Posts Tagged ‘christmas’

Black Christmas (2006)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Cassidy, Katie | Trachtenberg, Michelle | Chabert, Lacey | Cloke, Kristen | Martin, Andrea | Winstead, Mary Elizabeth | Lowe, Crystal | Hudson, Oliver | Harmon, Jessica | Savasta, Leela | Kole, Kathleen | Konoval, Karin | Mann, Robert | Friss, Dean | Wiebe, Cainan
Directors: Morgan, Glen
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Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she’d come to despise when she looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his beloved father’s brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the attic for good, to hold his silence of what he’d witnessed that night. His only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and starting a “new” family. As Billy’s mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic on Christmas Eve 1991, taking a rolling pin to his mother’s head, and a pointed tree ornament to her lovers eye before leaving his sister as disfigured as he was by blinding her. Before he could finish the job police forced there way in and dragged him off to mental institution and his sister a foster home, whose eye sight was saved in one eye… but not the other. Cut to the present where a security guard has been monitoring Billy’s progress since he came into his care, back in 1991. Knowing full well that during this time for fifteen years, Billy has made a break from this asylum, but never succeeding… until now. Far away, his childhood home is now a sorority house, where nine sisters and their house-mother are celebrating the holiday season together …but tonight they’re about to get a surprise visitor… and it’s not Santa.

Infamous (2006)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Weaver, Sigourney | Jones, Toby | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Rubin, Mark | Schwelling, Steve | Gill, Glover Johns | Arteaga, Rey | Sherburn, Justin | Halbreich, Andrew | Stevenson, Juliet | Panes, Michael | Davis, Hope | Curcio, Frank G. | Bullock, Sandra | Rossellini, Isabella
Directors: McGrath, Douglas
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On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arrests, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote is implacable, wanting the story, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?

Holiday, The (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Diaz, Cameron | Winslet, Kate | Law, Jude | Black, Jack | Wallach, Eli | Burns, Edward | Sewell, Rufus | Englefield, Miffy | Pritchard, Emma | Parish, Sarah | Sossamon, Shannyn | Macy, Bill | Berman, Shelley | Hahn, Kathryn | Krasinski, John
Directors: Meyers, Nancy
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In London, Iris Simpkins write a wedding column in a newspaper and has an unrequited love for her colleague Jasper Bloom. Nearby Christmas, she is informed that Jasper is engaged and will marry another colleague, and her life turns head over heels. In Los Angeles, the movie-trailers maker Amanda Woods has just broken with her unfaithful boyfriend Ethan and wants to forget him. Amanda access a house exchange website, and impulsively swaps her mansion for Iris’ cottage in Surrey for the holiday along the next two weeks. While in Surrey, Amanda meets Iris’ widow brother and book editor Graham and they fall in love for each other. Meanwhile Iris meet her next door neighbor, the ninety year old screenplay writer Arthur, who helps her to retrieve her self-esteem, and the film composer Miles, and they fall in love for each other.

Zodiac, The (2005)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Chambers, Justin | Tunney, Robin | Culkin, Rory | Mapother, William | Henke, Brad William | Linn, Rex | Hall, Philip Baker | Lindsey, Marty | Bloom, Brian | Irey, Shelby Alexis | Costa, Natassia | Palm, Kris | Dushku, Nate | Chesna, Katelin | Howell, Kathryn
Directors: Bulkley, Alexander
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THE ZODIAC takes a different look at the famous Zodiac Killer case from other screen treatments of the murders. More than a simple crime story, the film is an emotional thriller focusing on the murders’ impact on victims, their families and the wider community. The film follows a police detective and his son who become obsessed with the murders and endanger their family in the process.

