Posts Tagged ‘ice-skating’

Eight Crazy Nights (2002)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandler, Adam | Sandler, Jackie | Stout, Austin | Nealon, Kevin | Schneider, Rob | Crosby, Norm | Lovitz, Jon | Banks, Tyra | Clark, Blake | Dante, Peter | Albertini Dow, Ellen | Farley, Kevin P. | Friedman, Lari | Kenny, Tom | Sprouse, Cole
Directors: Kearsley, Seth
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Adam Sandler stars in this comedic animated musical as Davey Stone, a 33 year old drunk who was perfect 20 years ago. After cheating the Chinese waiter (Schneider) for not paying for his 4 Scorpion bowls, he gets one more chance or he goes to the state prison for 10 years. For his sentence, he is to be a referee-in-training for the Junior Basketball League. While learning to be nicer from Whitey Duvall (Sandler), an ederly basketball referee, Davey falls in love again with his childhood girfriend Jennifer Freedman (Titone) who already has a son Benjamin (Stout).

Ice Princess (2005)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Trachtenberg, Michelle | Cusack, Joan | Stewart, Amy | Ross, Steve | Panettiere, Hayden | Cattrall, Kim | Blumas, Trevor | Olson, Kirsten | Lai, Jocelyn | Ray, Connie | Lee, Paul Sun-Hyung | Bradshaw, Roy | Hird, Mark | Gilbank, Ben | Campbell, Cole
Directors: Fywell, Tim
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A high-school bookworm transforms into a swan in Walt Disney Pictures’ “ICE PRINCESS.” Brainy Casey Carlyle (’Michelle Trachtenberg’ (qv)) has never quite fit in. Caught between her fantasy of becoming a championship figure skater and her strong-willed mother (’Joan Cusack’ (qv)), who has her on the fast track to Harvard, she can only hope to be like Nikki, Tiffany and Gen (’Hayden Panettiere’ (qv))—three elite skating prodigies who are ruthlessly competing on the US National circuit (and have attitudes to match). But when Casey gets the chance to train with Gen and her coach, a disgraced former skating champion who also happens to be Gen’s mother (’Kim Cattrall’ (qv)), she must dash her own mother’s hopes in order to pursue her dream. Now, with only the support of Gen’s teenage brother, a hunky Zamboni driver (’Trevor Blumas’ (qv)), Casey takes on the challenge of her life when she finds herself competing against the best to make it into the championship circuit and become a real “ice princess.”

Blades of Glory (2007)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Ferrell, Will | Heder, Jon | Arnett, Will | Poehler, Amy | Fischer, Jenna | Fichtner, William | Nelson, Craig T. | Malco, Romany | Swardson, Nick | Hamilton, Scott | Richter, Andy | Lindsay, Greg | Corddry, Rob | Jameson, Nick | Virtue, Tom
Directors: Gordon, Josh
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When rivalry between the world’s best men’s figure skaters - sex addicted, improvisational Chazz Michael Michaels and germophobic, precise Jimmy MacElroy - breaks into a fight on the awards platform, they’re banned from the event for life. Three years later, desire for a gold medal and a careful reading of the rules lead them to compete as skating’s first male-male pair. Can they overcome mutual dislike, limited time to prepare, their coach’s secret past, and the dirty tricks of their main opponents, the Van Waldenberg siblings? The key to victory or defeat may lie in the attraction of the virginal Jimmy toward Katie, the Van Waldenbergs’ little sister.

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.

Elf (2003)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Ferrell, Will | Caan, James | Newhart, Bob | Asner, Edward | Steenburgen, Mary | Deschanel, Zooey | Tay, Daniel | Love, Faizon | Dinklage, Peter | Sedaris, Amy | Lerner, Michael | Richter, Andy | Gass, Kyle | Lange, Artie | Lautier, Claire
Directors: Favreau, Jon
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Buddy (Will Ferrell) was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa’s sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs (James Caan). Hobbs, on Santa’s naughty list for being a heartless jerk, had no idea that Buddy was even born. Buddy, meanwhile, experiences the delights of New York City (and human culture) as only an elf can. When Walter’s relationship with Buddy interferes with his job, he is forced to reevaluate his priorities.

American Splendor (2003)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ambrose, Chris | Krajcar, Joey | Hutcherson, Josh | Carter, Cameron | Tay, Daniel | Faktor, Mary | Giamatti, Paul | Pekar, Harvey | Meyers, Larry John | Benesch, Vivienne | Brown, Barbara | Billings, Earl | Hoch, Danny | Urbaniak, James
Directors: Berman, Shari Springer | Pulcini, Robert
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Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland’s thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey’s true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey’s cult celebrity stature.

Bambi (1942)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
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Directors: Hand, David
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The animated story of Bambi, a young deer hailed as the ‘Prince of the Forest’ at his birth. As Bambi grows, he makes friends with the other animals of the forest, learns the skills needed to survive, and even finds love. One day, however, the hunters come, and Bambi must learn to be as brave as his father if he is to lead the other deer to safety.

It’s All About Love (2003)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Denmark | Germany | Japan | Netherlands | Sweden | UK | USA
Actors: Phoenix, Joaquin | Danes, Claire | Penn, Sean | Henshall, Douglas | Armstrong, Alun | Martindale, Margo | Strong, Mark | Hutchings, Geoffrey | Ditson, Harry | Larsen, Thomas Bo | Kempner, Teddy | Ové, Indra | Staykov, Georgi | Wallander, Anna | Rudberg, Mariann
Directors: Vinterberg, Thomas
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It’s All About Love is the story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous ice skating star, Elena, are about to sign divorce papers when they realise that, in spite of everything happening around them, their love is worth fighting for. It’s All About Love is a fresh take on modern love and future life as two lovers struggle in a conspiracy of epic proportions.

Ronin (1998)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Reno, Jean | McElhone, Natascha | Skarsgård, Stellan | Bean, Sean | Sudduth, Skipp | Lonsdale, Michael | Triska, Jan | Pryce, Jonathan | Perkins, Ron | Atkine, Féodor | Witt, Katarina | Bloch, Bernard | Gugliametti, Dominic | Beckworth, Alan
Directors: Frankenheimer, John
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Ronin is the Japanese word used for Samurai without a master. In this case, the Ronin are outcast specialists of every kind, whose services are available to everyone - for money. Dierdre (undoubtedly from Ireland) hires several Ronin to form a team in order to retrieve an important suitcase from a man who is about to sell it to the Russians. After the mission has been completed successfully, the suitcase immediately gets switched by a member of the team who seems to work into his own pocket. The complex net of everyone tricking everyone begins to surface slowly, and deadly…