Posts Tagged ‘christmas’

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Monday, July 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Judge Reinhold | Robert Romanus | Brian Backer | Ray Walston | Scott Thomson | Vincent Schiavelli | D.W. Brown | Forest Whitaker | Tom Nolan | Eric Stoltz | Stanley Davis Jr. | James Russo | James Bolt | Nicolas Cage
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Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.

The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

Friday, July 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson | Craig Bierko | Tom Amandes | Brian Cox | Patrick Malahide | David Morse | Joseph McKenna | Dan Warry-Smith | Rex Linn | Alan North | Edwin Hodge | Bill MacDonald | Frank Moore | G.D. Spradlin | Graham McPherson
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Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to remember small parts of her previous life as a lethal, top-secret agent. Her old chums in the Chapter are now out to kill her so she enlists the help of a cheap detective named Mitch. As Samantha remembers more and more of her previous life, she becomes deadlier and more resourceful. Both Mitch and Charly proceed to do the killing thing, the bleeding thing and the shooting thing.

Sydney aka Hard Eight (1996)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Philip Baker Hall | John C. Reilly | Samuel L. Jackson | F. William Parker | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Nathanael Cooper | Robert Ridgely | Michael J. Rowe | Peter D'Allesandro | Steve Blane | Andy Breen | Mark Pinizza | Richard Gross | Cliff Keeley | Truman Robbins
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John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room without losing much money. Under Sydney’s fatherly tutelage, John becomes a successful small-time professional gambler, and all is well, until he falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and sometimes hooker.

In Bruges (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: Belgium | UK
Actors: Rudy Blomme | Olivier Bonjour | Mark Donovan | Colin Farrell | Jean-Marc Favorin | Ralph Fiennes | Brendan Gleeson | Eric Godon | Zeljko Ivanek | Louis Nummy | Jordan Prentice | Jérémie Renier | Theo Stevenson | Angel Witney | Ciarán Hinds
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Bruges, the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the world. But for hit men Ray and Ken, it could be their final destination; a difficult job has resulted in the pair being ordered right before Christmas by their London boss Harry to go and cool their heels in the storybook Flemish city for a couple of weeks. Very much out of place amidst the gothic architecture, canals, and cobbled streets, the two hit men fill their days living the lives of tourists. Ray, still haunted by the bloodshed in London, hates the place, while Ken, even as he keeps a fatherly eye on Ray’s often profanely funny exploits, finds his mind and soul being expanded by the beauty and serenity of the city. But the longer they stay waiting for Harry’s call, the more surreal their experience becomes, as they find themselves in weird encounters with locals, tourists, violent medieval art, a dwarf American actor shooting a European art film, Dutch prostitutes, and a potential romance for Ray in the form of Chloë, who may have some dark secrets of her own. And when the call from Harry does finally come, Ken and Ray’s vacation becomes a life-and-death struggle of darkly comic proportions and surprisingly emotional consequences.

Raising Arizona (1987)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Holly Hunter | Trey Wilson | John Goodman | William Forsythe | Sam McMurray | Frances McDormand | Randall 'Tex' Cobb | T.J. Kuhn | Lynne Dumin Kitei | Peter Benedek | Charles 'Lew' Smith | Warren Keith | Henry Kendrick | Sidney Dawson
Directors: Ethan Coen
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Colourful and unconventional slapstick comedy. Ex-con Hi and ex-cop Ed meet, marry and long for a child in the wilds of Arizona. When Ed discovers she’s barren the God-given solution is presented: to snatch a baby from a set of quins. Thus begins a series of kidnappings, capers and rum goings-on that revolve around the helpless yet universally-loveable child. Hi’s convict friends, his boss, and even the Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse become involved in the ever-twisting plot in the quest to own the baby.

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Diane Lane | Sandra Oh | Lindsay Duncan | Raoul Bova | Vincent Riotta | Mario Monicelli | Roberto Nobile | Anita Zagaria | Evelina Gori | Giulia Steigerwalt | Pawel Szajda | Valentine Pelka | Sasa Vulicevic | Massimo Sarchielli | Claudia Gerini
Directors: Audrey Wells
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Academy Award nominee ‘Diane Lane (I)’ (qv) stars as ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer’s block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv)’ memoir of the same name.

The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jessica Alba | Brenda Blethyn | Hugh Dancy | Bob Hoskins | Christopher Ling Lee Ian | Junix Inocian | Michael Jessing Langgi | Mano Maniam | K.K. Moggie | Emily Mortimer | Cicilia Anak Richard | Malcolm Rogers | Eugene Salleh | Noah Taylor | Kate Helen White
Directors: Guy Jenkin
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In 1936, the expatriated young and naive just-graduated British John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) arrives to the Sarawak, a British colony, to work in the Iban society. The beautiful Selima (Jessica Alba) is assigned to be his “sleeping dictionary”, to live and sleep with him and teach him the language and habits of the locals. The reluctant John and Selima fall in love for each other in a forbidden romance.

The Apartment (1960)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Lemmon | Shirley MacLaine | Fred MacMurray | Ray Walston | Jack Kruschen | David Lewis | Hope Holiday | Joan Shawlee | Naomi Stevens | Johnny Seven | Joyce Jameson | Willard Waterman | David White | Edie Adams | Benny Burt
Directors: Billy Wilder
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On 1st November 1959, in New York, C.C. “Bud” Baxter is a popular clerk of “Consolidate Life”, an insurance company with 31,259 employees. The secret of his success is a well located apartment where he lives that he sublets for his superiors, making him climb to the executive position of 2nd Administrative Assistant very early. He likes the elevator girl Fran Kubelik, a reserved woman considered a “jackpot” among the executives. Fran is the secret lover of the director Jeff D. Sheldrake, a married man that seduced her convincing that he will divorce his wife to stay with her. When Fran tries to commit suicide in Baxter’s apartment after a meeting with Jeff, she stays with Baxter while recovering, and he falls in love for her. Later he has to come up to a decision between his excellent position in the company and his love.

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Burl Ives | Billie Mae Richards | Paul Soles | Larry D. Mann | Stan Francis | Paul Kligman | Janet Orenstein | Alfie Scopp | Carl Banas | Corinne Conley | Peg Dixon
Directors: Kizo Nagashima
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Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his beaming honker, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa’s sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea…

First Blood (1982)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvester Stallone | Richard Crenna | Brian Dennehy | Bill McKinney | Jack Starrett | Michael Talbott | Chris Mulkey | John McLiam | Alf Humphreys | David Caruso | David L. Crowley | Don MacKay | Charles A. Tamburro | David Petersen | Craig Huston
Directors: Ted Kotcheff
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John Rambo is a disoriented Vietnam Vet. He is hitchhiking from town to town to see friends from the war. A sheriff tries to make him leave town and when he refuses, arrests him for vagrancy. While in jail, a deputy takes delight in abusing him. Rambo escapes showing his old Vietnam fighting skills and takes to the woods as the sheriff and deputies try and find him in his element. Things get out of hand as Colonel Trautman Rambo’s old commander appears to shed light on the situation.