Friday, November 23, 2007

NO RESERVATIONS

A top notch female chef’s life is turned upside-down when she must care of her niece after her sister is killed. She now has to adapt to a different lifestyle and uses food as a means to express her roller-coaster life.






Genre : Drama/Comedy/Romance
Players : Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Patricia Clarkson, Jennifer Wade
Directed By : Scott Hicks
Production Company : Warner Bros. Pictures
Duration : 1 Hour 43 Minute

THE KINGDOM

FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) assembles an eclectic team (Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper, Jason Bateman) for a mission inside Saudi Arabia to find and capture a terrorist responsible for a deadly attack on Americans. However, the agents find themselves strangers in a very strange land until a native police captain takes them under his wing and helps them navigate the deadly streets of Riyadh.



Genre : Action/Drama
Players : Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper, Jason Bateman
Directed By : Peter Berg
Production Company : Universal Pictures
Duration : 1 Hour 50 Minute

Thursday, November 22, 2007

QUICKIE EXPRESS

Jojo (Tora Sudiro), a twenty-five-year-old man who lives in Jakarta and always changes his job. He knows that he’s complete screw-up. But he never gives up trying out a new job after being fired from the last one. His good fortune started when he got an offer to work at a male escort service company. To avoid being attacked by religious group in Indonesia, the owner of company runs a pizza delivery service called “Quickie Express” as a cover up. Jojo begins his adventure in satisfying the sexual needs of lonely wives of rich and high-ranking officials. Jojo gets a better life, he’s financially secured; but his bright career as gigolo leads him to very complicated turns that he can ever imagined.
Jojo enters Quickie Express with two other new “recruits”, Marley (Amink) and Piktor (Lukman Sardi). With their looks and uniqueness, shortly the three of them become the top, most wanted escorts in the company. Their life gets better, they enjoy the easy and classy job that gives them a lot of money.
But their happiness is disturbed when Jojo meets a medicine student an fall in love with her, who also has relation with one of Jojo’s client and the mobster Jan Pieter Gunarto.
Quickie Express is a dark comedy that is full of satire, like biting a pizza that looks good but actually tasted like a tire.


Genre : Comedy
Players : Tora Sudiro, Amink, Lukman Sardi, Tino Saroengallo, Sandra Dewi, Ira Maya Sopha, Rudy Wowor, Tio Pakusadewo
Directed by : Dimas Djayadiningrat
Written by : Joko Anwar
Producer : Nia Dinata
Production Company : Kalyana Shira Films
Duration : 1 Hour 57 Minute

MEDLEY

Medley is a movie about a man named Aditya (Yosi ‘Project Pop’) who is always dissatisfied with his life. He was a dreamer, but now he regrets many decisions that he made in the past. He thinks that the life he leads today is part of the consequences that of his past.
Within the next few days, he will be demoted from his job. At home, he always argues with his wife, Maya (Rachel Maryam). Aditya starts to think that Maya is the source of his problems. Maybe if he didn’t marry Maya, his life will turn out different. Happier.
One day, he is given a chance to change one past event for a better today. He is living his dream, but is it turns out to be what he wanted?

Genre : Drama/Fantasy
Players : Yossi Mokalu, Rachel Maryam, Alex Komang, Imelda Therinne, Alexandra Gottardo, Magda Lena, Ferry Adriansyah
Directed by : Franklin Darmadi
Written by : Nicko Wijaya
Producer : Gege Mboi, Genesis Timotius, Oswin B. Soegandah
Production Company : Shambala Production
Duration : 1 Hour 35 Minute

HITMAN

A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the military of Russia as he treks across the Eastern half of Europe.
He is hired by a group known as "The Agency" to kill targets for cash.




Genre : Action
Players : Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Robert Knepper
Directed By : Xavier Gens
Production Company : 20th Century Fox
Duration : 1 Hour 35 Minute

ENCHANTED

The tales follows the beautiful princess Giselle (Amy Adams) as she is banished by an evil queen (Susan Sarandon) from her magical, musical animated land – and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan.
Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn’t operate on a ‘happily ever after’ basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer (Patrick Dempsey) who has come to her aid – even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home – she has to wonder: can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?


