Posts Tagged ‘gunfire’

Frida (2002)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Canada | Mexico | USA
Actors: Hayek, Salma | Maestro, Mía | Zapata, Amelia | Usigli, Alejandro | Luna, Diego | Molina, Alfred | Bravo, Lucia | Golino, Valeria | Reyes Spíndola, Patricia | Navarro, Loló | Rees, Roger | Martínez, Fermín | Medina, Roberto | Judd, Ashley | Banderas, Antonio
Directors: Taymor, Julie
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“Frida” chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

Heist (2001)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Rockwell, Sam | Hackman, Gene | DeVito, Danny | Lindo, Delroy | Acker, Ricky | Pidgeon, Rebecca
Directors: Mamet, David
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David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don’t. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman’s youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected.

Sexy Beast (2000)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Spain | UK
Actors: Winstone, Ray | Kingsley, Ben | McShane, Ian | Fox, James | Kendall, Cavan | Monje, Álvaro | Atiko, Robert | Fabrega, Enrique Alemán | Barray, Gérard | Cano Ramos, José Maria | Munoz, Santiago Frias | Hernández, José | Lucas, Andy | Ramos, José Lirola | López Carrillo, José
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Spain. Gal has retired from the gangster life, and is sunning himself placidly beside the pool at his villa when a boulder comes crashing by, barely missing him. Soon, he and his pal Aitch, together with their wives Deedee and Jackie, are being threatened by a human boulder, Don Logan. Logan wants Gal for a high stakes vault break-in in London (masterminded by the cool and suave Teddy Bass), and he will not take no for an answer. Nevertheless, that’s exactly the answer Gal keeps giving him, even as Don gets more and more threatening. Meanwhile, Gal is plagued by dreams of a menacing, hairy beast. Just how far will Don (and Gal) go in this battle of wills? And what of Enrique, the pool boy?

American History X (1998)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Norton, Edward | Furlong, Edward | D'Angelo, Beverly | Brooks, Avery | Lien, Jennifer | Suplee, Ethan | Keach, Stacy | Balk, Fairuza | Gould, Elliott | Torry, Guy | Russ, William | Cortese, Joseph | Smith, Jason Bose | Lyons, Antonio David | Sol, Alex
Directors: Kaye, Tony
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A Neo Nazi skinhead, named Derek Vineyard (Edward Norton) goes to jail for 3 years after committing a murder of 2 black guys. In the meanwhile, his younger brother, Danny Vineyard (Edward Furlong) goes in the same way and makes the same mistakes (racism and hatred) his eldest brother did (this is the result of the Neo Nazi environment he grows up into, and the influence Derek left behind). While Derek is in jail he realize that he choose the wrong path. after coming back from jail, Derek try to convince his brother not to go in his own way.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Sizemore, Tom | Burns, Edward | Pepper, Barry | Goldberg, Adam | Diesel, Vin | Ribisi, Giovanni | Davies, Jeremy | Damon, Matt | Danson, Ted | Giamatti, Paul | Farina, Dennis | Stadler, Joerg | Martini, Steven | Bruno, Dylan
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother…

Others, The (2001)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Spain | USA
Actors: Kidman, Nicole | Flanagan, Fionnula | Eccleston, Christopher | Alakina Mann | Bentley, James | Sykes, Eric | Elaine Cassidy | Asherson, Renée | Reid, Gordon | Allen, Keith | Fairley, Michelle | Vince, Alexander | López, Ricardo | Grilo, Aldo
Directors: Alejandro Amenábar
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A woman named Grace (Kidman) is living with her two children Anne and Nicholas (Mann and Bentley) on an almost empty island in their huge mansion. Grace’s husband is a soldier in WWII and Grace has given her husband up for dead. Everything seems peaceful for her, but when three mysterious servants are given jobs at the house, terrifying secrets are unlocked that even Grace cannot handle.

Woman in Green, The (1945)

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Rathbone, Basil | Bruce, Nigel | Brooke, Hillary | Daniell, Henry | Cavanagh, Paul | Boulton, Matthew | Amber, Eve | Worlock, Frederick | Bryson, Tom | Shepherd, Sally | Gordon, Mary | Burton, John | De Becker, Harold | Denison, Leslie | Ellis, Tony
Directors: Neill, Roy William
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Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamoruos woman. The fiendish Dr Moriarty, though reported hanged in Montevideo, is belived to be involved.

Misérables, Les (1998)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Neeson, Liam | Rush, Geoffrey | Thurman, Uma | Danes, Claire | Matheson, Hans | Brynolfsson, Reine | Vaughan, Peter | Adamson, Christopher | Barlow, Tim | Bateson, Timothy | Birkin, David | Chalupa, Václav | Cregg, Ian | Crompton, Ben | David, Zdenek
Directors: August, Bille
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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Milland, Ray | Wayne, John | Goddard, Paulette | Massey, Raymond | Preston, Robert | Overman, Lynne | Hayward, Susan | Bickford, Charles | Hampden, Walter | Beavers, Louise | O'Driscoll, Martha | Risdon, Elisabeth | Hopper, Hedda | Kilian, Victor | Polk, Oscar
Directors: DeMille, Cecil B.
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In 1840, there’s work on the Florida Keys for honest salvagers (like the Claibornes) and outright pirates like King Cutler, who bribes sailors to cause wrecks. When Capt. Stuart’s ship is wrecked, Loxi Claiborne rescues him, falls for him, and travels to Charleston to convince the owners the wreck wasn’t his fault; company lawyer Steve Tolliver returns with them to Key West to investigate. Tolliver and Stuart’s rivalry for Loxi’s hand complicates their swashbuckling adventures in pursuit of Cutler, ending in a trial and a dangerous dive for evidence.

Murder by Numbers (2002)

Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bullock, Sandra | Chaplin, Ben | Gosling, Ryan | Pitt, Michael | Bruckner, Agnes | Penn, Chris | Call, R.D. | Verica, Tom | Brenn, Janni | Vickery, John | Canavan, Michael | Carpenter, Krista | Matarazzo, Neal | Barnes, Adilah | Jansen, Jim
Directors: Schroeder, Barbet
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Murder By Numbers is a psychological suspense-thriller that tells the story of a tenacious homicide detective, Cassie Mayweather (’Sandra Bullock’ (qv)) and her new partner Sam Kennedy (’Ben Chaplin’ (qv)) who become pitted against two malevolently brilliant young men (’Ryan Gosling (I)’ (qv) and ‘Michael Pitt (II)’ (qv)) in an ingenious battle of wits as they try to solve a murder case.