Posts Tagged ‘attempted-murder’

I, Robot (2004)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Smith, Will | Moynahan, Bridget | Tudyk, Alan | Cromwell, James | Greenwood, Bruce | Ricard, Adrian | McBride, Chi | Wasserman, Jerry | Hogan, Fiona | Shinkoda, Peter | Chen, Terry | Haysom, David | Heindl, Scott | Wilkins, Sharon | March, Craig
Directors: Proyas, Alex
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Set in a future Earth (2035 A.D.) where robots are common assistants and workers for their human owners, this is the story of “robotophobic” Chicago Police Detective Del Spooner’s (Smith) investigation into the murder of Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), who works at U.S. Robotics, in which a robot, Sonny (Tudyk), appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the robot had violated the Three Laws of Robotics, which is apparently impossible. It seems impossible because.. if robots can break those laws, there’s nothing to stop them from taking over the world, as humans have grown to become completely dependent upon their robots. Or maybe… they already have? Aiding Spooner in his investigation is a psychologist, Dr. Susan Calvin (Moynahan), who specializes in the psyches of robots.

Analyze This (1999)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Crystal, Billy | Kudrow, Lisa | Palminteri, Chazz | Novakovic, Kresimir | Tangredi, Bart | Straka, Michael | Rigano, Joseph | Viterelli, Joe | Castellano, Richard C. | Shannon, Molly | Casella, Max | Pietrangolare, Frank | Sabihy, Kyle | Macy, Bill
Directors: Ramis, Harold
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Ben Sobol, Psychiatrist, has a few problems: His son spies on his patients when they open up their heart, his parents don’t want to attend his upcoming wedding and his patients’ problems don’t challenge him at all. Paul Vitti, Godfather, has a few problems as well: Sudden anxiety attacks in public, a certain disability to kill people and his best part ceasing service when needed. One day, Ben unfortunately crashes into one of Vitti’s cars. The exchange of Ben’s business card is followed by a business visit of Don Paul Vitti himself, who wants to be free of inner conflict within two weeks, before all the Mafia Dons meet. Now, Ben Sobol feels somewhat challenged, as his wedding is soon, his only patient keeps him busy by regarding Ben’s duty as a 24 hour standby and the feds keep forcing him to spy on Paul Vitti. And how do you treat a patient who usually solves problems with a gun?

Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Skarsgård, Stellan | Scorupco, Izabella | D'Arcy, James | Sweeney, Remy | Wadham, Julian | French, Andrew | Brown, Ralph | Cross, Ben | Bradley, David | Ford, Alan | Kamerling, Antonie | Osei, Eddie | Aduramo, Israel | O'Kane, Patrick | Bellamy, James
Directors: Harlin, Renny
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Father Lankester Merrin thinks that he has glimpsed the face of Evil. In the years following World War II, Merrin is relentlessly haunted by memories of the unspeakable brutality perpetrated against the innocent people of his parish during the War. In the wake of all the horror he has seen, both his faith in his fellow man and his faith in the Almighty have deserted him, and he can no longer honestly call himself a man of God. Merrin has traveled far from his native Holland in a desperate attempt to try to forget and escape all the evil that he had witnessed there. While currently in Cairo, Egypt, he is approached by a collector of rare antiquities and asked to participate in a British archeological excavation in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. They have unearthed something extraordinary and unusual…a Christian Byzantine church dating from the 5th century, long before Christianity arrived in East Africa, and in inexplicably perfect condition–like it had been buried immediately after it was completed. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find an ancient relic hidden within the church before the British do. Interested, Merrin agrees to take the job. But beneath the church, something much older and malevolent sleeps, waiting to be awoken. When the archeologists start excavating, strange things begin occuring, and the local Turkana tribesmen who were hired to work refuse to enter the site. Things only get worse and worse, ultimately resulting in madness and death. Merrin watches helplessly as the atrocities of war are repeated against another innocent village–atrocities he had hoped and prayed never to see again. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, but the horror has only just begun. In the place where Evil was born, Merrin will finally see its true face.

