30 June 2007

Ek Chalis Ki Last Local 2007 (bollywood)


EK CHALIS KI LAST LOCAL is about two people who miss the last local train at 1.40 a.m. to Vikhroli and have full two-and-a-half hours before the next local will arrive. The tale revolves around Nilesh (Abhay Deol), a call center executive, and how missing the last train home proves to be a significant episode in his life. Nilesh bumps into Madhu (Neha Dhupia), who has also missed her train on the same station and because there is an auto strike, the duo finds themselves getting together and soon seated in a desi bar for some time pass before their next train. EK CHALIS KI LAST LOCAL unravels in the most natural manner. The characters are straight out of life and the situations they land into are identifiable by those living in a metropolis, especially Mumbai. But the film doesn't catch your attention from the very start. The goings-on get exciting when Abhay and Neha enter a bar and Abhay starts gambling to make a fast buck. A few portions episodes in the story raise the bar, like the gambling sequence and also when Neha lands up at Snehal Dabhi's house to pay off the ransom amount. Also, the sequences involving Deepak Shirke and Abhay Deol may appear crass, but are bound to raise laughs.

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Ta Ra Rum Pum 2007 (bollywood)


Rajveer Singh (Saif Ali Khan) has an immense passion for driving and dreams of making it big on the racecourse. He is discovered by his manager Harry (Jaaved Jaffrey). In a sudden twist of fate, he meets Radhika Shekar Rai Banerjee (Rani Mukerji) and instantly falls for her. He joins Speeding Saddles - a failing race team and transforms from Rajveer Singh to RV the race car driver.

What started as an innocent love blossoms into a serious relationship as months pass by. Radhika is a great pianist, majoring in music at Columbia University, whereas Rajveer has no degree or any educational background. His lack of education instantly earns the disapproval of Radhika's father, Subho Shekar Roy Banerjee (Victor Banerjee). Radhika walks out of her big mansion and marries RV. She forgets about her degree and takes on her job as a housewife therefore Radhika Shekar Rai Banerjee turns into Shona. Their family is complete with the birth of two children - Priya (Angelina Idnani) and Ranveer (Ali Haji). Luck follows him as RV and he is soon proclaimed the number one race car driver in the USA.

However tragedy strikes when RV is involved in an accident whilst racing and he is hospitalized for a few months. He tries to make a comeback but the trauma of the accident mentally scars him. After a string of failures, he is forced to auction his house and move with his family to a run-down Bronx-style neighborhood. RV and Radhika decide to hide the terrible truth from their children by saying that they are part of a reality television show where they have to live a poor life in order to win a mythical grand prize.

The family struggle with their new lifestyle but stick together by using a mixture of fantasy and cheerfulness to pull through. However an incident forces RV to make a decision and reclaim the life that was taken away from him. He goes in a heart pounding race and finally ends up winning. He reclaims everything he had lost and lives happily ever after.

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Shootout at Lokhandwala 2007 (bollywood)


The film opens with shots of brooms and dustpans cleaning dried blood and bullet casings in and around Swati building at Lokhandwala Complex[1]. NTV reporter Meeta Matu (Diya Mirza) reports that some 3000 rounds of ammunition were discharged by a large police squad at a previously peaceful residential locality. Why did they do this? Who were they after?

The film moves to the offices of former chief justice turned private prosecutor Dhingra (Amitabh Bachchan) where he interviews the three leading members of the Mumbai Police Anti-Terrorist Squad, Additional Inspector General Shamsher Khan (referring to A A Khan, played by Sanjay Dutt), Senior Inspector Kaviraj Patil (Sunil Shetty) and Head constable Javed Sheikh (Arbaaz Khan). The main film timeline is the extended interview of the three officers by Dhingra; as the officers answer Dhingra's questions, the film flashes back to show the incidents.

Dhingra asks about the Anti-Terrorist Squad. Khan explains that he hand-picked 27 of Mumbai Police's best enlisted men and officers. He borrowed the concept from the LAPD SWAT team to help combat terrorism in the city. The film flashes back to show Khan selecting his men and putting them through intensive training to be "fast, efficient and deadly". Dhingra is hardly impressed: he points out that if Khan chooses to "shoot to kill" then Khan is no different from the terrorists he seeks to destroy.

Dhingra asks why Khan felt he had do this. Khan explains that following Operation Bluestar in 1984, several Sikh terrorists (which is wrong depiction of Sikhs, hence controversial reactions from the sikh community) fled to Mumbai and began establishing a base in the city. They engaged in violence, extortion and other subversive tactics to grow their operations. The film flashes back to show Inspector Abhishek Mhatre (Abhishek Bachchan) pursuing and subsequently getting shot down by a group of Sikh terrorists (which is opposite to Sikh principles and not true depiction, so remember this is just a commercial movie). Khan is deeply frustrated when the city police, mired in internal bureaucracy and corruption, fails to act. He obtains clearance from the police commissioner Krishnamurthy (played by the real A A Khan) and sets out after the militants. Khan asks Meeta Matu to cover the incident so as to deter future terrorists. True to Khan's words, he successfully "encounters" (a practice mistakenly considered unique to Indian Police; it indicates summarily gunning down criminals; 'extra judicial killings' is the term accepted internationally) the terrorists who had shot Inspector Mhatre.

At this point the film segues into the life of Maya (referring to Mumbai gangster Mahindra Dolas though the film never mentions "Dolas" specifically; played by Vivek Oberoi). Maya is the second-in-command of the big boss in Dubai (a clear reference to Dawood Ibrahim though the film does not mention his name at all) and runs Dawood's criminal activities in Mumbai. (It is worth noting that the film does not establish a connection between the Sikh terrorists and Dawood.) Maya recruits Bhua (referring to Dilip Buwa, played by Tusshar Kapoor ) after successfully hatching a plot to eliminate Bhua's old gang led by Ashok Joshi. At this point, Maya and Bhua are at the top of Mumbai's underworld, reporting directly to the big boss in Dubai.

Things heat up when Khan recognizes, through his network of spies and informers, that Maya is responsible for several criminal and possibly terrorist activities. Around this time, Maya's ambitions, fueled by his Aai's (Amrita Singh) insistence, grow to the point where he wishes to assert his independence from Dubai and take over Mumbai himself.

Khan's ATS now focuses on eliminating Maya and Bhua, and begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game where neither side shows any overt aggression but tries to disable the adversary by tactical maneouver. Khan launches "visits" to the criminals' families to try and "persuade" them to counsel the criminals to surrender. In turn, Maya and his men return the "visit" by approaching the cops at social situations. Maya visits Khan at a restaurant where Khan is having dinner with his family. Maya quietly tells Khan: "This is between your men and mine. Leave the families out of it." Khan retorts: "I did this to give you an opportunity to come clean. But now it appears that any resolution hangs off the barrel of a gun."

Maya's rage intensifies when he gets thrown out by prominent city builder Wadhwani: Maya had demanded 40 lakhs protection money; Wadhwani claimed to deal directly with Dubai. Maya kidnaps Wadhwani's sniveling and overweight kid. When Wadhwani complains, the big boss asks Maya to cut it out and return the kid immediately. Maya quietly informs the boss that he has upped his demands and that he wants to reign supreme in Mumbai.

The film also explores the personal lives of the protagonists. Khan's wife is unable to bear his constant neglect of his family life. She files for divorce. Patil's divorce is nearly upon him, too. In the enemy camp, Buwa has shacked up with a bar dancer Tanu (Aarti Chhabria) but is unable to spend any quality time with her. Fellow criminals Phatu (estranged from his parents) and RC (plagued by ghost-like visions of an innocent family he gunned down) have similar troubles.

It all comes to a head in November 1991. The five criminals including Maya and Buwa secure themselves, while holding Wadhwani's kid, in a flat at Swati building in Lokhandwala. Khan is tipped off of the location by an informant. (In Dhingra's questioning, Khan allegedly also received a call from the big boss in Dubai. Khan vehemently denies this.) Khan assembles a large squad of cops and lays siege to the location. He announces over the bullhorn that residents are advised to stay indoors and bolt their windows.

A long and devastating gun battle begins. The criminals launch RPG(rocket propelled grenade) from their flat and try to escape. But they are overwhelmed by police fire and all five criminals are eventually slain. The battle lays waste to the entire building: film shots show the staircases, hallways and several civilian flats completely pulverized by gunfire. Reporter Meeta Matu covers the action live.

Up to this point, Dhingra has been negative and denigrating of Khan and his efforts with the ATS. He cites press reports and civilian complaints that condemn Khan (and the ATS) of unilateral and unwarranted excessive force in a residential locality. Charges are brought against Khan and the ATS. But when Dhingra rises to defend them as their appointed counsel, he, in a surprising twist, presents an unconventional argument as defense.

The film ends with Khan and the ATS being acquitted.


