Lie With Me

Released Year: 2005
Directed by Clement Virgo

Casted by:
Lauren Lee Smith as Leila
Eric Balfour as David
Polly Shannon as Victoria
Michael Facciolo as Shy Guy

Story:

Leila is a very horny woman who needs to masturbate and have sex often. One fine night, she went to a club and manage to seduce David and Victoria to trace behind her. Leila then tackle a shy guy and have sex with him in the back alley while David and Victoria watched and have their own sex in the car.

The next day, Leila met David on the street and both chasing each other down to the garden. Leila seduce David at a corner by showing off her breast and pussy, David back off when somebody nearby. David then follow Leila back to her apartment and both of them have sex non stop. But due to the death of David's grandfather, Leila pissed off David by requesting sex again. David broke off with Leila no matter how much she wanted to continue this relationship.

After their broke off, Leila has no have any orgasm with other guy. She tried to have sex with the shy guy again but he failed to get her orgasm. Same to David, he did not feel happy when he have sex with Victoria again. The movie finish when both of them met at the club and decided to get back together and have their once amazing sex again.

L² Scored: 4/10

L² Comment:

Well, this movie is totally nothing if both of Lauren and Eric did not get nude. The only selling point of this film is sex and nudity. Lauren's nice body and Eric's cock. The story line is nothing to be mention about.

Directed by famous TV series of "The Listener" & "The L Word", Clement Virgo sure is good in directing all these erotica thingy...

I Love Hong Kong 我愛HK開心萬歲

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Eric Tsang 曾志伟

Casted by:
梁家辉 Tony Leung & 黄宗泽 Bosco Wong as 吴顺 Shun
曾志伟 Eric Tsang & 王祖蓝 ZhoLam Wong as 托水龙 Long
吴君如 Sandra Ng as 顺嫂 Shun's wife
袁詠仪 Anita Yuen & 沈卓盈 Jess Sum as 白素贞 Jane
李治廷 Aarif Rahman as 吴明 Ming
冯淬帆 Stanley Fung as 吴通 Tong
林欣彤 Mag Lam as 吴芝 Zhi
陆永 Sixwing as 叶谢邓 Deng
陈法拉 Fala Chen as 李琪 Nicki
阮兆祥 Louis Yuen, 卢觅雪 Michelle Lu, 徐子珊 Kate Tsui & 郑欣宜 Joyce Cheng as 孖妹 Twins
午马 Wu Ma as 李滷味 Mei
Story:

30 years ago, Shun & Long are brothers. Both of them fall in love with the twins who own a bread shop. Though so, Shun has a girlfriend Jane while Long has a girlfriend Pauline. Pauline has won the Ms HongKong and decided to left. Jane too left one day without informing others.

30 years later, Shun has married and have 3 children of his own. But due to his failure in his business, he went back to the apartment to stay with his father Tong. Shun's son Ming has a girlfriend Nicki, but Ming as a officer arrested Nicki's father Mei one day. But Mei finally forgot him when he knows Ming is a good guy. Shun's daughter Zhi is a model wanna be. But due to her not so good potential, she failed. But she met a good guy Deng who fall in love with her.

Long came back one day and be friend with everyone again. Long and Shun passed by the twins bread shop and decided to meet their first love but in the end saw two big size scary woman. They ran away and in the playground, Long told Shun that Jane has came back. Shun met Jane, still as beautiful as ever. Jane and Shun try to avoid Shun's wife to misunderstood and created a lot of laughter. Shun's wife went to work to help her family and make a fool of herself in the shopping mall. She jumped her way back after being wrapped up. Her funny look has make a good attention in the country, she use this to help Shun to sell off his toys.

Long suggested all of the neighbor to invest in shop lots. When everyone trusted Long and took out their money, Long was gone. Shun and others believe Long has stole the money just like 30 years ago. But Jane told the truth, 30 years ago, Long took the money and help her instead. Finally Long is back and inform everyone that he has solved the problem and the neighbor got to own their own shops in the end.

L² Scored: 9/10

L² Comment:

This should be the only Chinese New Year movie i watch in the cinema. Love the comedy, the story is good, actors & actresses are good, love Tony Leong, love Sandra Ng, love Eric Tsang and of coz Anita Yuen, Aarif Rahman, Fala Chen and many others more.

