Posts Tagged ‘england’

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.

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.

007 Moonraker (1979)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Moore, Roger | Chiles, Lois | Lonsdale, Michael | Kiel, Richard | Clery, Corinne | Lee, Bernard | Keen, Geoffrey | Llewelyn, Desmond | Maxwell, Lois | Suga, Toshirô | Bolton, Emily | Ravalec, Blanche | Bochenko, Irka | Marshall, Mike | Shenna, Leila
Directors: Gilbert, Lewis
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A Boeing 747 carrying a US space shuttle on loan to the UK crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. When the British examine the wreckage they can find no trace of the spacecraft and send agent James Bond to the shuttle’s manufacturers, Drax Industries, to investigate.

Wimbledon (2004)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sport
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Dunst, Kirsten | Bettany, Paul | Hyde, Kyle | Robert Lindsay | Imrie, Celia | Ryder, Penny | Leventon, Annabel | Walker, Amanda | McAvoy, James | Hill, Bernard | Bron, Eleanor | Morgan, Marina | Jackson, Barry | Coster-Waldau, Nikolaj | Neill, Sam
Directors: Loncraine, Richard
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In just two summer weeks, a British tennis player who was ranked 119th in the world (Bettany), and generally considered to be on his last legs as a professional player, gets his one last chance to win both the All-England Lawn Tennis Championships on the grassy courts of Wimbledon… and the heart of the rising star “bad girl of tennis” (Dunst) as well…

Layer Cake (2004)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Craig, Daniel | Hardy, Tom | Foreman, Jamie | Hawkins, Sally | Gorman, Burn | Harris, George | Hassan, Tamer | Meaney, Colm | Iures, Marcel | Magee, Francis | Andreas, Dimitri | Cranham, Kenneth | Tubbs, Garry | Lunghi, Nathalie | Benoit, Marvin
Directors: Vaughn, Matthew
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A successful cocaine dealer, who has earned a respected place among England’s Mafia elite, plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy’s old pal Edward, a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds’ worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal neo-Nazi sect and a whole series of double crossings. The title “LAYER CAKE” refers to the layers or levels anyone in business goes through in rising to the top. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no ‘codes’, or ‘families’ and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust, he has to use all his ’savvy’, ‘telling’ and skills which make him one of the best, to escape his own. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy, and an international drug ring threaten to draw him back into the ‘cake mix’. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime..

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Sykes, Eric | Spall, Timothy | Tennant, David | Radcliffe, Daniel | Watson, Emma | Grint, Rupert | Williams, Mark | Phelps, James | Phelps, Oliver | Wright, Bonnie | Rawle, Jeff | Pattinson, Robert | Isaacs, Jason | Felton, Tom | Ianevski, Stanislav
Directors: Newell, Mike
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Harry’s fourth summer and the following year at Hogwarts are marked by the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, in which student representatives from three different wizarding schools compete in a series of increasingly challenging contests. However, Voldemort’s Death Eaters are gaining strength and even creating the Dark Mark giving evidence that the Dark Lord is ready to rise again. In the unsuspecting lives of the young wizard and witches at Hogwarts the competitors are selected by the goblet of fire, which this year makes a very surprising announcement: Hogwarts will have two representatives in the tournament, including Harry Potter! Will Harry be able to rise to the challenge for the Tri Wizard Tournament while keeping up with school or will the challenges along with Voldemort’s rebirth be too much for the young hero?

Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: UK
Actors: Sallis, Peter | Fiennes, Ralph | Bonham Carter, Helena | Kay, Peter | Smith, Nicholas | Smith, Liz | Thomson, John | Gatiss, Mark | Ebrahim, Vincent | McEwan, Geraldine | Kelsey, Edward | Ashworth, Dicken | Horvath, Robert | Atkin, Pete | Lewis, Noni
Directors: Box, Steve | Park, Nick
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It’s ‘vege-mania’ in Wallace and Gromit’s neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, “Anti-Pesto.” With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a “humane” pest control outfit has its drawbacks as their West Wallaby Street home fills to the brim with captive rabbits. Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging “beast” begins attacking the town’s sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day. Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington’s snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who’d rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero-not to mention Lady Tottingon’s hand in marriage. With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder. Little does she know that Victor’s real intent could have dire consequences for her …and our two heroes.

