Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

After more than a decade of civil wars leading to more than 250,000 deaths and one million refugees, a group of women rose up to force peace on their shattered Liberia and propel to victory the first female head of state on the African continent.

Genres : Documentary and Politics/Religion
Running Time : 1 hr. 30 min.
Release Date : November 7th, 2008
Distributors : Balcony Releasing
Directed by : Gini Reticker

The Lucky Ones

After suffering an injury during a routine patrol, hardened sergeant TK Poole is granted a one-month leave to visit his fiancee. But when an unexpected blackout cancels all flights out of New York, TK agrees to share a ride to Pittsburgh with two similarly stranded servicemen: Cheaver, an older family man who longs to return to his wife in St. Louis, and Colee, a naive private who's pinned her hopes on connecting with a dead fellow soldier's family. What begins as a short trip unexpectedly evolves into a longer journey. Forced to grapple with old relationships, broken hopes and a country divided over the war, TK, Cheaver and Colee discover that home is not quite what they remembered, and that the unlikely companionship they've found might be what matters the most.

Genres : Drama, Politics/Religion and War
Running Time : 1 hr. 55 min.
Release Date : September 26th, 2008
Distributors : Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions
Starring : Rachel McAdams, Michael Pena, Tim Robbins, Spencer Garrett, Molly Hagen
Directed by : Neil Burger
Produced by : Bill Block, Paul Hanson, Adam Merims

Battle in Seattle

In 1999, five days rocked the world as tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Seattle in protest of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Environmentalists, consumer advocates, labor unions, students, anarchists and pacifists all converged, bringing attention to how the WTO's laws were affecting democracy around the world. Among them are Django, Sam, Lou and Jay. United in their desire to be heard and to make a difference, for these protesters, this is very personal and the stakes are higher than mere politics. A peaceful demonstration to stop the WTO talks quickly escalates into a full-scale riot and an eventual State of Emergency results. The streets are mayhem, the WTO is paralyzed. Caught in the crossfire are Seattle residents, including its beleaguered mayor, a riot cop on the streets and his pregnant wife. The choices they make will change their lives forever and prove, ultimately, that ordinary people can change the world.
Genres : Action/Adventure, Drama and Politics/Religion
Running Time : 1 hr. 39 min.
Release Date : September 19th, 2008
Distributors : Redwood Palms Pictures, ThinkFilm
Starring : Charlize Theron, Andre 'Andre 3000' Benjamin, Martin Henderson, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta
Directed by : Stuart Townsend
Produced by : Ashok Amritraj, Vanessa Pereira, Julien Remillard

Traitor

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down. The inter-agency task force looking into the case meets with Carter, a veteran CIA contractor who seemingly has his own agenda and Max Archer, a fellow FBI agent. The task force links Horn to a prison break in Yemen, a bombing in Nice and a raid in London, but a tangle of contradictory evidence emerges, forcing Clayton to question whether his quarry is a disaffected former military operative -- or something far more complicated. Obsessed with discovering the truth, Clayton tracks Horn across the globe as the elusive ex-soldier burrows deeper and deeper into a world of shadows and intrigue.

Genres : Thriller and Politics/Religion
Release Date : August 27th, 2008
Distributors : Overture Films
Starring : Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Simon Reynolds, Paulino Nunes, Jeff Daniels
Directed by : Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Produced by : Steve Martin, Ashok Amritraj, Joan Stein

Henry Poole Is Here

When a man discovers that he has only six weeks to live, he leaves his job, his fiancee and his overbearing mother and tries to spend his remaining days in seclusion. But when a miracle transforms his life, his quirky neighbors disrupt his plan to live out his days in quiet desperation.

Genres : Comedy, Drama and Politics
Running Time : 1 hr. 41 min.
Release Date : August 15th, 2008
Distributors : Overture Films
Starring : Luke Wilson, Adriana Barraza, Radha Mitchell, Cheryl Hines, George Lopez
Directed by : Mark Pellington
Produced by : Norman Reiss, Eric Reid (II), Michael Aguilar

The Happening

A family is on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind--but the most basic human instinct of them all: survival.

