Posts Tagged ‘bible’

Walk to Remember, A (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hannah, Daryl | West, Shane | Moore, Mandy | Coyote, Peter | Jonathan Parks Jordan | German, Lauren
Directors: Shankman, Adam
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Each spring in the little port town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Landon Carter remembers his senior year at Beaufort High and Jamie Sullivan, the girl who changed his life. Serious and conservative, Jamie was as far from cool as she could possibly be, and didn’t care. Landon hung with the in-crowd an aimless, moody, reckless guy who breezed through school on looks and bravado and had no plans, no future and no faith in himself. When a prank goes terribly wrong landing a kid in the hospital, Landon is assigned to tutor a young student on the weekends and participate in the Drama Club’s spring play. Clearly in over his head with both assignments, Landon is forced to ask Jamie for help. Soon, against his own expectations and the scorn of his friends, Landon finds himself falling in love with this outwardly plain girl who possesses a passion for life he never imagined possible.

Dancer Upstairs, The (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Spain | USA
Actors: Bardem, Javier | Botto, Juan Diego | Morante, Laura | Mínguez, Elvira | Lencastre, Alexandra | Cotton, Oliver | Cintra, Luís Miguel | Manrique, Javier | Folk, Abel | Berganza, Marie-Anne | Rodríguez, Lucas | Elorriaga, Xabier | Dicenta, Natalia | Sinué, Wolframio | Jiménez, Ramiro
Directors: Malkovich, John
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The story of Detective Agustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world. Tracking Ezequiel, a delusional anarchist who incites the downtrodden masses to join in his brutal revolution against the fascist government in their unnamed Latin American country, Rejas finds solace in his sense of self-respect and the joy that his daughter and wife bring him. Then he meets Yolanda—his daughter’s soulfully beautiful ballet teacher—a woman who sparks his long-forgotten passions and represents all that is good and all that is corrupt in their troubled country. But she, who appears to be a shelter from the storm, may in actuality be the storm’s eye. Ultimately, as the revolution intensifies and the net closes around hunter and hunted alike, the dancer’s truth will prove as elusive as the revolutionary’s cause and the detective’s peace.

Tribulation (2000)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Busey, Gary | Mandel, Howie | Mancuso, Nick | Kidder, Margot | Miller, Sherry | Ziegler, Joseph | Bayne, Lawrence | Best, Wayne | Kamateros, Costa | Gallagher, Patrick | Lewis, Leigh | Nordeman, Nichole | Van Impe, Jack | Van Impe, Rexella | Jakes, T.D.
Directors: van Heerden, André
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Tom Canboro is a police detective with a Christian sister, Eileen, a brother, Calvin, a wife, Susan, and eccentric brother-in-law, Jason. One night, Jason seemingly goes insane and tries to kill Eileen, calling her a “hater”. Tom soon realises this may be a conspiracy going as far as devil worship, but as he speeds in his car to get help, he suddenly looses control and crashes. Waking up in a strange hospital, he finds years have passed and people all over the world are wearing the mark of 666 on their right hands, and all those who don’t are being killed off. Franco Macalusso, the believer in world peace Jason was fond of, now controls the world, and is trying to bring the world together as it was at the tower of Babel. Meanwhile, the “Haters” or Christians are hiding out and airing TBN tapes on the air for people to realise the Messiah is really the Antichrist, but their leader, Helen Hannah, is arrested…

Magnolia (1999)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Healy, Pat | Zweig, Genevieve | Moore, Julianne | Macy, William H. | Flannagan, Mark | Flynn, Neil | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | McLachlan, Rod | Walters, Melora | Graf, Allan | Hall, Philip Baker | Oswalt, Patton | Blackman, Jeremy | Gonzales, Raymond 'Big Guy'
Directors: Anderson, Paul Thomas
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Magnolia is the study of nine lives in one day in San Fernando Valley, California. These nine lives all connect and revolve around the game show “What Do Kids Know?”(WDKK), where a team of three kids play against adults and everytime the show is on, there is a new team of adults and the kids remain; if they won the previous game. Earl Partridge (the late Jason Robards) produced “WDKK” when it was first on in the late 60s. He is dying of brain and lung cancer and is being taken care of by Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a male nurse. Linda, Earl’s trophy wife (Julianne Moore) starts to fall in love with Earl for real, despite her cheating. Earl, rapidly dying on his bed, asks Phil to find his estranged son, Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), who grew up hating Earl and now runs a seminar for single men, which teaches them how to seduce a woman and leave her… The host of “WDKK”, Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall), is also dying, but not as rapidly as Earl. He has a very rocky relationship with his daughter Claudia (Melora Waters), who sniffs crack 24/7 and accuses her father of sexually molesting her. Police Officer Jim (John C. Reilly) goes to Claudia’s house after getting called about a disturbance. He falls in love with her right away… Stanley Specter (Jeremy Blackman) is a contestant on “WDKK”, who is a genius and is being used by his father to make money. If Stanley and his team keep winning, they will set a record on the show and get tons of money. The record Stanley is trying to beat is the 1968 record set by Donnie Smith (William H. Macy), who had the exact same childhood when he was on the show and has now grown up to be a pathetic loser. He’s been recently fired from his job, and is trying to find his way into happiness…

