Archive for January, 2005
Brothers Grimm, The
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| Taglines: | 1: And They Lived Happily Ever After 2: Eliminating Evil Since 1812 3: Fall Under The Spell 4: If You Go Down To The Woods Today You’ll Never Believe Your Eyes 5: No curse we can’t reverse. No spell we can’t break. No demon we can’t exterminate. 6: Once Upon A Time 7: This Isn’t The Way To Grandmother’s House 8: Who’s The Fairest Of Them All |
| Plot Summary: | Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. They are put to the test, however, when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage. |
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Book of Swords, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Every generation has a legend…every legend has a hero…and every hero must fight! |
| Plot Summary: | An Asian cop returns to Chicago to revenge his brother’s death, only to come up against a psycho threesome on a killing spree. |
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Sleeper, The
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| Taglines: | 1: One man must stop the ultimate assassin capable of entering peoples minds and killing them from within. |
| Plot Summary: | In the 1990’s, the CIA develops a small group of spies, referred to by the CIA as Sleepers, gifted with the ability to connect with other people in their dreams. This clandestine espionage group was used by the CIA to gather intelligence that would be otherwise impossible to obtain. The Sleeper Agents could enter the minds of world leaders in what is called the Dreamlink. The existence of this experimental program is known only to an elite few and was used only for espionage, until now. Someone within the NSA has learned of the Sleeper Program and has trained its own Sleeper Agent to be the ultimate untraceable assassin. No politician, scientist or business leader is safe. |
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My Big Fat Independent Movie
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| Taglines: | 1: A low brow comedy, for the high brow crowd. |
| Plot Summary: | “My Big Fat Independent Movie” is a spoof along the lines of “Scary Movie” and “Not Another Teen Movie.” It includes parodies of some of the indie film world’s most renowned movies such as “Memento,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Magnolia,” “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” “Amelie,” “Run Lola Run,” “El Mariachi,” “The Good Girl,” “Pi,” “Swingers” and many others. |
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Man-Thing
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| Taglines: | 1: The nature of fear 2: When nature fights back! 3: Your fear is his deadliest weapon |
| Plot Summary: | Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear. |
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Feast
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| Taglines: | 1: They’re Hungry. You’re Dinner. |
| Plot Summary: | Patrons locked inside of a bar are forced to fight monsters. |
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Last Drop, The
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| Taglines: | 1: The fog of war… what better time for a robbery? 2: What better time for a heist than in the fog of war. |
| Plot Summary: | In a daring attempt to end the war by Christmas, Winston Churchill and the British High Command hatch an extraordinary plan - Operation Market Garden. 35,000 British troops are dropped behind enemy lines in German occupied Holland. In the midst of the largest airborne invasion in history, one small unit of men, codename “Matchbox” has it’s own agenda. When Matchbox are shot down short of their landing zone, the odds of their success seem hopeless. Seven very different British soldiers find themselves separated from the Allied invasion, on a collision course with three renegade German soldiers who also want to lay claim to the horde. |
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Pacifier, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Prepare for bottle. 2: Prepare for bottle. Prepare for battle. 3: This Navy S.E.A.L. Meets His Match. 4: Welcome to the infantry. |
| Plot Summary: | The film is the story of an undercover agent who, after failing to protect an important government scientist, learns the man’s family is in danger. In an effort to redeem himself, he agrees to take care of the man’s children only to discover that child care is his toughest mission yet. |
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Son of the Mask
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| Taglines: | 1: Sequel to the #1 box-office hit. 2: The next generation of mischief 3: The Power of Mischief 4: Who’s next? |
| Plot Summary: | A cartoonist named Tim Avery loves his dog, Otis, more than anything in the world. But when Tim and his wife have a baby, Otis starts to feel left out. But then Otis finds an enchanted mask and plots to be rid of the baby once and for all, but is unsuccessful. Meanwhile, up in Valhalla, Odin is infuriated at Loki for losing the mask and orders him to go get it… |
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Manderlay
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| Taglines: | 1: A case of mistaken identity 2: Liberation. Whether They Want It Or Not. |
| Plot Summary: | In 1933, after leaving Dogville, while traveling with her father (Willem Dafoe) and his gangsters to the south of USA, Grace Margaret Mulligan (Bryce Dallas Howard) sees a slave ready to be punished in a property called Manderlay. The slavery had been abolished seventy years ago, and Grace becomes revolted with the attitude of the owners of Manderlay, keeping slaves in their cotton fields and following predetermined despicable rules called “Mam’s Law”. Grace decides to stay with some gangsters in Manderlay and give notions of democracy to the slaves and to the white family. When harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economical reality of Manderlay. |
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