Showing posts with label L. Show all posts
Showing posts with label L. Show all posts

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Legend of a Rabbit (2011)



One day, a dying Kung Fu master flees from the Imperial City to a small village. He’s been betrayed by his number one disciple and is on his last dying breathe. He is found by a humble farmhouse cook named Tu who, at the request of the dying master, must return a very important Kung Fu Academy Tablet to the master’s daughter Peony in the imperial city. Tu made a simple promise that turns out to change his life forever.



Monday, August 8, 2011

Link (2011)



If "Inception" made the controlling of dreams and thoughts come true, "Link" shows how telepathy between people could become a reality. Lee Jae-hyun, the protagonist of "Link", has a sister who is in a coma. He spends his life wishing to see his sister come back to life however his hope eventually dies out. While grief stricken Lee meets an attractive girl, Su-jeong, through his trusted friend, Gu Seong-wu. Su-jeong and Jae-hyun not only build their friendship but they develop a link that let them share their five senses and even their thoughts. As the link gets stronger, Jae-hyun becomes ever more addicted to Su-jeong’s power. This infatuation with the link endangers Jae-hyun.



Lupin the Third: The Secret of Mamo (1978)



In Transylvania, Lupin III, the notorious international thief, is hung and no one is more suprised to learn of that than Lupin III himself, who was alive and well and nowhere near that area at that time. The answer to that mystery, begins to surface when Lupin gets a seemingly ordinary pebble from an Egyptian pyramid for his would-be girlfriend, Fujiko, the mercenary thief, who is in the employ of a mysterious figure known only as Mamo. Intrigued by this bizarre request, Lupin decides to get involved and finds himself in an international chase that has a greater scope and danger than he has ever faced.



Thursday, August 4, 2011

La Cabina (1972)


A man gets trapped inside a telephone box. Onlookers unsuccessfully try to free him. Then the men from the telephone company arrive, but relief turns into puzzlement, then horror, as it transpires what they have in store for him.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)


In a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel a stranger tries to persuade a married woman to run away with him, but it seems she hardly remembers the affair they may have had (or not?) last year at Marienbad.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Laila Isabella (2003)


Laila is a happy go-lucky tomboy and works at a VCD shop, owned by Azam. Secretly, both Azam and Laila are in love with each other but both are loathe to be the first to say it. One day, Laila meets Johan, a dashing gentleman who has just had a fight with his very eccentric girlfriend, Mira. Johan happens to see Laila dolled up like a princess. Laila is doing a favour for Kak Bell, and models in her spare time. She is taken aback by this unsolicited attention from this man, and lies about who she really was. Hence, Isabella is born. Then, begins the adventure of Laila Isabella.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Laksamana Do Re Mi (1972)


Laksamana Do Re Mi (Admirals Do, Re, and Mi) is a 1972 Malaysian black and white comedy film directed by P. Ramlee. It is the third installment in the "Do Re Mi" series of comedy films, and features the trio of actors P. Ramlee, A. R. Tompel and Ibrahim Din reprising their roles as Do, Re and Mi respectively. The story is loosely based on one of stories in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, and features the trio becoming admirals and using magic to save a faraway kingdom from ruin. This film is notable as being the last film P. Ramlee made before his death in 1973.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Labu dan Labi (1963)


Haji Bakhil, a miser, have two servants, Labu - the cook, and Labi - the driver. The two of them have secret admiration for Haji Bakhil's beautiful daughter, Manisah. After a hard day's work, Labu and Labi started talking about their girlfriend not knowing that they both admire the same women. During bedtime, they lamented to each other about their life being poor and wondered what would happen if they were rich and famous. Labu pretended that he was a doctor and Labi a magistrate judge.

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Love Birds (2011)


Doug (Rhys Darby) lives in the perfect no worry world but his life shatters when long term girlfriend Susan (Faye Smythe) dumps him. Though Doug discovers an injured duck and starts to nurse it better. This new found motivation propels Doug into a new journey in his life which causes him to fall in love with veterinarian Holly (Sally Hawkins). Though the path to love is never easy and just when you think you've got a handle on it, it takes flight. Susan comes back into his life, and Doug must learn a valuable lesson, lean on his friends and follow his heart.



