The best Khmer Movie of 2012.My Family My Heart (2012) គ្រួសារខ្ញំុបេះដូងខ្ញំុ
1st episode of KMF's latest made-for-TV movie 'My Family My Heart' in 30 episodes.
Commissioned by CTN for its youth channel MyTV, the show is currently about halfway through its broadcast run. This ep was shown on Sunday 25 December 2011.
The brief was to creata a drama to appeal to whole families to attract a wider audience base to MyTV.
Beauty of Life (2012) សម្រស់ជីវិត
1st episode (1st half) of 'Beauty of Life' - KMF's latest TV movie commissioned by CTN (Cambodia's top TV channel).
The show picked up about 35% of the TV audience at peaktime (7.30 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. Thu/Fri) indicating that up to 4 million viewers (from a total population of 14 million) regularly tuned in.
There are 30 episodes each in 2 parts.
AirWaves (2012) រលកសំលេង
1st episode (2nd half) of 'AirWaves' - KMF's smash-hit Cambodian TV movie (total 50 episodes each in 2 parts).'AirWaves' has just finished broadcasting at peaktime on CTN (Cambodia's most popular TV channel) where it pulled in huge numbers of viewers, sometimes over 40% of the TV audience. It is being fully repeated on TV3 (another popular TV station) on Saturday and Sunday evenings at 9.30 pm. starting 8th and 9th January 2011.
Set in a radio station, this ultra-modern show reflects contemporary life in Phnom Penh - mixing humour, romance, action and comedy with serious underlying themes. The major theme is encouraging harmonious relations between majority and minority communities in Cambodia.
Vanished (2009) បាត់ខ្លួន
Radio show presenter Maly deals with the personal problems of young Cambodians on a controversial nightly phone-in show. In quick succession, her co-host and producer are found dead. Maly is terrified her own life is in danger, even under police protection. As the threats mount and she feels increasingly at her wits’ end, the question for her and the audience is – will she crack before the murderer is caught?
Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanished_(2009_film)
Staying Single When (2007) នៅកំលោះដល់ណាខ្ញំុ?
In Staying Single When, KMF pioneered the use of "real voices". The normal Khmer movie-making practice is to overdub all actors' lines with Phnom Penh's stable of six voice-over performers, regardless of suitability of age and emotional performance.
Staying Single When has high-quality English subtitles.
Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staying_Single_When
My Kingdom (2011) ផ្លាកបញ្ជារមាស
Chinese Movies
Story
Set during the 1920's in Shanghai, China, "My Kingdom" tells the story of two brothers’ quest for fame, love and revenge in the Peking Opera world. Brothers Guan Yi Long and Meng Er Kui travel to Shanghai to seek revenge on opera-troupe leader Master Yue, who once defeated their Master Yu. Meng Er Kui also plans to take out the seven sons of the Prince Regent of the Qing Dynasty
Ong Bak 3 (2010) កែងឆេះ ចង្គង់ហោះ វគ្គ៣
Thai Movie
Story
Ong-Bak 3 is a 2010 Thai martial arts film directed, produced and written by Tony Jaa and Panna Rittikrai. The film's story is a follow-up to Ong Bak 2, where Tien is brutally beaten before being put to death by Lord Rajasena's men.
Born to Defense (1986)
Chinese Movie
Born to Defence (Chinese: 中華英雄) is a 1986 Hong Kong action film, which marked the directorial debut of Jet Li, who also stars in the film. The film features fight choreography by Tsui Siu-Ming. The film is set in China following the end of World War II and the liberation of China. It centers on Jet Li's character and his confrontations with navy sailors, who are portrayed as rapacious villains, from China's ally, the United States, primarily in the boxing ring as Li's character is an avid athlete.
Bad Boy II (2003)
Hollywood
Story
8 years after the events of the first film, Miami police detectives Marcus Barnett (Martin Lawrence) and Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) are investigating the flow of highly-potent ecstasy into the city. Their surveillance of boats coming in from Cuba leads them to aKu Klux Klan meeting and drug drop in a swamp docks outside Miami. The subsequent raid on the Klan members proves to be a disaster; malfunctioning radios delay back-up, causing a firefight where Mike accidentally shoots Marcus in the buttocks, while the Klan members are revealed to be mere small-time buyers and not the distributors of the ecstasy. The incident leaves Marcus to further question if he still wants to partner with Mike, while Mike fears that Marcus may discover his new relationship with Marcus' sister, Syd (Gabrielle Union).
8 years after the events of the first film, Miami police detectives Marcus Barnett (Martin Lawrence) and Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) are investigating the flow of highly-potent ecstasy into the city. Their surveillance of boats coming in from Cuba leads them to aKu Klux Klan meeting and drug drop in a swamp docks outside Miami. The subsequent raid on the Klan members proves to be a disaster; malfunctioning radios delay back-up, causing a firefight where Mike accidentally shoots Marcus in the buttocks, while the Klan members are revealed to be mere small-time buyers and not the distributors of the ecstasy. The incident leaves Marcus to further question if he still wants to partner with Mike, while Mike fears that Marcus may discover his new relationship with Marcus' sister, Syd (Gabrielle Union).
