Posts Tagged ‘landlord’

Super, The (1991)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Pesci, Joe | Gardenia, Vincent | Blades, Rubén | Blank, Kenny | Benjamin, Paul | Bodibe, Bhubeshi | NGom, Abdoulaye | Heald, Anthony | Baltzman, Daniel | Hallett, Jack | Rodriquez, Steven | Robinson, Daryl | Johnson, Rynel | Bates, Paul | Margotta, Daniel
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Louie is a New York slum landlord who is given 120 days to repair one of his apartment blocks. The problem for Louie is that he must live in the rundown block until the repairs are complete. Louie’s father is the real boss, and he has no intention of paying for the repairs. This leaves Louie to live in the squaller his tenants endure all year round.

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Lane, Diane | Oh, Sandra | Duncan, Lindsay | Bova, Raoul | Riotta, Vincent | Monicelli, Mario | Nobile, Roberto | Zagaria, Anita | Gori, Evelina | Steigerwalt, Giulia | Szajda, Pawel | Pelka, Valentine | Vulicevic, Sasa | Sarchielli, Massimo | Gerini, Claudia
Directors: Wells, Audrey
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Academy Award nominee ‘Diane Lane (I)’ (qv) stars as ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer’s block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv)’ memoir of the same name.

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.

Long Time Dead (2002)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Newman, Alec | Joe Absolom | Lara Belmont | Melanie Gutteridge | Haas, Lukas | James Hillier
Directors: Marcus Adams
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A group of British students enbark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people who summoned it to die.

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.

Rising Damp (1980)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Rossiter, Leonard | de la Tour, Frances | Elliott, Denholm | Warrington, Don | Strauli, Christopher | Jones, Carrie | Edwards, Glynn | Cater, John | Griffiths, Derek | Brody, Ronnie | Clare, Alan | Cecil, Jonathan | Dean, Bill | Roach, Pat
Directors: McGrath, Joseph
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First broadcast in 1974, the ITV bedsitland sitcom Rising Damp was an instant and enduring success. It starred Leonard Rossiter as the miserly and lovelorn landlord Rigsby who is constantly needling young lodger Alan (Richard Beckinsale), a science student whose long hair and earrings are symptomatic to Rigsby of the parlous effeminacy of the modern age. He’s also in love with Frances De La Tour’s dowdy spinster Miss Jones, though his tentative advances are forever rebuffed. She in turn carries a torch for Philip (Don Warrington), the elegant son of an African chief who also resides at Rigsby Towers.

Some aspects of Rising Damp have not aged well, principally Rigsby’s stream of racist jibes at Philip. Although these were doubtless well-meant and supposed to illustrate Rigsby’s foolish bigotry, you suspect that that was a convenient cover for audiences in the 1970s to enjoy racist humour. However, Rossiter’s Rigsby—stuttering, stammering, bent perpetually over backwards—remains a great comic creation, embodying all the festering prejudices, small-mindedness and self-delusion of the lower middle class Little Englander.

Pacific Heights (1990)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Griffith, Melanie | Modine, Matthew | Keaton, Michael | Mako | McCarthy, Nobu | Metcalf, Laurie | Lumbly, Carl | Harewood, Dorian | Bercovici, Luca | Hedren, Tippi | McCarthy, Sheila | Boyd, Guy | Hardin, Jerry | Hedaya, Dan | Staley, James
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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A yuppie couple buy a large house in an exclusive San Fransisco neighborhood. They renovate it and plan to rent two apartments on the first floor to cover the costs. A prosperous looking man moves in but is not the ideal tenant. He never pays any rent, drives the other tenants away and systematically ruins the lives of his landlords.

Tailor of Panama, The (2001)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Ireland | USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Rush, Geoffrey | Gleeson, Brendan | Curtis, Jamie Lee | McCormack, Catherine |
Directors: Boorman, John
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John LeCarre’s spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador’s mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor (Geoffrey Rush) with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife (Jamie Lee Curtis), who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal. But what the two do is concoct a tremendous fictional tale about former mercenaries who are ready to topple the current government and are willing to work with Britain and the US to do so.

Kung fu (2004)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Fantasy
Countries: China | Hong Kong
Actors: Chow, Stephen | Feng, Xiaogang | Yuen, Wah | Zhi Hua, Dong | Chan, Kwok Kuen | Lam, Chi Chung | Yuen, Qiu | Tin, Kai Man | Jia, Kang Xi | Fung, Stephen | Huang, Sheng Yi | Lam, Suet | Yuen, Cheung-Yan | Chiu, Chi Ling | Xing, Yu
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Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves around a hapless wannabe gangster who aspires to become a member of the notorious “Axe Gang.” Other characters include an obnoxious landlady and her apparently frail husband who exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Maguire, Tobey | Dunst, Kirsten | Franco, James | Church, Thomas Haden | Grace, Topher | Howard, Bryce Dallas | J.K. Simmons | Harris, Rosemary | Cromwell, James | Russell, Theresa | Baker, Dylan | Nunn, Bill | Campbell, Bruce | Robertson, Cliff | Banks, Elizabeth
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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Peter Parker has finally managed to piece together the once-broken parts of his life, maintaining a balance between his relationship with Mary-Jane and his responsibility as Spider-Man. But more challenges arise for our young hero. Peter’s old friend Harry Obsourne has set out for revenge against Peter; taking up the mantle of his late father’s persona as The New Goblin, and Peter must also capture Uncle Ben’s real killer, Flint Marko, who has been transformed into his toughest foe yet, the Sandman. All hope seems lost when suddenly Peter’s suit turns jet-black and greatly amplifies his powers. But it also begins to greatly amplify the much darker qualities of Peter’s personality that he begins to lose himself to. Peter has to reach deep inside himself to free the compassionate hero he used to be if he is to ever conquer the darkness within and face not only his greatest enemies, but also…himself.