Paramount Vantage (USA): 6

Carriers (2009) is a post-apocalyptic American film written and directed by the Pastor brothers. The world has been devastated by an extremely contagious virus, known as “The World Ender Virus”, causing widespread deaths. In order to seek refuge, Brian, his girlfriend Bobby, his brother Danny, and Danny’s friend Kate plan to make their way to Turtle Beach, Texas – a place they used to visit in their childhood. To increase their chances of survival, they adhere to a set of rules devised by Brian. On their journey, they encounter Frank and his infected daughter Jodie who are stranded with an empty ...

Shine a Light (2008), directed by Martin Scorsese, captures the Rolling Stones’ Beacon Theatre performances in 2006 during their A Bigger Bang Tour. Filmed on October 29 and November 1 of that year, the footage used for the film is solely from the second show. The music was recorded, mixed, and co-produced by Bob Clearmountain with David Hewitt operating the audio recording on the Silver Truck. Preceding the concert clips is a brief semi-fictionalized intro depicting the preparations for the shows, along with historical news clips and archival interviews featuring band members. These special shows were ...

Directed by Michael Winterbottom and based on the 2003 memoir of the same name by Mariane Pearl, A Mighty Heart (2007) is an American drama film with a gripping storyline. The film follows the events surrounding Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl’s disappearance in Karachi while he was supposed to fly to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, who is also a journalist. With meticulous planning, Danny has set up an interview with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric at a café. However, things take a dark turn when he doesn’t return and Mariane takes it upon herself to find him.

No Country for Old Men (2007), an American neo-Western crime thriller film directed and written by Joel and Ethan Coen, is based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel with the same name. In 1980, Anton Chigurh, a hitman, is arrested in Texas but manages to escape by strangling a sheriff’s deputy. He then steals a car using a captive bolt pistol to kill the driver. Meanwhile, Llewelyn Moss is hunting pronghorns in the desert when he stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong. Among the scene are several dead men, a wounded ...

The American biographical adventure drama film, Into the Wild (2007), was written, co-produced, and directed by Sean Penn. Based on the 1996 non-fiction book by Jon Krakauer of the same name, it tells the story of Chris McCandless who arrives in Healy, a remote area just north of Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Upon realizing McCandless’ lack of preparedness, the man who gives him a ride provides him with gumboots. McCandless then sets up camp in an abandoned city bus that he dubs ‘The Magic Bus’. Enjoying his solitude and surrounded by ...

Babel (2006), a psychological drama, was directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. This multi-narrative film features an ensemble cast and interweaves stories set in Morocco, Japan, Mexico, and the United States. It is an international co-production between companies from the US, Mexico, and France, completing Arriaga and Iñárritu’s Death Trilogy that also includes Amores perros (2000) and 21 Grams (2003). The ...