Posts Tagged ‘hope’

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).

He Was a Quiet Man (2007)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian Slater | John Gulager | Jamison Jones | Michael DeLuise | K.C. Ramsey | David Wells | Randolph Mantooth | Sewell Whitney | William H. Macy | Greg Baker | Brian Lohmann | Paul D. Roberts | Bobby Hardy | Bill Rothbard | Stanley C. Hall
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A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he’s screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?

V for Vendetta (2005)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Natalie Portman | Hugo Weaving | Stephen Rea | Stephen Fry | John Hurt | Tim Pigott-Smith | Rupert Graves | Roger Allam | Ben Miles | Sinéad Cusack | Natasha Wightman | John Standing | Eddie Marsan | Clive Ashborn | Emma Field-Rayner
Directors: James McTeigue
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The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that’s a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.

Hero (2002)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: China | Hong Kong
Actors: Jet Li | Tony Leung Chiu Wai | Maggie Cheung | Ziyi Zhang | Daoming Chen | Donnie Yen | Liu Zhong Yuan | Zheng Tia Yong | Yan Qin | Chang Xiao Yang | Zhang Ya Kun | Ma Wen Hua | Jin Ming | Xu Kuang Hua | Wang Shou Xin
Directors: Yimou Zhang
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In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin’s three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.

Once Upon a Time in China II (1992)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Romance
Countries: Hong Kong
Actors: Jet Li | David Chiang | Paul Fonoroff | Ka-Kui Ho | Siu Chung Mok | Xin Xin Xiong | Donnie Yen | Shi-Kwan Yen | Rosamund Kwan
Directors: Hark Tsui
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In this sequel, martial arts expert Wong Fei-Hung faces Kung, a mercenary rival with skills to equal his own. In addition, Canton is convulsed by a struggle between the local representatives of the Chinese government and Europeans who want to control China, and Wong ends up in the middle of this fight. He is again assisted by young Chung, and again must protect Aunt Yee, his young, Westernized aunt-by-adoption with whom Wong has fallen in love. He also ends up with school-full of small children to protect!

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Rennie | Patricia Neal | Hugh Marlowe | Sam Jaffe | Billy Gray | Frances Bavier | Lock Martin | Elmer Davis | H.V. Kaltenborn | Drew Pearson | Gabriel Heatter | Holly Bane | Marshall Bradford | John Brown | John Burton
Directors: Robert Wise
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A flying saucer orbits the 1950s Earth. It lands in Washington, DC, on the Mall. The lone occupant steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. Gort, a large and very powerful robot appears to save him and is able to melt tanks with the slightest bit of his power. The wounded alien orders Gort to stop his rampage and is taken to a hospital from which he escapes in order to learn more about this planet, even moving in as a boarder with an Earth family. When they begin to suspect him, he reveals himself, along with the news that Gort is a member of a race of super-robot enforcers invented to keep the peace of the galaxy that will destroy the Earth if provoked.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Edward Furlong | Robert Patrick | Earl Boen | Joe Morton | S. Epatha Merkerson | Castulo Guerra | Danny Cooksey | Jenette Goldstein | Xander Berkeley | Linda Hamilton | Ken Gibbel | Robert Winley | Peter Schrum
Directors: James Cameron
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Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.

Dragonheart (1996)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Connery | Dennis Quaid | Julie Christie | David Thewlis | Pete Postlethwaite | Dina Meyer | Jason Isaacs | Brian Thompson | Lee Oakes | Wolf Christian | Terry O'Neill | Eva Vejmelková | Milan Bahúl | Peter Hric | Sandra Kovacicova | Kyle Cohen | Thom Baker
Directors: Rob Cohen
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Set in the 10th Century, a man (Bowen) teams up with the last dragon to remind the people of a long lost code of honor, and inspire them to fight for their freedom from a tyrannical king.

Transformers (2007)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Shia LaBeouf | Megan Fox | Josh Duhamel | Rachael Taylor | Tyrese Gibson | Jon Voight | Anthony Anderson | John Turturro | Michael O'Neill | Peter Cullen | Charlie Bodin | Andrew Caldwell | Bryan Cox | Keith David | Frederic Doss
Directors: Michael Bay
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A long time ago, far away on the planet of Cybertron, a war was being waged between the noble Autobots (led by the wise Optimus Prime) and the devious Decepticons (commanded by the dreaded Megatron) for control over the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessed it. The Autobots managed to smuggle the Allspark off the planet, but Megatron blasted off in search of it. He eventually tracked it to the planet of Earth (circa 1850), but his reckless desire for power sent him right into the Arctic Ocean, and the sheer cold forced him into a paralyzed state. His body was later found by Captain Archibald Witwicky, and before going into a comatose state Megatron used the last of his energy to engrave a map, showing the location of the Allspark, into the Captain’s glasses, and send a transmission to Cybertron. He is then carted away by the Captain’s ship. A century later, Sam Witwicky, nicknamed Spike by his friends, buys his first car. To his shock, he discovers it to be Bumblebee, an Autobot in disguise who is to protect Spike, as he bears the Captain’s glasses and the map carved on them. But Bumblebee is not the only Transformer to have arrived on Earth - in the desert of Qatar, the Decepticons Blackout and Scorponok attack a U.S. military base, causing the Pentagon to send their special Sector Seven agents to capture all “specimens of this alien race,” and Spike and his girlfriend Mikaela find themselves in the middle of a grand battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons, stretching from Hoover Dam all the way to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, within the depths of Hoover Dam, the cryogenically stored form of Megatron awakens…

Children of Men (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Juan Gabriel Yacuzzi | Michelle Hussain | Rob Curling | Jon Chevalier | Rita Davies | Kim Fenton | Chris Gilbert | Phoebe Hawthorne | Rebecca Howard | Atalanta White | Laurence Woodbridge | Clive Owen | Maria McErlane | Michael Haughey | Paul Sharma
Directors: Alfonso Cuarón
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With this dystopian world ravished by war, paranoia and the frustrations of Man the Orwellian vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian future is now complete and amongst us. With female fertility becoming obsolete, Man cannot reproduce, and no child has been born on the face of the planet for eighteen years. Man, and his future, is dying. Soon he shall be extinct. Theo, the beaten, downtrodden and middle-aged ex-political activist will, unwittingly, become involved in a war of an underground revolt. Here he is active once more, in the perilous journey across England’s Home Counties, with a young girl, Kee, who, to Theo’s bewilderment is pregnant. The first pregnant woman for more than eighteen years. This secret must be protected, at all cost, and mother and child must flee to the mysterious and enigmatic Human Project, across the seas. Their flight is a constant fight for survival. Who can be trusted? Who can keep a secret?