Posts Tagged ‘biplane’

Flyboys (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Jesse James | Reiley McClendon | Stephen Baldwin | Tom Sizemore | J. Todd Adams | Dallen Gettling | Jennifer Slimko | Robert Costanzo | Vince Cecere | Frank D'Amico | Harrison Young | Blaire Baron | Tommy Hinkley | Joanne Baron | Dylan Kasch
Directors: Rocco DeVilliers
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Two kids from a small town accidentally stow away aboard an airplane owned by the mob.

Secondhand Lions (2003)

Friday, August 24th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Caine | Robert Duvall | Haley Joel Osment | Kyra Sedgwick | Nicky Katt | Josh Lucas | Michael O'Neill | Deirdre O'Connell | Eric Balfour | Christian Kane | Kevin Haberer | Emmanuelle Vaugier | Adam Ozturk | Jennifer Stone | Mitchel Musso
Directors: Tim McCanlies
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13 year old Walter has had a hard life, with his no good floozy of a mother getting together with many equally despicable men. Before going on yet another husband-hunting trip, she drops him off at the house of his great-uncles Hub and Garth. They disappeared for quite a while in their youth, and are rumored to have acquired a great fortune, which Walter’s mother hopes to get her hands on if he can ingratiate himself enough to the two cantankerous men. Though reluctant to put up with him at first, Hub and Garth grow to accept Walter, and even tell him fantastic stories of what they were up to while they went missing. When his mother returns, Walter must take charge of his own life, and decide what he’s going to do with it.

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Spencer Tracy | Milton Berle | Sid Caesar | Buddy Hackett | Ethel Merman | Mickey Rooney | Dick Shawn | Phil Silvers | Terry-Thomas | Jonathan Winters | Edie Adams | Dorothy Provine | Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson | Jim Backus | Ben Blue
Directors: Stanley Kramer
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After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state.

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve Guttenberg | Bubba Smith | Michael Winslow | David Graf | Tim Kazurinsky | Sharon Stone | Leslie Easterbrook | Marion Ramsey | Lance Kinsey | G. W. Bailey | Bob Goldthwait | George Gaynes | Derek McGrath | Scott Thomson | Billie Bird
Directors: Jim Drake
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A new batch of recruits arrives at Police Academy, this time a group of civilian volunteers who have joined Commandant Lassard’s new Citizens on Patrol program. Although the community relations project has strong governmental support, a disgusted Captain Harris is determined to see it fail.

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Josh Hartnett | Kate Beckinsale | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Jon Voight | Alec Baldwin | Tom Sizemore | William Lee Scott | Greg Zola | Ewen Bremner | Jaime King | Catherine Kellner | Jennifer Garner | Sara Rue | Michael Shannon
Directors: Michael Bay
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The above summaries do a great job of describing the dynamics of the love triangle that develops between the two pilots that fall in love with the same nurse. The movie also does a credible job of displaying the war from the American side with FDR and our side. It also shows the strategy of Japan as they plan for and execute all facets of the attack on Pearl Harbor. While all details may not be historically correct, I believe that they do the job well - all things considered. Historic events that were altered were probably done so in an attempt to also make this movie the entertaining epic that it is.

The English Patient (1996)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Ralph Fiennes | Juliette Binoche | Willem Dafoe | Kristin Scott Thomas | Naveen Andrews | Colin Firth | Julian Wadham | Jürgen Prochnow | Kevin Whately | Clive Merrison | Nino Castelnuovo | Hichem Rostom | Peter Rühring | Geordie Johnson | Torri Higginson
Directors: Anthony Minghella
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Beginning in the 1930’s, “The English Patient” tells the story of Count Almasy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almasy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almasy is on his death bed after being horribly burned in a plane crash.

King Kong (2005)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Naomi Watts | Jack Black | Adrien Brody | Thomas Kretschmann | Colin Hanks | Andy Serkis | Evan Parke | Jamie Bell | Lobo Chan | John Sumner | Craig Hall | Kyle Chandler | Mark Hadlow | Geraldine Brophy | David Denis
Directors: Bryan Singer | Peter Jackson
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Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.

Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Judi Dench | Bob Hoskins | Will Young | Kelly Reilly | Thelma Barlow | Christopher Guest
Directors: Stephen Frears
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Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson is at a bit of a loose end in inter-war London. On a whim she buys the derelict Windmill theatre in the West End and persuades impresario Vivian Van Damm to run it, despite the fact the two don’t seem to get on at all. Although their idea of a non-stop revue is at first a success, other theatres copy it and disaster looms. Laura suggests they put nudes in the show, but Van Damm points out that the Lord Chamberlain, who licenses live shows in Britain, is likely to have something to say about this. Luckily Mrs Henderson is friends with him.

Kangaroo Jack (2003)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Jerry O'Connell | Anthony Anderson | Estella Warren | Christopher Walken | Marton Csokas | Dyan Cannon | Michael Shannon | Bill Hunter | David Ngoombujarra | Mark Sellito | Damien Fotiou | Christopher Baker | Ryan Gibson | Denise Roberts | Antonio Vitiello
Directors: David McNally
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A comedy that follows the misadventures of two friends from Brooklyn who are forced to deliver mob money to Australia. While taking pictures of a kangaroo, one of them places his red jacket on it. When the wild kangaroo bounces off, they realize the mob money is in the jacket and are forced to give chase through the Outback.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Connery | John Rhys-Davies | Kevork Malikyan | Denholm Elliott | Julian Glover | River Phoenix | Michael Byrne | Alison Doody | Robert Eddison
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Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, returns for the 3rd and final Indy film. Teaming up with his father, Indiana sets out to try and find the Holy Grail. Once again, the Nazis are after the same prize, and try to foil Indianas plans.