Genre : Drama/Romance/Fantasy
Players : Julie Andrews, Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, Timothy Spall
Directed By : Kevin Lima
Production Company : Walt Disney Pictures
Duration : 1 Hour 50 Minute

Thursday, November 15, 2007

BEOWULF

In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf. After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel, he incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother, who will use any means possible to ensure revenge. The ensuing epic battle resonates throughout the ages, immortalizing the name of Beowulf.



Genre : Adventure/Fantasy
Players : Ray Winstone, Crispin Glover, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich
Directed By : Robert Zemeckis
Production Company : Warner Bros. Pictures
Duration : 1 Hour 53 Minute

BRATZ

Four teenage girls who come from different social and economic backgrounds empower themselves by rejecting their respective high school cliques and band together, calling themselves Bratz.
During their first year of high school, four best girlfriends face off against the domineering student body president who wants to split them up into different social cliques.



Genre : Drama
Players : Nathalia Ramos, Skyler Shaye, Janel Parrish, Chelsea Staub, Jon Voight
Directed By : Sean Mcnamara
Production Company : Lionsgat
Duration : 1 Hour 50 Minute

BROTHERS

An intense drama on the portrayal of brotherhood, Brothers depicts the mistrust and feud between two brothers through the eyes of an investigating police officer. Despite their close relationship, Yiu and Shun were separated at a young age due to a decision made by their father. Years later they meet again when the family runs into crisis where Yiu, inspired by his father’s last words, manipulates a series of setups which endangers Shun’s life, so as to achieve his goal.


Genre : Drama/Action
Players : Andy Lau, Eason Chan, Michael Miu, Crystal Huang, Wong Yat-Wah
Directed By : Derek Chiu
Production Company : Ram Entertainment
Duration : 1 Hour 45 Minute

GAME PLAN

Quarterback Joe Kingman is known as one of the toughest players to ever take the field. Blessed with amazing strength and agility, he's famed for being able to handle any hit, no matter how ferocious. Kingman's Boston-based pro football team, The Rebels, is chasing their long-awaited championship and Joe has been living the ultimate bachelor fantasy: he's cool, rich, famous and the life of every party--and there are a lot of parties. But his dream is suddenly sacked for a loss when he discovers Peyton, the 8-year-old daughter he never knew existed, on his doorstep. Now, just as his career is soaring, Joe must learn to juggle his old lifestyle of parties, practices and dates with supermodels while tackling the new challenges of ballet, bedtime stories and baby dolls--all without fumbling. Equally perplexed is his hard-edged mega-agent, Stella Peck, herself without a parental bone in her body. But, as the championship grows nearer, Joe is about to realize that the game that truly matters has nothing to do with money, endorsements or even touchdowns--it's all about the really tough stuff: patience, teamwork, selflessness and winning the heart of the one little fan who turns out to count the most.

Genre : Comedy/Family
Players : Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Roselyn Sanchez, Madison Pettis, Morris Chestnut, Brian J. White
Directed By : Andy Fickman
Production Company : Walt Disney Pictures
Duration : 1 Hour 50 Minute

LIONS FOR LAMBS

But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student (Andrew Garfield) who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest.
Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise), is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist (Meryl Streep) that may affect Arian and Ernest’s fates. As arguments, memories and bullets fly, the three stories are woven ever more tightly together, revealing how each of these Americans has a profound impact on each other and the world.

Genre : Drama
Players : Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise, Robert Redford, Michael Pena, Derek Luke
Directed By : Robert Redford
Production Company : 20th Century Fox
Duration : 2 Hour

VAN WILDER 2: THE RISE OF TAJ

Taj Mahal Badalandabad lives in Coolidge, U.S.A. along with his dad, Dilip, mom, and sister. After hearing about his dad's exploits at Camford University in Britain, he re-locates there. When he arrives he is royally received by the elite, only to be humiliated. He thus re-locates to his new quarters in a distant wreck of a building called the 'barn' - reserved for 'losers'. When he gets over this welcome, Taj must now come to terms with the Queen's language, her dialect, and the racial profiling, and a busty Charlotte Higginson, who is not only better at fencing, but is also intent to ensure his dismissal. Hilarious results follow when Taj decides to fight the Queen and her people at their own game(s) with the help of fellow losers and a horny bulldog.

Genre : Comedy
Players : Kal Penn, Lauren Cohan, Tom Davey
Directed By : Mort Nathan
Production Company : Tapestry Films
Duration : 1 Hour 37 Minute