Posts Tagged ‘fencing’

The Princess Bride (1987)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cary Elwes | Mandy Patinkin | Chris Sarandon | Christopher Guest | Wallace Shawn | André the Giant | Fred Savage | Robin Wright Penn | Peter Falk | Peter Cook | Mel Smith | Carol Kane | Billy Crystal
Directors: Rob Reiner
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When a young boy falls ill, his grandfather pops round to visit him. To cheer his grandson up, Grandpa has brought a storybook; The Princess Bride, a tale of the love between the beautiful Buttercup and the besotted Westley, a love cruelly interrupted by Westley’s tragic apparent death at sea when seeking his fortune. Heartbroken, Buttercup has sworn never to love again, but accepts the marriage proposal of the rich and handsome Prince Humperdinck, heir to the throne of Florin; but death is no barrier to true love, and in a story filled with exotically-accented swordsmen, big-hearted giants, genius kidnappers, sadistic torturers, vile swamps, Rodents of Unusual Size, the Dread Pirate Roberts and a somewhat embittered miracle worker, the love between Westley and Buttercup twists and turns on a path filled with adventure. Will the True Love of Westley and Buttercup win the day? Will Inigo Montaya find the six-fingered man who murdered his father? Will Humperdinck’s evil plans come to fruition? And, more importantly, will Grandpa be able to tell the story without any of the yucky kissing?

Who’s That Girl (1987)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Griffin Dunne | Haviland Morris | John McMartin | Bibi Besch | John Mills | Robert Swan | Drew Pillsbury | Coati Mundi | Dennis Burkley | James Dietz | Cecile Callan | Karen Elise Baldwin | Kimberlin Brown | Crystal Carson
Directors: James Foley
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His soon-to-be father in law has the dopey lawyer Louden to give the pretty and no less self conscious Nikki Finn a ride from the prison to the bus station to ensure that she leaves town immediately. However Nikki has different plans: after being in prison many years for a murder she didn’t commit, she wants to find out who really killed her friend Johnny. Unscrupulously she uses Louden for her objectives.

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.

Lost and Delirious (2001)

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada
Actors: Piper Perabo | Jessica Paré | Mischa Barton | Jackie Burroughs | Mimi Kuzyk | Graham Greene | Emily VanCamp | Amy Stewart | Caroline Dhavernas | Luke Kirby | Alan Fawcett | Peter Oldring | Grace Lynn Kung | Stephen Mwinga | Lydia Zadel
Directors: Léa Pool
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When her father re-marries after the death of her mother, Mary Bedford finds herself bundled off to a posh girls boarding school. She’s never been to boarding school before and it’s all quite daunting at first. Soon however she makes friends, including her two roommates, Tori and Paulie, whom she soon realizes are lovers. She also becomes quite friendly with the gardener, Joe Menzies, and helps him on the school grounds as it reminds her of working with her late mother in the family garden. When Tori decides to end her relationship with Paulie however, tragedy ensues.

The Court Jester (1955)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Danny Kaye | Glynis Johns | Basil Rathbone | Angela Lansbury | Cecil Parker | Mildred Natwick | Robert Middleton | Michael Pate | Herbert Rudley | Noel Drayton | John Carradine | Edward Ashley | Alan Napier | Lewis Martin | Patrick Aherne
Directors: Melvin Frank
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The throne of rightful king of England, the small babe with the purple pimpernel birthmark, has been usurped by the evil King Roderick. Only the Black Fox can restore the true king to the throne—and all he needs is the king’s key to a secret tunnel. And while he’s trying to steal it, someone has to change the king’s diapers. The task falls to Hawkins, the gentlest member of the Fox’s band. The Fox’s lieutenant, Maid Jean, guards Hawkins and the babe while they travel, but when they meet the King’s new jester on the road, they decide to initiate a daring plan for Hawkins to replace him, become an intimate at the court, and steal the key. So, humble Hawkins becomes Giacomo: the king of jesters and jester to the king. But things begin to get zany when the King’s daughter falls for Giacomo, the King falls for Jean, people randomly sing what are supposed to be recognition codes, and a witch with very effective spells (and poison pellets) begins to interfere.

