Posts Tagged ‘contest’

The 10th Kingdom (2000)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Kimberly Williams | Scott Cohen | John Larroquette | Dianne Wiest | Camryn Manheim | Ann-Margret | Ed O'Neill | Rutger Hauer | Dawnn Lewis | Hugh O'Gorman | Daniel Lapaine | Jeremiah Birkett | Warwick Davis | Kim Thomson | Lucy Whybrow
Directors: Herbert Wise | David Carson
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Two centuries after Snow White and Cinderella had their adventures, the Nine Kingdoms ready themselves for the coronation of Prince Wendel, Snow White’s grandson, to the throne of the Fourth Kingdom. But an evil once-queen has freed herself from prison, and turns the prince into a golden retriever. Wendel, by means of a magic mirror, escapes into a hitherto-unknown Tenth Kingdom (modern day New York City) and meets Virginia and her father Tony. Pursued by trolls, cops, and a wolf in man’s form, the three blunder back into the Nine Kingdoms and begin their adventures to restore Wendel to his human form and throne, and find the magic mirror that will take Tony and Virginia back home, all the while unknowing that Virginia already has a connection to the Nine Kingdoms that may prove deadly before we reach Happily Ever After.

The 10th Kingdom (2000)

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Kimberly Williams | Scott Cohen | John Larroquette | Dianne Wiest | Camryn Manheim | Ann-Margret | Ed O'Neill | Rutger Hauer | Dawnn Lewis | Hugh O'Gorman | Daniel Lapaine | Jeremiah Birkett | Warwick Davis | Kim Thomson | Lucy Whybrow
Directors: Herbert Wise | David Carson
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Two centuries after Snow White and Cinderella had their adventures, the Nine Kingdoms ready themselves for the coronation of Prince Wendel, Snow White’s grandson, to the throne of the Fourth Kingdom. But an evil once-queen has freed herself from prison, and turns the prince into a golden retriever. Wendel, by means of a magic mirror, escapes into a hitherto-unknown Tenth Kingdom (modern day New York City) and meets Virginia and her father Tony. Pursued by trolls, cops, and a wolf in man’s form, the three blunder back into the Nine Kingdoms and begin their adventures to restore Wendel to his human form and throne, and find the magic mirror that will take Tony and Virginia back home, all the while unknowing that Virginia already has a connection to the Nine Kingdoms that may prove deadly before we reach Happily Ever After.

Rat Race (2001)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: John Cleese | Rowan Atkinson | Amy Smart | Breckin Meyer | Jenica Bergere | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Carrie Diamond | Douglas Haase | Chris Myers | Kevin Frazier | Seth Green | Gloria Allred | Vince Vieluf | Ren?e Lee | Corinna Harney | Jane C. Walsh | Whoopi Goldberg | Lanei Chapman
Directors: Jerry Zucker
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A group of billionaires led by a Las Vegas casino owner (John Cleese) search for things to bet on. They decide to pull a group of six strangers together to race from Vegas to Silver City, New Mexico to retrieve $2 million hidden in a locker. First one there gets all of the money. The first team are two addled brothers (Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, who talks indecipherably because of a newly pierced tongue). When they cannot catch a plane, they plot to destroy an airport control tower in a very funny sequence. Their antics carry them into a hot air balloon chase that catches a cow with a dangling rope and into a monster truck competition. The second team is an estranged mother (Whoopi Goldberg) reunited with her daughter (Lanai Chapman), who is struggling to start a business. They face an insane squirrel-selling woman (Kathy Bates) and steal a rocket car scheduled for a land speed record attempt. A hated NFL referee (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is stranded in the desert by an irate cabbie (Paul Rodriguez) and hijacks a busload of Lucille Ball look-alikes on the way to a convention. The Jewish family man (Jon Lovitz) on a family vacation joins the race without telling his wife (Kathy Najimy) why they are rushing across the country. When his daughter insists on stopping at a Barbie museum, it is without realization that it is the Klaus Barbie Nazi Museum. The escape from that location involves the theft of Hitler’s personal touring car and culminates with Lovitz having his tongue burned and accidentally crashing into a WWII Veteran’s convention. A narcoleptic Italian (Rowan Atkinson in his best Mr. Bean-like manner) gets a ride with an ambulance driver (Wayne Knight), who is carting a human heart for a transplant. Through various ineptitude, the heart ends up flying out of the truck’s window and the two have to recover it from a playful dog. The final race member (Breckin Meyer) is a straight-laced future lawyer who at first declines to participate in the race, but re-thinks his position after he meets a smart, beautiful woman (Amy Smart) who is flying a helicopter to New Mexico. He quickly finds out that she is unbalanced after she flies over her boy friend’s house and starts an attack on the boy friend when she sees him in the pool with an ex-girl friend. An air pursuit results in the crash of the helicopter. Dave Thomas also appears as Cleese’s humorless attorney.

