m-balsara's - Rented List

August in Edinburgh sees the population swell with actors, directors, street performers, comedians, media high-flyers and audiences. And so the lives of a dozen people intersect in an outrageous comic account of hopes, dreams and fears at festival time.

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The story of Bob and Charlotte, two Americans in Tokyo. Bob (Bill Murray) is a movie star in town to shoot a whiskey commercial, while Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) is a young wife tagging along with her workaholic photographer husband.

Through their respective insomnias, the two cross paths one night in the luxury hotel bar and strike up a surprisingly intimate friendship. As the unlikely pair venture through Tokyo together, having often hilarious encounters with its citizens, they ultimately discover a new belief in life's possibilities.

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This is the single reason why every comic from Eddie Murphy through to Chris Rock calls Richard Pryor the Godfather of Comedy.

And you'd better goddam believe he's the funniest man alive, whether he's talking about the time he stepped into the ring with Ali, killed his wife's car with a 44 magnum or snorted cocaine in front of his grandmother - this is your chance to find out why Richard Pryor is the greatest comedian ever.

On a daredevil caving holiday six girls are trapped underground when an unexpected rock fall blocks their exit. Searching the maze of tunnels for a way out, they find themselves hunted by a race of fearless, hungry predators, once humanoid but now monstrously adapted to live in the dark

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Casim (Atta Yaqub) is a second generation Pakistani from Glasgow. Working as a DJ in Glasgow's coolest venues, Casim dreams of buying his own club.

His parents Tariq (Ahmad Riaz) and Sadia (Shamshad Akhtar) are devout Muslims and plan for him to marry his beautiful cousin Jasmine (Sunna Mirza), who is soon to arrive in the UK. Plans go awry when Casim meets Roisin (Eva Birthistle). A teacher at his sister Tahara's school, Roisin is different from any girl he's ever met. She's gorgeous, intelligent and definitely possesses a mind of her own. She and Casim soon fall deeply in love. But Casim knows all too well that, even if he wasn't due to marry, his parents would never accept a 'goree' - a white girl. As a Catholic, Roisin finds that her own community isn't very supportive either. When their relationship is discovered, the repercussions of the scandal reach far and wide and sparks fly as cultures clash and personalities collide.

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Fed up with being preyed upon at school by loudmouth bully George (Josh Peck), friends Sam (Rory Culkin), Clyde (Ryan Kelley) and Millie (Carly Schroeder) decide to teach their tormentor a lesson.

Inviting him out on a boat trip to celebrate Sam's birthday and joined by Sam's older brother and his friend, the group plans a prank that will put George in his place. By the end of the day, however, this close-knit group of friends will have been tested and torn apart by a series of tricky moral decisions.

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For Jack and Terry, the everyday tribulations of being parents of young children and trying to make ends meet have taken their toll on the once passionate couple.

And Hank, a self-absorbed writer at heart, is fond of his daughter and family life, but not all that interested in monogamy, it turns out. Trying to find a way to make her marriage work under the new circumstances, Edith turns to Jack for comfort. What begins as a playfully lascivious affair erupts into a season of infidelity, leaving all four to sift through the emotional wreckage to find their way home.

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Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) hates to fly, but the terror that awaits her on the night flight to Miami has nothing to do with a fear of flying.

Moments after takeoff, Lisa's (Rachel McAdams) seatmate, Jackson (Cillian Murphy), menacingly reveals the real reason he's on board: He is an operative in a plot to kill a rich and powerful businessman...And Lisa is the key to its success. If she refuses to cooperate, her father will be killed by an assassin awaiting a call from Jackson. Trapped within the confines of a jet at 30,000 feet, Lisa has nowhere to run and no way to summon help without endangering her father, her fellow passengers and her own life. As the miles tick by, Lisa knows she is running out of time as she desperately looks for a way to thwart her ruthless captor and stop a terrible murder.

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Me and You and Everyone We Know is a comic and poetic take on contemporary relationships. In her feature debut as director, Miranda July casts herself as Christine, a drifting video artist who falls for down-on-his-luck shoe salesman Richard (John Hawkes).

Recently separated from his wife, Richard struggles with his parental responsibility for seven year old Robby and teenage Peter. Left unsupervised while their dad works, the two boys amuse themselves on their PC, constructing animal pictures using the punctuation keys, and getting involved in some increasingly risque instant-messaging. Orbiting this central quartet are an assortment of expertly drawn characters, whose lives intersect in sometimes bizarre but always believable ways; from the curator of the gallery to whom Christine has submitted her video project to Robby & Peter's next door neighbour, a young girl who collects consumer goods for a "hope chest" in her bedroom.

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A powerful and extraordinary film... undoubtedly one of the best films of the year. An unflinching look at the complexities of human conflict in America. A Brentwood housewife and her DA husband. A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who are also lovers.

A black television director and his wife. A Mexican locksmith. Two car-jackers. A rookie Cop. A middle-aged Korean couple. They all live in L.A. and in the next 36 hours, they will all collide...

From wildly-imaginative kung fu showdowns to dance sequences featuring tuxedoed mobsters, you've never seen action this outrageous and characters this zany! With jaw-dropping fight sequences by Yuen Wo Ping, Kung Fu Hustle will blow you away!

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Halle Berry stars in her 'Best Actress', Academy Award - winning role as the wife of a condemned man on death row, with Billy Bob Thornton as the executioner destined to find a new life and new hope with the condemned man's widow.

Monster's Ball is a film about intersecting lives, in which the characters transform one another in a deeply profound way. But can these two people, drawn together by passion and violence, wrestle their future from the tangled grasp of the past?

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Maria Alvarez (Catalina Sandino), a bright, spirited 17-year old, lives with three generations of her family in a cramped house in rural Colombia.

Desperate to leave her job stripping thorns from flowers in a rose plantation, Maria accepts a lucrative offer to transport packets of heroin-which she must swallow-to the United States. The ruthless world of international drug trafficking proves to be more than Maria bargained for as she becomes ultimately entangled with both drug cartels and immigration officials..

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Bruce Willis stars as Hartigan, a cop with a vow to protect a stripper, Nancy (Jessica Alba); Mickey Rourke as Marv, the outcast misanthrope on a mission to avenge the death of his one true love; and Clive Owen as Dwight, the clandestine love of Shellie (Brittany Murphy), who spends his night

defending Gall (Rossario Dawson) and her Old Town girls from Jackie (Benicio Del Toro), a tough guy with a penchant for violence.

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"2046" continues the story of Chow Mo Wan from Wong Kar-Wai's previous film, 'In the Mood for Love', a few years after his ephemeral affair with Maggie Cheung's Su Li-zhen. Set in late-1960's Hong Kong, Chow is now an out of work journalist and pulp fiction writer living in a cheap hotel.

Bruised and battered by love, he pursues a playboy lifestyle of zero commitment and one-night stands. He develops a passion for a beautiful call girl (Zhang ZiYi), enjoys a breezy summer with the hotel manager's eldest daughter (Faye Wong), and happens across the path of a professional gambler (Gong Li) who he met in Singapore some years before. In the meantime, Chow works on a science fiction novel about a mysterious hi-tech train that transports people to the year 2046 to reclaim their lost memories.