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Ramadan is upon us and a new menu of movie morsels is laid out for the filmic buffet, because Showtime has scoured the planet to find yet another collection of goodies to keep you entertained throughout this special season.
It's Academy Award winners galore this month and the folks at Showtime have taken it upon themselves to broaden the cinematic horizons of households across the Middle East.
Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a towering BAFTA and Oscar winning performance in the leading role as venal oil baron Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood, the gut-wrenching fable of grasping megalomania in turn-of-the-century California.
Winner of four Oscars including Best Film, Best Direction and Best Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem, directors Joel and Ethan Coen are back with their most gripping and accomplished film yet - No Country For Old Men.
A case full of drug money, a psychopath with a terrible haircut and enough dead bodies to dam the Rio Grande: without a doubt one of the most compelling thrillers of the year.
From the writer of Oscar winning hit The Queen comes the handsomely staged and royally entertaining slice of Tudorama in The Other Boleyn Girl starring three of Hollywood's hottest stars, Eric Bana, Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. Rest assured it's not just bodices that are torn asunder when Henry VIII chooses Mary Boleyn to be his mistress over her sister Anne.
Hollywood heavyweights Samuel L Jackson and John Cusack team up in the thriller 1408. Ignoring the dire warnings of manager Samuel L Jackson, haunted house guidebook author John Cusack checks into suite 1408 of New York's Dolphin Hotel. But the room's grim legacy of 56 untimely deaths suggests he may be in for a very bad night. Cynicism goes out of the window in this clever, disorientating and truly nerve-jangling adaptation of Stephen King's short, sharp shocker.
Carrying on with the thriller theme we've also got Disturbia, the chilling thriller that manages enough jolts and jitters to keep fidgeting teens firmly behind the settee.
They also plan to tickle your funny bone throughout the month of Ramadan with Will Ferrell in the cut-throat world of competitive ice-skating in Blades of Glory and George Clooney doubling up as director and the lead in Leatherheads, a quick-fire rom-com that delves into the world of 1920s' American Football.
And, this is just a foretaste... The line up should be enough to satiate the filmic needs of almost any movie fan. And we haven't even mentioned the Arabic specials over on Showshasa yet...
