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Director: Luc Besson Producers: Luc Besson, Emmanuel Prévost Screenplay: Luc Besson Starring: Freddie Highmore as Arthur Mia Farrow as Granny Madonna as Princess Selenia (voice) David Bowie as Emperor Maltazard (voice) Snoop Dogg as Max (voice) Jimmy Fallon as Betameche (voice) Robert De Niro as King (voice) Harvey Keitel as Miro (voice) Music: Éric Serra Cinematography: Thierry Arbogast Editing: Yann Hervé Release Date: December 13, 2006 (France) Running Time: 94 minutes Language: English   ***SPOILER ALERT*** The Animated Disaster Here we have it. 2006 was the year Luc Besson decided he needed to make an animation, and for god knows why. This movie is boring AF AF AF AF! I was shouting at my TV like a madman at how bad this movie i...

The Host is a 2006 South Korean monster film, directed by Bong Joon-ho and starring Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doona and Go Ah-sung. According to the director, his inspiration came from a local article about a deformed fish with an S-shaped spine caught in Han River. The Host set a new Korean box office record, reaching 10 million tickets in just 21 days, and won Best Film at both the Asian Film Awards and the Blue Dragon Film Awards. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Host_(2006_film) A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and focuses its attention on attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches. source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468492 ***SPOILER ALERT*** Exhilarating Action and Monster Effects FREDDY: This movie starts really strongly, the action in the first part is exhilarating and it's awesome to see everyone running away from that giant river creature. Th...

Piter FM is a 2006 Russian comedy romance film directed by Oksana Bychkova and starring Ekaterina Fedulova, Evgeniy Tsyganov and Alexey Barabash. The plot revolves around the serendipitous and unexpected romance between a young man and a young woman living in post-Soviet St. Petersburg. Piter FM was nominated for 6 different awards at the MTV Russia Movie Awards, 2007. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piter_FM Lyrical story about two young people, Masha and Maxim, who have to decide what to do. source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813541/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** A Refreshing Romantic Comedy in Piter FREDDY: This is the first romantic comedy appearing on my blog I think... Apart from "Before Sunrise" (love that movie), I usually need to go to the hospital to get my eyes back in their sockets after watching romantic flicks. I took an indigestion pill just in case before starting watching this. But hey, this turned out to be OK! KRASNAY...

Time is the thirteenth feature film by South Korean director Kim Ki-duk. It premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on June 30, 2006. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(2006_film) Seh-hee and Ji-woo have dated for two years; jealousy consumes her. She worries he will tire of her face. Then, she disappears. Telling no one, she goes to a plastic surgeon for a new face. Ji-woo has no idea where she is, although when he does respond to other women, someone unseen intervenes. Then, he meets See-hee, and although he tells her he misses Seh-hee, this new relationship blossoms into love. They talk at the same coffee house, visit the same sculpture park, and pose for the same photographs he did with Seh-hee. We know they are the same woman. Has this new face and renewed love made her happy? And what will Ji-woo do when he learns the truth? Is losing face losing self? source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497986/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** ...

Taxidermia is a 2006 Hungarian comedy-drama horror film directed by György Pálfi. The film is a metaphorical socio-political retelling of Hungary's history from the Second World War to the present day. The film features music scored by electronic artist Amon Tobin. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxidermia Taxideremia contains three generational stories, about a grandfather, a father, and a son, linked together by recurring motifs. The dim grandfather, an orderly during World War Two, lives in his bizarre fantasies; he desires love. The huge father seeks success as a top athlete, a speed eater, in the post-war pro-Soviet era. The grandson, a meek, small-boned taxidermist, yearns for something greater: immortality. He wants to create the most perfect work of art of all time by stuffing his own torso. Historical facts and surrealism become intertwined as magical realism, like in the works of Gabriel García Marquez or the Hungarian writer Lajos Parti Nagy; the script...

Death Note 2: The Last Name is the second in a series of live-action Japanese films released in 2006 and based on the Death Note manga and anime series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The film primarily centers on a university student who decides to rid the world of evil with the help of a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it. The film was directed by Shūsuke Kaneko, produced by Nippon Television, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Japan. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note_2:_The_Last_Name Picking up where the first one leaves off, Light joins the task force searching for Kira in an effort to avert suspicion from himself and get rid of L. source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810827/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** Entertaining, the movie runs for more than 2 hours and not even 1 yawn. Now I must ask you dear visitor "whose side are you on?" ...

Death Note is a series of two live-action Japanese films released in 2006 and a spin-off released on February 9, 2008. The two movies are based on the Death Note manga (and later anime) series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The two films were directed by Shūsuke Kaneko, produced by Nippon Television, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Japan. The first film, simply titled as Death Note, premiered in Japan on June 17, 2006 and topped the Japanese box office for two weeks, pushing The Da Vinci Code into second place. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note_(film) Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the perpetrator. An all out battle between the greatest minds on earth begins, the winner controlling the world. Written by Ryuzaki. source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt075...

Paprika is a 2006 Japanese animated film co-written and directed by Satoshi Kon, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1993 novel of the same name. It is Kon's fourth and final feature film before his death in 2010. The soundtrack is significant for being the first film to use a Vocaloid and the "Lola" Vocaloid was used for various tracks. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika_(2006_film) Three scientists at the Foundation for Psychiatric Research fail to secure a device they've invented, the D.C. Mini, which allows people to record and watch their dreams. A thief uses the device to enter people's minds, when awake, and distract them with their own dreams and those of others. Chaos ensues. The trio - Chiba, Tokita, and Shima - assisted by a police inspector and by a sprite named Paprika must try to identify the thief as they ward off the thief's attacks on their own psyches. Dreams, reality, and the movies merge, while characters question the limi...

Idiocracy is a 2006 American satirical science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, and Terry Crews. Despite its lack of a major theatrical release, the film has achieved a cult following. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy Officer Collins has been spearheading one of the US Army's most secretive experiments to date: the Human Hibernation Project. If successful, the project would store its subjects indefinitely until they are needed most. Their first test subject - Joe Bowers - was not chosen for his superiority. Instead, he's chosen because he's the most average guy in the armed services. Unfortunately Joe doesn't wake up in a year, he wakes up in 500 years! But during that time human evolution has taken a dramatic downturn. After waking up, Joe takes a prison-assigned IQ test and finds that he's the smartest guy alive! Awaiting a full presidential pardon if he can solve one of the c...