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Jack (Andrew Garfield) is released from prison, finally, at the age of 24 … having been institutionalized for most of his life.

He and another boy murdered a child, when they were themselves children.

When Jack is released from prison, with a necessary new identity, his counsellor Terry (Peter Mullan as a convincingly flawed mentor), believes so fully in his right to redemption, you can see Jack wanting and willing to believe him.

As the movie unfolds, Jack’s doubts continue to arise, through a series of episodes (drug use, a fight, trespassing) he finds it impossible to escape from his criminal past, despite a heroic rescue of a young girl trapped in a crashed car.

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Director
John Crowley

Writers
Jonathan Trigell
Mark O’Rowe

Release Date
23 July 2008 (USA)

Genre
Crime | Drama | Romance

Tagline
Who Decides Who Gets A Second Chance?

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In fact, the spookily powerful child Temudjin (Odnyam Odsuren) in this, dominates the first part of the film, undergoing trials and tribulations that make the lives of Dickens’ abused and imperiled children look like a picnic.

From age nine into his 30s, Temudjin was orphaned, hunted, imprisoned, enslaved, and constantly threatened by extinction.

Literally alone in the vast landscape, Temudjin escapes death repeatedly, at times almost mysteriously.

“Mongol” is huge - with endless vistas and epic crowd scenes, quite without special effects - but Bodrov keeps the setting just that, never strutting visuals for their own sake.

The film is about people, and the cast is magnificent.

Asano’s face and eyes hold attention, and make the viewer experience simultaneous feelings of getting to know the character he plays and being held at arm’s length.

Bodrov and Asano escape all the many Hollywood pitfalls in making an epic - they present nothing easy, predictable, trite. The term “Shakespearean” is used here advisedly.

The Mongolian actors are sensational: Khulan Chuluun is luminous as Borte, Temudjin’s wife; Borte’s 10-year-old self, the girl who chooses Temudjin, then 9, while he thinks he is the one making the decision, is unforgettable, even if the name is hard to remember: Bayertsetseg Erdenebat.

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Director
Sergei Bodrov

Writers
Arif Aliyev
Sergei Bodrov

Release Date
6 June 2008 (UK)

Genre
Biography | Drama | Romance | War 

Tagline
Greatness comes to those who take it.

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“Across the Universe” is a mess.

There’s no denying that.

It is poorly paced and badly structured, and at times its feather-light plot and contrived or obligatory numbers become tedious.

But at one point, about halfway through, I decided just to go along for the ride.

I delighted in every brash, bold choice, whether it worked or not.

I let the poignant moments move me, whether or not I intellectually felt that they were contrived.

Newcomer Jim Sturgess stars as Jude, a young man working on the docks in Liverpool.

Eager to escape, he travels to Princeton where he meets Max (Joe Anderson).

But it’s his meeting with Max’s younger sister Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) that changes him.

They quickly fall in love, but their relationship is tested by the chaos of the late 1960s and Max’s unwilling tour in Vietnam.

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Director
Julie Taymor

Writers
Dick Clement
Ian La Frenais

Release Date
28 September 2007 (UK)

Genre
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance

Tagline
All you need is love.

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All in all, it’s an OK movie on its own.

Not much different from other cheesy romantic movies, other than the fact that this is a remake of the immensely popular Korean movie of the same name.

However, if you compare it to the original one, the pace is much faster and the settings are very different.

I find that the American version lacks the charisma of the 2 main characters, and feels very rushed.

You don’t feel very intimate with them at all, it just feels like another romantic comedy.

The funny scenes in the remake aren’t as funny as the original; it lacks that pace and originality which made the first one so famous.

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Director
Yann Samuell

Writers
Victor Levin
Jae-young Kwa

Release Date
26 June 2008 (Thailand)

Genre
Comedy | Drama | Romance

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He Was a Quiet Man draws on one of the most morbid aspects of our society and describes it perfectly.

Christian Slater plays the quiet cubicle worker, who, abused and mistreated by his coworkers, decides to shoot up the office.

Fortunately for him, another man in his position takes aim first, and Slater takes him down with the bullets he had originally meant for his coworkers.

After the aftermath, his coworkers whom he loathed, treat him as a hero; and the object of his desire, played by Elisha Cuthbert, is paralyzed from a bullet wound.

While Cuthbert initially enlists Slater to help her end her life, the two eventually form a bond that would have never otherwise occurred.

The movie leads us down a path of insanity and through the surreal, morbid, and sickened world of Slater’s character almost flawlessly; and delivers a thought provoking, eye opening take on the mind of a psychotic would be murderer.

