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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

Posted by  on 23 November 2010, 2:23 pm

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

In this last installment, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders.

With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge – against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.

Directed by: Daniel Alfredson
Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Annika Hallin, Jacob Ericksson
Screenplay by: Jonas Frykberg, Stieg Larsson, Ulf Ryberg
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence, some sexual material and brief violence.
Studio: Nordisk Film, Music Box Films
Release Date: October 29th, 2010

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Mesrine: Killer Instinct

Posted by  on 6 August 2010, 10:03 pm

Mesrine: Killer Instinct

The story of Jacques Mesrine, France’s public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats — from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks — Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.

Continuing France’s love affair with the American gangster movie, Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (formerly known as Public Enemy Number One) tells the true story of Jacques Mesrine who became his country’s most notorious bad guy throughout the 1970′s. Arch-fiend to some and folk hero to others, Mesrine’s criminal career spanned nearly two decades of brazen bank robberies, breathtaking prison breaks, and ingenious identity changes – all meticulously and stylishly recreated on an epic scale. Vincent Cassel (Eastern Promises, Ocean’s 12), one of France’s most magnetic leading men, heads a heavyweight cast (including Oscar-nominee Gerard Depardieu) and gives a star-making performance as Mesrine.

Directed by: Jean-François Richet
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Gérard Lanvin, Samuel Le Bihan
Screenplay by: Abdel Raouf Dafri, Jean-François Richet
MPAA Rating: Not Rated.
Release Date: August 27th, 2010
Studio: Music Box Films

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The Girl Who Played with Fire

Posted by  on 31 July 2010, 1:40 am

The Girl Who Played With Fire

Two journalists on the verge of exposing their story in Millennium about an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden are brutally murdered. Lisbeth Salander’s prints are on the weapon.

Mikael Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayings which will implicate highly placed members of Swedish society, business and government. Knowing Salander to be fierce when fearful, he is desperate to get to her before she is cornered and alone but she is nowhere to be found. Digging deeper, Blomkvist also unearths some heart-wrenching facts about Salander’s past life. Committed to psychiatric care at aged 12, declared legally incompetent at 18, she is the product of an unjust and corrupt system.

Meanwhile, the elusive Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past.

Novelist Stieg Larsson died suddenly in 2004 and left behind three unpublished novels known as the Millennium trilogy. Since his first novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was published in Sweden in 2005, the trilogy has become a major international sensation with an estimated 40 million copies of all of Larsson’s books sold worldwide. To say it is unusual for a posthumous work in translation to reach number one on the New York Times bestseller list is an understatement. To see a posthumous work in translation reach number one around the world is unprecedented.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the third novel in the trilogy will be published in the U.S. on May 25. The film adaptation will be released by Music Box Films in theatres on October 15.

Directed by: Daniel Alfredson
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Sofia Ledarp, Peter Andersson
Screenplay by: Jonas Frykberg, Stieg Larsson
MPAA Rating: R for brutal violence including a rape, some strong sexual content, nudity and language.
Release Date: July 9th, 2010
Studio: Music Box Films

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