Posts Tagged ‘spit-in-the-face’

Outsiders, The (1983)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Dillon, Matt | Macchio, Ralph | Howell, C. Thomas | Swayze, Patrick | Lowe, Rob | Estevez, Emilio | Cruise, Tom | Withrow, Glenn | Lane, Diane | Garrett, Leif | Dalton, Darren | Meyrink, Michelle | Sartain, Gailard | Waits, Tom | Smith, William
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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Based on the S.E. Hinton novel of the same name. The tension between two groups: The Greasers and The Socials “Socs” puts Ponyboy Curtis (Howell) and his best friend Johnny Cade (Macchio) in a bad spot. One night at the movies, Ponyboy and Johnny fall in love with Sherri “Cherry” Valance (Lane) and Marcia (Meyrink) once they get Dally Winston (Dillon), the toughest and meanest of the Greasers to stop attempting to “score” Cherry and Marcia. What Johnny and Ponyboy don’t know is that Cherry and Marcia are girls for the snobbish, popular, and rich group, the Socs. Once Johnny kills Bob Sheldon (Garrett), the toughest and meanest member of the Socs, this begins as the Socs demand a rumble against the Greasers.

Seraphim Falls (2006)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Neeson, Liam | Brosnan, Pierce | Wincott, Michael | Lauter, Ed | Robinson, John | Baker, Robert | Simpson, Jimmi | Mooney, Nate | Jordan, James | O'Connor, Kevin J. | Huston, Anjelica | Zeller, Shannon | Noonan, Tom | Harmon, Angie | Berkeley, Xander
Directors: Von Ancken, David
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In the 1860s, five men have been tracking a sixth across Nevada for more than two weeks. They shoot and wound him, but he gets away. They pursue, led by the dour Carver, who will pay them each $1 a day once he’s captured. The hunted is Gideon, resourceful, skilled with a knife. Gideon’s flight and Carver’s hunt require horses, water, and bullets. The course takes them past lone settlers, a wagon train, a rail crew, settlements, and an Indian philosopher. What is the reason for the hunt; what connects Gideon and Carver? What happened at Seraphim Falls?

Order, The (2001)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Heston, Charlton | Milos, Sofia | Thompson, Brian | Cross, Ben | Dobtcheff, Vernon | Gabai, Sasson | Abutbul, Alon | Tomaska, Joey | Malota, Peter | Reginiano, Sharon | Huri, Sami | Widerker, Jack | Leitch, David | Qissi, Abdel
Directors: Lettich, Sheldon
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In the year 1099, during the Crusades in the 11th Century, Christian soldiers arrive in Jerusalem and slaughter the local population. Christian soldier Charles Le Vaillant becomes demoralized by the horrors of war and decides to create a new religious order. This new order brings together, in a peaceful manner, members from the three religions of the region: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. As a self-imposed leader and messiah, Charles writes the sacred texts of the Order. The Christian Crusaders accuse Charles of heresy, and attack him and his disciples. During the attack, the last chapter from the sacred texts becomes lost in the desert. Now, in modern-day Israel, a devout contingent of Le Vaillant’s followers continues to practice his peaceful teachings. But a disciple named Cyrus has a distorted view of the Order’s peaceful intention. Rudy Cafmeyer is a thief and smuggler of valuable historical artifacts. Rudy manages to break into a high security building where he steals a Faberge Egg, the kind decorated with precious stones and manufactured expressly for the Russian Tsars. Needless to say, the alarm goes off, and Rudy has to fight his way out of the building. Despite this theft, Rudy is not really a bad guy. He stole the egg from the personal collection of a powerful Russian mafia boss. Rudy is a loving son who would do anything for his father Oscar “Ozzie” Cafmeyer. Ozzie, an archaeologist and museum curator, discovers the manuscripts that were lost during the crusades. The manuscripts clearly extol interfaith harmony. In those manuscripts, there is also an ancient map of Jerusalem, which shows the location of a mythical Jewish treasure. Ozzie travels to Israel, where Cyrus has him kidnapped. Rudy, who heard the kidnapping take place while talking to Ozzie on the phone, travels to Jerusalem to rescue Oscar. Oscar’s associate, Professor Walt Finley, hands Rudy the key to a safe-deposit box in East Jerusalem before being gunned down by unknown assailants. Israeli Police Chief Ben Ner views Rudy’s arrival with hostility and takes steps to have Rudy deported, but police lieutenant Dalia Barr risks her life and career to help Rudy — she was once a disciple of the Order, but she left when she was 18-years-old. Cyrus uses a car bomb to assassinate the Order’s leader, Pierre Gaudet, and Cyrus steps up his own rhetoric, hoping to inflame his followers. Rudy opens the safe-deposit box and finds a map that shows a series of tunnels and a treasure room beneath Jerusalem. Ben Ner, who has partnered with Cyrus, covets the gold that the underground tunnels lead to, but Cyrus hopes to plant a bomb during Ramadan that will turn the Israelis against the Palestinians. Dalia and Rudy must get to the Order’s monastery, free Ozzie, and prevent an explosion that could push tensions in the area way past the boiling point.

