Posts Tagged ‘beach’

The Blues Brothers (1980)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Music | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: John Belushi | Dan Aykroyd | James Brown | Cab Calloway | Ray Charles | Aretha Franklin | Steve Cropper | Donald Dunn | Murphy Dunne | Willie Hall | Tom Malone | Lou Marini | Matt Murphy | Alan Rubin | Carrie Fisher
Directors: John Landis
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After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church stopped its support and will sell the place to the education authority, and the only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their “mission from god” they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Laurence Olivier | Claire Bloom | Maggie Smith | Ursula Andress | Jack Gwillim | Susan Fleetwood | Pat Roach | Harry Hamlin | Judi Bowker | Burgess Meredith | Siân Phillips | Flora Robson | Anna Manahan | Freda Jackson | Tim Pigott-Smith
Directors: Desmond Davis
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By answering a seemingly impossible riddle, Perseus, the son of Zeus, wins the hand of the Princess Andromeda in marriage. Trouble appears in the shape of Calibos, the princess’s former love, and his mother, the Goddess Thetis. In order that the dreaded Kraken not be released, Andromeda has to be sacrificed and Perseus searches for the Medusa; her head is the only thing that can stop the Kraken.

Wolf Creek (2005)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Guy O'Donnell | Gordon Poole | Nathan Phillips | Kestie Morassi | Cassandra Magrath | John Jarratt
Directors: Greg McLean
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Just when you thought it was safe to go hiking in the bushes again…along comes Mick Taylor. Kristy, Ben and Liz are three pals in their twenties who set out to hike through the scenic Wolf Creek National Park in the Australian Outback. The trouble begins when they get back only to find that their car won’t start. The trio think they have a way out when they run into a local bushman named Mick Taylor. Wait until you get a load of what Mick has in store for them. Their troubles have just begun.

The Wackness (2008)

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Kingsley | Famke Janssen | Josh Peck | Olivia Thirlby | Mary-Kate Olsen | Jane Adams | Method Man | Aaron Yoo | Talia Balsam | David Wohl | Bob Dishy | Joanna Merlin | Shannon Briggs | Roy Milton Davis | Alexander Flores
Directors: Jonathan Levine
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It’s the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.

Out of the Past (1947)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Mitchum | Jane Greer | Kirk Douglas | Rhonda Fleming | Richard Webb | Steve Brodie | Virginia Huston | Paul Valentine | Dickie Moore | Ken Niles | Brooks Benedict | Oliver Blake | Eumenio Blanco | Wesley Bly | Hubert Brill
Directors: Jacques Tourneur
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For the last three years, Jeff Bailey has been laying low and trying to live a normal life. He’s been running his own gas station but prior to that, had been a pretty good private detective. His last job had been for a gangster, Whit Sterling, who him to find Kathy Moffat, who just happens to have shot him, and recover the $40,000 she stole. Jeff found her in Mexico but fell in love with her. She eventually ran out on him and he decided it might be better if he found a new line of work. When one of Sterling’s henchmen happens to see him pumping gas, he’s summoned to the gangster’s Lake Tahoe estate. Sterling’s offer is quite simple: recover some incriminating tax files and all will be forgotten. Jeff soon realizes however that he’s being set up and framed for murder.

Doctor Dolittle (1967)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Murphy | Ossie Davis | Oliver Platt | Peter Boyle | Richard Schiff | Kristen Wilson | Jeffrey Tambor | Kyla Pratt | Raven | Steven Gilborn | Erik Dellums | June Christopher | Cherie Franklin | Mark Adair-Rios | Don Calfa
Directors: Betty Thomas
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Doctor Dolittle is a world-renowned veterinarian who speaks a wide array of animal languages. He sets off from his home in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England, in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. In so doing, he and his friends meet such exotic creatures as the Pushme-Pullyu and the Giant Moon Moth. This musical is the source of the hit song, “If I Could Talk To The Animals.”

