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Mamie had a baby boy 19 years ago with her step-brother Charles. 19 years later Nicky a filmmaker claims to know the identity of her son but will only reveal it to her he can film the reunion. Javier, Mamie’s boyfriend suggests that they film him and his life as a sex worker about massage and ‘happy endings’ (when a man is having sex, yes, that kind of ‘happy ending’) instead.
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Paul “Wrecking” Crewe is a former football star who was banned from playing after a rigging scandal. While on probation he gets into a messy drunk driving incident, really messy and winds up in prison. The warden of the prison (James Cromwell) pulled some strings to get Paul into his prison because he is a football fanatic and wants Paul to help him prepare his prison football team. If Paul doesn’t comply then doing time can get a lot harder than if he did. Paul then has to organise a team composed of convicts to play against the guards. Which is only the beginning of his troubles.
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Crash is Paul Hagis’s first feature film and yet he displays a very mature style of directing. His sense of vignette story telling is succint and insightful and holds a lot of drama. The film is set in Los Angeles around Christmas time and it concerns the daily lives of several characters who are linked by racially motivated acts.
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Harmony (Kim Basinger) is a cosmetic sales lady whose life is linked to Elvis Presley because she was born at one of his concerts. While faced with a crossroad in her life a few Elvis impersonators die on her journey. She also happens to meet a charming Ad executive who happens to have an Elvis suit in his car. Could he be next to be struck by a dire fate?
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The UK decides to convert to the Euro in seven days. It’s the biggest opportunity the criminal world has ever had. When a railway heist goes wrong and an enormous bag of money falls from the sky into the hands of Damian and Anthony, there’s only one thing to do spend it like there’s no tomorrow. Then one of the robbers comes looking for his money.
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It all begins in a small Oregon town, when shy Sam (RORY CULKIN) confesses to his protective older brother Rocky that he is getting pummeled daily by the towering school bully, George. Rocky then puts a plan in motion to get revenge by inviting George along for a boat trip in the woods. However as the day progresses Sam gets to know George and feels sorry for him. He tries to call the plan off but things have spiraled out of control already.
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What goes better with hip-hop than weed smoke? Not much. A drink, possibly. International travel, explosive live shows, candid interviews? All the above actually, which seminal Brooklyn-based label Nature Sounds has compiled here. In globe trotting escapades with some of contemporary indie-hip-hop’s brightest stars, the camera literally goes where the blunt goes…
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Kenyan Hip-hop was initially regarded as a passing fad. Hip-hop was eagerly dismissed by the media outlets and the general public during its shallow inception in the early ninety’s. Hip-hop today has firmly gained its roots in Kenya, while fusing its traditional music and drawing major influence from America. This fusion has led to a new entity-the birth of Genge Music. Read on to view the trailers..
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If you read the books don’t bother reading further, if you liked them go watch the movie, you will love it. For those who don’t know here is the synopsis: Arthur Dent is an earthling who gets off Earth just before it is destroyed by an alien race to make way for a hyperspace bypass. He is of course rescued by his friend Ford Prefect who is an alien (Arthur didn’t know), his friend and a writer for the galactic company that publishes THE HITCHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY…
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“Hustle & Flow” is the redemptive story of a streetwise Memphis hustler trying to find his voice and realize his long-buried dreams. Though DJay (Terrence Howard) has always had a way with words, that gift has long been misused, this philosopher-hustler lives a dead-end life at the fringes of society. Anything more feels out of reach…
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Cassim (Atta Yaqub) is the only son of first generation devout Muslim Pakistani immigrants living in Glasgow. He is also a DJ and his parents have arranged for him to marry his first cousin Jasmine from Pakistan. During an incident at his younger sister’s school he meets the music teacher, Roisin (Eva Birthistle), white, Irish and Catholic. Their relationship has dire consequences for both of them.