Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin -- all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.—Mark Fleetwood

The Basketball Diaries

The Basketball Diaries (1995)

Business is slow for Terry Leather, a London car dealer, married with children. He's an artful dodger, so Martine, a former model with a thing for him, brings him her scheme: a bank's alarm is off for a couple weeks, so let's tunnel into the vault. He assembles a team, not realizing her real goal is a safe-deposit box with compromising photos of a royal: she needs the photos to trade for avoiding a jail sentence - and MI-5, or is it MI-6, is pulling the strings two steps removed. A Trinidadian thug, a high-end bordello owner, and a pornographer also have things stored in the vault, so the break-in threatens many a powerful personage. Is there any way these amateurs can pull it off?—

The Bank Job

The Bank Job (2008)

Tony Hunter, a famous singer/dancer movie star, is feeling washed-up and old-hat (old top hat, tie, and tails to be exact). The reporters are out for Ava Gardner, not him. But his old friends Lily and Les Marton have an idea for a funny little Broadway show and he agrees to do it. But things begin to get out of hand, when bigshot "artistic" director/producer/star Jeffrey Cordova joins the production, proclaims it's a modernistic Faust and insists on hiring a prima ballerina, Gabrielle Gerard, to star opposite Tony, and it's hate at first sight. And her jealous choreographer isn't helping to ease the tension. The show is doomed by pretentiousness. But romance, a "let's put on a show" epiphany, and a triumphant opening are waiting in the wings. After all, this is a musical comedy.—Kathy Li

The Band Wagon

The Band Wagon (1953)

A professional shooter gets a new job from his boss. The job is simple to bring him a bag without opening it. But everyone on this town wants that bag. So Jack has to protect the bag and try to carry out his mission. In this city he will meet a lot of people and he will seduced by mysterious woman.—Chris Zoumpos

The Bag Man

The Bag Man (2014)

On the lonely back roads of rural Australia a deadly secret from the past awaits returned soldier Sergeant Ben Cross. Vincent Malek, a cruel and uncompromising killer forces Ben to play his deadly game. Relentlessly hunted through unforgiving terrain, Ben must draw on all his strength to survive, and unravel the truth along the way. The ultimate psychological chase film with revenge at its core, The Backpacker is a thriller in the same chilling vein as the late 60's box office sensation 'Deliverance'. As Malek hunts Ben relentlessly through his forest hunting ground in a gruesome game of cat and mouse, the action revolves around one crucial question: how far would you go for revenge...—Tara Simmonds and Dion Boland

The Backpacker

The Backpacker (2011)

Zoe has always had difficulty letting anyone into her life; she has a habit of pushing people away whenever they get close. Now she wants to have a baby but has no man in her life, so she decides to be artificially inseminated. Shortly after having the procedure, she meets a guy called Stan and feels a spark. When she tells him about her pregnancy she thinks he will bail, but he stays.—rcs0411@yahoo.com

The Back-up Plan

The Back-up Plan (2010)

A bachelor party weekend in the great outdoors takes some unexpected detours.

The Bachelor Weekend

The Bachelor Weekend (2013)

After failing to get his wife pregnant, a guy (Schneider) recruits his pals to steal the deposit he left at a sperm bank years ago.

The Babymakers

The Babymakers (2012)

Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia is at a loss. She struggles to discipline her 'out of control' 6 year-old, Samuel, a son she finds impossible to love. Samuel's dreams are plagued by a monster he believes is coming to kill them both. When a disturbing storybook called 'The Babadook' turns up at their house, Samuel is convinced that the Babadook is the creature he's been dreaming about. His hallucinations spiral out of control, he becomes more unpredictable and violent. Amelia, genuinely frightened by her son's behaviour, is forced to medicate him. But when Amelia begins to see glimpses of a sinister presence all around her, it slowly dawns on her that the thing Samuel has been warning her about may be real.—Triptych Pictures

The Babadook

The Babadook (2014)

In 1921, in London, the arrogant and skeptical Florence Cathcart is famous for exposing hoaxes and helping the police to arrest con artists. The stranger Robert Mallory tells her that the headmaster of a boarding school in Rookford had invited her to travel to Cumbria to investigate a ghost that is frightening the pupils to death. He also tells that many years ago there was a murder in the estate and recently pupil Walter Portman had died. The reluctant Florence finally accepts to go to Cumbria. On arrival, she is welcomed by governess Maud and the boy Thomas Hill. Soon Florence discovers what had happened to Walter and then the students, teachers and staff are released on vacation, and Florence remains alone with Robert, Maud and Tom in the school. Florence is ready to leave the boarding school when strange things happen, leaving Florence scared.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Awakening

The Awakening (2011)