Unbeknownst to Mike and Marcus, Syd is an undercover operative with the DEA, as a money laundering agent for Russian gangsters; the Russian gangsters are in fact the distributors of the ecstasy on behalf of neurotic Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia (Jordi Mollà). During her first assignment in Miami, a violent Haitian gang attempts to hijack the money transport between the Russians and Tapia, putting Syd in danger. Mike and Marcus inadvertently stumble into the action, and an intense fire fight and car chase ensues between the gang members and the Miami Police/DEA, devastating the local area and enraging Police CaptainConrad Howard (Joe Pantoliano). Marcus and Mike learn of Syd's actual work, which makes Marcus unhappy, while Capt. Howard demands they find the supplier of ecstasy.
Marcus and Mike go to confront the Haitian gang leader, which results in a firefight and the leader revealing that his information about the transport came from his friend's camcorder. After viewing the footage, Marcus and Mike find out that a local business, the Spanish Palms Mortuary, is possibly being used as a front by Tapia. Disguised as pest terminators, the detectives penetrate Tapia's mansion and discover that Tapia has eliminated his Russian distributors and begun to woo their former associate Syd, who is still undercover with the DEA and has refocused the investigation towards Tapia. The detectives also recover evidence linking Tapia to one of the boats involved in the Klan raid in the swaps.
After pressuring one of the arrested Klansman into making Tapia's boat, the detectives find themselves involved in another firefight, this time while pursuing a morgue van from the docks carrying emptied cadavers. Mike and Marcus decide to infiltrate Tapia's mortuary, where they learn that the drug lord is using dead bodies to smuggle his drugs and money. The mission is nearly sabotaged when the pair are almost discovered, resulting in Marcus accidentally ingesting some of the ecstasy and Mike ordering the disguised officers outside the building to crash an ambulance into it, creating an diversion. After Mike and an intoxicated Marcus obtain a search warrant from Capt. Howard, the mortuary and Tapia's mansion are raided, with the drugs and money being intercepted by the Coast Guard. However, the mansion raid is botched when a vengeful Russian gangster, Alexei (Peter Stormare), violently storms the mansion on his own. Alexei is killed by the police, while Syd is discovered by Tapia and is kidnapped by him, leaving with her to Cuba. With Syd held prisoner in Tapia's compound and guarded by the Cuban military, the drug lord demands the return of his money in two days in exchange for Syd's life.
Mike and Marcus, along with their voluntary SWAT team and Syd's DEA co-workers, prepare a military assault to rescue Syd from Tapia's fortress. During the battle, Mike and Marcus extract Syd and escape, pursued by the infuriated Tapia. After a lengthy pursuit, they end up in a minefield outside the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, where Tapia holds Mike at gunpoint. Marcus rescues Mike with a skillful headshot to Tapia's skull in the middle of the minefield with his last bullet; in a nod to the previous film, Mike exclaims "That's how you shoot!".
Later, at the Burnett house, Mike has bought Marcus a new pool (replacing a previous pool that had been destroyed in a prior gag), and Marcus finally makes peace with Mike dating Syd and no longer doubts their partnership. Despite the sentiment, Mike's new pool breaks, washing the two into a river, as they sing the "Bad Boys" theme song.
Jackie Chan is the Prisoner (2001)
Hollywood and Chinese movies
Story
Though Jackie Chan is billed as the star of The Prisoner, he's actually part of a stellar ensemble cast including Sammo Hung (Dragons Forever, TV's Martial Law), Andy Lau (Saviour of the Soul), and Tony Leung Ka-fai (The Lover). Leung plays a cop who goes undercover in a prison to dig out corruption; Hung is a roustabout prisoner who keeps breaking out to see his son; Chan plays a pool shark who accidentally kills a gambler; and Lau is that gambler's mob boss brother who's sworn to kill Chan. They all end up in the same prison, resulting in a complex, engrossing, and sometimes brutal story--think of it as the Hong Kong version of HBO's Oz. Which is not to say it isn't full of the bizarre narrative shifts that make Hong Kong movies such a perverse pleasure: Chan got into a fight with this gambler because he was trying to raise money to buy his dying girlfriend a black-market liver; at one point, Hung escapes and takes his son to the park, where they buy cotton candy and have some quality time; and at the end the whole movie takes a bizarre lurch into John Woo-style gunplay spectacle. This isn't a criticism--this crazy quilt of emotional tones and genres adds to the movie's entertainment value without detracting from the emotional power of some gripping scenes of prison conflict. For new Jackie Chan fans who've seen his American movies and want to learn more about why he's one of the biggest stars in the world, this is probably not the right place to start; but for anyone looking to experience more of one of the world's most exuberant and engaging bodies of cinema, The Prisoner offers jolting fights and hairpin twists and turns.