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Jhoom Barabar Jhoom 2007 (bollywood)


At Waterloo station in London, two strangers, Rikki Thukral (Abhishek Bachchan) and Alvira Khan (Preity Zinta), wait for their respective fiancés. Rikki is a fun-loving Punjabi boy from Bhatinda who lives in Southall, while Alvira is a middle class Pakistani girl from Lahore who is more assimilated into British culture. The two share a table in a cafe together and to kill the time they talk about how they met their partners-to-be.

Rikki, handsome but primitive in the desi way, says that he met his fiancé, Anaida Raza (Lara Dutta), at the Hôtel Ritz Paris, the same night that Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al-Fayed left the hotel to take their last journey together. Rikki explains "When two lovers die, another two are born", as he fell in love with Anaida that night. Alvira says she met her fiancé, the dashing lawyer Steve Singh (Bobby Deol) at Madame Tussauds in London when he saved her from death by a falling Superman wax model. The encounter changed her life and she was smitten by the lawyer who also helped her sue Madame Tussauds for substantial damages.

As Rikki and Alvira talk they begin to enjoy each other's company and their different backgrounds cease to matter. They exchange numbers and go to meet their partners. However, it is then revealed that they had not gone to meet their respective partners. Rikki is in fact at the train station to meet his business partner, while Alvira is meeting her relatives. As they leave the station separately, they realize they are in love, but believe their love is unrequited, each of the other.

The two get in touch when Alvira calls Rikki, pretending it was a wrong number. They decide to meet up at a disco where there is a dance competition but both try to maintain the fiction that they are engaged. Out of desperation, Rikki hires Laila, a prostitute, to pose as Anaida, and Alvira asks Satvinder -- a mummy's boy/optician -- to pretend to be Steve (these characters are played by Dutta and Deol, the same actors that played their fictional lovers). The four meet at a club and take part in the dance competition, while throwing insults at each other. Rikki and Laila emerge as the winners but Alvira is jealous and storms out in tears.

Satvinder goes to Rikki's flat and tells him that he has fallen in love with Laila. He also tells him that Alvira is not engaged to him. Rikki, realising what has happened, goes to see Alvira, who is at first moping in bed and later tries to convince her cousin not to marry her. Rikki calls her from a neighbor's window. The two meet in the street and declare their love for each other, sealing it with a long kiss.

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Fool 'N Final 2007 (Bollywood)


It is a carbon copy of the movie Snatch starring Brad Pitt.Based on that idea it is a slick diamond robbery takes place in India. The robber is none other than Rocky (Chunky Pandey) who’s the nephew of Chowksi (Gulshan Grover), a Don based in London. Chowksi tells Rocky to sell the diamond to his brother Lalwani (Asrani) in Dubai. Lalwani is a dealer of smuggled gems and jewellery. But he warns Rocky to stay away from guns and gambling, which is his weakness, to ensure nothing goes wrong. On the other hand, the local mafia in Dubai, Moscow Chikna (Arbaaz Khan) is torturing Choubey (Paresh Rawal) because he was unable to return the money he had loaned from Moscow Chikna. Choubey owns a junk shop and was facing major loses. He gets information about the diamond robbery from one of his informants. He is also made aware of the involvement of the International mafia Chowksi. To keep a low profile, Moscow Chikna asks Choubey to get the diamond for him, only after which he will leave him. Choubey gets along with Raja (Shahid Kapoor), a fast robber, and Tina (Ayesha Takia) who’s his niece to plan the robbery of the precious diamond.

Luckee (Vivek Oberoi) and Bob (Suresh Menon) own a small video and game parlour in Dubai. To earn a little extra money they also promote new fighters who want to take part in illegal boxing matches in Dubai.

J.D (Zakir Hussain) is a big underworld Don, who controls all of Dubai's illegal gambling and fights. J.D's men also get girls from India to Dubai promising them jobs. But once in Dubai, the girls are forced to work in dance clubs. One of them is Payal (Sameera Reddy). But Payal manages to escape from there. J.D is very upset as he really likes her. He orders his men to find her.

J.D’s men are looking for Payal in the market place. Right there are Bhabhi (Sharmila Tagore) and Bhaiya (Om Puri) who are quiet shaken when they see Payal being taken away by the men. They call Munna (Sunny Deol), who is Bhaiya’s brother, to save her. Munna enters in a heroic manner and knocks them out. They all then take Payal home. Payal eventually falls in love with Munna.

Munna owns a garage and is known for his strength and power. He is strong and very impulsive. He can knock out anyone and just about anyone in one blow! He doesn't think before getting into a fight because he is aware of his potency. Because of this, he is also approached by Luckee to wrestle with some of the strongest men around.

Bhabhi’s son dies in an accident two years back, which completely shakes her. Munna then finds Raja, who is a look alike of her dead son. Munna hires Raja to play her son for a handsome amount. Raja is anyway a crook and does anything for money. He agrees to do so.

Along with this, Raja is now planning the robbery with Choubey and Tina. They hire Pattu (Johnny Lever), who’s famous for his driving skills, to help them flee after the robbery.

When Rocky lands in Dubai, he gets in touch with Moscow Chikna to buy guns. But he is well aware who Rocky is. He asks Rocky not to pay for the guns instead bet on his behalf at J.D’s illegal bookies. Moscow then instructs Choubey, Raja and Tina to kidnap Rocky outside the bookies.

Outside the bookies when they do not get hold of anything they plan to rob the bookies. But again they come out empty handed. As they come out they are over whelmed to find Rocky. They kidnap him and take him to their junk shop. Moscow Chikna shoots Rocky and takes the diamond away leaving them with the body.

Meanwhile J.D learns that some men attempted to rob his bookies. Agitated he comes to Choubey’s junk shop. There he finds out that Rocky was the one who was carrying the precious diamond. He tells Choubey and gang that he will spare them only if they get him the diamond.

Chowksi who comes down from London realizes that Rocky is missing. To find him he hires G9 (Jackie Shroff). Now here all the stories inter cross.


In one of the scenes World famous boxer Mike Tyson enters the scene to fight with Munna.

Now with all of them caught up together in this chase, the story takes a comical twist.

A lot of breaking bones for stealing stones ends up this bout with a complete knockout comedy!

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Cheeni Kum 2007 (bollywood)


The film opens in the kitchen of Spice6, a (fictitious) Indian restaurant in London. Waiters, busboys and chefs are busy at work taking orders, preparing food and serving up a storm. At the center of this restaurant is an ornery head chef, Buddhadev Gupta (Amitabh Bachchan), presiding over "London's best restaurant". He is quick to fire a sous chef on the spot for making a small mistake. And he launches into a grand speech about the rise of the restaurant to prominence, about the art of cooking and how it stirs all the senses, and about the discipline and commitment required to maintain its stature.

One of the waiters, affectionately called Colgate (reference to an Indian toothpaste) and incessantly teased because of his protruding front teeth, brings back a Hyderabadi Zafrani Pulav. The patron sent it back because cheeni zyada hai (it has more sugar, it is sweet). The great Buddhadev is enraged. He brings it back to the table and lays out the patrons. Is this their first time in London? How is Zafrani Pulav made at their home? Would they be so kind as to teach him? The patrons quietly leave. Buddhadev returns to the kitchen muttering about low air fares bringing planeloads of bloody tourists who simply cannot appreciate his art.

The next day Colgate brings back another Zafrani Pulav. Buddhadev tastes it and rattles off its ingredients. He pronounces it, the child of his kitchen, the best Zafrani Pulav in town. Colgate meekly informs him that it was not sent back, but cooked specifically for him by the previous night's patron.

That patron is Nina Verma (Tabu).

Over the next few days Buddhadev and Nina run into each other a few times. Nina, a 34-year old software engineer, is intelligent, charming, playful, and strong willed, all under a quiet external demeanor. Buddhadev is every bit the pompous, irritable and lonely old man he portrays. The film takes us into his life. He returns, night after night, to his lodgings and to his aged mother (Zohra Sehgal in an excellent performance). The bright spot in his life is his quick-witted 9-year old neighbor Sexy (Swini Khara). She teases him, checks up on him and dispenses advice (with apparent wisdom way beyond her age) about his problems. For all her wit and wisdom, Sexy suffers from leukemia. She also laments that she is not able to watch A-rated (analogous to R-rated films in America) films. Buddhadev offers to bring her DVDs. (Later in the film, she says there is nothing in them she didn't already know. She fast-forwards through them in an attempt to finish watching them all as quickly as possible.)

Buddhadev gradually gets closer to Nina. There is constant lively banter between them. She asks him why he fired yet another sous chef; if he is pleased to accept compliments about the food prepared by the sous chefs then he should gracefully accept criticism (and in this case fire himself!) too. Buddhadev is gradually summoning the courage to ask her out; she playfully suggests that he should come right out and ask without fear. Ask her name, she says, with a coy smile.