Love the most is when Louis Yuen & Michelle Lu act as the old version of Kate Tsui & Joyce Cheng. It is so funny that me and Julius laugh non stop in the cinema ~ lol.. A movie not to be missed~

City Of Life And Death 南京！南京！

Released Year: 2008
Directed by 陆川 Lu Chuan

Casted by:
刘烨 Liu Ye as 陸劍雄 Lu JiangXiong
高圆圆 Gao YuanYuan as 姜淑雲 Jiang ShuYun
范伟 Fan Wei as 唐天祥 Mr Tang
中泉英雄 Hideo Nakaizumi as 角川 Kadokawa
秦岚 Qin Lan as 唐周氏 Mrs Tang
江一燕 Jiang YiYan as 江香君 Xiao Jiang
宫本裕子 as 百合子 Yuriko
木幡龍 Ryu Kohata as 伊田修 Ida
劉斌 Liu Bin as 小豆子 Xiao DouZhi
John Paisely as John Rabe
Beverly Peckous as Minnie Vautrin
Story:

City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, shortly after the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the capital of the Republic of China, Nanking. What followed is now known as the Nanking Massacre, a period of several weeks wherein massive numbers of Chinese prisoners of war and civilians were killed.

After some KMT commanders of the National Revolutionary Army flee Nanking, a Chinese Nationalist KMT soldier, Lu Jianxiong and fellow soldier Zhao attempt to stop a fleeing group of troops from leaving the city, but as they exit the city gates, they are captured by Japanese Imperial troops that have surrounded the city.

As the Japanese search the city, a Japanese soldier named Masao Kadokawa and other troops are raided by Lu and a small unit of KMT regular and irregular soldiers who attack from building tops. However, they are eventually forced to surrender as more Japanese troops arrive. Lu is captured and all the soldiers are marched out to the beach to be killed in a mass execution. Afterwards, Zhao finds Lu dead, but also sees that Xiaodouzi, a young boy soldier, has survived. Both of them flee to the Nanking Safety Zone run Dr. John Rabe, a German business man and Nazi party member as well as other Westerners. In this safety zone, thousands of Chinese women, children, elderly men, and wounded soldiers seek refuge from the killing. The safety zone is forcefully entered several times by bands of Japanese soldiers intent on raping female refugees. Due to the repeated intrusions, the women are forced to cut their hair and dress like men in order to avoid being raped. Xiaojiang, an attractive prostitute refuses to do so saying that she needs to keep her hair in order to feed herself.

Meanwhile, Kadokawa develops feelings for a Japanese comfort woman named Yuriko, and struggles to come to terms with the omnipresent violence around him with his own conflicting impulses. Despite his feelings of alienation, Kadokawa brings Yuriko candy and gifts from Japan and vows to marry her after the war.

Mr. Tang, a longtime assistant to Rabe, and Ms. Jiang Shuyun, a young female teacher, manage the daily operation of the safety zone. Although in a privileged position, Mr. Tang is unable to protect his child daughter from being killed by a Japanese soldier, and his sister-in-law from being raped. When the Japanese commander Osamu Ida requires 100 female refuges to work as "comfort women", Dr. Rabe and Ms. Jiang tearfully make the announcement to the refugees. Xiaojiang and other attractive women volunteer to be comfort women.

Kadokawa meets Xiojiang and brings her rice but witnesses another soldier rape her as she lies almost lifeless. Later, many of the volunteer comfort women including Xiaojiang die due to the non-stop rape (non-fictional event which happened at Ginling College, Nanjing). Kadokawa feels further alienated when Ida shoots Mr. Tang's sister in-law May who has apparently lost her mind singing opera.

Dr. Rabe is ordered back to Germany because his activities with the safety zone are harming the relationship between Nazi Germany and Japan. As a personal assistant to Rabe, Tang and his wife are allowed to leave Nanjing with Rabe. Although Tang is about to leave, he changes his mind and stays in order to search for May. He trades places with an officer pretending to be Dr. Rabe's assistant which Ida allows despite knowing he is actually a soldier. Mrs. Tang's is revealed to be pregnant before saying goodbye. As soon as Mrs. Tang and Rabe leave, Ida orders Tang shot by firing squad.

