Posts Tagged ‘bare-butt’

The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Sean Connery | Michael Caine | Christopher Plummer | Saeed Jaffrey | Doghmi Larbi | Jack May | Karroom Ben Bouih | Mohammad Shamsi | Albert Moses | Paul Antrim | Graham Acres | The Blue Dancers of Goulamine | Shakira Caine | Gurmuks Singh | Kimat Singh
Directors: John Huston
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” The Man Who Would Be King” is about two ambitious ex-soldiers stationed in India who set out to become the rulers of an entire country. After finishing their tour of duty in India, Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan have decided that India is “too small for the likes of them,” so they decide to bribe a local ruler and extort money from him, in order to buy twenty Martini rifles, which they will use to take over villages in Kafristan. They face many challenges and perils along the way, including difficult terrain, hostile natives, freezing temperatures, and an avalanche high in the mountains. They eventually come to a small village, Urheb, where they meet Ootah and Billy Fish, an Indian who speaks English; he then becomes their translator. They then train the natives of this village to use the rifles, and soon conquer village after village. During a battle, Daniel is struck by an arrow that seemingly sticks out of his chest. The ignorant natives believe that he must be a God for not having died, and fall down and begin worshiping him. Daniel and Peachy decide that it would be easier for a “God ” to take over the country, so they pretend that Daniel is a god, the son of Alexander the Great who has returned after 2200 years to again rule Kafristan. The entire country celebrated the return of their new ruler, the Son of Segunda (”Alexander”). As a token of their admiration, the holiest of holy men gives Daniel all of the gold and riches left by Alexander in 328 B.C. It is enough to make them the richest men in the world . . . All goes well until Daniel’s ego and greed gets the best of him. He asks Peachy to bow when he walks in front of him. He later tells Peachy that he has decided to stay, and now believes that he is the son of Alexander ( ‘in spirit, anyways”), and that to fulfill his destiny, he will marry Roxanne, like his “father” Alexander did before him. The Kafiri’s believe that a mortal cannot marry a God, but Daniel goes ahead anyway. Peachy was set to leave with his share of the treasure, but Daniel convinced him to stay ” for old time’s sake” for the wedding. At the ceremony, Roxanne, believing that she would soon die, bites Daniel, drawing blood. The entire crowd realizes that since Danny is bleeding, that he is a man, not a God, and that he has been deceiving them the entire time. Peachy grabs Daniel and they run off with their twenty soldiers, shooting at the crowd of monks who set out to kill them. They are eventually captured, and Daniel is forced to walk out on a rope bridge. The monks cut the ropes, and Daniel bravely falls to his death. Peachy is later crucified; when they come to see him the next day, he is still alive, and they say that it is a miracle that he lived and they cut him down. He eventually climbs down into the valley and retrieves Danny’s head, still wearing the crown. He brings it back to Rudyard Kipling, a writer for the Northern Star, as proof that Daniel accomplished his goal, and became the King of Kafristan. Themes developed in the story: 1. ambition 2. friendship 3. taking risks 4. perseverance (not giving up) 5. power 6. honor and dignity

Officer and a Gentleman, An (1982)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Gere | Debra Winger | David Keith | Robert Loggia | Lisa Blount | Lisa Eilbacher | Louis Gossett Jr. | Tony Plana | Harold Sylvester | David Caruso | Victor French | Grace Zabriskie | Tommy Petersen | Mara Scott-Wood | David Greenfield
Directors: Taylor Hackford
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Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Flight School. He is a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. Sgt. Foley is there to train and evaluate him and will clearly find Zack wanting. Zack meets Paula, a girl who has little beyond family and must decide what it is he wants to do with his life.

Greedy (1994)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael J. Fox | Kirk Douglas | Nancy Travis | Olivia d'Abo | Phil Hartman | Ed Begley Jr. | Jere Burns | Colleen Camp | Bob Balaban | Joyce Hyser | Mary Ellen Trainor | Siobhan Fallon | Kevin McCarthy | Khandi Alexander
Directors: Jonathan Lynn
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An extremely wealthy and crafty old man (Douglas) toys with his greedy nieces and nephews as they circle about, waiting for their ill-deserved inheritance. The plot thickens as the old man takes a young mistress (d’Abo), and they fear that she will get the estate. In response, they locate the much-loved nephew (Fox) who walked away from the whole greed thing and became a professional bowler. Deception upon deception complicates matters as young Daniel is slowly drawn back under the spell of Greed.

