Posts Tagged ‘leech’

Sleeping Dictionary, The (2003)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Alba, Jessica | Blethyn, Brenda | Dancy, Hugh | Hoskins, Bob | Ian, Christopher Ling Lee | Inocian, Junix | Jessing Langgi, Michael | Maniam, Mano | Moggie, K.K. | Mortimer, Emily | Richard, Cicilia Anak | Rogers, Malcolm | Salleh, Eugene | Taylor, Noah | White, Kate Helen
Directors: Jenkin, Guy
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In 1936, the expatriated young and naive just-graduated British John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) arrives to the Sarawak, a British colony, to work in the Iban society. The beautiful Selima (Jessica Alba) is assigned to be his “sleeping dictionary”, to live and sleep with him and teach him the language and habits of the locals. The reluctant John and Selima fall in love for each other in a forbidden romance.

Stand by Me (1986)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Wheaton, Wil | River Phoenix | Feldman, Corey | O'Connell, Jerry | Sutherland, Kiefer | Siemaszko, Casey | Riley, Gary | Gregg, Bradley | Oliver, Jason | Bell, Marshall | McCain, Frances Lee | Kirby, Bruce | Bronder, William | Beach, Scott | Dreyfuss, Richard
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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Unable to grasp the fact of his brother’s death, Gordie Lachance feels compelled to travel with three friends to see a dead body that has been found near the railroad tracks.

Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)

Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror
Countries: Canada
Actors: Isabelle, Katharine | Perkins, Emily | Nathaniel Arcand | Bourne, JR | Dillon, Hugh | Dorval, Adrien | Fletcher, Brendan | La Haye, David | McCamus, Tom | Walker, Matthew | Bird, Fabian | Jarrett, Kirk | MacInnis, David | Mitchell, Stevie | Rain, Edna
Directors: Harvey, Grant
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Prequal to ‘Ginger Snaps’ has the orphaned sisters Ginger and Brigette, before becoming werewolves, in 1815 Canada where they stumble into a war between Native American “Wendigos” besieging a remote trading post populated by brutal settlers.

Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Holden, William | Hawkins, Jack | Guinness, Alec | Hayakawa, Sessue | Donald, James | Horne, Geoffrey | Morell, André | Williams, Peter | Boxer, John | Herbert, Percy | Goodwin, Harold | Sears, Ann | Okawa, Heihachiro | Katsumoto, Keiichiro | Chakrabandhu, M.R.B.
Directors: Lean, David
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The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.

African Queen, The (1951)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Hepburn, Katharine | Morley, Robert | Bull, Peter | Bikel, Theodore | Gotell, Walter | Swanwick, Peter | Marner, Richard | John, Errol | Onn, Gerald | von Kotze, John
Directors: Huston, John
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At the start of World War 1, Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer, The African Queen, to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When the Rev. Samuel Sayer dies, Charlie agrees to take Sayers’ sister, Rose, back to civilization. taking on the Germans at the same time.

Rescue Dawn (2006)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Bell, Marshall | Chau, François | Davies, Jeremy | Gellis, Craig | GQ | Grenier, Zach | Healy, Pat | Huss, Toby | Hutchinson, Bonnie Z. | Jones, Evan | Jusakul, Abhijati 'Meuk' | King, Mr. Tony B. | Manning, Mr. Richard | Melich, Mr. Garrett D.
Directors: Herzog, Werner
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This film tells the real-life story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, a German-American shot down and captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. Dengler organized a death-defying escape for a small band of POWs, including Duane Martin.

Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Skarsgård, Stellan | Scorupco, Izabella | D'Arcy, James | Sweeney, Remy | Wadham, Julian | French, Andrew | Brown, Ralph | Cross, Ben | Bradley, David | Ford, Alan | Kamerling, Antonie | Osei, Eddie | Aduramo, Israel | O'Kane, Patrick | Bellamy, James
Directors: Harlin, Renny
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Father Lankester Merrin thinks that he has glimpsed the face of Evil. In the years following World War II, Merrin is relentlessly haunted by memories of the unspeakable brutality perpetrated against the innocent people of his parish during the War. In the wake of all the horror he has seen, both his faith in his fellow man and his faith in the Almighty have deserted him, and he can no longer honestly call himself a man of God. Merrin has traveled far from his native Holland in a desperate attempt to try to forget and escape all the evil that he had witnessed there. While currently in Cairo, Egypt, he is approached by a collector of rare antiquities and asked to participate in a British archeological excavation in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. They have unearthed something extraordinary and unusual…a Christian Byzantine church dating from the 5th century, long before Christianity arrived in East Africa, and in inexplicably perfect condition–like it had been buried immediately after it was completed. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find an ancient relic hidden within the church before the British do. Interested, Merrin agrees to take the job. But beneath the church, something much older and malevolent sleeps, waiting to be awoken. When the archeologists start excavating, strange things begin occuring, and the local Turkana tribesmen who were hired to work refuse to enter the site. Things only get worse and worse, ultimately resulting in madness and death. Merrin watches helplessly as the atrocities of war are repeated against another innocent village–atrocities he had hoped and prayed never to see again. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, but the horror has only just begun. In the place where Evil was born, Merrin will finally see its true face.

Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Murray, Bill | Wilson, Owen | Blanchett, Cate | Huston, Anjelica | Dafoe, Willem | Goldblum, Jeff | Gambon, Michael | Taylor, Noah | Cort, Bud | Jorge, Seu | Cohen, Robyn | Ahluwalia, Waris | Koizumi, Niels | Wdowczak, Pawel | Gubler, Matthew Gray
Directors: Anderson, Wes
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Steve Zissou, sea-film auteur a la Jacques Cousteau, has reason to be melancholy: his partner has been eaten, perhaps by a mythic jaguar shark, his wife may be taking up with her ex-husband, a young man appears claiming Steve is his father (Steve hates fathers), his most recent films have tanked, he’s having trouble raising money for his venture to revenge his partner, and he’s attracted to a pregnant reporter who prefers the pretender. At sea, in pursuit of the shark, will he escape pirates and mutiny, forge the bonds of fatherhood, place his arm around his wife, find the monster of the deep, re-establish box office hegemony, and discover a reason to smile?

Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bullock, Sandra | Patric, Jason | Dafoe, Willem | Morrison, Temuera | McCardie, Brian | Firkins, Christine | Hagerty, Michael G. | Camp, Colleen | Chiles, Lois | Guinan, Francis | Tamia | Hotz, Jeremy | Murciano, Enrique | Diz, Jessica | Ray, Connie
Directors: Bont, Jan de
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Annie and her policeman boyfriend Alex decide to take a romantic ocean cruise together. Once at sea, however, one of the passengers, a disgruntled computer genius named Giger, disables the ship. Alex must now foil Giger’s plans and bring everyone back safely to shore, but how can he outwit a man who can control the entire ship from his keyboard?

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Aiken, Liam | Browning, Emily | Hoffman, Kara | Hoffman, Shelby | Law, Jude | Spall, Timothy | | Connolly, Billy | Streep, Meryl | Guzmán, Luis | Harris, Jamie | Ferguson, Craig | Coolidge, Jennifer | Adams, Jane
Directors: Silberling, Brad
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Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are three intelligent young children who receive terrible news that their parents have died in a fire and have left them an enormous fortune not to be used until the eldest child is of age. When they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a greedy distant relative, they soon learn he is trying to steal their fortune for himself.