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JET LI ..

2010-10-11T00:34:00.000-07:00

He is a martial artist.
Well I will introduce his as a martial artist than a actor because I believe that he is so talented as a martial artist and being a actor is just a side effect of his martial artist talents.
It doesn't mean that he is untalented as a actor. He is so good a actor and for me he is the best martial-artist actor in these days and there are few who are nearly as talented as him.

The first ever film I watched of him is "The twin worriers!" Which is also known as "Thai chi 1". It was years back and probably years before he enter the territory of Hollywood. He then make a good progress by staring in plenty of action packed movies like "Body guard" and lately "The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor".

Name - Li Lian Jie
Birthday- April 26, 1963
born in - China.
Talent - He has won more than 15 gold medals for wushu beginning from his very young age (12years) And his competitions are all adults!!

Awards - Hong Kong Film Awards . Best Actor 2008 The Warlords
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards Best Actor 2006 Fearless
Golden Horse Awards Special Award 1995
Shanghai Film Critics Awards 2008 Best Actor (The Warlords)

Akira kurasoa! A great Director!

2010-09-23T04:30:00.000-07:00

Recently I watched a TV programme about this great man and developed a interest to follow his carrier and find out more about him. It is a vary fascinating story. It is no need to say how honored he is about his artistic works. The life story of him which he begin as a painter was something exciting.

He in his life as archived many milestones which would be a dream for any producer in the cinematic world. It is as a found out not very hard to find out information about this fascinating character as there are many sources to follow. So I am not going to post a complete biography about him from somewhere. Instead I will try to post as many as links as possible to watch his films or at least parts of them. Hope you will all enjoy it.

Sanshiro Sugata (1943) - Name of the film
Sadao Yamanaka Prize,The National Incentive Film Prize - Awards

LINK - http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQxMzc5MTg4.html

Rashomon 1950 - Name of the film
Golden Lion(First prize),NBR Award,Honorary Award - Outstanding
Foreign Language Film - Awards

Rashomon (1950)

Ikiru (1952) - Name of the film
Kinema Jumpo Award,Mainichi Film Concours,Arts Festival,Special Prize of the
Senate of Berlin - Awards
LINK - http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjQ5NDgwNzY=.html

Seven Samurai - (1954) - Name of the film
Silver Lion of St. Mark (Second Prize),Diploma of Merit Awards
LINK - http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTU4NjAzNTIw.html

High and Low (1963) - Name of the film
Mainichi Film Concours,Golden Laurel Award - Awards
LINK - http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTczOTQ4ODg0.html

Red Beard (1965)
Asahi Culture Prize,OCIC Award,Soviet Filmmakers' Association Prize,Million Pearl Award,NHK Award,NHK Award, Mainichi Film Concours,Kinema Jumpo Award - Awards
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Dersu Uzala (1975)
FIPRESCI Prize, Best Foreign Language Film,David, Silver RibbonPrix Léon Moussinac, Golden Halo - Awards.

Part 1

Part 2

Kagemusha (1980)
Palme d'Or (First Prize) , Hochi Film Award,Blue Ribbon Award,Mainichi Film Concours, Reader's Choice Award,César,David,BAFTA Film Award,Silver Ribbon - Awards
Link - http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTczOTQ4MjIw.html

Mainstream Films With Hardcore Sex Scenes

2010-09-16T22:14:00.000-07:00

Well you might wonder that you only could witness hardcore scenes via blue films. But it is not true and I am going to give you few proofs to let you believe that I am correct!

1.9 Songs
This one is a love story and it contains some really explicit scenes which made the film more controversial than other modern love stories.

Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Produced by Andrew Eaton
Written by Michael Winterbottom
Starring Kieran O'Brien,
Margo Stilley

2.Battle In Heaven (Mexican-French-German film)

This is a film about a couple who kidnapped a baby. The baby dies accidiently and then comes events following that incident..

Starring Marcos Hernández
Anapola Mushkadiz
Berta Ruiz

3. All About Anna

This is a story about a girl name Anna and her two lovers. One is her present lover and the other one is coming back to her life after long lost for 5 years. This leads to some troubles..

Starring Gry Bay
Mark Stevens
Eileen Daly

4.Intimacy
This story is about a musician and his lover girl. This film actually brought the main actress a award in berlin film festival.

Starring Timothy Spall, Fraser Ayres, Mark Rylance

5. Baise-Moi
This one is involved with violent. Plenty of killings also going on. The story which is build around two girls named Nadine and Manu is originally taken from a novel.

Starring Karen Lancaume, Raffaëla Anderson, Céline Beugnot

6. Shortbus
This is a comedy type film. It is about some group of youngsters and there activities which are sometimes not ordinary at all.

Starring Sook-Yin Lee
Paul Dawson
Lindsay Beamish
PJ DeBoy

7. Anatomy of Hell

It contains a different kind of story. This is about a woman who tried to kill her self and her rescuer. Then she gives him a hell of a show.

Starring Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi, Alexandre Belin.

8. The Brown Bunny

This one is about a motorcycle racer who is on a cross country ride with his haunting memories about a lover.

Starring Vincent Gallo, Chloë Sevigny, Cheryl Tiegs

The Brown Bunny - Trailer | Movies & TV | SPIKE.com

9. Ken Park

This one is a odd one about some neighborhood teenagers. Their out of ordinary behaviorism is subjected to this film in an odd way.

Starring James Bullard, Eddie Daniels, Maeve Quinlan.

10. Romance

This story is build up around a girl named Marie and her boyfriend and the struggle between them as he is not anymore having intimacy relationship with her.

