Posts Tagged ‘steampunk’

Assassination Bureau, The (1969)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Reed, Oliver | Rigg, Diana | Savalas, Telly | Jürgens, Curd | Noiret, Philippe | Mitchell, Warren | Reid, Beryl | Revill, Clive | Griffith, Kenneth | Dobtcheff, Vernon | Incontrera, Annabella | Conrad, Jess | Coulouris, George | Michael, Ralph | Kath, Katherine
Directors: Dearden, Basil
Download: DivX iPod 

For her first assignment a lady journalist tracks down the head of an organisation offering to kill, for money, people deserving of such a fate. She thinks herself very clever when he agrees to take a contract with himself as the target. What she doesn’t know is that her paper’s owner is second-in-command in the Bureau and has his own reasons for supporting her challenge.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Fox, Michael J. | Burton, Corey | Christian, Claudia | Garner, James | Mahoney, John | Morris, Phil | Leonard Nimoy | Novello, Don | Obradors, Jacqueline | Stanley, Florence | Stiers, David Ogden | Strom, Natalie | Summer, Cree | Varney, Jim | Cummings, Jim
Directors: Trousdale, Gary
Download: DivX iPod 

Set in 1914, young linguist orphan named Milo Thatch buries himself in books trying to unlock the secret to the destruction of Atlantis. Althouth his theories are ridiculed by his colleagues he is persistent in his dreams of one day discovering the lost isle. His dreams are realized when he is given a spot in an expedition, financed by a friend of his grandfather, to go in search of Atlantis following Milo’s guide: The Shepard’s Journal. But the Guardians of Atlantis await the explorers putting them in danger at every turn. And the deadly truth about Atlantis’s demise puts Milo, the royal family, and all of Atlantis in mortal jeopardy.

Time Bandits (1981)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Cleese, John | Connery, Sean | Holm, Ian | Palin, Michael | Richardson, Ralph | Vaughan, Peter | Warner, David | Rappaport, David | Baker, Kenny | Dixon, Malcolm | Edmonds, Mike | Purvis, Jack | Ross, Tiny | Warnock, Craig | Daker, David
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

A young boy’s wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness where they confront Evil.

Brazil (1985)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK
Actors: Pryce, Jonathan | De Niro, Robert | Helmond, Katherine | Holm, Ian | Hoskins, Bob | Palin, Michael | Richardson, Ian | Vaughan, Peter | Greist, Kim | Broadbent, Jim | Hicks, Barbara | McKeown, Charles | O'Connor, Derrick | Pogson, Kathryn | Pringle, Bryan
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
Download: DivX iPod 

Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill’s lives are put in danger.

Army of Darkness (1992)

Monday, May 19th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Campbell, Bruce | Davidtz, Embeth | Gilbert, Marcus | Abercrombie, Ian | Grove, Richard | Quill, Timothy Patrick | Reid, Michael Earl | Fonda, Bridget | Tallman, Patricia | Raimi, Ted | Anderson, Deke | Thomas, Bruce | Shearer, Sara | Gordon, Shiva | Bryan, Billy
Directors: Raimi, Sam
Download: DivX iPod 

In this sequel to the Evil Dead films, a discount-store employee (”Name’s Ash. Housewares.”) is time-warped to a medieval castle beset by monstrous forces. Initially mistaken for an enemy, he is soon revealed as the prophecised savior who can quest for the Necronomicon, a book which can dispel the evil. Unfortunately, he screws up the magic words while collecting the tome, and releases an army of skeletons, led by his own Deadite counterpart. What follows is a thrilling, yet tongue-in-cheek battle between Ash’s 20th Century tactics and the minions of darkness.

