Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Quick Flicks for the Week of 10/14/07




Aggar

Janvi starts an adulterous relationship with a man who works at her company, but when she tries to break off the affair he becomes obsessed with her and threatens to harm her husband. In Hindi and English with optional English subtitles.


Dhoka
A young Muslim police officer working in Mumbai helps at the scene of a deadly bombing. Things take a personal turn when his wife's body is found among the dead. Even worse, her injuries were typical of those found on fundamentalist suicide bombers. In Hindi with Arabic or English subtitles.


Diggers
Four Long Island friends follow in their respective families' footsteps and become clam diggers in this touching comedy.


The Hoax
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After billing his "authorized autobiography" of eccentric millionaire Howard Hughes as the 20th century's most important book, writer Clifford Irving begins to believe his own hype. But his shameless scam soon catches up with him.


The Invisible
Nick Powell is a handsome young writer with a bright future. Then one tragic night he is brutally attacked and left for dead. But Nick is really not dead, yet. He is trapped in a ghostly limbo where no one can see or hear him except Annie and she might be the one person who is able to save him. They must work quickly together to solve the mystery of his murder before it is too late, and Nick's chance to live again is lost forever.

A Mighty Heart
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While in Pakistan researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid in 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is suddenly kidnapped. His pregnant wife, Mariane, displays great courage as she desperately tries to find her husband and rise above the bitterness and hatred that surrounds her.


Planet Terror
A small town sheriffs' department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." Cherry Darling meets up again with her old lover, El Wray, just as their Texas town is being overrun by "sickos" with festering sores turning them into zombies. Cherry has El Wray's jacket, which she took with her when she left and he keeps trying to explain how he looked for it for two weeks and she keeps interrupting his story. Gun-legged Cherry and one-man wrecking crew El Wray try to save the world from a horde of flesh-eating zombies.



Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag
In the dark underbelly of Mumbai City, a nihilistic new leader has risen to rule the fetid underworld. His name is Babban. Cruel beyond imagination, psychotically violent and far more devious than any gangster the city has ever known. Nobody has ever seen him and if they did, they didn't survive to tell the tale. But one man believe in his existence. And that is Inspector Narsimha, an encounter specialist, who has a single-minded determination to finish Babban.

The Reaping
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In the wake of a devastating tragedy that killed every member of her family, Christian missionary Katherine Morrissey loses her faith in God, devoting the rest of her life to debunking religious phenomena with the principles of science. But when she's called to a small Southern town to investigate a series of strange occurrences that appear to be biblical plagues, she runs out of logical explanations.


Transformers
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Based on the popular toys that transform from machines into giant robots, this live-action movie finds the planet Cybertron inhabitants engaging in a secret war for control of Earth's natural resources, which they desperately need for fuel. Able to disguise themselves as cars, airplanes, boats and more, the transformers prove a tough enemy.