At some point during the next week, Buddhadev asks her if she will marry him. She accepts. When she goes to talk to his mother, she gets a phone call about her father, in Delhi, being admitted to the hospital. Right around this time, Sexy's condition worsens and she is admitted to a local hospital.

Buddhadev arrives in Delhi to meet Nina's father, Mr. Verma (Paresh Rawal). Mr. Verma is a typical old Indian retiree. He spends his life in Bhajan (devotional songs, mainly focused on Gandhi), Bhojan (food) and Bhaji (references Harbhajan Singh and represents his love for cricket). Nina informs Buddhadev that her father, at 58, is younger than him! After a few false starts, Buddhadev asks Mr. Verma for his daughter's hand in marriage.

Mr. Verma is shocked and disgusted. He flatly refuses. Over my dead body, he raves at Nina. She immediately, yet quietly, asks him when he plans to go! He calmly tells her that he is concerned about her. Buddhadev is already and old man; how much longer can he live? She says she prefers spending a few years with a man she loves instead of a lifetime with some man she does not love.

It is a stalemate. Mr. Verma puts up a bhookh hartal (fast, something commonly employed by Gandhi as a means of peaceful disobedience). Buddhadev arrives at the denouement. What is Mr. Verma's problem? He lays out the facts and addresses Mr. Verma's fears. He is adequately covered by insurance; Nina need not worry.

Mr. Verma finally relents. No sooner than Buddhadev hears this, he receives word from London that Sexy has passed.

The film ends with Buddhadev, Nina, Buddhadev's mother and Mr. Verma having dinner at Spice6. Buddhadev offers to fulfill one of Mr. Verma's life goals: watching a game of cricket at Lord's stadium.

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28 May 2007

Back in Business 2007 (hollywood)


The space race has been dominated for decades by two rival superpowers, but just when they thought they were alone, a new force has arrived. Britain has developed an amazing space exploration buggy that might solve the planets energy problems. But will Britain's greatest achievement become one conman's finest hour? Will Spencer (Martin Kemp) and his right hand man/master of disguise (Chris Barrie) will re-unite alongside Will's niece Fiona (Joanna Taylor) head of marketing at the British Space Centre, and Travis (Stefan Booth), Tom's accident-prone son, in a series of comical misadventures spanning across the United Kingdom and beyond! In this fun family movie, our unlikely heroes will create a plan the likes of which the world has never before seen, to steal what every government wants. And the only person that stands in their way is Scotland Yard's worst detective (Dennis Waterman). Together they will use the UK's highly developed space technology to outsmart the world's most powerful ambassadors, and ultimately help put the 'Great' back into Great Britain.

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21 May 2007

Shrek 3 2007 (cartoon)


The movie begins with Prince Charming (voice of Rupert Everett) riding on a steed through a forest to rescue his beloved princess. However, the "forest" is actually a screen being rolled by two dwarfs and his "horse" is made out of wood. Prince Charming has been reduced to acting at a dinner-theater and none of the audience members are pleased. The set is falling apart and worst of all, everyone is cheering for Shrek when the final scene falls. Charming storms off the stage and into his dressing room, which is really just a mirror and a table in the alley outside. Frustrated and angry, Charming glares at his reflection. He hadn't gotten his "happily ever after" and that just isn't fair. Looking at a picture of his long gone mother, Charming starts to concoct a plan to avenge their honor.

Meanwhile, King Harold (voice of John Cleese) has fallen ill in Far Far Away and Shrek (voice of Mike Myers) and Fiona (voice of Cameron Diaz) have been summoned to take his place for a few days. But Shrek doesn't do so well as the new heir. For example, he cuts a man while trying to knight him, sinks a ship as it's preparing to sail, etc. Shrek is given a makeover in hopes of at least looking the part, but he still ends up looking like a wolf in sheep's clothing. Shrek's only hope is that this won't last much longer. He tells Fiona how much he's looking forward to going back to their swamp, just the two of them. Fiona tells him that she's hoping for a few more too. After a few wrong guesses, Shrek learns that Fiona wants to have kids. Shrek thinks about his friends' children, especially Donkey (Eddie Murphy), who has some little dragon-donkey hybrids with his wife and tells Fiona that babies are not his kind of thing.

Unfortunately, Harold is soon on his death bed. With his final breaths, he tells Shrek that there is only one other heir: Arthur Pendragon. He knows that Shrek would be a good king anyway, but that no matter what he chooses, it will be the right thing. The entire kingdom is in mourning of their king, and Shrek soon sets out to find the heir. Of course, joining them is Donkey and Puss in Boots (voice of Antonio Banderas). As they're sailing off, Fiona runs to the dock and tells Shrek that she's pregnant. Shrek is shocked and has several nightmares about his future children. Everyone assures him that fatherhood is a great thing, but Shrek is not so sure.

When they finally arrive, Shrek finds that Arthur (voice of Justin Timberlake) is only in high school. All the students have a fairy-tale-style look to them. Unfortunately, this doesn't make Arthur any less of a "loser". Even the kids playing the medieval version of Dungeons and Dragons pick on him. When Shrek announces to everyone that Arthur is going to be king, the other kids only laugh. Aboard the ship, Arthur is feeling good about his new role until Donkey and Puss in Boots scare him with responsibilities. Arthur gets into an argument with Shrek and they fight over the ship. They end up crashing on an island, where they meet Arthur's old magic teacher, Merlin (voice of Eric Idle). Merlin was fired after he had a nervous breakdown, and now he has to stay in touch with nature and his inner self more. In order to help Shrek and Arthur reconcile, he makes them look into a thick smoke to reveal their thoughts. Shrek sees a baby carriage, but pretends that he saw a "Rainbow Pony". Merlin is pleased and moves on to Arthur, who sees a bird and its father. The father bird abandons the chick, leaving him frightened and confused. Merlin tells the boy he's a nutcase and retreats to his hut.

Shrek decides to take this opportunity to show Arthur that they're not so different after all. Just as Arthur's father abandoned him, Shrek's father was pretty bad too. In fact, he tried to eat him. Shrek also tells Arthur that just because someone calls you "a monster or a loser, it doesn't mean you are one". Shrek tells him that people told him for years that he was horrible and terrifying, and for years, he believed them. Now, he's learned to just be who he wants to be. Arthur laughs with Shrek and they become friends again.

Meanwhile, Prince Charming has gone to the tavern where all the fairy tale villains go after they've been defeated. He convinces them to join him in a fight for "Their Happily Ever After". The villains feel like their side of the story has never been told and now is the time to do it. Fiona is still at the castle with her friends: Rapunzel (voice of Maya Rudolph), Cinderella (voice of Amy Sedaris), Sleeping Beauty (voice of Cheri Oteri), and Snow White (voice of Amy Poehler). At the baby shower, Cinderella gives her a "baby poop scooper", Snow White gives her one of the Seven Dwarves as a baby sitter, and everyone else just gives her advice. Suddenly, Prince Charming arrives and crashes the kingdom. Fiona and her friends escape just in time, but the other citizens are not as lucky. The entire kingdom is thrown into chaos and the villains take over the city.

The Three Little Pigs (voice of Cody Cameron), the Wolf (voice of Aron Warner), the Gingerbread Man (voice of Conrad Vernon), and Pinocchio (voice of Cody Cameron) are still in the princesses' tea room, trying to seem normal. When Charming demands to know where Fiona and Shrek are, everyone manages to avoid the question, with the Gingerbread Man starts singing hysterically, Pinocchio talking in circles, and the Wolf just staying calm.. But one of the Three Little Pigs breaks down and squeals. Charming decides to send some of his men to hunt down Shrek for a final showdown.

Shrek and Arthur wake up to find themselves surrounded by the villains sent by Charming. Working as a team, the group manages to frighten the villains away, but it doesn't bring them any closer to Far Far Away. Arthur decides to ask Merlin, and he whips out some acting skills to convince the old man. Merlin warns them that although the spell should work, there may be some minor side effects. Before he gets a chance to fully explain, they are zapped into Far Far Away. The side effects are minor, with Puss in Boots and Donkey switching bodies.

Fiona and the girls are still navigating the underground tunnels of the palace, but Rapunzel betrays them to become the new queen. The remaining girls are imprisoned, but Fiona's mother Lillian (Julie Andrews) teaches them to be independent and breaks them out of the prison. They return to the castle and save the city from Charming's schemes.

Shrek arrives at the city to find everything in complete disarray. Pinocchio has been imprisoned as a marionette doll, but he manages to give Shrek some information on what has happened since he left. Charming is bent on revenge against Shrek for "stealing" his Happily Ever After and plans to kill Shrek in a play later that night. Shrek sneaks into Charming's dressing room, but Charming's men arrive shortly and quickly capture everyone. In an effort to save Arthur, Shrek tells Arthur that he wasn't the true heir, he was just a loser who could easily take Shrek's place. Thinking that Shrek is serious, Charming and Arthur are stunned. Arthur storms off and Charming returns to the important task of getting rid of Shrek.

