Posts Tagged ‘cult-favorite’

Commando (1985)

Friday, October 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Rae Dawn Chong | Dan Hedaya | Vernon Wells | James Olson | David Patrick Kelly | Alyssa Milano | Bill Duke | Drew Snyder | Sharon Wyatt | Michael Delano | Bob Minor | Michael Adams | Gary Cervantes | Lenny Juliano
Directors: Mark L. Lester
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A retired special agent named John Matrix led an elite unit and has left the armed forces to live in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny. But now he is forced out of retirement when his daughter is kidnapped by a band of thugs intent on revenge! Unbeknownst to Matrix, the members of his former unit are being killed one by one. Even though Matrix’ friend General Franklin Kirby gives Matrix armed guards, attackers manage to kidnap Matrix and Jenny. Matrix learns that Bennett, a former member of his Matrix’ unit who was presumed dead has kidnapped him to try to force Matrix to do a political assassination for a man called Arius (who calls himself El Presidente), a warlord formerly bested by Matrix who wishes to lead a military coup in his home country. Since Arius will have Jenny killed if Matrix refuses, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand.

Poltergeist (1982)

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Craig T. Nelson | JoBeth Williams | Beatrice Straight | Dominique Dunne | Oliver Robins | Heather O'Rourke | Michael McManus | Virginia Kiser | Martin Casella | Richard Lawson | Zelda Rubinstein | Lou Perryman | Clair E. Leucart | James Karen | Dirk Blocker
Directors: Tobe Hooper
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While living an an average family house in a pleasant neighborhood, the youngest daughter of the Freeling family, Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke), seems to be connecting with the supernatural through a dead channel on the televison. It is not for long when the mysterious beings enter the house’s walls. At first seeming like harmless ghosts, they play tricks and amuse the family, but they take a nasty turn- they horrify the family to death with angry trees and murderous dolls, and finally abduct Carol Anne into her bedroom closet, which seems like the entrance to the other side.

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: | | Bob Griffith | Joshua Leonard | Michael C. Williams
Directors: Daniel Myrick
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Three film students travel to Maryland to make a student film about a local urban legend… The Blair Witch. The three went into the woods on a two day hike to find the Blair Witch, and never came back. One year later, the students film and video was found in the woods. The footage was compiled and made into a movie. The Blair Witch Project.

Breathless (1983)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Gere | Art Metrano | John P. Ryan | William Tepper | Robert Dunn | Garry Goodrow | Lisa Jane Persky | James Hong | Waldemar Kalinowski | Jack Leustig | Eugène Lourié | Georg Olden | Miguel Pinero | Henry G. Sanders
Directors: Jim McBride
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Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly, and steals a car to drive to L.A. On the way he shoots a police man. When he makes it to L.A. he stays with Monica, a girl he has only known for a few days. As the film progresses, the police get closer to him, and the crimes escalate.

2010 (1984)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roy Scheider | John Lithgow | Helen Mirren | Bob Balaban | Keir Dullea | Douglas Rain | Madolyn Smith Osborne | Dana Elcar | Taliesin Jaffe | James McEachin | Mary Jo Deschanel | Elya Baskin | Saveli Kramarov | Oleg Rudnik | Natasha Shneider
Directors: Peter Hyams
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In the year 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in the year 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery’s failure, is going to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer, so they may learn what happened, and they must find out the meaning of Dave Bowman’s last transmission… “My God, it’s full of stars…”

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.

Galaxy Quest (1999)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Tony Shalhoub | Sam Rockwell | Patrick Breen | Tim Allen | Sigourney Weaver | Alan Rickman | Daryl Mitchell | Robin Sachs | Enrico Colantoni
Directors: Dean Parisot
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Eighteen years after their sci-fi adventure show “Galaxy Quest” was canceled, actors Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco, Alexander Dane, Tommy Webber, and Fred Kwan are making appearances at sci-fi conventions and store openings in costume and character. They’re wallowing in despair and at each other’s throats until aliens known as Thermians arrive and, having mistaken the show for fact and consequently modeling their entire culture around it, take them into space to save them from the genocidal General Sarris and his armada.

The Last Dragon (1985)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Taimak | Christopher Murney | Julius Carry | Leo O'Brien | Mike Starr | Jim Moody | Glen Eaton | Ernie Reyes Jr. | Roger Campbell | Jamal Mason | B.J. Barie | Sal Russo | Chazz Palminteri | Frank Renzulli | Torrance Mathis
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A young man searches for the “master” to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and an rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.

The Ice Pirates (1984)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Urich | Michael D. Roberts | John Matuszak | Ron Perlman | John Carradine | Jeremy West | Bruce Vilanch | Alan Caillou | Daryl Keith Roach | Robert Symonds | Gary Brockette | Rockne Tarkington | Ian Abercrombie | Hank Worden | Carmen Filpi
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In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disapeared when he found information dangerous to the rulers. A real Space Opera with sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, monsters, bar fights and time warps.

Sudden Impact (1983)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Pat Hingle | Bradford Dillman | Paul Drake | Jack Thibeau | Michael Currie | Albert Popwell | Mark Keyloun | Kevyn Major Howard | Joe Bellan | Wendell Wellman | Russ McCubbin | Robert Sutton | Carmen Argenziano | Bill Reddick
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After destroying a case involving a crime lord, Harry Callahan is sent down to San Paulo to investigate the killing of a man found dead in a car. Jennifer (the killer of the man in the car) is murdering all the rapists who brutally raped both her and her sister 10 years ago, and she has returned to San Paulo to exact her revenge. Harry becomes inadvertently involved in Jennifer’s own troubles during his investigations, all the while not suspecting she is the killer.