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Luchino Visconti utilized striking cinematography and a precise narrative in his adaptation of Thomas Mann's DEATH IN VENICE. The filmmaker was known for his deliberate, masterly work in films that delved deeply into a significant historical era or figure. The story follows the sickly composer, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde), who arrives in Venice by steamboat from Munich. He is deeply distracted, nervous, uncomfortable, and conflicted. Nonetheless, he settles into a breathtaking seaside resort, where he fixates on Tadzio (Bjorn Andresen), an angelic blond Polish boy who is there with his family. While flashbacks to happy times spent with his wife and small daughter fill in some of the blanks of Aschenbach's personal past, others recall his harsh and competitive friend, Alfred (Mark Burns), who criticized Aschenbach's music for being too technically perfect and thus lacking in beauty and passion. Via these glimpses into the past, we see that Aschenbach feels defeated in both his personal and his professional lives. The film uses very little dialogue, relying largely on the characters' facial expressions to communicate the protagonist's tortured psyche, young Tadzio's curious vanity, and the pretentious airs of the bourgeois women who parade the Venetian beaches in taffeta, bonnets, and parasols. As Aschenbach's infatuation with Tadzio grows beyond his control, he learns that "Venice is gripped by pestilence" (as narrated in Mann's novel) and the city is being sequestered to prevent the spread of a cholera outbreak. With slow and concentrated pacing, some hauntingly surreal scenes, and a color scheme consisting of bold blacks and stark whites that are a constant reminder of the inevitable, DEATH IN VENICE captures the poignancy of Mann's novel with a sharp, sinister, and unwavering accuracy.





Genre: Drama
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 (4,107 votes)
RT Rating: 73 % Fresh
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Romolo Valli, Dirk Bogarde, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci

Release Name: Death.In.Venice.1971.iNTERNAL.DVDRip.XviD-iLS
Size: 1 CD, 709.33 MB
Quality: DVDRip, XviD, 640 x 272, 25.000 FPS, 697 kbps, Audio English MP3 VBR 72 kbps (mono)
Runtime: 125 minutes
Filename: ils-divenice

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In 1937, Japanese armed forces entered Nanking, China, and systematically raped and killed over 200,000 Chinese in one of human history's worst atrocities. Decades later, there's still bad blood and unresolved tensions. This wrenching documentary from Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman combines harrowing archival footage, interviews with survivors (including contrite Japanese vets), and reenactments with actors Woody Harrelson, Stephen Dorff, Mariel Hemingway, and Jurgen Prochnow (as a Schindler-like member of the Nazi party), reading from the diaries of real-life heroic westerners who set up a safety zone in attempt to shelter the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the city. Though this element adds some much-needed hope for humanity, this is still a deeply upsetting documentary. It's very well made and should be considered required viewing, but be warned: some of the rarely-before-seen archival footage is truly graphic and disturbing. Based on the bestselling book, THE RAPE OF NANKING by Iris Chang, this documentary makes effective use of a quietly shattering Kronos Quartet score. The film is presented in English, Japanese, and Mandarin with English subtitles.



Genre: Documentary
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10 (636 votes)
RT Rating: 97 % Fresh
Directed by: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway, Jurgen Prochnow, Stephen Dorff

Release Name: Nanking.LiMiTED.DVDRip.XviD-BeStDivX
Size: 1 CD, 700 MB
Quality: DVDRip, XviD, 576 x 320, 23.976 fps, 928kbps, Audio English mp3 144kbps vbr
Subtitles: En/Es
Runtime: 90 minutes
Filename: bestdivx-nanking
Samples: #1, #2

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New York City lawyer Vinny Gambini ventures into the deep South with his loud-mouthed, big-haired girlfriend in tow to free his cousin Bill and Bill's friend after they are mistakenly accused of murdering a convenience-store clerk. Unfortunately, Vinny passed the bar (after 6 failed attempts!) only a few weeks before, and has never even seen the inside of a courtroom. But no Gambini has lost an argument yet.

Bill Gambini and Stanley Rothenstein are 2 friends from New York University that just received scholarships to UCLA. They decide to drive through the south. Once they arrive in Alabama, they stopped at a local convenience store to pick up a few snacks. But, no sooner that they left the store, they were arrested. They had thought that they were arrested for shoplifting, but they were arrested for murder and robbery. Plus, they are facing execution for this crime. Bill and Stan do not have enough money for a lawyer, good news, that Bill has a lawyer in his family, his cousin, Vincent Laguardia Gambini. Bad news, is that Vinny is an inexperienced lawyer who has not been in a trial. So, Vinny has to defend his clients and battle an uncompromising judge, some tough locals, and even his fiancée, Mona Lisa Vito who just does not know when to shut up, to prove his clients' innocence. But he will soon realize that he is going to need help.

Two friends from New York are accused of murder while on a cross-country trip through Alabama. Broke and needing a lawyer, they hire one of their cousins, Vinny, to handle their case. What they don't know, though, is that Vinny has only been a lawyer for a few weeks. What ensues is a hilarious comedy about a tough guy from Brooklyn who gets more than he expects, from the trial process to the judge and locals, to the accomodations, all the while with his non-stop talking fiancee in tow (played by Marisa Tomei, who earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role). The laughs just keep on coming as the "fish out of water" tries to survive in the South while handling his 1st murder trial!

