Posts Tagged ‘desert’

Desert Saints (2000)

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roam, Brent | Woods, Shawn | Bersh, Christopher | Sutherland, Kiefer | Ticotin, Rachel | Grant, Beth | Chapman, Zach | Sheridan, Jamey | Stefanson, Leslie | Walters, Melora | Quaid, Buddy | Diamond, Keith | Sage, Bill | Waksal, Aliza | Gelfant, Alan
Directors: Greenberg, Richard
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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks’s slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI’s close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he’ll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks’s tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise…

Hills Have Eyes, The (2006)

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stanford, Aaron | Quinlan, Kathleen | Shaw, Vinessa | de Ravin, Emilie | Byrd, Dan | Bower, Tom | Drago, Billy | Joy, Robert | Levine, Ted | Askew, Desmond | Buzzington, Ezra | Smith, Michael Bailey | Ortiz, Laura | Nicotero, Gregory | Camilleri Preziosi, Maisie
Directors: Aja, Alexandre
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Wes Craven produces this remake of his 1977 classic of the same name, about the Carters, an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to be empty…or so they thought? When the Carter’s car breaks down at the old site, they’re stranded…or are they? As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually breaking down, might actually be a trap. This trap might be perpetrated by the inhabitants of the site who aren’t pulling a prank, but are out to set up a gruesome massacre.

Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (1966)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Western
Countries: Italy | Spain
Actors: Wallach, Eli | Eastwood, Clint | Van Cleef, Lee | Giuffrè, Aldo | Pistilli, Luigi | Rassimov, Rada | Petito, Enzo | Scarchilli, Claudio | Bartha, John | Lorenzon, Livio | Casale, Antonio | Scarchilli, Sandro | Stefanelli, Benito | Novi, Angelo | Casas, Antonio
Directors: Leone, Sergio
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The Good is Blondie, a wandering gunman with a strong personal sense of honor. The Bad is Angel Eyes, a sadistic hitman who always hits his mark. The Ugly is Tuco, a Mexican bandit who’s always only looking out for himself. Against the backdrop of the Civil War, they search for a fortune in gold buried in a graveyard. Each knows only a portion of the gold’s exact location, so for the moment they’re dependent on each other. However, none are particularly inclined to share…

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.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nimoy, Leonard | Kelley, DeForest | Doohan, James | Koenig, Walter | Nichols, Nichelle | Takei, George | Warner, David | Luckinbill, Laurence | Cooper, Charles | Gouw, Cynthia | Bryant, Todd | Williams-Crosby, Spice | Holman, Rex | Murdock, George
Directors: Shatner, William
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It’s Stardate 8454.130 and vacationing Captain Kirk faces two challenges: climbing Yosemite’s El Capitan and teaching campfire songs to Spock. But vacations are cut short when a renegade Vulcan hijacks the Enterprise, and pilots it on a journey to uncover the universe’s innermost secrets.

It Came from Outer Space (1953)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Carlson, Richard | Rush, Barbara | Drake, Charles | Sawyer, Joe | Johnson, Russell | Hughes, Kathleen | Brooks, Ralph | Buster, Budd | Carson, Robert | Davenport, Ned | Dearing, Edgar | Dexter, Alan | Eldredge, George | Fix, Paul | Haupt, Whitey
Directors: Arnold, Jack
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John Putnam and Ellen watch a great fireball going down near a mine. Both are the only ones, who believe the “thing” not to be a meteor but an alien starship. In the following days, people disappear and return, obviously being manipulated in a strange way. After a while, the sheriff becomes distrustful. He and his men enter the mine. But Putnam hopes to reach a peaceful solution and enters the starship …

Zoom (2006)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Allen, Tim | Cox, Courteney | Chase, Chevy | Breslin, Spencer | Zegers, Kevin | Mara, Kate | Cassidy, Michael | Newman, Ryan | Torn, Rip
Directors: Hewitt, Peter
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Former superhero Jack Shepard, (also known as Captain Zoom), is called back to work to transform an unlikely group of ragtag kids into a new generation of superheroes at a privacy Academy and save the world from certain destruction. The project holds an audition of would-be members, most of whom possess useless or disgusting powers. In the end, Dylan, a 17-year-old boy who can turn invisible Summer, a 16-year-old girl with telekinetic powers Tucker, a 12-year-old boy with the power to enlarge any part of his body Cindy, a 6-year-old girl with super strength.

RV (2006)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Hines, Cheryl | Levesque, Joanna 'JoJo' | Hutcherson, Josh | Daniels, Jeff | Chenoweth, Kristin | Parrish, Hunter | Sonnenfeld, Chloe | Ferris, Alex | Arnett, Will | Hale, Tony | Howe, Brian | Cox, Richard Ian | Gair, Erika-Shaye | Sztopa, Veronika
Directors: Sonnenfeld, Barry
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Bob Munro is the dad of a dysfunctional family. He hires an RV to take the family on vacation. However Bob is NOT the best RV steering wheel operator in the neighborhood and the hilarity is added on by the fact that the brakes are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Bob first realizes it when the RV rolls (not literally) backwards into a line of shopping carts. Also Bob’s job is in danger if he doesn’t go to a very important meeting. Before you can say “COME BACK! COME BACK!,” things go gloriously, hilariously, Munro-annoyingly wrong due to the lack of brakes, Bob’s job, toilet waste not cleared out from the last rental and more hilarious stuff.

Children of Dune (2003)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Newman, Alec | Cox, Julie | Atterton, Edward | McNeice, Ian | Kodetová, Barbora | Berkoff, Steven | Amavia, Daniela | Moriarty, P.H. | McAvoy, James | Brooks, Jessica | Bruun, Jonathan | Young, Rick | McDougall, Martin | Williams, Gee | Krige, Alice
Directors: Yaitanes, Greg
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The twins of Paul “Muad’dib” Atreides become embroiled in the political landscape of Arrakis (”Dune”) and the rest of the universe.

Broken Arrow (1996)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Slater, Christian | Mathis, Samantha | Lindo, Delroy | Gunton, Bob | Whaley, Frank | Long, Howie | Curtis-Hall, Vondie | Thompson, Jack | Ruginis, Vyto | Elam, Ousaun | Toub, Shaun | Biggs, Casey | Stephen, Jeffrey J. | Box, Joey
Directors: Woo, John
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Major Deakins is a tough U.S. Air Force pilot who is assigned to a flight mission with ‘nice-guy’ Captain Hale. They are to fly the B3 Stealth Bomber on wargame maneuvers over Utah loaded with two live nuclear weapons. Deakins, having been continually passed over for promotion, sells out his country and arranges to use the thermonuclear warheads under his command to blackmail the U.S. government. The only thing standing in his way is his old buddy, Captain Hale….