Starring Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François

THE TWILIGHT SAGA

2010-09-12T11:37:00.000-07:00

Hi to all,
I think it is a good think to begin my new posting episode with somthing magnificent. It infact is a movie which took my heart very dearly. In fact I happned to watch the 3rd film first and by watching it impulsed me to watch the other two episodes.

he Twilight Saga is a series of romance fantasy films from Summit Entertainment based on the four Twilight series novels by the American author Stephenie Meyer. The films star Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. The series has grossed over $1.7 billion in worldwide receipts and consists, to date, of three motion pictures.

Twilight

This is the begiuning of the story. You should watch this episode to understand the inter-connections between characters.It was released on November 21, 2008.The film focuses on the development of a relationship between human teenager Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen, and the subsequent efforts of Cullen and his family to keep Swan safe from a coven of evil vampires.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

In this episode the two lovers get parted temporally only to understand they love each other more than enything in the world. This episode also very sweet and romantic.

The film was released on November 20, 2009 in most countries, and set domestic box office records as the biggest midnight screening, grossing $26.3 million, which was superseded by its sequel, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. This led to the highest single day, domestic gross on an opening day, with $72.7 million. Furthermore, New Moon opened with the third highest domestic opening weekend grossing a total of $142,839,137. The film also became the highest grossing film released by Summit Entertainment, and was the widest independent release, playing in over 4,100 theaters in its theatrical run, until it was surpassed by The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

This is the episode in which Bella spined herself between her vampire lover and werewoulf lover. But don't worry she still managed to find out where her true love lies.

WAIT...
It is not all.. Even though these are the whole number of films belonged to this film series we can still hope for another one. Because in novel series another book is still remains.
It is "Breaking Dawn"..
In which Bella will get married and will be married to her vampire lover Edward..

Top 10 Hitman Movies

2010-01-25T22:28:00.000-08:00

10. Kill Bill Vol. 2

The opening of Volume 2 greatly reprises the opening scenes of the first volume, the wedding rehearsal scenes and massacre. We are briefly introduced to The Bride, her groom-to-be, and their friends, before Bill arrives. Bill convinces The Bride that he has gracefully accepted her decision, and agrees to pose as her father as a cover story for everyone else. The Deadly Vipers then arrive and begin the massacre of everyone in the church. The film then cuts to the Bride driving her car to Bill’s location, as he is now the last on her death list.
Bill ventures to the California desert to warn his brother Budd (Michael Madsen), another former Deadly Viper, that the Bride will come for him next. Budd, now an overweight alcoholic, has put his assassin days behind him, living in a trailer and working as a bouncer at a local strip club, where he is verbally abused and generally treated poorly by the manager. The Bride arrives at Budd’s trailer that night, but Budd shoots her in the chest with rock salt and injects her with a sedative. Budd calls Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) and offers to sell her the Bride’s Hanz? sword for $1 million. Budd then buries the Bride alive with a flashlight in a grave.

9. Kill Bill Vol.1
The Bride (Uma Thurman) is a former assassin and lover of a man named Bill (David Carradine), her former boss. Pregnant, and wanting to move beyond the life of an assassin to raise the child, she left him, and was about to marry another man. Bill and his other assassins, the four Deadly Vipers, arrive at the El Paso wedding chapel during the wedding rehearsal, and massacre everyone at the chapel. She attempts to tell her would-be killer, Bill (Carradine), that the baby is his, but he shoots her in the side of her head, leaving her in a coma.

8. Collateral

Cab driver Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx) drives U.S. Justice Department prosecutor Annie Farrell (Jada Pinkett Smith) to work. During the drive, she tells him about an upcoming case she’s prosecuting and he tells her about his dream of owning his own limousine service. Annie leaves Max her business card. Moments later, Max picks up a man named Vincent (Tom Cruise), who was seen earlier exchanging a briefcase with a stranger (Jason Statham) at Los Angeles International Airport.
Vincent directs him to a tenement building, and impressed with Max’s efficiency, asks him to be his personal chauffeur for his remaining stops. Max reluctantly agrees for extra pay. Minutes later, a body drops onto the cab. Max realizes Vincent killed the man, and unable to escape, he is forced to help Vincent.

7. Road To Perdition

Michael Sullivan, Sr. (Tom Hanks) is a mob enforcer for John Rooney (Paul Newman), an Irish American organized crime boss in Illinois during the Great Depression and the Al Capone mob-rule era. Sullivan is an orphan raised by Rooney who has worked most of his life for the crime boss, who looks at Sullivan as a second son.

Rooney’s actual son Connor (Daniel Craig), joined by Sullivan, goes to a warehouse for a meeting with Finn McGovern (Ciarán Hinds), a disgruntled employee. Twelve-year-old Michael Sullivan, Jr. (Tyler Hoechlin) hides in his father’s car and witnesses Connor’s impulsive killing of McGovern.
Sullivan swears his son to secrecy, but Connor decides to hush these witnesses forever. He ruthlessly murders Sullivan’s wife Annie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and the couple’s younger son Peter (Liam Aiken), mistakenly thinking he has murdered young Michael. Sullivan and his remaining son flee to Chicago.

6. Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction (1994) is an American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references. The film was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture; Tarantino and Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. It was also awarded the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. A major critical and commercial success, it revitalized the career of its leading man, John Travolta, who received an Academy Award nomination, as did costars Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman.

