming here, but there is something out there, something watching them, something that will kill them if they don't get out of the forest and get help.







Taken (Io Vi Trovero')

Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Katie Cassidy, Holly Valance and Famke Janssen.
When his teenage daughter (Maggie Grace) is kidnapped in Paris, a former spy (Liam Neeson) sets out to find her at any cost. Relying on his special skills, he tracks down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launches a one-man war to bring them to justice and to rescue his daughter.







Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans

Starring Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Aston, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Larry Rew and Craig Parker.
The third film in the Underworld franchise delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). A young Lycan, Lucian (Michael Sheen), emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has persecuted them for hundreds of years. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, the beautiful vampire Sonja (Rhona Mitra), in his battle to free the Lycans from their brutal enslavement.







Un Gioco Da Ragazze

Con Filippo Nigro, Chiara Chiti, Desiree Noferini, Nadir Caselli, Chiara Paoli.
Elena Chiantini e le sue amiche Michela e Alice sono le bad girl di un prestigioso liceo privato. Figlie viziate di ricchi imprenditori, hanno come modello Kate Moss e Paris Hilton e si atteggiano ad adulte assumendo pose spregiudicate sotto le strobo e l'effetto di ecstasy, cannabis e cocaina. Annoiate dalla quotidianità, dai genitori e dalle istituzioni, non accolgono di buon grado l'arrivo di un nuovo professore, un giovane idealista deciso ad aprire gli occhi e le menti dei suoi alunni con le letture di Philip Roth e J.D. Salinger. Elena, che del gruppetto è la leader indiscussa, decide di coinvolgere l'insegnante in un gioco pericoloso. Un gioco da ragazze, che sembra essere la risposta borghese al proletario Albakiara, si propone di analizzare il lato oscuro degli adolescenti contemporanei ma finisce per essere fuorviante. La condizione privilegiata delle giovani protagoniste ritratte a colpi di cliché - sono tutte ricche, belle, magre, stupide, tossiche e anoressiche - potrebbe indurre in tentazione le ragazzine che nel mondo reale sognano una vita diversa leggendo i gossip sulle stesse eroine di Elena, Michela e Alice. La realtà raccontata da Matteo Rovere rappresenta oltretutto una piccolissima percentuale dell'adolescenza italiana che non conosce il lusso di domestici, cani con pedigree, scuole private e feste inondate da champagne. La vita di borgata, quella che più spesso finisce sulla pagina della cronaca e in rete - con i filmati di violenze carnali, mobbing e atti vandalici - non sarebbe stata altrettanto cinematografica, probabilmente. La scelta di "imbellettare" la violenza e la perversione giovanile attraverso uno scenario sfarzoso della provincia benestante risulta perciò diseducativo e altamente pericoloso. Lontano dai crimini sessuali di John McNaughton, dalle cattive ragazze di Mark Waters e da quelle interrotte di James Mangold, lontano dalle crudeli intenzioni di Roger Kumble e dalle regole dell'attrazione di Roger Avary (che pure sembrano aver offerto un immaginario ideale al regista romano), il film di Rovere è un gioco fine a se stesso che si abbandona alla bellezza della fotografia e dell'elegante contorno scenico. Tingendo di nero le ultime battute lascia in sospeso le sorti delle protagoniste senza offrire alcuna soluzione al malessere sociale né l'ombra del pentimento sui volti acerbi delle tre ragazzacce.







Waltz With Bashir (Valzer Con Bashir)

Starring Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, ehezkel Lazarov, Mickey Leon, Ori Sivan and Zahava Solomon.
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there's a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can't remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images.
 

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The Comebacks (Il Peggior Allenatore Del Mondo)

Starring David Koechner, Carl Weathers, Melora Hardin, Matthew Lawrence, Brooke Nevin, Nick Searcy, George Back, Noureen DeWulf and Jesse Garcia.
As Coach Lambeau Fields (David Koechner) puts together Heartland State's new football team, he and his misfit squad manage to mock every sport movie of the last couple decades. As they hit the field on the way to the championship game, they take on the likes of Rocky, Field of Dreams, Seabiscuit, Blue Crush, Stick It and The Longest Yard among countless others. It all starts when a voice-in-the-sky tells Coach, "If you build it, he will come" - that is, the quarterback that will lead The Comebacks to victory. But the team will also need a kicker who can Bend It Like Beckham, an assistant coach with a love for the game and his Radio ... or rather iPod; and a little guy with heart whose name sounds a lot like Rudy. Once the team is in place, Coach Fields watches his team forget the Titans under the glaring Friday Night Lights, and leads them all the way to the state championship where they battle a Gridiron Gang of footballers and manage to turn out the biggest Miracle the little Texas town of Plainfolk has seen since that Invincible bartender from Philly tried out for the team and made it. Oh wait. In The Comebacks, he doesn't make it.







