Posts Tagged ‘washington-d.c.’

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.

Traffic (2000)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Benicio Del Toro | Jacob Vargas | Andrew Chavez | Michael Saucedo | Tomas Milian | Jose Yenque | Emilio Rivera | Michael O'Neill | Michael Douglas | Russell G. Jones | Lorene Hetherington | Eric Collins | Beau Holden | Peter Stader | James Lew
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
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A modern day look at America’s war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who’s just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband’s drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse’s business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.

The French Connection (1971)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Hackman | Fernando Rey | Roy Scheider | Tony Lo Bianco | Marcel Bozzuffi | Frédéric de Pasquale | Bill Hickman | Ann Rebbot | Harold Gary | Arlene Farber | Eddie Egan | André Ernotte | Sonny Grosso
Directors: William Friedkin
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William Friedkin’s gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between ‘Popeye’ Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed.

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.

The Pelican Brief (1993)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Julia Roberts | Denzel Washington | Sam Shepard | John Heard | Tony Goldwyn | James Sikking | William Atherton | Robert Culp | Stanley Tucci | Hume Cronyn | John Lithgow | Anthony Heald | Nicholas Woodeson | Stanley Anderson | John Finn
Directors: Alan J. Pakula
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Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who’s also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the preseident’s men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he adivises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend’s friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the president and all what they have are theories, he asks her to help him but she wants to leave the country. When Grantham’s editor tells him that they have nothing that he should drop cause the man she implicated is extremely powerful. Grantham’s about to drop it when she says that she will help him. But can they stay alive?

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
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…

The Jackal (1997)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Richard Gere | Sidney Poitier | Diane Venora | Mathilda May | J.K. Simmons | Richard Lineback | John Cunningham | Jack Black | Tess Harper | Leslie Phillips | Stephen Spinella | Sophie Okonedo | David Hayman | Steve Bassett
Directors: Michael Caton-Jones
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Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.

The Sum of All Fears (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Morgan Freeman | James Cromwell | Ken Jenkins | Liev Schreiber | Bruce McGill | John Beasley | Russell Bobbitt | Philip Baker Hall | Al Vandecruys | Richard Cohee | Philip Pretten | Alison Darcy | Richard Marner | Ostap Soroka
Directors: Phil Alden Robinson
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When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.

Team America: World Police (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Matt Stone
Directors: Trey Parker
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Team America follows an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Learning that power hungry dictator Kim Jong Il (Parker) is out to destroy the world, the team recuits Broadway star Gary Johnston (Parker) to go undercover. With the help of Team America (Stone, Miller, Masasa, Parker, and Norris), Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer’s hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to save the world?

Private Parts (1997)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Howard Stern | Robin Quivers | Mary McCormack | Fred Norris | Paul Giamatti | Gary Dell'Abate | Jackie Martling | Carol Alt | Richard Portnow | Kelly Bishop | Henry Goodman | Jonathan Hadary | Paul Hecht | Allison Janney | Michael Murphy
Directors: Betty Thomas
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Having always wanted to be a disc-jockey, Howard Stern works his way painfully from radio at his 1970’s college to a Detroit station. It is with a move to Washington that he hits on an outrageous off-the-wall style that catches audience attention. Despite his on-air blue talk, at home he is a loving husband. He needs all the support he can get when he joins NBC in New York and comes up against a very different vision of radio.