Posts Tagged ‘babe-scientist’

Relic, The (1997)

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Japan | New Zealand | UK | USA
Actors: Miller, Penelope Ann | Sizemore, Tom | Hunt, Linda | Whitmore, James | Rohner, Clayton | Lo, Chi Moui | Ryan, Thomas | Lesser, Robert | Robin, Diane | Van Bergen, Lewis | Towers, Constance | McCarthy, Francis X. | Lindley, Audra | Kapelos, John | Wells, Tico
Directors: Hyams, Peter
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A researcher at Chicago’s Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover gruesome murders on the cargo ship that brought the crates to the US and then another murder in the museum itself. Investigating the murders is Lt. Vincent D’Agosta who enlists the help of Dr. Margo Green at the museum - she has taken an interest in the contents of her colleague’s crates. Unknown to both there is a large creature roaming the museum which is gearing itself up for a benefit reception which the city’s mayor is to attend.

Tremors (1990)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Bacon, Kevin | Ward, Fred | Carter, Finn | Gross, Michael | McEntire, Reba | Jayne, Robert | Stewart, Charlotte | Genaro, Tony | Richards, Ariana | Marcus, Richard | Wong, Victor | Parker, Sunshine | Wagner, Michael Dan | Bachmann, Conrad | Besch, Bibi
Directors: Underwood, Ron
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Val (’Kevin Bacon’ (qv)) and Earl (’Fred Ward (I)’ (qv)) plan to put behind their days as handymen in a small dust bowl town called Perfection. Before they can get to civilization though, they encounter numerous victims of monsters that burrow through the ground. Soon the whole town is camped out on their roofs as Val and Earl lead them to safety.

X-Men (2000)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | Stewart, Patrick | McKellen, Ian | Janssen, Famke | Marsden, James | Berry, Halle | Paquin, Anna | Tyler Mane | Park, Ray | Romijn, Rebecca
Directors: Singer, Bryan
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Across the world, children are born with an extra twist to their chromosomes that allow them to exhibit superhuman abilities: fire a beam of force from their eyes, or sprout wings that allow flight or being able to read men’s minds. These ‘children of the atom’ are often feared and despised by the world, forcing these ‘mutants’ to resort to desperate actions. However, one group of mutants have banded together to show the world that it need not fear their kind. Apart, they are simply scientific curiousities, freaks and monsters - but together, united by their shared belief, they are more - they are the uncanny X-Men.

Sphere (1998)

Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Hoffman, Dustin | Stone, Sharon | Latifah, Queen | Schreiber, Liev | Coyote, Peter | Marga Gomez
Directors: Levinson, Barry
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1000 feet below the ocean, navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long. A crack team of scientists are deployed to the site in Deepsea Habitats. What they find boggles the mind as they discover a perfect metal sphere. What is the secret behind the sphere? Will they survive the mysterious ‘manifestations’? Who or what is creating these? They may never live to find out.

007 World Is Not Enough, The (1999)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Marceau, Sophie | Carlyle, Robert | Richards, Denise | Coltrane, Robbie | Dench, Judi | Llewelyn, Desmond | Cleese, John | Cucinotta, Maria Grazia | Bond, Samantha | Kitchen, Michael | Salmon, Colin | Goldie | Calder, David | Scott Thomas, Serena
Directors: Apted, Michael
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James Bond (Brosnan) is back. A oil tycoon is murdered in MI6 and Bond is sent to protect his daughter. Renard (Carlyle) who has a bullet lodged in his brain from a previous agent is secretly planning the destruction of a pipeline. Bond gains a hand from a research scientist, Dr. Christmas Jones (Richards) who witnesses the action which happens when Bond meets up with Renard, but Bond becomes suspicious about Elektra King (Marceau) , especially when Bond’s boss, M (Dench) goes missing. Bond must work quickly to prevent Renard from destroying Europe.

Species (1995)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Madsen, Michael | Whitaker, Forest | Henstridge, Natasha | Kingsley, Ben | Molina, Alfred | Helgenberger, Marg | Hubley, Whip | Williams, Michelle
Directors: Donaldson, Roger
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In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye. Government agent Xavier Fitch assembles a team of scientists and mercenaries to locate and destroy Sil before she manages to find a mate and breed.