Friday The 13th (Venerdi' 13)

Starring Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, Aaron Yoo, Derek Mears, Jonathan Sadowski, Julianna Guill, Ben Feldman and Arlen Escarpeta.
Welcome back to Crystal Lake in a chilling re-imagining of the classic horror film Friday the 13th. Searching for his missing sister, Clay Miller (Jared Padalecki) heads up to the eerie woods of legendary Crystal Lake, where he stumbles on the creaky remains of rotting old cabins behind moss-covered trees. And that's not the only thing lying in wait under the brush. Against the advice of police and cautions from the locals, Clay pursues what few leads he has in the search for his missing sister, Whitney (Amanda Righetti), with the help of Jenna (Danielle Panabaker), a young woman he meets among a group of college kids up for an all-thrills weekend. But they are all about to find much more than they bargained for. Little do they know, they've entered the domain of one of the most terrifying specters in American film history, the infamous killer who haunts Crystal Lake, armed with a razor-sharp machete ... Jason Voorhees.







Giulia Non Esce La Sera

Con Valerio Mastandrea, Valeria Golino, Sonia Bergamasco, Domiziana Cardinali, Jacopo Domenicucci.
Giulia è un'istruttrice di nuoto in libertà vigilata e compromessa col mondo, Guido uno scrittore con una debole vocazione che cerca un coinvolgimento col mondo. Si incontreranno ai bordi di una piscina: lui vuole imparare a nuotare, lei non vuole affondare. Giulia ha una figlia adolescente che rifiuta il suo affetto e non le perdona di averla abbandonata, Guido una ragazzina introversa che si accompagna a Filippo, un coetaneo compassato che legge Kafka e ascolta Richard Anthony. Autore di libri che nessuno conclude, Guido proverà a dare senso e intenzione ai personaggi di un romanzo soltanto abbozzato e alle persone che abitano la sua vita mai spesa. Sono passati cinque e lunghissimi anni dall'ultimo film di Giuseppe Piccioni, autore di un cinema sommesso e sempre discreto, luce degli occhi in una produzione nazionale (s)finita e prevedibile. È certamente ingiusto definire il valore di opere cinematografiche sulla base dello scarto che evidenziano nei confronti di altri film, eppure non si può negare che Giulia non esce la sera si imponga per la sua capacità di guardarsi attorno, di comprendere meglio ciò che accade (soprattutto) in Italia, di mettere in discussione l'identità dei personaggi e di uscire "dalla chiusura domestica". Giulia e Guido sono personaggi possibili che oscillano tra apertura e chiusura, sembrano sempre sul punto di aprirsi e di aprire ma poi ricadono nella "sicurezza" abitudinaria di una routine carica di solitudini e ostruzioni. Piccioni prova ad agevolare i rapporti e ad aprire varchi scegliendo, non a caso, un luogo-soglia liquido in bilico tra pubblico e privato. Le sue inquadrature privilegiano punti di vista che incorniciano Giulia e Guido davanti o dietro i vetri, fuori o dentro l'acqua, mettendo in contatto interno ed esterno. Ma la relazione si rivelerà per entrambi come un'occasione perduta, una tensione verso l'altro che si ripiega su se stessa e sul proprio inevitabile scacco. Il Guido in sospeso di Valerio Mastandrea non riesce a intervenire sul mondo con la sua arte, è insofferente alle pratiche dell'editoria ma ugualmente le asseconda. Il suo scrivere è fine a se stesso e produce un surrogato di esperienza, non riproduce mai la sostanza delle cose. Giulia sopravvive come antidoto a una perdita di libertà e di maternità. Due vite lontane, le loro, eppure adiacenti ai bordi di una piscina. Il caso, in forma di lezioni di nuoto, costringe i loro corpi nello stesso elemento e le loro anime a fare i conti con tutto ciò che non hanno mai saputo o immaginato. Piccioni scava con precisione e senza nessuna enfasi dentro la complessità della privazione (di maternità da una parte e di creatività dall'altra) di Giulia e di Guido, differentemente percepita, elaborata, disprezzata. Il film si insinua nei segni che dicono la difficoltà di una vita da vivere ancora e nonostante tutto. A raffreddare l'emozionalità calda del frangente e l'attimo della definitiva costrizione dei protagonisti a un destino che hanno volontariamente scelto per loro c'è l'acqua, l'acqua che fluidifica il rapporto dopo un lungo corteggiamento. Ma la loro storia, abortita o assoluta, non andrà oltre l'istantaneità dell'attimo e non si dibatterà contro la propria dissoluzione.