The Japanese disband the safety zone and begin to hunt down any men that look like soldiers. The Japanese claim that soldiers should come forward promising work and pay and will not be executed. However, all males deemed to be soldiers are put in a truck to be executed. Zhao, the soldier who survived the initial mass execution, is physically checked along with his hands and is initially deemed to be a non-combatant, but is noticed by a Japanese soldier and gets put in the truck of men believed to be soldiers.

After a plea is made by the remaining Westerners, Ida allows family members to select one male to be saved. Ms. Jiang rescues one male by claiming that he is her husband and then returns for Zhao. She also tries to claims him as her husband along with Xiaodouzi pretending to be his son. Kadokawa looks straight at Ms. Jiang but does not reveal her ruse. However, another Japanese soldier points her out to Ida and has all three of them captured. Zhao is again taken away along with Xiaodouzi this time. Ms. Jiang, knowing that she may be raped to death asks Kadokawa to shoot her. He grants her wish and shoots her much to the other soldiers' surprise.

Afterwards, Kadokawa looks for Yuriko but finds out that she has died traveling with the Japanese troops who have left Nanking. He says the she was his wife at one point. Celebrating the conquest of Nanking, the Japanese perform a dance where Kadokawa reveals his emotional turmoil over what he has done and witnessed.

Zhao and Xiaodouzi are marched out of town by Kadokawa and another soldier. Zhao and Xiaodouzi are surprised when Kadokawa releases them. Kadokawa tells the other soldier that "Life is more difficult than death." As the other Japanese soldier walks away, Kadokawa weeps before shooting himself to escape from his guilt. Zhao and Xioadouzi walk away delighted to still be alive.

In the ending credits, it is revealed that Mrs. Tang lived to an old age as well as Commander Ida. Xiaodouzi is shown to still be alive today.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

Awards winner in San Sebastian Film Festival 2009 in Spain, the director and actors are nominated in few other awards as well. Lu Chuan cleverly chose to film this movie in black and white which match the scenery, sadness of this movie.

By the way, this japanese hot stud Hideo Nakaizumi is definitely hot :)

Shaolin 新少林寺

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 陳木勝 Benny Chan

Casted by:
劉德華 Andy Lau as 侯傑 Jie
謝霆鋒 Nicholas Tse as 曹蛮 Man
成龍 Jackie Chan as 悟道 Dao
范冰冰 Fan BingBing as 颜夕 Yan
吳京 Wu Jing as 净能 Neng
释延能 Shi Yan Neng as 净空 Kong
Story:

Jie is a violence lieutenant who never let his rival survive and he is the head of Man, Man was trained to be as cool as Jie in war. Jie and Yan has a daughter, but their daughter was killed during a fight between Jie and his brotherhood. Jie managed to send his daughter to Shaolin temple but failed to save her life, Yan was frustrated and left Jie.

In Shaolin, Jie noted the truth of a living from Dao and decided to become a monk and stay in Shaolin temple. Though Jie had has a fight with Neng and other monks before, but everything become well when they realise that Jie has changed into a better person.

In the meanwhile, Man has took over Jie's place in the arm force and become more cruel than Jie. Man came to Shaolin temple and decided to catch Jie. Man also caught Yan and torture her in front of Jie. But while they are fighting each other, the caucasian came and attack the temple with bomb. The shaolin monks protect the citizen while Dao was told to lead them away. Man and Jie fight and in the end Jie died because he wanted to save Man.

Man realise the horror of war and decided to stop in the end.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

A remake of the same shaolin film in 1982, this is definitely much more better. The bombing part and all others things are so real, even Andy, Nicholas and Jackie make a good show in this movie, bravo :)

Love Nicholas' style and the way he looks in the movie, so cool and so dangerous~ nice

The Tourist

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Casted by:
Johnny Depp as Frank Tupelo/Alexander Pearce
Angelina Jolie as Elise Clifton-Ward
Paul Bettany as Inspector John Acheson
Timothy Dalton as Chief Inspector Jones
Story:

A woman named Elise is being trailed in Paris by French police working with Scotland Yard. At a cafe, she receives a letter from Alexander Pearce, a former lover, with explicit directions to board a train to Venice, Italy, pick out a man who resembles him and make the police believe that this man is Alexander Pearce. A mysterious stranger, not involved with the police, also seems to be watching Elise. Elise burns the letter and boards a train.

