Biutiful

Uxbal, single father of two children, finds his life in chaos as he is forced to deal with his life in order to escape the heat of crime in underground Barcelona, to break with the love for the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother of his children and to regain spiritual insight in his life as he is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Date Night

This action comedy tells the tale of mild-mannered married couple Phil (Steve Carell) and Claire (Tina Fey), who fear their relationship may be falling into a stale rut. During their weekly date night, they impetuously steal a dinner reservation, which leads to a case of mistaken identity. Turns out the reservation was for a pair of thieves, and now a number of unsavory characters want Phil and Claire killed. If they can survive a wacky life-threatening night, they may just rediscover the passion missing from their marriage. Directed by Shawn Levy, the film co-stars Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, and Kristen Wiig.

Requiem for a dream....

Purple in the morning, blue in the afternoon, orange in the evening.


Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr., this gritty drama concerns four people trapped by their addictions. Harry (Jared Leto), and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) are impoverished heroin addicts living in Coney Island, NY, while Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) is a fellow addict trying to distance herself from her wealthy father. Harry dreams of scoring a pound of smack, from which he could make enough money to open a clothing boutique with Marion, but so far he and his friends can barely scrape by supporting their own habits. Meanwhile, Harry's mother Sara (Ellen Burstyn), who spends her days watching television, is told she has the opportunity to appear on her favorite game show; wanting to lose enough weight to fit into her favorite red dress, she visits a sleazy doctor who gives her a prescription for amphetamines. Soon Sara has a drug habit of her own that is spiraling out of control. Requiem for a Dream was directed by Darren Aronofsky, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Selby; it was Aronofsky's second feature, following his acclaimed independent film Pi.

The Goonies

The Goonies are a group of friends living in a village, the groups leader Mikey Walsh, his older brother Brand and gang members Andy, Data, Stef, Mouth, and Chunk are being evicted from their homes which are to be demolished. Setting out to find a way of saving their homes, The Goonies find a treasure map and they set off in search for the treasure of the legendary pirate One-Eyed Willy which is located beneath a abandoned restaurant. Joined by a deformed gentle giant named Sloth, The Goonies embark on a great adventure through a underground maze filled with traps and skeletons, where they are pursued by Sloth's mother, thief Momma Fratelli and his brothers Jake and Francis who are also after One-Eyed Willy's treasure and they willing to get the treasure first.

Hellboy

Hellboy isn't your average hero. Hell. He isn't even your average superhero. Brought forth by the Nazis during a sacred ritual towards the end of World War II. Our hero was summoned by accident when the evil monk of Russian history/folklore, Grigori Rasputin was meddling with forces that lead to his undoing. With the twisted and evil monster trapped for another sixty years when things don't go as planned (US soldiers heroically intervened). Hellboy is raised by Prof. Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm, an expert in the occult. Our demonic hero is initiated in to the Bureau of paranormal research were he joins the amphibious, kind hearted, and clever fellow "Freak", Abe Sapien. When Rasputin returns once again with the aid of his minions the maniacal, undead assassin Kroenen and the monk's faithful lover Ilsa. Hellboy must unwillingly pair up with John Myers, an idealistic, naive new agent of the Bureau. Not only that but the big hunk of an evil basher becomes entangled in a love triangle with the pyro-telekinetic love of his life Liz and his new comrade. Fighting evil couldn't prove more difficult or out there.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS is a whirlwind of a movie, a wacky, drug-laden story backed by a fist-pumping rock & roll soundtrack featuring everything from Wayne Newton and Tom Jones to Combustible Edison and Dead Kennedys. Journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) heads to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, bringing along his Samoan lawyer, Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro), in this furious adaptation of the book by Hunter S. Thompson. It is 1971, and Duke and Gonzo are on their way to Sin City with a frightened hitchhiker (a nearly unrecognizable Tobey Maguire) and a trunkful of drugs, which they ingest nonstop. Director Terry Gilliam, a master of complex, bizarre visual imagery, has a field day interpreting the drug-hazed world in which Duke and Gonzo reside 

Four Days, Three nights, Two Convertibles, One City

The Hurt Locker

…..And the winner for Best Picture is “THE HURT LOCKER”

Set in Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb. - You don't have to be a hero to do this job. But it helps

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

The IFCS inaugural movie extravaganza will be Feb 19th 2010, 8:30 p.m.


We will be viewing: Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

British writer Guy Ritchie made his feature directorial debut with this crime-caper comedy-drama set in London's East End and heavy on the Cockney dialogue. A get rich scheme goes awry: Cardsharp Eddy (Nick Moran) and pals Bacon (Jason Statham), Tom (Jason Flemyng), and Soap (Dexter Fletcher) scuffle to pile up enough money to put Eddy at the card table opposite gangland lord Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty). Unfortunately, the whole plan backfires, leaving Eddy owing Harry a huge sum, payable within the week. To raise the cash, Eddy sets out a caper, to blag a business run by Winston (Steven Mackintosh), but the inevitable gunplay doesn't make for an easy heist.

Cheer's mate, chip chip cheerio and piss off ya wanka

IFCS Film List

Are you kidding? With the exception of maybe one or two, I think the list is awesome-we all have good taste!

and the winner is...... The List

No one! This is one of the toughest choices the group as a whole has had to make, we have narrowed approx. 175 of our favorite moives to a list of 65. Now to clarify these 65 movies are not being portrayed as the best movies of all time, just the collective favorites of the IFCS, and I can tell you no one is completely happy with the list :) so now for the moment we all have been waiting for:

1. Hangover, The
2. Goonies, The
3. 300
4. Avatar
5. Gone with the wind
6. Goodfellas
7. The Departed
8. The Notebook
9. American History X
10. Braveheart
11. Color Purple
12. Lock stock and two smoking barrels
13. Passion of the christ
14. Princess Bride, The
15. Saturday Night Fever
16. Slumdog Millionaire
17. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
18. 3:10 to Yuma
19. Dark Knight
20. Fight Club
21. Godfather II
22. Hamburger Hill
23. I am Sam
24. Last of the Mohicans
25. Lord of the Rings, The : The Return of the King
26. Man on fire
27. Mi Familia
28. Neverending Story, The
29. Reservoir Dogs
30. Seven
31. Usual Suspects, The
32. Breakfast club
33. Dirty Dancing
34. Godfather
35. Lost Boys
36. Love Actually
37. Matrix, The
38. Old School
39. Pulp Fiction
40. Requiem for a Dream
41. Scarface
42. Shawshank Redemption
43. Snatch
44. 16 Candles
45. Across the universe
46. Artificial Intelligence
47. Australia
48. Bridget Jones’s Diary
49. Burbs, The
50. Carlitos Way
51. Gladiator
52. Gran Torino
53. Hellboy
54. Immortal Beloved
55. Just Friends
56. Legend
57. Saving Private Ryan
58. Shag
59. Stand By Me
60. Star Trek
61. The outsiders
62. The Sixth Sense
63. Tombstone
64. Tropic Thunder
65. Varsity Blues