Posts Tagged ‘idealism’

V for Vendetta (2005)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Portman, Natalie | Weaving, Hugo | Rea, Stephen | Fry, Stephen | Hurt, John | Pigott-Smith, Tim | Graves, Rupert | Allam, Roger | Miles, Ben | Cusack, Sinéad | Wightman, Natasha | Standing, John | Marsan, Eddie | Ashborn, Clive | Field-Rayner, Emma
Directors: McTeigue, James
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The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that’s a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.

Hero (2002)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: China | Hong Kong
Actors: Li, Jet | Leung Chiu Wai, Tony | Cheung, Maggie | Zhang, Ziyi | Chen, Daoming | Yen, Donnie | Yuan, Liu Zhong | Yong, Zheng Tia | Qin, Yan | Xiao Yang, Chang | Ya Kun, Zhang | Hua, Ma Wen | Ming, Jin | Hua, Xu Kuang | Xin, Wang Shou
Directors: Zhang, Yimou
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In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin’s three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.

Once Upon a Time in China II (1992)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Romance
Countries: Hong Kong
Actors: Li, Jet | Chiang, David | Fonoroff, Paul | Ho, Ka-Kui | Mok, Siu Chung | Xiong, Xin Xin | Yen, Donnie | Yen, Shi-Kwan | Kwan, Rosamund
Directors: Tsui, Hark
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In this sequel, martial arts expert Wong Fei-Hung faces Kung, a mercenary rival with skills to equal his own. In addition, Canton is convulsed by a struggle between the local representatives of the Chinese government and Europeans who want to control China, and Wong ends up in the middle of this fight. He is again assisted by young Chung, and again must protect Aunt Yee, his young, Westernized aunt-by-adoption with whom Wong has fallen in love. He also ends up with school-full of small children to protect!

Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Rennie | Neal, Patricia | Marlowe, Hugh | Jaffe, Sam | Gray, Billy | Bavier, Frances | Martin, Lock | Davis, Elmer | Kaltenborn, H.V. | Pearson, Drew | Heatter, Gabriel | Bane, Holly | Bradford, Marshall | Brown, John | Burton, John
Directors: Wise, Robert
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A flying saucer orbits the 1950s Earth. It lands in Washington, DC, on the Mall. The lone occupant steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. Gort, a large and very powerful robot appears to save him and is able to melt tanks with the slightest bit of his power. The wounded alien orders Gort to stop his rampage and is taken to a hospital from which he escapes in order to learn more about this planet, even moving in as a boarder with an Earth family. When they begin to suspect him, he reveals himself, along with the news that Gort is a member of a race of super-robot enforcers invented to keep the peace of the galaxy that will destroy the Earth if provoked.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Furlong, Edward | Patrick, Robert | Boen, Earl | Morton, Joe | Merkerson, S. Epatha | Guerra, Castulo | Cooksey, Danny | Goldstein, Jenette | Berkeley, Xander | Hamilton, Linda | Gibbel, Ken | Winley, Robert | Schrum, Peter
Directors: Cameron, James
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Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.

Transformers (2007)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: LaBeouf, Shia | Fox, Megan | Duhamel, Josh | Taylor, Rachael | Gibson, Tyrese | Voight, Jon | Anderson, Anthony | Turturro, John | O'Neill, Michael | Cullen, Peter | Bodin, Charlie | Caldwell, Andrew | Cox, Bryan | David, Keith | Doss, Frederic
Directors: Bay, Michael
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A long time ago, far away on the planet of Cybertron, a war was being waged between the noble Autobots (led by the wise Optimus Prime) and the devious Decepticons (commanded by the dreaded Megatron) for control over the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessed it. The Autobots managed to smuggle the Allspark off the planet, but Megatron blasted off in search of it. He eventually tracked it to the planet of Earth (circa 1850), but his reckless desire for power sent him right into the Arctic Ocean, and the sheer cold forced him into a paralyzed state. His body was later found by Captain Archibald Witwicky, and before going into a comatose state Megatron used the last of his energy to engrave a map, showing the location of the Allspark, into the Captain’s glasses, and send a transmission to Cybertron. He is then carted away by the Captain’s ship. A century later, Sam Witwicky, nicknamed Spike by his friends, buys his first car. To his shock, he discovers it to be Bumblebee, an Autobot in disguise who is to protect Spike, as he bears the Captain’s glasses and the map carved on them. But Bumblebee is not the only Transformer to have arrived on Earth - in the desert of Qatar, the Decepticons Blackout and Scorponok attack a U.S. military base, causing the Pentagon to send their special Sector Seven agents to capture all “specimens of this alien race,” and Spike and his girlfriend Mikaela find themselves in the middle of a grand battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons, stretching from Hoover Dam all the way to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, within the depths of Hoover Dam, the cryogenically stored form of Megatron awakens…

