Posts Tagged ‘army’

Hero (2002)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: China | Hong Kong
Actors: Li, Jet | Leung Chiu Wai, Tony | Cheung, Maggie | Zhang, Ziyi | Chen, Daoming | Yen, Donnie | Yuan, Liu Zhong | Yong, Zheng Tia | Qin, Yan | Xiao Yang, Chang | Ya Kun, Zhang | Hua, Ma Wen | Ming, Jin | Hua, Xu Kuang | Xin, Wang Shou
Directors: Zhang, Yimou
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In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin’s three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.

Host, The (2006)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Song, Kang-ho | Byeon, Hie-bong | Park, Hae-il | Ko, Ah-sung | Bae, Du-na | Anselmo, David Joseph | Hersh, Philip | Lazar, Paul | Morgan, Clinton | Oh, Dal-su | Park, No-shik | Rhee, Brian | Wilson, Scott | Yim, Pil-Sung
Directors: Bong, Joon-ho
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The film revolves around Park Hee-bong, a man in his late 60s. Park runs a small snack bar on the banks of the Han River and lives with his two sons, one daughter, and one granddaughter. The Parks seem to lead a quite ordinary and peaceful life, but maybe a bit poorer than the average Seoulite. Hee-bong’s elder son Gang-du is an immature and incompetent man in his 40s, whose wife left home long ago. Nam-il is the youngest son, an unemployed grumbler, and daughter Nam-joo is an archery medalist and member of the national team. One day, an unidentified monster suddenly appears from the depths of the Han River and spreads panic and death, and Gang-du’s daughter Hyun-seo is carried off by the monster and disappears. All the family members are in a great agony because they lost someone very dear to them. But when they find out she is still alive, they resolve to save her.

Beowulf (2007)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Winstone, Ray | Wright Penn, Robin | Hopkins, Anthony | Bilezikjian, John | Martin, Brice | Fortag, Sonje | Baker-Bernard, Sharisse | Salt, Charlotte | Renee, Julene | Ellis, Greg | Young, Rik | Roché, Sebastian | Harter Zemeckis, Leslie | Malkovich, John | Schultz, Woody
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel’s mother, who begins killing out of revenge.

Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Holden, William | Hawkins, Jack | Guinness, Alec | Hayakawa, Sessue | Donald, James | Horne, Geoffrey | Morell, André | Williams, Peter | Boxer, John | Herbert, Percy | Goodwin, Harold | Sears, Ann | Okawa, Heihachiro | Katsumoto, Keiichiro | Chakrabandhu, M.R.B.
Directors: Lean, David
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The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.

Kelly’s Heroes (1970)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | War
Countries: USA | Yugoslavia
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Savalas, Telly | Rickles, Don | O'Connor, Carroll | Sutherland, Donald | MacLeod, Gavin | Buckley, Hal | Margolin, Stuart | Morris, Jeff | Davalos, Richard | Lopez, Perry | Troupe, Tom | Stanton, Harry Dean | Balduzzi, Dick | Collins, Gene
Directors: Hutton, Brian G.
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During World War II, Lieutenant Kelly learns of a German bank located behind enemy lines containing 16 million dollars in gold bars. His platoon, led by Big Joe, has three days of R&R coming, so, with the aid of hustler Crapgame, anachronistic hippie Oddball, three Sherman tanks and a touch of irreverence, Kelly leads his men deep into French territory to steal the gold for themselves.

White Christmas (1954)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Crosby, Bing | Kaye, Danny | Clooney, Rosemary | Vera-Ellen | Dean Jagger | Wickes, Mary | Brascia, John | Whitfield, Anne | Butala, Tony | Cargyle, Glen | Chakiris, George | Clark, Les | Crosson, Robert | De la Brosse, Marcel | Dearing, Sayre
Directors: Curtiz, Michael
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After leaving the Army after W.W.II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act. Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters (Betty and Judy) who also have a song-and-dance act. When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, is the lodge owner. A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General.