5. The Bourne Identity

A crew of Italian fishermen find a man (Matt Damon) floating in the Mediterranean, with two gunshot wounds in his back. While treating the unconscious body, the ship’s medical officer finds a device with the number of a safe deposit box embedded in the man’s hip. The man wakes up, and discovers he is suffering from psychogenic amnesia. Over the next few days on the ship, the man finds he is fluent in several languages and can perform uncommon tasks such as sea navigation and tying exotic knots in the ship’s ropes, but he cannot remember anything about himself including his identity or why he was found in the ocean. When the ship docks in Imperia, he sets off for Zürich to investigate the safety deposit box.
At the CIA headquarters in Langley, Deputy Director Ward Abbott finds out about a failed assassination attempt on dictator Nykwana Wombosi. Meanwhile in Zürich, the amnesiac is approached by two police officers and when they attempt to arrest him, he knocks them both unconscious using advanced hand-to-hand combat.

4. Wanted

The hitman thriller goes into overkill when office nobody James McAvoy is inducted into a 1000-year-old fraternity of super-assassins by pistol-packing Angelina Jolie and her boss Morgan Freeman. Based on the ultraviolent comic books and orchestrated by the director of Russian blockbusters Night Watch and Day Watch, it’s a brain-blowing symphony of somersaulting vehicles, gravity-defying gunplay… and exploding rodents.

3. The Bourne Supremacy

Two years after the events in The Bourne Identity, Bourne and his girlfriend, Marie Kreutz, are living in Goa, India. Bourne is beginning to recover some of his memories, and he is troubled by disjointed flashbacks of an assassination he carried out in The Brecker Hotel in Berlin. Meanwhile, in Berlin, a CIA officer under Deputy Director Pamela Landy is trading $3 million for the “Neski Files”, documents about the theft of $20 million from the CIA seven years earlier. During the exchange, a Russian assassin named Kirill arrives to intercept the selling. He plants two bombs in the basement electrical circuit: one on the main and the other on a subline with Jason Bourne’s fingerprint. The bomb on the main line kills the power while Kirill kills the agent and the source, and steals the files and money, which he gives to Russian oil magnate Yuri Gretkov.

2. Mr & Mrs Smith

The film opens with John (Brad Pitt) and Jane Smith (Angelina Jolie) answering questions during marriage counseling. The couple has been married for “five or six” years, but their marriage is suffering to the point that they cannot remember the last time they had sex. They tell the story of their first meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, where they met while both were secretly on the run from Colombian authorities. They quickly fell in love and were married. John later states that Jane “looked like Christmas morning” to him on the day they met.

1. The Bourne Ultimatum

Wounded by a gunshot from Russian assassin Kirill (in the previous film, The Bourne Supremacy), Jason Bourne evades Moscow police, treats his wound after breaking into a hospital, and goes into hiding. Six weeks later, The Guardian correspondent Simon Ross meets with someone to discuss Bourne and Operation Treadstone. The CIA begin tracking Ross after he mentions “Operation Blackbriar” over a cell phone call. Bourne contacts Ross to meet with him after learning that Ross has been investigating Operation Treadstone, but realizes that the CIA are tracking Ross. Bourne helps Ross evade CIA teams trying to capture him, but Ross deviates from Bourne’s instructions and is killed by Blackbriar assassin Paz on orders from Operation Blackbriar’s director Noah Vosen. Pamela Landy, who had hunted Bourne six weeks earlier unsuccessfully, is brought in to help Vosen. After searching Ross’ notes, they figure out that Ross’ source was Neal Daniels, CIA Station Chief in Madrid, who was formerly involved in Treadstone and actively involved in Blackbriar. Bourne, having taken Ross’ bag shortly after he was killed, is led to Daniels’ office Madrid but finds it empty. After he subdues a CIA team sent by Vosen and Landy, Nicky Parsons arrives. She decides to help Bourne, telling him that Daniels has fled to Tangier and helping him escape another incoming CIA team.

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2010-01-24T20:24:00.000-08:00

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Top 6 Most Expensive Movies Ever Made

2010-01-18T09:50:00.000-08:00

Making the film was not cheap. People spend a lot of money to do this. Prove is this list. To show you that this is true, we made a list of 6 most expensive movies ever made. Take a look, and enjoy.

King Kong – $207 million

King Kong is a monster (a gigantic ape) that has appeared in several films since 1933. These include the groundbreaking 1933 film King Kong, the film remakes of 1976 and 2005, as well as various sequels. The character has become one of the world’s most famous movie icons and, as such, has transcended the medium, appearing in other works outside of films, such as a cartoon series, books, comics, various merchandise and paraphernalia, video games, theme park rides, and even an upcoming stage play. His role in the different narratives varies from source to source, ranging from rampaging monster to tragic antihero. The rights to the character are currently held by Universal Studios, with limited rights held by the estate of Merian C. Cooper, and perhaps certain rights in the public domain.

X-Men: The Last Stand – $210 million

X-Men: The Last Stand is a 2006 superhero film and the third in the X-Men series. It is directed by Brett Ratner, who took over when Bryan Singer dropped out to direct Superman Returns. The movie revolves around a “mutant cure” that causes serious repercussions among mutants and humans, and on the mysterious resurrection of Jean Grey, who appeared to have died in X2. The film is loosely based on two X-Men comic book story arcs: writer Chris Claremont’s and artist John Byrne’s “Dark Phoenix Saga” in The Uncanny X-Men and writer Joss Whedon’s and artist John Cassaday’s six-issue “Gifted” arc in Astonishing X-Men.

The film was released on May 26, 2006 in the United States and Canada. Despite mixed reviews from critics and fans, the film became successful at the box office. Its opening-day gross of $45.5 million is the fourth-highest on record while its opening weekend gross of $103 million is the fifth highest ever.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest – $225 million

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is a 2006 adventure film of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, the sequel to the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and the first film from Walt Disney Pictures to feature the current logo (even though the trailer and commercials of the movie showed one of the two previous logos). The film was directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The movie received 4 Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and won the Academy Award for Visual Effects.

