Posts Tagged ‘blizzard’

Misery (1990)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: James Caan | Kathy Bates | Richard Farnsworth | Frances Sternhagen | Lauren Bacall | Graham Jarvis | Jerry Potter | Thomas Brunelle | June Christopher | Julie Payne | Archie Hahn III | Gregory Snegoff | Wendy Bowers | Misery the Pig
Directors: Rob Reiner
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Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the “number one fan” of Paul’s heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.

Happy Feet (2006)

Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Musical
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Carlos Alazraqui | Lombardo Boyar | Jeffrey Garcia | Johnny A. Sanchez | Robin Williams | Elijah Wood | Brittany Murphy | Hugh Jackman | Nicole Kidman | Hugo Weaving | Elizabeth Daily | Magda Szubanski | Miriam Margolyes | Fat Joe | Alyssa Shafer
Directors: Warren Coleman
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Set deep inside the icy land of Antarctica, two emperor penguins have a baby named Mumble. Hatched upon his feet, he has an amazing skill for tap-dancing. However, penguins are not supposed to tap dance. Even worse, he cannot sing. All emperor penguins are supposed to have a heart song, and he has a try at it - with awful results. Torn apart from his mom, dad, and best friend, Gloria, as a teenager who still has his adolescent feathers, his ventures off into the icy landscape. He is rescued from a leopard seal from a group of Adelie penguins, whom which the leader is Ramon. They take Mumble to their home and discover that all of their fish is being taken from an unknown ‘alien’ source. They ask Lovelace, an unwise and cocky leader of the Adelies, to help them. Unfortunately, he proves no help. Leading on an incredible adventure, they try to discover the threat of their food source and survival. Using courage and bravery, Mumble begins to teach everyone begins to learn that uniqueness isn’t a burden, but is a gift to be treasured.

D-Tox (2002)

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Kris Kristofferson | Tom Berenger | Dina Meyer | Sylvester Stallone | Charles S. Dutton | Jeffrey Wright | Polly Walker
Directors: Jim Gillespie
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Stallone plays a cop who comes undone after witnessing a brutal scene on the job. He checks into a rehab clinic that specializes in treating law enforcement officials. Soon, he finds that his fellow patients are being murdered one by one.

007 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: George Lazenby | Diana Rigg | Telly Savalas | Gabriele Ferzetti | Ilse Steppat | Lois Maxwell | George Baker | Bernard Lee | Bernard Horsfall | Desmond Llewelyn | Yuri Borionko | Virginia North | Geoffrey Cheshire | Irvin Allen | Terence Mountain
Directors: Peter R. Hunt
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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.

Groundhog Day (1993)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Murray | Andie MacDowell | Chris Elliott | Stephen Tobolowsky | Brian Doyle-Murray | Marita Geraghty | Angela Paton | Rick Ducommun | Rick Overton | Robin Duke | Carol Bivins | Willie Garson | Ken Hudson Campbell | Les Podewell | Rod Sell
Directors: Harold Ramis
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A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting “rat” (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the ‘following’ day he discovers that it’s Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day.

Vertical Limit (2000)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Chris O'Donnell | Robin Tunney | Scott Glenn | Izabella Scorupco | Bill Paxton | Nicholas Lea | Alexander Siddig | Robert Taylor | Temuera Morrison | Stuart Wilson | Augie Davis | Steve Le Marquand | Ben Mendelsohn | Roshan Seth | Alejandro Valdes-Rochin
Directors: Martin Campbell
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A high-adrenaline tale of young climber Peter Garrett (Chris O’Donnell), who must launch a treacherous and extraordinary rescue effort up K2, the world’s second highest peak. Confronting both his own limitations and the awesome power of nature’s uncontrollable elements, Peter risks his life to save his sister, Annie (Robin Tunney), and her summit team (Bill Paxton and Nicholas Lea) in a race against time. The team is trapped in an icy grave at 26,000 feet - a death zone above the vertical limit of endurance where the human body cannot survive for long. Every second counts as Peter enlists the help of a crew of fellow climbers, including eccentric, reclusive mountain man Montgomery Wick (Scott Glenn), to ascend the chilling might of the world’s most feared peak to save her.