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Bend It Like Beckham (2003)

An Indian family in London tries to raise their soccer-playing daughter in a traditional way. Unlike her traditional older sister, Pinky, who is preparing for a lavish Indian wedding and a lifetime of cooking the perfect chapati, Jess dreams of playing soccer professionally, like her hero David Beckham. Wholeheartedly against Jess’ unorthodox ambition, her parents eventually reveal that their reservations...

Genres: Comedy and Sports

Running Time: 1 hr. 52 min.

Release Date: March 12th, 2003 (LA, NY, Chicago)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language and sexual content.
Cast and Credits

Starring: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Shaznay Lewis, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Juliet Stevenson
Directed by: Gurinder Chadha

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Transporter 2 (2005)

Frank Martin is the best in the business. The ex-Special Forces operative hires himself out as a mercenary "transporter" who moves goods--human or otherwise. Very simple, he delivers, no questions asked. Frank has relocated from the French Mediterranean to Miami, Florida, where as a favor to a friend, Frank is driving for the wealthy Billings family. There's very little that can surprise The Transporter,...

Genres: Action/Adventure, Crime/Gangster and Sequel

Running Time: 1 hr. 27 min.

Release Date: September 2nd, 2005 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violent action, sexual content, partial nudity and brief language.

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Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (2005)

One dark night a former native of a rural Thai village has his men steal the head of the town’s Ong Bak (Buddha statue) to win favor with ruthless Bangkok crime boss Khom Tuan. The locals regard the theft as a catastrophe, and seek a champion to retrieve their lost treasure. They find their man in Ting, an orphaned youngster raised at the local temple, and schooled by Pra Ku, a kindly monk, in an...

Genres: Action/Adventure, Art/Foreign and Drama

Running Time: 1 hr. 45 min.

Release Date: February 11, 2005 (limited)

MPAA Rating: R for strong violence, language, some drug use, sexuality.
Cast and Credits

Starring: Tony Jaa, Petchthai Wongkamlao, Pumwaree Yodkamol, Rungrawee Borrijindakul, Chetwut Wacharakun
Directed by: Prachya Pinkaew

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I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006)

Several teenagers in a small-town in Colorado concoct a July 4th prank based on a frightening legend that goes awry when their friend ends up accidentally killed; however, the teens agree to keep their involvement a secret from the authorities, who continue to search for the man who apparently killed their friend. A year later, with the July 4th celebration coming up again, the teenagers realize that...

Genres: Suspense/Horror, Thriller, Sequel and Teen

MPAA Rating: Not Rated

Distributors: Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Releasing International

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Brothers of The Head (2006)

Brothers of the Head is the feverish, mind-bending odyssey of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe who were plucked from obscurity by a 1970s music promoter and groomed into a boy band. Grappling with impossible love, artistic rivalry and a dark inner life, the twins embrace their freakishness and spit it back in the form of searing Punk Rock.

Drama
Rated: R
Starring: Harry Treadaway, Luke Treadaway, Bryan Dick, Sean Harris

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Cinderella Man (2005)

During the Great Depression, a common-man hero, James J. Braddock--a.k.a. the "Cinderella Man"--was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down, beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the American populace who had hit rock bottom. His career appeared to be finished, he was unable to pay the...

Genres: Drama, Biopic and Sports

Running Time: 2 hrs. 24 min.

Release Date: June 3rd, 2005 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense boxing violence and some language.

Distributors: Universal Pictures Distribution

U.S. Box Office: $61,649,308
Cast and Credits

Starring: Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko, Paddy Considine
Directed by: Ron Howard

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Mysterious Skin (2005)

The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours, lost, gone without a trace." These are the words of Brian Lackey, a troubled 18-year-old, growing up in the stiflingly small town of Hutchinson, Kansas. Plagued by nightmares, Brian believes that he may have been the victim of an alien abduction. Local Neil McCormick, however, is the ultimate beautiful outsider. With...

Genres: Drama

Running Time: 1 hr. 39 min.

Release Date: May 6th, 2005 (LA/NY)

MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Cast and Credits

Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet, Elisabeth Shue, Michelle Trachtenberg, Bill Sage
Directed by: Gregg Araki

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Take the Lead (2006)

Pierre Dulaine is a Manhattan ballroom teacher and competitor who volunteers his time to teach ballroom dancing to a group of New York inner city high school kids. Initially forced to participate as a form of detention, the kids reject Mr. Dulaine's efforts until his unwavering commitment and dedication finally inspires them to embrace the program, infusing it with their own unique hip-hop style while...

Genres: Drama, Musical/Performing Arts and Biopic

Running Time: 108 min.

Release Date: April 7th, 2006 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic material, language and some violence.
Cast and Credits

Starring: Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown, Yaya DaCosta, Dante Basco, John Ortiz
Directed by: Liz Friedlander

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Young Frankenstein (1974)

An affectionate parody that pays homage to the FRANKENSTEIN films (from the
novel FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley) directed by James Whale in the 1930s, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is both a zany comedy and a cinematic tour de force. Written by director Mel Brooks and the film's star, Gene Wilder, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN has all the usual--and in this case slightly unusual--suspects: the reluctant scientist Frederick...

Genres: Comedy

Running Time: 1 hr. 48 min.

MPAA Rating: PG
Cast and Credits

Starring: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman
Produced by: Michael Gruskoff

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Seven Samurai

Commence drooling, everybody.Inarguably one of the tent poles of cinema achievement ever, A***a Kurosawa’s irreplaceable Seven Samurai gets a second release from Criterion on DVD, and it’s nothing short of a watershed. Just try not to turn into Gollum from Lord of the Rings while staring at this beautiful 3-disc edition (it is, indeed, precious). Criterion’s late- ‘90s release of Seven Samurai was fine. It didn’t contain a deliciously attended-to transfer, but aside...

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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - HD DVD

Since I’m not a gamer, when I first watched this $80 million film I was not at all familiar with the visage of this cyber heroine and adventuress. So I couldn’t help wonder if the producers couldn’t have afforded a more convincing padded bra for Angelina Jolie. It wasn’t until I viewed the DVD’s supplements that I realized that the costume designer was just trying to be true to the character with an appropriate exaggeration. And exaggeration is the...

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Romancing the Stone Special Edition

Diamond in the rough . . . It may seem odd that Kathleen Turner, who raised temperatures with Body Heat and Crimes of Passion and who would supply the sexy voice of Jessica Rabbit in Roger Rabbit, would have been chosen by Director Robert Zemeckis to portray a timid, mousy romance novelist whose love-life is limited to fantasy. To her credit, she pulls it off, and we enjoy watching as a grand adventure transforms her. (It’s amazing what letting her hair down and applying a...

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Jim Henson’s Fantasy Film Collection

During Saturday Night Live’s first season in '75-'76, Jim Henson and his band of muppeteers created short segments featuring a droll ensemble of grotesqueries. Perhaps a departure from the G-rated characters that inhabited Sesame Street was a welcome diversion for them. Six years later, Henson and crew created an even more oddly imaginative cast of characters who lived long ago, on a planet far, far away. It was a planet divided by the forces of The Dark Crystal.Lest you think that we&rsquo...