Posts Tagged ‘wine’

Puffy Chair, The (2005)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Duplass, Mark | Aselton, Kathryn | Wilkins, Rhett | Fischer, Julie | Duplass, Larry | Hyman, Bari | Finnegan, Gerald | Barendse, Henry | Duplass, Cindy | Parsons, David | Alvarado, Jose Manuel | Gonzalez, Daniel | Aselton, Ora | Leighton, Bill | Whalen, Jim
Directors: Duplass, Jay
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Josh Sagers drives cross-country on a mission to deliver his father’s birthday gift - a giant purple LazyBoy.

Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mirren, Helen | Holmes, Katie | Tambor, Jeffrey | Watson, Barry | Coughlan, Marisa | Stauber, Liz | McKean, Michael | Ringwald, Molly | Fox, Vivica A. | White, John Patrick | Gant, Robert | Winokur, Marissa Jaret | Glenar, Cameron | Heitz, Alan | Klugman, Brian
Directors: Williamson, Kevin
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Leigh Ann Watson is a teenage student at Grandsboro High. An “A” in history would make her valedictorian and get her a scholarship to Harvard. When she turns in her history project, a 365 day diary of a girl accused in the Salem witch trials, a 6 month effort, she receives a “C” from history teacher Mrs. Tingle, the meanest teacher at Grandsboro High. This gives an opportunity for Marybeth Carter, a rival student, to achieve an “A” and become valedictorian. As Leigh Ann tries to catch up doing extra credit by setting up graduation seating with her best friend, Jo Lynn, history class failure Luke Churner, enters with Mrs. Tingle’s final exam cheat sheet. Leigh Ann is caught with it and Mrs. Tingle threatens to tell the Principal about it. The result would have been expulsion, so the trio of teenagers attempt to regain Leigh Ann’s innocence by reasoning with Mrs. Tingle. When their attempt fails, they attack Mrs. Tingle and tie her to her bed. Is there a possible way to prove Leigh Ann innocent?

Alive (1993)

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hawke, Ethan | Spano, Vincent | Hamilton, Josh | Ramsay, Bruce | Newton, John | Kriegel, David | Breznahan, Kevin | Behrens, Sam | Douglas, Illeana | Noseworthy, Jack | Meoli, Christian J. | Carpenter, Jake | DeLorenzo, Michael | Zúñiga, José | Nucci, Danny
Directors: Marshall, Frank
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The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team’s plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold. The only thing the team has riding on after losing so many of their good friends and family members is the slim chance of making it through alive and their faithfulness to God.

Good Year, A (2006)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Highmore, Freddie | Finney, Albert | Crowe, Russell | Spall, Rafe | Panjabi, Archie | Coyle, Richard | Righton, Ben | Kennedy, Patrick | Rhodes, Ali | Daniel Mays | Aalia, Nila | Hudson, Stephen | Facio, Giannina | Hollander, Tom | Briand, Lionel
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready to show. Memories, a beautiful woman, and a young American who says she’s Henry’s illegitimate daughter interrupt his plans. Did Max the boy know things that Max the man has forgotten?

War, Inc. (2008)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cusack, John | Cusack, Joan | Tomei, Marisa | Duff, Hilary | Kingsley, Ben | Aykroyd, Dan | Bellamy, Ned | Binev, Velizar | Casabani, Marc | Cross, Ben | Dearth, Doug | Diakov, Itai | Gatzov, Georgi | Harvey, Nick | Neikov, Lyubomir
Directors: Seftel, Joshua
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A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President (Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation’s CEO hires a troubled hit man (Cusack), to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation’s Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Duff) an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter (Tomei) in check.

He Was a Quiet Man (2007)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Slater, Christian | Gulager, John | Jones, Jamison | DeLuise, Michael | Ramsey, K.C. | Wells, David | Mantooth, Randolph | Whitney, Sewell | Macy, William H. | Baker, Greg | Lohmann, Brian | Roberts, Paul D. | Hardy, Bobby | Rothbard, Bill | Hall, Stanley C.
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A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he’s screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?

Neverwas (2005)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Eckhart, Aaron | McKellen, Ian | Nolte, Nick | Hurt, William | Bellamy, Bill | Cumming, Alan | Moriarty, Michael | Roberts, Ken | Henry, Tim | Macaluso, Joe | Airlie, Andrew | Drescher, Ryan | Eckhart, Jim | Hendery, Richard | Tisdale, Mark
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A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children’s book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic who helps him to discover the book’s secrets and his place in the story.

Charlie Bartlett (2007)

Friday, June 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Yelchin, Anton | Downey Jr., Robert | Hilton, Tyler | Rendall, Mark | Taylor, Dylan | Epstein, Jake | Malen, Jonathan | McGrath, Derek | Young, Stephen | Davé, Ishan | Brown, David | Fink, Eric | Jenkins, Noam | Graham, Aubrey | D'Ascenzo, Michael
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Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at a new public high school run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie’s honest charm and likability positions him as the resident “psychiatrist” dishing out advice, and the occasional prescription with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, to other students in need. Along the way, he decides to take some of his own advice, find romance, and learn to accept who he is, thus wielding a witty dark comedy about the angst-filled years before college.

Factotum (2005)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: France | Germany | Norway | Sweden | USA
Actors: Dillon, Matt | Taylor, Lili | Tomei, Marisa | Stevens, Fisher | Flamand, Didier | Shelly, Adrienne | Young, Karen | Lyons, Thomas | Brewington, Dean | Cada, James | Detmar, James Michael | Schweickhardt, Kurt | Noah, Dee | Noah, James | Egan, Michael
Directors: Hamer, Bent
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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of “Factotum” author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don’t interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.

Clockwork Orange, A (1971)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: McDowell, Malcolm | Magee, Patrick | Bates, Michael | Clarke, Warren | Clive, John | Corri, Adrienne | Duering, Carl | Farrell, Paul | Francis, Clive | Gover, Michael | Karlin, Miriam | Marcus, James | Morris, Aubrey | Quigley, Godfrey | Raynor, Sheila
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for the police to find. He agrees to try “aversion therapy” to shorten his jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, but the rest of his gang members are still after him.