The story picks up from where the first film left off when Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) discovers his debt to the villainous Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) is due, while Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) are arrested by Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) for helping Jack Sparrow escape execution.

The film was shot back-to-back with the third film during 2005, and was released in Australia and the United Kingdom on July 6, 2006, and in the United States and Canada on July 7, 2006. The film received mixed reviews, with praise for its special effects and criticism for its confusing plot and lengthy running time. Despite this, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest set several records in its first three days, with an opening weekend of $136 million in the United States, and became the third movie ever to gross over $1 billion in the worldwide box office, behind Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and is therefore Walt Disney Pictures’ most financially successful film. The budget for this movie was estimated at $225 million.

Spider-Man 3 – $258 million

Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 superhero film written and directed by Sam Raimi, with a screenplay by Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent. It is the third film in the Spider-Man film franchise based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. The film stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, and Bryce Dallas Howard.

The film begins with Peter Parker basking in his success as Spider-Man, while Mary Jane Watson continues her Broadway career. Harry Osborn still seeks vengeance for his father’s death, and an escaped convict, Flint Marko, falls into a particle accelerator and is transformed into a shape-shifting sand manipulator. An extraterrestrial symbiote crashes to Earth and bonds with Peter, influencing his behavior for the worse. When Parker abandons the symbiote, it finds refuge in Eddie Brock, a rival photographer, causing Peter to face his greatest challenge.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End – $300
million

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is a 2007 adventure film, the third film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. The plot follows Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner and the crew of the Black Pearl rescuing Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), from Davy Jones’s Locker, and then preparing to fight the East India Trading Company, led by Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) and Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), who plan to extinguish piracy. Gore Verbinski directed the film, as he did with the previous two. It was shot in two shoots during 2005 and 2006, the former simultaneously with the preceding film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.

James Cameron’s Avatar – $500 million

Avatar is an upcoming 3-D science fiction epic film directed by James Cameron, due to be released on December 16, 2009 by 20th Century Fox. The film is Lightstorm Entertainment’s latest project, and focuses on an epic conflict on a far-away world called Pandora, where humans and the native species of Pandora, the Na’vi, engage in war over the planet’s resources and existence.

The film will be released in 2D and 3D formats, along with an IMAX 3D release in selected theaters. The film is being touted as a breakthrough in terms of filmmaking technology, for its development of 3D viewing and stereoscopic filmmaking with cameras that were specially designed for the film’s production, and has already been slated for two awards

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra!

2010-01-13T11:43:00.000-08:00

Sienna Miller

Directed by Stephen Sommers

Starring Channing Tatum,Sienna Miller,Christopher Eccleston

I will begin the this story with my full approval for this film as a non-boring action packed film. It is about the upcoming future and so, full of scientific stuffs. Me, as a someone easily get board with such stuffs would like to say honestly that the creators of this film done a real good job to use those would be boring stuffs to boost the action packed nature of the film. So here is a big salute for them who did a marvels job.
It is actually not a SE-fi. But a SE-fi war film. About a group of hi-tech solders. They, as usually does once again saves the world from evil. It dosen't matter whether you are in future of past, there still are some villains left and also heroes who saves the world by risking there own lives. (THANK GOD!!)
Anyway the important think is the ability of the creators to present the storyline without any flow and with this film they have done a perfect job!

(And I loved the way Sienna Miller walked! Wow!! It is mind-blowing. So I decided to post some of her nice pics).

ENJOY!

Tailer,

10 Most Controversial Sex Scenes

2009-12-28T11:45:00.000-08:00

Hedy Lamarr’s Orgasm in Ecstasy (Gustav Machaty, 1933)

This notorious Czechoslovakian production wasn’t the first non-pornographic film to depict sexual intercourse, but it is considered the first theatrically released movie to feature an actress (Hedy Lamarr, in her star-making role) simulating an orgasm onscreen. Censorship, bans and denouncements of the film from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Adolph Hitler and Pope Pius XII were partly due to Lamarr’s infamous non-sexual nude scene, but the close-ups on the actress’ face as she expresses sexual pleasure were certainly as objectionable, if not more so, for the time.

The “Rape of the Christ” in The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)

A film so controversial that it’s still very difficult to see it in its (existing) entirety, Ken Russell’s The Devils initially had such blasphemous sequences as the infamous “Rape of Christ,” which features possessed nuns masturbating with crucifixes and effigies of Jesus. Yes, we can count masturbation as sex, though in this film and in The Exorcist, which also includes masturbation with a cross, we might better classify the acts as rape. But the difficulty of distinction only adds to its controversial nature, doesn’t it?

Sweetback Loses His Virginity in Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)

Considering Melvin Van Peebles actually performed most of the sex acts he’s seen engaged in in this seminal Blaxploitation film, it’s quite possible that young Mario Van Peebles’ sex scene was similarly unsimulated. Of course, that would have been illegal, since Mario was only 13. Even if there was no actual intercourse occurring, though, the scene is controversial for the boy’s nudity and energetic performance during the title character’s moment of sexual awakening with a prostitute.

Sex with Chickens in Pink Flamingos (John Waters, 1972)

Bestiality scenes can be quite controversial (see the cat rape in Leolo, for example), but animal rights groups have less to protest with a film that merely simulates animal cruelty than a film like Pink Flamingos, which definitely appears to be exploiting and harming a live chicken during an infamous moment of lovemaking between two characters who crush the fowl between them. It may not be the most disturbing moment of the film, but it is one of the more contentious.

