Posts Tagged ‘demolition’

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.

Guns of Navarone, The (1961)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Peck, Gregory | Niven, David | Quinn, Anthony | Baker, Stanley | Quayle, Anthony | Darren, James | Papas, Irene | Scala, Gia | Justice, James Robertson | Harris, Richard | Forbes, Bryan | Cuthbertson, Allan | Trubshawe, Michael | Herbert, Percy | Mikell, George
Directors: Lee Thompson, J.
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1943. With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean, with only one sea route for evacuation, a sea route commanded by two gigantic German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone. Immune to air attack and too much for Allied battleships to suppress, the British muster Keith Mallory, a commando officer who has been working on occupied Crete for nearly two years and who is an expert mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored by the Germans, a 400-foot cliff. Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them around German patrols to the area of the German guns. However, the commanding officer of the British team suffers grave injury in the climb and Mallory must take control of the mission, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller, who upon the arrival of the night of the raid finds his equipment has been sabotaged, thus exposing a traitor in the team’s ranks.

007 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Lazenby, George | Rigg, Diana | Savalas, Telly | Ferzetti, Gabriele | Steppat, Ilse | Maxwell, Lois | Baker, George | Lee, Bernard | Horsfall, Bernard | Llewelyn, Desmond | Borionko, Yuri | North, Virginia | Cheshire, Geoffrey | Allen, Irvin | Mountain, Terence
Directors: Hunt, Peter R.
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Whilst on leave, British agent James Bond prevents a young woman, Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a powerful crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange he offers Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy Ernst Blofeld. At first Bond agrees to the deal purely to fulfil his objective to kill Blofeld but later he grows to love Tracy but when the British learn that Blofeld plans to destroy mankind with a deadly virus, 007 is torn between his loyalty to his county and his intent to marry Tracy.

Head of State (2003)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Mac, Bernie | Baker, Dylan | Searcy, Nick | Whitfield, Lynn | Givens, Robin | Jones, Tamala | Rebhorn, James | David, Keith | Morgan, Tracy | March, Stephanie | Stanton, Robert | Ciccolella, Jude | Dogg, Nate | Mattson, Angie
Directors: Rock, Chris
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Mays Gilliam, a Washington D.C. neighborhood Alderman, is about to be red-lined out of his job. But after the untimely death of the party frontrunner, Gilliam is plucked from obscurity, and thrust into the limelight as his party’s nominee—for President of the United States. The players in Gilliam’s life include: Mitch Gilliam, his unsophisticated older brother who becomes his running mate; Kim, his ex-girlfriend who had once dumped him, but who now has a sudden change of heart as she sees a chance at becoming First Lady; Martin Geller, his campaign manager; Lisa Clark, the woman who truly believes in Gilliam; and Debra Lassiter, the woman who doesn’t have faith in his candidacy, and is serving as his reluctant advisor.

Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Glover, Danny | Pesci, Joe | Russo, Rene | Wilson, Stuart | Kahan, Steve | Love, Darlene | Wolfe, Traci | Hines, Damon | Smith, Ebonie | Millar, Gregory | Chinlund, Nick | Iorg, Jason | Scarfe, Alan | Hall, Delores
Directors: Donner, Richard
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Martin Riggs finally meets his match in the form of Lorna Cole, a beautiful but tough policewoman. Together with Roger Murtaugh, his partner, the three attempt to expose a crooked former policeman and his huge arms racket. The crooked cop (Jack Travis) thwarts them at every turn, mainly by killing anyone who is about to talk, but Murtaugh has personal problems of his own as his family are brought into the equation.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (2005)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Def, Mos | Bailey, Bill | Chancellor, Anna | Davis, Warwick | Deschanel, Zooey | Elliot, Su | Freeman, Martin | Fry, Stephen | Griffiths, Richard | Jackson, Dominique | Jones, Simon | Lennon, Thomas | Longhurst, Mark | Macdonald, Kelly | Malkovich, John
Directors: Jennings, Garth
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Arthur Dent is a British everyman. When he finally meets his perfect woman he balks at her request to go some place and she is then stolen away from him by a man claiming to have his own spaceship arrives at the party. Arthur next finds that his home is to be demolished for a bypass. He thinks it is only his house, but later realizes, with the help of Ford Prefect, that his galactic home, Earth, is going to be destroyed as well. Ford and Arthur then catch a ride on a spaceship and are Arthur finds himself on the adventure of a lifetime. He also finds the woman stolen away from him and the man who pilfered her. If Earth can be restored will Arthur want to ease back into his boring life?

