Posts Tagged ‘scandal’

Redacted (2007)

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | War
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Alloul, Sahar | Anderson, Happy | Caillaud, Francois | Carroll, Patrick | Cullen, Andrew | Devaney, Rob | Diaz, Izzy | Figueroa, Mike | Freihat, Qazi | Hijazin, Paul | Hussein, Suhail Abdel | Jones, Ty | Kahlil, Dhiaa | Kassay, Yanal | Knoller, Ohad
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war.

Wag the Dog (1997)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Hoffman, Dustin | De Niro, Robert | Heche, Anne | Leary, Denis | Nelson, Willie | Martin, Andrea | Dunst, Kirsten | Macy, William H. | Higgins, John Michael | Plakson, Suzie | Harrelson, Woody | Belson, Michael | Cryer, Suzanne | Cottle, Jason | Koechner, David
Directors: Levinson, Barry
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After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisors (DeNiro) contacts a top Hollywood producer (Hoffman) in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass media.

Random Hearts (1999)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Scott Thomas, Kristin | Dutton, Charles S. | Hunt, Bonnie | Haysbert, Dennis | Jenkins, Richard | Guilfoyle, Paul | Thompson, Susanna | Coyote, Peter | Baker, Dylan | Thigpen, Lynne | Floyd, Susan | Cobbs, Bill | Mara, Kate
Directors: Pollack, Sydney
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The wife of Police Sergeant Dutch Van Den Broek and the husband of politician Kay Chandler are killed in a plane crash. Now Dutch discovers some anomalies in what he told her before she left and discovers that she and Chandler’s husband were travelling together. Dutch then goes to Chandler and tells her that he suspects that they were having an affair. He tells her that he wants to know the truth; she tells him that she doesn’t but she later joins him and they grow close.

Age of Innocence, The (1993)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Day-Lewis, Daniel | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Ryder, Winona | Smith, Alexis | Chaplin, Geraldine | Hurt, Mary Beth | McCowen, Alec | Grant, Richard E. | Margolyes, Miriam | Leonard, Robert Sean | Phillips, Siân | Pryce, Jonathan | Gough, Michael | Woodward, Joanne | Wilson, Stuart
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May’s unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive high society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love.

Primal Fear (1996)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gere, Richard | Linney, Laura | Norton, Edward | Mahoney, John | McDormand, Frances | Woodard, Alfre | O'Quinn, Terry | Braugher, Andre | Bauer, Steven | Spano, Joe | Plana, Tony | Anderson, Stanley | Tierney, Maura | Seda, Jon | Rogers, Reg
Directors: Hoblit, Gregory
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Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer (Richard Gere) who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy (Edward Norton) accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.

Chicago (2002)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Musical
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Diggs, Taye | Saunders, Cliff | Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Zellweger, Renée | West, Dominic | Gere, Richard | Eastwood, Jayne | Beaton, Bruce | Baranski, Christine | Podhora, Roman | Reilly, John C. | Feore, Colm | Smith, Rob | Wayne Doyle, Shawn | Behal, Steve | Rox, Robbie | Rivera, Chita
Directors: Marshall, Rob
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Fame hungry Roxie Hart dreams of a life on the Vaudville stage, and spends her nights jazzing it up in the bright lights of Chicago, continually hoping that she’ll find her lucky break, and be shot into 1920’s stardom, so able to flee her boring husband Amos. In awe of seductive club singer Velma Kelly (who is subsequantly arrested for the murder of her husband and sister - after discovering their affair), Roxie meets Fred Cassely a man who convinces her he can ‘make her showbiz career take off’. However after Roxie has undergone the ‘casting couch’ treatment, and Fred has had his wicked way with her, he reveals that he has no more connections in showbusiness than she does. This is the final straw for Roxie, and her constant anger at rejection explodes. She shoots Fred Cassely and kills him. Upon discovering her infidelity, Roxie’s husband Amos refuses to take the blame for the murder and Roxie is sent to jail, pending hanging. In jail she finally meets tabloid darling Velma Kelly, currently receiving huge media attention for the double murder she committed earlier in the tale. Sharing the clink with Velma, are a collection of other sly females, all awaiting trial for the murders of their own partners. Velma is aloof to Roxie, however the prison Warden Mrs Morton offers Roxie the opportunity of representation by slick Chicago lawyer Billy Flynn. Billy is more a showbiz P. R agent than a legal lawyer and minipulates the tabloids into thinking Roxie is no more than an innocent ‘good time girl’ who took the wrong path, than a scheming murderess. The tabloids go crazy for the new girl on the cell block, and Roxie finally becomes a star. However due to Roxie’s new found fame, Velma is forgotten about. She is forced to approach Roxie with an offer of a part in her Vaudville act (filling the gap left by her murdered sister), but Roxie turns down her offer flat, thinking she needs no support in topping the bill. However, just as Velma’s star fell, so does Roxie’s, when Go-to-hell Kitty arrives at the jail on a multiple murder charge, the press forget Roxie and now she and Velma are in the same boat. With one more trick up her sleave Roxie manages to bring the media attention back onto her, and her day in court arrives. Billy is now ready to play the ultimate showman!

I Love Trouble (1994)

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Nolte, Nick | Roberts, Julia | Rubinek, Saul | Rebhorn, James | Loggia, Robert | Rutherford, Kelly | Dukakis, Olympia | Mason, Marsha | Levy, Eugene | Smith, Charles Martin | Butler, Dan | Gleason, Paul | Adams, Jane | Lu, Lisa | Dunn, Nora
Directors: Shyer, Charles
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She’s green and eager. He’s seasoned and jaded. They’re reporters for rival Chicago newspapers assigned to cover the same story. He offers tips and advice; she scoops him. Then, their snappy patter, repartee, and ripostes get romantic even as their competitive juices overflow. Will corrupt scientists at a chemical company whose goats give cancer-causing milk kill the cub and the columnist, or will they escape with their lives and their by-lines to hear wedding bells?

Anna Karenina (1948)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Marceau, Sophie | Bean, Sean | Molina, Alfred | Kirshner, Mia | Fox, James | Shaw, Fiona | Huston, Danny | Law, Phyllida | Schofield, David | Wickham, Saskia | Hall, Jennifer | Calder-Marshall, Anna | Shelokhonov, Petr | Braddell, Valerie | Buggy, Niall
Directors: Rose, Bernard
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Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna’s companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it’s love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet. Back in St. Petersburg they keep running into each other at parties. Since she has a husband and small son, they must be very discreet if they are going to see each other alone.

Citizen Kane (1941)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Cotten, Joseph | Comingore, Dorothy | Moorehead, Agnes | Warrick, Ruth | Collins, Ray | Sanford, Erskine | Sloane, Everett | Alland, William | Stewart, Paul | Coulouris, George | Bonanova, Fortunio | Schilling, Gus | Van Zandt, Philip | Backus, Georgia | Shannon, Harry
Directors: Welles, Orson
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world’s richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - “Rosebud…” What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Garson, Greer | Olivier, Laurence | Boland, Mary | Oliver, Edna May | O'Sullivan, Maureen | Rutherford, Ann | Inescort, Frieda | Gwenn, Edmund | Morley, Karen | Angel, Heather | Hunt, Marsha | Lester, Bruce | Ashley, Edward | Cooper, Melville | Lamont, Marten
Directors: Leonard, Robert Z.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.