Posts Tagged ‘dog’

Death Toll (2007)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Action
Countries: USA
Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips | DMX | Keshia Knight Pulliam | Leila Arcieri | Eric F. Adams | Gene Christensen | Jarred Coates | Zacharias Foppe | Jeff Galpin | Dan Garcia | Oneal A. Isaac | Albert 'Dat Tim' Johnson | Armando Leduc | Dallas Montgomery | Alec Rayme
Directors: Phenomenon
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New Orleans has the No. 1 per capita murder rating in the nation. A decade earlier the city was dubbed the “Murder Capital of the Country.” Drugs and violence controlled the streets, taking a toll on the city’s law enforcement, neighborhoods and its people. Illustrating this dark chapter in the city’s history is “Death Toll”.

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Danny Elfman | Chris Sarandon | Catherine O'Hara | William Hickey | Glenn Shadix | Paul Reubens | Ken Page | Ed Ivory | Susan McBride | Debi Durst | Greg Proops | Kerry Katz | Randy Crenshaw | Sherwood Ball | Carmen Twillie
Directors: Henry Selick
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Bored and unhappy with the life of being “The Pumpkin King” Jack Skellington of Halloween Town, Jack sets out to find something exciting. Jack discovers “Christmas Town” and takes it upon himself to take over the duties of Santa to deliver toys across the world to children.

Finding Neverland (2004)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Kate Winslet | Julie Christie | Radha Mitchell | Dustin Hoffman | Freddie Highmore | Joe Prospero | Nick Roud | Luke Spill | Kelly Macdonald | Mackenzie Crook | Eileen Essell | Jimmy Gardner | Oliver Fox
Directors: Marc Forster
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London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes “Peter Pan.” After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads’ mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate bedrooms), the widow’s mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia’s health worsens, Barrie’s ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland.

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dennis Quaid | Jake Gyllenhaal | Emmy Rossum | Dash Mihok | Jay O. Sanders | Sela Ward | Austin Nichols | Arjay Smith | Tamlyn Tomita | Sasha Roiz | Ian Holm | Nassim Sharara | Carl Alacchi | Kenneth Welsh | Michael A. Samah
Directors: Roland Emmerich
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This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age. At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Professor Jack Hall (Quaid), who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to get to his son, Sam (Gyllenhaal), who was in New York City as part of a scholastic competition, when the city was overwhelmed by the chilling beginnings of the new Ice Age. In addition to all of the other challenges Dr. Hall faces, he’s also going against the flow as humanity races south to warmer climes, and he’s nearly the only one going north…

Michael (1996)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Andie MacDowell | William Hurt | Bob Hoskins | Robert Pastorelli | Jean Stapleton | Teri Garr | Wallace Langham | Joey Lauren Adams | Carla Gugino | Tom Hodges | Catherine Lloyd Burns | Richard Schiff | Calvin Trillin | Donald J. Lee Jr.
Directors: Nora Ephron
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Frank Quinlan and Huey Driscoll, two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with Dorothy Winters, an ‘angel expert’, are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her house with a real, live archangel named Michael. Upon arrival, they see that her claims are true - but Michael is not what they expected: he smokes, drinks beer, has a very active libido and has a rather colourful vocabulary. In fact, they would never believe it were it not for the two feathery wings protruding from his back. Michael agrees to travel to Chicago with the threesome, but what they don’t realise is that the journey they are about to undertake will change their lives forever.

Bruce Almighty (2003)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Carrey | Morgan Freeman | Jennifer Aniston | Philip Baker Hall | Catherine Bell | Lisa Ann Walter | Steve Carell | Nora Dunn | Eddie Jemison | Paul Satterfield | Mark Kiely | Sally Kirkland | Tony Bennett | Timothy Di Pri | Brian Tahash
Directors: Tom Shadyac
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Bruce Nolan (Carrey), a television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y.,is discontented with almost everything in life despite his popularity and the love of his girlfriend, Grace (Aniston) . At the end of the worst day of his life, Bruce angrily ridicules and rages against God and God responds. God appears in human form (Freeman) and, endowing Bruce with divine powers, challenges Bruce to take on the big job to see if he can do it any better.

Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia
Actors: Magda Szubanski | James Cromwell | Mary Stein | Mickey Rooney | Elizabeth Daily | Danny Mann | Glenne Headly | Steven Wright | James Cosmo | Nathan Kress | Myles Jeffrey | Stanley Ralph Ross | Russi Taylor | Adam Goldberg | Eddie Barth
Directors: George Miller
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After Babe’s great victory in the shepherding contest, Farmer Arthur Hoggett turns down all offers to make money with his pig’s talents. But when he gets hurt severely in the well, his wife has to take up farming. She does her best but cannot meet the bank’s requirements, which results in the necessity of getting back to Babe. Soon, Esme Hoggett is sitting in a plane headed for “the” city. There, Babe unwillingly causes deep trouble. He has to stay with Mrs. Hoggett in the only hotel in town that accepts pets. Friendly neighbours send officials who catch all animals from the hotel: Cats, dogs, chimpanzees and many others. Babe, who managed to stay free, decides to help his new friends and gets unexpected help - not only by Ferdinand, who flew all the way to the city.

Babe (1995)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Christine Cavanaugh | Miriam Margolyes | Danny Mann | Hugo Weaving | Miriam Flynn | Russi Taylor | Evelyn Krape | Michael Edward-Stevens | Charles Bartlett | Paul Livingston | Roscoe Lee Browne | James Cromwell | Magda Szubanski | Zoe Burton | Paul Goddard
Directors: Chris Noonan
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Farmer Hoggett wins a runt piglet at a local fair and young Babe, as the piglet decides to call himself, befriends and learns about all the other creatures on the farm. He becomes special friends with one of the sheepdogs, Fly. With Fly’s help, and Farmer Hoggett’s intuition, Babe embarks on a career in sheepherding with some surprising and spectacular results.

Meet Wally Sparks (1997)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Rodney Dangerfield | Debi Mazar | David Ogden Stiers | Burt Reynolds | Rita McKenzie | Lisa Thornhill | Mark L. Taylor | Cindy Williams | Gilbert Gottfried | Tony Danza | Karen Duffy | Eamonn Roche | Sir Mix a Lot | Michael Weatherly | Glenn Walker Harris Jr.
Directors: Peter Baldwin
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Wally Sparks is a tabloid TV show reporter who’s trying to boost ratings on his show. He goes to the governor’s mansion to uncover a sex scandal.

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…