Hannah Montana: The Movie

Starring Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Musso, Moises Arias, Lucas Till, Vanessa Williams, Margo Martindale and Melora Hardin.
Miley Stewart's (Miley Cyrus) life is out of balance. Taken under the wing of a gungho and glamorous publicist, Vita (Vanessa Williams), Miley's letting Hannah begin to dominate her life. When she keeps choosing Hannah over her commitments to family members - to say goodbye to Jackson (Jason Earles) as he leaves for college, to attend Lilly's (Emily Osment) long-anticipated sweet-16 party or her grandmother's birthday celebration - it is clear Miley's beginning to forget why the Hannah Montana secret was created in the first place. When Hannah Montana ends up in a paparazzi-captured fight with Tyra Banks over a pair of designer shoes, Miley's father (Billy Ray Cyrus) quietly takes control. Having attempted to reason with her to no avail, Robby Ray tricks Miley into thinking she's going to New York as Hannah to perform when he's really taking her from Los Angeles back home to Crowley Corners, Tennessee. Miley's double life becomes even more complicated when she returns to Crowley Corners. She discovers that a reporter has somehow managed to track Hannah Montana to her hometown and is asking lots of questions of the locals. She also meets up with an old childhood friend, Travis Brody (Lucas Till), and soon finds herself in her first serious romance. When Miley tries to impress Travis by telling him about her friend Hannah Montana, she suddenly finds her alter ego enlisted in a concert fundraiser to help save her hometown's pristine Crowley Meadows from developers. Once again, having taken on more than she can handle, Miley has to call on her best friend, Lilly, and ask her for help. When Lilly finally arrives in Crowley Corners pretending to be Hannah Montana, events really spin out of control.







Journey To The Center Of The Earth (Viaggio Al Centro Della Terra)

Starring Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Seth Meyers, Jean-Michel Lahmi, Jean-Michel Paré and Jane Wheeler.
During a scientific expedition in Iceland, visionary scientist Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser), his nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) and their beautiful local guide, Hannah (Anita Briem), are unexpectedly trapped in a cave from which their only escape is to go deeper and deeper into the depths of the Earth. Traveling through never-before-seen worlds, the trio comes face-to-face with surreal and unimaginable creatures - including man-eating plants, giant flying piranha, glow birds and terrifying dinosaurs from days past. The adventurers soon realize that as volcanic activity increases around them, they must find a way back to the Earth's surface before it is too late.







Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist

Starring Michael Cera, Kat Dennings, Alexis Dziena, Ari Graynor, Aaron Yoo and Jay Baruchel.
A comedy about two people thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adventure in a world of mix tapes, late-night living, and, live, loud music. Nick (Michael Cera) frequents New York's indie rock scene nursing a broken heart and a vague ability to play the bass. Norah (Kat Dennings) is questioning pretty much all of her assumptions about the world. Though they have nothing in common except for their taste in music, their chance encounter leads to an all-night quest to find a legendary band's secret show and ends up becoming the first date in a romance that could change both their lives.







Saw V

Starring Tobin Bell, Julie Benz and Meagan Good.
Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) might be dead, but his traps live on in this fifth Saw entry, which finds the series' production designer David Hackl at the helm for his debut directing gig. Costas Mandylor reprises his role as Hoffman, the detective whose involvement in the string of grisly murders turns out to be more than meets the eye. Picking up where the fourth entry left off, Hoffman is revealed to be a hidden accomplice in Jigsaw's grisly games of death, which look to be continued by the lawman. The plot bounces back and forth from the beginning of their relationship to the present, as Agent Strahm (Scott Patterson) delves farther into the case. Also in the cast are Dexter's Julie Benz and One Missed Call's Meagan Good as victims of another one of Jigsaw's lessons in morality.







Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)

Starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Freida Pinto.
An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.







Taken (Io Vi Trovero')

Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Katie Cassidy, Holly Valance and Famke Janssen.
When his teenage daughter (Maggie Grace) is kidnapped in Paris, a former spy (Liam Neeson) sets out to find her at any cost. Relying on his special skills, he tracks down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launches a one-man war to bring them to justice and to rescue his daughter.







Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans

Starring Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Aston, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Larry Rew and Craig Parker.
The third film in the Underworld franchise delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). A young Lycan, Lucian (Michael Sheen), emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has persecuted them for hundreds of years. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, the beautiful vampire Sonja (Rhona Mitra), in his battle to free the Lycans from their brutal enslavement.







Waltz With Bashir (Valzer Con Bashir)

Starring Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, ehezkel Lazarov, Mickey Leon, Ori Sivan and Zahava Solomon.
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there's a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can't remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images.
 
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