Posts Tagged ‘1960s’

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, The (2006)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brewster, Jordana | Handley, Taylor | Baird, Diora | Bomer, Matthew | Tergesen, Lee | Ermey, R. Lee | Bryniarski, Andrew | Evans, Terrence | Lamkin, Kathy | Marich, Marietta | Batten, Cyia | Temple, Lew | De Zarn, Tim | Larroquette, John | Nelson, Marcus H.
Directors: Liebesman, Jonathan
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Prequal to the 2003 version of ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ is set in 1969, the height of the Vietnam War. Two young men are spending a last weekend with their girlfriends before being shipped overseas to the war. At the same time in a small Texas town, the only major business (a meat-packing plant and slaughterhouse) goes out of business forcing the town’s inhabitants to move on to greener pastures. One of the men who works in the plant is Thomas Hewitt, a deformed, demented psychopath (who will become known as Leatherface). When Hewitt finds out what is happening, he savagely murders the foreman of the plant. Meanwhile, the two young men and their girlfriends are headed down a lonely highway towards the town when they are involved in an car accident that cripples their vehicle. Soon they encounter the local sheriff, who is not really the sheriff, but the homicidal Charlie Hewitt, the uncle of Leatherface who has murdered the sheriff and taken his job and police car knowing that with the town deserted, no one will notice. Uncle Charlie/Sheriff Hoyt kidnaps three of the teens and takes them to his home where he, Leatherface Hewitt, the senile Uncle Monty, and Charlie’s sister, Luda Mae, reside. Charlie wants the developing monster ‘Leatherface’ to “refine” his murderous abilities. The one girl, Chrissie, who escaped unnoticed attempts to rescue them with the help of a biker whose girlfriend was killed by ‘Sheriff Hoyt’. What follows is a night of sheer terror at the hands of a family of cannibalistic, inbred psychopaths…

Sweet Land (2005)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Reaser, Elizabeth | Smith, Lois | Heusinger, Patrick | Pelinski, Stephen | Guinee, Tim | Hogan, Robert | Cumming, Alan | Sand, Paul | Markell, Jodie | Kermes, Sage | Frantzich, Kirsten | Yoakam, Stephen | Landry, Karen | Cada, James | DeLisi, Debbie
Directors: Selim, Ali
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As Inge buries her husband Olaf on their Minnesota farm in 1968, we relive her life story as she tells her grown grandson about how she arrived from Germany in 1920 as Olaf’s postal bride and of the obstacles they overcame in order to marry…

Radio Flyer (1992)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bracco, Lorraine | Heard, John | Baldwin, Adam | Wood, Elijah | Mazzello, Joseph | Johnson, Ben | Baca, Sean | Munic, Robert | Ratliff Henson, Garette | Nicholas, Thomas Ian | Verduzco, Noah | Ocampo, Isaac | Romero, Kaylan | Verduzco, Abraham | Evans, T.J.
Directors: Donner, Richard
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A loving father explains the value of promise and believing to his two boys trough the story of young Mike and his kid brother Bobby, who being abandoned by their dad had to move with ma and German shepherd Shane to a rural town where the local kids, lorded by abusive older scamp Victor Hernandez, consider them intruders ’stealing’ their predecessors’ place. Alas the friendly sheriff Daugherty, whose protection they politely wave, will have to act against a far worse bully, ma’s new lover who expects to be called the king and belts Bobby’s back brutally when drunk in the garage, a secret the boys want to keep secret for finally happy ma. The superstitious brothers spend their time exploring, pulling a wheeled red wagon called Radio Flyer, which name finally inspires a desperate ‘magical escape’ attempt…

Private Parts (1997)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Stern, Howard | Quivers, Robin | McCormack, Mary | Norris, Fred | Giamatti, Paul | Dell'Abate, Gary | Martling, Jackie | Alt, Carol | Portnow, Richard | Bishop, Kelly | Goodman, Henry | Hadary, Jonathan | Hecht, Paul | Janney, Allison | Murphy, Michael
Directors: Thomas, Betty
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Having always wanted to be a disc-jockey, Howard Stern works his way painfully from radio at his 1970’s college to a Detroit station. It is with a move to Washington that he hits on an outrageous off-the-wall style that catches audience attention. Despite his on-air blue talk, at home he is a loving husband. He needs all the support he can get when he joins NBC in New York and comes up against a very different vision of radio.