Biopic of billionaire Howard Hughes, starting with his early filmmaking years as owner of R.K.O. Pictures, but mostly focusing on his role in designing and promoting new aircraft. Hughes was a risk-taker spending several fortunes on designing experimental aircraft and eventually founding TWA as a rival to Pan Am airlines owned by his great rival Juan Trippe. When Trippe's politico Senator Ralph Owen Brewster accuses Hughes of being a war profiteer, it's Hughes who gains the upper hand. Hughes also had many women in his life including a long relationship with Katharine Hepburn. From an early age, however, Hughes was also germophobic and would have severe bouts of mental illness.—garykmcd

The Aviator

The Aviator (2004)

Loki, the adopted brother of Thor, teams-up with the Chitauri Army and uses the Tesseract's power to travel from Asgard to Midgard to plot the invasion of Earth and become a king. The director of the agency S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury, sets in motion project Avengers, joining Tony Stark a.k.a. the Iron Man; Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America; Bruce Banner, a.k.a. The Hulk; Thor; Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a. Black Widow; and Clint Barton, a.k.a. Hawkeye, to save the world from the powerful Loki and the alien invasion.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Avengers

The Avengers (2012)

British Ministry Agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by archvillain Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine. Steed investigates the beautiful Doctor Mrs. Emma Peel, the only suspect, but simultaneously falls for her and joins forces with her to combat Sir August.—John Hawkinson

The Avengers (1998)

In the fall of 1976, a small psychology lab in Pennsylvania became the unwitting home to the only government-confirmed case of possession. The U.S. military assumed control of the lab under orders of national security and, soon after, implemented measures aimed at weaponizing the entity. The details of the inexplicable events that occurred are being made public after remaining classified for nearly forty years.—Anonymous

The Atticus Institute

The Atticus Institute (2015)

A pair of shuttle astronauts leave their spacecraft to repair a satellite. There's an explosion. NASA loses contact for two minutes, but the both are rescued and safely returned to Earth. Eventually it becomes evident that neither of the astronauts is quite the same.—JHole

The Astronaut's Wife

The Astronaut's Wife (1999)

Outside a movie premiere, enthusiastic fan Peppy Miller literally bumps into the swashbuckling hero of the silent film, George Valentin. The star reacts graciously and Peppy plants a kiss on his cheek as they are surrounded by photographers. The headlines demand: "Who's That Girl?" and Peppy is inspired to audition for a dancing bit-part at the studio. However as Peppy slowly rises through the industry, the introduction of talking-pictures turns Valentin's world upside-down.—L. Hamre

The Artist

The Artist (2011)

Shaw is an operative for the United Nations' covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China's ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade agreement with China and the US, Shaw is framed for the murder and must evade the FBI and Triad gangsters to find out what is really going on.—Jeff Cross

The Art of War

The Art of War (2000)

Crunch Calhoun (Kurt Russell), a third rate motorcycle daredevil and semi-reformed art thief, agrees to get back into the con game and pull off one final lucrative art theft with his untrustworthy brother, Nicky (Matt Dillon). Reassembling the old team, Crunch comes up with a plan to steal a priceless historical book, but the successful heist leads to another far riskier plan devised by Nicky. They fail to realize each other's separate agendas when their plan goes awry in this con movie about honor, revenge and the bonds of brotherhood.—Production

The Art of the Steal

The Art of the Steal (2013)

Believing the quote that you are born alone, die alone and everything else is an illusion, George doesn't see the point of life, school, or homework. Then he meets Sally and he now has a reason to go to school and make friends, even if he's not ready to admit to himself or to her that he likes her. The school's principal and art teacher introduce him to an alumni, and successful artist, Dustin, who can help guide George along life's path, but other distractions start surfacing, and George might not even be able to graduate from high school.—napierslogs

The Art of Getting By

The Art of Getting By (2011)

