Posts Tagged ‘baseball-bat’

*batteries not included (1987)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Cronyn, Hume | Tandy, Jessica | McRae, Frank | Peña, Elizabeth | Carmine, Michael | Boutsikaris, Dennis | Aldredge, Tom | Hoffman, Jane | DiSanti, John | Pankow, John | Dixon, MacIntyre | Greene, Michael | Belack, Doris | Schaal, Wendy | Santana, José Angel
Directors: Robbins, Matthew
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A group of tenants in an apartment block are being forced to move out so that it can be demolished. The tenants are reluctant to move, so the developers hire a local gang to ‘persuade’ them to leave. Fortunately, visiting alien mechanical life-forms come to town. When they befriend the tenants, the aliens use their extraterrestrial abilities to defeat the developers.

Hard Way, The (1991)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Woods, James | Fox, Michael J. | Sciorra, Annabella | Lang, Stephen
Directors: Badham, John
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Nick Lang is a famous actor, well know for his action movies. For the next film he needs the proper motivation and inspiration for his roll. Thus he teams up with the reluctant N.Y. cop John Moss. Not only does he have to put up with Nick who is laborious and out of touch with realities, but he also has to catch a cold-blooded murderer.

Untouchables, The (1987)

Friday, September 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Connery, Sean | Smith, Charles Martin | Garcia, Andy | De Niro, Robert | Bradford, Richard | Kehoe, Jack | Sullivan, Brad | Drago, Billy | Clarkson, Patricia | D'Ambrosio, Vito | Goldstein, Steven | Aylward, Peter | Harvey, Don | Swan, Robert
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein’s _The Battleship Potemkin_.

War, Inc. (2008)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cusack, John | Cusack, Joan | Tomei, Marisa | Duff, Hilary | Kingsley, Ben | Aykroyd, Dan | Bellamy, Ned | Binev, Velizar | Casabani, Marc | Cross, Ben | Dearth, Doug | Diakov, Itai | Gatzov, Georgi | Harvey, Nick | Neikov, Lyubomir
Directors: Seftel, Joshua
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A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President (Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation’s CEO hires a troubled hit man (Cusack), to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation’s Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Duff) an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter (Tomei) in check.

Everyone’s Hero (2006)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Sport
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Macy, William H. | Reiner, Rob | Dennehy, Brian | Wagner, Robert | Kind, Richard | Harris, Jason | Austin, Jake T. | Torre, Joe | Patinkin, Mandy | Whitaker, Forest | Allen, Ritchie | Bronstein, Jesse | Coppola, Ralph | Helms, Ed | Iannicelli, Ray
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“Everyone’s Hero” is a heartwarming comedy-adventure, telling the story of a young boy’s thousand-mile journey to help Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees win the World Series. The project’s theme of perseverance against all odds was inspired by the film’s originating director and executive producer, Christopher Reeve.

Kidulthood (2006)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Ameen, Aml | Clarke, Noel | Deacon, Adam | Oyeniran, Femi | Ajala, David | Angol, Richard | Burroughs, Tom | Callis, Sam | Da Costa, Stephen | Dantzic, Toby | Deley, Ortis | Hanson, Alexander | Hoult, Nicholas | Hunjan, Sushil | Cornell, John
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A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.

Weird Science (1985)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Hall, Anthony Michael | Mitchell-Smith, Ilan | Paxton, Bill | Downey Jr., Robert | Rusler, Robert | Wells, Vernon | Leach, Britt | Berryman, Michael | Barry, Ivor | Kapelos, John | Scott, Fred D. | Townsend Jr., Vince | Williams, Chino 'Fats' | Langham, Wallace | Timko, Johnny
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Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Thier desperation to be liked leads them to “create” a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, who’s purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men. On their road to become accepted they encounter many hilarious obstacles which gives the movie an overall sense of silliness.

Signal, The (2007)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian, Cheri | McKnight, Chad | Poythress, Scott | Adelman, Jeff | Bach, J. Howard | Bailey, Ben | Bowen, AJ | Burke, Johnny | Bush, Dan | Clifton, John | Closs, Terril A. | Germon, Michael | Hodges, Scott | Holbrook, Mark
Directors: Bruckner, David
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A horror film told in three parts from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission which invades every cell phone, radio and TV, turning people into killers.

Clockwork Orange, A (1971)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: McDowell, Malcolm | Magee, Patrick | Bates, Michael | Clarke, Warren | Clive, John | Corri, Adrienne | Duering, Carl | Farrell, Paul | Francis, Clive | Gover, Michael | Karlin, Miriam | Marcus, James | Morris, Aubrey | Quigley, Godfrey | Raynor, Sheila
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for the police to find. He agrees to try “aversion therapy” to shorten his jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, but the rest of his gang members are still after him.

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.