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Step Up 3D
Released Date: 25th August 2010 | Language: English
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A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke (Malambri) and Natalie (Vinson), team up with NYU freshman Moose (Sevani), and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever.
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Stool Pigeon
Released Date: 25th August 2010 | Language: Cantonese
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Inspector Don Lee (Nick Cheung) often works with informants but numerous too-close calls and failed missions cause him to see the world as one betrayal after another. Later, he meets Guy (Nicholas Tse), and is given a new chance to change his views.
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Kwai Lun-Mei, Liu Kai Chi, Miao Pu, Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung
Slice
Released Date: 18th August 2010 | Language: Thai
Classification: () | Running Time: mins
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A terrible homicide has happened. The bodies of the victims are chopped into pieces and the police are desperately seeking for the serial killer. A former hitman named Tai(Arak Amornsupasiri) who is now imprisoned, tries to help solver the murders with Shin (Chatchai Plengpanich), a detective who is working on the case.
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Salt
Released Date: 28th July 2010 | Language: English
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As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Salt's efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity.
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Angelina Jolie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Liev Schreiber, Zoe Lister Jones, Zoe Lister-Jones
Editor's Review
Step aside Jason Bourne, there's a new action hero on the block and her name is Evelyn Salt.
An adrenaline rush hardly describes what the movie Salt is. There are the usual car chases, the shoot outs and the explosions but the stunts on this movie are out of this world. I mean, Salt can put even super spy James Bond to shame with her skills and heroics. Take for example the action sequence on the freeway where she jumps off an overpass onto a big-rig and from there she leaps frog onto a tanker, another truck and finally she crashes a cop cruiser. All this and she walks away coolly without a scrape! Impossible? Sure. But this is the movies, so just go with it.
Salt is a CIA agent who is accused by a Russian defector of being one of many sleeper Russian spies whose ultimate motive is to essentially start a world war. Of course Salt denies the claim, but those around her aren't too sure and they become even more convinced she's a double agent when she breaks out of a secured area and takes off. Her faith is sealed when she kills the visiting Russian president in a daring attack with literary every branch of the armed forces around. Now, even her colleague and friend, Ted Winters, is convinced she's working for the 'other side'.
Salt, the movie, comes at a time when America is accusing ordinary people of being sleeper Russian spies. Of course accused Russian spy Anna Chapman hardly jumped from one truck to another crashing cars and shooting people, but the idea that there could be sleeper spies is an intriguing one and this makes the movie even more interesting hence Salt is probably going to be a box office hit.
Angelina Jolie, who takes on the role of Evelyn Salt does a great job at being one of the best female action stars around. Just like her Lara Croft character, Jolie plays Salt as a cool and emotionless agent whose actions will honestly make you question if she's really the bad person in the movie.
An interesting movie trivia about Salt is that the script originally called for Salt to be a man - Edwin A. Salt and the role was to have gone to Tom Cruise. Cruise however was committed to other projects and he was also concerned that this character would be too close to his Mission: Impossible character Ethan Hunt. Jolie, on the other hand, had said she wanted to play Jame Bond a few years back. I guess there really must be this thing called Hollywood magic because I really can't see Salt being played by anyone else except Jolie, not even Cruise.
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Shanghai
Released Date: 22nd July 2010 | Language: English
Classification: (U) | Running Time: mins
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An American man (John Cusack) returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love with a Chinese woman (Gong Li) and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
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Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Hugo Weaving, John Cusack, Ken Watanabe, YunFatt Chow
Editor's Review
Some things to note about Shanghai, a new murder-mystery/romantic thriller set in the titular city in the weeks before Pearl Harbor.
First, with Watchmen and now this, Jeffrey Dean Morgan seems to be making a career out of having his character murdered in the first 10 minutes of a movie and showing up in flashback for the rest of it.
Second, it's nice to see Chow Yun-Fat back in some frenzied gunplay, even if it's just for a couple of scenes.
Third, the filmmakers managed to make London and Thailand pass off convincingly enough as Shanghai after Chinese authorities denied them permission to shoot on location.
At least, it's "convincing" in the sense that - since most of us have never seen 1941 Shanghai - this viewer wasn't made to feel too frequently that this was some recreated set somewhere.
A large part of the credit for helping to pull off this illusion should go to the filmmakers and cast, for concocting an absorbing murder-mystery and tossing in some forbidden romance, all against a tense backdrop where you know war is going to break out at almost any minute.
Life in the seething city is seen through the eyes of John Cusack's character Paul Soames, a Naval Intelligence officer - okay, "spy" - as he investigates the murder of his buddy (Morgan).
The trail leads him to folks like triad boss Anthony Lan-Ting (Chow), his wife Anna (Gong Li) who leads a double life, and Japanese intelligence officer Tanaka (Watanabe).
It's a tad more complicated than it sounds, but watching as the characters' destinies become more intertwined is part of the movie's charm, so I won't let on any more here.
The main strengths of Shanghai lie in the interaction of its characters (in particular, Watanabe's scenes with Cusack, not quite cat-and-mouse but where every syllable uttered by Tanaka seems to be bait in a trap to draw out the American spy), the uniformly fine performances by its cast, and its evocation of the tension-filled times where death literally lurked around every corner.
It's never dull, with Cusack and Gong Li pretty much setting the screen smoldering with their longing glances (yeah, there's some forbidden love in the story too) when there isn't a gunfight or assassination attempt or street execution taking place.
Shanghai, however, stumbles in its denouement, where events and motivations turn out to be less grand and more mundane than we were led to believe.
Well then, just regard the journey as the reward and the destination as, um, just the end of the movie.
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