Shortbus--

A film exploring the lives of several characters living in present day New York as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex. Male and female, straight and gay, the characters find one and other and eventually find themselves when they all converge at a weekly underground salon called Shortbus, a mad nexus of art, music, politics, and polysexual carnality. Mitchell developed the film’s story along with his ensemble cast, all of whom are making their feature film debuts, and who were selected after submitting videotaped interviews auditions in response to a well publicized open casting call posted on a website. Over a half million people visited the website and nearly 500 people sent in tapes before the final seven leading performers, of characters, were selected to workshop the storyline with Mitchell.

This film is not rated

Casino Royale --

Casino Royale is the 21st James Bond film is the first to star Daniel Craig as British Secret Service agent James Bond. After obtaining his 00-number and his license to kill, James Bond sets out on his first mission which takes him to Madagascar to spy on a potential terrorist. Soon after, Bond is pulled into a game of high stakes poker in Montenegro with Le Chiffre, who provides a global money laundering service to many terrorist organizations. Daniel Craig stars as 007 James Bond, the smoothest, sexiest, most lethal agent on Her Majesty's Secret Service in Casino Royale. Based on the first Bond book written by Ian Fleming, the story, which has never been told on film until now, recounts the making of the world's greatest secret agent. James Bond's first 007 mission leads him to Le Chiffre, banker to the world's terrorists. In order to stop him, and bring down the terrorist network, Bond must beat Le Chiffre in a high-stakes poker game at Casino Royale. Bond is initially annoyed when a beautiful British Treasury official, Vesper Lynd is assigned to deliver his stake for the game and watch over the government's money. But, as Bond and Vesper survive a series of lethal attacks by Le Chiffre and his henchmen, a mutual attraction develops leading them both into further danger and events that will shape Bond's life forever.

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violent action, a scene of torture, sexual content and nudity

The Holiday --

Amanda Woods, the owner of a prospering advertising firm that creates movie trailers, lives in Southern California. Iris Simpkins writes the popular wedding column for London's Daily Telegraph and resides in a charming cottage in the English countryside. Though Iris and Amanda live 6,000 miles apart, they are in exactly the same place. Just before Christmas, Iris and Amanda decide to take a needed break from the men in their lives and neither is much in the mood for a nostalgic chorus of Auld Lang Syne. Amanda, wanting to get out of town for the holidays, stumbles onto an internet site that specializes in home exchanges, and finds Iris' English cottage to be the perfect antidote to her troubles. On impulse, Amanda and Iris agree to crisscross continents and move into each other's homes for two weeks. Iris lands in Los Angeles on a spectacularly clear day warmed by the gusts of the seasonal Santa Ana winds. Not long after she arrives at Amanda's Brentwood home, she is befriended by Arthur, a noted screenwriter from Hollywood's Golden Era, and Miles a film composer who works with Amanda's ex boyfriend. In England, where it is anything but balmy, Amanda is just settling into the cozy solitude of the snow-covered Rose Hill Cottage, when Iris' handsome brother Graham (Jude Law) comes knocking at the cottage door. In an unexpected turn of events, both women discover that the best trips are the ones where you leave your baggage behind.

Rated PG-13 for Sexual Content and Some Strong Language.

Love Wrecked --

Jenny is stranded with her pop star idol on a romantic Caribbean beach. When Jenny discovers it’s just a short walk back to their resort, she tries every trick in the book to keep her crush thinking they’re lost at sea. Will her plans be shipwrecked when her rival finds them and threatens to let the secret out? Rating:

PG for sensuality, crude humor and language

Epitafios: The Complete First Season--

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Worlds According to

Steve

Dreams, Hallucinations, and

Fantasylands.

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