Fisting Scene in Cruising (William Friedkin, 1980)

Long before Brokeback Mountain and Milk were protested for their tasteful depictions of homosexual lovemaking (Christian groups predictably slammed them for being gay propaganda), Cruising was controversial for depicting gay sex as fetishistic, depraved and violent (gay groups slammed it for being anti-gay). The film originally opened with a disclaimer stating that it portrays only “one segment” of the “homosexual world” and is “not meant to be representative of the whole,” but it didn’t help matters. The film was still considered homophobic, failed at the box office, and worst of all, led to copycat crimes against gays.

The Introduction of Frank Booth in Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)

Like most erotic films made by respected arthouse filmmakers, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet polarized critics and audiences and was met with both Oscar recognition and protests. Most of the controversy concerned the film’s most infamous scene, criticized for being misogynistic as well as depraved, in which Dennis Hopper inhales oxygen and engages in abusive sexual activity with Isabella Rosellini while being watched by Kyle Maclachlan. David Cronenberg would be met with a similar mix of praise and disgust ten years later, with the controversial auto-accident-fetish film Crash.

Jesus Has Sex in The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)

Obviously Christian groups would get upset with a film that depicts Jesus (Willem Dafoe) in a sex scene with Mary Magdalene (Barbara Hershey), and so it was no surprise that protests began many months prior to the release of The Last Temptation of Christ when such a scene was first reported to exist. Never mind that the scene is only part of a dream/vision Jesus has while being tempted by Satan and is not exploitive. Many would continue to slam the film without even watching it. One French Catholic group famously went to see it, but only to throw a Molotov cocktail at the screen.

The Opening Scene in Kids (Larry Clark, 1995)

Though controversial for many, many reasons and scenes, particularly the tragic rape scene at the end, Kids was met with protest from the very first shot, which features a depiction of a 17-year-old boy (Leo Fitzpatrick) deflowering a 12-year-old girl (Sarah Henderson). Many viewers questioned the legality or morality of employing this seemingly age-appropriate actress, critics called it borderline kiddy porn, and the filmmakers constantly had to assure audiences that she was in fact 18. The film had its share of protests and distribution problems, but fortunately for the filmmakers, it was made and released before the signing of the Child Pornography Prevention Act, unlike…

Humbert and Lolita Play a Game in Lolita (Adrian Lyne, 1997)

Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s classic novel was obviously controversial for its semi-incestuous, pedophilic sex scenes, even though they were only hinted at and occurred off screen. 35 years later, in an era thought to be more progressive and allowing, Adrian Lyne’s version was just as objectionable, if not more so, because it left less to the imagination. One sex scene carefully substituted a 19-year-old body double for 15-year-old actress Dominique Swain, but despite the fact that plenty of movies had employed legal-aged girls portraying underage characters in nude and sex scenes before, Lyne’s Lolita was unfortunately being filmed just as President Clinton signed the Child Pornography Prevention Act. This banned even virtual child pornography, which Lolita’s sex scene might be considered to be, so Lyne videotaped the making of all questionable scenes in case he needed to produce evidence in court that his film falls into the boundaries of the law. Of course, legal or not, the film became a difficult sell to audiences and failed to find proper theatrical distribution. Meanwhile, after five years, the Child Pornography Prevention Act was struck down in 2002 for being too broad.

Nazi Commits Statutory Rape in The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)

This wasn’t the first film to depict an underage boy having sex with an older woman, nor was it the first to incite protests regarding the double standard of statutory rape being more acceptable when the minor is male. But due to its added controversy of involving a former Nazi (Kate Winslet), whose humanity is defended through the film’s early lovemaking and romance scenes, The Reader makes it onto this list instead of other titles (which due to the double standard aren’t even seen as that controversial anyway).

Jean-Claude Van Damme

2009-12-10T19:53:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I watched "Nowhere to run". And it was interesting and also of Van damme. Watching this film brought up my memories about this fine actor. Of vause he is and always has been one of my favorite hero, I used to watch some of his films over and over again and I would do that even again if I came a cross with some fils such as "LIONHEART" or "KICKBOXER" or "THE QUEST". Those, specially "LIONHEART" are my choice of best films stard by this musculine and in the same time martial art hero.

Yes Stallon and Arnold are great action heros. But this little (Just a little short) hero got something more and it is the skill of martial arts. He realy got the tallent and some magnificiant kicks to go along with him.

I recently learned that his last theatrical released movie was "Universal Soldier: The Return" (1999) and all his movies after this, up until 2008's JCVD, had been direct to video releases. And that is why we see very less of him.

After the filming of the 1998 movie Knock Off, Van Damme was diagnosed with rapid cycling bi-polar disorder after becoming suicidal and started treatment on the bi-polar medication sodium valproate to stabilize his mood. So that is why he wasn't around after 1999 "Universal Soldier: The Return".

I also learned that Van Damme will reprise his role as Luc Devereaux in the upcoming movie Universal Soldier: Regeneration. So that means he is going to be back in action.

So I wish all the good luck for him in the future for a hugh success. And I think he needs it not only on behalf of him but also of us who misses such a great thearatical hero who can not be replaced very easily.

Born 18 October 1960 (age 49)

Parents Eliana and Eugène Van Vaerenbergh

His martial arts styles kickboxing, Shotokan karate, Muay Thai, and Taekwondo.

earned his black belt in karate (Around the age of 10), later winning the European Karate Association's middleweight championship

He started lifting weights to improve his physique, which eventually led to a Mr. Belgium bodybuilding title

At the age of 16 he took up ballet, which he studied for five years.

