Sep
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Luu Huynh’s much-hyped lay chong nguoi ta has arrived
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Despite losing out on an international film prize at Toronto International Film Festival, Saigon film fans are in for an award-winning weekend at the movies with Lay chong nguoi ta (In the name of love) by overseas Vietnamese director Luu Huynh.
The controversial movie premiered at the festival with the return of Huynh after he captured the headlines for Ao lua Ha Dong (The White Silk Dress) and Huyen thoai bat tu (The legend is alive).
Huynh focuses on the dark and harrowing tale of Lua (Dinh Y Nhung), a poor girl from a small fishing village. Lua and her husband Khanh (Huy Khanh) are very much in love and live a simple life. The day their first child is born is the happiest in their lives. That happiness doesn’t last as one night a stranger (Thai Hoa) steals the newly-born and claims it as his own in the village as he tries to ruin their lives to make up for his own despair.
The story promises to be a real tearjerker as it features a dark side of poor people living near the water. When the teaser from the movie, which is inspired by the traditional Greek tragedy, was unveiled to the public in May, it caused a huge controversy due to a highly-charged sex scene involving Nhung and Khanh. Definitely one to watch folks, so remember to order your tickets online at Megastar and Galaxy cinemas near you.
On a lighter note, The Watch also comes to town this weekend reuniting Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn who were such a huge hit in Dodgeball as the leaders of a neighborhood watch team in suburban America. Well, they are more like middle-aged men who fancy doing something a bit more exciting to get away from their dead-end jobs and lives.
Directed by Akvia Schaffer and written by Jared Stern, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, we follow Evan (Stiller) a Cosco manager who forms the watch after his friend is murdered and also because he has no friends. Bob (Vaughn) uses his role in the team to spy on his teenage daughter. Also in the team is Jonah Hill as Franklin a resident with emotional problems who joins the watch after being rejected by the local police and Richard Ayoade as Jamarcus who is just recently divorced.
When they uncover an alien plot that threatens the world, they are forced into action.
Finally, we have 3D Resident Evil: Retribution starring the gorgeous Milla Jovovich which is the fifth installment of the tremendously-successful saga which has grossed US$700 million.
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the latest entry sees the Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continuing to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of flesh-eating undead.
The human race’s last and only hope, Alice (Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she hunts down those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true.
Aided and abetted by new allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion.
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Trekking to highlands, sleeping in trees
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20/11/2012 08:37:42
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In the process of developing tourism industry
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20/11/2012 08:33:24
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New appearance of ethnic wellbeing crucial
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20/11/2012 08:29:27
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Gaint Cham temple of Po Nagar
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20/11/2012 08:26:06
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Welcome HCM - Spanish cultural week
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20/11/2012 08:16:30
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Vietnamese devotional objects in Thai Binh province has been restored
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20/11/2012 08:13:00
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VIB funds Vietnam Airlines for new Airbus A321 aircrafts
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20/11/2012 08:10:00
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