Posts Tagged ‘chess’

Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Lucy Liu | Josh Hartnett | Bruce Willis | Morgan Freeman | Ben Kingsley | Mykelti Williamson
Directors: Paul McGuigan
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After landing in the wrong place at the wrong time, Slevin (Josh Hartnett) must kill The Rabbi’s (Ben Kingsley) to scratch a $96,000 debt to The Boss (Morgan Freeman) and pay off $33,000 to The Rabbi. He can’t go to the police and he can’t leave the city. On top of all this, behind the scene’s Mr. Smith aka Mr. Goodkat (Bruce Willis) is secretly plotting to kill Slevin.

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: James Mason | Ava Gardner | Nigel Patrick | Sheila Sim | Harold Warrender | Mario Cabré | Marius Goring | John Laurie | Pamela Mason | Patricia Raine | Margarita D'Alvarez | La Pillina | Abraham Sofaer | Francisco Igual | Guillermo Beltrán
Directors: Albert Lewin
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In 1930, singer Pandora Reynolds, gorgeous, enigmatic, and fascinated by danger and destruction, has the men of a small Spanish town in despair. Just when race driver Stephen Cameron thinks he’s won her, a mysterious yacht appears in the bay whose eerie captain may be the legendary Flying Dutchman. Stephen has an apparently more dangerous rival in the form of an arrogant bullfighter; but Pandora’s friendship with the Dutchman may lead them both to a rendezvous with Fate…

The Last Castle (2001)

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: James Gandolfini | Delroy Lindo | Robert Redford | Mark Ruffalo | Steve Burton | Clifton Collins
Directors: Rod Lurie
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When three star General Irwin is transferred to a maximum security military prison, its warden, Colonel Winter, can’t hide his admiration towards the highly decorated and experienced soldier. Irwin has been stripped of his rank for disobedience in a mission, but not of fame. Colonel Winter, who runs the prison with an iron fist, deeply admires the General, but works with completely different methods in order to keep up discipline. After a short while, Irwin can feel Winter’s unjust treatment of the inmates. He decides to teach Winter a lesson by taking over command of the facility and thus depriving him of his smug attitude. When Winter decides to participate in what he still thinks of as a game, it may already be too late to win.

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Patrick Stewart | Hugh Jackman | Ian McKellen | Halle Berry | Famke Janssen | Anna Paquin | Rebecca Romijn | Kelsey Grammer | Shawn Ashmore | Ellen Page | Ben Foster | Aaron Stanford | Olivia Williams | Shohreh Aghdashloo | James Marsden
Directors: Brett Ratner
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It has been several months since The X-Men stopped William Stryker, but that victory came at a price, they have lost Jean Gray when she tried to save them from the collapsed reservoir. Scott Summers (Cyclops) is still grieving about her loss. One day, he came out to the place which is where Jean Gray sacrificed herself. Then, Jean Gray appeared right in front of him. Though, it seemed that after that, Scott had disappeared. Meanwhille, the rift between humans and mutants had finally reached the boiling point. When humans discovered what causes humans to mutate, they have found a cure for the mutation. The X-Men were appalled at this idea. It was not long at all until the news about the cure came to Magneto. He decides to organize an army of mutants and wage his war against the humans. Then, it became clear that Jean Gray evolved into the Pheonix, her new mutant powers are so strong that she can not control her own body. Then, she kills off Professor X with her new powers. Now, The X-Men must stop Magneto again and put an end to the war against the humans, as well as stop Jean Gray’s Pheonix powers.

The Thing (1982)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kurt Russell | Wilford Brimley | T.K. Carter | David Clennon | Keith David | Richard A. Dysart | Charles Hallahan | Peter Maloney | Richard Masur | Donald Moffat | Joel Polis | Thomas G. Waites | Norbert Weisser | Larry J. Franco | Nate Irwin
Directors: John Carpenter
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An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realises that an alien life-form with the ability to take over other bodies is on the loose and they don’t know who may already have been taken over.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: John Cleese | Alan Rickman | Rupert Grint | Emma Watson | Daniel Radcliffe | Maggie Smith | Robbie Coltrane | Saunders Triplets | Richard Harris | Fiona Shaw | Harry Melling | Richard Griffiths | Derek Deadman | Ian Hart | Ben Borowiecki | Warwick Davis | Verne Troyer | John Hurt | Richard Bremmer
Directors: Chris Columbus
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based off the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

Good Year, A (2006)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Freddie Highmore | Albert Finney | Russell Crowe | Rafe Spall | Archie Panjabi | Richard Coyle | Ben Righton | Patrick Kennedy | Ali Rhodes | Daniel Mays | Nila Aalia | Stephen Hudson | Giannina Facio | Tom Hollander | Lionel Briand
Directors: Ridley Scott
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After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready to show. Memories, a beautiful woman, and a young American who says she’s Henry’s illegitimate daughter interrupt his plans. Did Max the boy know things that Max the man has forgotten?

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Keir Dullea | Gary Lockwood | William Sylvester | Daniel Richter | Leonard Rossiter | Margaret Tyzack | Robert Beatty | Sean Sullivan | Douglas Rain | Frank Miller | Bill Weston | Ed Bishop | Glenn Beck | Alan Gifford | Ann Gillis
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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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.

007 From Russia with Love (1963)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Sean Connery | Daniela Bianchi | Pedro Armendáriz | Lotte Lenya | Robert Shaw | Bernard Lee | Eunice Gayson | Walter Gotell | Francis De Wolff | George Pastell | Nadja Regin | Lois Maxwell | Aliza Gur | Martine Beswick | Vladek Sheybal
Directors: Terence Young
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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!

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Segel | Russell Brand | Bill Hader | Jack McBrayer | Taylor Wily | Davon McDonald | Steve Landesberg | Jonah Hill | Paul Rudd | Kala Alexander | Kalani Robb | Branscombe Richmond | Billy Green Bush | William Baldwin | Jason Bateman
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Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah’s traveling to the same resort as her ex … and she’s bringing along her new boyfriend.