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Director
Frank A. Cappello

Writer
Frank A. Cappello

Release Date
7 December 2007 (UK)

Genre
Drama | Romance

Tagline
He seemed like such a nice guy.. He pretty much kept to himself…

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“Baby Mama” is no comic masterpiece, but it’s at least as good as any number of formulaic comedies churned out by Hollywood and much better than many others.

Fey is the uptight career woman who hears her biological clock ticking at 37 and wants to have a baby before it’s too late.

Poehler is the low-class, free-wheeling blonde who agrees to be her surrogate mother for a hefty fee.

The usual odd-couple conflicts ensue, maternal instincts kick in, and in traditional sitcom style, everyone gets what they want in the end.

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Director
Michael McCullers

Writer
Michael McCullers

Release Date
25 July 2008 (UK)

Genre
Comedy | Romance 

Tagline
Would you put your eggs…in this basket?

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Its not perfect by any means, the script has much to be desired and at times the acting was unconvincing.

Surprisingly I didn’t seem to find the movie overly predictable, however at times its dramatically far fetched.

Notably the complete stupidity of a shooting occurring in broad day light in a busy European city going unnoticed.

All this being said, the movie is entertaining.

Its definitely a mixed bag, where on one hand its very engaging and on the other it has obvious flaws.

I recommend it, you’ll be thoroughly entertained but try not  expect to much.

A disconnected accountant finds his mundane life injected with a new sense of urgency after striking up a friendship with a charismatic attorney.

Jonathan (Ewan McGregor) is an accountant who has lost his passion in life.

When his powerful new lawyer friend, Wyatt (Hugh Jackman), introduces Jonathan to a salacious underground sex club called The List, the dejected accountant soon believes he has found the woman of his dreams (Michelle Williams).

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Director
Marcel Langenegger

Writer
Mark Bomback

Release Date
25 April 2008 (UK)

Genre
Drama | Romance | Thriller

Tagline
When you’re in this world, no one is who they seem, and everyone is playing the game.

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Married Life surfs a fine line between the comic and the tragic that is uncomfortable to acknowledge.

But humor definitely wins out in the end, leaving us with an ironic but optimistic view of the flaws that increasingly populate our public and private lives as we grow older.

Cooper and Brosnan achieve a fascinatingly contradictory friendship between two men that is unlike any other I’ve seen on screen in a long time.

Set in 1949, the story opens into a picturesque, affluent suburb where Harry Allen resides with his wife, Pat.

There’s trouble brewing beyond the perfect picket fences.

Harry has fallen deeply in love with a blonde beauty named Kay (Rachel McAdams).

He confesses his secret to his longtime bachelor friend, Richard (Pierce Brosnan), and even introduces Richard to the lovely Kay.

Unfortunately for Harry, Richard is instantly smitten, and makes up his mind that he will do whatever it takes to win Kay for himself.

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Director
Ira Sachs

Writers
Ira Sachs
Oren Moverman

Release Date
1 August 2008 (UK)

Genre
Crime | Drama | Romance

Tagline
Do you know what really goes on in the mind of the person with whom you sleep?

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If you are looking for an original movie that hasn’t been done before then this is not for you.

But if you enjoy romantic comedies and want a good laugh this one is definitely worth seeing.

I would see it again and I would definitely recommend it to anyone, even if you don’t like “chick flicks”!

Made of Honor revolves around Tom and Hannah, who have been platonic friends for 10 years.

He’s a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn’t found Mr. Right.

Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged.

When she asks Tom to be her “maid” of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.

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Director
Paul Weiland

Writers
Adam Sztykiel
Deborah Kaplan

Release Date
2 May 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Comedy | Romance 

Tagline
It takes a real man to become a maid of honor.

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I watched this movie lately and i believe that sometimes fiction get much closer to the real life,to the human nature that is there in reality but we sometimes close or tend to close our eyes.

In this movie love is explained in a more realistic way and hence in the way the life is going and the way the life is in true form.

The TWO probable Definitions of love that they guy says at a moment in the movie are flawlessly realistic but depends on the observer who can see Love with his own eyes! storyline and speed is cool!

Cast is amazing and so is acting of them.

The only thing that lets it down is a bit more than needed sexuality and nudity in the movie.

Other than that, I guess this movie really deserves applause.

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Director
Robert Benton

Writers
Allison Burnett
Charles Baxter

Release Date
5 October 2007 UK

Genre
Drama / Romance

Tagline
A story for anyone with an appetite for love.

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