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Original
Sin
Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Jane, Jack
Thompson, Gregory Itzin
Apocalypse
Now Redux
Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic
Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne,
Dennis Hopper, G.D. Spradlin, Harrison Ford
53 minutes longer than what was originally released in
1979 - look out for the director's cut!
The
Score
Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Angela
Bassett, Gary Farmer, Jamie Harrold
Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard
Harris, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Ian Hart, Robbie
Coltrane
Spy
Game
Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack
Monsters
Inc.
Billy Crystal, John Goodman, James Coburn, Jennifer
Tilly, Bonnie Hunt Mary Gibbs
American Pie 2 : Having completed their
first year at university, those bawdy boys and gals from
the original film are back. They rent a beach house for
the summer, hoping for a sun-kissed, sex-filled
vacation. Gags about summer camp, online sex , crushes
on friends' mums and foreign exchange students are back.
Strictly for fans of the first film. *
Apocalypse Now Redux : With 53 minutes
of additional footage, this much-heralded director's cut
of the film, originally released in 1979, finally hits
the big screen. US Army intelligence officer Captain
Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent to Cambodia to terminate
the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) who has been
waging war on his own terms. This remains director
Francis Ford Coppola's most fully realised work. *****
Blow : Based on the true story of
George Jung (played by Johnny Depp), Blow traces his
life from small-town hick to big-time drug peddler.
Jung, widely considered the man responsible for
introducing cocaine to the 1970s in-crowd, watches his
father (Ray Liotta) fail at everything while his mother
(Rachel Griffiths) abandons him. George finds the
easy-money life of drug trafficking the perfect way out
of suburban mediocrity. ***
Company Man : Allen Quimp (Douglas
McGrath) is a bumbling high-school teacher in
Connecticut who believes his gift to society is to teach
grammar. His wife Daisy (Sigourney Weaver) has higher
aspirations for him and wants a better lifestyle.
Desperate to impress her, Quimp pretends to have a
secret life as a CIA agent. When Quimp accidentally
helps a visiting Russian dancer, Petrov (Ryan Phillipe)
defect, the CIA hires him so it can take the credit.
This film pretends to be a comedy when it's just plain
stupid.*½
Every Dog Has His Date (Cantonese) :
Time to suspend reality - this film's about a woman, her
dog and their love. Working for an advertising firm,
Sharon (played by Michelle Reis) has little romantic
success with men. The longest, most loving relationship
she's ever had is with her dog, Ah Man. Their
relationship takes a whole new course when Ah Man is hit
by lightning turns into a man!. James Yuen directs this
silly romp also starring Nick Cheung and Michelle Reis. **½
Legally Blonde : In the mould of Clueless,
Reese Witherspoon is endearing as the pretty-in-pink
Valley-girl who gets dumped by her high-school
sweetheart (Mathew Davis) when he goes to Harvard Law
School. She pursues her man and somehow gets accepted
into the law faculty. Against the odds, she discovers
her natural intelligence - there's a brain under all
that hairspray - and succeeds in snob-ville.
Hare-brained but with snappy one-liners and an
effortless performance by Witherspoon, this was a
surprise hit in the US. ***
The Others : Nicole Kidman stars as
Grace, a woman struggling to raise two photo-sensitive
children in near-darkness in an old Victorian house in
Jersey at the end of World War II. After the sudden
disappearance of her servants, three people turn up
seeking employment. Soon after their arrival, she begins
to hear strange noises in the house, which her daughter
insists is peopled with intruders. Kidman gives a
defining performance in this taut, gothic horror story.****
The Score : Three generations of screen
legends - Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and Edward
Norton - come together in this fairly decent heist
flick. De Niro plays Nick Wells, a thief looking (as
most thieves do) for one last job that will take him out
of the game. Enter Brando as the rotund mastermind, Max,
who offers him a way out: a raid on a Montreal customs
house to lift a jewel-encrusted sceptre. Wells, who
always works alone, has to team up with young gun Jack
Teller (Norton). Cliche-lumbered dialogue aside, delight
in watching three of the best in the business.***½
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