Posts Tagged ‘weightlifting’

Pumping Iron (1977)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Documentary | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Barnes, Mark F. | Callard, Roger | Columbu, Franco | Corney, Ed | Cort, Bud | Ferrigno, Lou | Ferrigno, Matty | Katz, Mike | Nubret, Serge | Reynolds, Patrick | Riedmeier, Helmut | Robinson, Robbie | Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Waller, Ken | Weider, Joe
Directors: Butler, George
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From Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach California to the showdown in Pretoria, amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests in this part-scripted, part-documentary film. Five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger defends his Mr. Olympia title against Serge Nubret and the shy young deaf Lou Ferrigno, whose father is his coach; the ruthless champ psyches out the young lion. Sardinian Franco Columbu competes in the lightweight class; at home in Italy he solves a tight parking problem by lifting the car into place. Joe Weider is the marketer; Mike Katz and Ken Waller go for the title of Mr. Universe. Bodybuilding and a celebrity-to-be go mainstream.

Sky High (2005)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Angarano, Michael | Russell, Kurt | Preston, Kelly | Panabaker, Danielle | Wynne, Christopher | Heffernan, Kevin | Daniels, Dee Jay | Vitz, Kelly | Berman, Loren | Braun, Nicholas | Malika | Khadijah | Sandvig, Jake | Harris, Will | Winstead, Mary Elizabeth
Directors: Mitchell, Mike
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It all begins at a secret school in the clouds like none on earth: Sky High, the first and only high school for kids with super-human powers going through crime-fighting puberty. At Sky High, the student body throw flames with their footballs, study Villainy with their Chemistry and are divided into Heroes and Sidekicks instead of jocks and geeks. It’s an out-of-this-world yet completely recognizable place where cool gadgetry, rampant bravery and awe-inspiring magical skills mix it up with parental battles, peer pressure and dating trouble—with explosively fun results. This year’s class features some of the best, brightest and most powerfully gifted super-teens ever assembled. And then there’s Will Stronghold. When you’re the son of the world’s most legendary super heroes, The Commander and Jetstream, people expect you to live up to the family name The problem is that Will is starting with no superpowers of his own and, worst of all, instead of joining the ranks of the Hero class, he finds himself relegated to being a Sidekick. Now he must somehow survive his freshman year while dealing with an overbearing gym coach, a bully with super speed and a dangerous rebel with a grudge (and the ability to shoot fire from his hands)—not to mention the usual angst, parental expectations and girl problems that accompany teenage life. But when an evil villain threatens his family, friends and the very sanctity of Sky High, Will must use his newfound superpowers to save the day and prove himself a Hero worthy of the family tradition.

Lady in the Water (2006)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Giamatti, Paul | Howard, Bryce Dallas | Wright, Jeffrey | Balaban, Bob | Choudhury, Sarita | Cheung, Cindy | Rodríguez, Freddy | Irwin, Bill | Hurt, Mary Beth | Gray-Cabey, Noah | Reitman, Joseph D. | Harris, Jared | Monohon, Grant | Boyd, John
Directors: Shyamalan, M. Night
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The super Cleveland Heep finds a woman swimming in the swimming pool of the condominium during the night; he slips, hits his head on the floor and faints in the water, and she rescues him. He discloses that she is a “Narf” called Story, a character of bedtime stories, that is chased by a “Scrunt” and she needs to return to her Blue World with an eagle. Cleveland convinces the tenants to help and protect Story.

Unbreakable (2000)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Jackson, Samuel L. | Wright Penn, Robin | Clark, Spencer Treat | Woodard, Charlayne | Walker, Eamonn | Stefanson, Leslie | Jamison, Johnny Hiram | Carroll, Michaelia | Christopher, Bostin | Lawrence, Elizabeth | Duffield, David | Regan, Laura | Kelly, Chance | Kelly, Michael
Directors: Shyamalan, M. Night
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This suspense thriller unfolds as the audience is introduced to David Dunn, played by Willis. Not only is he the sole survivor of a horrific train-crash that killed 131 people he doesn’t have a scratch on him. Samuel L Jackson plays an obscure character who approaches Dunn with a seemingly far fetched theory behind it all rocketing off an enticing thriller with a sci fi twist

Hard Word, The (2002)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Pearce, Guy | Griffiths, Rachel | Taylor, Robert | Edgerton, Joel | Richardson, Damien | Findleton, Rhondda | Atkinson, Kate | Colosimo, Vince | Sonkkila, Paul | Gyngell, Kym | Nkono, Dorian | Whittaker, Stephen | Neilson, Torquil | Bridges, Don | Bowles, Doug
Directors: Roberts, Scott
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Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you “know wot I mean?” However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.

Ken Park (2002)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | Netherlands | USA
Actors: Chubbuck, Adam | Bullard, James | Gray, Seth | Daniels, Eddie | McDowell, Zara | Quinlan, Maeve | Jasso, Stephen | Williams, Wade | Limos, Tiffany | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Ransone, James | Place, Patricia | Plummer, Amanda | Apaletegui, Mike | Young, Harrison
Directors: Clark, Larry | Lachman, Edward
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Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They’re all rather tight, or so they claim. But they spend precious little time together and none of them seems to know much about one another’s family lives. This bizarre dichotomy underscores their alienation # the result of suburban ennui, a teenager’s inherent sense of melodrama, and the disturbing nature of their home environments.

Soldier (1998)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Lee, Jason Scott | Isaacs, Jason | Nielsen, Connie | Pertwee, Sean | Thorne, Jared | Thorne, Taylor | Bringleson, Mark | Busey, Gary | Dodds, K.K. | Black, James | De Alessandro, Mark | Orlov, Vladimir | Norgaard, Carsten | Gaver, Duffy
Directors: Anderson, Paul W.S.
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In a futuristic society, some people are selected at birth to become soldiers, and trained in such a manner that they become inhuman killing machines. One of the most succesfull and older of these soldiers (Russell) is pitted against a new breed of soldiers, and after the confrontation is believed to be dead. His body is left behind in a semi-abandoned colonial planet, where everything is peaceful, and he is taught about the other aspects of life. But eventually he has to fight the new breed of soldiers again, this time to defend his new home…

Exit Wounds (2001)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: DMX | Seagal, Steven | Washington, Isaiah | Anderson, Anthony | White, Michael Jai | Duke, Bill | Hennessy, Jill | Arnold, Tom | McGill, Bruce | Vadim, David | Mendes, Eva | Taylor, Matthew G. | Mastropietro, Paolo | Daly, Shane | Drag-On
Directors: Bartkowiak, Andrzej
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Orin Boyd (Seagal) is a Detroit cop who doesn’t follow rules. After he saved the Vice President by violating every order he received he is transferred to one of the worst precincts in the city. There he quickly encounters some corrupt cops selling heroin to drug dealers. The problem is, it’s very difficult to tell who is the bad guy and who you can trust.