Posts Tagged ‘media-coverage’

RoboCop (1987)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Weller, Peter | Allen, Nancy | Dan O'Herlihy | Cox, Ronny | Smith, Kurtwood | Ferrer, Miguel | Robert DoQui | Wise, Ray | Perry, Felton | McCrane, Paul | Goins, Jesse D. | Zamora, Del | Jung, Calvin | Lieberman, Rick | de Broux, Lee
Directors: Verhoeven, Paul
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In a near future, the Motor City known as Detroit slowly becomes the spawn-ground for Crime as a gang of Cop Killers goes on the rise. Private organism, Omni Consomer Products (OCP) eventually seizes control of local law enforcement to ensure a secure an Urban pacification program. Just assigned to the Metro West Precint, Officer Alex Murphy is massacred to death by this gang, as his partner Anne Lewis is barely able to do nothing. At the same time, a young visionary executive, Bob Morton, seizes the chance when the ED-209 law enforcement Droid shows lack of perfection by killing a fellow executive to create the Perfect Cop. The near death Murphy is used as the subject. With his memories erased, he is resurrected as Robocop, the future of law enforcement. As he sweeps away with crime, case by case, he eventually becomes involved with the Cop Killing Gang, and Anne Lewis herself. All of this, triggering his dormant memories of his past life as he searches for who he really is, and uncover a conspiracy going deep in OCP with the Senior Vice President himself.

Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Willis, Bruce | Rubinek, Saul | Freeman, Morgan | Hancock, John | Dunn, Kevin | James, Clifton | Giambalvo, Louis | Heyman, Barton | Parker, Norman | Moffat, Donald | King, Alan | Fuller, Kurt | LeFevre, Adam | Libertini, Richard
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Financial “Master of the Universe” Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | White, Michael Jai | Berkeley, Xander | Justin Lazard | von Bargen, Daniel | Black, James | Goldberg, Bill | Anderson, Brent | Hinkley, Brent | Watson, Woody | Williamson, Sam | Culberson, Dion | Berry, Josh | Dalton, Mark | Hamilton, Roger
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Universal Soldier II continues the story of Luc Deveraux, who has survived his experiences as a Universal Soldier, recovered, and is now working as a technical expert on a government project to revive and improve the Universal Soldier training program. When S.E.T.H., the supercomputer controlling the Soldiers, goes haywire and takes over, Luc is the only one who can battle this elite team of deadly, near-perfect warriors.

Magnum Force (1973)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Holbrook, Hal | Mitchell, Ryan | Soul, David | Matheson, Tim | Niven, Kip | Urich, Robert | Perry, Felton | Argent, Maurice | Avery, Margaret | Devon, Richard | Giorgio, Tony | Kosslyn, Jack | March, Bob | McClurg, Bob
Directors: Post, Ted
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San Francisco Police Inspector ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan and his new partner, Early Smith have been temporarily reassigned from Homicide to Stakeout Duty. Meanwhile, those of the city’s criminals who manage to avoid punishment by the courts are nevertheless being killed by unknown assassins. Callahan begins to investigate the murders despite the orders of his superior officer, Lieutenant Briggs. A man has to know his limitations…

Dead Pool, The (1988)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Neeson, Liam | Kim, Evan C. | Hunt, David | Currie, Michael | Goodwin, Michael | Gillett, Darwin | Charnota, Anthony | Beale, Christopher P. | Vick, John Allen | Richmond, Jeff | Van Horn, Patrick | Carrey, Jim | Love, Nicholas | Heart, John X.
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After Harry’s arrest of a gambling kingpin results in a conviction for murder, a group of thugs shoot up Harry’s car and try to kill him. Harry overpowers them and is paired with a new partner, Insp. Al Quan (Evan Kim). Within days of this assignment Harry and Al find themselves working on a mysterious death of a rock star, who was on location filming a movie directed by Peter Swan (Liam Neeson). After one of Swan’s crew is killed in a Chinatown robbery that is foiled by Al & Harry, Al discovers a list of celebrities on the dead man that includes the dead rock star and one Inspector Harry Callahan. They soon discover that this is part of a strange game called the Dead Pool, and it isn’t long before other people on the list turn up dead…and someone starts making attempts on Harry’s life…

Ricochet (1991)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Lithgow, John | Ice-T | Pollak, Kevin | Wagner, Lindsay | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Evans, Josh | Dillard, Victoria | Amos, John | Cothran Jr., John | Dona, Linda | Landers, Matt | Cheshier, Lydell M. | DuPois, Starletta | Howard, Sherman
Directors: Mulcahy, Russell
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Rookie Los Angeles cop Nick Styles is at a Los Angeles street fair, where hit man Earl Talbot Blake pulls a double cross on some drug dealers, killing four men. Minutes later, Nick shoots Blake in the knee, and Blake is grabbed by Nick’s partner and best friend Larry Doyle. Nick becomes the focus of the media, thanks to an amateur cameraman’s footage of Nick disarming Blake. Over the next few years, Nick’s career takes off: he’s offered a job in the district attorney’s office, and his hip media style keeps him in the public eye. Nick marries a woman named Alice and they go on to have two daughters named Lisa and Monica. While Blake is in prison, he vows revenge on Nick. When Blake comes up for parole, he orchestrates a bloody escape — which includes faking his own death. Blake doesn’t want Nick dead. He just wants Nick to suffer in spades. He wants to ruin Nick’s life as completely as possible, and then have Nick sent to prison for murder so Nick will know how Blake feels. Blake begins his vendetta by killing city councilman U. B. Farris and planting evidence to make everyone think Nick and Farris are running an underage pornography ring. Blake then kidnaps Nick, forces him to take drugs and have sex with a prostitute, videotapes the whole thing, and then releases Nick. Nick tells everyone that it was Blake who kidnapped him, but everyone refuses to believe Nick because everyone thinks Blake is dead. That night, Blake breaks into Nick’s house, and makes a threatening videotape with Lisa, Monica, and an ax in it, but Blake didn’t actually do anything to Lisa and Monica. Nick is then suspended from the DA’s office, with everyone thinking that Nick is mentally ill because he keeps saying that Blake is still alive. Blake then begins the final phase of his vendetta — he kills Larry and frames Nick for it. Blake also links Nick to misappropriation of public funds, specifically, the funds he’s supposed to be raising for a children’s center in a building at the base of the Watts tower. Nick is forced to turn to his childhood friend, gang leader Odessa, for help in clearing his name and stopping Blake once and for all.