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Ryder, Winona | Jolie, Angelina | DuVall, Clea | Murphy, Brittany | Moss, Elisabeth | Leto, Jared | Tambor, Jeffrey | Redgrave, Vanessa | Goldberg, Whoopi | Bettis, Angela | Armenante, Jillian | McDaniel, Drucie | Claire, Alison | Myers, Christina | Kerns, Joanna
Directors: Mangold, James
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Susanna is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she discusses this with a psychiatrist. She had been having some delusions. She had also been having an affair with the husband of her parents’ friend. The doctor suggests that combining a bottle of aspirin and a bottle of vodka was a suicide attempt. This she denies. He recommends a short period of rest at Claymoore. Claymoore is a private mental hospital full of noisy, crazy people. Georgina is a pathological liar. Polly has been badly scarred by fire. Daisy won’t eat in the presence of other people. Lisa is a sociopath, the biggest exasperation for the staff - like Nurse Valerie - and the biggest influence on the other girls in the hospital. Lisa has a history of escapes, so gaining access to personal medical files is not a problem… Susanna’s boyfriend Toby is concerned that she seems too comfortable living with her institutionalized friends…

Incredibles, The (2004)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Newton, Thandie | Nelson, Craig T. | Hunter, Holly | Jackson, Samuel L. | Lee, Jason | Dominique R. Louis | Newton, Teddy | Sincere, Jean | Fucile, Eli | Andrews, Maeve | Shawn, Wallace | Fox, Spencer | Romano, Lou | Canney, Wayne | Vowell, Sarah | Bird, Michael
Directors: Bird, Brad
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Mr. Incredible (A.K.A. Bob Parr), and his wife Helen (A.K.A. Elastigirl), are the world’s greatest famous crime-fighting superheroes in Metroville. Always saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. But fifteen years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they have no choice but to retire of being a superhero and force to live a “normal life” with their three children Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack (who were secretly born with superpowers). Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Hauer, Rutger | Roberts, Julia | Westley, Jennifer Rae | Clark, Dick | Rockwell, Sam | Sweeney, Michelle | Barrymore, Drew | Ceci, Chelsea | Pitt, Brad | Damon, Matt | Cera, Michael | Rose Ambroziak, Aimee | Blais, Isabelle | Carter, Melissa | Hall, Jennifer | Elkin, Ilona | Tucker, Sean | Morgan, Jaye P. | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Hirsh, David Julian
Directors: Clooney, George
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is the story of a legendary showman’s double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

Air America (1990)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Downey Jr., Robert | Travis, Nancy | Jenkins, Ken | Grant, David Marshall | Smith, Lane | LaFleur, Art | Eisenberg, Ned | Bell, Marshall | Bowe, David | Kwouk, Burt | Thomerson, Tim | Jason, Harvey | Plengpanit, Sinjai | Nantatanti, Natta
Directors: Spottiswoode, Roger
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Billy is a wacko pilot who loses his last straight job as a helicopter traffic reporter by getting into a screaming match with a driver. He takes a job working for what amounts to a CIA airline in Asia. Billy puts it as, “I’m used to being the weirdest person in the room. Here I don’t even make the top ten.” There is an insurgency shooting at them, government soldiers running drugs, a pilot who is supplying arms to the whole region, and those are the straightforward sub plots.

Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Lancaster, Burt | Wasson, Craig | Goldsmith, Jonathan | Singer, Marc | Unger, Joe | Howard, Dennis | Clennon, David | Kim, Evan C. | Megna, John | Hicks, Hilly | Sweet, Dolph | Kusatsu, Clyde | Hong, James | Kumagai, Denice | Horino, Tad
Directors: Post, Ted
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A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before in this bitter look at the beginnings of the Vietnam war.

Doubt (2008)

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Streep, Meryl | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Adams, Amy | Davis, Viola | Brown, Lloyd Clay | Foster, Joseph | Roukis, Michael | Roukis, Mike | Clark, Bridget Megan | Jordan, Lydia | Litt, Paulie | Marvin, Matthew | Lewis, Evan | Albanese, Dennis | Cox, Timothy J.
Directors: Shanley, John Patrick
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Set at a Catholic school in the Bronx, it centers on a nun who grows suspicious when a priest begins taking too much interest in the life of a young black student. Is she being overly protective or not protective enough? And can she work within the system to discover the truth?