Posts Tagged ‘chrysler-building-new-york’

Kate & Leopold (2001)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan, Meg | Jackman, Hugh | Schreiber, Liev | Meyer, Breckin | Lyonne, Natasha | Whitford, Bradley | Whitehead, Paxton | Gray, Spalding | Josh Stamberg | Sussman, Matthew | Ayanna, Charlotte | Bosco, Philip | Jack, Andrew | Tracy, Stan | Schaal, Kristen
Directors: Mangold, James
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Kate and her actor brother live in N.Y. in the 21st Century. Her ex-boy friend, Stuart, lives above her apartment and finds this space near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time. He goes back to the eighteen hundreds and takes pictures of the place. Leopold, a man living in the 1870’s, was puzzled by Stuart’s tiny camera and decides to follow him and they both ended up in this century. Leopold is clueless about his new surroundings. He gets help and insights from Charlie who thinks that Leopold is an actor who is always in character. Leopold is a highly intelligent man and tries his best to learn and even improve the modern conveniences that he encounters.

Mouse That Roared, The (1959)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Sellers, Peter | Seberg, Jean | Hartnell, William | Kossoff, David | Leo McKern | Parke, MacDonald | Willis, Austin | Bateson, Timothy | Landis, Monte | Gifford, Alan | Gordon, Colin | Kasket, Harold | Brown, Wally | Cey, Jacques | Clay, Charles
Directors: Arnold, Jack
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The best laid plans of mice and men … A cold war satire emphasising the new emerged American Superpower’s use of foreign aid to buy friends and keep then away from the USSR’s influence. Peter Sellers, as the scheming Prime Minister of Grand Fenwick, plots with Peter Sellers, as the scheming Grand Duchess, to declare war on the USA, lose and get that foreign aid. Unfortunately, they forget to tell Peter Sellers, as Tully Bascombe, commander of their mediaeval army. This honourable man does his best for his country and through a series of unbelievable circumstances (well, this is a comedy) to win. Now, who has to give aid to whom?

Opportunists, The (2000)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Walken, Christopher | MacDonald, Peter | Pitoniak, Anne | Burton, Kate | Mayzik, Jim | Farmiga, Vera | Logue, Donal | Lauper, Cyndi | D'Amato, Paul | Dunn, Wally | Krupa, Olek | Cooper, Chuck | Ortiz, John | Zúñiga, José | Vega, Brandon
Directors: Connell, Myles
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Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she’s saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up on his doorstep, the two team up for one last heist.

Siege, The (1998)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Bening, Annette | Willis, Bruce | Shalhoub, Tony | Bouajila, Sami | Larby, Ahmed Ben | Mohamed, Mosleh | Pai, Lianna | Valley, Mark | Gwaltney, Jack | Proval, David | Reddick, Lance | Knaster, Jeremy | Hill, William | Mandvi, Aasif
Directors: Zwick, Edward
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After the abduction by the US military of an Islamic religious leader, New York City becomes the target of escalating terrorist attacks. Anthony Hubbard, the head of the FBI’s Counter-Intelligence Task Force in New York, teams up with CIA operative Elise Kraft to hunt down the terrorist cells responsible for the attacks. As the bombings continue, the US government responds by declaring martial law, sending US troops, led by Gen. Devereaux, into the streets of New York City.

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Maguire, Tobey | Dunst, Kirsten | Franco, James | Molina, Alfred | Harris, Rosemary | J.K. Simmons | Murphy, Donna | Gillies, Daniel | Baker, Dylan | Nunn, Bill | Ferlito, Vanessa | Mandvi, Aasif | Dafoe, Willem | Robertson, Cliff | Raimi, Ted
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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Peter Parker (Tobey McGuire) can’t seem to catch any kind of break. Being Spiderman has brought him nothing but problems as far as his personal life is concerned. Not only that, Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is engaged to astronaut John Jameson, and Peter may lose her forever. Things are so bad for him that he is pushed past his breaking point, so he decides that he doesn’t want to be Spiderman anymore, until a freak accident transforms Dr. Otto Octavius into Dr. Octopus, a super-villian with four metal tentacles coming out of him. Peter realizes that only Spiderman can stop him, but of course, problems arise. Mary Jane gets caught in the middle, and Harry Osborn, who still blames Spiderman for the death of his father, Norman Osborn, also the Green Goblin, wants him dead. Spiderman will have to push himself past his limits if he’s going to survive.