Last King of Scotland, The (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Whitaker, Forest | McAvoy, James | Washington, Kerry | Anderson, Gillian | McBurney, Simon | Oyelowo, David | Mukiibi Nkaaga, Abby | Kotz, Adam | Rafferty, Barbara | Ashton, David | Foden, Giles | Williams, Andy | Amati, Martina | Salmon, Peter | Wawuyo, Michael
Directors: Macdonald, Kevin
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In the early 1970s, Nicholas Garrigan, a young semi-idealistic Scottish doctor, comes to Uganda to assist in a rural hospital. Once there, he soon meets up with the new President, Idi Amin, who promises a golden age for the African nation. Garrigan hits it off immediately with the rabid Scotland fan, who soon offers him a senior position in the national health department and becomes one of Amin’s closest advisers. However as the years pass, Garrigan cannot help but notice Amin’s increasingly erratic behavior that grows beyond a legitimate fear of assassination into a murderous insanity that is driving Uganda into bloody ruin. Realizing his dire situation with the lunatic leader unwilling to let him go home, Garrigan must make some crucial decisions that could mean his death if the despot finds out.

Idiocracy (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilson, Luke | Rudolph, Maya | Shepard, Dax | Campos, Anthony 'Citric' | Herman, David | Castillo, Sonny | McAfee, Kevin | Musgrave, Robert | Melton, Ryan | Long, Justin | Jones, Heath | Muñoz, Eli | Fischler, Patrick | Hunt, Darlene | Ransdell, Ryan
Directors: Judge, Mike
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The purpose of the program set up by the Pentagon, called the “Human Hibernation Project,” is designed so that the military can save their best men for when they’re needed most. According to the officers heading the project, too many times the talents and expensive training of the best pilots and soldiers go to waste during times of peace. So they enlist Bauers (Wilson), the most under-achieving average guy they’ve got, to be the test subject for the initial hibernation experiment. Also participating in the top-secret program is Rita (Rudolph), a prostitute who agreed to take part in exchange for dropping some criminal charges against her, among other things. Of course, the experiment, which was to last only a year, goes under due to the arrest of Officer Collins, who is busted for heading a prostitution ring. Seeing as though he was in charge of the experiment, one of the only ones who knew of its existence, and “due to a lot of top-secret red tape… and the massive scandals and base closure that followed, Joe and Rita were forgotten about.

4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Gruffudd, Ioan | Alba, Jessica | Evans, Chris | Chiklis, Michael | Jones, Doug | McMahon, Julian | Washington, Kerry | Garrett, Beau | Benson, Peter | Braugher, Andre | Duffy, Graeme | Fishburne, Laurence | Grover, Fabrice | Menendez, Gonzalo | Cant, Heather
Directors: Story, Tim
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With Von Doom back in his homeland of Latveria the fantastic four have new troubles when Galactus has decided that Earth is his next target. When his henchman, The Silver Surfer, is sent to Earth he discovers that he’s getting more than he bargained for when he encounters the Fantastic Four. But that’s not all when Dr. Doom decides that after two years in the homeland he is ready to return.

Universal Soldier (1992)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Lundgren, Dolph | Walker, Ally | O'Ross, Ed | Orbach, Jerry | Rippy, Leon | Wells, Tico | Moeller, Ralf | Trebor, Robert | Davis, Gene | Snyder, Drew | Lister, Tommy 'Tiny' | Rhee, Simon | Norris, Eric | Winther, Michael
Directors: Emmerich, Roland
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An elite team of soldiers has been used against terrorists where they use astounding physical capabilities to overcome them. Victoria, a reporter, follows them and discovers a part of their secret. When one of the team kills her cameraman she tries to escape. Luc, one of the soldiers begins to have flashbacks and turns sides and helps her as the remainder of the team follows to protect their secrets.