Posts Tagged ‘fate’

Iris (2001)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Kate Winslet | Hugh Bonneville | Judi Dench | Jim Broadbent | Eleanor Bron | Angela Morant | Penelope Wilton | Siobhan Hayes | Juliet Aubrey | Joan Bakewell | Nancy Carroll | Kris Marshall | Tom Mannion | Derek Hutchinson | Samuel West
Directors: Richard Eyre
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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch’s descent into Alzheimer’s Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).

Final Destination 3 (2006)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Ryan Merriman | Kris Lemche | Sam Easton | Jesse Moss | Texas Battle | Jody Racicot | Patrick Gallagher | Dylan Basu | Alberto Ghisi | Stuart Cowan | Harris Allan | Alexander Kalugin | Nels Lennarson | Jacob Rupp | R. David Stephens
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After a girl has a premonition of a horrific roller coaster accident, her and several of her friends get off the ride. Only when her vision comes true does horrible things start happening to those that got off. Now, everyone who got off is dying in various ways in the order they died in the vision. Now, her and her friend, armed with only the picture she took at the carnival, have to find out how her classmates are going to die and how to stop it.

First Snow (2006)

Friday, April 11th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Guy Pearce | Piper Perabo | William Fichtner | J.K. Simmons | Shea Whigham | Rick Gonzalez | Jackie Burroughs | Adam Scott | Portia Dawson | Cherilyn Hayres | Luce Rains | Brian Gamble | David House | Jose J. Marquez | John Burton Jr.
Directors: Mark Fergus
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Wound tight and cocky, Jimmy Starks (Pearce) is a smooth-talking salesman certain he’s on the verge of a big break. Even when his car stalls in the middle of nowhere, a roadside soothsayer (Simmons) assures him a windfall is on its way. But although Jimmy should be happy when his boss suddenly agrees to financially back his business venture, he starts to become paranoid instead. As his girlfriend Deirdre (Perabo) and his best friend/ business partner Ed (Fichtner) watch him slowly come unwound, Jimmy wonders if a past betrayal of his friend, newly paroled Vince (Whigham), could be catching up to him. And, as the weather turns cold, Jimmy can’t help but fear the mysterious seer’s other prediction… that they’ll be no tomorrow after the first snow.

Don’t Look Now (1973)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Italy | UK
Actors: Julie Christie | Donald Sutherland | Hilary Mason | Clelia Matania | Massimo Serato | Renato Scarpa | Giorgio Trestini | Leopoldo Trieste | David Tree | Ann Rye | Nicholas Salter | Sharon Williams | Bruno Cattaneo | Adelina Poerio
Directors: Nicolas Roeg
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John and Laura Baxter are living in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters’ daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seeing their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola.

Troy (2004)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | Romance
Countries: Malta | UK | USA
Actors: Julian Glover | Brian Cox | Nathan Jones | Adoni Maropis | Jacob Smith | Brad Pitt | John Shrapnel | Brendan Gleeson | Diane Kruger | Eric Bana | Orlando Bloom | Siri Svegler | Lucie Barat | Ken Bones | Manuel Cauchi
Directors: Wolfgang Petersen
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer’s “The Iliad.”

Just Like Heaven (2005)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Reese Witherspoon | Mark Ruffalo | Donal Logue | Dina Spybey | Ben Shenkman | Jon Heder | Ivana Milicevic | Rosalind Chao | Chris Pflueger | Kerris Dorsey | Alyssa Shafer | Ron Canada | Caroline Aaron | Gabrielle Made | Shulie Cowen
Directors: Mark Waters
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Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon), a dedicated Doctor in San Francisco, had almost no time for anything. When her sister with two kids set her up on a date, she gets into a tragic car crash and gets in a coma. Meanwhile, an artist named David Abbott (Mark Ruffalo) moves into San Francisco and coincidentally, into Elizabeth’s apartment for rent. While at the apartment, Elizabeth’s spirit haunts him. She doesn’t remember who she is, who her family is, and what she did - All that she remembered was her apartment and where everything was. To settle the arguments, Dacid agrees to figure out who Elizabeth really is. When they get close to figuring out who she is, they eventually find love in each other and as they finally know who she really is, they learn that fate really has put them both together.