Road to Wellville, The (1994)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Fonda, Bridget | Broderick, Matthew | Cusack, John | Carvey, Dana | Lerner, Michael | Meaney, Colm | Neville, John | Boyle, Lara Flynn | Lind, Traci | Manheim, Camryn | Brocksmith, Roy | Weisser, Norbert | Parker, Monica | Reynolds, Jacob
Directors: Parker, Alan
Download: DivX iPod 

In Welville, at Battle Creek, eccentric rich Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (a historical figure) runs a stylish health farm for the wealthy, an idea ahead of his time, based on extreme vegetarianism, neither sex, masturbation or even sensual stimulation, but laughing therapy and purging the ‘polluted’ body, mainly by exercises, often in open air, vicious diet, his invention corn flakes, laxatives, anal yogurt cure, enemas and brutal mechanical cleansing. Eleanor Lightbody drags her sickly, incredulous husband Will along to the therapy; the couple is almost immediately separated and getting horny for more available members of the opposite sex. Kellogs stubbornly willful adopted son (among over 30 kids) George is a filthy embarrassment, paid off just to stay away. Charles Ossining panics when arriving in Battle Creek he finds his aunt’s fortune made him partner in the empty shell- health food company Per-fo, not the planned corn-flakes factory; however with a former Welville-employee and George’s name they hope to get rich from their own cornflakes brand. When an electric therapy goes fatally wrong and several other patients die, Will’s incredulous reluctance turns to panic…

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)

Monday, November 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Bloom, Orlando | Knightley, Keira | Rush, Geoffrey | Pryce, Jonathan | Nighy, Bill | Chow, Yun-Fat | Hollander, Tom | Skarsgård, Stellan | McNally, Kevin | Crook, Mackenzie | Arenberg, Lee | Klebba, Martin | Ellis, Greg | Davenport, Jack
Directors: Verbinski, Gore
Download: DivX 

After Elizabeth (Keira Knightly), Will (Orlando Bloom), and Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) rescue Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from the clutches of the Kraken, they must face their foes, Davey Jones (Bill Nighy) and Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander). Beckett, now with control of Jones’ heart, forms a dark alliance with him in order to rule the seas and wipe out the last of the Pirates. Now, Jack, Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, Tia Delma, and crew must call the Pirate Lords from the four corners of the globe, including the infamous Sao Feng (Chow-Yun Fat), to a gathering that will make their final stand against Beckett, Jones, Norrington, the Flying Dutchman, and the entire East India Trading Company.

Dune (1984)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Annis, Francesca | Cimino, Leonardo | Dourif, Brad | Ferrer, José | Hunt, Linda | Jones, Freddie | Jordan, Richard | MacLachlan, Kyle | Madsen, Virginia | Mangano, Silvana | McGill, Everett | McMillan, Kenneth | Nance, Jack | Phillips, Siân | Prochnow, Jürgen
Directors: Lynch, David
Download: DVD DivX PDA 

In the far future, a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor to a sand world from which comes a spice that is essential for interstellar travel. The move is designed to destroy the duke and his family, but his son escapes and seeks revenge as he uses the world’s ecology as one of his weapons.

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Ricci, Christina | Richardson, Miranda | Gambon, Michael | Van Dien, Casper | Jones, Jeffrey | Lee, Christopher | Griffiths, Richard | McDiarmid, Ian | Gough, Michael | Pickering, Marc | Marie, Lisa | Waddington, Steven | Walken, Christopher | Skinner, Claire
Directors: Burton, Tim
Download: DVD DivX PDA 

The classic story of “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow” is brought to life by the gothic film maker Tim Burton. Johnny Depp plays Ichabod Crane, and to win the heart of Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci) he will have to brave the nearby woods, even though several decapitated bodies have been found. And then the legend of the axe wielding headless horsemen come together to make this movie.

Van Helsing (2004)

Friday, February 16th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | Beckinsale, Kate | Roxburgh, Richard | Wenham, David | Hensley, Shuler | Anaya, Elena | Kemp, Will | O'Connor, Kevin J. | Armstrong, Alun | Colloca, Silvia | Maran, Josie | Fisher, Tom | West, Samuel | Coltrane, Robbie | Fisher, Stephen
Directors: Sommers, Stephen
Download: DVD DivX PDA 

During the late 19th century, famed monster hunter Dr. Gabriel Van Helsing (Jackman) heads to Eastern Europe to battle with Count Dracula (Roxburgh), the Wolf Man (Kemp), and Frankenstein’s Monster (Hensley). By his side is the ravishing Anna (Beckinsale), a member of a family committed to ridding the world of evil.