Posts Tagged ‘riot’

Talk to Me (2007)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Annan | Benz Antoine | Matt Birman | David Brown | Cedric the Entertainer | Don Cheadle | J. Miles Dale | Davidx | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Mike Epps | Kamal Jones | Jeff Kassel | Jim Malmberg | Erick Peterson | Kwame Rakes
Directors: Kasi Lemmons
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The true life story of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and “tell it like it is.” With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with fellow prison inmate Milo’s brother Dewey Hughes. From the first wild morning on the air, Petey relies on the more straight-laced Dewey to run interference at WOL-AM, where Dewey is the program director. At the station, Petey becomes an iconic radio personality, surpassing even the established popularity of his fellow disc jockeys, Nighthawk and Sunny Jim. Combining biting humor with social commentary, Petey openly courts controversy for station owner E.G. Sonderling. Petey was determined to make not just himself but his community heard during an exciting and turbulent period in American history. As Petey’s voice, humor, and spirit surge across the airwaves with the vitality of the era, listeners tune in to hear not only incredible music but also a man speaking directly to them about race and power in America like few people ever have. Through the years, Petey’s “The truth just is” style — on - and off-air - would redefine both Petey and Dewey, and empower each to become the man he would most like to be.

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Documentary | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Troy Aikman | The Beatles | Osama Bin Laden | Marlon Brando | Fidel Castro | Warren Christopher | Bill Clinton | Thomas A. Edison | Albert Einstein | Adolf Hitler | Elton John | Nikita Khrushchev | Martin Luther King | Henry Kissinger | Dalai Lama
Directors: Godfrey Reggio
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In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique, artistic experience that reflects the vision of a brave new globalized world.

Bruce Almighty (2003)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
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.

Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Roddy McDowall | Claude Akins | Natalie Trundy | Severn Darden | Lew Ayres | Paul Williams | Austin Stoker | Noah Keen | Richard Eastham | France Nuyen | Paul Stevens | Heather Lowe | Bobby Porter | Michael Stearns | Cal Wilson
Directors: J. Lee Thompson
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After conquering the oppressive humans in “Conquest for the Planet of the Apes”, Caeser(Roddy McDowal) must now keep the peace amongst the humans and apes. Gorilla General Aldo(Claude Akins) views things differently, and tries to cause an ape civil war. In the meantime, other human survivors learn of the ape city, and decide they want to take back civilization for themselves, thus setting the stage of warring ape factions and humans.

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Roddy McDowall | Don Murray | Natalie Trundy | Hari Rhodes | Severn Darden | Lou Wagner | John Randolph | Asa Maynor | H.M. Wynant | David Chow | Buck Kartalian | John Dennis | Paul Comi | Gordon Jump | Dick Spangler
Directors: J. Lee Thompson
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The time is the near future. Apes supplant dogs and cats as household pets, and replace servants as personal assistants — until their continual mistreatment provokes one advanced ape from the future, Caesar, to lead a spectacular revolt.

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Burt Lancaster | Karl Malden | Thelma Ritter | Neville Brand | Betty Field | Telly Savalas | Edmond O'Brien | Hugh Marlowe | Whit Bissell | Crahan Denton | James Westerfield | Robert Bailey | Robert Burton | Lewis Charles | Nick Dennis
Directors: John Frankenheimer
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As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts. When Stroud kills a guard, he is sentenced to be executed, and only his mother’s impassioned intervention gets his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, which he must serve in solitary confinement. As he serves out his sentence in boredom and despair, one day he finds a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard. Stroud soon takes a deep interest in caring for birds, which gives him a new purpose in life, but which also brings new conflicts with prison authorities.

