HIKAYAT MERONG MAHAWANGSA (The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines )

HIKAYAT MERONG MAHAWANGSA
(The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines ) (Malaysia)

The Story:
Based loosely on the 16th century historical document entitled ‘The Malay Annals’, ’The Chronicles of Merong Mahawangsa’

The year is 120 AD, the Roman Empire is at the height of its power, during the reign of Hadrian, one of the Five Good Emperors. Meanwhile in China, the Han Dynasty is cementing its control as the ruling empire in Central Asia... one hundred years before the period of the Three Kingdoms. As the Roman fleet makes repairs in Goa, they ask Merong Mahawangsa (Stephen Rahman-Hughes) to escort a Roman prince to Southeast Asia, to wed a beautiful Chinese princess from the Han Dynasty.

The Prince and Princess are to meet halfway and be married on neutral ground. However, the pirate nation of Geruda has other plans. En route to the meeting point Merong’s fleet is attacked by Geruda’s forces. They kidnap the princess and hold her as ransom.

Will Merong Mahawangsa be able to rescue the Princess and re-unite her with her betrothed in a marriage that is set to bring together two great civilisations from the East and West? 

Starring:
Stephen Rahman-Hughes, Jing Lu, Gavin Stenhouse, Craig Robert Fong, Eric Karl Henrik Norman,Keith Chong, Keith Chong, W. Hanafi Su, Dato' Rahim Razali, Khir Rahman, Ummi Nazeera, Nell Ng, Jehan Miskin, Umi Aida, Kuswadinata, Mano Maniam, Ravi Sunderlingam


Directed By:
Yusry Abdul Halim

Release:
2011

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I SAW THE DEVIL

I SAW THE DEVIL (악마를 보았다) (South Korea)

The Story:
A woman named Joo-Yun (Oh San-Ha) is stranded in her broken down car on a snowy night. She talks to her fiance on her cellphone while she awaits for a tow truck. Her fiance is So-Hyun (Lee Byung-Hun), an agent for the National Intelligence Service.

Meanwhile, a yellow van stops in front of the woman's broken down car. A man named (Choi Min-Sik) gets out of the van and knocks on the woman's window. He offers to help her get the car started. The preoccupied fiance Soo-Hyun, still on the phone with Joo-Yun, advises her to stay in the car until the tow truck arrives and gets called away on business matters. Joo-Yun tells the creepy man that she will wait for the tow truck and raises her window shut. Moments later, the creepy man named Kyung-Chul smashes the passenger window open with a sledgehammer and beats Joo-Yun unconscious. Kyung-Chul takes Joo-Yun to his home and decapitates the woman.

A few days later, an ear is found in a plastic bag by children playing near a river. When the police arrive, they later find Joo-Yun's head in the river. At this moment So-Hyun arrives at the crime scene and witnesses his fiance's decapitated head.

At the funeral for Joo-Yun, Soo-Hyun apologizes to her for not being there to protect her and also promises to inflict pain 1,000x worse to the man responsible for her death.

When Soo-Hyun tracks down his fiance's killer he beats the man severely. The killer awakens the next day bloodied, but still alive. There is also an envelope with money left on his belly. Soo-Hyun's plan for vengeance is just beginning...

Starring:
Byung-hun Lee, Gook-hwan Jeon, Choi Min-sik, Ho-jin Jeon

Directed By:
Ji-woon Kim

Release:
2011

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X-MEN: FIRST CLASS

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS

The Story:
The epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lensherr (Michael Fassbender) took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-Men.

Starring:
James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, January Jones, Kevin Bacon, Nicholas Hoult, Jennifer Lawrence, Caleb Landry Jones, Lucas Till, Edi Gathegi, Jason Flemyng, Oliver Platt, Morgan Lily, Zoe Kravitz, Bill Bilner

Directed By:
Matthew Vaughn

Release:
2011

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ORANGES AND SUNSHINE

Oranges and Sunshine

The Story:
Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson), a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals of recent times: the deportation of thousands of children from the United Kingdom to Australia.

Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and drew worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice. Children as young as four had been told that their parents were dead, and been sent to children’s homes on the other side of the world. Many were subjected to appalling abuse. They were promised oranges and sunshine: they got hard labour and life in institutions.

Starring:
Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham

Directed By:
Jim Loach

Release:
2011

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THE FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICA

THE FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICA

The Story:
When Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America. As Captain America, Rogers joins forces with Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) to wage war on the evil HYDRA organization, led by the villainous Red Skull (Hugo Weaving)

Starring:
Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Toby Jones, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke, Stanley Tucci

Directed By:
Joe Johnston

Release:

2011

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THE CONSPIRATOR

THE CONSPIRATOR

The Story:  

In the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice-President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt (Robin Wright) 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken (James MacAvoy), a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt: her own son.

Starring:
Robin Wright, James McAvoy, Justin Long, Evan Rachel Wood, Johnny Simmons, Toby Kebbell, Tom Wilkinson, Norman Reedus, Alexis Bledel, Kevin Kline, Danny Huston

Directed By:

Robert Redford

Release:

2011

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REAL STEEL

REAL STEEL

The Story:
Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman), a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

Starring:
Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Kevin Durand, Anthony Mackie

Directed By:
Shawn Levy

Release:
2011

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THE BEAVER

THE BEAVER

The Story:
Walter Black (Mel Gibson) is a troubled father and husband and CEO of a stalling toy company, he’s clinically depressed. When he finds a Beaver glove puppet he starts to wear it without pause: he even adopts the beaver as a kind of avatar through which he carries out all of his communication.

