Posts Tagged ‘chess’

007 From Russia with Love (1963)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Sean Connery | Daniela Bianchi | Pedro Armendáriz | Lotte Lenya | Robert Shaw | Bernard Lee | Eunice Gayson | Walter Gotell | Francis De Wolff | George Pastell | Nadja Regin | Lois Maxwell | Aliza Gur | Martine Beswick | Vladek Sheybal
Directors: Terence Young
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James Bond 007 is on the search for a Russian decoding machine, known as Lektor. Bond needs to find this machine, before the evil SPECTRE organization discovers it first. Whilst being romantically linked with Russian girl, Tatiana Romanova, Bond sneaks his way around Istanbul, whilst each SPECTRE agent tries to pick him off, including the over powering Donald ‘Red’ Grant and ex-KGB agent Rosa Klebb who knows all the tricks in the books and even possesses an incredible poison tipped shoe!

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Segel | Russell Brand | Bill Hader | Jack McBrayer | Taylor Wily | Davon McDonald | Steve Landesberg | Jonah Hill | Paul Rudd | Kala Alexander | Kalani Robb | Branscombe Richmond | Billy Green Bush | William Baldwin | Jason Bateman
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Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah’s traveling to the same resort as her ex … and she’s bringing along her new boyfriend.

College Road Trip (2008)

Friday, July 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin Lawrence | Adam LeFevre | Eugene Jones III | Lucas Grabeel | Matthew Schlein | Eshaya Draper | Will Sasso | Josh Meyers | Lonny Ross | Donny Osmond | Kristian Kordula | Nicholas Leiter Mele | Jason Kolotouros | Joseph R. Gannascoli | Chad Hessler
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When an overachieving high school student decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father also decides to accompany her in order to keep her on the straight and narrow.

Matchstick Men (2003)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Sam Rockwell | Alison Lohman | Bruce Altman | Bruce McGill | Jenny O'Hara | Steve Eastin | Beth Grant | Sheila Kelley | Fran Kranz | Tim Kelleher | Nigel Gibbs | Bill Saito | Tim Maculan | Stoney Westmoreland
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Meet Roy and Frank, a couple of professional small-time con artists. What Roy, a veteran of the grift, and Frank, his ambitious protégé, are swindling these days are “water filtration systems,” bargain-basement water filters bought by unsuspecting people who pay ten times their value in order to win bogus prizes like cars, jewelry and overseas vacations—which they never collect. These scams net the flim-flam men a few hundred here, another thousand there, which eventually adds up to a lucrative partnership. Roy’s private life, however, is not so successful. An obsessive-compulsive agoraphobe with no personal relationships to call his own, Roy is barely hanging on to his wits, and when his idiosyncrasies begin to threaten his criminal productivity he’s forced to seek the help of a psychoanalyst just to keep him in working order. While Roy is looking for a quick fix, his therapy begets more than he bargained for: the revelation that he has a teenage daughter—a child whose existence he suspected but never dared confirm. What’s more troubling, 14-year-old Angela wants to meet the father she never knew. At first, Angela’s appearance disrupts her neurotic father’s carefully ordered routine. Soon, however, with his own unique spin on parenthood, Roy begins to enjoy a relationship he never dreamed of having with his daughter. But while he develops paternal feelings for the 14-year-old, she’s developing a fascination with Daddy’s questionable career.

Knight Moves (1992)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Christopher Lambert | Diane Lane | Tom Skerritt | Daniel Baldwin | Codie Lucas Wilbee | Joshua Murray | Frank C. Turner | Don Thompson | Megan Leitch | Alex Diakun | Ferdy Mayne | Katharine Isabelle | Mark Wilson | Kehli O'Byrne | Blu Mankuma
Directors: Carl Schenkel
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A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster’s innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.

American Werewolf in London, An (1981)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: David Naughton | Jenny Agutter | Griffin Dunne | John Woodvine | Lila Kaye | Joe Belcher | David Schofield | Brian Glover | Rik Mayall | Sean Baker | Paddy Ryan | Anne-Marie Davies | Frank Oz | Don McKillop | Paul Kember
Directors: John Landis
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Two American students are on a walking tour of England and are attacked by a Werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The Werewolf is killed, but reverts to it’s human form, and the townspeople are able to deny it’s existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on 4 feet at first, but then finds that his friend and other recent victims appear to him, demanding that he find a way to die to release them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their unnatural death.

Great Escape, The (1963)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | James Garner | Richard Attenborough | James Donald | Charles Bronson | Donald Pleasence | James Coburn | Hannes Messemer | David McCallum | Gordon Jackson | John Leyton | Angus Lennie | Nigel Stock | Robert Graf | Jud Taylor
Directors: John Sturges
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Based on a true story, “The Great Escape” deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries.

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Cleavon Little | Gene Wilder | Slim Pickens | David Huddleston | Liam Dunn | Alex Karras | John Hillerman | George Furth | Jack Starrett | Harvey Korman | Madeline Kahn | Carol Arthur | Richard Collier | Charles McGregor
Directors: Mel Brooks
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The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.

Blade Runner (Final cut) (2007)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Rutger Hauer | Sean Young | Edward James Olmos | M. Emmet Walsh | Daryl Hannah | William Sanderson | Brion James | Joe Turkel | Joanna Cassidy | James Hong | Morgan Paull | Kevin Thompson | John Edward Allen | Hy Pyke
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 “skin jobs”, a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.

Phenomenon (1996)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Kyra Sedgwick | Forest Whitaker | Robert Duvall | Jeffrey DeMunn | Richard Kiley | Brent Spiner | Vyto Ruginis | Bruce A. Young | Michael Milhoan | Sean O'Bryan | David Gallagher | Ashley Buccille | Tony Genaro | Troy Evans
Directors: Jon Turteltaub
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The main character (John Travolta) observes a strange light on his birthday at a bar. The following days he becomes very intell-i-gent and puts the intell-i-gence to good use in his community. When word gets around he becomes known as a freak and everyone wants to figure out why this happened to a car mechanic. The government also wants to get their hands on it to put it to other uses.