Charming's play is significantly better than the one he participated in at the dinner-theater, but the audiences still cheer when Shrek is led onto the stage. Just as Charming is about to kill Shrek and rid himself of the humiliation he's suffered, Fiona and her friends leap onto the stage. They quickly defeat the villains imprisoning Shrek, but Charming just summons more.

Arthur has been convinced by Donkey and Puss in Boots to return after they explained what Shrek's true intentions were, and he manages to convince the rest of the villains that they don't need to do this. He tells them about the speech that Shrek gave them, and the villains decide that they don't need to be the villains anymore. Unfortunately, Charming doesn't feel the same way and Shrek has to use force. Donkey's dragon-wife knocks down a tower and Charming is crushed underneath.

Shrek offers Arthur the crown again, but this time it's up to Arthur whether or not he wants to take it. Shrek will no longer throw away his own responsibilities to someone else who is just as unsure as he is. Arthur picks up the crown and smiles at the crowd. Fiona and Shrek are reunited at last and Arthur already looks like he's popular with his new subjects.

Donkey and Puss in Boots go to seek Merlin once again, and he manages to reverse the body-switching spell. However, their tails are still mismatched. Merlin starts to tell them, thinks better of it, and waltzes off.

A few months later, Shrek and Fiona are happily back in their swamp with their many ogre children. It's not as bad as Shrek thought it would be, although both of them are completely exhausted by the end of the day. The film ends with the children playing around with Donkey and the swamp creatures.

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18 May 2007

Blood and Chocolate 2007 (hollywood)


Vivian's family was killed in America when she was a young girl, after which she moved to Romania to live with her aunt Astrid. Astrid is a former mate of the pack's leader, Gabriel, and together they have a son named Rafe. According to pack law, the leader chooses a new mate every seven years. The choosing is a few months away and Gabriel wants Vivian as his mate, despite her reluctance. This is because of a prophecy which states that a female loup-garou will lead all loup-garou into the age of hope. Gabriel thinks this wolf will be Vivian, and for this reason he wants to marry her.

While sitting in a church one night (having broken into it) she meets a human, Aiden, who is an artist (who broke into the church for inspiration for his graphic novel series) researching the legend of the loup-garou. Aiden is instantly smitten and pursues her for several days before she finally agrees to start seeing him. They meet in secret and fall in love. They are soon discovered by Vivian's cousin Rafe and his four friends, who grew up with Vivian; throughout the book Rafe and his friends are referred to as the Five. After Rafe tell Gabriel about the relationship, he orders Rafe to do whatever is necessary to get Aiden out of the city- even if it means killing Aiden.

Rafe sends Aiden a note, pretending it is from Vivian and asking him to meet her in a chapel outside the city. After Rafe threatens him, Aiden throws him into the table where he cuts himself. Rafe's spilling of blood forces his eyes to turn gold and reveal his loup-garou side. He attempts to kill Aiden, however silver is fatal to the loup-garou and can poison them when mixes with their blood. Aiden uses his silver pentagram necklace to kill Rafe, in self-defense.

Gabriel and Astrid are devastated at the death of their son, and Aiden is caught by the other loup-garoux. Every month at full moon, the pack leads a hunt in the forest. The human prey is chosen because they are a danger to the pack or because they've offended one of its members. If the human manages to cross the river in the forest, they're allowed to live, but no one has ever managed to reach the river. Aiden is chosen to be that moon cycle's prey and he runs for his life. Fortunately, he'd stolen a silver knife from a restaurant earlier, and when two wolves corner him he is able to defend himself. He reaches the river and with great difficulty crosses it, however Gabriel is furious and breaks his own law, he follows Aiden and attacks. Vivian jumps in and she and Gabriel fight in their wolf forms; she wins and throws him into the river. Aiden attacks her, not recognizing her in her wolf skin, and stabs her with the knife. When she changes back into her human skin she reveals who she is, he is stricken with guilt and is eager and recluctant to help her.

They flee to a building where films were once processed, because it is riddled with silver dust the loup-garou would not dare enter a place so littered with silver to find them. Astrid, however, realizes where Vivian had gone and confronts them with a gun. Vivian pleads for Aiden's life, reminding Astrid of how important it is to be with someone you love, and Astrid (who is in love with Gabriel even though he is no longer her mate) lets them free. They retrieve an antidote for Vivian by threatening a loup-garou pharmacist, but the man manages to alert the pack to their presence and Vivian is captured.

In the wolves' territory, Gabriel orders one of the loup-garou to kill Vivian, but Aiden jumps in with a gun full of silver bullets and a massive fight begins. During the shooting, several kegs of alcohol shatter and their contents spill onto the floor and Aiden sets the building on fire. Vivian aims a gun at Gabriel, but he blackmails her by telling her she how she is low enough to try to kill one of her own kind in order to defend a human. Aiden pleads with Vivian to shoot Gabriel, to which she replies, "I can't." When Gabriel changes into his wolf form and goes to attack Aiden, Vivian shoots him. Vivian feels guilty for having killed Gabriel, as tears roll down her cheeks and she strokes Gabriel's fur. She helps the rest of the Loup-garou escape from the fire and she and Aiden run away together.

The last scene is of them sitting in Gabriel's car and driving out of the city, on their way to Paris. As they drive, several people in the streets bow their heads and smile at the car, as they believe it to be the pack leader Gabriel. These people are loup-garoux and they have no knowledge that Gabriel is dead. This was the only way for Vivian and Aiden to escape the city undetected.

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Plane Dead 2007 (hollywood)


Plane Dead is a special effects packed sci-fi/horror/action thriller about a routine flight from Los Angeles to Paris on which a renegade scientist is on the run from the CIA. He has smuggled aboard a secret coffin that contains the corpse of a fellow scientist that is infected with a deadly genetically engineered virus.

The 747 jumbo jet collides with two massive thunderstorms at once. The plane is pulled into the eye of the inescapable storm, where the constant turbulence releases the infected flesh eating scientist from the cargo hold. Spreading the virus all over the plane, the zombie scientist turns many unsuspecting passengers into the undead.

The uninfected survivors must now fight for survival aboard the flight they wish they had missed. No government will allow the infected airliner a place to land, leaving the survivors stranded in the sky with their ravenous tormentors.

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Wild Hogs 2007 (hollywood)


Woody Stevens (John Travolta), Doug Madsen (Tim Allen), Bobby Davis (Martin Lawrence), and Dudley Frank (William H. Macy) are four successful middle-aged suburban men in Cincinnati who find themselves frustrated with the pace of daily life. Woody is a formerly rich businessman who now finds himself alone and bankrupt. Doug is a dentist who can’t connect with his son and misses his college glory days when he was called “The Golden Knight.” Bobby is a plumber who’s often bossed around by his wife. Dudley is a computer geek who seeks to find a woman in his life. Their one collective hobby has always been to ride together on motorcycles around the city. They even have leather jackets with their biker gang name, “Wild Hogs,” stitched on the back.

After Woody finds out that his marriage is ending in divorce and that he's bankrupt, he suggests that the Wild Hogs embark a cross-country road trip on their bikes to seek adventure. After some hesitation from the three others, the four agree to the trip and set off on their Harley-Davidsons.

The road trip is filled with humorous moments. For example, when they cosily sleep close to each other, scantily dressed, a policeman (John C. McGinley) tells them this is lewd and lascivious behavior, but it turns out that he is only teasing: he is gay and actually jealous. Later the four go skinny dipping, but are very uncomfortable when a family goes swimming. When the family discovers that the four men are naked they feel very uncomfortable too and leave. The policeman appears again; he also undresses and joins the four men, showing sexual interest in them; this makes the four feel uncomfortable again, and now they leave.

The fun soon ends when the foursome stops at a small New Mexico bar and stumbles onto a real motorcycle gang called the Del Fuegos. Del Fuego leader Jack (Ray Liotta) tricks the foursome into a bum motorcycle trade, then tells them they should leave before something else bad happens. The Wild Hogs leave the bar without Dudley’s bike, with the Del Fuegos claiming the Wild Hogs are nothing compared to real motorcyclists, such as Damien Blade, the biker who founded the gang and built the bar.

Less than a mile away, Woody stops, disgraced at what just transpired. He tells his friends that he will walk back and reason with Jack for the bike. But when Woody gets back to the bar, he builds up his courage and cuts the fuel lines to every gang member’s motorcycle in the parking lot before exiting with Dudley’s bike. He returns to his friends with the bike (to much astonishment) and explains that he simply threatened the gang with legal action should they not turn over the bike. At the nervous Woody’s request, they quickly leave the area. Jack orders his gang to follow the Wild Hogs, but when he errantly tosses a cigarette, it hits gasoline on the ground, which triggers a chain reaction that blows up the entire biker bar. The Del Fuegos swear revenge, getting to work on repairing their vehicles.

