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Kung Fu Panda (2008)

August 22nd, 2008 | Category: Animated Movies, Movie descriptions, Trailers

Kung Fu Panda is the story of Po, (voice Jack Black), a sweet, but clumsy Panda who has dreams of fighting with the legendary Furious Five and protecting the city against all threats. The only problem is that Po has no real life experience of kung fu, and his real job is serving noodles at his dad’s noodles shop. News of selecting the Dragon Warrior is sent out from the Jade Temple, and the whole city along with Po, go to the celebration. The competition is between the Furious Five: Tigress (voice Angelina Jolie), Viper (voice Lucy Liu), Crane (voice David Cross), Monkey (voice Jackie Chan), and Mantis (voice Seth Rogen). Po accidentally enters the contest and is named the Dragon Warrior. Master Shifu (voice Dustin Hoffman) must find a way to train Po and make him a Kung Fu Master, especially, after they learn that the snow leopard, Tai Lung (voice Ian McShane), is headed their way.

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2008)

August 22nd, 2008 | Category: Movie descriptions, Trailers

The sixth Harry Potter movie is almost coming to theaters.

Based on the book by J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince begins to unveil the truth behind Tom Riddle’s life.

Great changes will occur at Hogwarts this year. Because everyone must prepare to the utimate confrontation - the battle between right and wrong, good and evil.

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WALL·E (2008)

What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL*E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL*E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet’s future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL*E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets an adventure into motion. Joining WALL*E on his journey across the universe is a cast of characters including a pet cockroach and a heroic team of malfunctioning misfit robots.

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The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

August 12th, 2008 | Category: Movie descriptions, New released movies, Trailers

When a group of women are abducted in the hills of rural Virginia, the only clues to their disappearance are the grotesque human remains that begin to turn up in snow banks along the highway. With officials desperate for any lead, a disgraced priest’s questionable visions send local police on a wild goose chase and straight to a bizarre secret medical experiment that may or may not be connected to the women’s disappearance. Its a case right out of The X-Files. But the FBI closed down its investigations into the paranormal years ago. And the best team for the job is ex-agents Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully, who have no desire to revisit their dark past. Still, the truth of these horrific crimes is out there somewhere…and it will take Mulder and Scully to find it!

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The Dark Knight (2008)

August 12th, 2008 | Category: Movie descriptions, New released movies

The Dark Knight is a superhero film co-written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan’s Batman film series and a sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins, with Christian Bale in the lead role. The plot of the film focuses on Batman’s fight against a new villain, the Joker (Heath Ledger) and his relationships with district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) and his old friend and love interest assistant D.A. Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal).
Nolan was inspired by the Joker’s first two appearances in the comics and Batman: The Long Halloween. The Dark Knight was filmed primarily in Chicago, as well as in several other locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong.

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Iron Man (2008)

May 25th, 2008 | Category: Movie descriptions

Iron Man is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Tales of Suspense #39 (March 1963), and was created by writer-editor Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby. Anthony “Tony” Edward Stark, after suffering a severe heart injury and being kidnapped, was forced to build a devastating weapon. He instead created a suit of power armor to save his life and help protect the world as the superhero Iron Man. He is a wealthy industrialist and genius inventor that created military weapons and whose metal suit is laden with technological devices that enable him to fight crime.

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Blindness (2008)

May 11th, 2008 | Category: Movie descriptions, Trailers

The movie, based on a novel by the Portuguese writer José Saramago, is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in one (unnamed) city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortunes of a handful of characters who are among the first to be stricken and centers around a doctor and his wife, several of the doctor’s patients, and assorted others, thrown together by chance. This group bands together in a family-like unit to survive by their wits and by the (also unexplained) good fortune that the doctor’s wife is, as far as we know, the only individual who has escaped the blindness. The sudden onset and unexplained origin and nature of the blindness cause widespread panic, and the social order rapidly unravels as the government attempts to contain the apparent contagion and keep order via increasingly repressive and inept measures.

A movie by Fernando Meirelles.

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“Youth without Youth”, by Francis Ford Coppola

May 08th, 2008 | Category: Movie descriptions

A 70-year-old man, Dominic Matei, decides to commit suicide because he knows he won’t be able to achieve his life’s purpose - finishing a masterpiece about language and conscience.

When arriving at Bucarest, and during a storm, he is struck by lightning. Burnt and in a comma, he goes to the hospital nearly dead. But Dominic gets better. new hair begins to grow in his head, new teeth tear his gums, and his skin and face look like the ones of a 30-year-old man. Along with this rebirth his mind shows amazing cognitive and learning capacities.

A movie about the thin line existing between life and death, the bright and the dark side of being. And about the possibility some people get of having a second chance.

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I’m not there

May 08th, 2008 | Category: Movie descriptions

May 15, 1871. The French poet Rimbaud writes a letter to Paul Demeny stating “Je est un autre”. When Bob Dylan comes across that letter he finds the true essence of his self.

“I’m not there”, the movie by Todd Haynes is a creative attempt of portraying those many lives of Bob Dylan. Based on the concept of “not being Bob Dylan” (his true name is Robert Allen Zimmerman), the director builds the musician’s biography based on six different characters:

  • Arthur Rimbaud (Ben Whishaw), the poet, a narrator/commentator testifying about his choices and ideas;
  • Woody Guthrie (Marcus Carl Franklin), an 11-year-old black boy, the north-american folk communist “Dustbowl balladeer”;
  • Jack Rollins (Christian Bale), the protest singer and Christian Dylan of the end of the 70s;
  • Robbie Clark (Heath Ledger), the eccentric musician unhappy at love;
  • Jude Quinn (Cate Blanchett), the drug addict and folk tradition traitor; and
  • Billy the Kid (Richard Gere), the outlaw, the outsider Dylan.

A movie about searching for an ultimate identity by analysing different alter-egos.

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