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This was a draft from last month, I had more to say then, but here’s what this film will boil down to. Puts your stomach in searing knots, enables sadness, desperation and hopelessness. A reminder that only time can heal some things.

Candy is one of those films where you walk away feeling a little bit stunned by the awful reality it exposes. It is not a pretty film nor a pretty subject, but as another “drug” film, at least we can feel an empathy for the main characters,whilst the horror of heroin addiction is still depicted.

It is this balance that sets “Candy” apart from many other druggie pics.The love between Candy and Dan is very real. Affectionate, painful,hopeful and hopeless, it transcends the heroin story to the extent where we really hope everything will work out for them; though we’re taken on the ride of rapid decline so familiar with this drug.

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart… I carry your heart, I carry it in my heart.

Plot: This story is a narration from an Australian man who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. The narrator changes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, while Candy changes from an actress, call girl, streetwalker, and then a madwoman. Starting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other possessions and attachments become unimportant.

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IMDB: Candy (2006)
Runtime: 108 minutes
Director: Neil Armfield
Cast: Abbie Cornish, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge

Torrent: Candy[2006]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo (TPB | 701.62 MB)

The sound track is solid. Two of my personal favorites headline the mood.

Download: [Rodriguez - Sugarman]

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Torrent: [Candy Original Sound Track]

Wiki: Candy (2006 film)

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Photos from Stavey Pullen’s AIDS benefit, as well as Cliff Bell’s will be up later, come back soon.

La Jetée is set in a post-nuclear war paris and focuses on a group of survivors living underground as they experiment with time travel. It was produced with minimal budget, has no dialogue, and was constructed almost entirely from black and white still photographs. It is simply one of the most stunning and important visual statements made in the last hundred years.

If you have not seen the film, you must. You can watch it below in three parts (it’s only 28 minutes long).

In 1996 mit press produced a book of images from La Jetée. That book is now out of print, but this year zone books reissued La Jetée in all its glory. The book includes all of the film’s original images along with the script in both english and french. You can buy a copy at mitpress.mit.edu.

IMDB: 8.3/10 (1962) link
Torrent: [La_Jetee_(1962)] TPB

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!Lagniappe!:

La Jetée is the film that inspired inspired “12 monkeys”.
IMDB: 8.1/10 (1995) link
Torrent: 12_monkeys (1995) TPB

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Barrack Obama ramalama diggity ding de dong. If you’re here for my political pov, I’m going to assume you’re in a hospital, on one of those new fancy in-room lab laptops… you might have sustained a head injury, you need to go ahead fill the out-patient form.. I’ll wait.

So everyone’s high, our babies are being farmed for the good of the disfigured, and there’s a brother in the oval office, hes probably smoking a barrack obama sized blunt right now. In celebration of this achievement, I asked my little sister to write a review on New Jack City, which she hasn’t seen. It she followed the format. score. Here’s to you Barrack.

“Where survival depends on friends, trust and power… An organized crime family out to run this city is up against cops who knows its streets.”
“They’re a new breed of gangster.”
“The new public enemy.”
“The new family of crime.”
-plagiarism

Plot: New Jack City written by Thomas Lee Wright, is a story focused on real-life Detroit gang about the Chambers brothers. A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megamanical while a maverick police detective vows to stop him. Even thought i haven’t seen this movie yet, it looks like blade is in it so, i would go and watch it. OH! and that dude from law and order…the one where people always get raped. ICE-T MAN! ALSO the dude that plays a donkey in Madagascar… i think hes in rush hour too, wait.. that was Chris rock. Well that pretty much sums up the cast. The director, Mario Van Peebles (who happens to look like DMC), has won 6 awards and received 10 nominations. This movie alone has received an award along with 3 nominations.

Even thought movie only won one award, it was nominated for 3 others…but DIDN’T win….so what does that tell you. So maybe go watch a movie by M. Night Shyamalan… hes got a really cool name. Shyamalan is a proud director nominated for 2 Oscars with another 9 wins & 19 nominations its pretty crazy…but he has nothing to do with this movie, so moving on.

