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Alexander
Fortune
favours the bold
Genre:
Action / Adventure / War
Director: Oliver Stone
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Cast: Colin Farrell, Rosario Dawson, Anthony
Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer
Conquering
90% of the known world by the age of 25, Alexander the Great
(Farrell) led his armies through 22,000 miles of sieges and
conquests in just eight years. Coming out of tiny Macedonia,
Alexander led his armies against the mighty Persian Empire,
drove west to Egypt, and finally made his way east to India.
This film will concentrate on those eight years of battles,
as well as his relationship with his boyhood friend and battle
mate, Hephaestion. Alexander died young, of illness, at 33.
Alexander's conquests paved the way for the spread of Greek
culture (facilitating the spread of Christianity centuries
later), and removed many of the obstacles that might have
prevented the expansion of the Roman Empire. In other words,
the world we know today might never have been if not for Alexander's
bloody, yet unifying, conquest.
Ocean's
Twelve
Twelve
is the new eleven
Genre:
Comedy / Crime / Thriller
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts,
Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Bernie Mac
It's been
three years since Danny Ocean, and his crew--fronted by detail
man, Rusty Ryan, up-and-coming pickpocket Linus Caldwell,
explosives expert Basher Tarr, and safecracker Frank Catton--pulled
off one of the most audacious and lucrative heists in history,
robbing ruthless entrepreneur Terry Benedict of every dime
stored in his impenetrable Las Vegas vault. After splitting
the $160 million take, each one of the infamous Ocean's crew
has tried to go straight, lay low and have a legit life, but
that's proven to be a challenge--much to the chagrin of Danny's
wife Tess. When someone breaks rule number one and rats them
out to Benedict, going straight is no longer an option; he
wants his $160 million back--with interest, or else. And as
the gang quickly discovers, Benedict isn't the only powerful
person in the world looking for Ocean's Eleven.
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