Genre: Comedy / Crime
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 (20,471 votes)
RT Rating: 92% Fresh
Directed by: Jonathan Lynn
Starring: Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei, Mitchell Whitfield

Release Name: My.Cousin.Vinny.1992.DVDRip.XviD-DEViSE
Size: 1 CD, 700.04 MB
Quality: DVDRip, XviD, 672x368, 25.000 fps, 750 kbps, Audio English MP3 128 kbps
Runtime: 113 minutes
Filename: devise-m.c.v

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Two-time Oscar winner Hillary Swank tries her hand at romantic comedy in this touching film based on the bestselling Irish novel. Holly Kennedy (Swank) and her charming Irish husband Gerry (Gerard Butler) are a young couple struggling to get by in New York City. Their marriage is 10 years strong, and they are madly in love, but the fates soon step in, when Gerry develops cancer and dies. Holly is completely devastated, and her friends Denise (Lisa Kudrow) and Sharon (Gina Gershon) do their best to console her. Her mother (Kathy Bates) and sister, Rose (Nellie Mckay), also offer their support, but it seems nothing can pull Holly out of her grief. Then one day, she begins to receive love letters Gerry penned before his death. The letters are filled with various stories and instructions, and one of them even contains a plan that sends her and her friends on a trip to Ireland. As Gerry's posthumous letters buoy her up, Holly slowly begins to piece her life back together. His letters help her to celebrate their special love story, and remind her that she must continue to live her life, and seek out happiness. The film's stellar cast delivers many tearjerker moments, and P.S. I LOVE YOU does a fine job of yanking on the heartstrings. However, the tone often shifts so abruptly, it at times feels as though they couldn't quite decide if Holly was a steel magnolia, a Bridget with a diary, or a devil in search of some Prada. But the strong performances manage to hold the tale together, and the story is ultimately moving, and yes, romantic.





Genre: Drama/Romance
IMDB Rating: 7.0 (6,546 votes)
RT Rating: 21 % Fresh
Directed by: Richard LaGravenese
Starring: Gerard Butler, Hilary Swank, Lisa Kudrow, Gina Gershon

Release Name: P.S.I.Love.You.720p.BluRay.x264-REFiNED
Size: DVD5, 4.47 GB
Quality: 720p, x264, 1280 * 720 @ 4324 kbps, 640 kbps AC3
Runtime: 126 mins
Filename: refined-psiloveu

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HighRezPosters: 863 x 1280
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On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool, in the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool. He was splashing...enjoying the jungle's great joys...When Horton the elephant heard a small noise. With his signature evocative and rhyming text, writer and cartoonist Dr. Seuss, an American treasure whose books have delighted generations of young people, opens one of his most beloved tales, Horton Hears a Who! Now, over fifty years since Seuss, whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel, published this perennial favorite, the makers of ICE AGE and comedy giants Jim Carrey and Steve Carell, bring it to life in a way never before experienced. For the first time, a motion picture transports audiences into Dr. Seuss' incredible imagination, through state-of-the-art CG animation. DR. SEUSS' HORTON HEARS A WHO! (TM) is Seuss as you want to experience his work at the movies - and as it was meant to be seen. The film, like Seuss' book, presents an imaginative elephant named Horton (Carrey) who hears a faint cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Although Horton doesn't know it yet, that speck houses an entire city named Who-ville, inhabited by the microscopic Whos, led by the Mayor (Carell). Despite being ridiculed and threatened by his neighbors, who think he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to save the particle...because "a person's a person, no matter how small." Horton's eight-word explanation for his actions embodies an idea both simple and profound, and which means so much, to so many. The film provides more food for thought, having Horton explains to his skeptical friends: "If you were way out in space, and you looked down at where we live, we would look like a speck." Then there's Horton's code...his motto... that, "an elephant's faithful 100 percent" - pointing to his honesty and determination to never abandon his mission to find a new home for the speck that houses the incredible world of Who-ville. These philosophical declarations point to Seuss' unique ability to take complex issues and boil them down into understandable thoughts that anybody, at any age, could understand. It all comes together through the vision of a master storyteller, the magic of computer animation, and the special alchemy of three generations of comedy stars - Carrey and Carell are joined by the legendary Carol Burnett, as well as cutting-edge talents Will Arnett, Isla Fisher, Amy Poehler , Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill - to create an all-audience comedy event. --© Fox



Genre: Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 (7,152 votes)
RT Rating: 79 % Fresh
Directed by: Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino
Starring (Voices): Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Will Arnett, Seth Rogen, Dan Fogler, Isla Fisher, Jonah Hill

Release Name: Horton.Hears.A.Who.2008.DVDRip.x264.AC3-Black
Size: 2CD, 1.39 GB
Quality: DVDRip, x264, 720x384 @ 2348 Kbps, AC3 48 KHz
Filename: Horton.Hears.A.Who.2008.DVDRip.x264.AC3-Black
Runtime: 82 minutes
Samples: #1, #2, #3

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While covering the night shift at a small-town fire department, an ambitious young television reporter (Manuela Velasco) and her cameraman follow the crew on a call to rescue an elderly woman unable to escape the inferno that is consuming her home. Upon their arrival at the scene, the calm midnight air is pierced by the sound of horrific screams, and the television report takes an unexpectedly dark turn.



Genre: Horror
IMDB Rating: 7.8 (1,375 votes)
Directed by: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
Starring: Javier Botet, Manuel Bronchud, Martha Carbonell

Release Name: REC.2007.R5.LINE.XviD.AC3-BADABA
Size: 2 CD, 1.39 GB
Quality: R5 Line, XviD, 720 x 352, 25.000 FPS, Audio AC3
Runtime: 85 Minutes
Filename: REC.2007.R5.LINE.XviD.AC3-BADABA
Samples: #1, #2, #3

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