Thursday, September 24, 2009

No Regret (Huhwihaji anha)

In Seoul, South Korea, Sumin leaves the orphanage where he grew up and heads to the city to study art design. After losing his job at a factory due to layoffs, he finds himself working as a prostitute in a gay bar. Initially Sumin resists the advances of Jaemin, who comes from a rich and conservative family that doesn't accept his sexual identity. Eventually Sumin succumbs to Jaemin's advances, after they briefly experience happiness as passionate lovers, Sumin and Jaemin's relationship falls into heartache and tragedy.

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Starring: Young-hoon Lee, Nam-gil Kim, Lee Seung-cheol, Choi Doo Young, Hyeon-cheol Jo, Dong-wook Kim
Directed by: Hee-il Leesong
Genres: Gay, Art/Foreign, Drama and Romance
Running Time: 1 hr. 54 min.

Yahoo! Users Rating: B+
IMDb Users Rating: 7.4/10
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Frozen Flower (Ssang Hwa Jeom)

In the end of Goryeo era politically manipulated by the Yuan Dynasty, the ambitious King of the Goryeo Dynasty organizes Kunryongwe. Hong Lim, the commander of Kunryongwe, captivates the King of Goryeo, and the Queen keeps her eyes on the relationship between Hong Lim and the King with a reluctant view. Meanwhile, the bilateral relation between Goryeo and the Yuan gets worse as Yuan demands to install the cousin of the King in the Crown Prince of Goryeo with ascribing it to no son the King has. The King refuses it resolutely, so the high-ranking officials of Goryeo, who are in submission to Yuan, are discontented with the king. One day, the King gives Hong Lim a covert yet unobjectionable order to sleep with the Queen instead of himself to protect the independence of Goryeo from the Yuan by making a son, the successor to Goryeo throne.

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Starring: Jo In-seong, Gweon Tae-weon, Yeo Jin-goo, Ju Jin-mo, Song Joong-ki
Directed by:
Yoo Ha
Genres: Gay, Art/Foreign and Drama
Running Time: 2 hrs. 23 min.

Yahoo! Users Rating: A
IMDb Users Rating: 7.2/10
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Year One

When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.












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Starring: Jack Black, Michael Cera, Oliver Platt, David Cross, Hank Azaria
Directed by:
Harold Ramis
Genres: Comedy
Running Time: 1 hr. 40 min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, brief strong language and comic violence
Yahoo! Critics: C
IMDb User Rating: 5.0/10
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Monday, September 14, 2009

The Final Destination

On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O'Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends, Janet and Hunt, to leave... escaping seconds before Nick's frightening vision becomes a terrible reality. Thinking they've cheated death, the group has a new lease on life, but unfortunately for Nick and Lori, it is only the beginning. As his premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die one-by-one--in increasingly gruesome ways--Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all before he, too, reaches his final destination.

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Starring: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Nick Zano, Haley Webb, Mykelti Williamson
Directed by:
David R. Ellis (V)
Genres: Science Fiction/Fantasy and Suspense/Horror
Running Time: 1 hr. 22 min.

MPAA Rating: R for strong violent/gruesome accidents, language and a scene of sexuality
Yahoo! Critics: D+
imdB Users Rating: 5.2/10
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