Posts Tagged ‘shakespeare’

Hamlet (1948)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Laurie, John | Knight, Esmond | Quayle, Anthony | MacGinnis, Niall | Williams, Harcourt | Troughton, Patrick | Tarver, Tony | Cushing, Peter | Holloway, Stanley | Thorndike, Russell | Sydney, Basil | Herlie, Eileen | Wooland, Norman | Aylmer, Felix
Directors: Olivier, Laurence
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William Shakespeare’s tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet, son of the murdered King, mournful of his father’s death and mother’s hasty marriage, is confronted by the ghost of the late King who reveals the manner of his murder. Seeking revenge, Hamlet recreates the monstrous deed in a play with the help of some traveling actors to torment the conscience of the evil Claudius. In a visit with his mother, Hamlet expresses his anger and disappointment concerning her swiftly untimed marriage. Thinking a concealed spy in his mother’s chamber to be the lurking Claudius, he mistakenly kills the meddling counselor, Polonius, father of Ophelia and Laertes. Claudius, on the pretext that Hamlet will be endangered by his subjects for the murder of Polonius, sends the prince to England.

They Do It with Mirrors (1991)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: UK
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Simmons, Jean | Ackland, Joss | Brook, Faith | Barge, Gillian | Swettenham, Neal | Horovitch, David | Brimble, Ian | Villiers, Christopher | Villiers, Jay | Aird, Holly | Boyce, Todd | Reichlin, Saul | Cottle, Matthew | Bott, John
Directors: Stone, Norman
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Miss Marple is invited to London to see her old friend Ruth. Miss Marple was a sort of traveling companion to Ruth and her sister, Carrie Louise. Ruth is worried about Carrie Louise. She doesn’t know why, though. Ruth asks Miss Marple to come with her to her sister’s estate, Stonygates. Stonygates is a huge manor house, and some of the buildings and the grounds are used by Carrie Louises’ current husband, Lewis, as a reformatory for juvenile criminals. Miss Marple meets the people who live there - Carrie Louise’s grand-daughter Gina and her malcontent American husband Walter; Stephen and Alex Restarick, Carrie Louise’s stepsons by her first marriage; Edgar Lawson, Lewis’ mentally unstable secretary; and Carrie Louise’s daughter, Mildred, who is jealous of Gina. Soon, Carrie Louise’s stepson by her second marriage shows up. He is Christian Guldbrandsen, and he runs the trust which contributes a fraction of the funds used to run Stonygates. He and Lewis talk in private. Later that night, Edgar begins waving a gun around and ranting that Lewis is his father. Lewis takes him to his office where the argument becomes even more heated. After a few minutes, two shots are heard, and then hysterical crying. The door opens to reveal Lewis, unhurt. Edgar missed him. However, the body of Christian Guldbrandsen is discovered, shot. Miss Marple sets out to find the murderer before it is too late for her good friend Carrie Louise.

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Danes, Claire | Leguizamo, John | Perrineau, Harold | Postlethwaite, Pete | Sorvino, Paul | Dennehy, Brian | Rudd, Paul | Curtis-Hall, Vondie | Margolyes, Miriam | Bradford, Jesse | Walsh, M. Emmet | Orth, Zak | Kennedy, Jamie | Mihok, Dash
Directors: Luhrmann, Baz
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Shakespeare’s famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue. The gun-toting members of the families wage a vicious war on the streets as the star-crossed lovers, their tragic destiny.

Postman, The (1997)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Patton, Will | Tate, Larenz | Williams, Olivia | Russo, James | von Bargen, Daniel | Petty, Tom | Bairstow, Scott | Ribisi, Giovanni | Maxwell, Roberta | Santos, Joe | McLarty, Ron | Lipton, Peggy | Wilson, Brian Anthony | Allen, Todd
Directors: Costner, Kevin
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In the year 2013 civilization has all but destroyed itself. After a war that decimated the government and most of the population of the United States (possibly the world) people struggle to survive against starvation and rogue groups of armed men. One such group is called the Holnists. This group is bigger than any other and their leader, General Bethlehem, has delusions of ruling the country. A drifter (Costner) is captured by the group and forced to join. He escapes at the first chance and happens on a mail jeep with a skeleton in it. The skeleton is wearing a postal uniform and the drifter takes it to keep him warm. He also finds a mailbag and starts conning people with old letters. The hope he sees in the people he delivers to changes his plans and he decides that he must help bring the Holnists down.