American Pie – Reunion (2012) 720p & 1080p Bluray Full Movie

I first heard of this if it was billed with all the US title American Reunion; a review of the publicity still showing Mena Suvari whooshed my memories returning to those blue remembered hills of 1999, everything teen sexiness, the embarrassment of their dad taking an inappropriate libido. What would this much-hyped "reunion" bring, 14 years on? What would Mena do? Would Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening be divorced nowadays? Will an adult and balding Wes Bentley, getting work done in insurance, admit that his video of an plastic bag blowing inside the wind to be real fantastically pretentious and annoying? Will Thora Birch … wait. Actually, what happened to Thora Birch?

But no. It's a reunion of these other zeitgeisty classic from 1999, American Pie, and also this comedy plays out just as if they all haven't seen one another since that first film, placed in high school, thus skipping lightly over two sequels. Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan are Jim and Michelle, now wearily married that has a small child. Seann William Scott returns as being the grinningly offensive but good-natured Stifler, and Eugene Levy is scene-stealingly back as Jim's lovable dad. We get the party started in doing what is admittedly a bravura masturbation scene. Then it loses its way.

The first-time around, unlovely teenage boys somehow experienced sexy situations with cute teenage girls. Now – guess what happens? They are unlovely early-middle-aged guys who somehow end up in sexy situations with cute teenage girls. The kid that Jim accustomed to babysit is actually an 18-year-old hottie who takes her top up and wants to lose her virginity to him. Originally, there have been two kinds of women in American Pie-world: fantasy teen babes and fantasy hot Milfs. Now the passage of energy has forced this franchise to acknowledge the difficult, non-comedy reality of real women involving, getting really older of their late 20s and early 30s. Alyson Hannigan manages it with dignity. So does Mena Suvari, practically. Tara Reid is shot meticulously, usually standing or sitting still, delivering her lines with stately dignity.

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• Release: April 4, 2012 (Iceland)
• Directors: Hayden Schlossberg, Jon Hurwitz
• Film series: American Pie
• Featured song: Laid
• Executive producers: Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, Louis G. Friedman

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Ride Along 2 (2016) WEBRip

The mystifyingly popular Kevin Hart returns with this sequel to 2014’s Ride Along, where he again imitates the amount of shrieking wannabe-comic stylings Chris Tucker was doing within the ‘90s. And here he’s again paired with the ever formidable Ice Cube, who as within the first, seems like he’s calling upon all his perseverence just to resist throttling his annoying co-star.

The first film’s director Tim Story’s also agreeable, but there’s nothing much the guy can do with that these porn files, especially as it’s a lot more preposterous than before. Atlanta detective James Payton (Ice Cube) is found once more reluctantly using the services of rookie beat cop Ben Barber (Kevin Hart) to thrill Angela (Tika Sumpter), James’ sister who’s soon to marry Ben (and why she’d might like to do such a thing is one kind of the endless credibility gaps here). James becomes alert to a whole lame plot happening in Miami and wants to sign up, and although he seriously doesn’t want Ben there (especially from a ludicrous opening credit sequence), he still agrees going without running shoes. Why? To professionally embarrass Ben, his soon-to-be-brother-in-law, preventing him from being promoted. Families, huh?

Soon once they arrive in Miami they hook-up with another detective (Olivia Munn), and start chasing around an informant named AJ, who’s enjoyed standard awfulness by Ken Jeong. And this has all got something related to a drug-kingpin baddie who’s infiltrated the neighborhood police force and government, and hubby’s dully played from the dreary Benjamin Bratt because Robert De Niro was busy.

This hopelessly absurd storyline doesn’t make much sense but that’s definitely not the point here, as fans of Kevin Hart (hello available!!!) have paid a nice income to see their hero do his hideous thing, and the man certainly will it, since the Iceman looks on sneering. And you would too.

» Rilis: 15 Januari, 2016 (USA)
» Genre: Action, Comedy
» Directed: Tim Story
» Cast:
- Kevin Hart
- Ice Cube
- Tika Sumpter
- Benjamin Bratt
- Olivia Munn
- Ken Jeong
- Glenn Powell
- Sherri Shepherd

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The Gigolo 2 (2016) Bluray 720p

Hong Kong cinema is certainly sympathetic for the plight in the city’s sex workers, but Venus Keung Kwok-man’s slapdash sequel to last year’s The Gigolo, using its nonsensical depiction of contemporary prostitution, still pushes plausibility and patience towards the limit.

