Habibie & Ainun

In Movie Theater: December 20, 2012

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Habibie & Ainun is an Indonesia drama movie which was released on December 20, 2012, in which in less than 14 days has already had 2.1 millions viewers. At launch, the movie is watched by the sixth President of Republic of Indonesia, Dr. H. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, accompanied by the 16 th Governor of Jakarta, Ir. H. Joko Widodo, and by the movie's main character himself, the third President of the Republic of Indonesia, Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie. The movie is based on the memoir written by Habibie for his wife, Hasri Ainun Habibie.

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This is a story about what happens when you find your soul mate  The story of first love and endless love. The story of the third President of Indonesia and the first lady. The story of Habibie and Ainun.

Rudy Habibie an aircraft expert genius who has a big dream: to devote himself to the Indonesian people by making airplane to unify Indonesia. While Ainun is a smart young doctor with a bright future career.

In 1962, they meet again after long time no see at Bandung City. Habibie falls in love with her instantly. But Ainun, she does not just fall in love with him, but has faith in  Habibie's vision and dream. They get married and fly to Germany.

Have dreams will never be easy. Habibie and Ainun know it. Their way of love is built in line with the sieze of their dream. The cold snow German, sacrifice, pain, loneliness and temptations of wealth and power as they return to Indonesia accompany the journey of two lives into one.

For Habibie, Ainun is everything. Ainun is eyes to see his life. For Ainun Habibie is everything, filler of her  life. But every story has an end, every dream has a limit. Then at one point, two soul mates realized; will their love last forever?

Directed by: Faozan Rizal

Produced by: Dhamoo Punjabi

Manoj Punjabi

Cast:

Reza Rahardian

Bunga Citra Lestari

Tio Pakusadewo

Ratna Riantiarno

Mike Lucock

Vita Mariana

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Beautiful Creatures

In Movie Theaters: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 

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Beautiful Creatures is set in fictional Gatlin, South Carolina. The novel is told by protagonist Ethan Wate, who lives with his writer father and housekeeper Amma who is “more like [Ethan’s] grandmother”. The story begins on the first day of Ethan’s sophomore year when he wakes up from a recurring dream he has been having about a girl he does not know. That morning he finds a “creepy—almost hypnotic”,  song called "Sixteen Moons" on his iPod and also notices the smell of rosemary and lemon. At school Ethan finds out there is a new girl this year, which is surprising because Gatlin “hadn’t had a new girl in school since the 3rd grade”; the new girl is “old man Ravenwood’s niece”, Lena. Macon Melchizedek Ravenwood is the town shut-in and is often compared in the novel to the character Boo Radley from To Kill A Mockingbird. Ethan later hears Lena playing "Sixteen Moons" in band.

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When Ethan drives home he almost runs over Lena, who is standing on the road in the middle of the storm looking for someone to help with her broken down car. When Ethan notices she smells like lemon and rosemary he realized that Lena is the girl from his dreams. He soon learns that Lena is a Caster, a person who can use magic, and that on her sixteenth birthday she will be claimed for either Light or Dark. Ethan tries to find a way to save Lena from going Dark and solve the mystery of how he is connected to Lena. At the same time Lena is trying to handle the whole town turning against her: “we don’t take kindly to strangers [in Gatlin.” Lena and Ethan discover that they are connected through years of Gatlin and Caster history.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Creatures_(novel))

Directed by: Richard LaGravenese

Cast:

Alice Englert . . . Lena

Viola Davis . . . Amma

Emma Thompson . . . Mrs. Lincoln / Sarafine

Emmy Rossum . . . Ridley

Jeremy Irons . . . Macon Ravenwood

Thomas Mann . . . Link

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A Good Day to Die Hard

In Movie Theaters: Thursday, February 14, 2013

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The story begins when the son of take-no-prisoners cop, John McClane, gets troubles in Russia. John has to travel to foreign land to help his son out of prison, Jack, he is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. 

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However, when there, terrorists use the circumstances behind his arrest to further their agenda of a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.

Directed by: John Moore

Cast:

Bruce Willis . . . John McClane

Jai Courtney . . . John McClane's Son

Cole Hauser . . . Collins

Amaury Nolasco

Sebastian Koch . . . Komorov 

Julia Snigir . . . Irina 

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Javanese Alphabet (Ha Na Ca Ra Ka)

• Javanese is a syllabic alphabet - each letter has an inherent vowel /a/. Other vowels can be indicated using a variety of diacritics which appear above, below, in front of or after the main letter, which also known as tjarakan or carakan.
• Each consonant has two forms: the aksara form is used at the beginning of a syllable, while the pasangan form, which usually appears below the aksara form, is used for the second consonant of a consonant cluster and mutes the vowel of the aksara.
• Here are the display the Javanese alphabet on both carakan and pasangan:

Carakan:

Pasangan

How to write it?

