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Shadows in Paradise 1986 NR Finland directed by: Aki Kaurisamaki. Screenwriter by Aki Kaurisamaki Cast: Matti Pellonpaa, Kati Outinen.
Ilona is a supermarket check-out clerk who meets Nikander, a lonely garbage man, and they develop romantic feelings towards each other. Both of them are extremely shy so this hinders fast development of their relationship.
Running time: 76 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski 

Broken Embraces 2009 NR Spain directed by: Padro Almondvar. Screenwriter by Padro Almondvar Cast: Penelope Cruz and Blanca Portillo.
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Running time: 129 minutes
Direction: ****
Script, overall story: ****
Cast performance: ****
Music: ***
Cinematography: ****
Overall Production: ****
Final chouski rating:Yakuza

Ariel 1988 NR Finland directed by: Aki Kaurisamaki. Screenwriter by Aki Kaurisamaki Cast: Turo Pajala.
A Finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he starts to dream about leaving the country and starting a new life. He escapes from prison but things don’t go as planned.
Running time: 73 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: ***
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

The Match Factory Girl 1999 Finland directed by: Aki Kaurismaki . Screenwriter by Aki Kaurismaki, Cast: Kati Outinen.
Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster.
Running time:  68 minutes
Direction: ****
Script, overall story: ****
Cast performance: ****
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Yakuza

The Man Without a Past 2003 Finland directed by: Aki Kaurismaki . Screenwriter by Aki Kaurismaki, Cast: Marrku Peltola, Kati Outinen and Juhani Niemela.
A man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.
Running time:  97 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Lights in the Dusk  2006 Finland directed by: Aki Kaurismaki . Screenwriter by Aki Kaurismaki, Cast: Janne Hyytiainen, llka Koivula and Maria Javenhelmi.
In Helsinki, a lonely night watchman is caught up in a series of misadventures with a femme fatale and a crooked businessman.
Running time:  78 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Sherlock Holmes 2009 PG 13 USA directed by: Guy Ritchie. Screenwriter by Michel Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, Simon Kinberg, Lionel Wigram and Michael Robert Johnson Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law and Rachel McAdams.
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
Running time: 128 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Avatar 2009 PG 13 USA directed by: James Cameron. Screenwriter by James Cameron Cast: Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver.
A band of humans are pitted in a battle against a distant planet’s indigenous population.
Running time: 162 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: **
Music: ****
Cinematography: ****       
Overall Production: ****
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Its Complicated 2009 R USA directed by: Nancy Meyers. Screenwriter by Nancy Myers Cast: Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.
During his son’s college graduation, Jane hooks up with her ex-husband, Jake, who’s married to a younger woman. As if being your ex’s mistress isn’t tough enough, Jane also finds herself drawn to Adam, a smitten architect.
Running time: 114 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: **           
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

The Young Victoria 2009 PG UK/USA directed by: Jean-Marc Vallee. Screenwriter by Julian Fellowes Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend and Paul Battany
A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria’s rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
Running time: 100 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ****
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***         
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

The Slammin’ Salmon 2009 R USA directed by: Kevin Heffernan. Screenwriter by Broken Lizard Cast: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Stave Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhamske
The owner of a Miami restaurant indebted to the mob institutes a contest to see what waiter can earn the most money in one night.
Running time: 90 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: **           
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

Invictus 2009 PG-13 USA directed by: Clint Eastwood. Screenwriter by Anthony Peckham base on John Carlin book Cast: Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon
Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
Running time: 134 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***         
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Duplicity 2009 R USA directed by: Tony Gilroy. Screenwriter by Tony Gilroy Cast: Clive Owen and Julia Roberts.
A pair of corporate spies who share a steamy past hook up to pull off the ultimate con job on their respective bosses.
Running time: 125 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***         
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Funny People 2009 R USA directed by: Judd Apatow. Screenwriter by Judd Apatow Cast: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann and Eric Bana.
When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns of his terminal, inoperable health condition, his desire to form a genuine friendship cause him to take a relatively green performer under his wing as his opening act.
Running time: 153 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: ***         
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

Blood : The Last Vampire 2009 R USA directed by: Chris Nahon. Screenwriter by Chris Chow and Base on Kenji Kamiyama  and Katsuya Terade character Rasuto Buraddo Cast: Gianna Jun, Allison Miller and Liam Cunningham.
A vampire named Saya, who is part of covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon in disguise.
Running time: 91 minutes
Direction: *
Script, overall story: *
Cast performance: *
Music: *
Cinematography: **           
Overall Production: *
Final chouski rating: Oneski