Posts Tagged ‘submarine’

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Boyd, Stephen | Welch, Raquel | O'Brien, Edmond | Pleasence, Donald | O'Connell, Arthur | Redfield, William | Kennedy, Arthur | Del Val, Jean | Coe, Barry | Scott, Ken | Grant, Shelby | Brolin, James | Fitzgerald, Brendan
Directors: Fleischer, Richard
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Scientist Jan Benes, who knows the secret to keeping soldiers shrunken for an indefinite period, escapes from behind the Iron Curtain with the help of CIA agent Grant. While being transferred, their motorcade is attacked. Benes strikes his head, causing a blood clot to form in his brain. Grant is ordered to accompany a group of scientists as they are miniaturized. The crew has one hour to get in Benes’s brain, remove the clot and get out.

Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Knowles, Beyoncé | Green, Seth | York, Michael | Wagner, Robert | Sterling, Mindy | Troyer, Verne | Caine, Michael | Savage, Fred | Mizota, Diane | Inaba, Carrie Ann | Matsuhisa, Nobu | Himelstein, Aaron | Zuckerman, Josh | Adams, Eddie
Directors: Roach, Jay
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He’s found his mojo, baby, and now Austin Powers (Mike Myers) is back again in this shagadelic comedy-adventure! The “sshhh!” hits the fan when Dr. Evil and Mini-Me escape from prison. Joining forces with the superfreaky Goldmember, they kidnap Austin’s father, master spy Nigel Powers (Michael Caine), in a dastardly time-travel scheme to take over the world. Before you can say “Shake Your Booty,” Austin cruises to 1975 and teams up with sexy Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyonce Knowles) to stop Dr. Evil and Goldmember from their mischievous mayhem. With Michael York, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Mindy Sterling and Verne J. Troyer.

Crimson Tide (1995)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Hackman, Gene | Craven, Matt | Dzundza, George | Mortensen, Viggo | Gandolfini, James | Carroll, Rocky | Gomez, Jaime | Milhoan, Michael | Burkholder, Scott | Nucci, Danny | Brancato, Lillo | Bruskotter, Eric | Rick Schroder | Zahn, Steve
Directors: Scott, Tony
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In the near future, Russian rebels have taken over one of the ICBM bases in the USSR. Alarmed by the prospect of a rebel strike, the U.S. sends the U.S.S. Alabama, a nuclear ballistic submarine, to watch over the base and retaliate in case they launch. While on patrol, the submarine is attacked and the radio systems are knocked out. An emergency message received during the battle is only partially recovered. Captain Ramsey believes it to be the order to launch on the rebels, while XO Hunter wants to wait for a confirmation message. The conflict escalates into mutiny as Ramsey and Hunter fight for control of the Alabama’s nuclear missiles.

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.

Hunt for Red October, The (1990)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Baldwin, Alec | Glenn, Scott | Neill, Sam | Jones, James Earl | Ackland, Joss | Jordan, Richard | Firth, Peter | Curry, Tim | Vance, Courtney B. | Skarsgård, Stellan | Jones, Jeffrey | Carhart, Timothy | Ferguson, Larry | Thompson, Fred Dalton
Directors: McTiernan, John
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Based on the Best Selling novel by Tom Clancy this film tells the story of Captain Marko Ramius, the skipper of the Soviet Union’s newest nuclear sub. Jack Ryan of the CIA gets involved in a tense, tangled hunt for this sub, when Ramius defects, taking the “Red October” with him. The story is an action packed techno-thriller.

Under Siege (1992)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Seagal, Steven | Chapa, Damian | Evans, Troy | McKnight, David | Hinton, Lee | O'Neal, Patrick | Busey, Gary | Morshower, Glenn | Alexander, Leo | Rottger, John | Rea, Brad | Welden, Michael | Casey, Bernie | Pierre, Rickey | Cruz, Raymond
Directors: Davis, Andrew
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The battleship Missouri is about to be decomissioned. Casey Ryback is Captain Adam’s personal cook. And Ryback is always butting heads with the ship’s XO Commander Krill but the Captain always intercedes. One day, after the President visits the Missouri, which is also the Captain’s birthday, the Captain learns that a helicopter has been cleared to land on the ship by Commander Krill, which he was not informed of. When questioned Krill tells the Captain that it’s a surprise for his birthday, the Captain then allows it. Later after another one of their scuffles, Krill has Ryback locked in the freezer. During the party, the rock band reveals themselves to be mercenaries, led by William Stranix, a CIA operative, who is in league with Krill to unload all of the ship’s nuclear warheads. They lock up all of the crew and make preparations to remove the warheads. And Krill remembers Ryback, Stranix sends two of his men to take care of Ryback, only thing is that Ryback took care of them. Upon discovering their bodies, Stranix deduces that Ryback is more than a cook. He then sends Krill to check on him, and Krill discovers that Ryback’s a NAVY SEAL, who got busted down to a cook after an incident in Panama. And Ryback continues to create trouble for them, so Stranix tries to hunt him down. Along the way, Ryback meets Jordan, a former playmate, who was supposed to entertain at the party but was also forgotten.

Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Murray, Bill | Wilson, Owen | Blanchett, Cate | Huston, Anjelica | Dafoe, Willem | Goldblum, Jeff | Gambon, Michael | Taylor, Noah | Cort, Bud | Jorge, Seu | Cohen, Robyn | Ahluwalia, Waris | Koizumi, Niels | Wdowczak, Pawel | Gubler, Matthew Gray
Directors: Anderson, Wes
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Steve Zissou, sea-film auteur a la Jacques Cousteau, has reason to be melancholy: his partner has been eaten, perhaps by a mythic jaguar shark, his wife may be taking up with her ex-husband, a young man appears claiming Steve is his father (Steve hates fathers), his most recent films have tanked, he’s having trouble raising money for his venture to revenge his partner, and he’s attracted to a pregnant reporter who prefers the pretender. At sea, in pursuit of the shark, will he escape pirates and mutiny, forge the bonds of fatherhood, place his arm around his wife, find the monster of the deep, re-establish box office hegemony, and discover a reason to smile?

007 Licence to Kill (1989)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Dalton, Timothy | Lowell, Carey | Davi, Robert | Soto, Talisa | Zerbe, Anthony | McRae, Frank | Hedison, David | Newton, Wayne | Del Toro, Benicio | Starke, Anthony | McGill, Everett | Llewelyn, Desmond | Armendáriz Jr., Pedro | Brown, Robert | Barnes, Priscilla
Directors: Glen, John
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When drug lord Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) exacts his brutal vengeance on Bond’s friend Felix Leiter (David Hedison), 007 resigns from the British Secret Service and begins a fierce vendetta against the master criminal. Bond won’t be satisfied until Sanchez is defeated, and to accomplish this aim he allies himself with a beautiful pilot (Carey Lowell) and Sanchez’s sexy girldfriend (Talisa Soto). But Bond, relegated to outlaw status, must battle agents on both sides of the law as he discovers the horrifying extent of his prey’s resources. In order to bring Sanchez down, Bond must survive a ferocious boat chase, a midair brawl over the controls of an out-of-control airplane, and an action-packed confrontation in the Mexico desert.

007 You Only Live Twice (1967)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Connery, Sean | Wakabayashi, Akiko | Hama, Mie | Tamba, Tetsuro | Shimada, Teru | Dor, Karin | Pleasence, Donald | Lee, Bernard | Maxwell, Lois | Llewelyn, Desmond | Gray, Charles | Chin, Tsai | Fanene Maivia, Peter | Kwouk, Burt | Chow, Michael
Directors: Gilbert, Lewis
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When an American space capsule is swallowed up by what they believe to be a Russian spaceship, World War 3 nearly breaks out. The British Government, however, suspect that other powers are at work as the space craft went down near Japan. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the force behind the theft, as James Bond discovers, but its motives are far from clear, and he must first find out where the captured space capsule is held before America and Russia initiate another world war.

K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: Canada | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Spruell, Sam | Stebbings, Peter | Camargo, Christian | Podhora, Roman | Redford, Sam | Nicolson, Steve | Neeson, Liam | Issyanov, Ravil | Woodward, Tim | Shrapnel, Lex | Benson, Shaun | Holden-Reid, Kristen | Chepovetsky, Dmitry | Redman, Christopher | Runyan, Tygh
Directors: Bigelow, Kathryn
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The story of USSR’s first nuclear ballistic submarine, which suffered a malfunction in its nuclear reactor on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic in 1961. The submarine’s crew, led by the unyielding Captain Alexi Vostrikov, races against time to prevent a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster which threatens not only the lives of his crew, but has the potential to ignite a world war between the super powers.