Posts Tagged ‘actor-shares-first-name-with-character’

Immortal Beloved (1994)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gary Oldman | Jeroen Krabbé | Isabella Rossellini | Johanna ter Steege | Marco Hofschneider | Miriam Margolyes | Barry Humphries | Valeria Golino | Gerard Horan | Christopher Fulford | Alexandra Pigg | Luigi Diberti | Michael Culkin | Donal Gibson | Matthew North
Directors: Bernard Rose
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Ludwig van Beethoven dies and his assistant/friend Schindler proceeds to deal with his affairs (last will and testament). There is a question as to who really is his “immortal beloved”, and so tries to find out who this might be.

The Shining (1980)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Shelley Duvall | Danny Lloyd | Scatman Crothers | Barry Nelson | Philip Stone | Joe Turkel | Anne Jackson | Tony Burton | Lia Beldam | Billie Gibson | Barry Dennen | David Baxt | Manning Redwood | Lisa Burns
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as “The Shining” that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - “the little boy who lives in Danny’s mouth”. Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this “Shining” and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.

Batman (1989)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Adam West | Burt Ward | Lee Meriwether | Cesar Romero | Burgess Meredith | Frank Gorshin | Alan Napier | Neil Hamilton | Stafford Repp | Madge Blake | Reginald Denny | Milton Frome | Gil Perkins | Dick Crockett | George Sawaya
Directors: Leslie H. Martinson
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In Gotham City, a dark knight known as Batman helps to defeat evil and keep the city’s citizens safe. When Jack Napier is transformed into the evil, Joker, he promises to take over Gotham City it is up to Batman to stop him in his tracks before it is too late.

Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)

Friday, April 17th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Reggie Bannister | A. Michael Baldwin | Bill Thornbury | Gloria Lynne Henry | Kevin Connors | Cindy Ambuehl | John Davis Chandler | Brooks Gardner | Angus Scrimm | Irene Roseen | Sarah Scott Davis | Duane Tucker | Claire Benedek | Wendy Way | Robert Beecher
Directors: Don Coscarelli
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The Tall Man, that imposing menace from Morningside Mortuary, is back and once again haunting the thoughts of the now-adult Mike and his friend, ex-Ice Cream vendor Reggie. The two continue their hunt for the mysterious figure and in his path of destruction encounter a variety of dangerous situations, friends and enemies. They also must contend with the resurrected dead plus a growing number of the infamous and deadly silver spheres which aid the Tall Man as he sets his sights on indoctrinating Mike and finishing the fight begun so many years ago.

Marley & Me (2008)

Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Aldane'e | Dave Barry | Johann Benét | Robert Bizik | Anthony C. Brown | Lee Burkett | John Cenatiempo | Eric Ditman | Nathan Gamble | Richard Graves | Christian Hall | Dylan Henry | Keith Hudson | Benjamin Hyland | Finley Jacobsen
Directors: David Frankel
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A family learns important life lessons from their adorable, but naughty and neurotic dog.

The Elephant Man (1980)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | John Hurt | Anne Bancroft | John Gielgud | Wendy Hiller | Freddie Jones | Michael Elphick | Hannah Gordon | Helen Ryan | John Standing | Dexter Fletcher | Lesley Dunlop | Phoebe Nicholls | Pat Gorman | Claire Davenport
Directors: David Lynch
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Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dan Aykroyd | Albert Brooks | Vic Morrow | Doug McGrath | Charles Hallahan | Rainer Peets | Kai Wulff | Sue Dugan | Debby Porter | Steven Williams | Annette Claudier | Joseph Hieu | Al Leong | Stephen Bishop
Directors: Joe Dante
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Four horror/science-fiction segments directed by four of Hollywood’s famous directors based on TV’s most popular anthology series, bookened by a funny and scary prologue and epilogue featuring Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks. In the first story directed by John Landis (a vague remake of the Twilight Zone episode “A Quality of Mercy”) a loud-mouthed bigotted businessman (Vic Morrow) with an intense hatred for Jews, blacks, and Asians, gets the tables turned on him when he walks out a bar and is inexplicably transported back in time to being pursued by Nazis in 1940’s France, then as an African-American at a KKK rally in the 1950s Deep South, and as a Vietnamese in 1960s Vietnam. The second story directed by Stephen Spielberg (a remake of ‘Kick the Can’) an old man (Scatman Crothers) arrives at a retirement home and makes the wishes of the residents come true when he magically transforms them into youthful incarnations of their days gone by. The third story directed by Joe Dante (a remake of ‘It’s a Good Life’) a young woman on the road (Kathleen Quinlan) gives a ride to a mysterous 10-year-old boy (Jeremy Licth) to his house and ends up trapped with other people in an alternate reality created by the boy’s imagination. The fourth story directed by George Miller (a remake of ‘Nightmare at 20,000 Feet) stars John Lithgow as an passenger on an airline whom sees, but cannot convince anyone, a mysterious creature on the outside wing of the airplane trying to sabotage the aircraft.

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)

Friday, February 6th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Georgia Groome | Eleanor Tomlinson | Aaron Johnson | Alan Davies | Karen Taylor | Tommy Bastow | Sean Bourke | Liam Hess | Manjeeven Grewal | Georgia Henshaw | Kimberley Nixon | Eva Drew | Matt Brinkler | Steve Jones | Chris Wilson
Directors: Gurinder Chadha
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The story centers on a 14-year-old girl who keeps a diary about the ups and downs of being a teenager, including the things she learns about kissing.

The Bodyguard (1992)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Costner | Whitney Houston | Gary Kemp | Bill Cobbs | Ralph Waite | Tomas Arana | Michele Lamar Richards | Mike Starr | Christopher Birt | DeVaughn Nixon | Gerry Bamman | Joe Urla | Tony Pierce | Charles Keating | Robert Wuhl
Directors: Mick Jackson
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A pop singer has been receiving threatening notes, and her manager hires a bodyguard known for his good work. The bodyguard ruffles the singer’s feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they feel is necessary. The bodyguard is haunted by the fact that he was on Reagan’s secret service staff but wasn’t there to prevent the attack by Hinckley. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home.

Elephant (2003)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Alex Frost | Eric Deulen | John Robinson | Elias McConnell | Jordan Taylor | Carrie Finklea | Nicole George | Brittany Mountain | Alicia Miles | Kristen Hicks | Bennie Dixon | Nathan Tyson | Timothy Bottoms | Matt Malloy | Ellis Williams
Directors: Gus Van Sant
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The movie starts as a car has a hard time driving straight down the road in a residential area. We think some kid has stolen this car. Nah. It’s the dad driving his son to school, and he’s drunk. The teenage son must take over. So, adults give up all responsibility towards their children and mayhem can take place. The film shows one day in the life of several teenage students as they go in and out of classes. They live their student lives and we follow their steps through the corridors and doors, taking them as guides one by one, like avatars in a giant video game.