Tagline: Every killer lives next door to someone. Kale (Shia LaBeouf) has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley (Sarah Roemer) has just moved…
Author: madeinatlantis
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” [AKA: Scaphandre et le papillon, Le] tells the story Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his…
Dragon Wars: D-War (2007)
Tagline: They’ve made our world their battleground. The story begins with Ethan Kendrick, a TV reporter. While investigating a disaster that occurred at the Seven Palms Resort, he notices that the ground is turned up all around and forklifts have been tumbled over. It looks like a hurricane has gone by. Ethan notices the FBI…
Eastern Promises (2007)
Tagline: Every sin leaves a mark. The thriller reteaming acclaimed director David Cronenberg with his A History of Violence leading man Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises is written by Steve Knight (Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things). As in the earlier film, director and star together explore the psyche, physicality, and fortunes of a man…
The Edge of Heaven (2007)
Six people, six biographies, six lives are fatefully intertwined, taking them on a perilous journey to their own true selves, without the two sets of protagonists ever meeting. It is only the death of one figure from each strand that brings their fates together, inescapably linked from the very beginning. Starring Nurgül Yesilçay, Hanna Schygulla,…
El Cantante (2007)
El Cantante celebrates the life and music of the legendary Puerto Rican salsa singer Héctor Lavoe, a pioneer of the sound and sensibility that redefined Latin music in the 1960s and 1970s. Directed by Leon Ichaso, the film is a labor of love for its stars, Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez, who are both New…