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She's the Man (2006) --> Fighting against sexism in her high school's sports programs, Viola (Amanda Bynes) impersonates her brother who attends a rival school and joins its soccer team in order to beat her school in an upcoming match; thus proving women are equals to men on a football field. When she falls for a team mate pandemonium ensues and you get a fun film involving gender roles and love rivalries.


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Munich (2005) --> In 1972 a group of Palestinian terrorists took over the Israeli section of the Olympic village and eventually killed 11 of Israel's athletes. The aftermath of this massacre is the subject of Steven Spielberg's second film of 2005. Eric Bana stars as Mossad agent Avner (no last name given) who is recruited to hunt down those responsible for Black September (what the event was called) and kill them. Spielberg tells a compelling story where both the Palestinians and Israelis come out looking both good and bad. He allows the film to point out many faults and justified reasons for the actions of both the Israelis and Palestinians and shows how hard peace is to achieve when two sides of a conflict hate each other so much, and more importantly, feel both justified and righteous in that hate.


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Why We Fight (2005) --> Everyone around the world knows, either through direct contact or reports from the global media, that America is an empire whose foreign policy is based mostly on force backed by a strong military and weapons industry that has too much influence over the powers in Washington. Eugene Jarecki just decided to put it on film backed with a historical explanation. He is mostly preaching to the converted even though he takes a more objective approach than film makers of Michael Moore's inclinations. If you wish to see how, what Dwight D. Eisenhower called a "military industrial complex", came into existence, then Why We Fight is a good place to start.


Scott D. Brown

Basic Instinct (1992) --> Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas star in this Paul Verhoeven thriller about an author who is investigated for murder after her boyfriend turns up dead in the exact manner described in one of her novels. The movie made Stone a star (especially for the "crossing the legs" scene) and is considered one of the better thrillers of the decade. You are hard pressed to figure out who the murderer is as the clues discovered by Douglas (as homicide detective Nick Curren) lead you away from any decisive conclusions; that is until the very end of the film.


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