Meanwhile, because of Woody’s insistence that they should not stop for any reason, the Wild Hogs run out of gas and are forced to stop in the small town of Madrid, New Mexico, to wait overnight for the fuel station’s opening. The four are first mistaken for actual Del Fuegos and feared. Once the mistake is cleared up, the Madrid Sheriff (Stephen Tobolowsky) tells the Wild Hogs that the Del Fuegos terrorize the town yearly and the small police force - who received police training by beating the video game Doom - is unable to do anything about them.

At a chili festival that night, Dudley meets Maggie (Marisa Tomei) and immediately is smitten with her. As he courts her, Bobby comes across two Del Fuegos in town (who have spotted the Wild Hogs and informed Jack). Thinking himself untouchable, because of Woody’s previous “legal action” explanation, Bobby humiliates the two bikers. Under orders from Jack, the two Del Fuegos refuse to do anything, but instead get humiliated and simply leave the area. The town praises all the Wild Hogs as saviors, thinking them a friendly biker gang who can protect them.

Dudley spends the night with Maggie. The next morning, The Del Fuegos arrive en masse and Jack yells to the townspeople that his gang will slowly destroy the town until the Wild Hogs come out to fight. Woody reveals he lied about the biker bar incident and his friends are disappointed with his deceit. When the Del Fuegos start to wreck Maggie’s diner, Dudley goes out to meet them. The rest of the Wild Hogs arrive to back up Dudley and a four-on-four fistfight begins between four Del Fuego bikers and the Wild Hogs. Easily outmatched, the Wild Hogs are beaten up, but refuse to stay down and see the diner destroyed. With their dignity on the line, they continue to get up and take punch after punch, much to the amazement of Jack. Just then, the townspeople all arrive carrying makeshift weapons and defend their new friends; they demand the Del Fuegos leave the Wild Hogs alone and get out of town. The situation is defused by the arrival of Damien Blade himself (Peter Fonda). Blade chastises Jack and the Del Fuegos for picking on four men and the townspeople, and reveals he actually thought his bar was crap and insured it for twice what it was worth (and we also learn that Jack is actually Damien's son). The Del Fuegos, feeling guilty, leave. In a salute to Easy Rider, Blade tells the Wild Hogs that they need to "lose the watches," referring to the scene when, just before departing on their cross-country chopper-born odyssey, Wyatt (Fonda's character), takes off his watch and throws it in the dirt.

Bobby and Doug’s wives arrive in town. Bobby tells his wife that he dislikes her controlling him and the two reconcile. Doug impresses his son by telling him of the adventures. Dudley says he will return to town soon to enjoy time with Maggie. The four head for the Pacific coast.

During the closing credits, a fake episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition where the Del Fuegos are given a brand new bar is shown. Jack holds back tears unsuccessfully.

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17 May 2007

Good Boy Bad Boy 2007 (bollywood)


Rajan Malhotra ( Tusshar Kapoor ) is a ‘good boy’ who spends his time staying riveted to books and isolated from the youthful jamboree of college life. Even Rajan’s parents want him to leave his uptightness and enjoy life. But Rajan has a sole aim, to study hard and become a responsible citizen of this country.

Such talk is Greek to Raju Malhotra ( Emraan Hashmi ) who, no prizes for guessing, is the ‘bad boy’. Raju maintains a safe distance from books, bunks his lectures, spends his quality time playing pranks on others or chasing girls in the college.

Speaking of girls, there is ‘bad girl’ Dinki ( Tanushree Dutta ) who is a free spirit with mod attitude and god-given assets. And then there is ‘good girl’ Rashmi ( Isha Sharvani ) with a planned outlook towards life.

Story takes a turn when the new principal (Paresh Rawal) decides to bring some discipline into the college by dividing it into three different sections for brilliant, average and week students.

By mistake, the IDs of Rajan and Raju are swapped. Rajan finds himself in Raju’s place, and Raju goes among the intellectual students.

Despite this case of mistaken identities, the bad boy falls for the good girl Rashmi, who turns out to be the principal’s daughter. On the other hand, the ‘bad girl’ Dinki woos the good boy Rajan.

The movie ends with an inter-college competition in which both the good and the bad boy emerge victorious.

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16 May 2007

First Snow 2006 (hollywood)


Wound tight and cocky, Jimmy Starks (Guy Pearce) has plans, big plans. A smooth-talking salesman, he might be in flooring now, but he's got a surefire idea that'll take him through the roof -- selling restored jukeboxes to bars across the country. People will be lining up to throw money into 'em, right? Certain he's standing on the precipice of great fortune if only he can get financial backing, Jimmy is barreling down the road to success, when one by one things start to break down . . . starting with his car.

Suddenly stranded in the middle of a remote New Mexican town, desolate as any in the Twilight Zone, Jimmy learns from a local mechanic he's not going anywhere until the problem is fixed. He's forced into limbo, and what better way to pass the time than by getting a reading from a roadside soothsayer (J.K. Simmons) who claims that for $10 he can step into his RV and right into Jimmy's future. Shelling out the cash, Jimmy starts off practical. Will his car eventually make it home? Will the New Mexico Wolves win their upcoming basketball game? The old man assures him that both are good bets.

But since everyone knows the Wolves' star player is benched with an injury and the team doesn't have a prayer of winning, Jimmy grows more cynical by the minute. Still, he has nothing better to do, so he asks if there's a chance the financial backing for his jukeboxes will come through. Ahhh, that will require a deeper descent, replies the old man. It seems Jimmy's mind is so cluttered it will cost more money to penetrate it.

Well, Jimmy is already the kind of guy who pretty much believes in no one but himself. As far as he's concerned, he makes his own destiny and the future is in no one's hands but his own. Still, the amusement is worth a few more bucks, so he puts his skepticism on the shelf, and fishes out the cash. Now, with grave sincerity, the old man takes Jimmy's hand and peers into the great beyond. Yes, he is clearly feeling good financial vibrations - a windfall by way of Dallas is on the way.

But suddenly the mysterious seer lurches away, ripping his hand from Jimmy's grasp as though he just touched a red-hot branding iron. Startled, Jimmy demands to know what's going on. He offers more money, but the old man returns the original bills Jimmy gave him, saying no amount will make him talk. Bewildered, Jimmy leaves, more convinced than ever the whole thing is a scam.

The next morning, back home in his comfortable track home in suburban Albuquerque, Jimmy is on the phone right after he wakes up, as always the slick-talking go-getter ready to roll, and speeding toward his future. He blows past his live-in girlfriend Deirdre (Piper Perabo), who has her sights on settling down with Jimmy on 10 acres in Taos. But he seduces her hopes for commitment away, and leaves her dreams in his wake as he flies out the door. He's gotta go play henchman for his boss, firing his young protégé Andy (Rick Gonzales) for doing just what he taught him -- skimming a little off the top. Now Andy's in his wake as well, as Jimmy drives off, cool as ever, never even taking his shades off to look Andy in the eye.

Later, after a long day of schmoozing, Jimmy unwinds at the local bar with his best friend and co-salesman Ed (William Fichtner). As they gape at the TV screen, watching their beloved Wolves pull out unbelievable victory, Jimmy scoffs at the coincidence. The old man just got lucky, right? But when Jimmy's boss phones shortly thereafter to tell him the jukebox venture is a happening thing via funding from Dallas, Jimmy can't help but think the old man in the RV has some kind of crystal ball.

Shaken, especially when a regular check up reveals a slight heart irregularity, Jimmy wonders if his future is in jeopardy. What exactly did the old man "see" when he reeled away from him with that scared look? Probably nothing, but after Jimmy starts getting hang up calls and finds a shooting range target in his mailbox, he's pretty spooked. He heads off like a man possessed to force the psychic - at gunpoint if necessary - to reveal his dark vision.

"I saw no more roads, no more tomorrows," the old man finally whispers with the barrel of Jimmy's gun to his temple. "You don't have much time left . . . but you're safe until the first snow."

Day by day, the weather rapidly turns colder, and as it does, Jimmy slowly becomes unwound. His paranoia drives away his girlfriend and threatens his performance at work. His mind becomes noisy with questions. If the old man is right, how's it going to happen? Would his irregular heartbeat fail him? Would Andy seek revenge? Maybe Vincent (Shea Whigham), a childhood friend he once betrayed to the feds, would get out of prison and hunt him down?

As snow flurries begin to threaten the southwestern skies, Jimmy's past rapidly begins to collide with his present. He starts scrambling to make atonements, racing to find a road that will lead to a future, and he begins to answer a question we all have asked ourselves at one time or another: What would we do if we knew our future ... and would knowing be a blessing or a curse?

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Music and Lyrics 2007 (hollywood)


Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant) is a former pop star. As a founding member of pop band Pop!, he enjoyed considerable fame and success during the 1980s and early 1990s, but has accepted that he is a has-been. A chance to recapture his former glory comes in the form of a duet with diva Cora Corman (Haley Bennett), which he must compose in a matter of days. Unfortunately, Alex hasn’t written anything in years and knows that he will need help from a lyricist.

