Posts Tagged ‘rowboat’

Dark City (1998)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Rufus Sewell | William Hurt | Kiefer Sutherland | Jennifer Connelly | Richard O'Brien | Ian Richardson | Bruce Spence | Colin Friels | John Bluthal | Mitchell Butel | Melissa George | Frank Gallacher | Ritchie Singer | Justin Monjo | Nicholas Bell
Directors: Alex Proyas
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John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.

The Karate Kid (1984)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Ralph Macchio | Pat Morita | Martin Kove | William Zabka | Ron Thomas | Rob Garrison | Chad McQueen | Tony O'Dell | Israel Juarbe | William Bassett | Larry B. Scott | Frank Burt Avalon | Jeff Fishman | Ken Daly | Tom Fridley
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Daniel is new in town, and is getting picked on by the local bullies, who all are adept in karate. Determined to stick up for himself, Daniel begins to teach himself karate, only to discover that the caretaker at his apartment seems to be a grand master in karate. Agreeing to teach Daniel, Mr. Miyagi shows Daniel that there is more to karate than violence, and perhaps the best way to solve the problem he has with the bullies is in the All Valley Karate Championship.

The Great Escape (1963)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | James Garner | Richard Attenborough | James Donald | Charles Bronson | Donald Pleasence | James Coburn | Hannes Messemer | David McCallum | Gordon Jackson | John Leyton | Angus Lennie | Nigel Stock | Robert Graf | Jud Taylor
Directors: John Sturges
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Based on a true story, “The Great Escape” deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

Friday, April 11th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Orlando Bloom | Keira Knightley | Jack Davenport | Bill Nighy | Jonathan Pryce | Lee Arenberg | Mackenzie Crook | Kevin McNally | David Bailie | Stellan Skarsgård | Tom Hollander | Naomie Harris | Martin Klebba | David Schofield
Directors: Gore Verbinski
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Just before their wedding, Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner are arrested by Lord Cutler Beckett for helping the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, but Cutler proposes a deal to Will: their freedom per Jack’s compass. Meanwhile, Jack is afraid of the sea, because he owes his soul to the evil Davy Jones, the Captain of the Flying Dutchmen. When Will meets Jack, the pirate proposes to exchange his compass by a key owned by Davy Jones. Will goes to the Flying Dutchman without knowing how dangerous and diabolic Davy Jones and his crew are.

The Notebook (2004)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tim Ivey | Gena Rowlands | Starletta DuPois | James Garner | Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas | Ed Grady | Renée Amber | Jennifer Echols | Geoffrey Knight | Kevin Connolly | Ryan Gosling | Heather Wahlquist | Rachel McAdams | Andrew Schaff | Matt Shelly
Directors: Nick Cassavetes
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An old man in a nursing home reads a story to an old woman each day. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun. They met one evening at a carnival many years ago. Allie’s parents separate Noah and Allie. They disapprove of Noah’s lack of wealth, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. In a local newspaper, Noah’s picture catches Allie’s eye. He is standing in front of a fully restored, 200 year old home. The article is filled with praise for his accomplishments. Allie’s heart nearly bursts. The last time she saw this house it was a rotted decaying shamble. She stood enfolded in Noah’s arms in the great entryway and listened to his plans to buy and restore this house. Just the way she wanted it. With her love for Noah still alive, the picture pulls at her heart. She has to go back, see if Noah is okay, and tell him about her marriage. They both think the echo deep in their hearts, the one that has lasted all these years, is not shared by the other. The cry they could not stifle. It wasn’t over for me.

Georgia Rule (2007)

Monday, November 26th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jane Fonda | Lindsay Lohan | Felicity Huffman | Dermot Mulroney | Cary Elwes | Garrett Hedlund | Hector Elizondo | Dylan McLaughlin | Zachary Gordon | Laurie Metcalf | Tereza Stanislav | Fred Applegate | Cynthia Ferrer | Destiny Moore | Adreana Betan
Directors: Garry Marshall
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Rachel comes to stay with her Grandmother Georgia for the summer leaving some obvious problems behind at home. Her alcoholic mother doesn’t even stay the night before rushing back out to California to be with her husband. Rachel shakes up the town, a beautiful girl in the boring Mormon country. Then she reveals her deepest secret to one of her new friends, and her mother comes rushing back to find out if its true. In the midst of this crisis the three woman become closer than ever and start to understand each other more.

The Skeleton Key (2005)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kate Hudson | Gena Rowlands | John Hurt | Peter Sarsgaard | Joy Bryant | Maxine Barnett | Fahnlohnee R. Harris | Marion Zinser | Deneen Tyler | Ann Dalrymple | Trula M. Marcus | Tonya Staten | Thomas Uskali | Jen Apgar | Forrest Landis
Directors: Iain Softley
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A young woman helping care for an invalid in New Orleans finds herself caught in the middle of morbid going-ons centered around a group of Hoodoo (Not Voodoo, it’s different. Hoodoo is an old African American magic that only works if you believe in it.) practitioners.

The Painted Veil (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: China | USA
Actors: Naomi Watts | Edward Norton | Liev Schreiber | Toby Jones | Diana Rigg | Juliet Howland | Anthony Wong Chau-Sang | Maggie Steed | Lorraine Laurence | Johnny Lee | Li Feng | Gesang Meiduo | Alan David | Lucy Voller | Ian Rennick
Directors: John Curran
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This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed too. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discover’s Kitty’s infidelity with one dashing and witty Diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amidst the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it’s too late?

Northfork (2003)

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: James Woods | Nick Nolte | Douglas Sebern | Claire Forlani | Duel Farnes | Daryl Hannah | Graham Beckel | Josh Barker | Peter Coyote | Jon Gries | Rick Overton | Robin Sachs | Ben Foster | Anthony Edwards
Directors: Michael Polish
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In a near-empty Northfork orphanage, Father Harlan gently tends to Irwin, a eight-year-old who lies between a dreamstate and death. As orphanage caretaker Harlan reads aloud about Northfork’s years-ago forced evacuation to make way for a hydro-electric dam, Irwin’s imagination takes flight. While a team of six men evacuate the last remaining citizens of the town, Irwin, too, invents a cast of characters to prepare himself for his own evacuation.

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.