The Day of the Locust (1975)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Donald Sutherland | Karen Black | Burgess Meredith | William Atherton | Geraldine Page | Richard Dysart | Bo Hopkins | Pepe Serna | Lelia Goldoni | Billy Barty | Jackie Earle Haley | Gloria LeRoy | Jane Hoffman | Norman Leavitt | Madge Kennedy
Directors: John Schlesinger
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Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930’s Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye, a would-be starlet with possible designs of her own on a lonely, morose accountant. As Tod is drawn deeper into the lurid private lives of studio bosses and film industry workers, he gradually becomes desperate to know if Faye - or anyone - is capable of real love.

Fury (1936)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvia Sidney | Spencer Tracy | Walter Abel | Bruce Cabot | Edward Ellis | Walter Brennan | Frank Albertson | George Walcott | Arthur Stone | Morgan Wallace | George Chandler | Roger Gray | Edwin Maxwell | Howard C. Hickman | Jonathan Hale
Directors: Fritz Lang
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Passing through a small town, Joe is arrested for kidnapping. A lynch mob burns down the jail and Joe is believed killed. The incident has been captured on newsreel film and, for revenge, Joe urges his brothers to use the film to prove the mob guilty of his murder.

Gandhi (1982)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: India | UK
Actors: Ben Kingsley | Candice Bergen | Edward Fox | John Gielgud | Trevor Howard | John Mills | Martin Sheen | Ian Charleson | Athol Fugard | Günther Maria Halmer | Saeed Jaffrey | Geraldine James | Alyque Padamsee | Amrish Puri | Roshan Seth
Directors: Richard Attenborough
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When ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ (qv) first set foot in British India, he had already been to Britain and South Africa, and had created quite a stir for the betterment of the people. But in India, he realized that he had first to live the life of a peasant to understand what it is to be an Indian. This resolve will lead him to shed his westerners clothing, and don a simple loincloth, be subjected to racial slurs from none other than Winston Churchill (Half naked Indian Fakir); Mobilize awareness of local industry and less dependence on imported clothing and material; the historic dandee march for withdrawal of the salt tax; a fast unto death to stop the virtual slaughter of British troops by irate Indian mobs; and be imprisoned several times. His resolve was to work with stalwarts such as Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Sardar Valabhbhai Patel, Professor Gokhale, J.B. Kripalani, Maulana Azad, and Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru to ensure first of all to get the British to quit India, and then run an Indian Government under the Congress party. Gandhi will soon realize that it is not enough to be just an Indian, for India has many facets - Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Jewish, and Christian. The British relied on these many facets as an excuse for their continuance as they wanted to ensure that the minorities are not oppressed by the Hindu majority. Concerned over the inroads made by Gandhi to unite the Hindus, Muslims, and all others under a common umbrella, the British invited Jinnah for talks, and it is here that a seed was laid for a separate country called Pakistan. When Gandhi came to know about this, he pleaded with Jinnah to unite the Muslims, even take over as the first Prime Minister with his choice of Muslim candidates for Parliament, but separatist Jinnah had already made his mind. The World Wars of 1914 and 1944 having taken it’s toll on Europe and Britain in particular, the weary British finally decided to leave India in 1947 - not the India they had conquered - but an India that was ready to be divided in East Pakistan and West Pakistan. Now after the much awaited independence was the real test for Gandhi - a test that will make him or break him - as he started a fast unto death to try and stop the violence that was threatening to break out into a civil war, not realizing that he had indirectly fanned Hindu extremism, which would later be called the Shiv Sena, into taking the matter directly in their hands to ensure that Muslims are kept out of their Hindustan forever.

War, Inc. (2008)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: John Cusack | Joan Cusack | Marisa Tomei | Hilary Duff | Ben Kingsley | Dan Aykroyd | Ned Bellamy | Velizar Binev | Marc Casabani | Ben Cross | Doug Dearth | Itai Diakov | Georgi Gatzov | Nick Harvey | Lyubomir Neikov
Directors: Joshua Seftel
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A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President (Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation’s CEO hires a troubled hit man (Cusack), to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation’s Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Duff) an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter (Tomei) in check.