In this apocalyptic sci-fi feature, rookie journalist and “outworlder” Ellie Parish returns to the long abandoned frontier with the dream of writing a career-making story about the descendants of those who were left behind with an uncertain future. Be warned.
The film focuses on the storming of the Diaz school in Genoa by the police after the 2001 G8 summit. In that building were protesters against the international summit on the night between 21 and 22 July 2001. It is based on the testimonies and reports from judicial processes. Many of the characters are based (in some cases maintaining the initials) to people actually inside of Diaz on the day of the blitz: the cop played by Claudio Santamaria (Max Flamini) is Michelangelo Fournier, head of the VII nucleus of the experimental mobile squad of Rome. The journalist played by Elio Germano (Luke Gualtieri, the fictional Journal of Bologna) is Lorenzo Guadagnucci, journalist of Il Resto del Carlino. UK Indymedia journalist being massacred on the street in front of Diaz is Mark Covell. Covell from that beating had a punctured lung and went into a coma. The film develops through the intertwining stories of some of the protagonists. Luca is a reporter for the Journal of Bologna. He decides to go and verify what’s happening in Genoa, after the death of Carlo Giuliani. Alma is a German anarchist who participated in the fighting. Alma, Marco (a member of the Social Forum) and Franci (a lawyer for the Genoa Legal Forum) provide for the search for the missing. Anselmo is a senior activist in the Pensioners’ Union. He participated in a peaceful march against the G8. Etienne and Cecile are two French anarchists: they have been directly involved in the guerrilla and the clashes of those days. Finally Max, first assistant chief of police mobile squad of Rome: in the morning on 21 July 2001, he decided not to order a charge against the black-block, to avoid the involvement of so many peaceful demonstrators. The destinies of all of them and hundreds of other protesters crossed the night of July 21, 2001, in the Diaz school.
Michael Bublé continues to keep Canadian talent in the international spotlight. A 21st century throwback crooner, Michael Bublé has the kind of voice that makes the girls (theirs moms and grand moms) weak in the knees.
MICHAEL BUBLE CAUGHT IN THE ACT
MICHAEL BUBLE MEETS MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
Battered, bruised and under arrest, Harvey Miller (Luke Treadaway) sits in a police interview room facing interrogation. Clutching a stack of eyewitness statements, Detective Inspector West (Timothy Spall) has no doubt in Harvey’s part in a foiled robbery, and his subsequent attempted murder of local businessman Steven Roper. Denying everything, Harvey agrees to tell his version of events in full. We take in his release from prison a month earlier, and the malevolent, unjust act that put him in there. We see his emotional reunion with his sibling-like best friends, and the immovable loyalty they have for one another. We see the rekindling of a lost love, a second chance for two people meant for each other. We see the ingenious planning of the ill-fated robbery, the amazing twist, the shocking outcome and the real driving force behind it – retribution. What unfolds is an exhilarating, moving and hilarious story of loyalty, jealousy, friendship, revenge and the pursuit of happiness.
When college students sign up for what seems a simple paid research study, they soon realize their lives are in danger. Unfortunately they’ve unknowingly volunteered their bodies as human collateral in an ongoing U.S. Military experiment.
As cheesy as these softcore films can be sometimes, once in a while a film has a good storyline in addition to sex-a-plenty. It’s like icing on the cake when it happens, and this movie has the best looking girls I’ve seen in this genre.
Dr. Thomas Freeman married the girl of his dreams. But fate took his wife from him. After years of brooding, he has finally reopened himself to love. However, instead of finding one good woman, he finds himself having to choose between two. Christy is a vivacious young tennis pro spoiling for a love match, and Raquel is a woman as wise in the ways of pleasure as she is gentle, nurturing and true. “Tender Is the Heart” is the delicious story of how Doc Freeman decides to decide.
The young daughter of a US Senator is drawn into a hippie “free love” cult called “The Children of Light” by the blond boyfriend of the cult’s leader, a mysterious and beautiful Asian woman. The cult turns out to be not quite the “free” love community it presents itself to be.
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
Lupe ( Andrea del Rosario) and Manolo (Leandro Munoz) are a young couple whose marriage life is about to undergo a drastic change when Manolo leaves for another country. Left all alone through uneventful days and empty nights, Lupe tries to suppress her sexual needs. A task that is, as Lupe will soon discover, easier said than done especially when Elmo (Jordan Herrera), an attractive young man, enters her life and awakens her primal urges.
A young playboy who learns he has one month until he becomes infertile sets out to procreate as much as possible.
When Henry fails yet again to hand in his homework for the umpteenth time, he has no idea that this will set off a chain of events which will see him forming an unlikely alliance with Moody Margaret, the infuriating girl next door, and his irritating little brother Perfect Peter, outwitting corrupt School Inspectors and toppling an evil Headmaster, winning a talent contest and facing his ultimate nemesis with no way out – all because he is trying to save the very school which he has always professed to hate!
Rap music, sex, ethnic rivalry, anglo-ignorance, street gangs, illegal immigrants, drugs, religion and sexuality: Fat Pizza handles all these topics with absolute irreverence. Fat Pizza is unapologetic film, with a huge thumping soundtrack, and fast pace. Paul Fenech has created a major work of contemporary Australian piss-taking.