She takes a seat beside Frank, an American tourist reading a spy novel. Frank is instantly attracted to her. The train arrives in Venice, and they take a boat to the Hotel Danieli. At dinner, much to Frank's dismay, Elise admits to having feelings for another man, presumably Alexander Pearce. They share a kiss, witnessed by the men following her.

The next day, Frank awakens to find Elise gone. Men suddenly try to break into the hotel room. Frank barely escapes but is caught by the Italian police. A sympathetic detective listens to Frank's story that he does not know why these men are after him. He takes Frank from the jail and tells him that his story checks out, and that the men after him were Belarusians who have placed a prize on his head and who believe Frank to be someone else. The detective however then delivers Frank into the clutches of these same men, in order to collect the money they promised.

Elise appears suddenly to rescue Frank, fleeing on a boat. Elise finally tells Frank that all this is happening because she kissed him and made the police believe that he was Alexander Pearce. Frank learns that Pearce stole two billion from a gangster named Shaw and is wanted by the British Government for tax evasion. Stunned by the news, Frank says he still does not regret kissing Elise.

Elise apologizes for getting him involved at all and tricks Frank off the boat. Frank says he loves her. Elise goes to a government building. She turns out to be a secret agent for Britain. She sees her fellow British agent Acheson, who was among those following her in Paris. Elise was supposed to work undercover against Pearce but fell in love with him and had disappeared from her job until now. She tells Acheson that she is ready to help him find Pearce now because she wants to prevent anybody else from getting hurt.

Elise goes to a ball Pearce has invited her to attend, wearing a wire. She is handed a letter by the same mysterious stranger from Paris. The letter is from Pearce, saying where to meet him. As Elise turns to leave, Frank is standing in front of her. They dance. Elise leaves to find Pearce and agent Acheson's men apprehend Frank. They both watch on surveillance equipment as Elise walks into a trap set by the gangster Shaw. The gangster threatens to kill her unless she returns the money Pearce stole from him. Agent Acheson doesn't help his colleague Elise, confident that Pearce will show up to rescue her.

Elise reveals the safe's location but does not know its code. Frank watches in horror as Elise is threatened yet again. Seeing that Acheson won't help Elise, Frank picks the lock to his handcuffs and escapes to help her. Frank pretends to be Pearce. Elise begs him to stop or he will be killed. Frank, acting as Pearce, tells Shaw that he will get his money but only if Elise is first released and safe. As Frank pretends that he is about to open the safe, Elise mouths "I love you."

All of a sudden, Chief Inspector Jones gives the order for the police snipers to shoot Shaw and his men. Frank and Elise are unharmed. As the police survey the scene, agent Acheson can't believe that Pearce did not save Elise and Jones is furious with him for exposing her to danger. Jones then informs Elise that she has been terminated from the force. A police report informs them that Pearce has just been caught. As the room clears, Elise and Frank embrace. He asks her if she loves both him and Alexander Pearce. Elise answers yes. To spare her from this dilemma, Frank reveals that he is the real Alexander Pearce by entering the correct code for the safe. Pearce had gotten plastic surgery, so he could have a new life.

The arrested man believed to be Pearce explains to police that he was paid to pretend and that he is just a tourist. Elise and Frank/Pearce leave on a boat with the money, finally being able to be together. In the safe, police find a bankers check for the ₤744 million in back taxes Pearce owed the British government.

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

Florian is a Germany director who does not directed much, but this film is definitely a good try for him. Angelina is still hot as usual, but her acting is kinda so so in this film while Johnny Depp does not show much of his talent in this film as well.

A remake of a french film in 2005, The Tourist has achieve quite some nomination in a few academy awards but does not win any awards at this moment.

