Posts Tagged ‘news-reporter’

He Was a Quiet Man (2007)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Slater, Christian | Gulager, John | Jones, Jamison | DeLuise, Michael | Ramsey, K.C. | Wells, David | Mantooth, Randolph | Whitney, Sewell | Macy, William H. | Baker, Greg | Lohmann, Brian | Roberts, Paul D. | Hardy, Bobby | Rothbard, Bill | Hall, Stanley C.
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A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he’s screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?

Vantage Point (2008)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Quaid, Dennis | Fox, Matthew | Whitaker, Forest | McGill, Bruce | Ramirez, Edgar | Taghmaoui, Saïd | Hurt, William | LeGros, James | Noriega, Eduardo | Jones, Richard T. | McCallany, Holt | Nam, Leonardo | Sundquist, Justin | O'Bryan, Sean | Rodríguez, José Carlos
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The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.

Howling, The (1981)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wallace, Dee | Macnee, Patrick | Dugan, Dennis | Stone, Christopher | Balaski, Belinda | McCarthy, Kevin | Carradine, John | Pickens, Slim | Brooks, Elisabeth | Picardo, Robert | Impert, Margie | Willingham, Noble | Murtaugh, James | McKrell, Jim | Tobey, Kenneth
Directors: Dante, Joe
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There is a serial killer on the loose, Karen White is the only reporter he communicates with. After a near fatal encounter with him at a Pussycat Theater, she is ordered to take a vacation. Eddie was killed by Police, but Karen doesn’t want to let it go and discovers that he came from a tiny community in the woods and that’s where she decides to vacation with boyfriend Chris. Big mistake, because Eddie was an outcast of a pack of Werewolves who is trying to keep a low profile and doesn’t want any interviews. Can Karen and Chris escape the village of the wolf?

Dogma (1999)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Rock, Chris | Hayek, Salma | Rickman, Alan | Morissette, Alanis | Cort, Bud | Hackney, Barret | Pfennigwerth, Jared | Sakurai, Kitao | Carlin, George | Aberlin, Betty | Damon, Matt | Affleck, Ben | Etheridge, Dan | Fiorentino, Linda | Milosavljevic, Derek | Braden, Lesley | O'Halloran, Brian | O'Brien, Marie Elena | Garofalo, Janeane
Directors: Smith, Kevin
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The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and prevent the angels from entering Heaven.

Scream (1996)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arquette, David | Campbell, Neve | Cox, Courteney | Ulrich, Skeet | McGowan, Rose | Lillard, Matthew | Kennedy, Jamie | Brown, W. Earl | Barrymore, Drew | Whipp, Joseph | Hecht, Lawrence | Jackson, Roger | Booth, David | Schreiber, Liev | Walls, Kevin Patrick
Directors: Craven, Wes
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A teenage girl (Neve Campbell) becomes the target of a killer who has stalked and killed one of her classmates. A tabloid news reporter (Courtney Cox) is determined to uncover the truth, insisting that the man who raped and killed Campbell’s mother one year earlier is the same man who is terrorizing her now. Campbell’s boyfriend (Skeet Ulrich) becomes the prime suspect.

Message in a Bottle (1999)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Wright Penn, Robin | Newman, Paul | Savage, John | Douglas, Illeana | Coltrane, Robbie | James, Jesse | Leslie, Bethel | Aldredge, Tom | Davis, Viveka | Sbarge, Raphael | Hamilton, Richard | Murphy, Rosemary | Eckholdt, Steven | Brightbill, Susan
Directors: Mandoki, Luis
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A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move on and find happiness.

Pay It Forward (2000)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Somalia
Actors: Spacey, Kevin | Hunt, Helen | Osment, Haley Joel | Mohr, Jay | Caviezel, James | Bon Jovi, Jon | Dickinson, Angie | Ramsey, David | Werntz, Gary | Flynn, Colleen | Donato, Marc | Wilhoite, Kathleen | Snyder, Liza | Arnette, Jeanetta | Werntz, Hannah
Directors: Leder, Mimi
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A school social studies assignment leads to social changes that spread from city-to-city. Assigned to come up with some idea that will improve mankind, a young boy (Haley Joel Osment) decides that if he can do three good deeds for someone and they in turn can “pay it forward” and so forth, positive changes can occur. What appears to initially be a failure, is indeed a success that is not immediately known but is traced backwards by a reporter who is a benefactor. The initial recipients of the boy are a drug addict (James Cavaziel), his badly scarred school teacher (Kevin Spacey), and his alcoholic mother (Helen Hunt). While physically and mentally scarred by past events, the teacher is not the only one bearing scars. The young boy fears his mother’s fate, particularly at his brutal, alcoholic father’s (Jon Bon Jovi) hands. The mother also bears scars from her childhood with a homeless, alcoholic mother (Angie Dickinson).

Laramie Project, The (2002)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ricci, Christina | Buscemi, Steve | Linney, Laura | Phoenix, Summer
Directors: Kaufman, Moisés
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‘Moisés Kaufman’ (qv) and members of New York’s Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of ‘Matthew Shepard (I)’ (qv). This is a film version of the play they wrote based on more than 200 interviews they conducted in Laramie. It follows and in some cases re-enacts the chronology of Shepherd’s visit to a local bar, his kidnap and beating, the discovery of him tied to a fence, the vigil at the hospital, his death and funeral, and the trial of his killers. It mixes real news reports with actors portraying friends, family, cops, killers, and other Laramie residents in their own words. It concludes with a Laramie staging of “Angels in America” a year after Shephard’s death.