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.

Highlander (1986)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hart, Roxanne | Brown, Clancy | Connery, Sean | Edney, Beatie | North, Alan | Polito, Jon | Gish, Sheila | Quarshie, Hugh | Lambert, Christopher | Diamond, Peter | Hartman, Billy | Cosmo, James | Imrie, Celia | Findlay, Alistair
Directors: Mulcahy, Russell
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Connor Macleod was born in 1518 in the Highlands of Scotland. In 1536, after facing a mysterious, evil opponent, he survives a fatal stab wound and is banished from his village, for they believe his survival is the work of the Devil. Five years later, Macleod is met by Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez, a Spanish swordsman who teaches Macleod the awful truth; he is immortal, one of a race of many who can only die when the head is cut from the body. When one immortal takes the head of another, the loser’s power is absorbed into the winner. Ramirez teaches Macleod the ways of the sword, until Ramirez is tragically killed by Connor’s ultimate opponent, the evil Kurgan, a murderous immortal brute who lusts for the ultimate power of the immortals, “The Prize”; enough power to rule the earth forever. Connor fights his way through the centuries, until the time of the Gathering, when the few immortals who have survived the endless battles come together to fight until only one remains, and that winner will receive The Prize. The time: 1985. The place: New York City. The final fight is about to begin, and in the end, there can be only one.

Deep Impact (1998)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Duvall, Robert | Leoni, Téa | Wood, Elijah | Redgrave, Vanessa | Freeman, Morgan | Schell, Maximilian | Cromwell, James | Eldard, Ron | Favreau, Jon | Innes, Laura | McCormack, Mary | Schiff, Richard | Sobieski, Leelee | Underwood, Blair | Scott, Dougray
Directors: Leder, Mimi
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As a comet is on a collision course with earth, humans have to prepare for their survival. They randomly select eight hundred thousand people to be saved in order to keep the human race alive.

Conspiracy Theory (1997)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Roberts, Julia | Stewart, Patrick | Cozart, Cylk | Kahan, Steve | Alexander, Terry | McArthur, Alex | McLachlan, Rod | Potts, Michael | Sterling, Jim | Hebert, Rich | Williams, Brian J. | Aguilar, G.A. | Labao, Cece Neber | Trainor, Saxon
Directors: Donner, Richard
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Jerry Fletcher is a man in love with a woman he observes from afar. She works for the government. Fletcher is an outspoken critic of that government. He has conspiracy theories for everything, from aliens to political assassinations. But soon, one of his theories finds itself to be accurate. But which one? Some dangerous people want him dead and the only person he trusts is that woman he loves but does not know.

Fantastic Four (2005)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Gruffudd, Ioan | Alba, Jessica | Evans, Chris | Chiklis, Michael | McMahon, Julian | Linklater, Hamish | Washington, Kerry | Holden, Laurie | Parker, David | McNulty, Kevin | Menounos, Maria | Kopsa, Michael | Airlie, Andrew | Hutton, Pascale | Gray, G. Michael
Directors: Story, Tim
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When an experimental space voyage goes awry, four people are changed by cosmic rays. Reed Richards, inventor and leader of the group gains the ability to stretch his body, and takes the name, Mr. Fantastic. His girlfriend, Sue Storm, gains the ability to turn invisible and create force fields, calling herself the Invisible Woman. Her younger brother Johnny Storm gains the ability to control fire, including covering his own body with flame, becoming the Human Torch. Pilot Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong rock creature calling himself Thing. Together, they use their unique powers to explore the strange aspects of the world, and to foil the evil plans of Doctor Doom.