Posts Tagged ‘reality’

Animatrix, The (2003)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Animation | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Watson, Clayton | Ôtsuka, Akio | Carson, Terrence 'T.C.' | Davis, Dane A. | DeMita, John | Di Maggio, John | Fernandez, Alex | Fletcher, Jack | Gomez, Rick | Kenny, Tom | LaMarr, Phil | McKenzie, Matt | Reeves, Keanu | Richardson, Kevin Michael | Saulsberry, Rodney
Directors: Chung, Peter
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Anthology of nine short anime (Japanese animation) films tied in to the 1999 blockbuster “The Matrix” and its sequels. “Final Flight of the Osiris”: The crew of the hovercraft Osiris attempt to warn their city of an imminent attack. “The Second Renaissance, Parts 1 & 2″: The story behind the war between man and the machines, how mankind scorched the sky, and the creation of the Matrix. “Kid’s Story”: A teenager is contacted by Neo, and manages to escape the Matrix. “Program”: Two warriors battle in a samurai training simulation when one decides to betray his crewmates and re-enter the Matrix. “World Record”: A champion sprinter manages to break free of the Matrix by sheer physical effort during a record attempt. “Beyond”: A young girl searching for her cat discovers a haunted house caused by a glitch in the system. “A Detective Story”: Private investigator Ash tracks a hacker named Trinity through the looking glass. “Matriculated”: A group of humans capture a machine scout and insert it into a ‘human matrix’.

MirrorMask (2005)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Barry, Jason | Brydon, Rob | Fry, Stephen | Hamilton, Andy | Harvey, Simon | Henry, Lenny | Llewellyn, Robert | Robson, Nik | Allen, Rick | Schofield, Simon | Tate, Mark | Thompson, Richard | Thompson, Robin | Ballamy, Iain | Batchelor, Chris
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister.

Slipstream (2007)

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Arroyave, Stella | Pepper, Lisa | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Generally, Dana | Grant, Saginaw | Grazer, Gavin | Lawford, Christopher | Littlefield, John | Lucking, William | McCarthy, Kevin | Millen, Ken | Putnam, Richard F. | Reed, Thell | Robinson, Michael R.
Directors: Hopkins, Anthony
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“Slipstream” is a noir-comedy about an actor and would-be screenwriter, who at the very moment of his meeting with Fate, comes to discover that life is random and fortune is sightless as he is thrown into a vortex where time, dreams, and reality collide in an increasingly whirling slipstream. The film will be a complex, surreal and dreamlike tale of one man’s journey.

Fountain, The (2006)

Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | Weisz, Rachel | Burstyn, Ellen | Margolis, Mark | McHattie, Stephen | Hernandez, Fernando | Curtis, Cliff | Thomas, Sean Patrick | Murphy, Donna | Suplee, Ethan | McMillan, Richard | Brass, Lorne | Aronofsky, Abraham | Asofsky, Renee | Majumdar, Anish
Directors: Aronofsky, Darren
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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that’s wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilder, Gene | Albertson, Jack | Ostrum, Peter | Kinnear, Roy | Cole, Julie Dawn | Stone, Leonard | Nickerson, Denise | Denney, Nora | Themmen, Paris | Reit, Ursula | Bollner, Michael | Sowle, Diana | Woods, Aubrey | Battley, David | Meisner, Günter
Directors: Stuart, Mel
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Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by ‘Gene Wilder’(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by ‘Jack Albertson’ (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done?

Memento (2000)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pearce, Guy | Moss, Carrie-Anne | Pantoliano, Joe | Boone Junior, Mark | Fega, Russ | Fox, Jorja | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Harris, Harriet Sansom | Lennon, Thomas | Rennie, Callum Keith | Campbell, Kimberly | Muellerleile, Marianne | Holden, Larry
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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Memento chronicles two separate stories of Leonard (Guy Pearce), a ex-insurance investigator who can no longer build new memories, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife, which is the last thing he remembers. One story line movies forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more each time.

Fight Club (1999)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Norton, Edward | Pitt, Brad | Bonham Carter, Helena | Meat Loaf | Grenier, Zach | Arquette, Richmond | Andrews, David | Maguire, George | Bondurant, Eugenie | Cabot, Christina | Colston, Sydney 'Big Dawg' | Singer, Rachel | Cronenweth, Christie | De Zarn, Tim | Buzzington, Ezra
Directors: Fincher, David
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You’re young. You have an easy, well-paid deskjob. You have a condo, Swedish furniture, artistic coffee tables and a fridge full of condiments. Yet you feel emotionally and spiritually empty. You eventually find comfort in going to support groups for lukemia and cancer victims when there’s nothing wrong with you until they’re hijacked from you by another faker. Then you meet Tyler Durden, a man that shows you that not only can you live without material needs but that self-destruction, the collapse of society and making dynamite from soap might not be such a bad idea either.

Matrix, The (1999)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Fishburne, Laurence | Moss, Carrie-Anne | Weaving, Hugo | Foster, Gloria | Pantoliano, Joe | Chong, Marcus | Arahanga, Julian | Doran, Matt | McClory, Belinda | Parker, Anthony Ray | Goddard, Paul | Taylor, Robert | Aston, David | Gray, Marc
Directors: Wachowski, Larry | Wachowski, Andy
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In the near future, a computer hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves) discovers that all life on Earth may be nothing more than an elaborate facade created by a malevolent cyber-intelligence, for the purpose of placating us while our life essence is “farmed” to fuel the Matrix’s campaign of domination in the “real” world. He joins like-minded Rebel warriors Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie Ann Moss) in their struggle to overthrow the Matrix.