Alex meets Sophie Fisher (Drew Barrymore), a writer with little confidence in her skills and reeling from a disastrous romance. Eventually she agrees to collaborate and as the two begin to find the right notes, there are signs of a budding romance. Finally, they are able to finish the song and submit it to Cora. She likes it, but makes large revisions. Conflict arises when Sophie insists on telling Cora about her concerns with the changes, and Alex stops her.

At Cora's concert, after Cora performs "Entering Bootytown," she announces Alex's song. Sophie leaves as she is not credited for the lyrics and she feels this as a betrayal. However, Alex performs a new song dedicated to his and Sophie's relationship so far. After that, he and Cora perform the original version of "Way Back Into Love".

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Hannibal Rising 2007 (hollywood)


This prequel shows a young Hannibal Lecter from childhood in Lithuania, to his teen years in France, and up to his arrival in North America.

Lecter is boy of 8 years old at the beginning of the film (1944), living in Lecter Castle in Lithuania. Lecter, his younger sister Mischa, and his parents escape to the family's hunting lodge in the woods to elude the advancing German troops. Back at Lecter Castle, six Lithuanian militiamen (Grutas, Dortlich, Grentz, Kolnas, Milko, and Pot Watcher) request to join the Waffen-SS. The SS commander orders them to kill the Lecters' Jewish cook who was left behind, to which they gleefully comply.

A Soviet tank stops at the Lecters' lodge looking for water, and forces everyone out of the house. However, the tank is then spotted by a German bomber, which sparks a firefight. The bomber is shot down by the tank, but subsequently crashes into it, and the ensuing explosion kills everyone but Lecter and Mischa.

The SS militiamen then loot Lecter Castle. Seeing their wounded SS commander, Grutas shoots him and takes his badge. However, the impending Russian advance force them to hide out in the woods, where they locate the Lecter lodge. They storm and take over the lodge. Finding no other food in the bitterly cold Baltic winter, the men look menacingly at Hannibal and Mischa.

The movie then cuts to a scene eight years later inside Lecter Castle, which has been turned into a Soviet orphanage. A bully harasses Lecter, who has been rendered mute by his experiences, about not singing the orphanage anthem. The bully attacks his head, but Lecter blocks his swing with a fork, impaling the bully's hand. That evening, Lecter experiences his first flashback about Mischa, which angers the youth commander, who locks him in a dungeon. However, Lecter escapes from the castle orphanage to Paris to live with his widowed aunt, the Lady Murasaki. She manages to get him to speak for the first time, and instructs him about flower arrangement, martial arts, and ancestor worship.

At a local market, a butcher makes a crude remark about Lady Murasaki. Lecter then attacks him. Later, while the butcher was fishing, Lecter requests an apology from him, and is denied. He disembowels the butcher with a katana, then decapitates him. He is suspected of the butcher's murder by Inspector Popil, a French detective who had also lost his family to the war. Thanks in part to his aunt's intervention, however, Lecter escapes responsibility for the crime.

Eventually, Lecter becomes the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France. He receives a working scholarship at a hospital in Paris, where he is given a job preparing cadavers. One day, Lecter witnesses a condemned war criminal receiving a sodium thiopental injection to force him to recall details about his war crimes. In an attempt to recall the names of those responsible for his sister's death, Lecter injects himself with the solution. His subsequent flashback reveals that the pot watcher was killed when the Russians bombed the lodge, and the dogtags were still left in the ruins of the lodge.

Lecter then returns to Lithuania in search of his sister's remains. While crossing the Soviet border, he draws the attention of Dortlich, who is now a Soviet border patrol officer. Lecter excavates the ruins of the lodge where his family died, and also unearths the dog-tags of the group of deserters who had killed his sister. Dortlich attempts to kill him but is incapacitated by Lecter. After he buries Mischa's remains, Lecter forces Dortlich to reveal the whereabouts of the rest of his gang, and then decapitates Dortlich with a horse-drawn pulley. Dortlich's blood splashes on Lecter's face, and he licks it off. Later, the Soviet police arrive on the scene, only to discover Dortlich's head, its cheeks carved off, and a brochette.

Lecter then visits Kolnas' restaurant in Fontainebleau. He finds Kolnas' young daughter and notices Mischa's bracelet on her. He then gives Kolnas' dogtag to her. Kolnas' enters the restaurant, but Hannibal is persuaded not to murder him, by his Aunt, for the sake of Kolnas' children. Dortlich's murder, along with Kolnas' dogtag, puts the rest of the group in alert. Grutas, now a sex trafficker, dispatches a second member of the group, Zigmas Milko, to kill Lecter. Milko sneaks into Lecter's laboratory at night with a gun, but Lecter senses his presence, and knocks him out with an injection. Just as Popil is entering the lab, Lecter drowns Milko in formaldehyde. Popil questions Lecter about Dortlich's murder, but is again unable to establish Lecter's guilt. Popil then tries to dissuade him from hunting the gang, and offers to let him go free if he helped locate Grutas. After Lecter leaves, Popil remarks to his assistant that Lecter lost all of his humanity when Mischa died, and has become a monster.

During a confrontation with Lady Murasaki, Lecter almost has sex with her, but relents after Lady Murasaki begs him not to get revenge, claiming he had made a promise to Mischa. Lecter then sets up a time bomb in Grutas' home, and attacks him in the shower. However, a maid alerts Grutas' bodyguards, who then rush in. Just as Grutas' bodyguards are about to slit his throat, Lecter's time bomb goes off and he escapes.

Grutas kidnaps Lady Murasaki and calls Lecter, using her as bait. Lecter recognizes the sounds of Kolnas' ortolans from his restaurant in the background. Lecter goes there and plays on Kolnas' emotions by threatening his children, forcing him to give up the location of Grutas' boat. Lecter then says he will leave Kolnas alone for the sake of his family, and places his gun on the hot stove. As Kolnas goes for the gun, Lecter impales him through the head with his Tantō. He then hides the tantō behind his back.

Lecter goes to the houseboat. Just as he is about to untie Lady Murasaki, Grutas shoots him in the back. Grutas then proceeds to rape Murasaki. Lecter takes out the tanto, which was broken by the force of the bullet, and slashes Grutas's Achilles' tendons with it, crippling him. In a final confrontation, Grutas claims that Lecter too had consumed his sister in broth fed to him by the soldiers, and he was killing them to keep this fact secret. Enraged, Lecter carves his sister's initial, M, into Grutas's chest. Lady Murasaki, finally disturbed by his behavior, flees from him even after he tells her that he loves her. As she leaves, Hannibal bites off Grutas's cheeks in what will become his signature attack. The houseboat is then incinerated, but Lecter, assumed to be dead, emerges from the woods. The film then concludes with Lecter hunting down the last member of the group, Grentz, in Canada.

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14 May 2007

Breach 2007 (hollywood)


Eric O'Neill is a junior FBI employee hoping that his surveillance work on counterterrorism will earn him a promotion to agent when he is given a special assignment. While undercover as a clerk, he is to monitor Robert Hanssen, a senior agent who he is told is suspected of being a sexual deviant. Hanssen had been recalled to FBI headquarters ostensibly to head up a new division specializing in Information Assurance.

At first, Hanssen insists on a strict formality between them with O'Neill calling Hanssen "sir" or "boss" and O'Neill referred to only as "clerk". Hanssen frequently rails against the hidebound bureaucracy of the FBI. He complains that only those who regularly "shoot guns" are considered for senior positions instead of those, like him, who are involved in vital national security matters. He calls the bureau's information technology systems antiquated and laments the lack of coordination and information exchange with other intelligence agencies.

Eventually, Hanssen becomes a mentor to O'Neill. He is impressed with a study of the FBI's computer systems completed by the junior employee. Hanssen also takes a personal interest in O'Neill and his young wife. A devout Catholic who is also a member of Opus Dei, Hanssen tries to lead O'Neill, an inactive Catholic, and his largely secular East German born wife to become active church goers.

O'Neill, while sometimes feeling Hanssen is becoming overly involved in his personal life, has a growing respect for him and has found no evidence of a secret double life. O'Neill confronts his handler, Agent Kate Burroughs, in the undercover assignment. She tells him that the sexual deviance allegations are only a secondary consideration. Hanssen is actually under investigation for having spied for the Soviet Union and Russia since around 1985.

While the FBI could arrest Hanssen now under lesser charges, they want to catch him in the act of espionage. If the FBI can threaten him with the possibility of the death penalty for treason, Hanssen may be more likely to divulge the information he stole. O'Neill is assigned to obtain data from Hanssen's Palm Pilot and keep him occupied while the FBI searches and bugs his car.

