Posts Tagged ‘mythological’

Odyssey, The (1997)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | Greece | Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Assante, Armand | Scacchi, Greta | Rossellini, Isabella | Peters, Bernadette | Roberts, Eric | Papas, Irene | Krabbé, Jeroen | Chaplin, Geraldine | Lee, Christopher | Williams, Vanessa | Clay, Nicholas | Anastassopoulos, Adoni | Baeza, Paloma | Cook, Ron | Asato, Reid
Directors: Konchalovsky, Andrei
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This lavish small-screen adaptation of Homer’s ancient epic—replete with exotic Maltese and Turkish locations, state-of-the-art special effects, and many bronzed muscles gleaming with sweat—chronicles the voyage home of a Trojan hero, Odysseus King of Ithaca, and includes many more scenes of his faithful, beautiful wife Penelope dodging leering suitors at home than Homer ever composed!

Event Horizon (1997)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Fishburne, Laurence | Neill, Sam | Quinlan, Kathleen | Richardson, Joely | Jones, Richard T. | Noseworthy, Jack | Isaacs, Jason | Pertwee, Sean | Marinker, Peter | Chant, Holley | Wright, Barclay | Huntley, Noah | Jezek, Robert | Booth, Emily | May, Teresa
Directors: Anderson, Paul W.S.
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A rescue crew in space comes to investigate and if possible, rescue a government spaceship gone missing for seven years. When they board the ship, they learn that the ship has been somewhere beyond space and brought something back with it that is an unspeakable evil.

Hercules (1997)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Heston, Charlton | Donovan, Tate | Keaton, Josh | Bart, Roger | DeVito, Danny | Woods, James | Egan, Susan | Goldthwait, Bob | Frewer, Matt | Torn, Rip | Eggar, Samantha | Barrie, Barbara | Holbrook, Hal | Shaffer, Paul | Plummer, Amanda | Shelley, Carole
Directors: | Clements, Ron | Musker, John
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After Zeus fights and sends the Titans to the underworld, he becomes the ruler of Mount Olympus, home of all greek gods. Hades is sent to rule the underworld, but he makes plans to throw Zeus out of Mount Olympus with the Titans’ help. The three Fates warn him that his plans would be endangered if Hercules, Zeus newborn child, is still around by the time he tries to take over Mount Olympus. Hades sends Pain and Panic to turn Hercules into a mortal and kill him, but they fail in their attempt and leave him on earth with his divine strength to be raised as a human. Hercules grows up but later learns he is the son of gods, and in order to return to Mt. Olympus he must turn into a “true hero”. He is trained by Phil the satyr and becomes the most famous hero in ancient Greece after battling monsters of all kinds. He even saves Mt. Olympus from Hade’s take-over, but he only becomes a god again after he offers to exchange his life in order to save Meg, his love, from Hades’ underworld and shows that a true hero must have a strong heart and not only physical strength.

Face/Off (1997)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Cage, Nicolas | Allen, Joan | Nivola, Alessandro | Gershon, Gina | Swain, Dominique | Cassavetes, Nick | Presnell, Harve | Feore, Colm | Lynch, John Carroll | Pounder, CCH | Wisdom, Robert | Cho, Margaret | Denton, James | Ross, Matt
Directors: Woo, John
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Sean Archer is a government agent who for six years has been trying to apprehend terrorist, Caster Troy, who tried to kill him but ended up killing Archer’s son instead. When Archer corners Troy, Troy tells Archer that he has planted a bomb that will go off, unless he lets him go but Archer thinks that Troy is bluffing so a fight erupts that leaves Troy comatose. But later when they go through some of his brother, Pollux’s things, they discover that Troy was telling the truth. All what they need now is to find out where it is and the only person who knows is Pollux. And the only person that he will talk to about it, is his brother, Caster but unfortunately he is a vegetable. A government official then suggests to Archer that he assume Caster’s identity and ask Pollux about the bomb. So she brings him to a doctor who has perfected a method wherein the face of one individual is removed from him and placed on another. Archer agrees. The operation is a success so Archer as Troy goes to the prison where Pollux is being held and successfully gets him to tell him where the bomb is. Meanwhile, Troy who was believed to be comatose awakens and forces the doctor who operated on Archer to place Archer’s face on him. He then goes to the prison as Archer and taunts Archer by telling him that he has destroyed all documentation of the operation and eliminated everyone who knew about it. He then takes his brother out and leaves Archer in prison. But Archer somehow manages to escape and is now trying to find someone who will believe and help him, while Troy is plotting something.

Ghost Busters (1984)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Murray, Bill | Aykroyd, Dan | Weaver, Sigourney | Ramis, Harold | Moranis, Rick | Potts, Annie | Atherton, William | Hudson, Ernie | Margulies, David | Tash, Steven | Runyon, Jennifer | Jovan, Slavitza | Ensign, Michael | Drummond, Alice | Charney, Jordan
Directors: Reitman, Ivan
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Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler are three scientists at Columbia University in New York City. When their grant expires, the guys are fired and they go into business as a ghost extermination company called “Ghostbusters”. Their first customer is orchestra cello player Dana Barrett, who was scared out of her apartment on the 22nd floor of a high rise apartment building on Central Park West. It seems that Dana’s neighbor, Louis Tully, is also being affected by the strange happenings in the apartment building. Armed with proton guns, the Ghostbusters become wildly popular, and they are joined by Winston Zeddmore, who is looking for a job with good pay. Overzealous Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agent Walter Peck thinks the Ghostbusters are frauds, and he has the Ghostbusters put in jail. Peck is forced to believe the Ghostbusters when New York City is put under siege by an ancient Sumerian God named Gozer the Gozerian, who is channeled through the apartment building that Dana and Louis live in, and the mayor has no choice but to let the Ghostbusters out of jail to face Gozer.

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Duvall, Robert | Brando, Marlon | Sheen, Martin | Forrest, Frederic | Fishburne, Laurence | Bottoms, Sam | Hopper, Dennis | Hall, Albert | Ford, Harrison | Spradlin, G.D. | Ziesmer, Jerry | Glenn, Scott | Byers, Bo | Keane, James | Rossall, Kerry
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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Based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.

Devil’s Advocate, The (1997)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Pacino, Al | Theron, Charlize | Jones, Jeffrey | Ivey, Judith | Nielsen, Connie | Nelson, Craig T. | Tunie, Tamara | Santiago-Hudson, Ruben | Monk, Debra | Ruginis, Vyto | Harrington, Laura | Gray, Pamela | Matarazzo, Heather | Wyner, George
Directors: Hackford, Taylor
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Based on a book by Andrew Neiderman, the film centers on a young lawyer who joins a New York firm only to discover that his boss has an increasingly bizarre personality.