Captive Entertainment

Albert Nobbs

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:46:38 +0000

A witty Irish-set period drama about the lives of staff at Dublin’s most luxurious hotel: the illegitimate child of a maid, a beautiful couple’s impossible love, and Albert…a woman who pretends to be a man to survive.

19th Century Ireland: for a woman to be independent and single, she must deceive everyone – by pretending to be a man. Albert, a shy butler who keeps himself to himself, has been hiding deep secret for years – ‘he’ is a woman who has had to dress and behave as a man all her life in order to escape a life of poverty and loneliness.

When a handsome painter Hubert Page arrives at the hotel, Albert is inspired to try and escape the false life she has created for herself. She gathers her nerve to court beautiful, saucy young maid Helen in whom she thinks she’s found a soul-mate – but Helen’s eye is on a new arrival: handsome, bad-boy Joe, the new handy-man.

As Albert dares to hope that she might one day live a normal life, we catch a glimpse of a free-spirited woman who is caught in the wrong time…

Genre: Drama
R/T: 113
Rating: R
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Starring: Glenn Close, Orlando Bloom, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Release: International

A Warrior’s Heart

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:46:14 +0000

In shock and denial over his Marine father’s death in battle, star Lacrosse player Conor Sullivan, always a maverick and a hothead, starts acting out in self-destructive ways that have his mom, Claire, at her wit’s end. But arduous training in a wilderness Lacrosse camp under the tutelage of his dad’s old combat buddy, Sgt. Major Duke Wayne, opens Conor’s eyes to the true meaning of maturity, sportsmanship and manhood…

Genre: Drama / Sport
R/T: 86
Rating: PG
Director: Martin Dugard
Starring: Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene and Gabrielle Anwar
Release: Worldwide

Seven Days in Utopia

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:53:35 +0000

Seven Days in Utopia follows the story of Luke Chisolm (Lucas Black), a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour. When his first big shot turns out to be a very public disaster, Luke escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas, home to eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford (Robert Duvall). But Johnny’s more than meets the eye, and his profound ways of looking at life force Luke to question not only his past choices, but his direction for the future.

Genre: Drama / Sport
R/T: 99
Rating: G
Director: Matt Russell
Starring: Lucas Black, Robert Duvall and Melissa Leo
Release: International

The Matchmaker

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:53:11 +0000

Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankel Bride, a matchmaker. Yankel, a mysterious holocaust survivor, has an office back in a movie theater that shows only love stories, run by a family of 7 Romanian dwarves in the seedy area by the port. Yankel introduces Arik to a new world, built on the ruins of an old one. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankel, he falls in love with Tamara, his friend Benny‟s cousin. Tamara has just returned from America and is full of talk of woman‟s rights, free love and rock and roll. The desperate parts of Arik‟s life collide in unexpected, often funny and very moving ways as he lives through a summer that changes him forever. Avi Nesher‟s last film mixes comedy with drama as it tells a “coming of age” story like any you‟ve ever seen before.

Genre: Drama
R/T: 112
Rating: N/A
Director: Avi Nesher
Starring: Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Tuval Shafir
Release: Worldwide

South Solitary

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:52:46 +0000

South Solitary is a period love story starring Miranda Otto (Blessed, The Lord of the Rings) alongside her father, Barry Otto, Marton Csokas (Romulus, My Father) and Essie Davis (Australia).

Miranda plays an unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island in 1928 with her uncle, the new head light keeper (Barry Otto). Bad weather and misadventure leave her marooned with only the sullen and withdrawn assistant keeper, Fleet (Marton Csokas), for companionship. A tender, faltering courtship ensues.

Genre: Romantic Drama
R/T: 121
Rating: N/A
Director: Shriley Barrett
Starring: Miranda Otta, Marton Csokas, Essie Davis, Rohan Nichol
Release: Worldwide

Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:39:01 +0000

A documentary on Conan O’Brien’s comedy tour of the U.S. and Canada after leaving his post at “The Tonight Show” and severing his relationship with NBC.

