Posts Tagged ‘damsel-in-distress’

Taxi Driver (1976)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Cybill Shepherd | Peter Boyle | Jodie Foster | Harvey Keitel | Leonard Harris | Albert Brooks | Diahnne Abbott | Frank Adu | Gino Ardito | Victor Argo | Garth Avery | Harry Cohn | Copper Cunningham | Brenda Dickson-Weinberg
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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Vietnam vet Travis Bickle is 26, a loner in the mean streets of New York City, slipping slowly into isolation and violent misanthropy. In solving his insomnia by driving a yellow cab on the night shift, he grows increasingly disgusted by the low-lifes that hang out at night: “Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.” His touching attempts to woo Betsy, a Senator’s campaign worker, turn sour when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He even fails in his attempt to persuade child prostitute Iris to desert her pimp and return to her parents and school. Driven to the edge by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets out to assassinate the Senator, heading for the infamy of a ‘lone crazed gunman’…

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tobey Maguire | Kirsten Dunst | James Franco | Alfred Molina | Rosemary Harris | J.K. Simmons | Donna Murphy | Daniel Gillies | Dylan Baker | Bill Nunn | Vanessa Ferlito | Aasif Mandvi | Willem Dafoe | Cliff Robertson | Ted Raimi
Directors: Sam Raimi
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Peter Parker (Tobey McGuire) can’t seem to catch any kind of break. Being Spiderman has brought him nothing but problems as far as his personal life is concerned. Not only that, Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is engaged to astronaut John Jameson, and Peter may lose her forever. Things are so bad for him that he is pushed past his breaking point, so he decides that he doesn’t want to be Spiderman anymore, until a freak accident transforms Dr. Otto Octavius into Dr. Octopus, a super-villian with four metal tentacles coming out of him. Peter realizes that only Spiderman can stop him, but of course, problems arise. Mary Jane gets caught in the middle, and Harry Osborn, who still blames Spiderman for the death of his father, Norman Osborn, also the Green Goblin, wants him dead. Spiderman will have to push himself past his limits if he’s going to survive.

Spaceballs (1987)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Mel Brooks | Rick Moranis | Bill Pullman | Daphne Zuniga | John Candy | George Wyner | Joan Rivers | Dick Van Patten | Michael Winslow | Lorene Yarnell | John Hurt | Sal Viscuso | Ronny Graham | JM J. Bullock | Leslie Bevis
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King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious pollution problems…). The King decides to offer a generous amount of money to a space rogue, Lone Starr, to persuade him to save Vespa. What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies.

Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Chris Farley | Nicollette Sheridan | Robin Shou | Nathaniel Parker | Soon-Tek Oh | Keith Cooke | Chris Rock | François Chau | Dale Ishimoto | Daming Chen | Burt Bulos | Curtis Blanck | Tom Bailey | Jason J. Tobin | Richard Kline
Directors: Dennis Dugan
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Following a ship wreck, a baby is rescued by a clan of Ninja warriors and raised by them as one of their own. But Haru, as he is called, never quite fits in, nor does he manage to make a worthy Ninja. However, the good-natured and persevering Haru, in his own bumbling way, and with some help from Gobei, manages to prove himself to be a winner in the end.

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.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Geoffrey Rush | Orlando Bloom | Keira Knightley | Jack Davenport | Jonathan Pryce | Lee Arenberg | Mackenzie Crook | Damian O'Hare | Giles New | Angus Barnett | David Bailie | Michael Berry Jr. | Isaac C. Singleton Jr. | Kevin McNally
Directors: Gore Verbinski
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This swash-buckling tale follows the quest of Captain Jack Sparrow, a savvy pirate, and Will Turner, a resourceful blacksmith, as they search for Elizabeth Swann. Elizabeth, the daughter of the governor and the love of Will’s life, has been kidnapped by the feared Captain Barbossa. Little do they know, but the fierce and clever Barbossa has been cursed. He, along with his large crew, are under an ancient curse, doomed for eternity to neither live, nor die. That is, unless a blood sacrifice is made. Full of edge-of-the-seat action and swashbuckling adventures, this is a movie you won’t want to miss!