Chinatown (1974)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Faye Dunaway | John Huston | Perry Lopez | John Hillerman | Darrell Zwerling | Diane Ladd | Roy Jenson | Richard Bakalyan | Joe Mantell | Bruce Glover | Nandu Hinds | James O'Rear | James Hong
Directors: Roman Polanski
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Los Angeles detective Jake Gittes is hired by a woman claiming to be a Mrs. Mulwray to spy on her husband. Shortly after Gittes is hired, the real Mrs. Mulwray appears in his office threatening to sue if he doesn’t drop the case immediately. Gittes pursues the case anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy centering on water management, state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate, and involving at least one murder.

Bonjour tristesse (1958)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Deborah Kerr | David Niven | Jean Seberg | Mylène Demongeot | Geoffrey Horne | Juliette Gréco | Walter Chiari | Martita Hunt | Roland Culver | Jean Kent | David Oxley | Elga Andersen | Jeremy Burnham | Eveline Eyfel | Tutte Lemkow
Directors: Otto Preminger
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In the French Riviera, the spoiled and futile seventeen years old girl Cecile (Jean Seberg) is spending the summer vacation with her father, the widow playboy and bon-vivant Raymond (David Niven), and his girlfriend Elsa (Mylène Demongeot). Cecile has a serious Complex of Oedipus with her father, and they have a quite incestuous relationship. The successful designer and former friend of her mother Anne Larson (Deborah Kerr) arrives in their seaside house invited by Raymond to spend a couple of days with them, and the life of Cecile changes when Raymond proposes Anne to marry him. Full of jealousy, Cecile plots with Elsa to separate Anne from Raymond.

What Happens in Vegas (2008)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Cameron Diaz | Ashton Kutcher | Rob Corddry | Lake Bell | Jason Sudeikis | Treat Williams | Deirdre O'Connell | Michelle Krusiec | Dennis Farina | Zach Galifianakis | Queen Latifah | Krysten Ritter | Ricky Garcia | Andrew Daly | Benita Robledo
Directors: Tom Vaughan
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The clumsy and reckless Jack Fuller is fired by his boss and father and together with his friend and unsuccessful lawyer Hater, they decide to go to Las Vegas to have a good time. Meanwhile the fiancé of the workaholic stock broker Joy McNally breaks up their engagement because of her lack of attitude. Her friend and bartender Tipper convinces Joy to spend a couple of days also in Las Vegas. Due to a hotel management mistake, they are lodged in the same room and later they hang around together. During the night, they get completely wasted and on the next morning, Jack and Joy find that they got married. While discussing to briefly end their wedding, Jack borrows a coin from Joy to gamble in the jackpot machine and wins three million dollars. They question in court the ownership of the money and the conservative Judge R. D. Whopper freezes the money and sentence them to live together with Joy moving to Jack’s house for six months and attending regular counseling sessions. Each one decides to make the life of the other hell on Earth to force to get out of the marriage.

Valley of the Dolls (1967)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Barbara Parkins | Patty Duke | Paul Burke | Sharon Tate | Tony Scotti | Martin Milner | Charles Drake | Alexander Davion | Lee Grant | Naomi Stevens | Robert H. Harris | Jacqueline Susann | Robert Viharo | Joey Bishop | George Jessel
Directors: Mark Robson
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Anne Welles, a bright, brash young New England college grad leaves her Peyton Place-ish small town and heads for Broadway, where she hopes to find an exciting job and sophisticated men. During her misadventures in Manhattan and, later, Hollywood, she shares experiences with two other young hopefuls: Jennifer North, a statuesque, Monroe-ish actress who wants to be accepted as a human being, but is regarded as a sex object by all the men she meets, and Neely O’Hara, a talented young actress who’s accused of using devious means by a great older star (Helen Lawson) to reach the top, pulling an “All About Eve”-type deception in order to steal a good role away from her.