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Ritchie Donovan (Dorff) is a professional thief whose luck has just run out. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Ritchie is forced to take the rap and is sent to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross locked in a safe on the penthouse floor of a Moscow skyscraper. Things start badly and go rapidly downhill when, during the robbery, Ritchie and his Russian accomplices are forced to take hostages because they are trapped by the police on the unused 13th floor.

Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex’s cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.

This short film were presented at the Belfast film festival. THE FOUR HORSEMEN is a futuristic allegory adapted from the Book of Revelations which illustrates the struggle of ‘Life’ when pitted against ‘War’, ‘Famine’, ‘Death’ and ‘Pestilence’. The novel is directed by Robert Kelly, lasts 16 minutes, and was produced in Ireland, 2006.

The movie “Hooligans” also known as “Gobshite” is a dark comedy about a slenderly unhinged english language mobster who has upset the infernal region pecking order by decision making he wants a bigger piece of the pie. He devises a scheme to get what he wants but must travel to a sleepy, seaboard community of interests in Ireland. As a cover for his plan he needs to get a local Irish family’s pub to encourage a new brand of beer. Problems occur when the lawful owners of the pub put up more of a fight for their livelihood, than expected.

Jimmy Rabbitte, che vive di piccoli espedienti in un quartiere proletario di Dublino, si e’ messo in testa di organizzare una band musicale per rinverdire i fasti del rythm&blues e del soul. Grazie ad un annuncio sul giornale, Rabbitte comincia a selezionare giovani dal lavoro precario ma pieni di talento: Dean, Fay, Outspan, l’occhialuto Steven , Clifford, Deco, il ciccione senza buone maniere ma con una grande voce, Billy il batterista e Joey “The lips”, un bizzarro e maturo anziano suonatore di tromba che si vanta di aver suonato con famosi soul-singers. Aggrega anche Natalie, Imelda e Bernie, tre grintose ragazze, ottime coriste e molto sexy. Procuratisi a credito la strumentazione, cominciano le prove, massacranti, che impegnano tutti. Si inizia a suonare in pubblico, in capannoni e feste sociali: il gruppo sembra pervaso dal fuoco della musica e dell’ambizione. La band, pur se dilettantesca e provinciale, sembra lanciata verso il vertice e finisce invece nel fallimento: dissapori, piccole gelosie e contrasti umani ed artistici, sfaldano il gruppo. Il sogno di Jimmy evapora nel nulla e quel grande patrimonio di energia e bravura che poteva fruttare quattrini e successo siPL: disperde nel nulla.

A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more teen undead while trying to ascendency his, er, appetence for his beloved.

The Cardiff club scene in the 90’s: five best friends deal with their relationships and their personal demons during a weekend. Jip calls himself a sexual paranoid, afraid he’s impotent. Lulu, Jip’s mate, doesn’t find much to fancy in men. Nina hates her job at a fast food joint, and her man, Koop, who dreams of being a great rap d.j., is prone to fits of un-provoked jealousy. The fifth is Moff, whose family is down on his behavior. start Friday afternoon, with preparations for clubbing, we follow the five from Ecstacy-induced fun through with a booze-laden come-down early sabbatum forenoon followed by the weekend’s aftermath. It’s discovery time for at least three of them.

An (unnamed) Guy is a Dublin guitarist/singer-songwriter who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners in his Dad’s Hoover repair shop by day, and singing and playing for money on the Dublin streets by night. An (unnamed) Girl is a Czech who plays piano when she gets a chance, and does odd jobs by day and takes care of her mom and her daughter by night. Guy meets Girl, and they get to know each other as the Girl helps the Guy to put together a demo disc that he can take to London in hope of landing a music contract. During the same several day period, the Guy and the Girl work through their past loves, and reveal their budding love for one another, through their songs. Written by Charles Delacroix

John LeCarre’s spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A brits spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador’s mistress. Once there he makes connector with a local tailor (Geoffrey Rush) with a villainous past and connections to all of the top political and mobster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife (Jamie Lee Curtis), who works for the Panamanian prexy and a huge debt. The missionary post is to learn what the prexy intends to do with the Panama Canal. But what the two do is hatch a fantastic fabricated tale about former mercenaries who are ready to topple the stream administration and are uncoerced to work with great britain and the US to do so.

Having been promised the ‘trip’ of a lifetime by their Irish friend and mushroom expert Jake, a group of American teenagers arrives in Ireland, keen for adventure. Despite Jake’s warnings about the ’shrooms they shouldn’t eat, things start to go horribly wrong and the teenagers suffer horrific visions. The panicked friends are attacked by ghostly creatures, never sure whether they are experiencing gruesome reality or startling hallucinations. As the group is bloodily whittled down to one, it is soon clear that, whether or not these apparitions are real, the carnage they leave behind certainly is.