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Newman | George Kennedy | J.D. Cannon | Lou Antonio | Robert Drivas | Strother Martin | Clifton James | Morgan Woodward | Luke Askew | Marc Cavell | Richard Davalos | Robert Donner | Warren Finnerty | Dennis Hopper | John McLiam
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Luke is sent to a prison camp, where he gets a reputation as a hard man. The head of the gang hates him, and tries to break him by beating him up. It doesn’t work, and he gains respect. His mother dies, and he escapes, but is caught, escapes again, and is caught again. Will the camp bosses ever break him ?

21 (2008)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Sturgess | Kevin Spacey | Aaron Yoo | Jacob Pitts | Laurence Fishburne | Jack McGee | Josh Gad | Sam Golzari | Jack Gilpin | Butch Williams | Jeffrey Ma | Frank Patton | Steven Richard Vezina | Chaska T. Werner | Kyle Morris
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

Pumping Iron (1977)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Documentary | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark F. Barnes | Roger Callard | Franco Columbu | Ed Corney | Bud Cort | Lou Ferrigno | Matty Ferrigno | Mike Katz | Serge Nubret | Patrick Reynolds | Helmut Riedmeier | Robbie Robinson | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Ken Waller | Joe Weider
Directors: George Butler
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From Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach California to the showdown in Pretoria, amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests in this part-scripted, part-documentary film. Five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger defends his Mr. Olympia title against Serge Nubret and the shy young deaf Lou Ferrigno, whose father is his coach; the ruthless champ psyches out the young lion. Sardinian Franco Columbu competes in the lightweight class; at home in Italy he solves a tight parking problem by lifting the car into place. Joe Weider is the marketer; Mike Katz and Ken Waller go for the title of Mr. Universe. Bodybuilding and a celebrity-to-be go mainstream.

Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj (2006)

Monday, May 12th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kal Penn | Lauren Cohan | Daniel Percival | Glen Barry | Anthony Cozens | Steven Rathman | Holly Davidson | Tom Davey | William de Coverly | Beth Steel | Amy Steel | Jonathan Cecil | Roger Hammond | Kulvinder Ghir | Shobu Kapoor
Directors: Mort Nathan
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Of East Indian origin, Taj Mahal Badalandabad lives in Coolidge, U.S.A. along with his dad, Dilip, mom, and sister. After hearing about his dad’s exploits at Camford University in Britain, he re-locates there. When he arrives he is royally received by the elite, only to be humiliated and told this reception was because of a ‘typographical error’. He thus re-locates to his new quarters in a distant wreck of a building called the ‘barn’ - reserved for ‘losers’. When he gets over this welcome, Taj must now come to terms with the Queen’s language, her dialect, and the racial profiling (’Curry-breath’, ‘Paki’), and a busty Charlotte Higginson, who is not only better at fencing, but is also intent to ensure his dismissal. Hilarious results follow when Taj decides to fight the Queen and her people at their own game(s) with the help of fellow losers and a horny bulldog.

No Retreat, No Surrender (1986)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: Hong Kong | USA
Actors: Kurt McKinney | Jean-Claude Van Damme | J.W. Fails | Kathie Sileno | Tai Chung Kim | Kent Lipham | Ron Pohnel | Dale Jordan | Peter Cunningham | Timothy D. Baker | Gloria Marziano | Joe Vance | Farid Panahi | Tom Harris | John Andes
Directors: Corey Yuen
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Jason Stillwell, a Bruce Lee fan, is beaten numerous times and trains from the ghost of Lee. Jason then must use his newly acquired skills to save Seattle from a crime syndicate, whose top martial artist is the deadly Ivan.

Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter Sallis | Ralph Fiennes | Helena Bonham Carter | Peter Kay | Nicholas Smith | Liz Smith | John Thomson | Mark Gatiss | Vincent Ebrahim | Geraldine McEwan | Edward Kelsey | Dicken Ashworth | Robert Horvath | Pete Atkin | Noni Lewis
Directors: Steve Box | Nick Park
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It’s ‘vege-mania’ in Wallace and Gromit’s neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, “Anti-Pesto.” With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a “humane” pest control outfit has its drawbacks as their West Wallaby Street home fills to the brim with captive rabbits. Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging “beast” begins attacking the town’s sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day. Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington’s snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who’d rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero-not to mention Lady Tottingon’s hand in marriage. With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder. Little does she know that Victor’s real intent could have dire consequences for her …and our two heroes.

Beerfest (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: M.C. Gainey | Paul Soter | Erik Stolhanske | Cloris Leachman | Jürgen Prochnow | Cameron Scher | Owain Yeoman | Tom Tate | Allan Graf | Chris Moss | Bjorn Johnson | Kevin Heffernan | Steve Lemme | Collin Thornton
Directors: Jay Chandrasekhar
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Two brothers travel to Germany for Oktoberfest, only to stumble upon secret, centuries-old competition described as a “Fight Club” with beer games.