Starring:
Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence, Cherry Jones

Directed By:
Jodie Foster

Release:
2011

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FRANKIE & ALICE

frankie & alice

The Story:
Frankie Murdoch (Halle Berry), a woman suffering with multiple personality disorder struggles to retain her true self and not give in to her racist alter-personality in early 1970s Los Angeles.

Starring:
Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgård, Phylicia Rashad, Chandra Wilson, Kira Clavell, Matt Frewer

Directed By:
Geoffrey Sax

Release:
2011

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THE TEMPEST

THE TEMPEST

The Story:

It's the tale of magician Prospera (Helen Mirren)and her daughter Miranda (Felicity Jones), cast away on an island as a result of her brother Antonio (Chris Cooper) plotting to depose her as rightful Duchess of Milan.

Also populating the island are the spirit Ariel (Ben Whishaw) who serves Prospera, and Caliban (Djimon Hounsou), the deformed monster who lost favor with Prospera when he attempted to rape Miranda. A shipwreck brings Antonio's fellow conspirator, King Alonso of Naples (David Strathairn), Alonso's brother Sebastian (Alan Cumming) and son Ferdinand (Reeve Carney), and Alonso's advisor, Gonzalo (Tom Conti), all of whom are separated by Prospera's vengeful spell. Comic relief also arrives in the form of two drunkards, Stephano (Alfred Molina) and Trinculo (Russell Brand), whom Caliban incites to raise a rebellion against Prospera.

Starring:

Helen Mirren, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, Djimon Hounsou, David Strathairn, Chris Cooper, Alan Cumming, Ben Whishaw, Reeve Carney, Felicity Jones, Tom Conti

Directed By:

Julie Taymor

Release:

2011

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LIMITLESS

LIMITLESS

The Story:
Out-of-work writer Eddie Morra's (Bradley Cooper) rejection by girlfriend Lindy (Abbie Cornish) confirms his belief that he has zero future. That all vanishes the day an old friend introduces Eddie to MDT, a designer pharmaceutical that makes him laser focused and more confident than any man alive.

Now on an MDT-fueled odyssey, everything Eddie's read, heard or seen is instantly organized and available to him. As the former nobody rises to the top of the financial world, he draws the attention of business mogul Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro), who sees this enhanced version of Eddie as the tool to make billions.

But brutal side effects jeopardize his meteoric ascent. With a dwindling stash and hit men who will eliminate him to get the MDT, Eddie must stay wired long enough to elude capture and fulfill his destiny. If he can't, he will become just another victim who thought he'd found invincibility in a bottle.

Starring:
Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel

Directed By:
Neil Burger

Release:
2011

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BATTLE: LOS ANGELES

BATTLE: LOS ANGELES

The Story:

For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world - Buenos Aires, Seoul, France, Germany, China. But in 2011, what were once just sightings will become a terrifying reality when Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they've ever encountered before.

Starring:

Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Ramon Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan, Ne-Yo, Michael Peña

Directed By:

Jonathan Liebesman

Release:

2011

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RED RIDING HOOD

RED RIDING HOOD

The Story:

Valerie (Amanda Seyfried), a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Max Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie’s older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon’s arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. As panic grips the town, Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast–one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect…and bait.

Staring:
Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez, Gary Oldman, Billy Burke, Lukas Haas, Virginia Madsen, Julie Christie, Michael Shanks, Michael Hogan

Directed By:
Catherine Hardwicke

Release:
2011

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HANNA

The Story:

Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) 14-year-old Eastern European girl, raised by her father (Eric Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna’s upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Cate Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

Starring:

Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng

Directed By:

Joe Wright

Release:

2011

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PEEP WORLD

PEEP WORLD

The Story:
On the seventieth birthday of their hard charging businessman father (Ron Rifkin), four siblings and their extended relatives make plans to reunite for dinner to celebrate the momentous occasion, despite an unshakable animosity towards one another that*s about to come to a blistering boil. The youngest sibling, Nathan (Ben Schwarz), has just published a bestselling and revealing exposé about their family*s most intimate and shameful exploits, and no one is happy about it except himself.

In spite of his insurmountable financial woes, Jack (Michael C. Hall) is a semi-responsible husband and hard-working professional who is starting to feel the choke hold of his impending fatherhood. His brother Joel (Rainn Wilson) is doing the best he can to stay alive in the face of perpetual unemployment and a pair of loan sharks following his every move. Their sister Cheri (Sarah Silverman) is just plain pissed off at everyone, especially Nathan, who, along with his book, has become the lightning rod for her every neurotic complaint. Making matters worse, the movie adaptation of Nathan*s book is currently in the works, and their father*s new girlfriend (Alicia Witt) has been cast in the role of Cheri.

Starring:
Michael C. Hall, Sarah Silverman, Rainn Wilson, Ben Schwartz, Judy Greer, Kate Mara, Ron Rifkin, Alicia Witt, Stephen Tobolowsky, Taraji P. Henson, Lesley Ann Warren, Lewis Black, Nicholas Hormann.

Directed By:
Barry W. Blaustein

Release:
2011

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SOUL SURFER

soul surfer

The Story:

Based on the book "Soul Surfer":This is a True Story about Bethany Hamilton (AnnaSophia Robb), a champion surfer, has a tragic shark attack which leads to her having one arm amputated. She fights through this tragedy and eventually gets back to surfing

Starring:

AnnaSophia Robb, Dennis Quaid, Helen Hunt, Carrie Underwood, Lorraine Nicholson, Kevin Sorbo, Jeremy Sumpter

Directed By:

Sean McNamara

Release:

2011

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