Archive for October, 2008
Weekend, The
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| Plot Summary: | Remember when you were a teenager and every little moment seemed like it was of epic importance, like it would influence the rest of your life? But, in reality, it was just another exceptionally crazy weekend… THE WEEKEND relishes the moments that made being a teenager so excruciatingly painful and fantastic. |
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Wanderers, The
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| Taglines: | 1: It was The Wanderers against the world… and the world never had a chance! 2: It’s 1963. Meet The Wanderers… They were the hottest guys in town. |
| Plot Summary: | Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York’s gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst and every bit entertaining with its classic 1950’s Rock n’ Roll soundtrack such as “Walk Like a Man”, “Big Girls Don’t Cry” by The Four Seasons and “My Boyfriend’s Back” by The Angels. Focusing around a football game where the different gangs play with and against each other, then at its grand finale, come together in a mass of union to defend their honour and their turf. Nostalgic stuff and above all a Rock n’ Roll retrospective on a grand musical era. Timeless. |
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Life Before Her Eyes, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Diana’s life is not what it seems. 2: Your life can change in an instant. That instant can last forever. |
| Plot Summary: | A dramatic thriller about Diana, a suburban wife and mother who begins to question her seemingly perfect life—and perhaps her sanity—on the 15th anniversary of a tragic high school shooting that took the life of her best friend. In flashbacks, Diana is a vibrant high schooler who, with her shy best friend Maureen, plot typical teenage strategies—cutting class, fantasizing about boys—and vow to leave their sleepy suburb at the first opportunity. The older Diana, however, is haunted by the increasingly strained relationship she had with Maureen as day of the school shooting approached. These memories disrupt the idyllic life she’s now leading with her professor husband Paul and their young daughter Emma. As older Diana’s life begins to unravel and younger Diana gets closer and closer to the fatal day, a deeper mystery slowly unravels. |
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Happening, The
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| Taglines: | 1: We’ve Sensed It. We’ve Seen The Signs. Now… It’s Happening. |
| Plot Summary: | A paranoid thriller about a family on the run from a natural crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity. |
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Love Is the Drug
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| Plot Summary: | A love triangle among recent high school graduates proves deadly. |
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Ugly, The
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| Taglines: | 1: A subversive incursion into human mind perversions! 2: Murder is in the eye of the beholder. 3: The Ugly - It’s not a pretty picture! |
| Plot Summary: | Simon is a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state. Dr.Karen Shoemaker wants to get through to him and starts visiting him in the hospital, and his previous life comes to us in flashbacks. |
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007 From Russia with Love
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| Taglines: | 1: Blast him! Seduce him! Bomb him! Strangle him! Target: The Unkillable James Bond 007. 2: James Bond Is Back! 3: JAMES BOND IS BACK! his new incredible women! his new incredible enemies! his new incredible adventures! 4: Meet James Bond, secret agent 007 [Australian theatrical daybill movie poster] 5: Meet James Bond, secret agent 007. His new incredible women… His new incredible enemies… His new incredible adventures… 6: The world’s masters of murder pull out all the stops to destroy Agent 007! 7: VIVA James Bond ! |
| Plot Summary: | James Bond 007 is on the search for a Russian decoding machine, known as Lektor. Bond needs to find this machine, before the evil SPECTRE organization discovers it first. Whilst being romantically linked with Russian girl, Tatiana Romanova, Bond sneaks his way around Istanbul, whilst each SPECTRE agent tries to pick him off, including the over powering Donald ‘Red’ Grant and ex-KGB agent Rosa Klebb who knows all the tricks in the books and even possesses an incredible poison tipped shoe! |
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Tarzan and the Lost City
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| Taglines: | 1: A new Tarzan for a new generation. 2: The Lord of the Apes returns to the jungle to save the heart of civilization from the forces of evil. |
| Plot Summary: | On the eve of his wedding, John Clayton, Lord of Greystoke (better known as Tarzan), receives a message from the witch doctor Mugambe that his homeland is in danger. It turns out that a treasure hunter named Ravens is searching for the lost city of Opar, and is destroying the jungle and desecrating the villagers’ burial grounds in the process. Only Tarzan can stop Ravens and set things right in the African jungle, but will Jane stand for her fiance being away for so long? |
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Congo
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| Taglines: | 1: Where you are the endangered species |
| Plot Summary: | Greed is bad, this simple morality tale cautions. A megalomaniacal C.E.O. sends his son into the dangerous African Congo on a quest for a source of diamonds large enough and pure enough to function as powerful laser communications transmitters (or is it laser weapons?). When contact is lost with his son and the team, his sometime daughter- in-law is sent after them. She is a former CIA operative and, accompanied by gee-whiz gadgetry and a few eccentric characters (including a mercenary, a researcher with a talking gorilla, and a a nutty Indiana-Jones-type looking for King Solomon’s Mines), sets out to rescue her former fiance. What they all discover is that often what we most want turns out to be the source of our downfall. |
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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| Taglines: | 1: An epic drama of adventure and exploration 2: Let the Awe and Mystery of a Journey Unlike Any Other Begin 3: Man’s colony on the Moon… a whole new generation has been born and is living there… a quarter-million miles from Earth. 4: Still The Ultimate Trip. [2001 re-release] 5: the time is now. [2001 re-release] 6: The Ultimate Trip. |
| Plot Summary: | 2001 is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith here on earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well) Evolution then enabled man to reach the moon’s surface where he finds yet another monolith, one which signals the monolith-placers that we have evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and man (Bowman) to reach the monolith-placers, the winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be. |
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