Original Sin (2001)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Banderas, Antonio | Jolie, Angelina | Jane, Thomas | Thompson, Jack | Itzin, Gregory | Mackie, Allison | Pringle, Joan | Richards, Cordelia | Haven, James | Armendáriz Jr., Pedro | Martínez, Mario Iván | Porter, Harry | Torre Laphame, Fernando | Vega, Shaula | Owen, Lisa
Directors: Cristofer, Michael
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Can love release our true self? A wealthy Cuban coffee exporter, Luis Vargas, advertises for a US wife; Julia Russell, from Delaware, sends her photograph, but the woman who steps off the ship is much lovelier. Luis marries her immediately and gives in to love. But Julia may not be who she claims: first a private eye shows up on behalf of Julia’s sister, then the sister herself. By now, Luis has given has wife access to bank accounts, and when she runs with his cash, he pursues her, with the help of Downs, the P.I., perhaps to kill her. Pursuit may be part of a con game as well, and Julia’s past explains some, if not all, of what remains of the story. A priest hears her confession.

Ken Park (2002)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | Netherlands | USA
Actors: Chubbuck, Adam | Bullard, James | Gray, Seth | Daniels, Eddie | McDowell, Zara | Quinlan, Maeve | Jasso, Stephen | Williams, Wade | Limos, Tiffany | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Ransone, James | Place, Patricia | Plummer, Amanda | Apaletegui, Mike | Young, Harrison
Directors: Clark, Larry | Lachman, Edward
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Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They’re all rather tight, or so they claim. But they spend precious little time together and none of them seems to know much about one another’s family lives. This bizarre dichotomy underscores their alienation # the result of suburban ennui, a teenager’s inherent sense of melodrama, and the disturbing nature of their home environments.

Signs (2002)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Phoenix, Joaquin | Culkin, Rory | Breslin, Abigail | Jones, Cherry | Kalember, Patricia | Sutton, Ted | Wever, Merritt | Flaherty, Lanny | McCorry, Marion | Showalter, Michael | Pires, Kevin | David, Clifford | Overby, Rhonda
Directors: Shyamalan, M. Night
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Mel Gibson plays a former priest who lost his faith after his wife was killed in a freak car accident. Six months later, he discovers a gigantic crop circle in his yard, similar events happen all over the world. Graham’s children think it’s aliens, his brother thinks it’s pranksters, and Graham doesn’t know what to think. The crop circles cause a media frenzy and test Hess’s faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles. However, as more and more strange events occur, he regains his faith and realizes something big is coming, and it’s probably not going to be friendly.

Devil’s Advocate, The (1997)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Pacino, Al | Theron, Charlize | Jones, Jeffrey | Ivey, Judith | Nielsen, Connie | Nelson, Craig T. | Tunie, Tamara | Santiago-Hudson, Ruben | Monk, Debra | Ruginis, Vyto | Harrington, Laura | Gray, Pamela | Matarazzo, Heather | Wyner, George
Directors: Hackford, Taylor
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Based on a book by Andrew Neiderman, the film centers on a young lawyer who joins a New York firm only to discover that his boss has an increasingly bizarre personality.

Laramie Project, The (2002)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ricci, Christina | Buscemi, Steve | Linney, Laura | Phoenix, Summer
Directors: Kaufman, Moisés
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‘Moisés Kaufman’ (qv) and members of New York’s Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of ‘Matthew Shepard (I)’ (qv). This is a film version of the play they wrote based on more than 200 interviews they conducted in Laramie. It follows and in some cases re-enacts the chronology of Shepherd’s visit to a local bar, his kidnap and beating, the discovery of him tied to a fence, the vigil at the hospital, his death and funeral, and the trial of his killers. It mixes real news reports with actors portraying friends, family, cops, killers, and other Laramie residents in their own words. It concludes with a Laramie staging of “Angels in America” a year after Shephard’s death.

Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robbins, Tim | Freeman, Morgan | Gunton, Bob | Sadler, William | Brown, Clancy | Bellows, Gil | Rolston, Mark | Whitmore, James | DeMunn, Jeffrey | Brandenburg, Larry | Giuntoli, Neil | Libby, Brian | Proval, David | Ragno, Joseph | Ciccolella, Jude
Directors: Darabont, Frank
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Andy Dufresne, is sent to Shawshank Prison for the murder of his wife and secret lover. He is very isolated and lonely at first, but realises there is something deep inside your body, that people can’t touch and get to….’HOPE’. Andy becomes friends with prison ‘fixer’ Red (Morgan Freeman), and Andy epitomises why it is crucial to have dreams. His spirit and determination, leads us into a world full of imagination, filled with courage and desire. Will Andy ever realise his dreams…?