Archive for May, 2008
Ghost and the Darkness, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Control Your Fear 2: Only the most incredible parts are true. 3: Prey For The Hunters |
| Plot Summary: | In 1896, a construction engineer from the British Army, J.H. Patterson (Kilmer) is sent to build a railway bridge across Uganda’s Tsavo River for the British East African Railway. Soon after he arrives, workmen begin to disappear at night from their tents - never to be seen alive again. The engineer soon discovers that a pair of man-eating lions are stalking around the bridge and campsites, killing the workmen for food. He tries a number of different methods to get rid of them, but the beasts always seem to know what Patterson is doing and avoid being shot. After 30 men have been killed Patterson’s boss recruits a hunter, Charles Remington (Douglas) to hunt down and destroy the lions. But the lions continue killing the workmen until they flee the camps, jumping onto the train as it rolls through Tsavo. Now Remington, Patterson & his aide (John Kani) must face these brilliant yet frightening monsters alone. |
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Meet Joe Black
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| Taglines: | 1: He’s Expecting You. 2: Meet Joe Black: Sooner or Later Everyone Does 3: No one can die - while he loves! |
| Plot Summary: | Bill Parrish, media tycoon, loving father and still a human being, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. One morning, he is contacted by the Inevitable - by hallucination, as he thinks. Later, Death itself enters his home and his life, personified in a man’s body: Joe Black has arrived. His intention was to take Bill with him, but accidentally, Joe’s former host and Bills beautiful daughter Susan have already met. Joe begins to develop certain interest in life on earth as well as in Susan, who has no clue who she’s flirting with. |
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Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale
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| Plot Summary: | Based on an original idea by creator, Joe Barbera, Tom and Jerry find themselves in a fantastic wonderland brought to life by holiday magic and set to the music of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker”. In an empty opera house, Jerry wishes for his chance to perform and magically his dream comes true.
The little mouse is whisked away to an enchanted kingdom where anything is possible… candy forests, singing snowflakes, even the toys spring to life! Jerry has a great time with his new friends and when Jerry dances with a music box ballerina, he is as happy as happy can be. Unfortunately, a group of alley cats led by Tom, crash Jerry’s party, kidnap the music box ballerina, and wreak havoc in the holiday kingdom. It’s up to Jerry to set things right and send those mean old cats back to the alley where they belong. With some help from a mouse named Tuffy and all his newfound friends… Jerry just might win the day! |
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Zero Effect
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| Taglines: | 1: The world’s most private detective. |
| Plot Summary: | Shifty timber tycoon Gregory Stark (’Ryan O’Neal’ (qv)) is being systematically blackmailed and the use of regular private detectives have proved ineffective. Stark decides to call upon the services of the renowned, reclusive Daryl Zero (’Bill Pullman (qv)), supposedly the world’s greatest detective. Stark is very surprised to find himself discussing the intimate details of the case with Zero’s amiable associate Steve Arlo (’Stiller, Ben’ (qv)) who explains Zero’s propensity for never meeting with clients. Zero, using his two ‘obs’ of objectivity and observation, quickly discovers the identity of the blackmailer but continues the case in order to discover exactly why the seemingly ordinary Gloria Sullivan (’Kim Dickens’ (qv)) is attacking Stark in this fashion. As Zero becomes more engrossed in the case and, even worse for him, becomes personally involved with Gloria he is forced to decide between the blackmailer and his client! |
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Host, The
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| Taglines: | 1: It is Lurking Behind You 2: Man has made his newest predator 3: Monsters are real. |
| Plot Summary: | The film revolves around Park Hee-bong, a man in his late 60s. Park runs a small snack bar on the banks of the Han River and lives with his two sons, one daughter, and one granddaughter. The Parks seem to lead a quite ordinary and peaceful life, but maybe a bit poorer than the average Seoulite. Hee-bong’s elder son Gang-du is an immature and incompetent man in his 40s, whose wife left home long ago. Nam-il is the youngest son, an unemployed grumbler, and daughter Nam-joo is an archery medalist and member of the national team. One day, an unidentified monster suddenly appears from the depths of the Han River and spreads panic and death, and Gang-du’s daughter Hyun-seo is carried off by the monster and disappears. All the family members are in a great agony because they lost someone very dear to them. But when they find out she is still alive, they resolve to save her. |
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Black Rain
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| Taglines: | 1: A cop on the edge, a conspiracy in the rise, a killer on the loose. 2: A Ridley Scott Film From The Producers Of “Fatal Attraction” 3: An American Cop in Japan. Their country. Their laws. Their game. His rules. 4: Osaka, Japan. A cop on the edge. A conspiracy on the rise. A killer on the loose. |
| Plot Summary: | Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way. |
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Waterboy, The
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| Taglines: | 1: A man with a serious drinking problem 2: Everybody will feel his pain November 6. 3: High-Quality H20 4: Instant Hero. Just Add Water. 5: The Water-Boy is The Devil! 6: You can mess with him. But don’t mess with his water. |
| Plot Summary: | 31-year-old waterboy, Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler) is constantly tormented by the team he works for until he is fired by the coach. He then finds a new coach to work for. Here he finds a new talent, tackling people by pretending they’re making fun of them. Soon, he becomes the best linebacker in college football, but he must keep it secret from his overprotective mother (Kathy Bates). |
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Football Factory, The
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| Taglines: | 1: What else you gonna do on a Saturday? |
| Plot Summary: | The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, its about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males fed up with being told they’re not good enough and using thier fists as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together. Shot in documentery style with the energy and vibrancy of handheld, The Football Factory is frightingly real yet full of painful humour as the four characters extreme thoughts and actions unfold before us. |
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Gone Baby Gone
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| Taglines: | 1: Everyone Wants The Truth… Until They Find It. |
| Plot Summary: | Dorchester, one of the toughest neighborhoods in all of Boston, is no place for the weak or innocent. Its a territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets littered with broken families, hearts, dreams. When one of its own, a 4-year-old girl, goes missing, private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don’t want the case. But after pleas from the child’s aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything — their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives — to find a little girl-lost. |
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Rated X
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| Taglines: | 1: The True story of the Mitchell Brothers: America’s Original Porn Kings. 2: They put the “X” in Sex. 3: They turned us all on… then they turned on each other. |
| Plot Summary: | Based on the true story of Jim and Artie Mitchell, two brothers who entered the porn industry in the early 60’s. After creating such legendary porn films as “Behind the Green Door” and “Inside Marily Chambers”, they later became addicted to drugs and began a downward spiral leading to bankruptcy and murder. |
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