Genres : Action/Adventure, Thriller and Politics/Religion
Release Date : June 13th, 2008
Distributors : 20th Century Fox
Starring : Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Spencer Breslin, Ashlyn Sanchez
Directed by : M. Night Shyamalan
Produced by : M. Night Shyamalan, Samuel L. Mercer, Barry Mendel

War, Inc

Turaqistan is a country occupied by an American private corporation run by the former US Vice President. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires Hauser to kill a Middle Eastern oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah, an outrageous Central Asian pop star and keeping a sexy left-wing reporter in check.

Genres : Comedy and Politics/Religion
Running Time :
1 hr. 46 min
Release Date : May 23rd, 2008
Distributors : First Look Pictures
Starring : John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Ben Kingsley
Directed by : Joshua Seftel
Produced by : Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Danny Dimbort

Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?

If Morgan Spurlock has learned anything from over 30 years of movie-watching, it's that if the world needs saving, it's best done by one lone man willing to face danger head on to take it down, action hero style. So, with no military experience, knowledge or expertise, he sets off to do what the CIA, FBI and countless bounty hunters have failed to do: find the world's most wanted man. Why take on such a seemingly impossible mission? Simple -- he wants to make the world safe for his soon to be born child. But before he finds Osama bin Laden, he first needs to learn where he came from, what makes him tick, and most importantly, what exactly created bin Laden to begin with.

Genres : Comedy, Documentary and Politics/Religion
Running Time : 1 hr. 33 min.
Release Date : April 18th, 2008

Distributors : The Weinstein Company
Directed by : Morgan Spurlock
Produced by : John Sloss, Morgan Spurlock, James Brabazon

Doomsday

The year is 2008, and a pandemic threatens to wipe out the whole of the human race. For many in the United Kingdom--the epicenter of the outbreak--the end is nigh, so why bother to keep count? Within days of detection of the Reaper virus millions are infected in Scotland, the killer disease's home turf. Government has no choice but to declare the country a "hot zone" and quarantine the populace in hopes of containing the Reaper virus spread. What was once Scotland is now a forgotten No Man Land, with the Reaper given free reign to annihilate the population sealed inside. A quarter of a century later, with a new outbreak of the Reaper resurfacing in London, it becomes apparent that the government best laid plans have gone completely, bloody awry. Department of Domestic Security (DDS) Chief Bill Nelson is summoned to meet with the prime minister and the true power behind his office, Michael Canaris, who reveal satellite photos of Reaper survivors in the hot zone. And survivors must mean there's a cure. Nelson quickly assembles a crack team of specialists to venture into the forsaken land and retrieve the counteragent to the virus. For the tough and efficient commanding officer, Major Eden Sinclair, the assignment represents a disquieting homecoming. Twenty-five years earlier, she had been shoved into one of the last evacuating military choppers and flown to safety--forced to leave her mother behind. Once on the other side of the immediately re-secured border, the squadron is on its own, venturing into a ghoulish terrain of corpse-strewn, forlorn cities. All too soon, however, the crew meets up with a pack of feral survivors, and finds itself unwittingly standing in for the callous government that turned its back years before.

Genres : Action/Adventure, Thriller and Politics/Religion
Running Time : 1 hr. 45 min.
Release Date : March 14th, 2008
Distributors : Universal Pictures Distribution
Starring : Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig, Adrian Lester, Sean Pertwee
Directed by : Neil Marshall, Marc Wolff, Jason Xenopolous
Produced by : Trevor Macy (II), Marc Evans (IV), Peter McAleese

Chicago 10

About the 1968 anti-war protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the ensuing Chicago Conspirary Trial in 1969.

Genres : Documentary, Animation and Politics/Religion
Running Time : 1 hr. 43 min.
Release Date : February 29th, 2008
Distributors : Roadside Attractions
Starring : Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte, Mark Ruffalo, Roy Scheider
Directed by : Brett Morgen
Produced by : William M. Pohlad, Laura Bickford, Jeff Skoll