Archive for December, 2008

Killing Me Softly (2002)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hart, Ian | McElhone, Natascha | Fiennes, Joseph | Graham, Heather | Thomsen, Ulrich | Jason Hughes
Directors: Chen Kaige
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A London website designer ops out of her comfortable but ordinary relationship with a nice boyfriend when she forms a dangerously obsessive bond with a handsome, mysterious mountaineer, who turns out to have some secrets.

Speed (1994)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Hopper, Dennis | Bullock, Sandra | Morton, Joe | Daniels, Jeff | Ruck, Alan | Plummer, Glenn | Lineback, Richard | Grant, Beth | James, Hawthorne | Carrasco, Carlos | Kriegel, David | Ohama, Natsuko | Villarreal, Daniel | Gad, Simone
Directors: Bont, Jan de
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Bomber Terrorist’s (Dennis Hopper) elevator plan backfires, so he rigs a bomb to a LA city bus. The stipulation is: once armed, the bus must stay above 50 mph to keep from exploding. Also if LAPD Officer (Keanu Reeves) tries to unload any passengers off, Payne (Hopper) will detonate it. Joe Morton co-stars as Jack’s (Keanu’s) superior, and Jeff Daniels supports Jack helping him try to defuse the bomb.

Wolf Creek (2005)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: O'Donnell, Guy | Poole, Gordon | Phillips, Nathan | Morassi, Kestie | Magrath, Cassandra | Jarratt, John
Directors: McLean, Greg
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Just when you thought it was safe to go hiking in the bushes again…along comes Mick Taylor. Kristy, Ben and Liz are three pals in their twenties who set out to hike through the scenic Wolf Creek National Park in the Australian Outback. The trouble begins when they get back only to find that their car won’t start. The trio think they have a way out when they run into a local bushman named Mick Taylor. Wait until you get a load of what Mick has in store for them. Their troubles have just begun.

Cat in the Hat, The (2003)

Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Baldwin, Alec | Preston, Kelly | Fanning, Dakota | Breslin, Spencer | Hill, Amy | Hayes, Sean | Chuchran, Danielle | Rice, Taylor | Oaks, Brittany | Prairie, Talia-Lynn | Castellaneta, Dan | Brandt, Victor | Norris, Daran | Bugsy
Directors: Welch, Bo
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Conrad and Sally Walden (’Spencer Breslin’ (qv) and ‘Dakota Fanning’ (qv)) are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat (’Mike Myers’ (qv)) walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it’s all fun and games, until things get out of hand, and The Cat must go, go, go, before their parents get back.

Chicken Little (2005)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Braff, Zach | Marshall, Garry | Knotts, Don | Stewart, Patrick | Sedaris, Amy | Zahn, Steve | Cusack, Joan | Shawn, Wallace | Shearer, Harry | Willard, Fred | O'Hara, Catherine | Warburton, Patrick | West, Adam | Walton, Mark | Dindal, Mark
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After Chicken Little causes widespread panic—when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of the sky—the young chicken is determined to restore his reputation. But just as things are starting to go his way, a real piece of the sky lands on his head. Chicken Little and his band of misfit friends, Abby Mallard (aka Ugly Duckling), Runt of the Litter and Fish Out of Water, attempt to save the world without sending the town into a whole new panic.

Almost Famous (2000)

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Crudup, Billy | McDormand, Frances | Hudson, Kate | Lee, Jason | Fugit, Patrick | Deschanel, Zooey | Angarano, Michael | Paquin, Anna | Balk, Fairuza | Taylor, Noah | Fedevich, John | Kozelek, Mark | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Stauber, Liz | Fallon, Jimmy
Directors: Crowe, Cameron
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William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.

Psycho (1960)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Perkins | Leigh, Janet | Vera Miles | John Gavin | Balsam, Martin | John McIntire
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Music
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Clooney, George | Hunter, Holly | Turturro, John | Root, Stephen | Goodman, John | Durning, Charles
Directors: Coen, Joel
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Loosely based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bankrobber George ‘Babyface’ Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that “the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find.”

Bad Company (2002)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Rock, Chris | Stormare, Peter | Macht, Gabriel | Washington, Kerry | Maropis, Adoni | Beauvais, Garcelle | Marsh, Matthew | Micanovic, Dragan | Slattery, John | Smith, Brooke | Sunjata, Daniel | Lawson Jr., DeVone | Robbins, Wills | Vasut, Marek
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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When a CIA agent is killed during a nuclear arms purchase, his partner Oakes, recruits his twin brother, Jake Hayes. Jake had no idea he had a twin brother, let alone that he worked for the CIA. Jake, a.k.a. Michael Turner, has nine days to fill his brother’s place. However, the enemy terrorists learn of his secret identity and kidnap his girlfriend/fiancee. He has to rescue them and save New York city from an imminent nuclear terrorist act.

Surviving Christmas (2004)

Friday, December 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Gandolfini, James | Macy, Bill | Affleck, Ben | Applegate, Christina | | Zuckerman, Josh
Directors: Mike Mitchell
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Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, Drew wants to revisit his old childhood home and possibly relive some old holiday memories. But when he arrives, he finds that the house he was raised in is no longer the home he grew up in. Inhabited by another family, Drew offers a nice financial reward that has the family ringing. But is Drew’s generous cash offer only the beginning of an annoying visitor whose a little too overeager to celebrate Christmas?