In 2009 director Alex Gibney set out to film The Road Back, a documentary on cyclist Lance Armstrong's comeback year after a four-year retirement from the sport. Three years later, on October 2012, a doping investigation led to his lifetime ban from competition and the stripping of his seven Tour De France titles, and the documentary was shelved. On January 14, 2013, three hours after his appearance on Oprah, Armstrong went back to Gibney to set the record straight about his career.
Amrstrong was diagnosed with cancer which forced him to retire from professional cycling. Prior to that he had won the Tour De France 7 times & had been subject to doping allegations throughout his career. By 2012 the doping charges appeared with regularity in mainstream media & the charges were impossible for Lance to refute. Several of his teammates testified against him & said they saw him taking drugs. The UCI bands him from cycling in Oct 2012 & strips him of his titles. This leads to the Oprah interview in Jan 2013. Lance admits to doping & taking performance enhancing drugs in each of his 7 titles & admits to using his celebrity status to cover it all up. He also says that he regrets coming back to the sport in 2009, which eventually led to his incarceration.The cycling governing body UCI had always maintained that Lance had cheated. In fact a French article titles "The Armstrong Lie" talked about his urine samples from his first Tour De France win in 1999 containing EPO (a banned performance enhancer). The UCI was willing to admit Lance into the Tour De France in 2009. Armstrong had escaped a huge doping crackdown in 2006 due to his retirement in 2005. The crackdown implicated 58 cyclists, including each of the cyclists who shared the podium with Armstrong from 1999 to 2005.Lance was diagnosed with testicular cancer before 1999, which had spread considerably by then. He underwent a experimental procedure in UCLA which removed his testicle, involved brain surgery & brutal chemotherapy. Lance survived despite bad odds. Lance was a rich US cyclist by then (been born to a poor receptionist mother & having never met his father). He was a dominant competitor in US day endurance races. After he survived the cancer he decided to win the Tour De France to show everyone that he could still dominate.His win in 1999 turned heads since Armstrong was not known as a strong cyclist on mountains & yet here he was, a cancer survivor, going at greater speed & power than any of the cyclists before him. A cortisone drug showed up in Armstrong's urine sample in 1999 & he was asked to provide a reason by UCI. Lance's team scours the internet & finds a commercial brand that uses that cortisone as a rash cream & confirms that as the reason of its use.Michele Ferrari was Lance's team doctor & was notorious for using drugs to enhance the performance of athletes. Ferrari knew Lance from 1995 & after he survived cancer, Ferrari knew Lance had lost a lot of muscle. So he got Lance to shift to lower gears in the hills & pedal faster, which shifted the load from the muscles to the heart. He then introduced drugs to boost oxygen levels in the blood, so that the heart & lungs could sustain themselves longer. Ferrari also had insiders in UCI's drug testing labs, which helped him control the drug levels to below detection. Ferrari was convicted of sports fraud in 2004, which led to Lance publicly disowning him.Lance says in 2013 that EPO doping was prevalent in Europe in the 80's & 90's & he had adopt it in 1995 to stay competitive. EPO was not detectable in urine tests in the 1990's which made it easier for everyone to use it. when EPO testing finally caught up, Ferrari went to an older trick of blood transfusions (taking blood out before the race, & pumping it back in just prior to the race to boost red blood cell count with effects same as EPO & impossible to detect).IN 2008 Lance decides to make a clean comeback & to win the Tour De France to prove his critics that his 7 titles were legit. One of his former team mates, who was convicted of doping in 2006, wants to join Lance's team but is refused as they want to portray an image of a "clean team". This former team mates knew all the details of Lance's drug use & eventually led to Lance's downfall. Lance participates in the Italian race in 2009, 2 months prior to the Tour De France & cracks on the hills. He is tested continuously for drugs during the days leading up to the Tour & tests negative. Lance trains in the Colorado mountains for the race, but critics allege that he was storing blood for transfusion.As the Tour De France gets underway, Lance is at 10th position after stage 1, 22 seconds behind team mate Alberto Contador, who was not on talking terms with Lance. But by stage 2, he moved up to 2nd place. The movie digresses to a former Lance team mate Frankie who is a TV reporter & the only US one that Lance would talk to in 2009. IN 2006, Frankie & his wife had testified against Lance saying that he admitted to taking EPO. Lance denies & Frankie & his wife are immediately outcast from the cycling community of Lance's supporters. This makes Frankie's wife Betsy, obsessed with exposing the truth on Lance. She goes public on Lance's doping allegations & slowly gets support from Lance's former team mates who support her story. Lance's legal team responded with a series of lawsuits against all critics which the defendants could not afford financially. Critics also allege that UCI's president Verburgen was Lance's friend & warned Lance whenever his doping levels came close to the questionable limits. Lance admits that everyone was making money & hence it was in everyone's interest to protect Lance who was the best thing to happen to cycling in a long time. By stage 15 in 2009, Lance was 42 seconds behind Contrador who had the yellow jersey. Despite his best attempts Lance finishes 3rd, while Contrador wins. Lance feels that the fact that he raced clean in 2009 vindicates his previous victories. But a 2013 report by UCI raises doubts on Lance using blood transfusions in 2009.But what the 2009 podium did was bring all the critics out who participated & testified against Lance in a federal investigation. They are were motivated to set the record straight that a clean 2009 race didn't mean that the earlier races were dope free. The lie became impossible to defend & led to the Oprah interview in 2013. Lance was sued by the US Postal service (his sponsor in 1999 & 2000) for $ 100 M & banned for all sport for lifetime, governed by the World Anti doping agency.

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