Tristan + Isolde (2006)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Franco, James | Myles, Sophia | Sewell, Rufus | O'Hara, David | Cavill, Henry | Blanc, JB | King, Jamie
Directors: Reynolds, Kevin
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An affair between the second in line to Britain’s throne (Franco) and the princess of the feuding Irish (Myles) spells doom for the young lovers.

Fourth Angel, The (2001)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Irons, Jeremy | Whitaker, Forest | Priestley, Jason | Glassco, Briony | Rampling, Charlotte | Maxwell, Lois | West, Timothy | Pitts, Joel | Maguire, Anna | Boyd, Holly | Weber, Kal | McNeice, Ian | Armstrong, William | Hagon, Garrick | Soric, Serge
Directors: Irvin, John
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Jack Elgin is the European editor of The Economist, which is based in London, England. Jack has a wife named Maria and three kids named Joanne, Julia, and Andrew. Jack subtly changes the family vacation from a lazy week of Mediterranean fun and sun in Corfu, Greece, to a tour of India, because of a story he has to cover. Maria is not as impressed by this as the kids are. Jack himself envisioned a chance to simultaneously work an easy reporting assignment and spend a little quality time with his family. But on the way to India, the airplane, a 747 owned by AM Air, an American airline, makes an unscheduled stopover in Limassol Cyprus, because of a mechanical problem. After a while of waiting inside the Limassol airport, everyone gets back on the plane — which is then hijacked by a group of terrorists known as the August 15th Movement, led by a Serbian man named Ivanic Loyvek and his right-hand man Karadan Maldic. And they are demanding $50,000,000 from the US State Department in one hour, or everyone on the airplane will die. The demand is met, and Loyvek and Maldic start releasing the women and children, with the men to go last. But as soon as a front passenger door is opened, a local police team gunning for the terrorists opens fire. The flight attendants frantically open the rest of the airplane’s doors and start getting passengers out, but the terrorists start killing passengers, leading to an explosion. Maria, Joanne, and Julia get out of the airplane, and then Jack, holding Andrew, gets out — only to watch Maria, Joanne, and Julia get shot by the terrorists. Jack tries to hide Andrew’s face so he can’t see it. Maria and Joanne are dead, and Julia is still alive — but Julia burns to death while crying for help. Jack and Andrew survive. In all, a total of 15 passengers die, and Loyvek and Maldic, the surviving terrorists, escape, knowing that they now have the $50,000,000. The hijacking would never have ended this way if the police team had waited until after the passengers were released from the airplane before getting trigger happy. Back in London, an absolutely devastated Jack is told that the terrorists were captured, but they were released and deported secretly, with no charges and no arrest, the result of some awfully compromised politics. Jack is understandably enraged that Loyvek and Maldic got off scot-free. While helping Andrew cope, Jack tries all the legal ways to ensure justice for his family, but to no avail. Jack even pays a visit to Henry Davidson, a CIA agent who works at the American Embassy in London. Davidson tells Jack that there’s little that can be done. Obviously, the American and British governments are completely impotent when it comes to going after Loyvek and Maldic, so Jack has absolutely no choice in the matter. He must do it himself. With the help of his ex-intelligence operative friend Kate Stockton, who is well-schooled in the finer points of international intelligence, Jack becomes a one-man anti-terrorist squadron, searching for Loyvek and Maldich. Dogging Jack’s trail is FBI agent Jules Bernard, who’s cooperating with Scotland Yard on anti-terrorist activities, and who suspects that Jack is the man who has been killing anyone involved in the hijacking. But as it turns out, Jules is on Jack’s side, and he’s willing to help Jack make those responsible pay for the deaths of his family and the other people who died in Cyprus.

007 The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Moore, Roger | Bach, Barbara | Jürgens, Curd | Kiel, Richard | Munro, Caroline | Gotell, Walter | Keen, Geoffrey | Baker, George | Billington, Michael | Bisera, Olga | Llewelyn, Desmond | de Souza, Edward | Dobtcheff, Vernon | Leon, Valerie
Directors: Gilbert, Lewis
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The British discover that someone has perfected a way of tracking submerged submarines and is offering the technology to the highest bidder. An international crisis breaks when a Royal Navy Polaris submarine equipped with sixteen nuclear warheads disappears while on patrol. The British send agent James Bond to secure the tracking device and locate the missing vessel before its missiles are launched at the West.