Posts Tagged ‘black-comedy’

Rent (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Rapp, Anthony | Pascal, Adam | Dawson, Rosario | Martin, Jesse L. | Heredia, Wilson Jermaine | Menzel, Idina | Thoms, Tracie | Diggs, Taye | Roth, Julia | Radcliffe, Porscha | Payne, Stephen | Chan, Darryl | Clark, Ken | Ormond, Julia | Fine, David
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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This film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark (Anthony Rapp) and Roger (Adam Pascal), two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story. Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Tracie Thoms, and Taye Diggs also star.

Goodfellas (1990)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Liotta, Ray | Pesci, Joe | Bracco, Lorraine | Sorvino, Paul | Low, Chuck | DiLeo, Frank | Sivero, Frank | Darrow, Tony | Starr, Mike | Vincent, Frank | Adonis, Frank | Scorsese, Catherine | Mastrogiacomo, Gina | Shepherd, Suzanne
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960’s and 70’s New York. Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Joe Pesci plays Tommy Devito, a pure bred gangster, who turns out to be Henry’s best friend. Robert De Niro plays Jimmy Conway, the man who puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, played by Paul Sorvino, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive.

Face/Off (1997)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Cage, Nicolas | Allen, Joan | Nivola, Alessandro | Gershon, Gina | Swain, Dominique | Cassavetes, Nick | Presnell, Harve | Feore, Colm | Lynch, John Carroll | Pounder, CCH | Wisdom, Robert | Cho, Margaret | Denton, James | Ross, Matt
Directors: Woo, John
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Sean Archer is a government agent who for six years has been trying to apprehend terrorist, Caster Troy, who tried to kill him but ended up killing Archer’s son instead. When Archer corners Troy, Troy tells Archer that he has planted a bomb that will go off, unless he lets him go but Archer thinks that Troy is bluffing so a fight erupts that leaves Troy comatose. But later when they go through some of his brother, Pollux’s things, they discover that Troy was telling the truth. All what they need now is to find out where it is and the only person who knows is Pollux. And the only person that he will talk to about it, is his brother, Caster but unfortunately he is a vegetable. A government official then suggests to Archer that he assume Caster’s identity and ask Pollux about the bomb. So she brings him to a doctor who has perfected a method wherein the face of one individual is removed from him and placed on another. Archer agrees. The operation is a success so Archer as Troy goes to the prison where Pollux is being held and successfully gets him to tell him where the bomb is. Meanwhile, Troy who was believed to be comatose awakens and forces the doctor who operated on Archer to place Archer’s face on him. He then goes to the prison as Archer and taunts Archer by telling him that he has destroyed all documentation of the operation and eliminated everyone who knew about it. He then takes his brother out and leaves Archer in prison. But Archer somehow manages to escape and is now trying to find someone who will believe and help him, while Troy is plotting something.

Wolf (1994)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Spader, James | Nelligan, Kate | Jenkins, Richard | Atkins, Eileen | Plummer, Christopher | Rifkin, Ron | Hyde Pierce, David | Puri, Om | Scales, Prunella | Markinson, Brian | Gerety, Peter | English, Bradford | Zully, Stewart J.
Directors: Nichols, Mike
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Worn down and out of luck, aging publisher Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches both his job and wife out from under his nose. But after being bit by a wolf, Will suddenly finds himself energized, more competitive than ever, and possessed with amazingly heightened senses. Meanwhile, the beautiful daughter of his shrewd boss begins to fall for him - without realizing that the man she’s begun to love is gradually turning into the creature by which he was bit.

Casino (1995)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: France | USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Stone, Sharon | Pesci, Joe | Woods, James | Vincent, Frank | Cajano, Pasquale | Rickles, Don | Pollak, Kevin | Vella, Vinny | King, Alan | Jones, L. Q. | Smothers, Dick | Rigano, Joseph | Bloom, John | Prophet, Melissa
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas—it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970’s and ’80’s are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw—Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.

Ice Harvest, The (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cusack, John | Thornton, Billy Bob | Nielsen, Connie | Phillips, Lara | Quaid, Randy | Noble, Bill | Platt, Oliver | Smith, Brad | Bellamy, Ned | Starr, Mike | Jagodowski, T.J. | McDonough, Meghan Maureen | Baker, Tab | Dick, William | Pasquesi, David
Directors: Ramis, Harold
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A wickedly funny thriller that takes moviegoers on a wild ride brimming with larceny, lust and lethal behavior. In icebound Wichita, Kansas, it’s Christmas Eve, and this year Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) just might have something to celebrate. Charlie, an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, and his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) have just successfully embezzled $2 million from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). But the real prize for Charlie is the stunning Renata (Connie Nielsen), who runs the Sweet Cage strip club. Charlie hopes to slip out of town with Renata. But as daylight fades and an ice storm whirls, everyone from Charlie’s drinking buddy Pete Van Heuten (Oliver Platt) to the local police begin to wonder just what exactly is in Charlie’s Christmas stocking - and the 12 hours of Christmas Eve are filled with surprises.

Thank You for Smoking (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Eckhart, Aaron | Bello, Maria | Bright, Cameron | Brody, Adam | Elliott, Sam | Holmes, Katie | Koechner, David | Macy, William H. | J.K. Simmons | Duvall, Robert | Dickens, Kim | Lowe, Rob | Louiso, Todd | Miller, Dennis | Lunden, Joan
Directors: Reitman, Jason
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Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor has a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become too plain to ignore. Nick, however, revels in his job, using argument and twisted logic to place, as often as not, his clients in the positions of either altruistic do-gooders or victims. Nick’s son Joey needs to understand and respect his dad’s philosophy, and Nick works hard to respond to that need without compromising his lack of values. When a beautiful news reporter betrays Nick’s sexually-achieved trust, his world seems in danger of collapsing. But there’s always one more coffin nail in Nick’s pack.

Slither (2006)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Fillion, Nathan | Banks, Elizabeth | Henry, Gregg | Rooker, Michael | Thompson, Don | Saulnier, Tania | Radley, Xantha | Milligan, Dustin | Sutherland, Haig | Copping, Jennifer | Ludwig, Zak | Kirkpatrick, Kathryn | James, Brenda | Gale, Lorena | Anderson, Bart
Directors: Gunn, James
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In this blend of the B movie classic The Blob (1958) and some Romero’s zombies film, a meteorite collides in a small town. Grant finds it, and is infected by a parasite worm, which installs in his brain and causes him a creepy transformation into a monster. Starla, his wife, and Bill, a policeman, will try to stop him and the plague of worms generated by the creature.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Downey Jr., Robert | Kilmer, Val | Monaghan, Michelle | Bernsen, Corbin | Mihok, Dash | Miller, Larry | Dunbar, Rockmond | Sossamon, Shannyn | Lindvall, Angela | Downey, Indio Falconer | Winter, Ariel | Carnahan, Duane | Richman, Josh | Hackett, Martha | Fish, Nancy
Directors: Black, Shane
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A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who’s been training him for his upcoming role…

Jarhead (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Gyllenhaal, Jake | MacDonald, Scott | Ming, Lo | Foster, Kevin | Sarsgaard, Peter | Poitier, Damion | Galayini, Riad | Coyne, Craig | Randolph, Katherine | Bell, Rini | Taylor, Dendrie | Morrison, James | Zajic, Arman | Davis, Brianne | Foxx, Jamie
Directors: Mendes, Sam
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Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows “Swoff” (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper’s rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don’t understand against an enemy they can’t see for a cause they don’t fully fathom… Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford’s scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff’s friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.