Sicko
November 7, 2008
America’s most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 2007 with this health-care-industry expose. SICKO tackles material as controversial as the topics explored in Moore’s other films, yet does so in a way that places the focus on ordinary Americans affected by the nation’s health-care crisis. [Read more]
The Last King of Scotland
November 7, 2008
It was supposed to be a wild adventure in a far-off country, but when a naive young doctor arrives in 1970’s Uganda - hoping for fun, sun and to lend a helping hand - he finds himself instead on a shocking ride into the darkest realm on earth. Befriended by the charismatic new leader, Idi Amin, and appointed as his personal physician, Nicholas Garrigan is originally blinded by his larger than life and charming persona. [Read more]
KiDULTHOOD
November 6, 2008
A gritty look at modern English youth, this film looks at 2 days of an inner London school group with tragic outcomes. It crosses the world of drug taking, teenage pregnancy, and petty crime. For 15 year old Trife, a boy from west London, life is a day to day struggle. Trapped between the worlds of his school friends, the girl he loves and the draw of his powerful and dangerous uncle, Trife must choose between the path he knows is right and a life of guns, drugs and violence he has come to know all too well… [Read more]
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
November 1, 2008
Marcus is a quiet young man who adores his loving mother. But after she is brutally murdered in an apparent drug deal gone wrong, Marcus heads down the wrong road himself. He abandons high school to sell drugs for local kingpin Levar and his underling, Majestic . Years later, when he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and is thrown in jail, Marcus decides to leave drug selling behind in order to fulfil his lifelong dream of becoming a rapper. Unfortunately, Majestic doesn’t want to let him go, resulting in a tragedy that might destroy his life forever… [Read more]




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