Carakan in Javanese alphabet is functioned as the basic letters which are in the form of syllable in its pronunciations. There are 20 letter-syllables in Javanese alphabet as displayed above, in which all are consonant with /a/ sound as the default sound follows in each letter-syllable. Meanwhile, if you want to get only letter with no /a/ sound, pasangan is used, to make it clearer, take a look these below examples:

Bakso

1. This word consists of letter syllables ‘ba’, ‘so’ and consonant letter ‘k’. In writing that word in Javanese, for the first step to make it easier, just read that word as bakasa, in this form, all the components are in the form of letter-syllables (carakan), so all you need to do is just see the carakan table.
2. After you got the letter needed to form that word, the next step is try to notice in what part is a letter not letter-syllable. In that word you see that ‘k’ stands alone, which means that ‘k’ is in the form of letter/ consonant letter. To get this consonant, just write the ‘ba’ and ‘ka’ and to stop ‘ka’ and change it into ‘k’, put pasangan ‘sa’ after ‘ka’. In this state, your writing is pronounced as baksa, and then finally put some punctuation or sandhangan to get the sound /o/, in this case is taling tarung before and after pasangan ‘sa’, for further discussion on sandhangan will be discussed in the next section. 
3. The writing of that word in Javanese will be:

So that, to get consonant in Javanese, (1) just write the consonant (or letter that is stopped) by using carakan letter-syllable and then (2) put the pasangan of the letter which follows it. 

Sandhangan (punctuation) 

Aksara Murda

Aksara Swara

Aksara Rekan

Wilangan

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Aksara: Murda, Swara, Rekan

Aksara Murda

Aksara Murda is used to start a word which expresses proper name, such as name of person, city, place etc. Its function is just the same as capital letter in Latin alphabet, but the different is it is in the form of letter-syllable and only has limited number of letter-syllable, eight letter-syllables exactly: Na Ka Ta Sa Pa Nya Ga Ba as displayed in the above table.

e.g.

Note: Aksara Murda is used to represent the italic letters.

Aksara Swara

Just the same as Aksara Murda, Aksara Swara is also used to begin proper name. if aksara murda is used to express proper name which starts with consonant letter-syllables that belongs to aksara murda, as explained previously, Aksara Swara is used to start proper name which starts with vocal letters, a i u e o. here are the examples:

Note: Aksara Swara is used to represent the italic letters.

Aksara Rekan

Along with the settlement of Moslem traders from Gujarat to Javanese Island who has Arabic as their native language, the Javanese Alphabet system committed modifications. In the Arabic, there are many sounds that are alien in Javanese ears, such as kha, fa, dza, gha, and za. To adapt this sound Javanese people also made modification in their alphabet letter system; this modification is known as Aksara Rekan, as it is displayed in the above table. The example of the usage is as follows:

Wilangan

Here is the form of numbers in Javanese alphabet system. The use is just the same as numbers in Latin alphabet, but with colon in its group of number to separate it from letters. Such as: 

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Texas Chainsaw 3D

In Movie Theaters: Friday, January 4, 2013  

The people of Newt, Texas, led by Mayor Burt Hartman, burn down the farmhouse of the Sawyer family for their role in aiding Jedidiah "Jed" Sawyer, as known as "Leatherface", in several murders. The arsonists are celebrated as heroes in the town, and the entire family is presumed dead. However, an infant, Edith Sawyer, is found by one of the townsmen, Gavin Miller, who promptly murders her mother, Loretta Sawyer, and adopts Edith with his wife Arlene. Decades later, Edith has been raised by Gavin and Arlene as Heather Miller. One day, Heather is notified that her grandmother, Verna Carson, has passed away and left everything to her; discovering that she was adopted, Heather and her boyfriend Ryan, and two other friends, Nikki and Kenny, travel to Newt to collect her inheritance. Along the way, the group picks up hitchhiker Darryl. (http://en.wikipedia.org/)

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The townspeople long suspected the Sawyer family, owners of a local barbeque pit, were somehow responsible. Their suspicions were finally confirmed one hot summer day when a young woman escaped the Sawyer house following the brutal murders of her four friends. Word around the small town quickly spread, and a vigilante mob of enraged locals surrounded the Sawyer stronghold, burning it to the ground and killing every last member of the family – or so they thought. 

Decades later and hundreds of miles away from the original massacre, a young woman named Heather learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from a grandmother she never knew she had. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion’s dank cellars. (http://www.movieinsider.com/)

Directed by: John Luessenhop

Cast:

Tania Raymonde . . . Nikki

Scott Eastwood . . . Carl

Trey Songz . . . Male Lead

Dan Yeager . . . Leatherface

Alexandra Daddario...Heather Miller 

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The Last Stand

In Movie Theaters: Friday, January 18, 2013

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After retiring from the LAPD narcotics section for careless operation that makes his partner paralyzed in which this thing makes him wracked with regret, Sheriff Ray Owens leaves Los Angeles and settles in the border area which the crime rate is relatively small, Sommerton Junction.

