Posts Tagged ‘impersonation’

Akira (1988)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Iwata, Mitsuo | Sasaki, Nozomu | Koyama, Mami | Genda, Tesshô | Ôtake, Hiroshi | Kitamura, Kôichi | Ikemizu, Michihiro | Fuchizaki, Yuriko | Ôkura, Masaaki | Arakawa, Tarô | Kusao, Takeshi | Tanaka, Kazumi | Katô, Masayuki | Akimoto, Yôsuke | Hirano, Masato
Directors: Ôtomo, Katsuhiro
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Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo’s supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira’s secrets were buried 30 years ago.

Total Recall (1990)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Ticotin, Rachel | Stone, Sharon | Cox, Ronny | Ironside, Michael | Bell, Marshall | Johnson Jr., Mel | Champion, Michael | Brocksmith, Roy | Baker, Ray | Dunsmore, Rosemary | Knell, David | Robinson, Alexia | Norris, Dean | Carlton, Mark
Directors: Verhoeven, Paul
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Douglas Quaid is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen. Now the story really begins and it’s a rollercoaster ride until the massive end of the movie.

Aviator, The (2004)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Blanchett, Cate | Beckinsale, Kate | Reilly, John C. | Baldwin, Alec | Alda, Alan | Holm, Ian | Huston, Danny | Stefani, Gwen | Law, Jude | Scott, Adam | Ross, Matt | Garner, Kelli | Conroy, Frances | Spiner, Brent
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese’s favorite films, Hell’s Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.

Batman Begins (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Caine, Michael | Neeson, Liam | Holmes, Katie | Oldman, Gary | Murphy, Cillian | Wilkinson, Tom | Hauer, Rutger | Watanabe, Ken | Boone Junior, Mark | Roache, Linus | Freeman, Morgan | Holden, Larry | Murphy, Gerard | McFarlane, Colin
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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In tone with the early “Batman: Year One” style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra’s Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan ‘The Scarecrow’ Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Neeson, Liam | McGregor, Ewan | Portman, Natalie | Lloyd, Jake | August, Pernilla | Oz, Frank | McDiarmid, Ian | Ford Davies, Oliver | Quarshie, Hugh | Best, Ahmed | Daniels, Anthony | Baker, Kenny | Stamp, Terence | Blessed, Brian | Secombe, Andrew
Directors: Lucas, George
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This First Episode follows the young years of Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader). The friendship of Obi-wan Kenobi, Yoda and Qui-Gon Jinn are also central aspects. And the beginning of the rise to power of Senator Palpatine to Emperor.

Overboard (1987)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hawn, Goldie | Russell, Kurt | Herrmann, Edward | Helmond, Katherine | Hagerty, Michael G. | McDowall, Roddy | Rushton, Jared | Wiseman, Jeffrey | Price, Brian | Wild, Jamie | Campanella, Frank | Miller, Henry Alan | Buxton, Frank | Williard, Carol | Hess, Doris
Directors: Marshall, Garry
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Rich bitch Joanna hires country carpenter Dean to build a closet on her yacht. When the two don’t see eye-to-eye, Dean is left unpaid while Joanna sets sail. The following day, Joanna is fished out of the sea, after falling overboard, suffering from amnesia. Dean sees a neat way to regain the money she owes him… he tells her she’s his wife; that way Dean gets a free housekeeper and mother for his four kids.

Fifth Element, The (1997)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Oldman, Gary | Holm, Ian | Jovovich, Milla | Tucker, Chris | Perry, Luke | James, Brion | Lister Jr., Tom 'Tiny' | Evans, Lee | Creed-Miles, Charlie | Tricky | Neville, John | Bluthal, John | Kassovitz, Mathieu | Fairbank, Christopher
Directors: Besson, Luc
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Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element (played by Milla Jovovich) can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years. She is helped by ex-soldier, current-cab-driver, Corben Dallas (played by Bruce Willis), who is, in turn, helped by Prince/Arsenio clone, Ruby Rhod. Unfortunately, Evil is being assisted by Mr. Zorg (Gary Oldman), who seeks to profit from the chaos that Evil will bring, and his alien mercenaries.

Collateral (2004)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Foxx, Jamie | Pinkett Smith, Jada | Ruffalo, Mark | Berg, Peter | McGill, Bruce | Hall, Irma P. | Henley, Barry Shabaka | Jones, Richard T. | Scott, Klea | Elfman, Bodhi | Mazar, Debi | Bardem, Javier | Rivera, Emilio | McBride, Jamie
Directors: Mann, Michael
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Max has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. The faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he’s long since forgotten—until tonight. Vincent is a contract killer. When an off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that they’re about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness, and the last stage is tonight. It is on this very night that Vincent has arrived—and five bodies are supposed to fall. Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max’ taxicab, and Max becomes collateral—an expendable person who’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night, Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. race to intercept them, Max and Vincent’s survival become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined.

Last Tango in Paris (1972)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | Italy
Actors: Brando, Marlon | Schneider, Maria | Michi, Maria | Galletti, Giovanna | Magrini, Gitt | Allégret, Catherine | Marquand, Luce | Breillat, Marie-Hélène | Breillat, Catherine | Diament, Dan | Sola, Catherine | Marchetti, Mauro | Léaud, Jean-Pierre | Girotti, Massimo | Schommer, Peter
Directors: Bertolucci, Bernardo
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While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife’s recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife’s death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her.

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Aiken, Liam | Browning, Emily | Hoffman, Kara | Hoffman, Shelby | Law, Jude | Spall, Timothy | | Connolly, Billy | Streep, Meryl | Guzmán, Luis | Harris, Jamie | Ferguson, Craig | Coolidge, Jennifer | Adams, Jane
Directors: Silberling, Brad
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Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are three intelligent young children who receive terrible news that their parents have died in a fire and have left them an enormous fortune not to be used until the eldest child is of age. When they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a greedy distant relative, they soon learn he is trying to steal their fortune for himself.