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Movie - Beautiful Creatures

Director: Richard LaGravenese Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Viola Davis, Jeremy Irons, Emmy Rossum Classification: P13 Genre: Drama / Romance Running Time: 2 Hours 3 Minutes Distributor: Gsc Movies Synopsis Based on the young adult fantasy novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, "Beautiful Creatures" is set in fictional Gatlin, South Carolina. Protagonist Ethan Wate lives with his writer father and housekeeper Amma who is more like his grandmother. On the first day of Ethan's sophomore year, he wakes up from a recurring dream he has been having about a girl he does not know. He also finds a song called Sixteen Moons on his iPod and also notices the smell of rosemary and lemon but he has no clue why. At school Ethan find out there is a new female transfer student and hears her playing Sixteen Moons in a band. When Ethan drives her home he almost runs over Lena looking for someone to help with her broken down car. It is when Ethan notices that she sme...

Movie - Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons

Directed by: Derek Kok, Stephen Chow Starring: Chrissie Chau, Huang Bo, Show Luo, Shu Qi, Zhang Wen Language: Cantonese Genre: Adventure Running time: 1 Hour 50 Minutes Classification: P13 Distributed by: 20th Century Fox Synopsis: Based on one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature of the same name, Stephen Chow's "Journey To The West" is a contemporary remake of the misadventures of a Buddhist monk as he makes a pilgrimage from China to India. The monk travelled to the "Western Regions" during the Tang Dynasty, to obtain sacred texts (sūtras). The bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (Guanyin), on instruction from the Buddha, gives this task to the monk and his three protectors in the form of disciples - namely Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing - together with a dragon prince who acts as Xuanzang's steed, a white horse. These four characters have agreed to help Xuanzang as atonement for their past sins. credit form cinema.com.my L...