Planet of the Apes (2001)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Wahlberg | Tim Roth | Helena Bonham Carter | Michael Clarke Duncan | Paul Giamatti | Estella Warren | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | David Warner | Kris Kristofferson | Erick Avari | Lucas Elliott | Evan Parke | Glenn Shadix | Freda Foh Shen | Chris Ellis
Directors: Tim Burton
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It is the year 2029: Astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) boards a pod cruiser on a Space Station for a “routine” reconnaissance mission. But an aburupt detour through a space time wormhole lands him on a strange planet where talking apes rule over the human race. With the help of a sympathetic chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter) and a small band of human rebels, Leo leads the effort to evade the advancing Gorilla Army led by General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). Now the race is on to reach a sacred temple within the planet’s Forbidden Zone to discover the shocking secrets of mankind’s past - and the key to its future.

The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Keanu Reeves | Hugo Weaving | Carrie-Anne Moss | Mary Alice | Tanveer K. Atwal | Helmut Bakaitis | Kate Beahan | Francine Bell | Monica Bellucci | Rachel Blackman | Henry Blasingame | Ian Bliss | David Bowers | Zeke Castelli | Collin Chou | Essie Davis | Laurence Fishburne | Nona Gaye
Directors: Larry Wachowski | Andy Wachowski
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The machine army continues to drill towards Zion. Within hours, they will overrun the population of the Zionites and lay extinction to human kind. Meanwhile, Neo is held captive by the Merovingian at a train station. Trinity & Morpheus set out on a journey to release him from a mysterious train operator. Also, Smith resumes his quest to kill “Mr. Anderson” as he reveals his identity into the real world and resumes to replicate his program inside the system of The Matrix, causing it to decay. All hope is placed in the freed Neo, who must travel to the city of the machines in the Logos ship with Trinity and bargain to save each kingdom from destruction by finishing Smith once and for all. But even with his new powers over the sentinels, will he be able to fight them off?

Paycheck (2003)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Aaron Eckhart | Uma Thurman | Paul Giamatti | Colm Feore | Joe Morton | Michael C. Hall | Peter Friedman | Kathryn Morris | Ivana Milicevic | Christopher Kennedy | Fulvio Cecere | John Cassini | Callum Keith Rennie | Michelle Harrison
Directors: John Woo
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Michael Jennings is a reverse engineer and what he does is technical jobs for certain companies and as soon as he is done, his memory of the work he has done is wiped out. Now the longest he has been contracted is 2 months. But now billionaire, James Rethrick offers him a job that would last 2 years, maybe 3, and he promises that he will probably earn 8 figures. Michael agrees. Before beginning he turns in all of his personal effects. And when the job is done, his memory is erased and he learns he made over 90 million dollars over the three years. When he goes to claim it and his personal effects, he discovers that prior to the erasure of his memory he waived his rights to the money he earned and that the items that were given to him were not the ones he gave when he began. Later he is arrested by the FBI who say that he committed some act of treason and murder. It’s while he is in custody that he escapes using some the items that he was given. He later meets with a friend who gives him some information that helps him understand what is going on. And at the same time Rethrick for some reason wants him so he is being pursued by Rethrick’s people.

Final Destination 2 (2003)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: A.J. Cook | Ali Larter | Michael Landes | Tony Todd | Terrence 'T.C.' Carson | Jonathan Cherry | Keegan Connor Tracy | Lynda Boyd | James Kirk | David Paetkau | Justina Machado | Sarah Carter | Alex Rae | Shaun Sipos | Andrew Airlie
Directors: David R. Ellis
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Kimberly Corman, 19, was just taking a trip with her friends.. But when she escapes a horrific car accident, she finds herself in Death’s path of destruction. Now, Kimberly, along with the other survivors, must find a way to save themselves…