Posts Tagged ‘1960s’

Sleepers (1996)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bacon, Kevin | Crudup, Billy | De Niro, Robert | Gassman, Vittorio | Driver, Minnie | Hoffman, Dustin | Eldard, Ron | Perrino, Joseph | Patric, Jason | Wigdor, Geoffrey | Pitt, Brad | Kinney, Terry | Renfro, Brad | Kirby, Bruno | Medrano, Frank
Directors: Levinson, Barry
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Four boys growing up in Hell’s Kitchen play a prank that leads to an old man getting hurt. Sentenced to no less than one year in the Wilkenson Center in upstate New York, the four friends are changed by the beating, humiliation and sexual abuse by the guards sworn to protect them. Thirteen years later and a chance meeting lead to a chance for revenge against the Wilkenson Center and the guards.

Talk to Me (2007)

Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Annan, Jim | Antoine, Benz | Birman, Matt | Brown, David | Cedric the Entertainer | Cheadle, Don | Dale, J. Miles | Davidx | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Epps, Mike | Jones, Kamal | Kassel, Jeff | Malmberg, Jim | Peterson, Erick | Rakes, Kwame
Directors: Lemmons, Kasi
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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.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

Monday, May 12th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Abernathy, Don | Adams, Patrick J. | Anton, George | Arnold, Michael William | Ausburn, Christopher | Babcock, Caleb | Barry, Raymond J. | Bates, Paul | Beasor, Terrence | Besser, Matt | Bird, Jay | Bishop, Rian | Black, Jack | Blake, Clement | Bodell, Ian
Directors: Jake Kasdan
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The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly), whose songs would change a nation. On his rock’n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 stepkids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to (and then kicks) every drug known to man, but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman.

American Gangster (2007)

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Crowe, Russell | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Brolin, Josh | Nadal, Lymari | Levine, Ted | Smith, Roger Guenveur | Hawkes, John | RZA | Vazquez, Yul | Goodwin, Malcolm | Dee, Ruby | Santiago-Hudson, Ruben | Gugino, Carla | Fortgang, Skyler
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.

Casualties of War (1989)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Fox, Michael J. | Penn, Sean | Harvey, Don | Reilly, John C. | Leguizamo, John | Le, Thuy Thu | King, Erik | Gwaltney, Jack | Rhames, Ving | Martin, Dan | Dye, Dale | Larson, Steve | Linton, John | Ruginis, Vyto | Shannon, Al
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.

Godfather: Part II, The (1974)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Duvall, Robert | Keaton, Diane | De Niro, Robert | Cazale, John | Shire, Talia | Strasberg, Lee | Gazzo, Michael V. | Spradlin, G.D. | Bright, Richard | Moschin, Gastone | Rosqui, Tom | Kirby, Bruno | Sivero, Frank | De Sapio, Francesca
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Sandlot, The (1993)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Guiry, Tom | Vitar, Mike | Renna, Patrick | Leopardi, Chauncey | York, Marty | Adams, Brandon Quintin | Gelt, Grant | Obedzinski, Shane | DiMattia, Victor | Leary, Denis | Allen, Karen | Jones, James Earl | Shelton, Marley | Muller, Herb | Zacapa, Daniel
Directors: Evans, David M.
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Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing, and soon he’s part of the local baseball buddies. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the desirous lifeguard at the local pool, the snooty rival ball team, and the travelling fair. Beyond the fence at the back of the sandlot menaces a legendary ball-eating dog called The Beast, and the kids inevitably must deal with him.

Outsiders, The (1983)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Dillon, Matt | Macchio, Ralph | Howell, C. Thomas | Swayze, Patrick | Lowe, Rob | Estevez, Emilio | Cruise, Tom | Withrow, Glenn | Lane, Diane | Garrett, Leif | Dalton, Darren | Meyrink, Michelle | Sartain, Gailard | Waits, Tom | Smith, William
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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Based on the S.E. Hinton novel of the same name. The tension between two groups: The Greasers and The Socials “Socs” puts Ponyboy Curtis (Howell) and his best friend Johnny Cade (Macchio) in a bad spot. One night at the movies, Ponyboy and Johnny fall in love with Sherri “Cherry” Valance (Lane) and Marcia (Meyrink) once they get Dally Winston (Dillon), the toughest and meanest of the Greasers to stop attempting to “score” Cherry and Marcia. What Johnny and Ponyboy don’t know is that Cherry and Marcia are girls for the snobbish, popular, and rich group, the Socs. Once Johnny kills Bob Sheldon (Garrett), the toughest and meanest member of the Socs, this begins as the Socs demand a rumble against the Greasers.

Factory Girl (2006)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Miller, Sienna | Pearce, Guy | Christensen, Hayden | Fallon, Jimmy | Huston, Jack | Amiri, Armin | Summers, Tara | Suvari, Mena | Hatosy, Shawn | Grant, Beth | Naughton, James | Herrmann, Edward | Douglas, Illeana | Winstead, Mary Elizabeth | Novello, Don
Directors: Hickenlooper, George
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A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality…

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Hurley, Elizabeth | York, Michael | Rogers, Mimi | Wagner, Robert | Green, Seth | Udenio, Fabiana | Sterling, Mindy | Dillon, Paul | Napier, Charles | Ferrell, Will | Richter, Joann | Sakelaris, Anastasia | Alaouie, Afifi | Mazur, Monet
Directors: Roach, Jay
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Austin Powers (Myers) is a 60’s spy who is cryonically frozen and released in the 1990’s. The world is a very different place for Powers. Unfortuantly for Austin, everyone is no longer sex-mad. Although he may be in a different decade, his mission is still the same. He has teamed up with Vanessa Kensington (Hurley) to stop the evil Dr. Evil (Myers), who was also frozen in the past. Dr. Evil stole a nuclear weapon and is demanding a payment of (when he realises its the 90’s) 100 billion dollars. Can Austin Powers stop this madman? or will he caught up with Evil’s henchman, with names like Alotta Fagina and Random Task? Only time will tell!