Van Damme has been married five times, including two marriages with bodybuilder and fitness competitor Gladys Portugues. Van Damme has three children: Kristopher (born 1987), Bianca (born 1990), and Nicholas (born 1995).

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The ten most controversial films in cinema...According to Telegraph!!

2009-10-29T03:11:00.000-07:00

1.A Clockwork Orange (UK, 1971)
Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of the novel by Anthony Burgess featured three long drawn out rape scenes and among scenes of graphic violence. Kubrick responded to the intense media pressure on the feature - and death threats to his family - by imposing a ban on the film, which lasted until his death.

2.

Last House on the Left (1972)

Convicts kidnap two teenage friends who are forced to perform sexual acts on each other, are raped, disembowelled and finally strangled. On shooting the rape scene actress Sandra Peabody was so traumatised that she reportedly left the set.

3.

Last Tango In Paris (1972)

Director Bernardo Bertolucci was served with a four month suspended sentence in prison for the film, best known for the sadomasochistic ‘butter scene’ in which Marlon Brando prepares his accepting victim for anal rape. It was heavily edited for British release, banned in various countries including Italy, Portugal, and Chile for thirty years.

A court in Bologna that banned the film summed up the reasons: "Obscene content offensive to public decency... presented with obsessive self-indulgence, catering to the lowest instincts of the libido, dominated by the idea of stirring unchecked appetites for sexual pleasure, permeated by scurrilous language... accompanied off screen by sounds, sighs and shrieks of climax pleasure."

4.

The Exorcist (USA, 1973)

A young girl is possessed by demons in this horror was branded “religious porn” and “the scariest film ever made” by critics. Controversy over the story line intensified into accusations that the editors used subliminal imagery to tap into the unconscious mind.

After the implementation of the Video Recording Act 1984 the film was refused a release and no video copies were to be sold in the UK.

5.

Salo /The 120 days of Sodom (Italy, 1975)

A small group of children are kidnapped in Fascist Italy and used as tools for Nazi’s pleasure including anal rape, suicide, tongue extraction, scalping, eye gouging, genital mutilation, incest, murder, and coprophagia.

The film was banned in Australia until 1993, and then re-banned again in 1998. Filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini had little time to respond to the film’s controversy because he was brutally murdered soon after its release.

6.

I spit on your grave/ Day of the Woman (US, 1978)

The film depicts the graphic rape of an unfortunate swimmer, who resolves to take revenge on her victims. This leads to her hanging, castrating, axing and disembowelling the assailants who perpetrated the original crime.

The film was censored before its US release and banned entirely in many European countries, including Ireland and West Germany. Critic Roger Ebert described it as “a vile bag of garbage”.

7.

Life of Brian (Britian, 1979)

The parallels between the life of the eponymous hero Brian and the life of Christ, which are made explicit throughout the film, culminate in its notorious conclusion in which a crucified Brian whistles along to his fellow sufferers singing ‘Always Look On The Bright Side of Life’. The church and religious groups accused the film of blasphemy and attempted to get it banned.

While it did get a national release, several British town councils banned the film locally and some bans continue to this day. In 2009 the Welsh town of Aberystwyth lifted their thirty year ban after Sue Jones-Davies, who played Judith Iscariot in the film, became mayor.

8.

Kids (US, 1995)

The 17 year old anti-hero of Kids, Telly, knowingly infects girls from his teenage peer group with HIV by insisting on having unprotected sex with them. Drug taking and acts of random violence perpetrated by the young cast shocked critics and the public.

The film’s depiction of underage sex and drug use led some to label it exploitative and question Clark’s motives for his frank account of children’s sexuality.

9.

Baise-moi (France, 2000)

A chance meeting two women, Nadine and Manu, who have both experienced violence, leads to them embarking on a road trip which revolves around sex and murder and results in them achieving national notoriety. Eventually Manu is recognised in a shop and shot by its owner, while Nadine is arrested by the police before she can carry out an attempt to kill herself.

With the lead roles taken by two former porn actresses, the film was criticised in France where outrage followed a decision to give it a 16 certificate. In Britain, the film was released with an 18 certificate after ten seconds of cuts. The Poster was banned by London Underground because of its potential to cause offence to French speakers.

10.

Antichrist (Denmark, 2009)

Antichrist depicts the anguished reaction of a couple to the death of their son, who falls from a window while they are having sex. They go to stay in a cabin in the woods, named Eden, in an attempt to escape their grief but their efforts to recuperate end in disaster. The wife attacks her therapist husband with a block of wood before drilling a hole in his leg. She commits an act of genital self mutilation with a pair of scissors and is finally strangled by her husband who sets fire to her body.

At least four people fainted during the film’s preview screening at Cannes and the director faced an angry crowd at the official press conference. The British media have labelled the film ‘torture porn’ and questioned whether it should have been granted an 18 classification without cuts.

Top Five Best Action Sequels according to starpulse..

2009-10-19T21:40:00.000-07:00

According to them the 5th place goes to Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson are reluctant allies as they try to hunt down a villain who is all about playing games-literally. In the first two installments of the franchise, John McClane never had a partner. In the third film, which was released in 1995, McClane teams up with Jacksons' Zeus Carver, and their clashing chemistry is wonderful to watch on the screen. In previous films, McClane was most definitely a reluctant hero. In this installment, however, he is almost like an anti-hero. He wife left him and he appears to be an alcoholic who barely is getting by in life. When terror strikes in New York, McClane must find his "A-game" to compete with the witty, sick-minded antagonist Simon Gruber, who has more than just revenge on his mind.