007 Goldfinger (1964)

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Blackman, Honor | Fröbe, Gert | Eaton, Shirley | Mallet, Tania | Sakata, Harold | Lee, Bernard | Benson, Martin | Linder, Cec | Willis, Austin | Maxwell, Lois | Nagy, Bill | Mellinger, Michael | Cranwell, Peter | Regin, Nadja
Directors: Hamilton, Guy
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The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) has initiated “Operation Grand Slam,” a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. James Bond, armed with his specially equipped Aston Martin (its accessory package includes built-in machine guns, a smoke screen and an ejector seat), must stop the plan by overcoming several outrageous adversaries. First there’s Oddjob (Harold Sakata), the mute servant who kills at the toss of a lethal hat; next, the beautiful Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton), who gives new meaning to the phrase “golden girl”; and finally, sexy pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), whose romantic feelings for Bond complicate her involvement in Goldfinger’s high-flying scheme.

I, Robot (2004)

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Smith, Will | Moynahan, Bridget | Tudyk, Alan | Cromwell, James | Greenwood, Bruce | Ricard, Adrian | McBride, Chi | Wasserman, Jerry | Hogan, Fiona | Shinkoda, Peter | Chen, Terry | Haysom, David | Heindl, Scott | Wilkins, Sharon | March, Craig
Directors: Proyas, Alex
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Set in a future Earth (2035 A.D.) where robots are common assistants and workers for their human owners, this is the story of “robotophobic” Chicago Police Detective Del Spooner’s (Smith) investigation into the murder of Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), who works at U.S. Robotics, in which a robot, Sonny (Tudyk), appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the robot had violated the Three Laws of Robotics, which is apparently impossible. It seems impossible because.. if robots can break those laws, there’s nothing to stop them from taking over the world, as humans have grown to become completely dependent upon their robots. Or maybe… they already have? Aiding Spooner in his investigation is a psychologist, Dr. Susan Calvin (Moynahan), who specializes in the psyches of robots.

Forrest Gump (1994)

Monday, February 11th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Wright Penn, Robin | Sinise, Gary | Williamson, Mykelti | Field, Sally | Williams, Rebecca | Humphreys, Michael Conner | Herthum, Harold G. | Kelly, George | Penny, Bob | Randall, John | Anderson, Sam | Moorer, Margo | Telech, Ione M. | Seabrook, Christine
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950’s through the 1970’s including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he’s too stupid to realize the significance of his actions. Forrest becomes representative of the baby boomer generation having walked through life blindly.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The (2003)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Shah, Naseeruddin | Wilson, Peta | Curran, Tony | Townsend, Stuart | West, Shane | Flemyng, Jason | Roxburgh, Richard | Ryan, Max | Goodman-Hill, Tom | Hemmings, David | O'Neill, Terry | Pellar, Rudolf | Willox, Robert | Orr, Robert
Directors: Norrington, Stephen
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Renowned adventurer Allan Quatermain (Connery) leads a team of extraordinary figures with legendary powers to battle the technological terror of a madman known as “The Fantom.” This “League” comprises seafarer/inventor Captain Nemo (Shah), vampiress Mina Harker (Wilson), an invisible man named Rodney Skinner (Curran), American secret service agent Tom Sawyer (West), the ageless and invincible Dorian Gray (Townsend), and the dangerous split personality of Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Flemyng).