Posts Tagged ‘catholic’

The Blues Brothers (1980)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Music | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: John Belushi | Dan Aykroyd | James Brown | Cab Calloway | Ray Charles | Aretha Franklin | Steve Cropper | Donald Dunn | Murphy Dunne | Willie Hall | Tom Malone | Lou Marini | Matt Murphy | Alan Rubin | Carrie Fisher
Directors: John Landis
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After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church stopped its support and will sell the place to the education authority, and the only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their “mission from god” they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?

Dogma (1999)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Chris Rock | Salma Hayek | Alan Rickman | Alanis Morissette | Bud Cort | Barret Hackney | Jared Pfennigwerth | Kitao Sakurai | George Carlin | Betty Aberlin | Matt Damon | Ben Affleck | Dan Etheridge | Linda Fiorentino | Derek Milosavljevic | Lesley Braden | Brian O'Halloran | Marie Elena O'Brien | Janeane Garofalo
Directors: Kevin Smith
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The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and prevent the angels from entering Heaven.

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Charlton Heston | Rex Harrison | Diane Cilento | Harry Andrews | Alberto Lupo | Adolfo Celi | Venantino Venantini | John Stacy | Fausto Tozzi | Maxine Audley | Tomas Milian | Alec McCowen | Furio Meniconi | Adolfo Pezzini
Directors: Carol Reed
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Pope Julius is eager to leave behind works by which he will be remembered. To this end he cajoles Michelangelo into painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When not on the battlefield uniting Italy, the Pope nags Michelangelo to speed up his painful work on the frescoes.

Primal Fear (1996)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Gere | Laura Linney | Edward Norton | John Mahoney | Frances McDormand | Alfre Woodard | Terry O'Quinn | Andre Braugher | Steven Bauer | Joe Spano | Tony Plana | Stanley Anderson | Maura Tierney | Jon Seda | Reg Rogers
Directors: Gregory Hoblit
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Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer (Richard Gere) who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy (Edward Norton) accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.

From Hell (2001)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Heather Graham | Ian Holm | Robbie Coltrane | Ian Richardson | Jason Flemyng | Katrin Cartlidge | Terence Harvey | Susan Lynch | Paul Rhys | Lesley Sharp | Estelle Skornik | Nicholas McGaughey | Annabelle Apsion | Joanna Page
Directors: Albert Hughes
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The infamous Jack the Ripper case set in London of 1888. The Ripper has been running amok in the Whitechapel district murdering and dissecting prostitutes. Scotland Yard Inspector Fred Abberline, aided by his partner, Peter Godley, are on the case to figure out who this serial killer is and why he is killing these women in such a brutal manner. Abberline is an opium addict and when “chasing the dragon” he is able to have visions of the future, a certain psychic ability that allows him to solve cases. As Abberline and Godley investigate the crimes, they become acquainted with the prostitutes who were friends and colleagues of the victims. Abberline begins to fall in love with Mary Kelly, one of the prostitutes, or as the nobles called them “unfortunates”, being hunted down by Jack the Ripper. Abberline digs deeper and deeper into the conspiracy and attempts to solve the case before Mary Kelly is the next victim.

God Told Me To (1976)

Friday, March 20th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tony Lo Bianco | Deborah Raffin | Sandy Dennis | Sylvia Sidney | Sam Levene | Robert Drivas | Mike Kellin | Richard Lynch | Sammy Williams | Jo Flores Chase | William Roerick | Lester Rawlins | Harry Bellaver | George Patterson | Walter Steele
Directors: Larry Cohen
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A rash of mass murders in NYC has the detective stumped. When asked why, all the perpetrators say “God told me to,” then kill themselves.

Rocky (1976)

Monday, February 16th, 2009
Genres: Action | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvester Stallone | Talia Shire | Burt Young | Carl Weathers | Burgess Meredith | Thayer David | Joe Spinell | Jimmy Gambina | Bill Baldwin | Al Silvani | George Memmoli | Jodi Letizia | Diana Lewis | George O'Hanlon | Larry Carroll
Directors: John G. Avildsen
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The ‘Italian Stallion’, Rocky Balboa, is an aspiring boxer in downtown Philadelphia. His one chance to make a better life for himself is through his boxing and Adrian, a girl who works in the local pet store. Through a publicity stunt, Rocky is set up to fight Apollo Creed, the current heavyweight champion who is already set to win. But Rocky really needs to triumph, against all the odds…

Religulous (2008)

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve Burg | Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda | Bill Maher | Andrew Newberg
Directors: Larry Charles
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Bill Maher’s take on the current state of world religion.
He interviews some of religion’s oddest adherents. Muslims, Jews and Christians of many kinds pass before his jaundiced eye. Maher goes to a Creationist Museum in Kentucky, which shows that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time 5000 years ago. He talks to truckers at a Truckers’ Chapel. (Sign outside: “Jesus love you.”) He goes to a theme park called Holy Land in Florida. He speaks to a rabbi in league with Holocaust deniers. He talks to a Muslim musician who preaches hatred of Jews. Maher finds the unlikeliest of believers and, in a certain Vatican priest, he even finds an unlikely skeptic. Written by J. Spurlin

X2 (2003)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Patrick Stewart | Hugh Jackman | Ian McKellen | Halle Berry | Famke Janssen | James Marsden | Anna Paquin | Rebecca Romijn | Brian Cox
Directors: Bryan Singer
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Having returned from the north after finding nothing, Wolverine/Logan watches over the school students for a night as Charles Xavier visits Magneto in his plastic confinement prison and Storm and Jean Grey search for a teleporter mutant known as Nightcrawler who attempted to assassinate the president. Things become deadly as William Stryker, a scientist who has experimented on mutants, leads a siege on Xavier’s mansion- few mutants escape. With the school no longer safe, Magneto out of prison and forming a temporary alliance with the X-Men, and Professor Xavier in the hands of Stryker; the mutants team up to stop Stryker’s plans to wipe the mutants off the face of the Earth.

Brideshead Revisited (2008)

Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Matthew Goode | Thomas Morrison | Anna Madeley | David Barrass | Sarah Crowden | Stephen Carlile | Peter Barnes | Hayley Atwell | Patrick Malahide | Richard Teverson | Joseph Beattie | Ben Whishaw | Roger Walker | Rita Davies | Ed Stoppard
Directors: Julian Jarrold
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The memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family and in particular brother and sister Sebastian and Julia.