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The not-so-distant future. A fascist government rules England, and all people who are ‘different’ (muslims, homosexuals, non-white skin colored, people with dissenting opinions, people who just disregard the curfew) are being persecuted, imprisoned, and killed. Like other oppressive regimes, the government came to power through a democratic vote - thanks […]

Nine-year old Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo) and her sister are sold by their poor parents to become Geishas in “Mother’s” (Kaori Momoi) okiya (geisha training house). Her sister is rejected and sold to a brothel, and little Chiyo grows up with hard work and constant humiliation by intrigant Geisha Hatsumomo (Li Gong). Chiyo […]

Anthony “Swoff” Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) has signed up with the Marines, and after a “Full Metal Jacket”-like training he is shipped to Kuwait as part of Operation Desert Shield in the first Iraq War. The “jarheads” (slang for Marines) are motivated after their training - they want action, and they want to […]

“I’d rather be lucky than good”

London, World War II. The German Luftwaffe is bombarding London, and siblings Lucy (Georgie Henley), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), Peter (William Moseley) and Susan Pevensie (Anna Popplewell) are sent to the countryside on their own - their father is in the army and their mother stays in London.
While playing hide-and-seek, young Lucy […]