I real loved this film. No dought it is among the top 5 list. But I might put it in a different place like 3rd.

4th place The Bourne Supremacy

A 2004 sequel to The Bourne Identity, Matt Damon returns as an amnesiac who happens to be a former CIA assassin. Still on the run and yet hungry to know more about his past, this action thriller did not disappoint fans. In a genre that has become all too comfortable with special effects, wire work, and poor writing, this sequel shows that Hollywood still has the capability to get it right. With fast paced, realistic fight scenes and an exciting car chase towards the films' end, fans certainly will not fall prey to amnesia regarding this sequel.

This is also a top quality action film. Though I would prefer the burn identity than this one because it is more thrilling than this.

3rd place Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The third installment of the Indiana Jones franchise certainly was the charm. The audience got to see a young River Phoenix play Indy early in the film. Later, we are introduced to Dr. Jones' father Henry Jones, played by the ever sophisticated Sean Connery. The film deals with Indy attempting to not just rescue his father from Nazi's, but also locate the Holy Grail. The last Indy adventure, "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," was a sequel that was darker in tone but wasn't as well received by fans and critics alike. In Crusade, the audience sees Dr. Jones dealing with his father's wisdom and, sometimes, his stubbornness. The film provided quality action and was a satisfying way to wrap up the trilogy.

Yes this one is superb. But I dought that this is a place for this one. There are much thrilling and hot action movies around than this one. But the creativity of the action sequels might have done the trick for indi.

2nd place is X2: X-Men United

This is how all comic book films should be made. Released in 2003, X2 expanded on the universe that was created in the original 2000 film. With an interesting story that delved into Wolverine's past, and great additions to the cast, this film was certainly a crowd pleaser. From the opening scene featuring a misunderstood Night Crawler destroying secret service in The White House, to the incredible fight scene between Wolverine and the equally equipped, yet far more brutal Lady Deathstrike, this film has it all. Director Bryan Singer even makes Halle Berry seem credible as the weather controlling Storm. Now that's the sign of a filmmaker turning a sequel into a classic.

I can not agree with this one. Even though it is a good one it certainly not the 2nd best.

1st place goes to Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Is it possible to be an action film aficionado and not have this sequel be number one? Released in 1991, this movie still holds up today in many aspects. The film had eye popping special effects which helped shape the way movies were made from that point on. But more important than eye candy is a quality story and T2 had that. Any quality action film, though, is only as good as its villain. In Robert Patricks' T-1000, the relentless liquid metal machine on the hunt for John Conner, viewers witnessed a seemingly unstoppable force who was only bested by Sarah Connor's determination. Oh, and Schwarzenegger's protective, "good" Terminator (T-800 Series model). With memorable action sequences and even famous movie lines, this film will still remain popular long after the world's "Judgment Day."

Yes. I certainly agree with this one.

Kate Winslet - One of the most talented!

2009-10-17T22:00:00.000-07:00

You might wonder why I posted this article in here as there are many other actresses around. But even for my suprice I couldn't privent but falling in love with her acting eversince I watch titanic. I watched almost eyery film she stared and non of them are bad.
Oh yeah she is beautiful too. Eventhough she looks more mature in The Reader she still is a bomb. But that is not what I like most about her. It is her acting. She is way ahead of many of other actresses in film industry.

Here are some facts about her,

Born - 5 October 1975 - (It is good that she is letting us know her real age. Isn't it?)
debut starring - Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994)

Winslet became the youngest actress to receive two Oscar nominations - (At the age of 22)
she was the youngest actor to receive six nominations - at age 33).

Oscar 2009 Winner: Kate Winslet

harry potter and the half blooded prince!

2009-10-14T02:18:00.000-07:00

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Directed by
David Yates

Starring
Daniel Radcliffe
Rupert Grint
Emma Watson

Not exactly the film I expected. I expected more bit it wasn't. Maybe I was expecting more than I should have.

This time this Draco Malfoy fella realy into some thing. He is doing well as an actor too because he rely made me to hate him as much as possible. But harry and his good friends never lets him win. Fortunately for our Ron this time he gets some respects from the whole school and hero worshiped. (Ofcause with some helps from Hermione. I kind of felt that she is kind of falling in love with Ron.

Story is , as it should be full of magical spells and they are magnificent too. What eles I can say? I think one must take a good look at how these Harry potter heros grows themselves in each and every episodes.

The Usual Suspects

2009-10-07T10:03:00.000-07:00

Directed by
Bryan Singer

Starring
Gabriel Byrne
Chazz Palminteri

This time it is a mean business. This I must say is a good film. Not just because of those mind-blowing action sequences. But the suspense running through out the film. No one could possibly (maybe except the director) say what could happen next and what would be the end until the end.

For the first half an hour I got so confused and couldn't understand the plot. But It was getting interesting minute by minute.

The story is about a group of meanest bastards who are willing to do anything for money and some "intelligent" cops, well at least until the near end of the film they act inteligence enough. They were investigating a sequence of murders which ended up with a massive fire which destroies a whle dock yard. Actually it is the point where the film begin. From there the police finds two individuals one is very seriously burnt and the other is seriously dumb or at least that what this dumb man made the police to believe. The story is about the testimony given by this dump gangster.To see weathe this gangster is real dumb character you must watch the film. And now don't look at me I am not going to tell you this part of the story as it is the most interesting concept of the film.

The film is full of explosives. There is no one single minute passing without a gunfire. But they are not unnecessary and worth to the highest level to to keep this film alive.

My last final ward about this film is you won't be even slightly disappointed about watching this film if you are a fan of action or suspense or thriller movies.

