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oxoffice The Odd Life of Timothy Green Academy Award-nominated director/writer Peter Hedges (Dan in Real Life, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape) brings enchantment to the screen with The Odd Life of Timothy Green, a story about a happily married couple, Cindy and Jim Green (Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton), who can't wait to start a family but can only dream about what their child would be like. After learning Cindy is infertile, they write a description of their perfect child on a piece of paper and bury it in the garden. When young Timothy (CJ Adams) shows up on their doorstep one stormy night claiming to be their son, Cindy and Jim — and their small town of Stanleyville — learn that sometimes the unexpected can bring some of life's greatest gifts. Premium Rush The Expendables 2 A New York City bike messenger is given an envelope by a young woman at an uptown Manhattan college and is told he has 90 minutes to deliver it to Chinatown. Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day's work for Wilee (Joseph Gordon- Levitt), but this time complications ensue when an undercover police officer appears and demands the envelope. The truth, hidden motivations, and the life-and-death stakes on all side are revealed through a series of flashbacks as the cop and the messenger engage in a length-of-Manhattan chase. From David Koepp, the director and writer of Ghost Town and writer of Spider-Man and War of the Worlds. The Expendables are back and this time it's personal. Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren),Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) — with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan) aboard — are reunited when Mr Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong and one of their own is viciously killed, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory where the odds are stacked against them. - Lionsgate Resident Evil: Retribution The Umbrella Corporation's deadly T-virus continues to ravage the earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating undead. The human race's last and only hope, Alice (Milla Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella's most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington DC and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything she once thought to be true. Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. - Sony Opening Dates CINEMAS M: Megastar Cinema www.megastar.vn G: Galaxy Cinema www.galaxycine.vn The Odd Life of Timothy Green (24 August) Premium Rush (7 Sept.) The Expendables 2 (7 Sept.) Resident Evil: Retribution (21 Sept.) The Expendables 2 (7 Sept.) Resident Evil: Retribution (21 Sept.) Premium Rush (28 Sept.) The information on this page was correct at the time of printing. Check cinema websites for screenings. 86 asialife HCMC
ookshelf Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox Lois Banner Bloomsbury Fifty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe continues to captivate. The blonde bombshell has inspired countless biographies, films and Las Vegas impersonators. The icon has been especially en vogue over the past year, with homage paid in the film My Week with Marilyn, the US television show Smash, and this recent biography by Lois Banner. Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox explores the actress’s many contradictions, drawing from interviews and recently discovered documents to provide new insight into the star’s complicated life. The biography follows Marilyn from her troubled childhood and early years as Norma Jean, on to her sensational Hollywood career, her personal relationships with husbands Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, and the murky circumstances surrounding her death. Night Dancer Chika Unigwe Jonathan Cape A Belgium-based Nigerian writer, Chika Unigwe is part of an emerging wave of African women novelists. Her third publication, Night Dancer, is narrated from the perspectives of two women with different backgrounds. Set in Nigeria during the 1970s, the first half follows Ezi, a young, university-educated woman struggling to meet expectations for a male heir. To the disappointment of her in-laws, she becomes pregnant with a daughter. When her husband’s affair with the maid, Rapu, produces a son, Ezi’s position within the family is threatened. She decides to leave her husband and raise her child alone, facing intense stigma from her family and community. The second part of the book follows Rapu’s own struggles to rise, mirroring Ezi’s fall. The Price of Inequality Joseph E Stiglitz W.W. Norton & Company In response to the notion that inequality is inevitable, Joseph E Stiglitz begs to differ. The Nobel laureate economist deviates from a purely economic lens to understanding the shape of our world and considering the impact of politics. As the gap between rich and poor widens, Stiglitz sees that “while there may be underlying economic forces at play, politics have shaped the market, and shaped it in ways that advantage the top at the expense of the rest.” In his view, inequality serves to weaken democracy, as well as create fissures in economy and society when potential is limited by lack of opportunity. Change, Stiglitz argues, can be achieved when equal competition in the free market is safeguarded by government oversight. Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Poems Vladimir Nabokov Knopf Known best for Lolita and Pale Fire amongst other literary feats, Vladimir Nabokov is considered one of the great modern novelists. Less is known about his ventures into poetry. This collection features selected poems translated from Nabokov’s native Russian as well as 23 pieces originally written in English. The earliest piece comes from 1914, when the writer was only 15 years old. Ever erudite, Nabokov writes poetry with the same attention to structure and depth as can be seen in his novels. In The Poem he seems to encapsulate his own style of poetry: “In the tangle of sounds, the leopards of words, the leaf-like insects, the eye-spotted birds fuse and form a silent, intense, mimetic pattern of perfect sense.” asialife HCMC 87
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