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Casino Royale Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller Director: Martin Campbell Starring: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini and Caterina Murino Duration: 144 minutes Year: 2006 This new take on the existing franchise of the famous British spy series created by Ian Fleming has made James Bond, the secret service agent, [...]

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Genre: Comedy Director: Larry Charles Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian and Pamela Anderson Duration: 84 minutes Year: 2006 If you enjoy the humour and comical timing from the talented Sacha Baron Cohen with Da Ali G Show, then this latest movie – [...]

Information: Title: (the Castle of Cagliostro or Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro) Certificate: (PG) Released by: (Optimum Releasing’s Optimum Asia) Run Time: (100 minutes) Origin: (Japan) Language: (Japanese) Vintage: (1979) Our Iconic super-thief Lupin pulls off a trilling heist at a Monte Carlo casino, only to discover that the spoils of the heist are counterfeit. [...]

Information: Title: (Infernal Affairs III or Mou Gaan Dou III) Certificate: (15) Released by: (Tartan Video’s Tartan Asia Extreme label) Run Time: (118 minutes) Origin: (Hong Kong) Language: (Cantonese) Vintage: (2003) Ten months after Yan’s (Tony Leung) death, Ming (Andy Lau) finds his career on the rocks and his marriage over. To rescue his career [...]

When a violent bank robbery by a vicious gang of punks ends in bloodshed, cocky Hong Kong police inspector Wing (played by the fantastic Jackie Chan) vows to arrest the culprits. Instead, the gang wipes out Wing’s entire team, plunging Wing into an alcoholic depression. A year later, it’s up to rookie cop Fung (Nicholas [...]

Information: Title: (Infernal Affairs II or Mou Gaan Dou II) Certificate: (15) Released by: (Tartan Video’s Tartan Asia Extreme Label) Run Time: (114 minutes) Origin: (Hong Kong) Language: (Cantonese) Vintage: (2003) Set between the years of 1991 and 1997, Infernal Affairs two begins ten years before the events of Infernal Affairs and tells the story [...]

Information: Title: (Infernal Affairs or Mou gaan dou) Certificate: (15) Released by: (Tartan video’s Tartan Asia extreme label) Run Time: (100 minutes) Origin: (Hong Kong) Language: (Cantonese) Vintage: (2002) Ming (Andy Lau) and Yan (Tony Leung) lead parallel lives: Ming is a Triad mole in the police department; Yan is a police stooge in mob [...]

Brick Genre: Drama/Mystery Director: Rian Johnson Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Noah Fleiss, Noah Segan, Lukas Haas, Matt O'Leary, Brian J. White, Emilie de Ravin and Meagan Good. Duration: 110 minutes Year: 2005 Brick is a film noir murder mystery set in the present-day and yet the characters talk and behave like 1940's-style gangsters. It [...]

Information: Title: (Cidade De Deus, ‘City of God’) Certificate: (18) Released by: (Miramax) Run time: (124 minutes) Origin: (Brazil) Language: (Portuguese) Vintage: (2002) Welcome to the world’s most notorious slum: Rio de Janeiro’s ‘City of God’. A place where combat photographers fear to tread, where police rarely go, and residents are lucky if they live [...]

Pulp Fiction Genre: Crime/Drama Director: Quentin Tarantino Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth and Christopher Walken. Duration: 154 minutes Year: 1994 Probably the best film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Pulp Fiction changes the whole notion of narrative with fascinating sub-plots and ultra-hip characters. [...]

Capote Genre: Biography/Crime/Drama Director: Bennett Miller Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Chris Cooper, Clifton Collins Jr. and Mark Pellegrino Duration: 114 minutes Year: 2005 This is the movie in which Philip Seymour Hoffman won this year's Academy Award (for Best Actor) in the role of Truman García Capote. Hoffman's portray of this intriguing character [...]

Battle Royale Genre: Action/Thriller/Drama/Horror Dir.: Kinji Fukasaku Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Beat Takeshi Year: 2000 Girl #3 Kanai – Dead, 33 to go. Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale is set in a dystopian Japan, where unemployment and juvenile violence is at an all-time high. As a last stand, the Japanese government introduces the radical BR [...]

Information: Title (Innocence or Ghost in the shell 2) Certificate (15) DVD Releaser (Manga Entertainment) Run Time (96 minutes) Language (Japanese) Vintage (2004) It is the year 2032 and earth is a world where the few remaining humans coexist with artificial replicants, cyborgs and robots. Batou, a cyborg detective and his partner Togusa are charged [...]

A Scanner Darkly Genre: Sci-Fi Drama/Thriller Director: Richard Linklater Starring: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Rory Cochrane and Winona Ryder Year: 2006 'A Scanner Darkly' is a complex and fascinating story based on a novel by Phillip K. Dick (the author of Blade Runner). The movie uses the latest techniques in rotoscoping to [...]

Information: Title (Taxi) Certificate (15) DVD releaser (Prism leisure) Run time (86 minutes) Language (French) Former pizza delivery boy Daniel is speed crazy. Embarking on a new career as a taxi driver, his specially modified car is so fast even police radar can’t spot him! When he unwittingly gives a high-speed ride to police officer [...]