CON AIR

2009-10-07T02:31:00.000-07:00

Director:
Simon West

Cast
Nicolas Cage

Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 8 nominations

As it always has been and will be the film is all about our great hero NICOLAS CAGE. When Nicolas Cage around he just wouldn't let anybody to pop up ahead of his. Don't mistaken me as I am complaining. It is the way it is and it is the way it should be and that is why he remains as one of the favorite actors of mine. He is simply from the same generation to which our great great Terminator hero belongs.

The story is about a group of prisoners who are trying to escape by hijacking an airplane. It could have been succeeded if not for our great hero "Cameron Poe". (Cameron Poe is no one else but Nicolas Cage of cause) He is actually freeing from the person and trying to get to his family for his daughter's birth day. And fortunately for police force and unfortunately for rebels he decides to help the police force and creating series of events by which he just pull the rebels to there own destruction.

The action sequels are almost mind blowing. The film is so much packed with realistic actions and you wouldn't feel the time. And almost all the cast members particularly Nicolas Cage are acting to the fullest extend.

And as a last ward I must say that lady act as Nicolas's wife (Monica Potter) is well
so much prety and I couldn't take my eye's off her when ever she appears.

Fast Track

2009-10-06T12:19:00.000-07:00

Director:
Jesse Peretz

Cast
Zach Braff

This time I called this as a real comedy.

The story is about a real looser who loose everything at least except his lovely wife -even though he came to the very edge of loosing her-. In a way it seems like the turning point of his life from good to worst is him making his wife pregnant. That is where all the troubles begin. Anyway after act as dumb and stupid as possible he just in the minute before the very last one takes everything should be his under his wings in the easiest possible way with a little help from film director. During this time he faces many challenges, challenges to which he faces in the funniest possible way. So the funny is always there hanging around the film all the time.

So what I should say is that I really enjoyed watching this film. Hilariously funny and relaxing too. Not mind blowing but very watchable film after all.

Richie rich.

2009-10-06T06:47:00.000-07:00

Directed by
Donald Petrie

Starring
Macaulay Culkin
John Larroquette
Edward Herrmann
Michael McShane

This is a teenage movie. (I don't like to call it a children's movie) It was a way back from 1994.

The story is about a rich.... (rich? is rich a fair word for them?)... well enormously rich family. The main character is this richie rich guy who is the son of this lovely family. He in fact is so alone apart from his wealth and some funny gadgets made for him by wise but stupid looking fatty scientist. The peacefulness of this particular family is interrupted as it should by this villain whose intendant was to steel there family heritage by killing them all. But fortunately richie rich survived and finding out later that his parents are also alive. With little help from his new found friends - at last he was able to find some friends to show few colors of him with a little help from his money - .And story goes on until he defeat this villain and his gang.

Well must admit that it is a nice story. All the cast including those teenagers doing there jobs good. But it could have been better. After all a rich family should be able to produce more entertainment than anything else.

Best Of The Best 4 - Without Warning

2009-10-06T01:18:00.000-07:00

Starring
Ernie Hudson, Chris Lemmon, Philip Rhee

Directed
Philip Rhee

This is a ACTION and also a MARTIAL ARTS movie. Actually it is not bad for a movie from 1998.

The story is about a man named tommy lee. He is a instructer of martial arts and one day accidently come accross with a disk which contains some secret information belongs to a mob. Then they -our tommy lee character and the mob which led by a sick but funny looking old fellow- innitially begining to fight each other. Unfortunate for our main character those who belived to be his friends even among police force turning there fat backs at him. But our uy never gives up untill he is victorious.

So it contains a boring, routinel but nice story. Fighting sequences are not the best but acceptable by me. I sometimes even felt sorry for our little hero as he had to fight with so many giants. Anyway I think he is doing OK. He is not infact Bruse lee or Jackey chan but mmmmmm doing OK as a Asian actor with his fists.

Rabbit-Proof Fence....

2009-10-05T20:52:00.000-07:00

Director:
Phillip Noyce

Cast..
Everlyn Sampi
Tianna Sansbury
Laura Monaghan

Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 21 wins & 24 nominations

It is all about a sad story. Three native aboriginal girls are kidnapped by the government from there mother and taken to a government facility to be trained to be domestic servants for white people. And they escaping from there and trying to reach there family. The film is narrated about things happening during there return journey to home land.

Must say that this is very touching and sensitive story. Anyone with a heart will be sympathetic about those innocent little girls. Not only those three but all of those girls living in that government facility.

Anyway I felt that some of the cast members are not doing there best for the film. For an example the tracker character not getting it's best.

But altogether it is a good film. A film we all should watch. It will wake our inner feelings about humanity for sure.

screwed..

2009-10-05T03:27:00.000-07:00

Directed by
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski

Starring
Norm Macdonald

This is a film about two crooks trying to get some ransom money out of a wealthy old lady and not only them but everybody involved in the story get screwed one way or another.

This is categorized as a comedy film. I partially accept with it. I must say that I really enjoyed watching this film. The story was OK. Watching it made me laugh. Story had a great flow and continuation was nice.But I still felt that something was missing.

I think mostly the film was too common. It had everything an ordinary comedy film would have. But nothing else. A black guy with a big chity-chaty mouth, a stupid,screwed up main character, few stupid policemen and etc..etc..

Was that enough for a successful comedy? I think it is not. I think there must be something beyond just laugh. "A comedy film with a massage to the community is a real comedy film". That is what I think.

Anyway apart from some flows this film is watchable. If someone want some entertainment to relax and few laughs I reckon this is the film you may go for.
entertainment to relax and laugh a little I reckon this is the film you should go for!