Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Quick Flicks for the week of 10/07/07





Black Book by Paul Verhoeven.

Rachel, a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazi's during World War II in The Netherlands, sees her hiding place blown up. She escapes with her rescuer, a young sailor, but the boat sails into a trap set by the Germans. She escapes and joins the resistance, and under the false name Ellis de Vries she meets SS-hauptsturmführer Ludwig Muntze on a train smuggling weapons. She goes to his headquarters to meet him again and gain his trust, and soon they fall in love.She joins his office as a spy, but when someone within the resistance betrays her, she is now seen as an enemy betraying both sides. All that's left to do is run with the man she learned to love and find a way to prove her innocence by finding the real betrayer.



Evan Almighty by Tom Shadyac.

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Newly elected to Congress, Evan Baxter has left Buffalo, New York in pursuit of a greater calling. But that calling isn't serving in the illustrious ranks of America's politics, but being summoned by the Almighty himself, who has handed Evan the task of building a new ark. With time passing by and his family belittled by Evan's newfound realization, Evan will have to do the work that God has given him in what promises to be an unusual adventure for a man who just wanted to serve his country. But, Evan might actually be serving all of humanity instead.



Hades Factor by Mick Jackson.

Colonel Jonathan Smith is a disease specialist and former secret agent for Covert One, an elite intelligence agency made up of political and technical experts that report directly to the president. When an unknown deadly virus begins to surface, Smith is called into action to find and isolate the source before the outbreak endangers millions of lives.



Reign Over Me by Mick Jackson

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Consumed with grief after losing his family in the World Trade Center attacks, a widower seeks help from his former college roommate, who's now a psychiatrist. Mike Binder directs this thought-provoking look at friendship and post-Sept. 11 society in New York City.