Children of Men (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Yacuzzi, Juan Gabriel | Hussain, Michelle | Curling, Rob | Chevalier, Jon | Davies, Rita | Fenton, Kim | Gilbert, Chris | Hawthorne, Phoebe | Howard, Rebecca | White, Atalanta | Woodbridge, Laurence | Owen, Clive | McErlane, Maria | Haughey, Michael | Sharma, Paul
Directors: Cuarón, Alfonso
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With this dystopian world ravished by war, paranoia and the frustrations of Man the Orwellian vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian future is now complete and amongst us. With female fertility becoming obsolete, Man cannot reproduce, and no child has been born on the face of the planet for eighteen years. Man, and his future, is dying. Soon he shall be extinct. Theo, the beaten, downtrodden and middle-aged ex-political activist will, unwittingly, become involved in a war of an underground revolt. Here he is active once more, in the perilous journey across England’s Home Counties, with a young girl, Kee, who, to Theo’s bewilderment is pregnant. The first pregnant woman for more than eighteen years. This secret must be protected, at all cost, and mother and child must flee to the mysterious and enigmatic Human Project, across the seas. Their flight is a constant fight for survival. Who can be trusted? Who can keep a secret?

American Pie (1999)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Biggs, Jason | Klein, Chris | Nicholas, Thomas Ian | Hannigan, Alyson | Elizabeth, Shannon | Reid, Tara | Thomas, Eddie Kaye | Scott, Seann William | Lyonne, Natasha | Levy, Eugene | Suvari, Mena | Owen, Chris | Coolidge, Jennifer | Cheek, Molly | Pressman, Lawrence
Directors: Weitz, Chris | Weitz, Paul
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At a high-school party, four friends (Jim, Kevin, Finch, and Oz) find that losing their collective virginity isn’t as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to try to be the first to “score.” And of course, the senior prom is their last best chance. As the fateful date draws near, the boys wonder who among them will get lucky. More importantly, do they really want to do it at all?

Superman Returns (2006)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Routh, Brandon | Bosworth, Kate | Spacey, Kevin | Marsden, James | Posey, Parker | Langella, Frank | Huntington, Sam | Saint, Eva Marie | Brando, Marlon | Penn, Kal | Leabu, Tristan Lake | Fabrizio, David | Roberts, Ian | Stone, Vincent | Larson, Jack
Directors: Singer, Bryan
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After eliminating General Zod & the other Kryptonian arch-villains, Ursa & Non, Superman leaves Earth to try to find his former home world of Krypton after astronomers have supposedly found it. When he finds nothing but remnants, he returns home to Earth - to find out that Lois Lane is engaged to a relative of his boss, and that Lex Luthor is at it again - after swindling an elderly, terminally ill woman. The psychopathic Luthor, whose plans to destroy California failed because of Superman’s heroics, vows vengeance against the Man of Steel and contrives a new sinister plot - using the crystals of Krypton to build a continent that will wipe out most of North America! Embedded in the continent’s structure is Kryptonite - the lethal substance that is Superman’s only weakness. Upon learning of Luthro’s sinister scheme, Superman must again race against time to stop the psychopathic Luthor before millions - possibly billions - are killed.

Mr. Deeds (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandler, Adam | Ryder, Winona | Turturro, John | Covert, Allen | Gallagher, Peter | Harris, Jared | Avari, Erick | Dante, Peter | Ferrell, Conchata | Presnell, Harve | Buscemi, Steve | Clark, Blake | McEnroe, John | Smoove, J.B. | McNulty, Tom
Directors: Brill, Steven
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When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds. Of course, Deeds’ sincere naiveté has Babe falling in love with him instead. Ultimately, Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things, but it doesn’t necessarily need to change him.