Genre: Documentary
R/T: 89
Rating: R
Director: Rodman Flender
Starring: Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter, Stephen Colbert
Release: Worldwide

Across The Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:38:29 +0000

When a Los Angeles fugitive-financier (Aidan Quinn) is discovered hiding out in Tijuana, he and his $2billion stash quickly become prey to three merciless factions: a Mexican drug lord, a Russian mobster, and the FBI.

Desperate to pay off a large debt, a besieged local Narco-head (Andy Garcia), rounds up every crooked cop on his payroll to track down the financier and uncover the fortune that could save his family from a gruesome end. Also chasing the $2billion is a retired Russian mobster, who after being swindled by the charismatic crook, dispatches a lethal mercenary team (led by Luke Goss) to bring his nemesis back dead or alive. It’s also personal for the FBI task force officer (Mario Van Peebles) who let the financier slip through his fingers back in the U.S.; this agent knows that his career rides on returning to the states with the billionaire embezzler in his possession. Who will be first to reach the most wanted man in North America? And who will be alive to tell the story?

Genre: Drama
R/T: 94
Rating: R (to be edited-will be suitable for all cabins)
Director: R. Ellis Frazier
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Andy Garcia and Mario Van Peebles
Release: Worldwide

Albatross

admin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:38:52 +0000

The Cliff House Hotel: Beth Fisher is cramming for her exams in desperation to escape to university. Dad, Jonathan, once the bright young thing of the literary world, is suffering from writer’s block. Wife, Joa, runs their hotel but resents it, him and everyone around her as she gave up her ‘promising career as an actress’ for this.

Their world is soon turned upside down when seventeen-year-old aspiring writer Emelia starts a new job at the hotel. Building a friendship with Beth and embarking on a love affair with Jonathan, secrets are revealed and relationships explode as the threads of the story collide and unravel. Can Emelia get rid of the Albatross that hangs around her neck and rewrite herself?

Genre: Drama
R/T: 90
Rating: N/A
Director: Niall MacCormick
Starring: Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond, Felicity Jones
Release: Worldwide

Cinema is Everywhere

admin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:37:46 +0000

A documentary feature film that ties four narratives – from China, India, Scotland, and Tunisia – together with countless insights from venerable filmmakers and ordinary moviegoers. An aspiring actress in Mumbai battles to break into Bollywood; two friends in Scotland take a mobile film festival across the highlands; a young crew in Hong Kong embarks on the shooting of its first film; a Tunisian director anxiously anticipates the premiere of his controversial film at a major festival. These stories are woven together with scenes from video stores, projection booths, studios, cinemas, and slums into a vivid meditation on the power of cinema to shape our world.

Genre: Documentary
R/T: 98
Rating: N/A
Director: Teal Greyhavens
Starring: Javed Akhtar, Shyam Benegal, Fruit Chan
Release: Worldwide

Griff The Invisible

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:37:14 +0000

By day Griff (Ryan Kwanten) is an everyday office worker, in an everyday town; he lives a secluded life, bullied by co-workers, his protective brother his only friend. By night Griff assumes his other identity roaming the dark streets protecting the innocent and the vulnerable from the dangers that lurk in the shadows – he is the hero, Griff The Invisible. Increasingly concerned by Griff’s eccentric behaviour, his brother attempts to draw him back into the ‘real world’. In doing so, he introduces Griff to Melody (Maeve Dermody) an equally eccentric and charming girl. Fascinated by Griff’s idiosyncrasies, which are equal only to her own, Melody begins to fall for Griff. As Griff is forced to face up to the realities of a mundane world, it is up to Melody to rescue Griff the Invisible for the sake of herself, Griff, and their love for each other.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
R/T: 90
Rating: N/A
Director: Leon Ford
Starring: Ryan Kwanten, Maeve Dermody, Marshall Napier
Release: Worldwide