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Crossroads

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CAST & CREW:

Main Cast: Britney Spears, Anson Mount, Zoe Saldana, Taryn Manning, Dan Aykroyd, Kim Cattrall

Director: Tamra Davis

SYNOPSIS:

Once you have made it big in music, the next step is movies (sometimes it’s the other way around) and Britney Spears feels her time has come to move from CDs to celluloid. With its dead giveaway title, Crossroads is a road movie. Britney plays fresh-faced wholesome Lucy, who lives with her single, overprotective dad, Pete (Dan Aykroyd) in Georgia. She has never known her mother who walked out on them when Lucy was 3, but on graduating from high school, she suddenly decides she wants to meet her. With two friends, Mimi (Taryn Manning) and Kit (Zoe Saldana) and hunky musician, Ben (Anson Mount) behind the wheel, she hops into a Buick convertible and heads for Los Angeles, planning to stop off at Tucson and surprise her mother, Caroline (Kim Cattrall) with a visit.

Web: Crossroads

Lord of the Rings

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CAST & CREW:

Main Cast: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, John Rhys-Davies, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett, David Wenham, Christopher Lee

Director: Peter Jackson

SYNOPSIS:

With the Fellowship of the Ring now broken, the second part of the adventure shows how each member fares. Frodo continues his quest to destroy the ring. His two Hobbit friends, Merry and Pippin have been taken by Orcs who are pursued by Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli. Peter Jackson’s epic adventure from J R R Tolkien’s classic novel continues.

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Life as a House

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CAST & CREW:

Main Cast: Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hayden Christensen, Jena Malone, Mary Steenburgen

Director: Irwin Winkler

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In his rundown shack, poised on an ocean cliff, George Monroe (Kevin Kline) gets up in the morning, walks outside and pees into the Pacific, much to the exasperation of his neighbour, Colleen Beck (Mary Steenburgen) and the amusement of her daughter, Alyssa (Jena Malone). In the smart cul-de-sac where he lives, George and his shack are something of an eyesore. One neighbour in particular, the disagreeable David Dokos (Sam Robards) has it in for George because George’s dog has a habit of relieving himself on Dokos’ lawn.

Web: Life as a House

I Am Sam

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CAST & CREW:

Main Cast: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Richard Schiff, Laura Dern

Director: Jessie Nelson

SYNOPSIS:

As well as its reference to the principal character, the movie’s title also comes from a line in a Dr Seuss book that Sam reads to his daughter incessantly, but it would have been no surprise if there had somehow been a way of calling the film I Am the Walrus. Sam is a Beatles fan who loves their songs and bases his “philosophy” of life on things the Fab Four have said or sung. Not surprisingly, he names his daughter Lucy Diamond and throughout I Am Sam, Beatles allusions abound, stretching to a soundtrack that includes cover versions of a number of Lennon/McCartney classics. Songs like “Two of Us” and “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” are neatly inserted to complement various stages of the story.

Web: I Am Sam

Austin Powers 3

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CAST & CREW:

Main Cast: Mike Myers, Beyonce Knowles, Michael York, Michael Caine, Heather Graham, Seth Green, Robert Wagner, Verne Troyer Director: Jay Roach

SYNOPSIS:

In the third Austin Powers movie, Michael Caine, who, in the 007-influenced ‘60s, played agent Harry Palmer in three movies, stars as Austin’s dad, Nigel Powers, “the greatest secret agent in the world”. (Apparently, Sean Connery was originally approached to play the part.) Nigel, we are told, taught his baby boy everything he knows. It’s the kind of casting that takes the spy spoof series to a hilarious new level.

Web: Austin Powers

Blade 2 (MA) 15+

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CAST & CREW:

Main Cast: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Leonor Varela, Norman Reedus, Luke Goss

Director:
Guillermo del Toro

Genre: Horror

Rating: MA 15+

Length: 108 minutes

SYNOPSIS:

Blade II brings back the half-human, half-vampire title character, played again by Wesley Snipes. Also known as Eric Brooks, he is (like Spider-Man) from the Marvel Comics stable. Luckily, Blade is on our side and he fights the good fight against the full-blooded members of his kind. Although he has the same lust for the red runny stuff as they do, his desires are kept in check by Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), his human mentor. Unfortunately, at the beginning of Blade II, Whistler is a prisoner of Dracula’s descendants and Blade must carry on his crusade without him, but not for long. He soon saves his partner from being used as a blood bank, but Whistler finds someone else getting under his skin – Blade’s new assistant, Scud (Norman Reedus).

Web: Blade 2

Birthday Girl

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CAST & CREW:

Main Cast:
Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Kassovitz

Director:
Jez Butterworth

Genre: Comedy

Rating: M

Length: 90mins

SYNOPSIS:

Birthday Girl starts off as a romantic comedy and then shifts into darker areas. It’s not easy to predict just which way it is heading, but that’s what makes it all the more palatable.

Although he may be shy and lonely, John (Ben Chaplin), a bank clerk living in suburban London is game enough to take a reckless step to find female companionship. On an Internet site called From Russia With Love, he searches for a bride and thinks he has found the ideal prospect in Nadia (Nicole Kidman), whose bio says that she is a smart, tall non-smoker who speaks perfect English. Well, she is tall. On the way home, John soon discovers that the only English word she knows is “yes” when he asks her if she is a giraffe and she answers in the affirmative. This is not going to work out.

Web: Birthday Girl

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