Posts Tagged ‘snow-globe’

Citizen Kane (1941)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Cotten, Joseph | Comingore, Dorothy | Moorehead, Agnes | Warrick, Ruth | Collins, Ray | Sanford, Erskine | Sloane, Everett | Alland, William | Stewart, Paul | Coulouris, George | Bonanova, Fortunio | Schilling, Gus | Van Zandt, Philip | Backus, Georgia | Shannon, Harry
Directors: Welles, Orson
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world’s richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - “Rosebud…” What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.

One Magic Christmas (1985)

Monday, December 8th, 2008
Genres: Family | Fantasy
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Steenburgen, Mary | Basaraba, Gary | Stanton, Harry Dean | Hill, Arthur | Harnois, Elisabeth | Magwood, Robbie | Meyrink, Michelle | Koteas, Elias | Robson, Wayne | Rubes, Jan | Polley, Sarah | Jarvis, Graham | Webber, Timothy | Thompson, Joy | Friesen, John
Directors: Borsos, Phillip
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Gideon (Harry Dean Stanton), a Christmas angel, is sent, by Santa, to help Ginny Grainger (Mary Steenburgen). Ginny is a cynic, and she hates Christmas. She and her family (husband, Jack and two kids, Caleb and Abbie) have fallen on hard times, making it even harder to believe in anything that can’t be seen. With help from Abbie (Elisabeth Harnois), and a trip to see Santa Claus himself, can Gideon find a way to make Ginny believe again?

Black Christmas (2006)

Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Cassidy, Katie | Trachtenberg, Michelle | Chabert, Lacey | Cloke, Kristen | Martin, Andrea | Winstead, Mary Elizabeth | Lowe, Crystal | Hudson, Oliver | Harmon, Jessica | Savasta, Leela | Kole, Kathleen | Konoval, Karin | Mann, Robert | Friss, Dean | Wiebe, Cainan
Directors: Morgan, Glen
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Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she’d come to despise when she looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his beloved father’s brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the attic for good, to hold his silence of what he’d witnessed that night. His only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and starting a “new” family. As Billy’s mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic on Christmas Eve 1991, taking a rolling pin to his mother’s head, and a pointed tree ornament to her lovers eye before leaving his sister as disfigured as he was by blinding her. Before he could finish the job police forced there way in and dragged him off to mental institution and his sister a foster home, whose eye sight was saved in one eye… but not the other. Cut to the present where a security guard has been monitoring Billy’s progress since he came into his care, back in 1991. Knowing full well that during this time for fifteen years, Billy has made a break from this asylum, but never succeeding… until now. Far away, his childhood home is now a sorority house, where nine sisters and their house-mother are celebrating the holiday season together …but tonight they’re about to get a surprise visitor… and it’s not Santa.

Mary Poppins (1964)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Andrews, Julie | Van Dyke, Dick | Tomlinson, David | Johns, Glynis | Baddeley, Hermione | Shaw, Reta | Dotrice, Karen | Garber, Matthew | Lanchester, Elsa | Treacher, Arthur | Owen, Reginald | Wynn, Ed | Darwell, Jane | Malet, Arthur | Banas, Robert
Directors: Stevenson, Robert
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The movie combines a diverting story, songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers before flying off again.

One Night at McCool’s (2001)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Dillon, Matt | Smith, Mary Jo | Douglas, Michael | Reiser, Paul | McEntire, Reba | Goodman, John | Jenkins, Richard | Martin, Sandy | Tyler, Liv | Clay, Andrew Dice | Sarabia, Ric | De Zarn, Tim | Leo Rossi | Neukirch, Rob | Bendewald, Andrea
Directors: Zwart, Harald
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After another hard night at McCool’s, bartender Randy runs into Jewel. The seductive lady seems to have evaded a rape pretty closely, and when the man comes back, she puts a bullet in his head. After all these events (and others), Randy takes Jewel home, and the two become a couple. Yet Jewel begins to develop into a very demanding girlfriend and drives Randy into committing crimes for her and her elaborate lifestyle. Randy’s cousin Carl is driven crazy by Randy’s incredibly sexy girl as well as the investigating officer, Detective Dehling.

Just Like Heaven (2005)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Witherspoon, Reese | Ruffalo, Mark | Logue, Donal | Spybey, Dina | Shenkman, Ben | Heder, Jon | Milicevic, Ivana | Chao, Rosalind | Pflueger, Chris | Dorsey, Kerris | Shafer, Alyssa | Canada, Ron | Aaron, Caroline | Made, Gabrielle | Cowen, Shulie
Directors: Waters, Mark
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Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon), a dedicated Doctor in San Francisco, had almost no time for anything. When her sister with two kids set her up on a date, she gets into a tragic car crash and gets in a coma. Meanwhile, an artist named David Abbott (Mark Ruffalo) moves into San Francisco and coincidentally, into Elizabeth’s apartment for rent. While at the apartment, Elizabeth’s spirit haunts him. She doesn’t remember who she is, who her family is, and what she did - All that she remembered was her apartment and where everything was. To settle the arguments, Dacid agrees to figure out who Elizabeth really is. When they get close to figuring out who she is, they eventually find love in each other and as they finally know who she really is, they learn that fate really has put them both together.

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Witherspoon, Reese | Field, Sally | King, Regina | Coolidge, Jennifer | McGill, Bruce | Ivey, Dana | Rajskub, Mary Lynn | Cauffiel, Jessica | Ubach, Alanna | Barton, J | Anderson, Stanley | Thomas, Bruce | Newhart, Bob | Wilson, Luke | Williamson, Ruth
Directors: Herman-Wurmfeld, Charles
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Sassy postgrad Elle Woods (Witherspoon) is all about animal rights. In fact, she puts her nuptial plans on hold to head to Washington D.C. to get an anti-animal testing bill passed. Her building’s doorman (Newhart) quickly shows her the ways and workings of our nation’s capital.

Unfaithful (2002)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | USA
Actors: Lane, Diane | Sullivan, Erik Per | Gere, Richard | Martinez, Olivier | Taylor, Myra Lucretia | Monaghan, Michelle | Lowe, Chad | Badalucco Jr., Joseph | Anderson, Erich | Gupton, Damon | Burton, Kate | Colin, Margaret | Forget, Marc | Gleason, Larry | Chianese, Dominic
Directors: Lyne, Adrian
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Connie Sumner has a loving husband, a beautiful home, and a wonderful son, but she wants more. When she’s approached one day by a handsome stranger while trying to hail a taxi, she becomes obsessed with him and eventually starts an affair. But her selfish actions soon catch up with her…