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A charming coming of age story about three young boys in the remote grasslands of Mongolia. Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before until he finds one floating in the river. He and his family live without electricity and running water in a solitary tent home among the vast steppe grasslands.
The mystery of the small white ball floating in the creek leads to questions about the world around them, as well as innocent mischief. Bilike's grandmother says the ball is a glowing pearl from heaven, leading them on a journey to find the source of the mysterious unknown object.
Two American brothers, Todd and Jan Wolfhouse, travel to Germany to spread their grandfather's ashes at Oktoberfest, they stumble upon a super secret, centuries old, underground beer games competition known as Beerfest: the secret Olympics of beer drinking.
The brothers receive a less than warm welcome from their German cousins, the Von Wolfhausens who humiliate Todd and Jan, slander their relatives, and finally cast them out of the event. Vowing to return in a year to defend their country and their family's honor, the Wolfhouse boys assemble a ragtag dream team of beer drinkers and gamers who possess the knowledge, skills, and experience needed. This Magnificent Five train relentlessly, using their hearts, minds and livers to drink faster, smarter and harder than they ever have before.
But first they must battle their own demons, as well as a bunch of big blond German buttheads who want to destroy the team before they can even make it back to Munich. Revenge, like beer, is best served cold.
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Leonard Cohen manages to garner fans from the unlikeliest of places despite his distinctly un rock roll appearance and a set of songs that veer closer to poetry than to their uneasy bedfellows in the pantheon of popular music.
But viewers looking for an in depth analysis of the man behind some of the most deeply introspective music ever recorded should look elsewhere: LEONARD COHEN: I'M YOUR MAN contains precious little insight from Cohen himself. Instead, director Lian Lunson has pieced together a warm tribute to the Canadian singer, drawing on the words of his many celebrity fans while also sharing generous amounts of footage from a Cohen tribute concert staged in 2005. The concert was filmed in Australia, with the bulk of the celebrity testimonials coming from performers at the show.
The eclectic array of artists taking part include Nick Cave, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Martha and Rufus Wainwright, and folk legend Linda Thompson, all of whom perform unique interpretations of Cohen-penned classics such as "I'm Your Man" (Cave) and "Chelsea Hotel #2" (Rufus Wainwright). Lunson intersperses the concert footage with interviews from the stars, the most vocal and effusive praise coming from the Edge and Bono from U2, who are seen backing Cohen on a rendition of "Tower of Song" as the movie closes. Cohen himself is also given some screen time in which he muses on a number of interesting topics, but Lunson's piece is mostly designed as a straight tribute to a man who has never sat easily in the contemporary music world, much to the delight of his fans.
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While widely available as a bootleg for years, the first known theatrical showing was in 2002, and now released on DVD. This film was shot at the now defunct Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland. This was the former home of the Bullets (now Wizards) and Capitals.
It was torn down around 2002 and replaced with a shopping mall. When it opened, the Capital Centre was a state of the art facility but by the time the movie was made, it was THE place to see major acts (as well as stuff like pro wrestling and monster truck rallies) in the metro DC area. Heavy Metal Parking Lot is a great movie both for metal fans and for those of us who grew up in the DC area during the 80's
24 season 5
Federal Agent Jack Bauer is at it again and as usual can't afford to play by the rules.
As a member of the L.A. Counter Terrorist Unit, Jack must stop bombs, viruses, assassination attempts and usually save someone he cares about at the same time regardless of who must be sacrificed to do so.
Every season of this series has 24 episodes, each unfolding in real time following a consecutive hour in one very bad day.
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