CASINO ROYALE
Cast: Caterina Murino, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench, Mads Mikkelsen
Synopsis: CASINO ROYALE introduces JAMES BOND before he holds his license to kill. But Bond is no less dangerous, and with two professional assassinations in quick succession, he is elevated to '00' status. 'M'(Judi Dench), head of the British Secret Service, sends the newly-promoted 007 on his first mission that takes him to Madagascar, the Bahamas and eventually leads him to Montenegro to face Le Chiffre, a ruthless financier under threat from his terrorist clientele, who is attempting to restore his funds in a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale. 'M' places Bond under the watchful eye of the Treasury official Vesper Lynd. At first skeptical of what value Vesper can provide, Bond's interest in her deepens as they brave danger together. Le Chiffre's cunning and cruelty come to bear on them both in a way Bond could never imagine, and he learns his most important lesson: Trust no one.
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Poker Game
Construction
FAVELA RISING
Cast: Andre Luis Azevedo, Anderson Sa, Jose Junior, Michele Moraes, Zuenir Ventura
Synopsis: FAVELA RISING documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. At the dawn of liberation, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and Anderson’s grassroots Afro Reggae movement is at the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever.
HARSH TIMES
Cast: Christian Bale, Eva Longoria, Freddy Rodriguez, Tammy Trull, Adriana Millan
Synopsis: Returning to South Central Los Angeles, Bale stars as a ex-Middle East soldier who struggles to re-enter civilian society and, unable to get a job with the LAPD, drifts into a life of petty crime, drugs, and violence.
THE HOLIDAY
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Edward Burns, Jack Black, Jude Law, Kate Winslet
Synopsis: In Nancy Meyers' THE HOLIDAY, a romantic comedy from the director of 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'What Women Want,' two women trade homes only to find that a change of address can change their lives. Iris (Winslet) is in love with a man who is about to marry another woman. Across the globe, Amanda (Diaz) realizes the man she lives with has been unfaithful. Two women who have never met and live 6000 miles apart, find themselves in the exact same place. They meet online at a home exchange website and impulsively switch homes for the holiday. Iris moves into Amanda's L.A. house in sunny California as Amanda arrives in the snow covered English countryside. Shortly after arriving at their destinations, both women find the last thing either wants or expects: a new romance. Amanda is charmed by Iris' handsome brother Graham (Law) and Iris, with inspiration provided by legendary screenwriter Arthur (Wallach), mends her heart when she meets film composer Miles (Black).
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Complicated
Sushi For Two
Is That a Trick Question?
SHORTBUS
Cast: Jay Brannan, Justin Bond, Lindsay Beamish, Raphael Barker, Shanti Carson
Synopsis: John Cameron Mitchell’s SHORTBUS explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. Set in a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, SHORTBUS tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh and imperatives of the heart.