Soul Food is the kind of movie that seems to have been blessed throughout its low-budget production and it has got a quality of warmth and charm that fits perfectly with its authentic drama about a large African-American family in Chicago. Twenty-eight-year-old writer-director George Tillman Jr. drew autobiographical inspiration from his upbringing in Milwaukee, and on a well-spent $6.5 million budget he succeeded where similar films (including Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back) fell short: he depicts his many characters with such depth and sympathy that, by the time they have weathered several family crises, we've come to care and feel for them and the powerful ties that bind them together. As seen through the eyes of Tillman's young alter ego Ahmad (Brandon Hammond), the film primarily focuses on the rivalries and affections that rise and fall among Ahmad's mother (Vivica A. Fox) and her two sisters (Vanessa L. Williams and Nia Long). Through them, and through the weekly Sunday dinners cooked with love by their mother, Big Mama (Irma P. Hall), we witness marital bliss and distress, infidelity, success, failure ... in short, the spices of life both bitter and sweet. But when Big Mama falls into a diabetic coma, Ahmad watches as his family begins to fall apart without the stability and love that Big Mama provided with every Sunday meal. Tillman's touch can be overly nostalgic, melodramatic and cloyingly sentimental, but never so much that the movie loses its firm grip on reality. As a universal portrait of family life, Soul Food ranks among the very best films of its kind--believable, funny, emotional and always approaching its characters (well-played by a uniformly excellent cast) with a generous spirit of forgiveness and understanding. As satisfying as one of Big Mama's delicious dinners, Soul Food is the kind of movie that keeps you coming back for more. --Jeff Shannon
Savannah Bernadine Robin and Gloria are all searching for the real thing: true love. Bernadine thought she had it until her husband left her for another woman. Savannah and Robin are successful in business but their love lives are bankrupt. Divorcee Gloria is getting back in the game by flirting with her new very eligible neighbour! Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel and featuring the #1 smash Hit ""Exhale (Shoop Shoop)"" this is the film you and your friends have bee
Ultimate Avengers (Dir. Curt Geda Steven E. Gordon 2006): Earth 1945. Humanity was on the brink of annihilation. Sinister forces pushed to seize control of the free world and only one man rose up to stop them. A man who sacrificed his life to save us all. History remembers him as our one and only Super-Soldier... We know him as Captain America. When a nuclear missile was fired at Washington in 1945 Captain America managed to detonate it in the upper atmosphere. But then he fell miles into the icy depths of the North Atlantic where he remained lost for over sixty years. But now with the world facing the very same evil Captain America must rise again as our last hope of survival and lead a strong-willed team of today's superheroes: Iron Man the billionaire bachelor used to doing things his own way. The Hulk the destructive force Bruce Banner hopes to turn into a useful member of the team. Thor a hero who has responsibilities to both the world of man and the world of gods. Wasp a petite powerhouse who sees the team as a fresh start for her and her husband otherwise known as... Giant Man sixty feet tall with an equally large chip on his shoulder. And Captain America a star-spangled idealist resurrected from a 60 year deep-freeze because this team needs a super-soldier to lead them. Ultimate Avengers 2: Rise Of The Panther (Dir. Will meugniot ; Dick Sebast ; Bob Richardson 2006): To save humanity the Earth's mightiest heroes must reunite for a rematch of heroic proportions. Mysterious Wakanda. It lies in the darkest heart of Africa unknown to most of the world. An isolated land hidden behind closed borders fiercely protected by its young king - the Black Panther. But when brutal alien invaders attack that leaves the Black Panther with no option but to go against the sacred decrees of his people and ask for help from outsiders. And so he turns to... The Avengers - Captain America Iron Man Thor Giant Man Wasp Black Widow and the Incredible Hulk. These mightiest of heroes have battled the aliens before and barely survived. They thought it was over. They were wrong.
High-speed sc-fi action movie set in the year 2033 where a rogue Automatic J76 part man part machine butler handyman and defender runs riot on the eve of a press conference to announce its invention. It must be stopped at all costs...
While visiting a good friend in a trendy Hollywood cafe Harold (Jeremy Piven) a tour bus driver spots his favourite actress Amanda Clark (Sherilyn Fenn) and introduces himself. She mistakingly assumes he is a writer and to Harold's amazement proposes a date to discuss her next movie. As their relationship grows so must Harold's charade to keep Amanda from discovering he is a Beverly Hills tour guide and not a hot-shot writer. With a rewrite deadline looming an actress swooning and his whole world rocking Harold must choose what to write as well as do what is right. He could win her heart if he would 'Just Write'.
From the director of 'The X-Files' 'Smallville' and 'Roswell' comes the new highly acclaimed series 'The Sleepwalker Project'. After a unique and dangerous experiment Dr. Nathan Bradford is able to enter people's dreams to combat the demons that plague the subconscious and endanger their lives. At the Morpheus Institute Nathan and a team of experts use a very risky method of gaining entrance into their patients nightmarish worlds. Once inside they have the capacity to solve murde
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