THE HUNTING PARTY

The Story:
After years of covering one war after another, journalist Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) loses his composure during a live broadcast covering the Bosnian War. While his career spirals downhill, that of his long-time camera man Duck (Terrence Howard) goes in the opposite direction. Duck gets a cushy job at the network, while Hunt is left following war after war, unemployed, in an attempt to get back on top.

Now years later Duck, along with Franklin Harris (James Brolin) and Benjamin Strauss (Jesse Eisenberg), the son of the Network's Vice-President, have landed in Bosnia during the fall of 2000, 5 years after the Bosnian war. Covering the peace treaty there.

Duck runs into Simonby this point, a desperate, cynical freelancer who needs a story big enough to propel him back to the realm of credibility. He tells Duck that, through a source, he has located Radoslav Bogdanoviknown as "The Fox" (Ljubomir Kerekes) who is a wanted war criminal with a US$5 million bounty on his head: he is assumed to be in the village of elebii in Republika Srpska (Serbian entity in Bosnia), near the border with Montenegro.

Duck and Benjamin join Simon and journey out of Bosnia to travel to Montenegro. It is here they will meet with UN Official, Eknath Bharwani, who is not even aware of indictment details for Boghdanovic, and is quite content following instructions to not go anywhere near the last known location of the culprit. The trio will soon find out that the UN, NATO, The Hague, CIA amongst others are not only intent on keeping this war criminal's whereabouts a secret, but will oppose anyone who even tries to locate him. The trio find themselves in a soup when Boghdanovic and his henchman, a Psycho who has a tattoo on his forehead, find them and begin torturing them as they suspect them of being CIA Agents. The question remains who will come to their rescue?

Starring:
Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Jesse Eisenberg, James Brolin, Diane Kruger, Joy Bryant

Directed By:
Richard Shepard

Release:
2008

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XXY

X X Y (Spanish)

The Story:
Alex (Inés Efron), a 15-year old intersex person from Buenos Aires lives secluded with her parents in a fishing village in Uruguay. At birth, her parents decided not to have her operated on, in order for her to choose her gender. Therefore she still has both her sexual organs. However, she takes corticoids and is raised as a girl.Her parents have moved several times before settling down in Uruguay in order to live a quiet life and keep her from the mockery Alex previously experienced while living in Argentina.

Her father, Néstor Kraken (Ricardo Darín), is a marine biologist who has written a book on sexuality and makes a living treating wounded animals found by fishermen. Her mother, Suli (Valeria Bertuccelli) , invites friends from Argentina: a surgeon, his wife and teenage son Álvaro (Martin Piroyansky). The purpose, unknown to Néstor and Alex, is to discuss the possibilities of a sex-change operation.

No sooner have they arrived than Alex is proposing outright to Alvaro that they have sex together. Meanwhile, Alex has broken the nose of local boy Vando (Luciano Nobile) for casting aspersions on his sexuality. After a grueling scene in which Alex is near-raped by a gang of Vando's friends, Kraken jumps to Alex's defense. When Alvaro finally takes Alex up on the offer of sex, they have anal intercourse, but they are interrupted when Néstor catches sight of them through an ajar door.

However, as the parents battle it out to instill a sense of open-mindedness amongst their society, it is the children who prove themselves to be flexible in understanding the sexual leanings and complexities of others.

Starring:
Ricardo Darin, Ines Efron, Martin Piroyanski, German Palacios, Valeria Bertucelli, Carolina Peleritti.

Directed By:
Lucia Puenzo

Release:
2007

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THE ONION MOVIE

the ONION MOVIE

The Story:
America's most popular satirical newspaper makes the leap from the printed page to the silver screen in this political comedy that explores what happens when journalistic integrity is compromised by corporate sensibility. Onion News anchorman Norm Archer (Len Cariou) is s principled journalist, so when he's asked to bend to the will of his corporate overlords he decides to strike back with a fury unheard of in the world of network news. Nothing is sacred as the creative force behind The Onion unleash an unrelenting barrage of satire on such subjects as pop stars, prisoners, peace talks, and blockbuster action films

Starring:
Len Cariou, Steven Seagal, Sarah McElligott, Michael Bolton, Scott Klace, Ken Takemoto, Daniel Chacón, Don McManus, Kate Fuglei, Abigail Mavity, Ahmed Ahmed.

Directed By:
Tom Kuntz and Mike Maguire

Release:
2008

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THE CELLAR DOOR

The Story:
Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), the girl next door, having coffee, lunch with a friend, shopping, unaware she is becoming an obsession. She has been chosen.

The psychopath Herman (James DuMont) stalks Rudy and her friend Christa (Heather Sconyers) along a day and a night and finally he chooses Rudy to be his next victim. She is not the first to captivate his perverse affection, Herman has been searching for the perfect girl, but all he's collected are pieces - a chunk of hair; a severed finger; a jar of blood - and now, the alluring and beautiful Rudy has caught his eye.

Armed with ether, Herman lets himself into Rudy’s apartment and whisks her off to his “love nest”, a small box in his cellar reinforced with lumber and wire. Rudy is now a prisoner and must use her wits to find a means of escape. She has only her wits to use against his savage and murderous insanity. Will she win the desperate, hallucinatory game of cat and mouse and escape through the Cellar Door, or meet the same end that several women before her have faced – a tortured death.

Starring:
James DuMont, Michelle Tomlinson, Heather Sconyers.

Directed By:
Matt Zettell

Release:
2007

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