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As the story unfolds the movie more and more reminded me of “About Schmidt “and “Lost in Translation”.

However compared to “About Schmidt” this movie goes a lot deeper, has more poetry and more philosophy.

When Trudi learns that her husband Rudi is dangerously ill, she suggests visiting their children in Berlin without telling him the truth.

Franzi and Karl don’t care much about their parents, Trudi and Rudi go to the Baltic Sea, where Trudi suddenly dies.

Rudi is thrown out of gear, even more when he learns that his wife wanted to live a totally different life in Japan.

magic

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Director
Doris Dörrie

Writer
Doris Dörrie

Release Date
6 March 2008 (Germany)

Genre
Romance | Drama

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Good little action thriller from John Singleton.

I don’t know what else to say but this is an old school style crime thriller that has characters you care about and real tension that comes from the characters and situations.

Definitely worth a look at some point.

Wilson DeLeon, Jr. (Rick Gonzalez) is an exceptional college student with an adoring girlfriend, doting mother and a future full of promise.

He has never wanted for anything, and he has never been forced to stand his ground.

But when ghosts from his mother’s past come back to haunt his present, he must defend his family.

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Director
Franc. Reyes

Writer
Franc. Reyes

Release Date
24 August 2007 (USA) 

Genre
Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline
Always protect the family.

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The film is somewhat engaging, it deals with a sensitive subject and tries to deal with it in an honest yet confronting matter.

At least, in the beginning.

In the 2nd part of the movie there’s little left of the objectivity in the script.

To summarize, is this movie bad?

No, but it won’t blow you away.

The ideas are interesting but after a while the script feels uninspired and formulaic.

The acting is mediocre and the score is bad.

It’s not really worth seeing but it’ll briefly entertain you.

THE FLOCK is the story of hyper-vigilant federal agent (Gere) who, while training his young female replacement (Danes), must track down a missing girl whom he is convinced is connected to a paroled sex offender he’s investigating.

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Director
Wai-keung Lau

Writers
Hans Bauer
Craig Mitchell

Release Date
13 September 2007 (Greece)

Genre
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Tagline
Your fear is their desire

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Loaded was kind of boring at first but once it started to get going it really hooked me.

I know the feeling of being sucked into something dangerous where you feel helpless but to do things that you do not want to do.

Other people have commented on various sites how this movie was silly and implausible but I beg to differ.

These kinds of things do happen, and I’m sorry but not everyone lives in a dream world where nothing bad can happen and crazy situations are “implausible”.

Really sorry but the reality of the world is that they do happen.

The creator of this movie as well as the actors did a great job of portraying how things can just go bad and how people can make really bad choices.

Sometimes things turn out good, sometimes they turn out bad and such is life.

“Loaded” tells the story of Tristan Price (Jesse Metcalfe), a young man who’s about to make his mark on the world.

He’s the son of a well-to-do family with a good reputation, and he’s on his way to law school.

But like so many such settings, things aren’t quite as perfect as they appear.

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Director
Alan Pao

Writers
Kyle Kramer
Corey Large

Release Date
25 March 2008 (USA) 

Genre
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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The film re-unites Roeg with Donald Sutherland although his role is relatively minor, and Miranda Richardson surpasses herself as an unhinged, tormented soul who craves a fourth child.

Despite some dark themes and darker deeds, humour abounds and Roeg watchers will spot numerous in-jokes and allusions to other works.

There are some uncomfortably tense and gruesome scenes including one nightmarish flight of fancy which almost rivals the climax of ‘Don’t Look Now’ for nerve-shredding tension.

As always with Roeg, there are some startling and provocative visual surprises.

Kelly Reily plays a young architect who arrives in a beautiful but remote backwater of Ireland with a dream - to build a spectacular home upon the deserted ruins of a burnt-out cottage.

The cottage carries its own dark, secret history, and when Reilly falls pregnant, the envy of the superstitious, witchcraft-practising locals is aroused and old enmities are stirred.

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Director
Nicolas Roeg

Writers
Dan Weldon
Fay Weldon

Release Date
18 July 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller

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The movie starts out well enough with great dance sequences and cute jokes but as the movie goes on it starts to fizzle out.

The dances and sets are amazing but that is to be expected because it is on the big big screen but the acting and plot leaves little to the imagination.

The break out stars have to be Zac and Ashley but I was disappointed that Ashely was not given a bigger role and the movie focused more on Troy and Gabriella.

The plot lacked drama and stayed on one flat line instead of taking the audience on a ride

It’s a good movie but I still think the best on is the original which is the case in most movie franchises.

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Director
Kenny Ortega

Writers
Peter Barsocchini

Release Date
22 October 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance

Tagline
high school graduation

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This is a very good movie, but not the classic it wants to be.

It’s funny and tragic, although not too informative if you’ve read a newspaper with any regularity over the last eight years.

In short, there are no surprises.

Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory.

In an unprecedented undertaking, acclaimed director Oliver Stone is bringing the life of our 43rd President to the big screen as only he can.

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Director
Oliver Stone

Writer
Stanley Weiser

Release Date
7 November 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Biography | Comedy | Drama 

Tagline
Get Ready

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The Saw films have demonstrated an unfeasibly high success rate over time in terms of pulling off twist after twist and having them nearly all hit home.

With this track record, it seems inevitable that there’d be a significant stumble at some point.

They’ve never been bulletproof films (and thrillers are the genre that are hardest to bulletproof), but I’d say Saw V is definitely the stumble.

In spite of this, it still keeps in enough with the series in general for me to be ready for Saw VI in 2009 - which I hope will be better work.

Following Jigsaw’s grizzly demise, Mark Hoffman, the final apprentice to the serial killer is reigned a hero.

Agent Strahm is tested and puts the pieces together, Strahm realizes that Hoffman is helping Jigsaw, five seemingly unconnected people face a horrible lesson of teamwork.

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Director
David Hackl

Writers
Patrick Melton
Marcus Dunstan

Release Date
24 October 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Action | Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller 

Tagline
You won’t believe how it ends.

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This is definitely not everyone’s cup of tea and has a pretty good chance of becoming a cult film.

It explores major philosophic subjects from a dialectic angle, which might confuse pedestrians.

In a nutshell: an elderly professor is challenged by his inability to complete his life’s work.

He is struck by lightning and gets the opportunity to observe life from a meta-human POV.

He realizes that intellect, love , morals and reality in general are always ambiguous.

A love story wrapped in a mystery , “Youth Without Youth” stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, a professor whose life changes after a cataclysmic incident during the dark years prior to World War II.

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Director
Francis Ford Coppola

Writers
Francis Ford Coppola
Mircea Eliade

Release Date
14 December 2007 (UK) 

Genre
Drama | Romance | Thriller

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Astounding.

Impeccably crafted drama.

The story is sad and very serious, but this is one of the most perfect examples of the art of simple dramatic film-making that exists.

This is film storytelling at its pinnacle, on a scale of four stars, this is a five star movie.

On a warm September evening, college professor Ethan Learner, his wife Grace, and their daughter Emma are attending a recital.

Their 10-year-old son Josh is playing cello — as usual.

His younger sister looks up to him, and his parents are proud of their son.

On the way home, they all stop at a gas station on Reservation Road.

There, in one terrible instant, he is taken from them forever.

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Director
Terry George

Writers
John Burnham Schwartz
Terry George

Release Date
15 November 2007 (Israel) 

Genre
Drama | Thriller 

Tagline
To find the truth, you have to find who’s hiding it.

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