The Shining

Released Year: 1980
Directed by Stanley Kubrick

Casted by:
Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance
Shelley Duvall as Wendy Torrance
Danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance
Scatman Crothers as Dick Hallorann
Story:

Jack Torrance arrives at the Overlook Hotel to interview for the open position of winter caretaker, with the aim of using the hotel's solitude to work on his writing. The hotel itself is built on the site of an Indian burial ground and becomes completely snowbound during the long winters. Manager Stuart Ullman warns him that a previous caretaker got cabin fever and killed his family and himself. Jack’s son, Danny, has ESP and has had a terrifying premonition about the hotel. Jack's wife, Wendy, tells a visiting doctor that Danny has an imaginary friend called Tony and that Jack had given up drinking because he had physically abused Danny after a binge.

The family arrives at the hotel on closing day and is given a tour. The elderly African-American chef Dick Hallorann surprises Danny by speaking to him telepathically and offering him some ice cream. He explains to Danny that he and his grandmother shared the gift, which he calls "shining." Danny asks if there is anything to be afraid of in the hotel, particularly Room 237. Hallorann tells Danny that the hotel itself has a "shine" to it along with many memories, not all of which are good. He tells Danny to stay out of room 237.

A month passes and Jack's writing project is going nowhere. Meanwhile, Danny and Wendy have fun and go in the hotel's hedge maze; Jack discovers a model of this maze, showing Wendy and Danny inside it, in one of the hotel lounges. Wendy is concerned about the phone lines being out due to the heavy snowfall and Danny has more frightening visions. As time passes, Jack becomes frustrated and slowly starts acting strangely, prone to violent outbursts. Danny’s curiosity about Room 237 finally gets the better of him when he sees the room has been opened. Later, Danny shows up injured and visibly traumatized, causing Wendy to think that Jack has been abusing Danny. Jack wanders into the hotel’s Gold Room where he meets a ghostly bartender named Lloyd who serves him bourbon on the rocks. Jack complains to the bartender about his relationship with Wendy. Afterward, Wendy shows up and informs him that Danny told her a "crazy woman in one of the rooms" was responsible for his injuries. Jack investigates Room 237 and has an encounter with the ghost of a dead woman there, but tells Wendy he saw nothing. Wendy and Jack argue about whether Danny should be removed from the hotel and Jack returns to the Gold Room, now filled with ghosts having a costume party. Here, he meets who he believes is the ghost of the previous caretaker, Grady, who tells Jack that he must "correct" his wife and child. Later, Jack sabotages the hotel's two-way radio and the snowcat, cutting off both communication with and access to the outside world.

Meanwhile, in Florida, Dick Hallorann gets a premonition that something is wrong at the hotel and takes a flight back to Colorado to investigate. Danny starts calling out "redrum" frantically and goes into a trance, now referring to himself as "Tony." Wendy discovers Jack's typewriter and that he has been typing endless pages of manuscript repeating "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" formatted in various styles. Horrified, she confronts Jack, but he threatens her before she knocks him unconscious with a baseball bat and locks him in a kitchen pantry. Jack converses through the door with Grady, who then unlocks the door, releasing him.

Danny has written "REDRUM" in lipstick on the door of Wendy’s bedroom. When Wendy sees this in a mirror, she sees that the letters spell out "MURDER". Jack, armed with a fire axe, then begins to chop through the door leading to his family's living quarters. Wendy frantically sends Danny out through the bathroom window, but cannot fit through it herself. Jack then starts chopping down the bathroom door with the axe and leers through the hole he has made, shouting "Here's Johnny!", but backs off after Wendy slashes his hand with a butcher knife. Hearing the engine of a snowcat Hallorann has borrowed to get up the mountain, Jack leaves the room and begins to wander about the hotel, ambushing and killing Hallorann with the axe in the lobby. Wendy escapes the bathroom and flees through the hotel, but encounters several ghosts along the way. Meanwhile, Jack pursues Danny into the hedge maze by following his footprints, but is misled when Danny manages to walk backwards in his own tracks and leaps behind a corner, covering his tracks with snow. Wendy and Danny escape in Hallorann's snowcat while Jack slowly freezes to death in the hedge maze.