Hanssen suspects that he is under surveillance. The listening devices in his car cause interference with the radio. He also wonders why he was placed in an isolated position in the FBI only a few months before he's scheduled to retire. The FBI intercepts a message he sends to his Russian handlers saying he likely will not provide any more information. Hanssen tells O'Neill that he is being spied upon by Russian agents. O'Neill persuades Hanssen that he is not being trailed by the Russians or by him on behalf of the FBI. Hanssen becomes confident enough to make one last dead drop of stolen information. The FBI arrests him in the act.

While O'Neill has earned his promotion to agent, the stress of the Hanssen assignment on him and his marriage persuades him to change careers.

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Freedom Writers 2007 (hollywood)


Freedom Writers is inspired by a true story and the diaries of real Long Beach, California teenagers after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, during the worst outbreak of interracial gang warfare. Set in and around Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California during the mid 1990s, two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank stars as English teacher Erin Gruwell.

After a few days of class, Gruwell and her students get into a debate about racism during which she compares a caricature of a black student with big lips, drawn by another student, to the Nazis' caricatures of Jews with big noses. She then takes her students on a field trip to the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance to teach them about the Holocaust. An exterior view of the museum is shown, and there are scenes inside the museum, showing simulated entrances to gas chambers in Nazi death camps.

One of the books the students read is The Diary of Anne Frank, and money is raised to have Miep Gies come over to talk about the Holocaust. The roles of four Holocaust survivors, some of whom survived Auschwitz, who meet with students in a dinner hosted by Gruwell, are played by the actual Holocaust survivors themselves.

Since the school is not very capable and unwilling to pay for books and excursions, Gruwell pays a lot of the expenses herself, financed by two extra, part-time, jobs. Because of the little time she spends with her husband, he eventually divorces her.

Over the course of the movie, Gruwell finds more ways to teach her students about racism and respect. As Gruwell begins to listen to them in a way no adult has ever done, she begins to understand that these kids believe that surviving is enough — that they are not delinquents but teenagers fighting "a war of the streets" that began long before they were born. For the first time, the teens experience hope that they can show the world that their lives matter and that they have something to say.

Ms. G, as her students come to call Gruwell, hands out journals to her students so they can write about the past, present, future, good days and bad ones. Happily, she watches each student come to her desk and take one. Later on she sits down to read and becomes amazed at their stories and hardships. These students become freedom writers. Ms. G makes her students type up their stories into a book they title, "The Freedom Writers Diary," and according to the end credits, this book was published in 1999.

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88 minutes 2007 (hollywood)


In this film, a university professor (played by Pacino) is working as a forensic psychiatrist for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He receives a death threat, telling him that he has 88 minutes to live. He must figure out who is behind the scheme, and narrows it down to a problem student, his ex-girlfriend and a serial killer on death row.

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Epic movie 2007 (hollywood)



The film begins with Lucy, one of the four orphans, played by Jayma Mays. She is an employee at a museum and witnessed the death of Jacques Saunière, in homage to The Da Vinci Code. Lucy is desperate to get "the code" from the dying Saunière, but is unable to understand him. Saunière then breaks out in dance, spelling out Da Vinci for Lucy. She then runs to the Mona Lisa, and finds a ridiculous clue ("So lame the hair of Tom", in reference to Tom Hanks's unusual haircut in the movie). Through all this, Silas-like character is in the middle of chasing Lucy (hired by the White Bitch as her former henchman), preparing to attack her. However, a chocolate bar falls out of the vending machine, her high heel shoe breaks, and she bends over before to pick up her heel accidentally before Silas is able to get her. He crashes into the vending machine. Lucy discovers that the chocolate bar is from the Willy (Crispin Glover) factory, and obtains a Golden Ticket inviting her to go on an "epic adventure".

Next, we follow Edward at a Mexican monastery/orphanage, in another homage, here to Nacho Libre. Edward, played by Kal Penn, is the oldest one at the monastery and decides he’s going to become a wrestler after declaring he is better than the rest of the orphans. He insults Nacho's cooking and then gets beaten up by one of the orphans (Chanchito) to "teach him a lesson", and is thrown down a table. As he is sliding along, he notices a kid pulling a Golden Ticket from a Willy chocolate bar and grabs it. Edward ends up crashing through the window.

We then see Susan (Faune A. Chambers) in the middle of a flight on her way to her new adoptive parents, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. She requests a glass of water from her flight attendant. The attendant pours a pitcher into a plastic glass, but instead of water, a snake falls in (Snakes on a Plane). suddenly the plane is full of snakes. A Samuel L Jackson-like figure shows up saying "I've had it with these goddamn snakes on this goddamn plane" over and over again because he said the people love it in the internet (despite the fact that it's a blatant misquote of the actual line "I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!", cynically inserted to get the film a wider age-range certificate) ,and after a brief argument, picks up Susan, and tosses her out of the plane. On the ground, Paris Hilton ("I'm so hot.") is seen walking out of a store. Susan lands on Paris Hilton, crushing her, and taking the Golden Ticket from Paris' purse.

Peter (played by Adam Campbell) is a mutant, homaging the X-Men series. He is attracted to Mystique (Carmen Electra) and asks her to be his date to the homecoming dance. She declines the offer, as Wolverine, Storm, Rogue and Cyclops show up to tell Peter off. Wolverine draws his metal claws and begins to approach Peter. Peter panics and begins to take off his upper clothing, preparing to show his mutant ability. Suddenly, small chicken wings burst out of Peter's back. The other mutants burst out laughing at him. Magneto, the headmaster, breaks up the fight and shoos Peter off. However, Magneto uses his abilities to open a locker, smashing Peter right in the face. All the X-Men laugh and leave the scene. A Willy Wonka bar falls on Peter, and he recovers a Golden Ticket.

The four orphans meet at the Willy Chocolate Factory (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Willy Wonka (Crispin Glover) tells the orphans that the secret ingredient in his chocolate is human parts (possibly a homage to Soylent Green, Motel Hell, or Consuming Passions), and he plans to keep the orphans in his factory to use them for his chocolate. He succeeds in getting the ingredients( Lucy's sweet "heart" ,Edwards "peanuts" ,Peter's "surprise" tooth, and Susan's lemon "head"), and is now holding the orphans captive.

All four of them are locked in a room together. They try to come up with ideas to escape, but are discouraged because of the fact they're all orphans. Willy is heard approaching, calling for the orphans to go to him. Everyone panics, trying to find a place to hide. Lucy wanders out of the room and finds a wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe) in another room down the hall. She opens it, and after a massive pile of clutter lands on top of her, she climbs inside to meet Mr. Tumnus (Hector Jiménez). He welcomes Lucy to "Gnarnia", and warns her of the grave danger she's in.

Edward follows Lucy to Gnarnia and meets the White Bitch (Jennifer Coolidge). She sucks Edward's thumb suggestively and gets him to agree to get the other orphans in the same place. Susan and Peter arrive in Gnarnia and find Lucy and Edward. Edward tries to get everyone to stay put, but it doesn't work. Everyone makes their way to Mr. Tumnus' house; a reluctant Edward tags along. There, a talking beaver introduces himself as Mr. Tumnus' life partner, Harry Beaver, after Lucy kicks him. Harry tells the orphans that the White Bitch arrested Mr. Tumnus for protecting Lucy. Also, he tell the orphans that "the clues are all around you". Edward leaves just as the others are looking around the house. A painting of The Last Supper hangs on the wall. After examining it, the orphans discover that they are all related to one another, and that the White Bitch killed their parents.

Meanwhile, Edward goes to see the White Bitch at her castle. He realizes that she is evil, and refuses to tell her where the other orphans are. Unfortunately, the White Bitch flashes him her chest again, and Edward, transfixed, gives her the information unhesitatingly. He is then locked in the castle prison.

Because the White Bitch knows where they are located, Lucy, Susan, and Peter have to leave Mr. Tumnus' house. When they leave, they run into Mr. Tumnus. He and Harry Beaver share a passionate kiss. Harry Beaver, in a parody of the TV show 24, gets a message on his PDA showing that the White Bitch has acquired a WMD, which will go off in 24 hours. Silas then appears and is after Mr. Tumnus, and he gets everyone to leave before Silas arrives. Lucy and Susan don't want to leave him, but Peter, being a coward, leads them off. As they distance themselves from Mr. Tumnus, Silas arrives and shoots him in the chest with his handgun ten times. He cries for help from the others, but Peter assures the girls that he's testing them. They then leave the scene deciding Mr. Tumnus is really okay.

Edward tries to find ways to break out of prison. He meets the very eccentric (and very drunk) Captain Jack Swallows (Pirates of the Caribbean series), who is difficult to understand, but manages to come up with a plan to get out of the prison cell. He whips out a knife, stabs Edward in the stomach, and cries out "man down!". When the guards come, Swallows picks up Edward and uses his body to knock down the guards, giving them enough time to escape.

