Cast:

Luis Guzmán as Maurice TT Rodriguez (as Luis Guzman)
Burt Reynolds as Jack Horner
Julianne Moore as Amber Waves
Rico Bueno as Hot Traxx Waiter
John C. Reilly as Reed Rothchild
Nicole Ari Parker as Becky Barnett
Don Cheadle as Buck Swope
Heather Graham as Rollergirl
Mark Wahlberg as Eddie Adams – Dirk Diggler
William H. Macy as Little Bill

From Hollywood’s hottest new director comes the outrageous epic that throws the covers back on California’s adult entertainment industry in the swinging seventies. It’s a touching and often humorous portrait of a most unusual family of filmmakers.

Trivia:

The opening scene is three minutes long, taken in a single camera shot, beginning in the street where Jack Horner and Amber Waves drive up and follow them as they get out of the car and walk into a night club. Most of the characters in the movie are introduced in this shot.

Before the film was finished, Director Paul Thomas Anderson sent a rough copy to New Line Cinema for them to do the trailer for the film. The movie was pirated and distributed before it was released. The pirated work print includes many scenes not in the movie or DVD deleted scenes and were possibly deleted to avoid the NC-17 rating- as some are very explicit.

The entire film is based on the short film The Dirk Diggler Story (1988), also by Paul Thomas Anderson. It was a This Is Spinal Tap (1984)-like mockumentary, which would go on to be redone for the short “Dirk Diggler Story” in this film. In the original short film, Robert Ridgely, who plays The Colonel here, played Jack Horner. The man with whom Don Cheadle is talking in the stereo store is Michael Stein, who played Dirk Diggler. The original script was 300 pages, cut down to 180 pages.

Leonardo DiCaprio was originally offered the role of Dirk Diggler. He liked the screenplay but turned it down because he had already signed on to do Titanic (1997). However, it was DiCaprio who suggested Mark Wahlberg for the role.

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Cast:

Javier Bardem as Reinaldo Arenas
Olivier Martinez as Lazaro Gomez Carilles
Andrea Di Stefano as Pepe Malas
Santiago Magill as Tomas Diego
John Ortiz as Juann Abreu
Héctor Babenco as Virgilio Pinera
Manuel González as Jose Lezama Lima
Francisco Gattorno as Jorge Camacho
Marisol Padilla Sánchez as Margarita Camacho
Johnny Depp as Bon Bon & Lt. Victor
Michael Wincott as Herberto Zorilla Ochoa
Sean Penn as Cuco Sanchez

Before Night Falls is based on the autobiography of the same name by Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas. Arenas, who was openly gay, was born in Oriente in 1943 and raised by his single mother and grandparents who soon moved the entire family to Holguín. After moving to Havana in the sixties to continue his studies, Reinaldo started exploring his sexuality and ambitions. After finishing second in a writing contest, Arenas gets offered the chance to publish his first work. Through his work and friendships with other openly gay men (such as Pepe Malas and Tomas Diego), Arenas managed to find himself.

However, the political climate in Cuba continued to become increasingly dangerous and in the early seventies Arenas is arrested for sexually assaulting minors (a crime he was not guilty of) and publishing abroad without official consent. In the next decade Arenas keeps going in and out of prison, attempting to leave the country several times but failing each time.

In 1980, Arenas is finally able to leave Cuba for the US where he starts a new life with his close friend and lover Lazaro Gomez Carilles. However, after a few years, Arenas finds out he is suffering from AIDS. After spending several years in sickness he eventually dies in 1990 with help from Lazaro.

Trivia:

Set in Cuba, the film was made entirely in Mexico, with Mexico City doubling as Havana. Julian Schnabel said the crew was so pleasant to work with that, if he was making a film in the arctic, he would use a Mexican crew.

Almost every scene, according to Guillermo Rosas, was photographed with a chocolate-colored filter on the camera lens. The contributed a great deal to distinctive colors and textures in the film, especially the skin tones, and the vibrancy in green hues.

