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Macbeth

Macbeth (2006) IMDB rating: 5.10 Plot: A contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” set in the ganglands of Melbourne. Directors: Wright Geoffrey Actors: Worthington Sam,Hulme Lachy,Sweet Gary,Bastoni Steve,Molloy Mick,Doran Matt,Walshe-Howling Damian,Pasvolsky Jonny,Hunt Rel,Molloy John,Franklin Bob,Drama,Thriller, What does act one suggest about Macbeth? That he’s power hungry on the inside, but doesn’t want people to know his dark secret? I only read [ READ MORE ]

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist (2005) IMDB rating: 7.00 Plot: Oliver Twist (Clark) is an orphan, who is soon kicked out of the orphanage and thrown into a terrible home. The bad treatment Oliver receives, forces him to run off to London. Here, he is soon picked up by the Artful Dodger (Eden) and taken to Fagin (Kingsley). Fagin treats [ READ MORE ]

Score, The

Score, The (2001) IMDB rating: 6.80 Plot: Nick Wells, a professional criminal, decides to leave the business for good, since he nearly got caught on his last job. His plan is to live in peace with his girl Diane, running his Montreal jazz club NYC. Soon Max, his good friend and financial partner in the illegal affairs, [ READ MORE ]

Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet (1986) IMDB rating: 7.70 Plot: A man returns to his home town after being away and discovers a severed human ear in a field. Not satisfied with the police’s pace, he and the police detective’s daughter carry out their own investigation. The object of his investigation turns out to be a beautiful and mysterious woman [ READ MORE ]

In Her Shoes

In Her Shoes (2005) IMDB rating: 7.00 Plot: Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken [ READ MORE ]

Contact

Contact (1997) IMDB rating: 7.30 Plot: Contact, based on the novel of the same name by Carl Sagan, is the story of a free thinking radio astronomer (Jodie Foster) who discovers an intelligent signal broadcast from deep space. She and her fellow scientists are able to decipher the Message and discover detailed instructions for building a mysterious [ READ MORE ]

Sound of Thunder, A

Sound of Thunder, A (2005) IMDB rating: 4.00 Plot: “A Sound of Thunder” is about a game hunter (Burns) who goes on a time-traveling safari owned and operated by Kingsley’s character to hunt dinosaurs in the prehistoric era. When he kills a butterfly, he unknowingly sets off a chain reaction that will erase humanity from existence. A [ READ MORE ]

Nick of Time

Nick of Time (1995) IMDB rating: 6.20 Plot: Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) is an ordinary public accountant returning home from his ex-wife’s funeral and is met by Mr Smith (Christopher Walken) and Ms. Jones (Roma Maffia) who kidnap his daughter (Courtney Chase) and give him a gun, six bullets, a name-tag that will give him access to [ READ MORE ]

Prince of Egypt, The

Prince of Egypt, The (1998) IMDB rating: 6.80 Plot: Egypt, eons of years ago: Pharao Seti commands all male hebrew babies to be drowned. A desperate mother places her son in a basket and lets the Hebrew god guide it along its way on the river. The basket is found by the Queen, and Moses is brought [ READ MORE ]

Lord of War

Lord of War (2005) IMDB rating: 7.70 Plot: This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business [ READ MORE ]

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