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Kidman, Nicole | McGregor, Ewan | Leguizamo, John | Broadbent, Jim | Roxburgh, Richard | McDonald, Garry | Koman, Jacek | Whittet, Matthew | Walker, Kerry | O'Connor, Caroline | Anu, Christine | Jackson Mendoza, Natalie | Mulcahy, Lara | Wenham, David | Minogue, Kylie
Directors: Luhrmann, Baz
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Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris’ now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club’s highest paid star and the city’s most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.

Mulholland Dr. (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Harring, Laura | Miller, Ann | Hedaya, Dan | Theroux, Justin | Briscoe, Brent | Forster, Robert | Towne, Katharine | Grant, Lee | Coffey, Scott | Cyrus, Billy Ray | Everett, Chad | Taggart, Rita | Karen, James | Heuring, Lori | Pellegrino, Mark
Directors: Lynch, David
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A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio.

Ronin (1998)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
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…

Bourne Identity, The (2002)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | USA
Actors: Damon, Matt | Potente, Franka | Cooper, Chris | Owen, Clive | Cox, Brian | Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Adewale | Mann, Gabriel | Goggins, Walton | Hamilton, Josh | Stiles, Julia | Guerrini, Orso Maria | Dutton, Tim | Braccini, Denis | Naude, Nicky | Selburg, David
Directors: Liman, Doug
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Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum’s novel, the Bourne Identity is the story of a man whose wounded body is discovered by fisherman who nurse him back to health. He can remember nothing and begins to try to rebuild his memory based on clues such as the Swiss bank account, the number of which, is implanted in his hip. He soon realizes that he is being hunted and takes off with Marie on a search to find out who he is and why he is being hunted.

Serenity (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Fillion, Nathan | Torres, Gina | Tudyk, Alan | Baccarin, Morena | Baldwin, Adam | Staite, Jewel | Maher, Sean | Glau, Summer | Glass, Ron | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Krumholtz, David | Hitchcock, Michael | Paulson, Sarah | Feldman, Yan | Feldman, Rafael
Directors: Whedon, Joss
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The crew of the Serenity is getting desperate. They have lain lower and lower to protect their doctor, Simon Tam (Sean Maher), and his telepathic traumatized little sister, River (Summer Glau), from the alliance, whom he rescued her from a year earlier. This has made getting jobs harder and now they are desperate. When they take River on a robbery during which Reavers (humans who have gone crazy and turned into cannibals) attack, Simon decides that its time to leave the crew of the Serenity for his and River’s safety. She then mutters “Miranda” and goes berserk and nearly shoots Capt. Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), until her brother says the safety word to put her to sleep. Reynolds decides to take them back on board for safety, only now an alliance operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is on their tracks and making Reynolds determined to find out what “Miranda” is and what the Alliance is hiding.

Cold Creek Manor (2003)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK | USA
Actors: Quaid, Dennis | Stone, Sharon | Dorff, Stephen | Lewis, Juliette | Stewart, Kristen | Wilson, Ryan | Eskelson, Dana | Plummer, Christopher | Reynolds, Simon | Duborg, Kathleen | Brancati, Paula | Devine, Aidan | Robson, Wayne | Pettle, Jordan | Paisley, Ray
Directors: Figgis, Mike
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Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Turning it into their dream house soon becomes a living nightmare when the previous owner (Dorff) shows up, and a series of terrifying incidents lead them on a spine-tingling search for clues to the estate’s dark and lurid past…

Butterfly Effect, The (2004)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kutcher, Ashton | Walters, Melora | Smart, Amy | Henson, Elden | Scott, William Lee | Amedori, John Patrick | Gorovaia, Irene | Schmidt, Kevin | James, Jesse | Lerman, Logan | Widdows, Sarah | Kaese, Jake | Bright, Cameron
Directors: Bress, Eric | Gruber, J. Mackye
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Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single working mom and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evans’ friends and mom hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble, something bad always seems to happen during these blackouts. As Evan grows up he has less of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick!