Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers (2001) is a 10 part mini-series about the Easy Company (506th Infantry Regiment) in the US 101st Airborne division and their mission in the second world war. They start out in England, with a mission to parachute behind enemy lines in Normandie, in the early hours on D-day. They continued though France, including the Siege of Bastogne, and made their way though Holland with Operation Market Garden, later entering Germany and finally Austria.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2009) is a movie about Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell) and Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) who have just broken up. Jason is devastated about the break-up and decided to go on a vacation to Hawaii. The thing is, Sarah also happens to be on the very same resort with her new boyfriend, a rockstar named Aldous Snow (Russell Brand). Peter runs into Rachel Jansen (Mila Kunis) who works at the hotel.
Robin Hood
Robin Hood (2010) is a movie about the classic story about Robin Longstride (Russel Crowe). The story begins in France with the death of King Richard and the journey back to England. Robin decided to honor a dying man’s wish, to return the sword of Walter of Locksley back to him.
Up in the Air
Up in the Air (2009) is a romantic drama about Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), who makes his living traveling around the US firing people for executives who are too afraid to do it themselves. He lives a simple life with few personal possessions and is happy about it until one day — the day his company decides to ground him.
The Book of Eli
The Book of Eli is a post-apocapolyptic western movie about Eli (Denzel Washington), who has been on a 30 year long journey, heading west. During this tremendous journey though a wasteland full of thugs, robbers and killers, he tries to stay true to his mission to transport a very important artifact to the west-coast.
The Box
The Box (2009) is the story about a young couple struggling to get by, who one day receives a mysterious box on their porch. The box contains an encased button, and when pushed, one million dollars will be given to them in cash. Another consequence of pushing this button however, is that one human being somewhere in the world that they do not know, is going to die.
Green Zone
The Green Zone is the common name for the International Zone of Iraq — a 10-square-kilometer area in central Baghdad, Iraq, that was the center of the Coalition Provisional Authority and remains the center of the international presence in the city[1]. This movie is a political conspiracy thriller set in the beginning of the Iraq war and the politics surrounding the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Lebanon
Lebanon (2009) is a Lebanese war movie set in 1982, right in the beginning of when the real 1982 Lebanon war started. The story is about a tank crew accompanied by paratroopers and their journey in their mission to searching a bombed and broken city with desperate people fighting for their lives, and their children.
Skins, season 4
I just finished watching the last episode from season four of Skins, the British teenage drama about life and everything going on at that age.