Dominic Ho Ho-man reprises his role of Fung, aka “King in the Gigolos”, now ‘retired’ and managing a trashy nightspot in Hong Kong’s Lan Kwai Fong entertainment district. He has a rare new client, Monica (Connie Man Hoi-ling), who's reluctantly looked to prostitution to cover her mother’s medical bills. Having been known as him for carnal guidance after having a customer labels her a “dead fish”, Monica inevitably falls for Fung’s charms.

The Gigolo 2 incorporates a roster of buxom bikini babes, including Iris Chung Choi-hei, Hazel Tong Chi-yui and Leslie Lam Lei-han (as another of Fung’s clients, in literal demand of “loosening up”), along with oiled beefcakes fronted by Lam Tsz-sin. But the supposedly erotic comedy ceases to perform: the sex scenes are cautious and stilted, the humour desperate and obvious, along with the romance woefully naive.

The film also seems to legitimately uphold prostitution as an effective methods of making a decent income. Only by way of a jarring, seemingly tacked-on denouement does Keung right his course, bringing swift and brutal retribution upon all concerned. But even so it feels more exploitative than cautionary.
By failing to offer just about any social commentary or deliver anything remotely sexy or comical, The Gigolo 2 limps onto screens flaccid, embarrassed and painfully ill versed within the ways from the world in which it so desperately desires to excel.

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American Ultra (2015)

In a summer film slate awash with reboots, sequels and dutifully box-checking superhero product, it’s refreshing to determine a genre film constructed from a completely original screenplay. Yet “American Ultra,” a stoner action-comedy directed by Nima Nourizadeh at a script by Max Landis, too frequently plays as an earnest yet unsatisfying adaptation of an cult graphic novel, with a lot of of the charm lost in translation. Full of clever ideas, bloody violence so cartoonish that it’s almost cuddly, plus an eminently likable leading pair in Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg, the film provides extensive going for it but, just like a fridge-clearing omelet prepared after a great number of bong hits, it can’t find a way to cook every one of these goodies in to a palatable whole. Box office needs to be modest, though more couch-bound demographics could very well embrace it on homevid.

For a well-meaning, not-so-bright stoner who works with a run-down mini-mart and can’t leave his West Virginia hometown without suffering panic disorder, Mike Howell (Eisenberg) is quite content along with his lot in daily life. He lives inside a rainbow-shag-carpeted house along with his beloved Phoebe (Stewart, looking completely accustomed to stringy hair plus a faded violet dye job), who doesn’t manage to mind functioning as Mike’s “girlfriend, mother, maid and landlord,” inside the words of the uncomprehending local sheriff. His comicbook concept, Apollo Ape, appears like it could be a winner but only if he would invest time to actually write it. He’s even somehow scrounged up enough dough to get Phoebe a diamond ring, although the opportunity to pop the question keeps comically eluding him.

Nourizadeh does well to develop the loose, ambling rhythms of Mike’s life inside the opening reel, so that it is all the more striking when he’s accosted by two hitmen from the parking lot, and bloodily dispatches all of them the aid of your spoon as well as a cup of instant ramen. As we gradually put together along with our forgetful hero, Mike can be a sleeper agent in the clandestine CIA program, endowed with top-level martial-arts skills along with an encyclopedic understanding of weaponry. With the program long since abandoned, a smarmy young Agency bureaucrat (Topher Grace) decides to concentrate on Mike for extermination, leading his former trainer (Connie Britton) to visit rogue to rescue him.

The disconnect between Mike’s molasses-paced cognitive processes and killing-machine reflexes results in some clever comedy at the beginning, as his lower brain keeps getting him outside of jams his higher brain got him into. And the interplay between Eisenberg and Stewart is effortlessly charming, with Stewart adding some welcome kinks and quirks from what could have been a thankless girlfriend role. But since the film nears its midway point, few of its promising ideas are carried through, plus it devolves into a typical midrange actioner which simply happens to feature an unlikely hero on the center. (Imagine a latter-day Van Damme outfitted having a Kurt Cobain wig and also a “what, me worry?” countenance, and you’re halfway there.)

