Posts Tagged ‘elevator’

Smokin’ Aces (2007)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Cumer, Zach | Bateman, Jason | Common | Ruskin, Joseph | Garcia, Andy | Rocco, Alex | Newton, Wayne | Keys, Alicia | Liotta, Ray | Piven, Jeremy | Berg, Peter | Reynolds, Ryan | Henderson, Martin | Holley, Christopher Michael
Directors: Carnahan, Joe
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An FBI agent (Reynolds) hunts for a Las Vegas stand up comedian (Piven) who has decided to squeal on the mob but, before he heads off for protective custody, decides to go to the casinos at Lake Tahoe for one last good time, drawing a crowd of assassins (including Affleck and Keys).

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilder, Gene | Albertson, Jack | Ostrum, Peter | Kinnear, Roy | Cole, Julie Dawn | Stone, Leonard | Nickerson, Denise | Denney, Nora | Themmen, Paris | Reit, Ursula | Bollner, Michael | Sowle, Diana | Woods, Aubrey | Battley, David | Meisner, Günter
Directors: Stuart, Mel
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Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by ‘Gene Wilder’(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by ‘Jack Albertson’ (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done?

Prime (2005)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Streep, Meryl | Thurman, Uma | Greenberg, Bryan | Abrahams, Jon | Biasi, Adriana | Younger, David | Brown, Palmer | Orth, Zak | Parisse, Annie | Dollar, Aubrey | Adler, Jerry | Belack, Doris | Essandoh, Ato | Anzuelo, David | Aborn, Naomi
Directors: Younger, Ben
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Prime is a sophisticated, character comedy set in New York City about Rafi, a recently divorced 37-year-old career woman from Manhattan and what happens when Dave, a talented 23-year-old painter from the upper West Side of Manhattan falls in love with her. The film looks at love from everyone’s point-of-view friends, relatives and in this case, Rafi’s therapist Lisa, and follows all who comes apart and some who pull it together, when two people fall in love.

Divorce, Le (2003)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Hudson, Kate | Lhomme, Jean-Marie | Watts, Naomi | Buchet-Deàk, Esmée | Pivert, Jean-Jacques | Poupaud, Melvil | Samie, Catherine | Labarthe, Samuel | Caron, Leslie | Thierry Lhermitte | Richard, Nathalie | Gruen, Samuel | Wyckoff, Peter | Lonnoy, Sandrel | Close, Glenn
Directors: Ivory, James
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French vs. American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her Frenchman-wed sister in Paris.

Dark Blue (2002)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Speedman, Scott | Michele, Michael | Gleeson, Brendan | Rhames, Ving | Kurupt | Mihok, Dash | Banks, Jonathan | Davidovich, Lolita | Alexander, Khandi | Lee, Dana | Way, Chapman Russell | Hinkle, Marin | Williams, Jim Cody | Casados, Eloy
Directors: Shelton, Ron
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Set in the Los Angeles Police Department in April 1992, Dark Blue is a dramatic thriller that takes place just days before the acquittal of four white officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King and the subsequent L.A. riots. In this racially-charged climate,the LAPD’s elite Special Investigations Squad (SIS) is assigned a high-profile quadruple homicide. As they work the case, veteran detective Eldon Perry, known for his tough street tactics and fiery temper, tutors SIS rookie Bobby Keough in the grim realities of police intimidation and corruption. Meanwhile, Assistant Chief Holland, the only man in the department willing to stand up to the SIS, threatens to end Perry’s brand of singlehanded “justice” on the Los Angeles streets. While navigating through the tumultuous neighborhoods of South Central L.A., Perry and Keough must track down cold-blooded killers and face their own demons, which prove to be more ruthless than the criminals they pursue.

One Point O (2004)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Iceland | Romania | USA
Actors: Sisto, Jeremy | Unger, Deborah Kara | Henriksen, Lance | Byrd, Eugene | Payne, Bruce | Kier, Udo | Popa, Ana Maria | Hostina, Emil | Knapp, Sebastian | Cotimanis, Constantin | Devlen, Matt | Rees, Richard | Maier, Lucia | Ciuhulescu, Roxana | Weinberg, Michael
Directors: Renfroe, Jeff | Thorsson, Marteinn
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After receiving mysterious empty packages inside his apartment, a young computer-programmer (named Simon) begins a personal investigation into their origins. This leads him to discover his odd and eccentric neighbors; an artificially intelligent robot-head, named Adam; a virtual-reality sex game; and a possible corporate conspiracy. As the story progresses, Simon’s grip on reality becomes more and more tenuous, while his craving for Nature Fresh milk becomes almost unbearable. Is it all just in his mind, or is something more sinister happening here?

Quicksand (2001)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Keaton, Michael | Caine, Michael | Godrèche, Judith | Serbedzija, Rade | Marsh, Matthew | Berkeley, Xander | Wilhoite, Kathleen | Ferjani, Rachel | Löwensohn, Elina | Thomas, Clare | Norris, Hermione | Beck, William | Berteloot, Jean-Yves | Castaldi, Jean-Pierre | Stinton, Colin
Directors: Mackenzie, John
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The workaholic head of the compliance section of a New York bank flies to Monaco to investigate unusual deposits from an offshore bank and meets a down-on-his-luck international film star who has become embroiled in criminal activities.

Accidental Spy, The (2001)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: Hong Kong
Actors: Chan, Jackie | Tsang, Eric | Hsu, Vivian | Kim, Min | Wu, Hsing-kuo | Cheung, Alfred | Jones, Anthony Rene | Simon, Glory | Allan, Bradley James | Cheung, Tat-Ming
Directors: Chan, Teddy
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This action movie unfolds with the story of Bei, a salesman at a workout equipment store, who harbors dreams of adventures. It all starts when on one normal dull day, Bei follows his instincts to trail two suspicious looking men into an alley. When he realizes that these men are robbing a jewelry store, he jumps into action to foil their plans. Soon after Bei meets Liu, a private investigator who convinces Bei that he may be the long-lost son of a rich Korean businessman. In no time, Bei is on his way to fulfill his dreams of adventure and fortune travelling to Korea and even exotic Turkey. As Bei is drawn deeper into the game of cat and mouse, he realizes he has become the key to locating a lung cancer virus. With an assortment of characters fighting him along the way, will Bei succeed in finding the virus himself?

007 You Only Live Twice (1967)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Connery, Sean | Wakabayashi, Akiko | Hama, Mie | Tamba, Tetsuro | Shimada, Teru | Dor, Karin | Pleasence, Donald | Lee, Bernard | Maxwell, Lois | Llewelyn, Desmond | Gray, Charles | Chin, Tsai | Fanene Maivia, Peter | Kwouk, Burt | Chow, Michael
Directors: Gilbert, Lewis
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When an American space capsule is swallowed up by what they believe to be a Russian spaceship, World War 3 nearly breaks out. The British Government, however, suspect that other powers are at work as the space craft went down near Japan. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the force behind the theft, as James Bond discovers, but its motives are far from clear, and he must first find out where the captured space capsule is held before America and Russia initiate another world war.

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.