Posts Tagged ‘island’

Rogue (2007)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Michael Vartan | Sam Worthington | Stephen Curry | John Jarratt | Geoff Morrell | Damien Richardson | Robert Taylor | Barry Otto
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An idyllic wildlife cruise disintegrates into terror when a party of tourists are stalked by a massive man-eating crocodile. Pete McKell, a cynical American travel writer, joins a disparate group of holiday-makers on a river cruise through the waters of Kakadu National Park. Initially Pete clashes with their tour captain, Kate, a feisty young woman who assumes he is just another ‘city-slicker’ in search of a quick thrill. After an uneventful day cruising the river, Kate is reluctantly persuaded to steer their boat into unexplored territory. They discover a secluded lake but terror strikes when their craft receives a powerful blow from beneath the murky depths and begins to sink. With little choice, she beaches the vessel on the closest dry land -a tiny mud island. With a rising tide and only half an hour of daylight left, fear grips the group as they realize they are trapped in the lair of a ‘rogue’ crocodile, governed only by its need to hunt and kill. Begrudgingly, Pete and Kate join forces to keep hysteria at bay and in the process start to see beyond their initial impressions. Their first attempt to escape fails, but then Pete has an idea - they must trap the crocodile to enable the group to flee to the other side of the island whilst Kate swims for help. Pete volunteers to stand guard, but without warning, the beast breaks free and targets Kate who fails to resurface. As darkness descends and the muddy waters rise, a terrifying struggle ensues with only one probable outcome death.

007 Thunderball (1965)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Sean Connery | Adolfo Celi | Rik Van Nutter | Guy Doleman | Bernard Lee | Desmond Llewelyn | Roland Culver | Earl Cameron | Paul Stassino | Philip Locke | George Pravda | Michael Brennan | Leonard Sachs | Edward Underdown | Reginald Beckwith
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When two colleagues of James Bond are murdered, James follows the widow of a double agent who has been killed - and a confrontation ensues. The double agent is part of SPECTRE, and the organization’s meeting in a secret lair in Paris regrets the agent’s passing as it deals with new criminal business. Emilio Largo, a ruthless and flamboyant one-eyed enforcer, has hatched a scheme against the North Atlantic Treaty powers that begins at a rehabilitation clinic near an RAF airbase. Scheduled to pilot an RAF Vulcan strategic bomber on a normal “fail-safe” flight is Francois Derval, who is having a passionate affair with the magnificently endowed beauty Fiona Volpe - an affair that SPECTRE exploits. Soon, the Vulcan and its warload of two nuclear bombs has been hijacked, the bombs seized by Largo, for use in SPECTRE’s most audacious extortion scheme yet. James Bond, however, finds a key clue in the sister of Francois Derval, Dominique “Domino” Derval, a beautiful young woman who is a passionate scuba-diver living in Nassau. When James investigates Domino, he comes into contact with a SPECTRE operation on the island, and he gets help from HMSS’ man in Nassau, Pinder, and in old CIA chum Felix Leiter. But when James and Felix find out what SPECTRE is up to, it may be to late to save a major US coastal city from nuclear annihilation.

007 From Russia with Love (1963)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Sean Connery | Daniela Bianchi | Pedro Armendáriz | Lotte Lenya | Robert Shaw | Bernard Lee | Eunice Gayson | Walter Gotell | Francis De Wolff | George Pastell | Nadja Regin | Lois Maxwell | Aliza Gur | Martine Beswick | Vladek Sheybal
Directors: Terence Young
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James Bond 007 is on the search for a Russian decoding machine, known as Lektor. Bond needs to find this machine, before the evil SPECTRE organization discovers it first. Whilst being romantically linked with Russian girl, Tatiana Romanova, Bond sneaks his way around Istanbul, whilst each SPECTRE agent tries to pick him off, including the over powering Donald ‘Red’ Grant and ex-KGB agent Rosa Klebb who knows all the tricks in the books and even possesses an incredible poison tipped shoe!

Nim’s Island (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Gerard Butler | Michael Carman | Mark Brady | Anthony Simcoe | Christopher Baker | Maddison Joyce | Peter Callan | Russell Butler | Colin Gibson | Bryan Probets | Andrew Nason | Tony Bellette | Jeff Dornan | Jay Laga'aia | John Walton
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A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she’s reading. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world’s greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim’s father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her together with Alexandra. Now they must draw courage from their fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer Nim’s Island.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Orlando Bloom | Keira Knightley | Jack Davenport | Bill Nighy | Jonathan Pryce | Lee Arenberg | Mackenzie Crook | Kevin McNally | David Bailie | Stellan Skarsgård | Tom Hollander | Naomie Harris | Martin Klebba | David Schofield
Directors: Gore Verbinski
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Just before their wedding, Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner are arrested by Lord Cutler Beckett for helping the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, but Cutler proposes a deal to Will: their freedom per Jack’s compass. Meanwhile, Jack is afraid of the sea, because he owes his soul to the evil Davy Jones, the Captain of the Flying Dutchmen. When Will meets Jack, the pirate proposes to exchange his compass by a key owned by Davy Jones. Will goes to the Flying Dutchman without knowing how dangerous and diabolic Davy Jones and his crew are.

