Posts Tagged ‘desert’

Desert Saints (2000)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roam, Brent | Woods, Shawn | Bersh, Christopher | Sutherland, Kiefer | Ticotin, Rachel | Grant, Beth | Chapman, Zach | Sheridan, Jamey | Stefanson, Leslie | Walters, Melora | Quaid, Buddy | Diamond, Keith | Sage, Bill | Waksal, Aliza | Gelfant, Alan
Directors: Greenberg, Richard
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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks’s slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI’s close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he’ll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks’s tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise…

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: O'Toole, Peter | Guinness, Alec | Quinn, Anthony | Hawkins, Jack | Sharif, Omar | Ferrer, José | Quayle, Anthony | Rains, Claude | Kennedy, Arthur | Wolfit, Donald | Johar, I.S. | Ratib, Gamil | Ray, Michel | Dimech, John | Mohyeddin, Zia
Directors: Lean, David
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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.

Hills Have Eyes, The (2006)

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stanford, Aaron | Quinlan, Kathleen | Shaw, Vinessa | de Ravin, Emilie | Byrd, Dan | Bower, Tom | Drago, Billy | Joy, Robert | Levine, Ted | Askew, Desmond | Buzzington, Ezra | Smith, Michael Bailey | Ortiz, Laura | Nicotero, Gregory | Camilleri Preziosi, Maisie
Directors: Aja, Alexandre
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Wes Craven produces this remake of his 1977 classic of the same name, about the Carters, an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to be empty…or so they thought? When the Carter’s car breaks down at the old site, they’re stranded…or are they? As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually breaking down, might actually be a trap. This trap might be perpetrated by the inhabitants of the site who aren’t pulling a prank, but are out to set up a gruesome massacre.

Tremors (1990)

Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Bacon, Kevin | Ward, Fred | Carter, Finn | Gross, Michael | McEntire, Reba | Jayne, Robert | Stewart, Charlotte | Genaro, Tony | Richards, Ariana | Marcus, Richard | Wong, Victor | Parker, Sunshine | Wagner, Michael Dan | Bachmann, Conrad | Besch, Bibi
Directors: Underwood, Ron
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Val (’Kevin Bacon’ (qv)) and Earl (’Fred Ward (I)’ (qv)) plan to put behind their days as handymen in a small dust bowl town called Perfection. Before they can get to civilization though, they encounter numerous victims of monsters that burrow through the ground. Soon the whole town is camped out on their roofs as Val and Earl lead them to safety.

RV (2006)

Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Hines, Cheryl | Levesque, Joanna 'JoJo' | Hutcherson, Josh | Daniels, Jeff | Chenoweth, Kristin | Parrish, Hunter | Sonnenfeld, Chloe | Ferris, Alex | Arnett, Will | Hale, Tony | Howe, Brian | Cox, Richard Ian | Gair, Erika-Shaye | Sztopa, Veronika
Directors: Sonnenfeld, Barry
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Bob Munro is the dad of a dysfunctional family. He hires an RV to take the family on vacation. However Bob is NOT the best RV steering wheel operator in the neighborhood and the hilarity is added on by the fact that the brakes are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Bob first realizes it when the RV rolls (not literally) backwards into a line of shopping carts. Also Bob’s job is in danger if he doesn’t go to a very important meeting. Before you can say “COME BACK! COME BACK!,” things go gloriously, hilariously, Munro-annoyingly wrong due to the lack of brakes, Bob’s job, toilet waste not cleared out from the last rental and more hilarious stuff.

Traffic (2000)

Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Del Toro, Benicio | Vargas, Jacob | Chavez, Andrew | Saucedo, Michael | Milian, Tomas | Yenque, Jose | Rivera, Emilio | O'Neill, Michael | Douglas, Michael | Jones, Russell G. | Hetherington, Lorene | Collins, Eric | Holden, Beau | Stader, Peter | Lew, James
Directors: Soderbergh, Steven
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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.

Broken Arrow (1996)

Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Slater, Christian | Mathis, Samantha | Lindo, Delroy | Gunton, Bob | Whaley, Frank | Long, Howie | Curtis-Hall, Vondie | Thompson, Jack | Ruginis, Vyto | Elam, Ousaun | Toub, Shaun | Biggs, Casey | Stephen, Jeffrey J. | Box, Joey
Directors: Woo, John
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Major Deakins is a tough U.S. Air Force pilot who is assigned to a flight mission with ‘nice-guy’ Captain Hale. They are to fly the B3 Stealth Bomber on wargame maneuvers over Utah loaded with two live nuclear weapons. Deakins, having been continually passed over for promotion, sells out his country and arranges to use the thermonuclear warheads under his command to blackmail the U.S. government. The only thing standing in his way is his old buddy, Captain Hale….

10,000 BC (2008)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Strait, Steven | Belle, Camilla | Curtis, Cliff | Virgel, Joel | Ben Badra, Affif | Zinal, Mo | Baring, Nathanael | Hammond, Mona | Khan, Marco | Ritchie, Reece | Fry, Joel | Sharif, Omar | Beazley, Kristian | Oliphant, Junior | Tu'u, Louise
Directors: Emmerich, Roland
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A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter named D’Leh’s journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. When a band of mysterious horse-riding warlords raid the Yaghal camp and kidnaps his heart’s desire - the beautiful Evolet along with many others, D’Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters south to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-toothed cats and terror birds in the Levant.

Fast Food Nation (2006)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Valderrama, Wilmer | Moreno, Catalina Sandino | Talancón, Ana Claudia | Serrán, Juan Carlos | Hernández, Armando | Kinnear, Greg | Ertl, Frank | Conway, Michael D. | Baker, Mitch | Salmon, Ellar | Edwards, Dakota | Wheeler-Nicholson, Dana | Guzmán, Luis | Cannavale, Bobby | Rosales, Francisco
Directors: Linklater, Richard
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Don Anderson (Greg Kinnear) is the Mickey’s food restaurant chain’s Marketing Director. He is the inventor of the “Big One” the hamburger best seller of Mickey’s. An independent research reports the presence of cow’s feces in the Big One. So Don is sent to Cody, Colorado, to verify if the slaughterhouse, main supplier of Mickey’s, is efficient as it appears and the production process is regular. During his investigations he discovers the horrible truth behind a simple hamburger; the reality is not like we think it is. Don discovers that the mass production system involves from the temp workers like Amber (Ashley Jonhson), to the exploitation of Mexican irregular immigrants. It is not only the meat that is crush in the mincing machine, but all our society.

21 Grams (2003)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Watts, Naomi | Huston, Danny | Nahon, Carly | Pakis, Claire | Del Toro, Benicio | Nichols, Nick | Gainsbourg, Charlotte | Rubinstein, John | Marsan, Eddie | Salter, Loyd Keith | Harris, Antef A. | Leo, Melissa | Musso, Marc | Delgado, Teresa
Directors: González Iñárritu, Alejandro
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This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers (Penn) an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigré (Gainsbourg), Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan (Del Toro), an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.