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Date: 26th August 2006, Saturday
Cinema: GV Jurong Point
Time: 11.30pm
With: Melvin Ho
Seat: K-02 & K-03 (Hall 5)
Snakes on a Plane stars Samuel L. Jackson as an FBI agent who is escorting an eye witness on a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles when a crimelord sets in motion the release of hundreds of deadly snakes on the commercial airplane in order to eliminate the witness before he can testify against him. The FBI agent must protect his witness while banding together with the pilot, frightened crew and passengers in a desperate attempt to survive.
Rating: NC16
Consumer Advice: Some Violence & Gore
Genre: Horror; Suspense
Main Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Byron Lawson, Kenan Thompson
Director: David R. Ellis
Release Date: 24 August 2006
Running Time:101 minutes
http://www.snakesonaplane.com/
Date: 9th August 2006, Sunday
Cinema: GV Plaza Singapura
Time: 12.00am
With: Melvin Ho
Seat: H-11 & H-12 (Hall 5)
From the producer of the worldwide blockbuster hits The Fast and the Furious and its sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious, comes the latest installment of the adrenaline-inducing series built on speed—The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Set in the sexy and colorful underground world of Japanese drift racing, the newest and fastest customized rides go head-to-head on some of the most perilous courses in the world.
Sean Boswell (Black) is an outsider who attempts to define himself as a hot-headed, underdog street racer. Although racing provides a temporary escape from an unhappy home and the superficial world around him, it has also made Sean unpopular with the local authorities. To avoid jail time, Sean is sent to live with his gruff, estranged father, a career military-man stationed in Tokyo.
Now officially a gaijin (outsider), Sean feels even more shut out in a land of foreign customs and codes of honor. But it doesn't take long for him to find some action when a fellow American buddy, Twinkie (Bow Wow), introduces him to the underground world of drift racing. Sean's simple drag racing gets replaced by a rubber-burning, automotive art form—with an exhilarating balance of speeding and gliding through a heart-stopping course of hairpin turns and switchbacks.
On his first time out drifting, Sean unknowingly takes on D.K., the "Drift King," a local champ with ties to the Japanese crime machine Yakuza. Sean's loss comes at a high price tag when he's forced to work off the debt under the thumb of ex-pat, Han (Kang). Han soon welcomes Sean into this family of misfits and introduces him to the real principles of drifting. But when Sean falls for D.K.'s girlfriend, Neela (newcomer Kelley), an explosive series of events is set into motion, climaxing with an ultimate high stakes face off.
Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: NIL
Genre: Action, Adventure
Main Cast: Bow Wow, Lucas Black, Sung Kang
Director: Justin Lin
Release Date: 3 August 2006
Running Time: 106 minutes
http://www.thefastandthefurious.com/
Date: 30th July 2006, Sunday
Cinema: GV Plaza Singapura
Time: 2.10am
With: Melvin Ho
Seat: G-04 & G-05 (Hall 5)
Tiger Wong is a highly skilled martial artist with a strong sense of justice. At the yearly bun festival, Tiger realizes that a group of triad gangsters are bullying innocent people. Tiger, unable to stand by and just watch, defeats the gangsters using his special move – Dragon Slaying Leg Eighteen, and accidentally grabs the garland from the top of the bun mountain winning the applause and admiration of the audience. Hidden in the garland is a gold medal.
It turns out that this gold medal is the Lousha token decreed by the leader of the Lousha Gate, Shibumi. ‘Gate’ is a word describing martial arts sect or organization and Lousha Gate is a criminal organization in Asia and whoever owns the gold medal has the right to demand the full cooperation of Lousha Gate. Tiger, unaware of the medal’s powers, is ambushed by the gang during his celebrations. As fate has it, he is saved by Dragon Wong, the bodyguard of one of the gangsters, who is sent to retrieve the medal. A blonde youth using nunchakus, Turbo Shek, also joins in to help them. Dragon retrieves the medal from Tiger. Tiger is shocked when he notices a jade pendant and realizes that Dragon is his step-brother.
Although Dragon is part of Jiang Hu - the complicated society of the martial arts world involving different Gates of evil and good, and working for a criminal gang, he has never been involved in any criminal activities. After Dragon’s gangster boss Ma Kun returns the plaque he announces his retirement from the Jiang Hu. Shibumi is angry upon hearing this news and sends his adopted daughter Lousha to get rid of Ma.
In the mean time, Dragon has asked Ma Kun’s daughter Ma Xiaoling, who has already taken a liking to Tiger during the bun festival, to help him tell Tiger that they are brothers. Tiger is shocked by the news and unwilling to accept Dragon as family. Lousha kills Ma Kun and massacres everyone. Dragon fights his way out and manages to escape to Dragon Tiger Gate with Ma Xiaoling. Tiger and Shek are incensed when they hear of the Ma family massacre and the three heroes join force for the first time forming the Dragon Tiger Gate Trio, they pledge to avenge Xiaoling’s lost. The Dragon Tiger trio burn down the warehouse of Lousha Gate and destroy their drug supply, thus officially confirming Dragon Tiger Trio’s status as arch-enemy of Lousha Gate.
Although Shibumi is extremely angry when he is told of the fire, the anger is tinged with inexplicable joy when hearing of the presence of martial arts experts from Dragon Tiger Gate. One night Shibumi turns up at Dragon Tiger Gate and kills the master Wong Jianglong. He then defeats the Dragon Tiger Trio with his supreme martial arts skills and persuades them to join Lousha Gate. His efforts are in vain as the trio refuse all his offers. Shibumi is about to kill them, when there is a sudden huge thunder and flash of lightening. In that split second of distraction, the trio mysteriously disappeared.
Overnight Dragon Tiger Gate is demolished. Xiaoling escapes with the badly wounded trio to Bai Yun Mountain in China for help. There resides a recluse, Master Qi. Qi is famed for his expert skills in martial arts and healing, but also know for his eccentricity and unpredictable character. Xiaoling uses everything she can think of to persuade him to help and finally wins him over with her sincerity and Master Qi brings the trio back from the gates of death. The trio beg Master Qi to teach them his skills, they vow to revenge the death of their master Wong Jianglong.
Back at Lousha Gate, Shibumi is unafraid of the trio’s attack. He has set the trap and waits at the scene of their final showdown…
Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: Fighting Scenes
Genre: Action
Main Cast: Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue
Director: Wilson Yip Wai-shun
Release Date: 27 July 2006
Running Time: 98 minutes
http://www2.dragontigergatemovie.com/dtg/e_main.html