The film’s obvious antecedent, “Pineapple Express,” was thrilling since it committed equally to its Mutt-and-Jeff silliness and its particular genuinely brutal violence, giving its innocents-in-danger premise an unexpected amount of emotional weight. “American Ultra,” however, often plays as being a live-action Roadrunner cartoon, but minus the sense of stylistic anarchy to drag it off. Grace, particularly, goes too over-the-top to become effectively detestable, yet not far enough for being a satisfying comic villain, while Walton Goggins, being a goonish agency asset, drools and slobbers through his scenes as Mike’s primary adversary.

Nourizadeh helms a few in the action sequences by panache, particularly a late brawl within a grocery store, but he never is able to pin down an even tone, mashing up a range of cinematic styles without ever nailing any of them. Only with the end, with completely off-the-wall animated closing credits that embrace the film’s latent surreality, can we finally get yourself a glimpse of what “American Ultra” may be aching being.

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Dilwale (2015) DVDScr

2015 was 4 seasons the commercial cinema moved up in the matter of monetising nostalgia. In the west, the Spielberg/Lucas copyism of Jurassic World and Star Wars: The Force Awakens raked in megabucks by cosying as much as established fanbases, as did Spectre by extracting 007 in the real world (and real-world peril) Skyfall placed him in and instead returning the character to people fantastical lairs he’d escaped a half-century ago. With Dilwale, Bollywood follows suit. In its title and casting, Rohit Shetty’s film trades heavily on fond memories of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, the 1995 landmark which was still enjoying regular rotation a single Mumbai cinema as late since this February.

What’s initially so discombobulating the following is that that film’s stars Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol ought to be reunited in an exceedingly different movie. Where the original would have been a lush, keening romance, the modern one foregrounds factors of those pulpy crime stories about one sibling getting inextricably drawn into another’s risky business. The good brother here's Raj (Khan), an early tough who reformed upon opening a vehicle repair shop. Yet on the list of hot-rods parked under his roof is trickier to address than most: it is younger brother Veer (Varun Dhawan), who – while trying to impress the winsome Ishu (Kriti Sanon) – crosses a fearsome drug dealer.

An extended pre-interval flashback clarifies matters just a little. Here, we learn the beardless Raj only turned thug after he, too, stepped into assist a damsel in distress – and as soon as the thoroughly boysy beginning, it’s something of your relief when Kajol appears, still possessed of the most effective eyebrows in the industry (chief rivals: Camilla Belle, Lee Pace, Eugene Levy), as Raj’s beloved Meera. Thus can Shetty generate a narrative point of having history repeat itself, as well as at least its first half, Dilwale provides functional enough holiday entertainment.

It’s clear Khan’s rare, Cary Grant-like capability to strike up a chemistry with anyone positioned in front of him hasn’t diminished within the last few two decades. With Kajol, it’s a particular, plus a joy – and, due to this lovestruck Raj, something of the liability – but there’s fashionable warmth to his interactions with Dhawan that steers the garage scenes from flimsy Fast & Furious-ism. (The Khan-less scenes, packed with grown men wailing like kids, overdo the wacky sound clips, along with the less said about Dhawan’s impromptu Love, Actually homage the higher.)

Shetty keeps his finish up by ensuring the action scenes remain coherent: the punches land with uncommon force for just a 12A-rated movie, as well as the crisp editing is certainly you can see the drivers inside cars flipping at 80mph. While it’s transitioning between genres, you ride along. Trouble arrives, however, once Dilwale enters its ultimate destination: the dud wife or husband feels copied-and-pasted in from some Big Bollywood Book of Star-Crossed Lovers, tossing out one implausible, indigestible chunk of melodrama after another. It’s not merely the stars who’ve been reunited, but those narrative and visual tropes that contain curdled into cliche.