Bloopers?

ARE THE BEST PART OF MOVIES!

The amount of crack in the vial on the table changes in the duration of when they first decide to change operations.

Even though “Pookie”{course, that’s a real name} is supposed to be dead, he is shown blinking during the bomb defusing scene. !

When Nino stabs Kareem, the dagger is in Kareem’s hand in one shot, but next to his hand in another.
…they obviously don’t know how to kill people.

HERES SOME faq and INFORMATION!….

Genre: Ghetto Deaths | Crime | Drama | Thriller | Druggies Enormous
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Mario Van Peebles, Bill Nunn, Michael Michele, Bill Cobbs, Vanessa Williams
Rating: R
IMDB Rating: 8.9/10
Release Date: 8 March 1991 (USA)

Torrent: [TPB] | 1.36 GB

this review would not be possible without the lovly typings of Marlene “lena” Schizas.

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I just downloaded this, haven’t had the time opportunity to watch yet. It’s a french animated drama/comedy with rather high ratings from critics and fans as well. The movie holds awesome 8.2 points at IMDB and 94% at RT. The release contains English subtitles and some scenes are also English so you shouldn’t have problems understanding this story.

PERSEPOLIS presents a deeply personal coming-of-age tale about finding one’s place in the world. Based on her bestselling graphic novel, Marjane Satrapi teamed up with underground comic book artist Vincent Paronnaud to co-direct this animated big screen adaptation. The result is an electrifying, heartfelt, and original portrait of a spunky girl who surmounts countless obstacles to grow into a wise young adult. Marjane (voiced by Chiara Mastroianni) is an innocent nine-year-old living in Iran, surrounded by a loving but incredibly protective mother (Catherine Deneuve) and father (Simon Abkarian).

Persepolis.2007.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT

1 CD, 700 MB, vmt-persepolis-xvid

95 min, 608 x 320, 700 kbps, AC3 5ch
IMDB, RT, NFO, torrent

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Charles Trenet: Boum, a tune designed to lift your spirits.

The original beyond the sea. so beautiful

come back and i’ll deliver a torrent

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For those of you who are fans of foreign films, this is a real treat. HLS has brought you the unrated version of Oscar winner Ang Lee’s new film. With good ratings all around, this is sure to be a decent watch. Seeing as the run-time is 158 minutes, HLS definitely did a hot job because the samples look great. According to the info, subtitles exist for the release. One of the most sensual sex scenes I have witnessed in a long time, great cinematography and rich color balance.

Synopsis: Lust, Caution is the new film from Ang Lee, the Academy Award-winning director of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. A startling erotic espionage thriller about the fate of an ordinary woman’s heart, it is based on the short story by revered Chinese author Eileen Chang, and stars Asian cinema icon Tony Leung opposite screen newcomer Tang Wei.

Shanghai, 1942. The World War II Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a café, places a phone call, and then sits and waits. She remembers…

… how her story began several years earlier, in 1938 China. She is not in fact Mrs. Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei). With WWII underway, Wong has been left behind by her father, who has escaped to England. As a freshman at university, she meets fellow student Kuang Yu Min (Wang Leehom). Kuang has started a drama society to shore up patriotism. As the theater troupe’s new leading lady, Wong realizes that she has found her calling, able to move and inspire audiences — and Kuang. He convenes a core group of students to carry out a radical and ambitious plan to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee (Tony Leung).

Genre: Drama/Romance/Thriller/War

IMDB rating: 8.1 (4,662 votes)

Directed by: Ang Lee

Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wei Tang, Joan Chen, Lee-Hom Wang, Chung Hua Tou, Chih-ying Chu

Release Name: Lust.Caution.2007.UNRATED.LiMiTED.DVDRiP.XViD-HLS

Size: 2 CD, 1.4 GB

Quality: DVDRip, XviD, 640×352, video 1074k, audio 156k @ VBR MP3

Runtime: 158 minutes

Filename: hls-lustcaution

Links: IMDB, Homepage, Trailer

Samples: Here

NFO: Here

Torrent: NewTorrents

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