Posts Tagged ‘dream-sequence’

Papillon (1973)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: McQueen, Steve | Hoffman, Dustin | Jory, Victor | Gordon, Don | Zerbe, Anthony | Deman, Robert | Parfrey, Woodrow | Mumy, Bill | Coulouris, George | Assan, Ratna | Smithers, William | Avery, Val | Sierra, Gregory | Tayback, Vic | Watson, Mills
Directors: Schaffner, Franklin J.
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Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for ‘butterfly’ (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in ‘Guiane’ (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment.

Old School (2003)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilson, Luke | Vaughn, Vince | Piven, Jeremy | Lewis, Juliette | Ferrell, Will | Pompeo, Ellen
Directors: Phillips, Todd
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Mitch, Frank and Beanie are disillusioned with their personal lives begining when Mitch’s nymphomanic girlfriend, Heidi, cheats on him, then former party animal Frank gets married, but unwilling to get go of his wild life, and Beanie is a family man seeking to reclaim his wild and crazy youth. Beanie suggests that they form their own fraternity in Mitch’s new house on a college campus to re-live their glory days by bringing together a variety of misfit college students, losers, middle-aged and elderly retirees as their new friends and later try to avoid being evicted by the new Dean of Students, Pritchard, whom still holds a personal grudge against all three of them.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Banderas, Antonio | Hayek, Salma | Depp, Johnny | Rourke, Mickey | Mendes, Eva | Trejo, Danny | Iglesias, Enrique | Leonardi, Marco | Marin, Cheech | Blades, Rubén | Dafoe, Willem | Vigil, Gerardo | Armendáriz Jr., Pedro | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Larriva, Tito
Directors: Rodriguez, Robert
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A drug lord who pretends to overthrow the Mexican government. A corrupt CIA agent (Johnny Depp) who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy to carry out the drug lord’s uprising against the government.

Severance (2006)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK
Actors: Stephens, Toby | Blakley, Claudie | Nyman, Andy | Ceesay, Babou | McInnerny, Tim | Harris, Laura | Dyer, Danny | Gilliam, David | Drajkó, Juli | Viktor, Judit | Boros, Sándor | Törköly, Levente | Oláh, János | Ferencz, Attila | Kasi, Bela
Directors: Smith, Christopher
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When a weapons multi-national Palisade Defence reward their European sales division with a team-building weekend in the mountains of Eastern Europe, comedy blends with horror as the team fight first amongst themselves, and later for survival against a group of war-crazed killers intent on revenge.

Nancy Drew (2007)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Family | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roberts, Emma | Flitter, Josh | Thieriot, Max | Cook, Rachael Leigh | Donovan, Tate | Alva, Amanda | Abrams, Phil | Bell, Marshall | Bemis, Cliff | Borjas, Edgar | Bostwick, Barry | Clark, Adam | Cooper, Rich | D'Ambrosio, Vito | Dickens, Darnell
Directors: Fleming, Andrew
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This movie is about Nancy Drew going to Los Angeles California with her father, who was going there on business. While she was there she happened upon a mystery that involved a murdered movie actress, and her daughter. Nancy found out her her daughter was, when nobody even knew that the actress had any kids, and the actress’s daughter inherited all of the actress’s money. At the end of the movie, once they got back home, Ned and Nancy kissed for what I think was their first actual kiss, and right after their quick kiss Nancy’s father told her that she had a call from some people in Germany, who were talking about the Loch Ness Monster.

Lord of the Flies (1990)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Getty, Balthazar | Furrh, Chris | Pipoly, Danuel | Dale, James Badge | Taft, Andrew | Taft, Edward | Rule, Gary | Wells, Terry | MacDonald, Braden | Burgin, Angus | Zentz, Martin | Jacobs, Brian | Amabile, Vincent | Weinstein, David | Bell, Chuck
Directors: Hook, Harry
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Adapted from William Golding’s novel of the same name, this is the story of a group of military school boys who become stranded on an island. They are, however, not alone. To begin with their commander is dragged from the water by Ralph. It is after the commander becomes feverish and delusional that he runs away and the boys develop their own society, with frightening and powerful consequences.

Event Horizon (1997)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Fishburne, Laurence | Neill, Sam | Quinlan, Kathleen | Richardson, Joely | Jones, Richard T. | Noseworthy, Jack | Isaacs, Jason | Pertwee, Sean | Marinker, Peter | Chant, Holley | Wright, Barclay | Huntley, Noah | Jezek, Robert | Booth, Emily | May, Teresa
Directors: Anderson, Paul W.S.
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A rescue crew in space comes to investigate and if possible, rescue a government spaceship gone missing for seven years. When they board the ship, they learn that the ship has been somewhere beyond space and brought something back with it that is an unspeakable evil.

Femme Fatale (2002)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Romijn, Rebecca | Banderas, Antonio | Coyote, Peter | Ebouaney, Eriq | Edouard Montoute | Rasmussen, Rie | Frémont, Thierry | Henry, Gregg | Curzon, Fiona | Milgram, Daniel | Minéo, Jean-Marc | Chatel, Jean | Petit, Stéphane | Follet, Olivier | Eva Darlan
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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International con artist/thief Laure Ash helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. She double-crosses her partners-in-crime and makes off with the diamonds to Paris where she accidently assumes the identy of a distraught woman who commits suicide and then leaves the country. Seven years later, Laure (now called Lily Watts) re-surfaces as the wife of the new American ambassador to France where a certain Nicolas Barto, a Spanish photographer, takes her picture which sets the stage for a motion of events as the evil Laure resorts to low, underhanded means to protect her former identity by emotionally and financially destroying Nicolas while evading her former partners-in-crime still looking for her to reclaim the stolen diamonds.

Fountain, The (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | Weisz, Rachel | Burstyn, Ellen | Margolis, Mark | McHattie, Stephen | Hernandez, Fernando | Curtis, Cliff | Thomas, Sean Patrick | Murphy, Donna | Suplee, Ethan | McMillan, Richard | Brass, Lorne | Aronofsky, Abraham | Asofsky, Renee | Majumdar, Anish
Directors: Aronofsky, Darren
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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that’s wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.

Reaping, The (2007)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Swank, Hilary | Morrissey, David | Elba, Idris | Robb, AnnaSophia | Rea, Stephen | Ragsdale, William | McConnell, John | Jensen, David | Landry, Yvonne | Garland, Samuel | Cleveland, Myles | Frankle, Andrea | Lynch, Mark | Greer, Stuart | Grice, Lara
Directors: Hopkins, Stephen
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The death of a child in mysterious circumstances; sparks of a series of events that seem to represent biblical plagues, start occurring in of all places a town called *Haven* located deep in the bowels of bible belt country in the bayous of Louisiana. A former Christian missionary turned religious phenomena debunker and her top open minded student turned personnel assistant is sent to investigate.