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MARGIN CALL

A respected financial company is downsizing and one of the victims is the risk management division head, who was working on a major analysis just when he was let go. His protégé completes the study late into the night and then frantically calls his colleagues in about the company\'s financial disaster he has discovered. What follows is a long night of panicked double checking and double dealing as the senior management prepare to do whatever it takes to mitigate the debacle to come even as the handful of conscientious comrades find themselves dragged along into the unethical abyss. 

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci. Director: JC Chandor.Running time: 105 mins. Rating: M (offensive language)

89% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/margin_call/

4/5 in NZ Herald: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10804376

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GOOD FOR NOTHING

Good for Nothing is an entertaining and ironic look into the emotional confusion of an outlaw who reluctantly develops strong feelings for a woman he has kidnapped. These feelings are revealed when ‘The Man’ tries to force himself on the young and beautiful Isabella Montgomery but finds himself unable to ‘get it up’ due to a surprising bout of performance anxiety. Unable to understand the reason for his erectile dysfunction The Man goes on a quest to find a solution for his problem with the kidnapped Isabella in tow. First seeing a European doctor then a Chinese Medicine Man and finally a Native American Medicine Man – trying to fix his problem and finally having his way with Isabella. The pair are pursued by an unpredictable Posse who are set on killing both the outlaw and Isabella who they have mistaken for a whore and accomplice to the outlaw.

 

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STARBUCK

An hilarious Canadian comedy. At 42, David lives the life of an irresponsible adolescent. He coasts through life with minimal effort and maintains a complicated relationship with Valerie, a young policewoman. Just as she tells him she\'s pregnant, David\'s past resurfaces. Twenty years earlier, he began providing sperm to a fertility clinic in exchange for money. He discovers he\'s the father of 533 children, 142 of whom have filed a class action lawsuit to determine the identity of their biological father, known only by the pseudonym Starbuck.

Comedy / 109 minutes / M - Violence, offensive language, drug use & sexual references / Canada

86% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/starbuck/

 

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 HAPPY HAPPY

Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys, and who refuses to have sex with her because she isn\'t particularly attractive anymore. Whatever. That\'s life. But when the perfect couple moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check. Not only do these successful, beautiful, exciting people sing in a choir; they have also adopted a child - from Ethiopia. These new neighbors open a new world to Kaja, with consequences for everyone involved. And when Christmas comes around, it becomes evident that nothing will ever be like before - even if Kaja tries her very best.

Drama, Comedy | 1hr 28mins | R16 | contains sex scenes | Country of Origin: Norway | 

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MYSTERIES OF LISBON

Raul Ruiz\'s masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel (by Camilo Castelo Branco) evokes the complex intertwined narratives of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens. The core story centers on Joao, the illegitimate child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage. But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin, separate and then rejoin again over three decades in Portugal, Spain, France and Italy.

Father Dinis, a descendant of the aristocratic libertines, later becomes a hero who defends justice, a countess maddened by her jealousy and set on her vengeance, a prosperous businessman who had mysteriously made his fortune as a bloodthirsty pirate; these and many more all cross in a story set in the 19th century and all searching for the true identity of our main character.

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 CHINESE TAKEAWAY

 Winner of Best Film and the Audience Award at the Rome International Film Festival, CHINESE TAKEAWAY is a comedy following the relationship between a reclusive Spanish hardware store owner and a Chinese immigrant, thrown together by an absurd twist of fate.

For over 20 years, introverted hardware store owner Roberto (Ricardo Darín, THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES) has lived virtually shut off from the outside. After a chance encounter with Jun, a Chinese man who has arrived in Argentina looking for his only living relative, Roberto takes him in. Their unusual cohabitation helps Roberto bring an end to his loneliness, but not without revealing to the impassive Jun that destiny\'s intersections are many and they can even divulge the film\'s surreal opening sequence: a brindled cow falling from the sky. World Cinema, Comedy | 1hr 30mins | M | contains offensive language and sexual references | Country of Origin: Argentina, Spain | 

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 33 POSTCARDS

Mei Mei (Zhu Lin) a 16 yr old Chinese orphan dreams of nothing more than being part of the \'perfect\' family. When her orphanage travels to Australia to par-take in The Australian Choir Festival Mei Mei takes the opportunity to find her Australian Sponsor Dean Randall (Guy Pearce). However what she finds is far from what he depicted. Initially mismatched and disconnected the two begin a journey in search of belonging, family, redemption, love and acceptance.

 

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 SHIHAD BEAUTIFUL MACHINE

A film about four friends that almost took the biggest industry in the world by storm.

For over 20 years, Shihad has defined New Zealand rock music. From their roots in Wellington’s furious 90s punk metal scene, to the wild Berlin days, the tragic overdose of their manager, the international explosion of The General Electric, and the infamous American name-change, Shihad: Beautiful Machine asks – what went wrong? 

More than a documentary, this is an all-access pass to an extraordinary rock saga, charting a legendary band’s fight with fame, fortune, the industry, and finally – itself.

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 LAST WILL

 

From the producers of The Millennium Trilogy comes a series of new Scandinavina crime films based of Lisa Marklunds worldwide best sellers.

While covering the annual Nobel Banquet for tabloid Kvallspressen, crime reporter Annika Bengtzon witnesses a spectacular murder right in front of her. Two people are shot, one of them the controversial Laureate in Medicine, Aaron Wiesel.

Annika is the key witness and is bound by police not to disclose anything she has seen. A terrorist group with connections to the Middle East quickly admits responsibility for the murder.

Annika however becomes convinced the real target is Wiesel\'s dancing partner Caroline Von Behring.

With her journalistic skills leading her closer to uncovering the inner workings and power struggles within the close and secretive Nobel Committee, the situation becomes increasingly dangerous, soon she will understand how far people are willing to go to get that most prestigious prize of all. . .

 

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