Go (1999)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Holmes, Katie | Polley, Sarah | Krull, Suzanne | Askew, Desmond | Nathan Bexton | Peters, Robert | Wolf, Scott | Mohr, Jay | Olyphant, Timothy | Wise, Jodi Bianca | Fichtner, William | Bland, Rita | Denman, Tony | Hass, Scott | Melnick, Natasha
Directors: Liman, Doug
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‘Go’ is set mostly during one long Christmas Eve in the lives of a group of young adults on the events surrounding a drug deal in Los Angeles replayed three different times from three different views. In a straightforward manner; when slacker Simon Baines (Desmond Asknew) takes off for a getaway to Las Vegas with his friends, Ronna (Sarah Polley) takes his shift at the 24-hour grocery store where they work. When two guys, named Adam and Zack (Scott Wolf and Jay Mohr), walk in asking to score some dope from Simon, Ronna takes it upon herself and her friends Claire (Katie Holmes) and Mannie (Nathan Bexton) to buy some some stuff from the local drug dealer Todd Gains (Timothy Olyphant). But the drug deal is a sting that Adam and Zack are forced to set up by an overzealous narcotics agent, Burke (William Fichtner). Ronna is forced to dispose of the drugs. With no other alternative, she tries to double-cross Todd with phony drugs. Meanwhile in Las Vegas, Simon’s adventures with his best friend Marcus (Taye Diggs) hit an unfortunate turn during a trip to a strip club, while Adam and Zack end up spending Christmas Eve with Burke and his wife Irene (Jane Krakowski), and afterwards while driving to a rave that Ronna is dealing, the guys accidentally hit Ronna with their car and leave her for dead. Nearby, Mannie nearly OD’s on dope, and Claire gets more friendly with a vengeful Todd whom is now looking for Ronna.

Grumpy Old Men (1993)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Lemmon, Jack | Matthau, Walter | Ann-Margret | Burgess Meredith | Hannah, Daryl | Pollak, Kevin | Davis, Ossie | Henry, Buck | McDonald, Christopher | Cochran, Steve | Howard, Joe | O'Connor, Isabell | Sedlachek, Buffy | Lynch, John Carroll | Brin, Charles
Directors: Petrie, Donald
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John and Max are elderly men living next door to each other. They’re continuously arguing and insulting each other, and have been this way for over 50 years. One day, Ariel, moves into the street. Both men are attracted to her, and their rivalry steps up a gear.

Evelyn (2002)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Vavasseur, Sophie | Beagan, Niall | McDonagh, Hugh | Brosnan, Pierce | Devlin, Mairead | Kelly, Frank | Mullan, Claire | Lucchesi, Alvaro | Keogh, Garrett | O'Suilleabhain, Daithi | Irvine, Andrea | Quinn, Marian | Ardiff, Karen | Margulies, Julianna | Hogan, Bosco
Directors: Beresford, Bruce
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Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.

Money Train (1995)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Snipes, Wesley | Harrelson, Woody | Lopez, Jennifer | Blake, Robert | Cooper, Chris | Grifasi, Joe | Sowers, Scott | Sudduth, Skipp | Laresca, Vincent | Vasquez, Nelson | Patrick, Vincent | Turturro, Aida | Guess, Alvaleta | Pastore, Vincent | Tawil, David
Directors: Ruben, Joseph
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Two foster brothers (Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes) work as transit cops. While one’s life is as good as it gets, the other’s is a pit. After losing his job, getting dumped by his brother, and getting the crap kicked out of him by a loan shark for the umpteenth time, He implements his plan to steal the “money train,” a train carrying the New York Subway’s weekly revenue. But when things go awry, will his brother be able to save him in time?

Millions (2004)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Etel, Alexander Nathan | Phillips, Leslie | McGibbon, Lewis Owen | Nesbitt, James | Donovan, Daisy | Fulford, Christopher | Quigley, Pearce | Hogarth, Jane | Armstrong, Alun | Cilenti, Enzo | Memarzia, Nasser | Pogson, Kathryn | Kirkham, Harry | Macarthy, Cornelius | Agboke, Kolade
Directors: Boyle, Danny
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The UK is about to switch its currency from Pounds to Euros, giving a gang a chance to rob the poorly-secured train loaded with money on its way to incineration. But, during the robbery, one of the big bags falls literally from the sky on Damian’s playhouse, a 5-year old given to talking to saints. The boy then starts seeing what the world and the people around him are made of. Ethics, being human and the soul all come to the forefront in this film.

About a Boy (2002)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: France | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Grant, Hugh | Hoult, Nicholas | Collette, Toni | Weisz, Rachel | Small, Sharon | Cook, Madison | Cook, Jordan | Hutchison, Nicholas | Speechley, Ryan | Speechley, Joseph | Tena, Natalia | Kennington, Laura | Swaby, Tanika | McNicholl, Peter | Webster, Christopher
Directors: Weitz, Chris | Weitz, Paul
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Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, confident in his ability to leave them behind when they start to ask for a commitment. But Will’s hope of a continued bachelorhood is interrupted when he meets 12-year old Marcus, in many ways his complete opposite.