The director’s wife plays Javier Bardem’s mother. All of Schnabel’s children have bit roles as well.

Awards:

2000: Venice International Film Festival: Silver Lion – Jury’s special award: Julian Schnabel
2000: Venice International Film Festival: Coppa Volpi (Best Actor): Javier Bardem
2000: National Board of Review Award for Best Actor:Best Actor: Javier Bardem
2000: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
2000: National Board of Review Awards: Freedom of Expression
2000: Political Film Society Award for Exposé
2000: Independent Spirit Awards: Best Actor: Javier Bardem

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Director: Larry Charles
Writers: Sacha Baron Cohen
Anthony Hines
Peter Baynham
Dan Mazer

Release Date: 3 November 2006
Rated R(USA) 14A(CANADA)

Cast:

Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat
Ken Davitian as Azamat
Luenell as Luenell

Sacha Baron Cohen’s ingeniously funny Borat is now on Blu-ray, with even more extras from Borat’s hilarious journey across the “US and A!” With a camera crew in tow and armed with a jar of gypsy tears “for protection,” Kazakhstan’s fourth most famous celebrity travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the country, lovably naive Borat confronts real people in real situations – with hilariouys consequences!

Trivia:

When Sacha Baron Cohen speaks Kazakh it is mostly Hebrew disguised by a heavy fake Eastern European accent. The Hebrew is quite understandable and contains many in-jokes. Baron Cohen admitted this in a rare “out of character” radio interview on National Public Radio in the USA.

The police were called on Sacha Baron Cohen 91 times during the production of this film.

Original director Todd Phillips left the production after shooting the rodeo/”Star Spangled Banner” scene, citing “creative differences”.

The character of Borat originated as a sketch on the British TV show “Da Ali G Show” (2000).

Johnny Depp, George Clooney and Steve Martin, all of whom are huge fans of Sacha Baron Cohen, contacted him about having a cameo in the movie. But Baron Cohen refused because it would have ruined some of the gags if they knew what was going on.

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Cast:

Drew Barrymore as Lisa Piper
Richard Mulligan as Barnie / Barnaby Barnicle
Eileen Brennan as Mrs. Piper / Widow Hubbard
Keanu Reeves as Jack / Jack-be-Nimble
Jill Schoelen as Mary / Mary Contrary
Googy Gress as George / Georgie Porgie
Pat Morita as The Toymaster
Walter Buschhoff as Justice Grimm

11-year-old Lisa has no time for toys; she’s too busy taking care of her siblings and cooking for her mother. During the Christmas Eve blizzard, Lisa travels to Toyland in Wizard of Oz-like fashion and arrives just in time for a wedding. Young Mary Contrary is about to marry mean, old Barnaby Barnacle, despite the fact that she loves Jack Be Nimble. Lisa tries to stop this terrible wedding and, together with her new friends, discovers that Barnaby wants to take over Toyland. Lisa, Mary, Jack, and Georgie Porgie ask the Toymaster for help, but he can’t help them as long as Lisa doesn’t truly believe in toys.

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Cast:

Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne / Batman
Heath Ledger as The Joker
Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent / Two-Face
Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth
Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes
Gary Oldman as James Gordon
Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox
Monique Gabriela Curnen as Det. Anna Ramirez

Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent are forced to deal with the chaos unleashed by an anarchist mastermind known only as the Joker, as it drives each of them to their limits.

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2. Dark City Director’s Cut
3. A Knight’s Tale

Cast:

John Travolta as Bolt (voice)
Miley Cyrus as Penny (voice)
Susie Essman as Mittens (voice)
Mark Walton as Rhino (voice)
Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Calico (voice)
James Lipton as The Director (voice)
Greg Germann as The Agent (voice)
Diedrich Bader as Veteran Cat (voice)

The canine star of a fictional sci-fi/action show that believes his powers are real embarks on a cross country trek to save his co-star from a threat he believes is just as real.