Kids (1995)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Leo Fitzpatrick | Sarah Henderson | Justin Pierce | Joseph Chan | Johnathan Staci Kim | Adriane Brown | Sajan Bhagat | Billy Valdes | Billy Waldeman | Javier Núñez | Luis Núñez | Christian Bruna | Alex Glen | Chloë Sevigny | Rosario Dawson
Directors: Larry Clark
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Disturbing, dark, low-budget independent film about teen-agers growing up in poverty in New York City. The story focuses on Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick), a teen who has a goal to de-flower as many virgins as he can. When one of his old encounters discovers that she is H.I.V.-positive, after only one encounter with a guy, Telly remains undaunted.

The Contract (2006)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Morgan Freeman | John Cusack | Jamie Anderson | Corey Johnson | Jonathan Hyde | Bill Smitrovich | Anthony Warren | Ned Bellamy | Thomas Lockyer | Gary Whelan | Ian Shaw | Atanas Srebrev | Maynard Eziashi | William Tapley | Ryan McCluskey
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The widower teacher and baseball and basketball coach Ray Keene lost his wife that died of cancer two years ago. When his teenage son Chris Keene is caught by the police smoking pot, Ray invites him to hike and camp in the woods to increase their bonds. Meanwhile, the mercenary assassin Frank Carden is arrested by FBI after a car accident in the middle of a contract to kill an important target. While Frank is traveling on the road escorted by three FBI agents, his men try to rescue him, but his car falls into a river and is carried by the drift. Ray helps the wounded agent and the cuffed Frank to leave the river, and feels responsible to deliver Frank to justice. The former policeman and stubborn Ray does not listen to Frank’s proposal to leave him alone and travel through the woods with Chris, trying to find a safe place. But Frank’s men and an undercover agent in the team are chasing the group with different lethal intentions.

The Wanderers (1979)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ken Wahl | John Friedrich | Alan Rosenberg | Jim Youngs | Tony Ganios | William Andrews | Erland van Lidth | Val Avery | Dolph Sweet | Michael Wright | Burtt Harris | Samm-Art Williams | Dion Albanese | George Merolle | John Califano
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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.

Species III (2004)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Dunne | Robert Knepper | John Paul Pitoc | Michael Warren | Christopher Neame | Joel Stoffer | James Leo Ryan | Reed Frerichs | Marc D. Wilson | Matthew Yang King | Christopher R. Gillum | Billy Bacon | Jim Cody Williams | Mark Zecca | Sean Ching
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While being transported in a military ambulance and supposed dead, Eve delivers an offspring and is killed by a half-breed. The baby girl is abducted by Dr. Abbot, and a couple of days later she grows up, reaching adulthood and becoming a gorgeous young woman called Sara. Dr. Abbot expects to develop a perfect DNA using Sara’s eggs and win the Nobel Prize, and invites the student Dean to be his assistant and share his research and future awards. But while Sara unsuccessfully chases a perfect mate for her to generate a perfect being, the flawed half-breeds leaded by Amelia try to reproduce with her to survive their species.

Joe the King (1999)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Anthony Tambakis | Travis J. Feretic | Benjamin Styx | Val Kilmer | Rob Bergenstock | Noah Fleiss | Richard Bright | John Leguizamo | Michael Taylor | Robert Whaley | Max Ligosh | James Costa | Craig Levine | Raymond De Felitta | Jack McNamara
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A destitute 14 year old (Noah Fleiss) struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother’s (Karen Young) hands, harsher abuse at his father’s (Val Kilmer), and a growing separation from his slightly older brother (Max Ligosh). Petty thefts for food grow into more major takes until he steals a cash box from the diner where he works. Although Joe uses the money to pay off some of his father’s debts and to replace his mother’s records that his father smashed in a fit of temper, Joe gets no thanks…

Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge, A (1985)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Patton | Kim Myers | Robert Rusler | Clu Gulager | Hope Lange | Marshall Bell | Melinda O. Fee | Tom McFadden | Sydney Walsh | Robert Englund | Edward Blackoff | Christie Clark | Lyman Ward | Donna Bruce | Hart Sprager
Directors: Jack Sholder
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A new family moves into the house on Elm Street, and before long, the kids are again having nightmares about deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger. This time, Freddy attempts to possess a teenage boy to cause havoc in the real world, and can only be overcome if the boy’s sweetheart can master her fear.

Factotum (2005)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: France | Germany | Norway | Sweden | USA
Actors: Matt Dillon | Lili Taylor | Marisa Tomei | Fisher Stevens | Didier Flamand | Adrienne Shelly | Karen Young | Thomas Lyons | Dean Brewington | James Cada | James Michael Detmar | Kurt Schweickhardt | Dee Noah | James Noah | Michael Egan
Directors: Bent Hamer
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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of “Factotum” author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don’t interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.