The lovers’ fringes still explode as they turn towards camera in slow-motion; tragic developments occasion torrential rainstorms. Shetty’s clinging at numbing length to what’s worked before, this also of all seasons, that could prove all the limitation as consolation. The 1995 Dilwale’s title translated as The Bravehearted Will Take the Bride, as well as the boldly beautiful Bajirao Mastani surely has that prize sewn up this Christmas. The new Dilwale contains the star capability to pick up those unlucky bridesmaids be indifferent to of adjacent screens, but everybody’s evening, everybody’s legacy, may have been better served by returning the original to circulation.

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Genre : Action , Comedy , Crime
Rating : 5.5 / 10 IMDb
Length : 158 minutes
Director: Rohit Shetty

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Sisters (2015) Bluray

On-screen double acts rarely come as talented and gifted because the effervescent Amy Poehler and Tina Fey - America’s favourite and best-loved comediennes. Poehler is often a particular favourite of mine, getting a proclivity for rich, diverse characters, from Parks and Recreations’ hard-working and optimistic Leslie Knope to Disney Pixar’s exultant Joy from the fantastic Inside Out. Heck, she’s a scene-stealer as Regina George’s ‘Cool Mum’ in Mean Girls. Her spritely relationship and bubbling chemistry with Tina Fey (30 Rock, Saturday Night Live) is indeed celebrated in Sisters, knowning that dynamic happens to be the films true apotheosis.

Maura (Poehler) and Kate Ellis (Fey) plan to throw one final party of their childhood home, following their disgust in realising that their parents sell it on without their involvement. With Maura always being greater sensible of the 2 main, she will follow Kate to 'let her freak flag fly' and reverse their roles to allow for her one night of fun and pleasure. However, after they get into the swing of things - reuniting using their friends that are suddenly 30 years older - it only goes from bad, to worse, to worse.

You've probably obtained by now, but Poehler and Fey really get this to film. It's a dynamic previously explored in film, although few manage it quite as well because they two talents, utilising their chemistry made through previous projects - the Golden Globes, Baby Mama and Saturday Night Live - and marketed it, doing cartwheels, flips along with the sorts from the meantime. The two roles are perfectly contrasting but are able to bring the top out in 1 another, shining with what is already a vivacious and lively film. The supporting cast comes with a plethora of talent but none who come near to its perfectly animated leads.

Whilst both the leads elevate the funny screenplay material, you can not help but imagine that an even sharper and wittier outcome might have arrived whenever they also latched onto writing it and moulding their very own material further. As seen inside during-credits gag reel, improvisation helped shape several of the laughs in classic Poehler/Fey style, but more would've been lovely to find out. Yes, the laughs come thick and fast, while using majority of them sticking the landing, however, some do don't do so. Maybe it's American humour damaged on a British audience. You don't have a lot of time to put on the less successful moments though, as another funnier and slicker one comes flying out (usually from Poehler or Fey, obviously). The vulgarity is pushed to your limits and a few jokes feel slightly out-dated, but as a result of delivery, still manage a chuckle. It wouldn't be nearly as successful when it wasn't as a result of Amy and Tina.

The premise and coming-of-age element can be a formulaic tale, thankful injected with new life because the titular Sisters. A balance of uproarious charm and poignant weight bring about an immensely enjoyable film, set up film needs the double act in excess of the double act require film. It's proof excellent counter-programming compared to that film together with the lightsabers, and everyone can buy a laugh within the year's strongest comedies - I just hope it won't get too lost inside the madness in the cinema the other day.

Summary : Sisters is elevated by Poehler and Fey's incredible and effervescent chemistry which enables a good film a great comedy. With a dynamic this strong, you would be surprised to find out that they're not actually sisters!

Highlights : Maura's manicure scene is one from the funniest sequences and exchanges I have ever seen, highlighting again Poehler's hilarious timing and delivery. You find yourself laughing the greater it goes on and also the time the gag reel finishes, you will want to watch everthing over again.

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Title : Sisters
Genre  : Drama , Comedy
Directed By : Jason Moore
Written By : Paula Pell
US Box Office : $ 87.0M
Runtime : 2 hr . 3 min .
Universal Pictures - Official Site
Cast: Amy Pohler , Tina Fey , Maya Rudolph
Director: Jason Moore
Release : December 18, 2015
Duration : 1 hour 59 minutes
Quality: Bluray
Size : 257 MB

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