In the final scene, the camera slowly zooms in on an old photograph taken at the hotel on July 4, 1921 as Midnight, the Stars, and You is played through the hallways. A smiling Jack Torrance is at the front of the crowd of revelers.

L² Scored: 9/10

L² Comment:

Love watching this film, it always spook me out... got a lot of goosebumps when i see it, maybe the movie's music is making the whole movie works :)

From the novel of Stephen Kings, but the writer doubt about the film and does not really love it that time but this movie is getting a bit hit in 1980. Shelley Duvall looks weird but kinda high fashion face :P Jack Nicholson in another hand is always one of my favorite actor. An epic movie which u should not miss in your lifetime...

Bring It On: Fight To The Finish

Released Year: 2009
Directed by Bille Woodruff

Casted by:
Christina Milian as Katalina "Lina" Cruz
Cody Longo as Evan Whitbourne
Holland Roden as Sky
Rachele Brooke Smith as Avery Whitbourne
Nikki SooHoo as Christina
Vanessa Born as Gloria
Gabrielle Dennis as Treyvonetta Brown
Meagan Holder as Kayla
Story:

Lina Cruz is a tough, sharp-witted Latina cheerleader from East L.A. who transfers to the posh, Malibu Vista high school after her widowed mother remarries a wealthy man. Lina not only finds herself a fish-out-of-water at her new high school, she also faces off against Avery, the snobbish and ultra-competitive all-star cheerleading captain who leads her own squad, 'The Jaguars' after the high school squad, the 'Sea Lions', didn't make her captain.

After Lina upsets Sky, her stepsister, she is forced to join the Sea Lions. She goes into the school stadium to check them out and finds Evan, her crush, practicing hoops. Lina impresses Evan, and the Sea Lions vote her captain. When Lina is captain, Gloria, her best friend from East L.A, is called to help her out.

After a team member from the Sea Lions quits, Lina calls her other best friend, Treyvonetta, to come and help her out. At the game, the Sea Lions go on and perform. A fall takes place. The Jaguars, led by Avery, are there and save them from their misery. Lina calls for back up and takes the Sea Lions to an impromptu flavour school to work on their movements. She later meets Evan waiting for her there, and Victor, Gloria's boyfriend, befriends him.

The next day, Lina comes up with the idea of the Sea Lions competing in the All Star Championship. After the team agrees to double up their practices, the Sea Lions are invited to a RDD party. Following Sea Lion practice, Gloria and Treyvonetta are expelled when Lina sneaks them in without approval. Lina refuses to go to the dance but is confronted by Sky. Evan takes Lina as his date to the party, where Gloria and Treyvonetta turn up. Lina and Avery proceed to have a dance off. Lina ends up winning the dance off, but Avery tells her that she doesn't belong in Malibu. Lina, angered, runs off the dance floor and outside, where Evan follows her. There she breaks up with Evan, sends for Gloria to take her back to East L.A, and quits being captain of the Sea Lions.

There, Lina is confronted by Gloria and Treyvonetta, so she stays at Malibu and becomes captain of the Sea Lions again. The next day at school, half of the Sea Lions squad quits because of Lina's routines and practices. Avery and Kayla approach Lina, Christina, and Sky to tell them that they are dreaming if they think they have a chance at winning the Spirit Championship.

Sky loses her temper and tells them to back off, otherwise a fight would start. Lina then goes on a field trip to East L.A, where Gloria has persuaded a gym to sponsor the Sea Lions and some of the members of East L.A as an All Star Squad. By combining the Sea Lions and East L.A, they become a dream team. The next day after practice, while Lina is at her locker talking with Sky and Christina, Evan kisses her. They get back together, and Lina and her team make it to the final round of the All Star Championship. The Malibu Dream Team wins the spirit championship, beating the Jaguars, Avery's team.

L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:

Watch this movie while i was traveling in Jogjakarta, Indonesia... from HBO...

The 4th movie from Bring It On series, its a smart move for the production team to look for Christina Milian as the main actress, she's sexy and hot, breath taking totally :) Love her moves and energetic in the movie, her body ~ whoosh ~ nice :) Gonna look for the DVD