august-2010

DID YOU KNOW?
Mia Wasikowska, the female lead in the phenomenally successful Alice
in Wonderland, is a 20-year old ex-ballerina from Canberra. Following
the box-offi ce reception to Alice, she already has several fi lms lined up
including Gus Van Sant’s Restless.
CITY ISLAND THE BACK-UP BA BACK-UP PPLAN
deliberately paced with
Polanski’s professionalism
and a strong cast.”
TAKE OFF PG-13/E
DIRECTOR KIM YONG-HWA
STARRING HA JUNG-WOO, KIM JI-SUK
118 MINS K E-SUBS
Four South Koreans form a
ski jumping squad in order
to prove that their country
has the right to host the
Winter Olympics. This movie
follows their transformation
from hapless athletes to
professional sportsmen.
ALICE IN
WONDERLAND PG
DIRECTOR TIM BURTON
STARRING MIA WASIKOWSKA,
JOHNNY DEPP
109 MINS E K
Alice returns to the world
she encountered as a
young girl and embarks on
a fantastical journey to fi nd
her destiny and end the
Red Queen’s reign of terror.
While Burton’s ingenious
stamp is luminously
apparent throughout the
movie, the real scenestealer,
as Rick Groen of
Globe and Mail writes, is
“the old-fashioned kind –
Wasikowska’s fully rounded
performance. Throughout
the technical razzle-dazzle,
we keep returning to the
pallor of that face, the
gravity in those eyes”.
CLASH OF THE
TITANS PG-13/E
DIRECTOR LOUIS LETERRIER
STARRING SAM WORTHINGTON,
LIAM NEESON, RALPH FIENNES
106 MINS E K G J F
Born of a god but raised as a
man, Perseus volunteers to
lead a dangerous mission to
defeat Hades before he can
seize power from Zeus and
unleash hell on earth. This
remake of the 1981 classic
is “a full-throttle actionadventure”,
writes TIME
Magazine’s reviewer Richard
Corliss.
CHOCOLATE NR
DIRECTOR PRACHYA PINKAEW
STARRING JIJA YANIN, PONGPAT
WACHIRABANCHONG
89 MINS T E-SUBS
An autistic woman with
powerful martial art skills
looks to settle her ailing
mother’s debts by seeking
out the ruthless gangs that
owe her family money.
SAYONARA
ITSUKA NR
DIRECTOR JOHN H. LEE
STARRING MIHO NAKAYAMA,
HIDETOSHI NISHIJIMA
134 MINS J E-SUBS
Higashigaito Yutaka is to
marry a relative of his boss,
even though he doesn’t love
her. But he’s torn when he
meets another girl… 25 years
on, they meet again.
SAYONARA ITSUKA KARTHIK CALLING KARTHIK
72 TENANTS OF
PROSPERITY PG-13
DIRECTOR ERIC TSANG, PATRICK
KONG, CHUNG SHU KAI
STARRING JACKY CHEUNG,
ERIC TSANG
98 MINS C E-SUBS C-SUBS
Centring on two men who
were rivals in business - and
in love. Now, as elderly men,
their rivalry is renewed when
their children start to date.
KARTHIK CALLING
KARTHIK NR/E
DIRECTOR VIJAY LALWANI
STARRING FARAHAN AKHTAR,
DEEPIKA PADUKONE
120 MINS H E-SUBS
Karthik is unlucky in love,
work and life. One day
he gets a phone call and
his life is transformed in
unimaginable ways. Variety’s
Derek Elley writes: “This
romantic mystery-drama…
surfs on the likable chemistry
between Farhan Akhtar and
Deepika Padukone.”
WAKE UP SID NR/E
DIRECTOR AAYAN MUKHERJEE
STARRING RANBIR KAPOOR,
KONKONA SEN SHARMA
120 MINS H E-SUBS
The story of Sidharth Mehra,
a lazy, unmotivated slacker
from Mumbai who is forced
to rethink his carefree
approach to life due to the
circumstances that now
surround him.
TRIVIA
ALL ABOUT
QUEEN LATIFAH
BORN AND RAISED IN
NEW JERSEY WITH THE NAME
DANA ELAINE OWENS, SHE IS
ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST
HIGHLY SOUGHT-AFTER HIP-
HOP ARTISTS, AS WELL AS A
NOTED ACTRESS AND MUSIC
PRODUCER.
HER STAGE NAME QUEEN
LATIFAH, MEANING “DELICATE”
AND “VERY KIND” IN ARABIC,
WAS GIVEN TO HER BY HER
COUSIN WHEN SHE WAS EIGHT.
SHE BEGAN HER ACTING
ENDEAVORS IN THE MID 1990S
WITH A LEAD ROLE IN A FOX
SITCOM LIVING SINGLE, FOR
WHICH SHE ALSO WROTE AND
PERFORMED HER OWN MUSIC.
LATIFAH SUBSEQUENTLY
STARRED ON HER OWN TALK
SHOW THE QUEEN LATIFAH
SHOW FROM 1999 TO 2001.
IN HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY,
LADIES FIRST: REVELATIONS OF
A STRONG WOMAN, LATIFAH
SHARED HOW HER BROTHER’S
DEATH LED TO DEPRESSION
AND DRUG ABUSE, FROM
WHICH SHE LATER RECOVERED.
. SHE IS ONE OF THE FEW
HIP-HOP ARTISTS TO RECEIVE
AN ACADEMY AWARD
NOMINATION IN AN ACTING
CATEGORY, FOR HER STELLAR
PERFORMANCE IN CHICAGO
IN 2002.
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