Posts Tagged ‘senator’

Bobby (2006)

Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
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The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.

Perfect Stranger (2007)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Berry, Halle | Willis, Bruce | Ribisi, Giovanni | Portnow, Richard | Dourdan, Gary | Lozano, Florencia | Aycox, Nicki Lynn | Chalfant, Kathleen | MacDonald, Gordon | Van Graas, Daniella | Miranda, Paula | D'Arbanville, Patti | Lewis, Clea | Feldman, Tamara | Becker, Gerry
Directors: Foley, James
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Rowena Price is a muckraking reporter for a New York paper. When her story about a closeted gay Senator who preaches family values is spiked, she quits and soon finds herself investigating the grisly murder of a childhood friend. Her friend had been dumped by ad exec Harrison Hill, so he’s Rowena’s prime suspect. Rowena gets a job at the ad agency as a temp, and she’s soon the object of Hill’s attentions. She’s helped in her subterfuge by Miles Haley, a friend at the paper who has a secret thing for her. Everyone, it seems, has secrets, including Hill, who must keep his affairs from his wife - her money fuels his lifestyle. Murder will out?

Thank You for Smoking (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Eckhart, Aaron | Bello, Maria | Bright, Cameron | Brody, Adam | Elliott, Sam | Holmes, Katie | Koechner, David | Macy, William H. | J.K. Simmons | Duvall, Robert | Dickens, Kim | Lowe, Rob | Louiso, Todd | Miller, Dennis | Lunden, Joan
Directors: Reitman, Jason
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Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor has a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become too plain to ignore. Nick, however, revels in his job, using argument and twisted logic to place, as often as not, his clients in the positions of either altruistic do-gooders or victims. Nick’s son Joey needs to understand and respect his dad’s philosophy, and Nick works hard to respond to that need without compromising his lack of values. When a beautiful news reporter betrays Nick’s sexually-achieved trust, his world seems in danger of collapsing. But there’s always one more coffin nail in Nick’s pack.

Executive Decision (1996)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Seagal, Steven | Berry, Halle | Leguizamo, John | Platt, Oliver | Morton, Joe | Wong, B. D. | Cariou, Len | Hubley, Whip | Katsulas, Andreas | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Maples, Marla | Walsh, J.T. | Neuhaus, Ingo | Jones, William James
Directors: Baird, Stuart
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Terrorists take over a 747 bound from Athens to Washington D.C., supposedly to effect the release of their leader. Intelligence expert David Grant suspects another reason and convinces the military that the ‘plane should not be allowed to enter U.S. airspace. An assault mission is devised, using a specially equipped ‘plane designed for mid-air crew transfers, and Grant finds himself aboard the 747 with a team of military anti-terrorists who have to defuse a bomb and overpower the terrorists.

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Strathairn, David | Downey Jr., Robert | Clarkson, Patricia | Wise, Ray | Langella, Frank | Daniels, Jeff | Clooney, George | Donovan, Tate | McCarthy, Thomas | Ross, Matt | Diamond, Reed | Burke, Robert John | Heslov, Grant | Borstein, Alex | Abdoo, Rose
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In the early 1950’s, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator ‘Joseph McCarthy (II)’ (qv) of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter ‘Edward R. Murrow (I)’ (qv) and his producer ‘Fred W. Friendly’ (qv) decided to take a stand and challenge McCarthy and expose him for the fear monger he was. However, their actions took a great personal toll on both men, but they stood by their convictions and helped to bring down one of the most controversial senators in American history.

Manchurian Candidate, The (2004)

Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Wright, Jeffrey | Schreiber, Pablo | Mackie, Anthony | Missick, Dorian | Cantillo, Jose Pablo | Dunn, Teddy | Perez-Campbell, Joaquin | Artz, Tim | Washington, Denzel | Hitchcock, Robyn | Schreiber, Liev | Taylor, Antoine | Alessi, Joseph | Thomas, Raymond Anthony | Irwin, Bill
Directors: Demme, Jonathan
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When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn’t happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

All the King’s Men (2006)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Law, Jude | Hopkins, Anthony | Winslet, Kate | Ruffalo, Mark | Clarkson, Patricia | Gandolfini, James | Haley, Jackie Earle | Baker, Kathy | Balsam, Talia | Champagne, Travis | Forrest, Frederic | Desmond, Paul | Dunn, Kevin | McCarthy, Kevin
Directors: Zaillian, Steven
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In the 50’s, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy; the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden; the lobbyist Tiny Duffy; and his mistress Sadie Burke, to face the opposition of the upper classes. When the influent Judge Irwin supports a group of politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: McGregor, Ewan | Portman, Natalie | Christensen, Hayden | McDiarmid, Ian | Jackson, Samuel L. | Smits, Jimmy | Oz, Frank | Daniels, Anthony | Lee, Christopher | Castle-Hughes, Keisha | Carson, Silas | Laga'aia, Jay | Spence, Bruce | Pygram, Wayne | Morrison, Temuera
Directors: Lucas, George
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A maturing Anakin Skywalker goes to the dark side of The Force and becomes Sith Lord Darth Vader. We experience the transformation in a dark, scary yet thrilling climax. The story here logically sets up the events of Episode IV, the original 1977 Star Wars movie in which Darth Vader goes to war against his own children, Luke and Leia.

Aviator, The (2004)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Blanchett, Cate | Beckinsale, Kate | Reilly, John C. | Baldwin, Alec | Alda, Alan | Holm, Ian | Huston, Danny | Stefani, Gwen | Law, Jude | Scott, Adam | Ross, Matt | Garner, Kelli | Conroy, Frances | Spiner, Brent
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese’s favorite films, Hell’s Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.

Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Foster, Jodie | Hopkins, Anthony | Glenn, Scott | Heald, Anthony | Levine, Ted | Faison, Frankie | Lemmons, Kasi | Smith, Brooke | Lazar, Paul | Butler, Dan | Wrentz, Lawrence T. | Brockett, Don | Seals Jr., Frank | Rudin, Stuart | Skorobogatov, Masha
Directors: Demme, Jonathan
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Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent Jack Crawford believes that Lecter who is also a very powerful and clever mind manipulator have the answers to their questions to help locate the killer. Clarice must first try and gain Lecter’s confidence before he is to give away any information.