The Parent Trap (1998)

Friday, January 30th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lindsay Lohan | Dennis Quaid | Natasha Richardson | Elaine Hendrix | Lisa Ann Walter | Simon Kunz | Polly Holliday | Maggie Wheeler | Ronnie Stevens | Erin Mackey | Joanna Barnes | Hallie Meyers-Shyer | Maggie Emma Thomas
Directors: Nancy Meyers
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What if you spent your whole life wishing for something you didn’t know you already had? Hallie Parker and Annie James are about to find out. Hallie is a cool girl from California. Annie is a fair rose from London. When the two accidentally meet at summer camp, they think they have nothing in common except…they’re identical twins! Now they’re up to their freckles in schemes and dreams to switch places, get their parents back together and have the family they’ve always wished for!

Adventures of Don Juan (1948)

Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Errol Flynn | Viveca Lindfors | Robert Douglas | Alan Hale | Romney Brent | Ann Rutherford | Robert Warwick | Jerry Austin | Douglas Kennedy | Jean Shepherd | Mary Stuart | Helen Westcott | Fortunio Bonanova | Aubrey Mather | Una O'Connor
Directors: Vincent Sherman
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In the end of the Seventeenth Century, Don Juan de Marana is repatriated from London to Madrid after a serious diplomatic scandal caused by his affair with a British fianc?e on the Eve of her marriage with a Spanish noble. The Spanish ambassador in London Count de Polan sends a recommendation letter to his friend Queen Margaret to give an opportunity in the court to rehabilitate Don Juan from the gossips and rumors about his love affairs, and he is hired as instructor of the art of fencing in the Spanish Academy. He secretly falls in love for Queen Margareth but becomes loyal to her and her irresponsible and weak husband, King Phillip III. Don Juan discovers the plan of the Machiavellian Duke de Lorca (that intends to declare war to England and rules Spain. With the support of his friends, Don Juan defends the Queen, the King and Count de Polan against Duke de Lorca and his men.

If…. (1968)

Monday, January 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Malcolm McDowell | David Wood | Richard Warwick | Christine Noonan | Rupert Webster | Robert Swann | Hugh Thomas | Michael Cadman | Peter Sproule | Peter Jeffrey | Anthony Nicholls | Arthur Lowe | Mona Washbourne | Mary MacLeod | Geoffrey Chater
Directors: Lindsay Anderson
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In an indictment of the British Boys School, we follow Mick and his mostly younger friends through a series of indignities and occasionally abuse as any fond feelings toward these schools are destroyed. When Mick and his friends rebel, violently, the catch phrase, “which side would you be on” becomes quite stark.

Die Another Day Movie (2002)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Halle Berry | Toby Stephens | Rosamund Pike | Rick Yune | Judi Dench | John Cleese | Michael Madsen | Will Yun Lee | Kenneth Tsang | Emilio Echevarr?a | Mikhail Gorevoy | Lawrence Makoare | Colin Salmon | Samantha Bond
Directors: Lee Tamahori
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Pierce Brosnan gives one last mission as James Bond. Starting off in North Korea, Bond is betrayed and captured. 14 months later, Bond is set free, but traded for Zao (Yune) who was captured by MI6. When back in his world, Bond sets off to track down Zao. Bond gets caught up in yet another scheme which sends him to millionaire Gustav Graves (Stephens). Another MI6 agent known as Miranda Frost (Pike) is also posing as a friend of Graves. Bond is invited to a presentation held by Graves about a satellite found in space which can project a huge laser beam. Bond must stop this madman with a fellow American agent, known as Jinx (Berry). Whilst Bond tries to stop Graves and Zao, will he finally reveal who betrayed him?

Stay Tuned (1992)

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: John Aasen | John Ritter | Jeffrey Jones | David Tom | Heather McComb | Bob Dishy | Joyce Gordon | Eugene Levy | Erik King | Don Calfa | John B. Destry | Susan Blommaert | Maurice Verkaar | Ken Douglas | Gerry Nairn
Directors: Peter Hyams
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Roy and Helen Knable are having problems. Roy has become a couch potato and Helen resents this. After a fight, Spike, a high ranking devil, appears to offer Roy the ultimate satellite system. Roy signs without realising he has sold his soul. When he is sucked into the cable version of Hell, Helen is sucked in with him. They go through the satanic variety of cable TV where dying will consign them to damnation. Shows they find themselves on include: “Driving over Miss Daisy”; “Northern Overexposure” and “Autopsies of the Rich and Famous”. Roy must take charge and save them from the dangers of this cable Hell.