Friday, July 15, 2011

Leroy & Stitch (2006)


Lilo, Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley have finally caught all of Jumba's genetic experiments and found the one true place where each of them belongs. Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley are offered positions in the Galactic Alliance, turning them down so they can stay on Earth with Lilo. But Lilo realizes her alien friends have places where they belong, and it's finally time to say "aloha." Meanwhile, Gantu has left Earth and broken Doctor Jacques Von Hamsterviel out of prison, who's planning to create and clone a new experiment named "Leroy," one that will allow him take over the galaxy.



Thursday, July 14, 2011

Love Likes Coincidences (2011)


Year 1977, a September morning in Ankara... Yilmaz tries to rush his pregnant wife Neriman to the hospital and he crushes into Omer's car. This accident causes Omer's pregnant wife Inci, who was in the back seat, to have a pre-term labor. The babies are born on the same day. They see each other for the first time... This accident is the threshold of the coincidences that bring Ozgur and Deniz together. They come across each other in Ankara several times during their childhood and youth. Each intersection has a butterfly effect, resulting in drastic changes in their lives. They become each other's puppy love or their first heartbreak... But beyond this, each confluence changes their route of life. Not only theirs, but also their families'... They sometimes cause disasters, sometimes miracles. However, they can never be together. Whatever it is that brings them together...

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Long Time Dead (2002)


A group of British students enbark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people who summoned it to die.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Lies in Plain Sight (2010)


“Lies in Plain Sight” tells the story of Eva and her blind cousin Sofia (Martha Higareda), who were inseparable as children, with Eva the loyal companion who helped Sofia through her tough adolescent years. When Eva suddenly commits suicide, Sofia rushes home to her father, Hector (Benito Martinez), and Eva’s parents, Marisol (Rosie Perez) and Rafael (Yul Vásquez), to find answers. But the more she delves into Eva’s life, questioning her past boyfriends Ethan (Chad Michael Murray) and Christian (Christoph Sanders), the more Sofia realizes that their childhood was actually filled with dark, disturbing secrets.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Love at 4 Size (2011)


A romantic about teenage love that sparks during a musical festival. The film revolves around young people who find different experiences of love.

Friday, July 1, 2011

La Vita Facile (2011)


The Italian love-triangle drama directed by Lucio Pellegrini. Mario, a successful 40-year-old surgeon who works in an expensive private clinic is getting ready to leave Rome and his pretty, spoiled wife Ginevra or a little while, to join his old friend Luca in Africa. Grumpy, racist and well-heeled Mario doesn’t like his accommodations, the lack of decent medical equipment or the bugs in Africa. But he’s there supposedly to give some meaning to his life so he begins to adapt and is even won over by the local kids. Then he gets news that Ginevra is on her way....

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Lembing Awang Pulang Ke Dayang (2009)


Set in 1776, this novel-adaptation story centre on a man called Awang, who returned to Parit Raja, Johor to marry his fiancee Dayang after being away for more than three years. Upon his return, he discovers that another man; Bachok had deceived Dayang on Awang's death with intentions to marry her the next day. Awang turns up at the wedding ceremony and uses a spear given by Raja Bugis to kill Bachok. Bachok, fatally injured, grabbed the spear in his stomach and speared his best man. The man then speared the next man he saw and this was repeated until the 99th person was speared. It was Dayang's father who was protecting Dayang. He did not continue the repeated spearing and died. Awang runs away to Endau and Dayang did not marry another till the end of her days.



Lebanon, Pa. (2010)


Will (Josh Hopkins), a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ (Rachel Kitson), his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married teacher (Samantha Mathis) and CJ confronts her conflicted father, both struggle with formidable decisions about the path their lives will take. Can we vault our differences and meet in the middle? This bittersweet comic drama tenderly explores the cultural divide in America through the lives of one extended family.