简介:Following the crisis in Ukraine and Russia’s involvement in Syria, the world is closer to super power confrontation than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Now a committee of senior former British military and diplomatic figures comes together to war game a hypothetical ‘hot war’ in Eastern Europe, including the unthinkable - nuclear confrontation.The War Room faces a scenario that has haunted western strategists since civil war broke out in Ukraine: potential Russian military involvement in the Baltic States of Latvia and Estonia. Like Ukraine these countries have sizable Russian speaking minorities, but unlike Ukraine they are members of NATO, whose founding treaty states that an attack on one ally is an attack on all of them. Because of this, western analysts regularly war game a situation where Russia seeks to exploit ethnic tensions in the Baltic and test the strength of the NATO Alliance.
简介:对于反种族歧视组织而言,艾利沃曼(阿尔•帕西诺 Al Pacino 饰)是一个不可多得的公关大亨。虽然他不修边幅,精神萎靡,但是却能够从容地游走于政客、商贩、明星等社会名流之间。他利用自己的人脉关系,不断地创造者政坛和媒体的新闻。一次偶然的机会,他结识了女明星吉莉(蒂娅•里欧妮 Tea Leoni 饰),在车里,这个平日声色犬马的明星痛哭流涕,只有靠艾利的药片得以缓解压力。后来,他跟随她来到了世贸中心的顶层,那里正上演着醉生梦死的私人派对,艾利无意中目睹了一次谋杀事件。曼哈顿的一夜,让艾利开始反思此前工作的威胁,后来他开始向老友维多利亚(金•贝辛格 Kim Basinger 饰)寻求帮助,但是真正摆脱困扰显然更加复杂……
简介:肩部受伤令吉姆(丹尼斯·奎德 Dennis Quaid 饰)不得不放弃了自己在棒球事业上的大好前途成为了一名教师。幸福的婚姻生活和平静的教师生涯都没能熄灭吉姆内心里对于棒球的热情和喜爱,可是在现实之中,他只能无奈妥协。学校组建了一只棒球队,吉姆是教练这一职位首当其冲的人选,在和队员的接触与训练之中,吉姆渐渐发现,心中有些热烈的情感正在渐渐复苏。为了鼓励队员们训练,吉姆和他们打了一个赌,如果球队能够获得全国赛的资格,他就会重回大联盟。没想到,队员们实现了他们的承诺,现在轮到吉姆了。在吉姆面前的,不仅仅是来自家庭的反对和压力,还有自己30岁的“高龄”,重重阻力面前,吉姆能够实现自己的梦想吗?
简介:沃特.密提(本·斯蒂勒 Ben Stiller 饰)是一名在《生活》杂志工作了16年的胶片洗印经理,他性格内向,甚至无法跟心仪的同事谢莉尔(克里斯汀·韦格 Kristen Wiig 饰)开口搭讪,面对生活他像个旁观者,时常“放空”做白日英雄梦。直到有一天公司被并购,杂志需要做最后一期的封面,而封面成功与否的关键是找到狂野摄影师尚恩(西恩·潘 Sean Penn)的一卷胶片,沃特终于开口搭讪谢莉尔,并在她和母亲(雪莉·麦克雷恩 Shirley MacLaine 饰)的鼓励下踏上真正的冒险之旅,冰原、大海、喜马拉雅山……沃特的白日梦远不及现实壮丽。
简介:Inspired by true life events, in the Oyo Empire in the 1940's, Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of beauty and sexual desire on the very evening he is set to die in order to fulfil his lifelong debt of ritual suicide to accompany the dead Alaafin to the realm of the ancestors, he derails from a very important generational and spiritual transaction. This sets in motion a series of catastrophic consequences, in a spell-binding film of emotions, humour, and tragic role reversals that puts ancient beliefs and customs on trial in an ever increasingly post-modern and Western world.