Roger & Me (1989)

Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Blanchard, James | Bond, James | Boone, Pat | Eubanks, Bob | Hamper, Ben | Jackson, Timothy | Kay, Tom | Koppel, Ted | Lennox, Correy | MacDonald, Brian | Rather, Dan | Reagan, Ronald | Ross, Fred | Sawdon, Richard Earl
Directors: Moore, Michael
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A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.

Scary Movie (2000)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Oteri, Cheri | Wayans, Shawn | Munro, Lochlyn | Fuller, Kurt | Electra, Carmen | Sheridan, Dave | Moore, Frank B. | Baessato, Giacomo | Graham, Kyle | Santos, Leanne | McConchie, Mark | Kruper, Karen | Faris, Anna | Abrahams, Jon | Ducommun, Rick | Hall, Regina | Wayans, Marlon | Elizabeth, Shannon | Berry, Lloyd
Directors: Wayans, Keenen Ivory
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A parody of modern horror films about a group of teenagers who are being terrorised by a serial killer. Some of the send-ups include: “Scream”, “I Know What You Did Last Summer”, “The Blair Witch Project”, “The Sixth Sense” and “The Matrix”.

Die Hard (1988)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | VelJohnson, Reginald | Johnson, Reginald | Bedelia, Bonnie | Godunov, Alexander | Gleason, Paul | Atherton, William | White, De'voreaux | Bochner, Hart | Rickman, Alan | Hayden, Dennis | Gilyard Jr., Clarence | Doyon, Bruno | Wisniewski, Andreas | Shigeta, James | Davi, Robert
Directors: McTiernan, John
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New York cop John McClane, who has been a cop for 11 years, has just arrived in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. For the past six months, John’s wife Holly and their two kids Lucy McClane and John McClane Jr have been living in Los Angeles without John. In New York, Holly had a good job that turned into a career, and Holly was promoted to a powerful position in the Nakatomi Corporation. The promotion called for Holly to move to Los Angeles to work in the Nakatomi Plaza, a 40 story building. John stayed in New York because he didn’t think Holly would make it out in Los Angeles, and that she would come crawling back to him in New York, so John figured that there was no reason to pack his things for the move to Los Angeles. A limo driver named Argyle drives John to the Nakatomi Plaza, and John heads to the 30th floor, where a Christmas party is going on. John gets into an argument with Holly in the office of her drug-snorting co-worker Harry Ellis because Holly uses her maiden name Gennero instead of the name McClane on her nameplate in her office. Holly leaves the room to give a speech. While John is by himself in the office, John is wishing that the argument hadn’t happened. A few minutes later, a group of German terrorists led by Hans Gruber and his right hand man Karl enter the building and take everyone hostage on the 30th floor. John is able to avoid being taken hostage because Hans and his men don’t even know that John is in the building. John heads to the upper floors, which are still under construction. Hans takes Holly’s boss Joseph Yashinobo Takagi to an office, where Hans demands that Takagi give him the computer code key that will allow Hans and his men to start opening the building’s safe so they can steal the $640,000,000 in negotiable bearer bonds that are in the safe. Takagi refuses to cooperate with Hans, so Hans kills Takagi, and John witnesses it. Hans tells his technology expert Theo to start working on getting the safe opened, and Theo thinks it’ll take a couple of hours to do it. John frantically tries to find a way to alert the LAPD, realizing that the main phone lines in the building have been cut. Once the police do arrive, they prove to be incompetent under the command of arrogant deputy chief Dwayne T. Robinson, so it’s up to John to rescue the hostages.

Return to Paradise (1998)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Vaughn, Vince | Heche, Anne | Phoenix, Joaquin | Conrad, David | Farmiga, Vera | Sandow, Nick | Pinkett Smith, Jada | Lee, Ming | de la Fuente, Joel | Chang, Richard | McCauley, James Michael | Friese, Brettanya | Yusoff, Deanna | Zayas, David | Wong, Amy
Directors: Ruben, Joseph
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Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three American guys who meet and hang out one summer at the beach huts of Malaysia. There they enjoy the luxuries of women, rum and hashish. As the summer ends, Tony and Sheriff go back to New York, but Lewis decides to go to Borneo to help save the orangutan. But before he got the chance to leave, he was arrested for possession of the leftover hash and sentenced to death because he was considered to be trafficking. Two years go by and Sheriff and Tony are living their lives peacefully in The Big Apple when Lewis’ lawyer tells them the news: three years each if they both go, six years if one goes, Lewis’ death if neither go. Although they both do not want Lewis to die, they do not know him well enough to really want to sacrifice three years of their life to a Third-World prison. “Return to Paradise” watches Sheriff and Tony as they struggle to decide in the short period of time.