Harry Beaver sends Lucy, Susan and Peter out of the winter scenery and into the woods to train for the war. They end up meeting a greying Harry Potter, along with a balding Ron and a pregnant Hermione. They all help Lucy, Susan and Peter train for the war.

Edward asks Jack Swallows what it is like to be a pirate. Swallows and his crew break into song and dance. Afterwards, he realizes that Jack Swallow isn't even a real pirate, and the ship they are on is an amusement park ride. Jack Swallows sells Edward to the White Bitch, who traps him in a prison. She then kills Jack Swallows, who swears revenge.

Upon finishing their training, they head to the camp of Aslo, the wise but horny 1/2 man-1/2 lion. He agrees to help them rescue Edward, in return for group sex. They eventually rescue Edward, with Aslo killing Silas in the process, who is in turn killed by the White Bitch.

Harry Beaver tells the orphans that Aslo is dead, and the orphans feel alone. However, the entire camp will help them fight the White Bitch's army, including Peter's former classmates. Peter announces, "Tomorrow we fight... so tonight.... WE PARTY!" Susan, Edward, and Lucy get drunk, with Susan vomiting all over the camp. Meanwhile, Peter has sex with Mystique.

Upon facing the White Bitch's army, they realize that they are outnumbered because nobody came to help them after Susan vomited all over them. They are distracted for a time as Jack Swallows attempts to gain revenge by running over the White Bitch with a giant waterwheel. The White Bitch uses her Davy Jones mask to redirect him away from the battle. As the army begins to charge, a few Imperial Stormtroopers appear. Peter attempts to run, but rips off his chicken wings and returns to help his family. They heroically charge and all but Peter are fatally wounded in the process. As Peter is about to be struck down, he grabs a remote (Click) off the ground, which he uses to pause time. He heals the injuries of his comrades, and the orphans proceed to kill the entire army as it is paused.

Eventually, all that is left is the White Bitch. As the other orphans go to strike her down, Peter stops them, and gives a lecture about how Gnarnia will be a democracy, and that she will be given a fair trial. This lecture is interrupted as the White Bitch is flattened by Jack Swallows. The orphans then become kings and queens of Gnarnia, and in their old age they discover the wardrobe again, walking through it. They become young again, and encounter - for no good reason - Borat. Borat congratulates them for having a happy ending. As Jack Swallows, still rolling on his cart wheel, flattens them, the credits then start rolling.

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Blades of Glory 2007 (hollywood)


At the 2002 World WinterSport Games in Stockholm, Sweden, a multi-sport international competition like the Winter Olympics, rival world-class men's singles skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) fiercely compete for the gold. Jimmy, the sheltered adopted child of a billionaire horse breeder (William Fichtner) who has decided to breed gold-medal winning athletes, is a graceful, technically perfect skater, while Chazz, a raunchy sex addict from Detroit, performs sexy routines that are mainly improvised. When they tie for the gold medal, the pair begin to argue, which develops into an all-out brawl. Having disgraced their sport (and accidentally set the Games' Mascot on fire), they are both banned from the men's singles competition for the rest of their lives, and Jimmy is legally disinherited by his adoptive father.

The story picks up two and a half long years later. Chazz is found skating the part of an Evil Wizard in an Ice Capades-esque kiddy show called Grublets on Ice while steadily getting drunker every night. Jimmy, meanwhile, is working at a skate supply shop. One day he is approached by Hector (Nick Swardson), a highly deranged fan seen stalking Jimmy at the beginning of the film. Saying that it's embarrassing stalking a has-been, Hector convinces Jimmy to skate again by finding a loophole in Jimmy's suspension: he is banned only from singles skating and could still compete in pair skating or ice dancing.

Jimmy contacts his old coach (Craig T. Nelson), but fails to find a female pairs partner. He winds up looking for a partner backstage at the show from which Chazz has just been fired for being drunk on stage and the two fight; as a result, they end up in jail. Jimmy's coach sees footage of the fight on the news, which reveals the pair tossing each other around in a manner similar to moves used in pairs figure skating. He bails them out of jail and convinces them to form the first same-sex pairs team. The media fall all over the news, while the uncompromisingly competitive reigning pairs champions, the unnaturally close sister-brother team of Fairchild and Stranz Van Waldenberg (Amy Poehler and Will Arnett), see a threat to their dominance and begin to plot against Chazz and Jimmy. The duo have been emotionally blackmailing their sister Katie (Jenna Fischer), the lone survivor the car crash that killed their parents, into serving as their assistant/servant, and now send her to spy on the new duo.

Despite a rough start that finds Chazz and Jimmy at odds and disgusted by many of their unfamiliar habits, the new duo eventually develops a mutual respect for each other. They compete at the United States Figure Skating Championships and earn a spot to the WinterSport Games once again, this time as a pairs team. The first jump of the routine ends with Jimmy crashing to the ground, but the team rallies, recovers and finishes in a blazing, fiery, explosive blaze of glory (complete with Chazz's signature closing act of shooting fire into the air), qualifying for the finals in Montreal, Quebec.

Chazz and Jimmy’s coach informs them that, to win at Montreal, they will need a technique that has never been successfully performed before and that would immediately rocket them to first place. The technique, the Iron Lotus, is an extremely complicated maneuver that Coach developed years ago while he was still training pairs. There’s just one problem: the move is also extremely dangerous; while watching a video of the move set in “the only place batshit crazy enough to do it”, North Korea, Chazz and Jimmy find out that the Iron Lotus can result in one partner decapitating the other when the throwing partner performs a death drop at the same moment the thrown partner performs a backflip. Nonetheless, they decide to attempt the move, and they begin to train. Meanwhile, Jimmy and Katie, having fallen for each other, begin an awkward relationship with a little help from Chazz.

Having trained and perfected their routine for months, Jimmy and Chazz have become very close. Seeing this new friendship as a possible point to exploit, Fairchild commands Katie to tear apart the duo by sleeping with Chazz, threatening to handicap Jimmy if Katie does not comply. Meeting him at a sex addicts support group, Katie invites Chazz to her room, where she unwillingly tries to seduce him. However, Chazz refuses to sleep with Katie, citing his friendship with Jimmy as the reason. However, he cannot keep himself from fondling Katie’s breasts, and just as he does so, Jimmy—-tricked into seeing the two together at the crucial moment—-becomes outraged at the apparent betrayal. He runs off and Chazz spends the rest of the night trying to call him and apologize.

The next day, Chazz and Jimmy are both kidnapped, separately, by Stranz and Fairchild, who are determined to keep the two from competing. While locking up Jimmy in a public bathroom, Fairchild reveals that Katie never meant to sleep with Chazz. Heartened, Jimmy, who up to this point has shown himself to be slightly germaphobic, manages, through an amusing series of events, to get the key to his handcuffs by pulling a strip of toilet paper lying on the ground with the key, but also garbage on it, with his mouth.

Meanwhile, Stranz locks up Chazz in a storage room, where Chazz manages to break free by cutting his bonds on the blade of a figure skate. Chazz and Stranz then race across a frozen path to the arena, where they chase each other through the Games' lobby, where they stumble about on their ice skates. Stranz eventually grabs a crossbrow and shoots at Chazz, hitting the Game's Mascot in the giant costumed head he wears. Chazz appears to die when he falls through the ice under a bridge. Stranz, satisfied, goes back to the rink, where he and Fairchild perform a tactless re-enactment of JFK and Marilyn Monroe's relationship on ice. But Chazz manages to escape and makes it to the skating rink 10 seconds before the pair would have been disqualified.

Chazz and Jimmy make up, and begin their sci-fi themed routine. Fairchild, seeing the two doing extremely well, throws some of the pearls she wore in her routine onto the ice. Chazz injures his ankle on one, and so cannot perform the Iron Lotus, which requires that one partner throw the other into the air. Jimmy then offers to switch parts with him. Never having practiced the other part, Jimmy runs the risk of killing Chazz. But confident in their new friendship, the two decide to try to perform the Iron Lotus.

As the stadium watches in fascination and fear, Jimmy swings Chazz by the ankle, bouncing Chazz's face close to the ice and then throwing him high into the air after several revolutions. As Chazz does a backflip above, Jimmy begins a "butterfly" move underneath. Jimmy's free leg comes so close to Chazz as Chazz comes out of the backflip that Jimmy's blade slices off some of Chazz's neck stubble. The Iron Lotus is a success, and Jimmy and Chazz also win the competition, thus reclaiming their gold medals. Jimmy makes up with Katie, and Chazz shows Jimmy a tattoo that he had done which symbolizes that he will never again compete alone, for he has a new partner: Jimmy. Stranz is arrested for his shooting of the Mascot, and he fingers Fairchild as the mastermind of the plot. They are both taken into custody, but not before sharing an incestuous kiss. Jimmy and Chazz receive their gold medals, and reveal rockets in their skates that propel them out of the stadium and into the sky, where they create a new constellation that is reminiscent of one of their first awkward moves, a crotch-grab, by shooting fire into the night sky.

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