No Escape (1994)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Ray Liotta | Lance Henriksen | Stuart Wilson | Kevin Dillon | Kevin J. O'Connor | Don Henderson | Ian McNeice | Jack Shepherd | Michael Lerner | Ernie Hudson | Russell Kiefel | Brian M. Logan | Cheuk-Fai Chan | Machs Colombani | David Argue
Directors: Martin Campbell
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The year is 2022, prison systems from all over the world are now run by private corporations and have become business. After being sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his commanding officer who ordered him to wipe out innocent people. Convicted soldier John Robbins is dumped on the prison island Absolom (after he refused to execute his cell-mate and assaulted the Warden). On Absolom, convicts are put there to either survive or die. Robbins finds the prison island is inhabited by two camps, The Outsiders, tribes of savage prisoners led by the evil Walter Merrick and The Insiders, a community of prisoners living in a fortified village “The Compound” led by The Father. Robbins finds escape from Absolom is impossible, surveillance satellites monitor Absolom and gunships prevent all convicts from escaping from the prison island and The Warden has secretly put a spy on Absolom. Caught up in a feud between the two camps, Robbins is determined to escape from the prison island and finds it is his ultimate challenge as nobody has ever escaped and he agrees to help The Insiders defend “The Compound” from The Outsiders.

Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Bud Abbott | Lou Costello | Lon Chaney Jr. | Bela Lugosi | Glenn Strange | Lénore Aubert | Jane Randolph | Frank Ferguson | Charles Bradstreet | Bobby Barber | George Barton | Harry Brown | Joe Kirk | Howard Negley | Vincent Price
Directors: Charles Barton
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The world of freight handlers Wilbur Grey and Chick Young is turned upside down when the remains of Frankenstein’s monster and Dracula arrive from Europe to be used in a house of horrors. Dracula awakens and escapes with the weakened monster, who he plans to re-energize with a new brain. Larry Talbot (the Wolfman) arrives from London in an attempt to thwart Dracula. Dracula’s reluctant aide is the beautiful Dr. Sandra Mornay. Her reluctance is dispatched by Dracula’s bite. Dracula and Sandra abduct Wilbur for his brain and recharge the monster in preparation for the operation. Chick and Talbot attempt to find and free Wilbur, but when the full moon rises all hell breaks loose with the Wolfman, Dracula, and Frankenstein all running rampant.

The Bounty (1984)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | History
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Mel Gibson | Anthony Hopkins | Laurence Olivier | Edward Fox | Daniel Day-Lewis | Bernard Hill | Philip Davis | Liam Neeson | Wi Kuki Kaa | Tevaite Vernette | Philip Martin Brown | Simon Chandler | Malcolm Terris | Simon Adams | John Sessions
Directors: Roger Donaldson
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The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.

Papillon (1973)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | Dustin Hoffman | Victor Jory | Don Gordon | Anthony Zerbe | Robert Deman | Woodrow Parfrey | Bill Mumy | George Coulouris | Ratna Assan | William Smithers | Val Avery | Gregory Sierra | Vic Tayback | Mills Watson
Directors: Franklin J. Schaffner
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Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for ‘butterfly’ (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in ‘Guiane’ (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment.

Jaws (1975)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roy Scheider | Robert Shaw | Richard Dreyfuss | Lorraine Gary | Murray Hamilton | Carl Gottlieb | Jeffrey Kramer | Susan Backlinie | Jonathan Filley | Chris Rebello | Jay Mello | Lee Fierro | Jeffrey Voorhees | Craig Kingsbury | Dr. Robert Nevin
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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Martin Brody is the new police chief of Amity, an island resort town somewhere in New England. He has a wife named Ellen, and two sons named Michael and Sean. On a Summer morning, Brody is called to the beach, where the mangled body of Summer vacationer Chrissie Watkins has washed ashore. The medical examiner tells Brody that it could have been a shark that killed Watkins. Mayor Larry Vaughn, who is desperate to not lose the money that will be brought in by 4th of July tourists, wants Brody to say Watkins’s death was caused by a motorboat propeller instead of a shark, because the thought of a shark in Amity’s waters would drive tourists away from Amity. It looks like Vaughn is a mayor who puts money ahead of people’s lives. Shark expert Matt Hooper believes Watkins was killed by a shark. Hooper is proven right a few days later, when Alex Kintner is killed by the shark that killed Watkins. Looking for the quickest solution, Vaughn tells all of the local fishermen to let him know if they see the shark. A shark hunter named Quint offers to find the shark and kill it, but Vaughn thinks Quint’s price of $10,000 is too high. When a tiger shark is killed and hauled in by a couple of boaters, Vaughn hastily says that the shark crisis is over, but Hooper says the shark that’s been killing people a huge great white shark is still in Amity’s waters, but Vaughn leaves the beaches opened because all he cares about is the 4th of July tourist money. On the 4th of July, Vaughn encourages people to swim at the beach, and Hooper is proven right again when the shark kills a man, biting the man’s leg off. Michael, who was in the water at the time of the attack, is taken to the hospital, where he’s treated for shock after watching the shark kill the guy. Brody asks Vaughn to hire Quint to find the shark. Because his own kids were at that beach too, Vaughn agrees to hire Quint to find the shark. Quint, Hooper, and Brody are sent out to sea in Quint’s boat, the Orca, ready to do whatever it takes to find the shark.