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After a spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy, Gabriel Cortez, the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the hemisphere is hurtling toward the border at 200 mph in a specially outfitted car, a Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1, with a hostage and a fierce army of gang members. He is headed, it turns out, straight for Summerton Junction, where the whole of U.S. law enforcement will have their last opportunity to make a stand and intercept him before he slips across the border forever. At first reluctant to become involved, and then counted out because of the perceived ineptitude of his small town force, Owens ultimately accepts responsibility for the face off.

Directed by: Kim Jee-woon

Cast:

Arnold Schwarzenegger . . . Sheriff Ray Owens 

Forest Whitaker

Luis Guzman

Johnny Knoxville

Harry Dean Stanton

Jaimie Alexander . . . Sarah Torrance 

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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

In Movie Theaters: Friday, January 25, 2013

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Hansel and Gretel have grown up and become famous witch hunter, fifteen years after the traumatic incident 'gingerbread house', these two brothers dedicated themselves to root out witches. this sibling has become expert hunters, famous for their ability to track and detect their prey. 

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Though they are still haunted by bad memories, their works are relatively easy due to unknown reasons, harmful spells and curses do not work well against them.The city of Augsburg has a serious witch problem, the Mayor of Augsburg, Germany, recruited them to address these issues . They were asked to destroy the evil witch who plans to sacrifice the local kids in a 'witches gathering' ​​at the night of 'Blood Moon' which is a sacred night for witch. Worse, the duo also has to deal with the brutal Sheriff Berringer has seized power in Augsburg and planed witch hunt in his own way.

Directed by: Tommy Wirkola

Cast:

Jeremy Renner . . . Hansel 

Gemma Arterton . . . Gretel 

Famke Janssen . . . Muriel 

Ingrid Bolso Berdal

Peter Stormare . . . Berringer

Thomas Mann

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Django Unchained

In Movie Theater: 25 December 2012

Story Line

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture

 of the Brittles – dead or alive. 

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Success leads Schultz to free Django, though the two men choose not to go their separate ways. Instead, Schultz seeks out the South’s most wanted criminals with Django by his side. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago. 

Django and Schultz’s search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of “Candyland,” an infamous plantation. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Academy Award®-nominee Samuel L. Jackson), Candie’s trusted house slave. Their moves are marked, and a treacherous organization closes in on them. If Django and Schultz are to escape with Broomhilda, they must choose between independence and solidarity, between sacrifice and survival.

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino

Cast:

Christoph Waltz . . . Bounty Hunter

Samuel L. Jackson . . . Stephen

Leonardo DiCaprio . . . Calvin Candie

Jamie Foxx . . . Django

Kerry Washington . . . Broomhilda

James Remar . . . Ace Speck

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Les Misérables

In Movie Theaters: 25 December 2012

Les Miserables is a musical adaptation film of a novel by the French writer, Victor Huga, premiered in London, England, on Saturday (8/12).

Starring Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe, and Amanda Seyfried. Les Miserables will be screened around the world starting December 25.

Trailer

Story Line:
Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption-lasting evidence for the survival of the human spirit. Hugh Jackman plays ex-prisoner Jean Valjean, hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert (Russell Crowe) after he breaks parole. When Valjean agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's (Hathaway) young child, Cosette, their lives change forever.

Les Miserables is about the life of an ex-convict Jean Valjean, who wants to change his live for the better. But he could not escape from the dark past.

Directed by: Tom Hooper

Cast:

Hugh Jackman . . . Jean Valjean

Russell Crowe . . . Inspector Javert

Anne Hathaway . . . Fantine

Eddie Redmayne . . . Marius

Amanda Seyfried . . . Cosette

Samantha Barks . . . Eponine

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A Haunted House

On Movie Theater: 11 January 2013

A parody of the Paranormal Activity movies, The Devil Inside and other "found footage" movies.

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When newlyweds Malcolm (Marlon Wayans) and Kisha (Essence Atkins) move into their dream house, they quickly find they're not alone. But it's not the house that's haunted, but his wife that is possessed with spirits - or as Malcolm calls it - "relationship baggage." Malcolm hires everyone from a priest to modern day ghost busters to rid her of the demon, determined not to let the evil spirit ruin his marriage... or his sex life for that matter.

Directed by: Mike Tiddes

Cast:

more cast Marlon Wayans

Nick Swardson

David Koechner

Cedric the Entertainer

Dave Sheridan

Essence Atkins

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