11-12-13 Nuclear Nation Storyline A documentary about the exile of Futaba’s residents, the region housing the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Since the 1960s, Futaba had been promised prosperity with tax breaks and major subsidies to compensate for the presence of the power plant. The town’s people have now lost their homeland. Through their agonies and frustrations, the film questions the real cost of capitalism and nuclear energy. The day after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011, Futaba locals heard the hydrogen explosion at Reactor Number 1 and were showered with nuclear fallout. In response, the Japanese government designated the whole town as an “exclusion zone” and 1,400 of the town’s residents fled to an abandoned high school 250 kilometers away. The entire community, including the Town Hall office, was moved into the four-story building, making the residents nuclear refugees. The film portrays the evacuees as the nuclear disaster situation changes over time. One of them is Ichiro Nakai, a farmer who lost his wife, his home, and his rice fields in the massive tsunami. Doing his best to cope with the monotony of life at the evacuation center, he struggles to wipe away the haunting memories and start a new life with his son. The two finally get an official permit to enter the exclusion zone to visit their hometown. There, they see that their worst fears have become reality... Documentary http://i.movie.as/p/141643.jpg http://widehouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/NuclearNation_Header.jpg http://asianwiki.com/images/b/bb/Nuclear_Nation-0003.jpg https://d13uygpm1enfng.cloudfront.net/article-imgs/en/2012/02/09/AJ201202090039/AJ201202090040M.jpg http://blog.zdf.de/3sat.Kulturtube/files/2012/02/nuclear5.jpg http://www.lost-in-france.com/images/stories/tricastin.jpg http://festival.sdaff.org/2012/files/2012/09/NuclearNation_0011-770x433.jpg http://widehouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/NuclearNation_003.jpg http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-RW351_kisai_E_20120217121122.jpg ================ 13-12-13 ================ The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Storyline The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellan) and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor. Drama http://i.movie.as/p/600/134013.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/146628.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/146628.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/134307.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/146627.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/134317.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/134310.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/134316.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/134312.jpg ======================= Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas Storyline Madea gets coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas, but the biggest surprise is what they'll find when they arrive. As the small, rural town prepares for its annual Christmas Carnival, new secrets are revealed and old relationships are tested while Madea dishes her own brand of Christmas Spirit to all. Comedy http://i.movie.as/p/600/143431.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/140943.jpg ====================== Hours Storyline Set during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and follows a father's desperate attempt to keep his newborn daughter alive in the wake of the storm's destruction. Before sunrise on August 29, 2005, Nolan Hayes (Walker) arrives at a New Orleans hospital with his pregnant wife, Abigail (Rodriguez), who has gone into early labor. What should be one of the happiest days of Nolan's life quickly spirals out of control when the birth goes tragically wrong and Hurricane Katrina ravages the hospital, forcing an evacuation. Nolan and his newborn baby are soon cut off from the world by power outages and rising flood waters. With his baby completely dependent on a ventilator Nolan faces one life-and-death decision after another, fighting to keep his daughter alive, as minute by agonizing minute passes...becoming unimaginable hours. Drama http://i.movie.as/p/600/148636.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/152796.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/93056.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/152793.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/152795.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/152790.jpg ====================== American Hustle Storyline A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) who, along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams), is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con artists and Feds. Irving’s unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. Drama http://i.movie.as/p/600/146583.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/146586.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/141551.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/141549.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/141548.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/141550.jpg ====================== Saving Mr. Banks Storyline An account of Walt Disney's twenty-year pursuit of the film rights to P.L. Travers' popular novel, Mary Poppins, and the testy partnership the upbeat filmmaker develops with the uptight author during the project's pre-production in 1961. When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers’ “Mary Poppins,” he made them a promise—one that he didn’t realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney’s plans for the adaptation. For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn’t budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history. Drama http://i.movie.as/p/600/146759.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/110440.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/137198.jpg ======================== Trap for Cinderella Storyline A young girl suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery. Drama http://i.movie.as/p/152997.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/152999.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/152998.jpg ======================= Here Comes the Devil Storyline Francisco Barreiro and Laura Caro play parents Felix and Sol whose preteen son and daughter inexplicably reappear after being lost overnight on a desolate, cave-riddled mountainside after a casual hike became every parent’s nightmare. The good luck and good fortune of their return soon changes, as the children’s behavior suggests ominous and unspeakable events the night the children were lost that continue even now. As a loving couple – and loving parents – try to care for and protect their children, the ancient and half-whispered legends around the caves and the mountain and those who have gone there before become too strange to believe … and too dangerous, no matter how insane, to ignore. Thriller http://i.movie.as/p/148875.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/121257.jpg ========================= The Last of the Unjust Storyline 1975. In Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only "Elder of the Jews" not to have been killed during the war. A rabbi in Vienna, following the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, Murmelstein fought bitterly with Adolf Eichmann, week after week for seven years, managing to help around 121,000 Jews leave the country, and preventing the liquidation of the ghetto. 2012. Claude Lanzmann, at 87 – without masking anything of the passage of time on men, but showing the incredible permanence of the locations involved –exhumes these interviews shot in Rome, returning to Theresienstadt, the town “given to the Jews by Hitler”, a so-called model ghetto, but a ghetto of deceit chosen by Adolf Eichmann to dupe the world. We discover the extraordinary personality of Benjamin Murmelstein: a man blessed with a dazzling intelligence and a true courage, which, along with an unrivaled memory, makes him a wonderfully wry, sardonic and authentic storyteller. Through these three periods, from Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt, and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It reveals the true face of Eichmann, and exposes without artifice the savage contradictions of the Jewish Councils. Documentary http://i.movie.as/p/151804.jpg ======================= Some Velvet Morning Storyline Some Velvet Morning centers on Fred (Stanley Tucci), who arrives on the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress, Velvet (Alice Eve), after four years apart, claiming to have left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts at rekindling their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession -- and a dark history between the ex-lovers comes into focus. Drama http://i.movie.as/p/151017.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/146625.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/146624.jpg http://i.movie.as/p/600/146623.jpg ======================= The Crash Reel Storyline The epic rivalry between half-pipe legends Kevin Pearce and Shaun White is documented in this exhilarating ride into the world of extreme snowboarding. With both practicing more and more breathtaking and dangerous tricks leading up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, everything suddenly changes for Kevin when a horrific crash leaves him fighting for his life. When he recovers, all he wants to do is get on his snowboard again, even though medics and family fear it could kill him. Documentary http://i.movie.as/p/151668.jpg ====================== Jackpot