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Cast:

Sarah Polley as Ana
Ving Rhames as Kenneth
Jake Weber as Michael
Mekhi Phifer as Andre
Ty Burrell as Steve
Michael Kelly as CJ
Kevin Zegers as Terry

This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker’s classic novel of the same name. A young lawyer (Jonathan Harker) is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker’s betrothed, Mina Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, draining the life from Mina’s closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy’s friends gather together to try to drive Dracula away

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Cast:

Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen
James McAvoy as Tom Lefroy
Julie Walters as Mrs. Austen
James Cromwell as Rev Austen
Maggie Smith as Lady Gresham
Anna Maxwell Martin as Cassandra ‘Cassie’ Austen

The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable – marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughter’s future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisley, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match. But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy, sparks soon fly along with the sharp repartee. His intellect and arrogance raise her ire – then knock her head over heels. Now, the couple, whose flirtation flies in the face of the sense and sensibility of the age, is faced with a terrible dilemma. If they attempt to marry, they will risk everything that matters – family, friends and fortune.

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Cast:

Dave Foley as Flik (voice)
Kevin Spacey as Hopper (voice)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Atta (voice)
Hayden Panettiere as Dot (voice)
Phyllis Diller as Queen (voice)
Richard Kind as Molt (voice)
David Hyde Pierce as Slim (voice)
Joe Ranft as Heimlich (voice)
Denis Leary as Francis (voice)
Jonathan Harris as Manny (voice)
Madeline Kahn as Gypsy Moth (voice)
Bonnie Hunt as Rosie (voice)
Michael McShane as Tuck / Roll (voice)
John Ratzenberger as P.T. Flea (voice)
Brad Garrett as Dim (voice)

A misfit ant, looking for warriors to save his colony from grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troup.

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Directors: Phil Alden Robinson
Richard Loncraine
Mikael Salomon
David Nutter
Tom Hanks
David Leland
David Frankel
Tony To

DVD Release Date: 5 November 2002
Blu-ray Release Date: 11 November 2008

Original Airdates: Episode 1: 9 September 2001
Episode 2: 9 September 2001
Episode 3: 16 September 2001
Episode 4: 23 September 2001
Episode 5: 30 September 2001
Episode 6: 7 October 2001
Episode 7: 14 October 2001
Episode 8: 21 October 2001
Episode 9: 28 October 2001
Episode 10: 4 November 2001

Cast:

Scott Grimes as TSgt. Donald Malarkey
Damian Lewis as Maj. Richard D. Winters
Ron Livingston as Capt. Lewis Nixon
Donnie Wahlberg as 2nd Lt. C. Carwood Lipton
Shane Taylor as Cpl. Eugene Roe
Peter Youngblood Hills as SSgt. Darrel ‘Shifty’ Powers
Michael Cudlitz as Sgt. Denver ‘Bull’ Randleman
Rick Gomez as Sgt. George Luz
Neal McDonough as 1st Lt. Lynn ‘Buck’ Compton

Band of Brothers is a 2001 ten-part television World War II miniseries based on the book of the same title written by historian and biographer Stephen Ambrose. It was executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks after their collaboration on the World War II film Saving Private Ryan (1998). The episodes first aired in 2001 on HBO and are still run frequently on various TV networks around the world.

The narrative centers on the experiences of E Company (”Easy Company”) of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, from Easy’s basic training at Toccoa, Georgia, through the American airborne landings in Normandy, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of Bastogne and on to the end of the war.

The events portrayed are based on Ambrose’s research and recorded interviews with Easy Company veterans. A large amount of literary license was taken with the episodes, and other reference books will highlight the differences between recorded history and the film version. All of the characters portrayed are based on actual members of Easy Company; some of them can be seen in prerecorded interviews as a prelude to each episode (their identities, however, are not revealed until the close of the finale). Spielberg is producing a sequel miniseries called The Pacific that will premiere in March 2010.

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