6.7

21

2007, USA

• Actors: Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts, Laurence Fishburne, Jack McGee, Josh Gad, Sam Golzari, Helen Carey, Jack Gilpin, Donna Lows, Butch Williams, Ben Campbell, Frank Patton, Steven Richard Vezina, Chaska T. Werner, Kyle Morris, Ernell Manabat, Frank DeAngelo, Marcus Weiss, Anthony DiMaria, Christopher Michael Holley, Scott Beringer, Terasa Livingstone, Jeffrey J. Dashnaw, Colin Angle, Supriya Chakrabarti, Bradley Thoennes
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Robert Luketic
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of schooling as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intrigued by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

  6.1

Quid Pro Quo

2007, USA

• Actors: Nick Stahl, Rachel Black, Jessica Hecht, Jacob Pitts, Ashlie Atkinson, Jamie McShane, Pablo Schreiber, Jeane Fournier, Carmela Marner, Phil LaMarr, Matthew Carey, Ben Siegler, Michal Sinnott, Joshua Leonard, Vera Farmiga, For Chan, James Frain, Aimee Mullins, Dylan Bruno, Kate Burton, Ellen Marlow, Tommy Nelson, Josh Folan, Tia Dionne Hodge, Richard Serlen
• Genre: Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Carlos Brooks
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Isaac Knott is a public radio reporter in New York, in a wheelchair since an auto accident in which his parents died. He's on the rebound from a relationship when he gets a tip about people who want to be disabled, who offer money to interns to cut off a limb. He searches out a group of these wannabes, but none will talk to him. Then he meets his tipster, Fiona Ankany, an art conservator, attractive and attracted to him. She discloses her desire to be disabled, to be in a wheelchair. Meanwhile, Isaac tries on a pair of wing-tips, spectators, that restore feeling to his feet. What are the connections? What's Fiona's quid pro quo? Will Isaac get his story?

  7.4

Across the Universe

2006, USA

• Actors: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther, T.V. Carpio, Spencer Liff, Lisa Hogg, Nicholas Lumley, Michael Ryan, Angela Mounsey, Erin Elliott, Robert Clohessy, Christopher Tierney, Curtis Holbrook, John Jeffrey Martin, Matt Caplan, Timothy R. Boyce Jr., Aisha De Haas, Leah Hocking, Bill Buell, Ellen Hornberger, Amanda Cole, Danya Taymor, Dylan Baker, Linda Emond, Lynn Cohen, Bill Irwin, Jennifer Van Dyck, Timmy Mitchum
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, Musical, Romance
• Director(s): Julie Taymor
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by The Beatles that defined the time.

  6.5

EuroTrip

2003, USA

• Actors: Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Kristin Kreuk, Cathy Meils, Nial Iskhakov, Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Wester, Matt Damon, J. Adams, Christopher Baird, Nicholas J.M. Cloutman, Bruce Fulford, Molly Schade, Jakki Degg, Lenka Vomocilova, Jessica Boehrs, Andrea Stuart, Vinnie Jones, Paul Oldham, Mike McGuffie, John Comer, Jeff Smith, Michael Cella, David Fisher, Christian Dunckley Clark, Petr Jákl, Jakub Kohák, J.P. Manoux, Patrick Rapold, Fred Armisen
• Genre: Comedy, Adventure
• Director(s): Jeff Schaffer
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Ohio high school student Scott Thomas is a good student and nice guy - albeit a little predictable - who is about to graduate and go into pre-med. He is unceremoniously dumped by his whorish girlfriend Fiona on graduation day. Among the people he turns to in his hour of despair is his German pen pal, Mike. Scott and Mike seem to have a special connection. After Mike makes advances to Scott now that he and Fiona are not seeing each other, Scott abruptly sends Mike a message saying he never wants to hear from him again. However, Scott learns shorty thereafter that Mike is actually a beautiful girl named Mieke. By this time, Mieke has blocked his messages. Thinking that Mieke is actually who he was meant to be with, Scott, impulsively for a change, decides to go to Berlin to be with her. Along for the ride is Scott's best friend, the girl crazy Cooper Harris. They manage only to get a flight into London, and thus have to make their way from London to Berlin. Along the way in Paris, they run into their high school friends, twins Jenny and Jamie, who are backpacking through Europe. Scott and Cooper consider them the most mismatched twins ever, Jamie who is a walking encyclopedia, and Jenny a girl who they treat as just one of the guys. As the four try to make their way to Berlin, they run into a few obstacles and few adventures. Scott hopes that all these problems are worth it when he has his much hyped in his mind meeting with Mieke.

  6.6

K-19: The Widowmaker

2001, UK, Germany, USA, Canada

• Actors: Sam Spruell, Peter Stebbings, Christian Camargo, Roman Podhora, Sam Redford, Steve Nicolson, Liam Neeson, Ravil Isyanov, Tim Woodward, Lex Shrapnel, Shaun Benson, Kristen Holden-Ried, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Christopher Redman, Tygh Runyan, Joss Ackland, Harrison Ford, John Shrapnel, George Anton, James Francis Ginty, Peter Graham, Peter Sarsgaard, Shawn Mathieson, Jacob Pitts, Christopher Routh, Lubomir Mykytiuk, Michael Gladis, Donald Sumpter, Natalia Vintilova, Steve Cumyn
• Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
• Director(s): Kathryn Bigelow
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The story of USSR's first nuclear ballistic submarine, which suffered a malfunction in its nuclear reactor on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic in 1961. The submarine's crew, led by the unyielding Captain Alexi Vostrikov, races against time to prevent a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster which threatens not only the lives of his crew, but has the potential to ignite a world war between the super powers.