Posts Tagged ‘theatrical’

Sleuth (2007)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Caine, Michael | Law, Jude | Pinter, Harold | Cawthorne, Alec | Channing, Eve
Directors: Branagh, Kenneth
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Based on a play, Sleuth confronts two extremely clever British men in a game of trickery and deceit. Andrew Wyke (Michael Cain), an aging famous author who lives alone in a high-tech mansion, after his wife Maggie has left him for a younger man; and Milo Tindle (Jude Law),an aspiring actor, equipped with charm and wit, who demonstrates both qualities once again). When Wyke invite Tindle to his mansion, Tindle seeks to convince the former into letting his wife go by signing the divorce paper. However, Wyke seems far more interested in playing mind games with his wife’s new lover, and lures him into a series of actions he thoroughly planned in seeking revenge on his unfaithful spouse.

American Splendor (2003)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ambrose, Chris | Krajcar, Joey | Hutcherson, Josh | Carter, Cameron | Tay, Daniel | Faktor, Mary | Giamatti, Paul | Pekar, Harvey | Meyers, Larry John | Benesch, Vivienne | Brown, Barbara | Billings, Earl | Hoch, Danny | Urbaniak, James
Directors: Berman, Shari Springer | Pulcini, Robert
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Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland’s thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey’s true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey’s cult celebrity stature.

Sin City (2005)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Alba, Jessica | Aoki, Devon | Bledel, Alexis | Boothe, Powers | Ciccolella, Jude | Dashnaw, Jeffrey J. | Dawson, Rosario | De Luna, Jesse | Del Toro, Benicio | Douglas, Jason | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Flanagan, Tommy | Frankenfield, Christina | Gomez, Rick | Gugino, Carla
Directors: Tarantino, Quentin | Rodriguez, Robert | Miller, Frank
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“Sin City” is Four stories inter-weaved telling tales of corruption in Basin City. The First Story (The Customer is always right)is short, and is based on the depression of women that they need to pay a man to feel loved when they commit suicide. The Next Story is Part 1 of “That Yellow Bastard” starring Bruce Willis as a cop who needs to save a young girl from being raped. The Third Story (The Hard Goodbye) features Mickey Rourke and his revenge on a heartless killer who murdered his one-night stand. The fourth story (The Big, Fat Kill) stars Clive Owen as a man who must dispatch of a cop’s body, but it will be a tough ride to do it. Following that are two conclusions to Sin City, the ending of “That Yellow Bastard” which is set 8 years later, and a short story that ends Sin City.

Dogville (2003)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Denmark | Finland | France | Germany | Netherlands | Norway | Sweden | UK | USA
Actors: Kidman, Nicole | Andersson, Harriet | Bacall, Lauren | Barr, Jean-Marc | Bettany, Paul | Brown, Blair | Caan, James | Clarkson, Patricia | Davies, Jeremy | Gazzara, Ben | Hall, Philip Baker | Hoffman, Thom | Fallon, Siobhan | Hurt, John | Ivanek, Zeljko
Directors: von Trier, Lars
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The beautiful fugitive, Grace (Nicole Kidman), arrives in the isolated township of Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom (Paul Bettany), the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hide her and in return, Grace agrees to work for them. However, when a search sets in, the people of Dogville demand a better deal in exchange for the risk of harbouring poor Grace and she learns the hard way that in this town, goodness is relative. But Grace has a secret and it is a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever began to bare its teeth…