Tagline: The true story of a heist gone wrong… in all the right ways. “The Bank Job” was inspired by a real-life 1971 London bank robbery that was never solved. A band of thieves tunneled their way into a safe deposit vault, taking millions of dollars in cash and jewelry. The robbery made headlines for…
Category: Real Life Stories
Battle in Seattle (2008)
Tagline: The whole world is watching. Based on one of the most incendiary political uprisings in a generation, “Battle in Seattle” takes an in-depth look at the five days that rocked the world in 1999 as tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in protest of the World Trade Organization. What began as…
Cadillac Records (2008)
Tagline: Follow the beat to the source. “Cadillac Records” chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists. In this tale of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in Chicago of the 1950s and 60s, the film follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America’s greatest musical legends. The story of…
Che – The Argentine (2008)
Steven Soderbergh’s two film project (entitled “The Argentine” & “Guerrilla”) about Latin American revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. “The Argentine,” begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime…
Che – The Guerrilla (2008)
Che is a two-part biopic about Argentine-Cuban Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro. Rather than follow a standard chronological order, the films offer an oblique series of interspersed moments along the overall timeline. Part One is entitled The Argentine and focuses on the Cuban Revolution from the…
The Duchess (2008)
Tagline: There were three people in her marriage. The scandalous rise and fall of the Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire. Like Princess Diana, her direct descendent, she was beautiful, glamorous and adored by the public. Keira Knightley plays the 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire. An ancestor of Princess Di, she lived an extravagant, profligate…