High Plains Drifter (1973)

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Verna Bloom | Hill, Marianna | Ryan, Mitch | Ging, Jack | Gierasch, Stefan | Hartley, Ted | Curtis, Billy | Lewis, Geoffrey | Walker, Scott | Barnes, Walter | Brinegar, Paul | Bull, Richard | Donner, Robert | Hillerman, John
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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A mysterious gunfighter without a name rides across the desert landscape and arrives in the mining town beside the sea “Lago” to stay for the night. After gunning down three desperado’s who tried to kill him, the town hires the gunfighter to help defend the town from three murderous outlaws, Stacey Bridges, Bill Borders and Cole Carlin who have been released from jail after they brutally whipped to death the town’s local lawman Marshal Jim Duncan who is in his grave with a unmarked gravestone, the three outlaws set out to return to “Lago” to get their vengeance. Can the mysterious gunfighter without a name stop the three outlaws?

Green Mile, The (1999)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Morse, David | Hunt, Bonnie | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Cromwell, James | Jeter, Michael | Greene, Graham | Hutchison, Doug | Rockwell, Sam | Pepper, Barry | De Munn, Jeffrey | Clarkson, Patricia | Stanton, Harry Dean | Greer, Dabbs | Brent, Eve
Directors: Darabont, Frank
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Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930’s, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.

Money Train (1995)

Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Snipes, Wesley | Harrelson, Woody | Lopez, Jennifer | Blake, Robert | Cooper, Chris | Grifasi, Joe | Sowers, Scott | Sudduth, Skipp | Laresca, Vincent | Vasquez, Nelson | Patrick, Vincent | Turturro, Aida | Guess, Alvaleta | Pastore, Vincent | Tawil, David
Directors: Ruben, Joseph
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Two foster brothers (Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes) work as transit cops. While one’s life is as good as it gets, the other’s is a pit. After losing his job, getting dumped by his brother, and getting the crap kicked out of him by a loan shark for the umpteenth time, He implements his plan to steal the “money train,” a train carrying the New York Subway’s weekly revenue. But when things go awry, will his brother be able to save him in time?

Bordertown (2006)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Banderas, Antonio | del Castillo, Kate | Norman, John | Alvarez, Irineo | Barela, Richard | Batinkoff, Randall | Botto, Juan Diego | Cedillo, Julio | Colon, Dave | Gonzales Falcon, Peter | Juanes | Rivera, Rene | Sheen, Martin | Talley, Chris
Directors: Nava, Gregory
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Lauren (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American reporter for the Chicago Sentinel heads to Juarez, a Mexican bordertown, in order to investigate a series of mysterious slayings involving young factory women from all over Mexico. As she discovers hundreds of victims, she gains the trust of local factory workers but falls into danger.