I.Q. (1994)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Robbins, Tim | Ryan, Meg | Matthau, Walter | Jacobi, Lou | Saks, Gene | Maher, Joseph | Fry, Stephen | Shalhoub, Tony | Whaley, Frank | Durning, Charles | Curtis, Keene | Playten, Alice | Zorn, Danny | Hanft, Helen | Berlind, Roger
Directors: Schepisi, Fred
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Edward Walters, an auto mechanic, falls for the intelligent and beautiful Catherine Boyd. It is love at first sight. There is however a problem, she’s engaged to jerk James Moreland. Fortunately, Catherine’s uncle likes Ed, and with his friends they scheme to make Catherine fall for Ed. The comedy in this movie stems from the fact that Catherine’s uncle is none other than Albert Einstein, who’s portrayed as a fun loving genius, as are his mischievous colleagues, Nathan, Kurt and Boris.

Congo (1995)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Linney, Laura | Walsh, Dylan | Hudson, Ernie | Curry, Tim | Heslov, Grant | Baker, Joe Don | Noh, Lorene | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Rosas, Misty | Pankin, Stuart | Seymour, Carolyn | Rosemont, Romy | Karen, James | Pugin, Bill | Wrentz, Lawrence T.
Directors: Marshall, Frank
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Greed is bad, this simple morality tale cautions. A megalomaniacal C.E.O. sends his son into the dangerous African Congo on a quest for a source of diamonds large enough and pure enough to function as powerful laser communications transmitters (or is it laser weapons?). When contact is lost with his son and the team, his sometime daughter- in-law is sent after them. She is a former CIA operative and, accompanied by gee-whiz gadgetry and a few eccentric characters (including a mercenary, a researcher with a talking gorilla, and a a nutty Indiana-Jones-type looking for King Solomon’s Mines), sets out to rescue her former fiance. What they all discover is that often what we most want turns out to be the source of our downfall.

Roxanne (1987)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Hannah, Daryl | Rossovich, Rick | Duvall, Shelley | Kapelos, John | Willard, Fred | Alexander, Max | Pollard, Michael J. | Mittleman, Steve | Wayans, Damon | Lattanzi, Matt | Beri, Shandra | Rubin, Blanche | Campbell, Jane | Sincere, Jean
Directors: Schepisi, Fred
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This is a remake of Cyrano de Bergerac, one of the most celebrated plays of the French theater, written by Edmond Rostand. Instead of being set in 17th century France, “Cyrano” has been changed to “Charlie”, a fire chief in a small town in Washington. Roxanne, played by the beautiful Darryl Hanna, rents a house for the summer to look at comets and Charlie quickly falls for her. Charlie is intelligent, funny, and sensitive, but all his fine qualities are unfortunately overshadowed by his very large nose (”Excuse me, it that your nose or did a bus park on your face?”). Charlie’s friend, Chris, on the other hand, is quite attractive, but superficial and awkward with words, especially around women (he has a tendency to throw up a lot). Both men are enthralled with Roxanne, but she, in a shallow but predictable move, shows interest in the handsome Chris. Chris is tongue-tied around her — everything that comes out of his mouth is either vulgar or indecipherable. So he asks Charlie for help. Charlie, inspired, writes 3 love letters a day to Roxanne, unbeknownst to Chris. Charlie’s eloquent letters work, because Roxanne falls in love with Chris. But Chris can’t meet Roxanne’s expectations in person and he soon runs off with a waitress who is “pretty cute, too”.

Antitrust (2001)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Phillippe, Ryan | Cook, Rachael Leigh | Forlani, Claire | Robbins, Tim | McFerran, Douglas | Roundtree, Richard | Runyan, Tygh | Tso, Yee Jee | Dushku, Nate | Bellamy, Ned | Labine, Tyler | Bellis, Scott | Lovgren, David | Paroo, Zahf | Young, Jonathon
Directors: Howitt, Peter
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This movie is the fictional story of computer programming genius Milo Hoffman after graduating from Stanford and getting out into the competitive world of computer software. In his contemplation of where to begin his career, he is contacted by Gary Winston whose character is loosely based on Bill Gates. Winston is the CEO of a company called NURV, and they are on the brink of completing the global communication’s system, Synapse. They need Hoffman to help them meet their launch date, so after much thought and with the full support of his girlfriend Alice, he accepts the job. Tragedy soon after strikes and Milo becomes suspicious of the company he has been wrapped up in. He learns that trusting anyone could be a mistake, and that nothing is as it seems.