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Persepolis 2008-03-07 18:41:17 Marjane is a proud little girl, trying to understand what’s going on in the 1970’s Iran. Screaming “Down with the Shah!”, she stamps trough the room trying to make a statement. But as a teenager she finds out the Islamic fundamentalists, which have taken over her country, aren’t doing any better. Ridiculing all their new [...]
27 Dresses 2008-03-06 18:52:48 Being totally obsessed with weddings, Jane has already been a bridesmaid for 27 times. Whenever someone’s asking her to be the maid of honour, she just can’t say no. After a night running from one wedding to another, she is picking up her sister, Tess, from the airport. That night Jane has a party from [...] Read more:Dresses
February Top 10! 2008-03-05 18:06:39 As you might have noticed February
2008 is over, and this means it’s time for a little top 10! We’ve been doing this for a little over a month now and what a fun time it has been. Thanks everybody for visiting, taking the polls and leaving your kind comments. It has been fun to [...]
Crazy Love 2008-03-04 20:15:20 In the late fifties, Burt and Linda started something that would end in ‘crazy love’. Burt wasn’t handsome, but he was a very wealthy attorney. He owned a club and was exiting to Linda. What she didn’t know is, that Burt already was married and had a disabled daughter. She broke up after she found [...] Read more:Crazy
The Station Agent 2008-03-03 21:03:57 Fin, born with dwarfism, always tried to live a nice and quiet life. And when his friend dies and he inherits an abandoned train depot in New Jersey, he decides to move there. Without much interest to meet new people, he just can’t avoid the contact with some of the people in his new town. [...] Read more:Station
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Ice Age 2008-03-02 22:37:37 We’re staying in the feel good genre for a day, tomorrow is Indie Tuesday after all:
While the world is going into an ice age, Sid, a constant babbling sloth, gets left behind for the migration. Luckily his uplifting spirit helps him to get in contact with Manny, a grumpy mammoth with no interest in Sid [...]
Sex and the City: The Movie 2008-03-01 17:18:26 A couple of weeks ago I already introduced the Sex and the City movie to all of you. But now it is time for an update, because there is a new trailer and with that some new information about the movie. For those of you who want it to be a complete surprise, I won’t [...]
The Kite Runner 2008-02-29 19:47:53 The Kite Runner
is about two boys growing up together in Afghanistan. The boys are best friends and always hang out together. Hassan, son of a servant, is very loyal to his friend Amir, son of a wealthy man. One day, an incident occurs which will change their friendship drastically. Then, when war breaks out, [...]
What Women Want 2008-02-28 20:31:31 Nick Marshall works as an advertising executive when Darcy McGuire starts working at the same company. She comes in as his new boss and with that, takes over his chance of promotion and his future position. To show Darcy what he and the other advertising executives are made of, they have to come up with [...] Read more:Women
Ichi the Killer 2008-02-27 21:38:33 Since I noticed a lack of gore on our humble little blog, I hereby introduce Kakihara, a sadomasochistic yakuza member — that’s the Japanese mafia if you were asking. When his boss Anjo disappears with 300 million yen, they soon get to know his disturbed killer Ichi. Who is manipulated by Jijii with false memories [...] Read more:Killer
The Bridge 2008-02-27 00:35:13 Time for a serious moment? For ‘The Bridge’ director Eric Steel and his crew observed the Golden Gate Bridge for 365 days. By doing this, they recorded most of the suicides on the bridge that year — and prevented several others. The footage is supplemented with interviews of friends and family. Telling a painful story [...]
Snow Cake 2008-02-25 22:22:50 Alex is just coming out of prison when an overly chatty 19 year-old hitchhiker bugs him for a ride. Annoyed, he finally agrees to take her. But not soon after they leave, they get in a serious car accident. This forces Alex to go on a journey to the mother of the hitchhiker. But the [...]
Magnolia 2008-02-25 00:15:20 Magnolia is the story of several stories brought to one. And by that I don’t mean two or three, but really, several. First we have Frank T.J. Mackey, the self-proclaimed women expert and motivational speaker. Phil Parma, taking care of his cancer patient Earl Partridge. Linda Partridge, who can’t handle her dying husband and struggles [...] Read more:Magnolia
Wall-e 2008-02-23 18:19:59 Because the earth got too dirty for mankind to live in, everybody had to leave — bye people! A bunch of robots had to stay around to clean up the place. However, the plan to save the earth failed miserably and there was only one robot left to fulfill his duties, Wall-e. But during the [...]
Sweeney Todd 2008-02-22 18:43:13 The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
When Sweeney
Todd was a young barber, he had a beautiful wife. But somebody else had an eye on her too. And he invented a scheme to get her. He sentenced Todd for a crime he did not commit and shipped him away. Several years later, grown into a different [...] Read more:Sweeney Todd
Spirited Away Rerun 2008-03-13 00:16:06 It was one of those exiting days. At that time, I was one of those nerdy collectors (now I’m just nerdy). From Japan, one of the crowns of my DVD gift set collection would come in. The Spirited Away Limited Collector’s Edition. Numbered and everything! Little did I know, I would sell it the following [...]
Salesman 2008-03-11 23:08:59 As common as telesales is today, door-to-door sales was in the sixties. We follow four men trying to make a buck selling a very expensive bible. Most of the people are polite and take them in for a coffee. And that’s when the salesmen use all of their tricks and tiring techniques to sell these [...]
Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters) 2008-03-10 22:06:48 Salomon lives a life of wealth making fake bills and billets. But when the Nazis take over Germany, he gets send to a concentration camp and is left with nothing but a striped suit. He understands that his only skill to survive is making counterfeit bills. And when he gets the chance to produce them [...]
Lars and the Real Girl 2008-03-09 19:30:11 Lars is an introvert young man, living in the modified garage of his married brother. He holds back from any contact and can’t even handle being touched by friends or family. One day, one of his cubicle colleagues tells him about a place where you can buy a real size doll. While Lars doesn’t seem [...]
Smart People 2008-03-08 19:44:26 Trying to jump a fence at the car impound lot didn’t exactly work out for literature professor Lawrence. It not only gave him a nice concussion, but also the pleasure of not being able to drive himself. Luckily, his lowlife adopted brother Chuck is here to move in and become his chauffeur. Being a nice [...] Read more:Smart
Persepolis 2008-03-07 18:41:17 Marjane is a proud little girl, trying to understand what’s going on in the 1970’s Iran. Screaming “Down with the Shah!”, she stamps trough the room trying to make a statement. But as a teenager she finds out the Islamic fundamentalists, which have taken over her country, aren’t doing any better. Ridiculing all their new [...]
27 Dresses 2008-03-06 18:52:48 Being totally obsessed with weddings, Jane has already been a bridesmaid for 27 times. Whenever someone’s asking her to be the maid of honour, she just can’t say no. After a night running from one wedding to another, she is picking up her sister, Tess, from the airport. That night Jane has a party from [...] Read more:Dresses
February Top 10! 2008-03-05 18:06:39 As you might have noticed February
2008 is over, and this means it’s time for a little top 10! We’ve been doing this for a little over a month now and what a fun time it has been. Thanks everybody for visiting, taking the polls and leaving your kind comments. It has been fun to [...]
Crazy Love 2008-03-04 20:15:20 In the late fifties, Burt and Linda started something that would end in ‘crazy love’. Burt wasn’t handsome, but he was a very wealthy attorney. He owned a club and was exiting to Linda. What she didn’t know is, that Burt already was married and had a disabled daughter. She broke up after she found [...] Read more:Crazy
The Station Agent 2008-03-03 21:03:57 Fin, born with dwarfism, always tried to live a nice and quiet life. And when his friend dies and he inherits an abandoned train depot in New Jersey, he decides to move there. Without much interest to meet new people, he just can’t avoid the contact with some of the people in his new town. [...] Read more:Station
, Agent
Ice Age 2008-03-02 22:37:37 We’re staying in the feel good genre for a day, tomorrow is Indie Tuesday after all:
While the world is going into an ice age, Sid, a constant babbling sloth, gets left behind for the migration. Luckily his uplifting spirit helps him to get in contact with Manny, a grumpy mammoth with no interest in Sid [...]
Sex and the City: The Movie 2008-03-01 17:18:26 A couple of weeks ago I already introduced the Sex and the City movie to all of you. But now it is time for an update, because there is a new trailer and with that some new information about the movie. For those of you who want it to be a complete surprise, I won’t [...]
The Kite Runner 2008-02-29 19:47:53 The Kite Runner
is about two boys growing up together in Afghanistan. The boys are best friends and always hang out together. Hassan, son of a servant, is very loyal to his friend Amir, son of a wealthy man. One day, an incident occurs which will change their friendship drastically. Then, when war breaks out, [...]
What Women Want 2008-02-28 20:31:31 Nick Marshall works as an advertising executive when Darcy McGuire starts working at the same company. She comes in as his new boss and with that, takes over his chance of promotion and his future position. To show Darcy what he and the other advertising executives are made of, they have to come up with [...] Read more:Women
Ichi the Killer 2008-02-27 21:38:33 Since I noticed a lack of gore on our humble little blog, I hereby introduce Kakihara, a sadomasochistic yakuza member — that’s the Japanese mafia if you were asking. When his boss Anjo disappears with 300 million yen, they soon get to know his disturbed killer Ichi. Who is manipulated by Jijii with false memories [...] Read more:Killer
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