300 (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Butler, Gerard | Headey, Lena | West, Dominic | Wenham, David | Regan, Vincent | Fassbender, Michael | Wisdom, Tom | Pleavin, Andrew | Tiernan, Andrew | Santoro, Rodrigo | Cimmino, Giovani | McHattie, Stephen | Kramer, Greg | Ivanovici, Alex | Kelly, Craig
Directors: Snyder, Zack
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It is spring 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes, continuing his father Darius’ master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most northern Hellas tribes and states to the Persian side. But the people of Athens and Sparta, the largest Hellenic powers at the time, feel quite insulted by the Persian emissaries’ request to surrender to Xerxes, and so slay them. In Sparta, King Leonidas consults the local oracle, who gives two options: Either a spartan king will have to be sacrificed, or Sparta will be burned to the ground. A year earlier (481, BC) a Panhellenic consortium of all southern city-states had already recognized the superiority of the Spartan army (the best organized and trained army at the time) and had declared King Leonidas as supreme commander of the combined Hellenic army. It is then decided that a small force should block Xerxes’ way to southern Hellas in the Thermopylae passage. This passage was, at that time, 12 meters wide. The great historian Herodotus, possibly exaggerating, states that there were 1,700,000 Persians (their true number could have been anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000) against 7,000 Hellenic hoplites and slaves, including the 300 men of the Spartan King elite guard. King Xerxes waited four days for the Hellenes to be frightened and eventually surrender and was quite astonished by his opponents’ complete apathy. Xerxes tried to convince Leonidas to drop weapons, give up his position, kneel before him and live on as a local governor under Xerxes. King Leonidas replied “molon lave,” which means “Come and get them.” The three-day battle began, with the 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians (the other Hellenes where sent by Leonidas to protect passages to their flanks) slaying thousands of Persians with minimal losses. The whole Persian campaign would have failed if it hadn’t been for Efialtes, who showed Xerxes a secret passage to the Hellenic flanks. After a final battle led by King Xerxes himself, the Hellenic force was slain and their heroism and glory was written forever in history. From the beginning of the battle, the Hellenes buried their dead in the spot where they fell. Then battle signs where made for the dead of each Hellenic faction. For the Pelloponisians, (including the 300 Spartans) the sign generally read (free translation) “In this place 4,000 Pelloponisians fought 30 millions).” For the 300 Spartans (Lakaedaemonians), the sign reads (free translation) “Oh foreigner, tell the Lakaedaemonians that we are buried here obeying their laws,” meaning that they never hesitated and never retreated from the enemy. The impact of the battle was enormous for both sides. The Persians’ morale dropped to zero, and the Hellenes lost their fear for the Persian conqueror and organized their defense. After several successful battles, the Hellenes ultimately defeated the Persian army and repelled their invasion in the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.

Leon (Professional, The) (1994)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Reno, Jean | Oldman, Gary | Portman, Natalie | Aiello, Danny | Appel, Peter | Blood, Willi One | Creech, Don | Glascoe, Keith A. | Scott, Alan Randolph | Badalucco, Michael | Greene, Ellen | Regen, Elizabeth | Matusovich, Carl J. | Senger, Frank | Cherokee, Lucius Wyatt
Directors: Besson, Luc
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Mathilda, a twelve-year old New York girl, is living an undesirable life among her half-family. Her father stores drugs for two-faced cop Norman Stansfield. Only her little brother keeps Mathilda from breaking apart. One day, Stansfield and his team take cruel revenge on her father for stretching the drugs a little, thus killing the whole family. Only Mathilda, who was out shopping, survives by finding shelter in Léon’s apartment in the moment of highest need. Soon, she finds out about the strange neighbour’s unusual profession - killing - and desperately seeks his help in taking revenge for her little brother. Léon, who is completely unexperienced in fatherly tasks, and in friendships, does his best to keep Mathilda out of trouble - unsuccessfully. Now, the conflict between a killer, who slowly discovers his abilities to live, to feel, to love and a corrupt police officer, who does anything in his might to get rid of an eye witness, arises to unmeasurable proportions - all for the sake of a little twelve-year old girl, who has nearly nothing to lose.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Graham, Heather | York, Michael | Wagner, Robert | Lowe, Rob | Green, Seth | Sterling, Mindy | Troyer, Verne | Hurley, Elizabeth | Carides, Gia | Muirhead, Oliver | Cheung, George | Meng, Jeffrey | Watson, Muse | Cooper, Scott
Directors: Roach, Jay
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Dr. Evil uses a device he calls a “Time Machine” to travel back to 1969 and remove Austin Powers’ mojo. The sexually wounded swinger must travel back in time and, with the help of agent Felicity Shagwell, recover his vitality. Meanwhile, Dr. Evil’s personal life runs amok as he discovers love, continues to shun his son and develops a close relationship with himself. Well, actually, a clone 1/8 his size whom he dubs “Mini-Me”. The always time-baffled Dr. Evil begins his plan to put a gigantic cannon on the moon, thus turning it into a device called either “The Death Star” or “Alan Parson’s Project,” depending on which name is available.