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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.

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Spencer Tracy | Sidney Poitier | Katharine Hepburn | Katharine Houghton | Cecil Kellaway | Beah Richards | Roy Glenn | Isabel Sanford | Virginia Christine | Alexandra Hay | Barbara Randolph | D'Urville Martin | Tom Heaton | Grace Gaynor | Skip Martin
Directors: Stanley Kramer
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Joey Drayton brings her fiancĂ©, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he’s highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he’s impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he’s black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl’s parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor’s parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . . .

Center Stage (2000)

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Amanda Schull | Zoe Saldana | Susan May Pratt | Peter Gallagher | Donna Murphy | Debra Monk | Ethan Stiefel | Sascha Radetsky | Julie Kent | Ilia Kulik | Eion Bailey | Shakiem Evans | Elizabeth Hubbard | Victor Anthony | Christine Dunham
Directors: Nicholas Hytner
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After auditions, 12 young dancers make it to the American Ballet Academy. They’ll prepare for the student showcase to determine who will be asked to join the American Ballet Company. Tensions mount between Jonathan, the company’s aging choreographer, and Cooper, his best dancer, who also wants to choreograph. The brilliant Maureen seems poised for success, but she discovers that life is passing her by. Jody, whose body may be the wrong type and whose technique is ragged, elicits Cooper’s interest. The edgy, smart-mouthed Eva loves to dance but seems destined to be stuck in the back of the chorus. The showcase will decide their fates.

The Strangers (2008)

Friday, March 27th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Alex Fisher | Peter Clayton-Luce | Scott Speedman | Liv Tyler | Gemma Ward | Kip Weeks | Laura Margolis | Glenn Howerton
Directors: Bryan Bertino
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After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive.

Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Albert | Ray Milland | Donald Pleasence | Kim Richards | Ike Eisenmann | Walter Barnes | Reta Shaw | Denver Pyle | Alfred Ryder | Lawrence Montaigne | Terry Wilson | George Chandler | Dermott Downs | Shepherd Sanders | Don Brodie
Directors: John Hough
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Tia (Kim Richards) and Tony (Ike Eisenmann) are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian (Donald Pleasence) poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian’s megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland), who wants to exploit them. Jason (Eddie Albert), a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony “escape to witch mountain,” while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.

The Day of the Locust (1975)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Donald Sutherland | Karen Black | Burgess Meredith | William Atherton | Geraldine Page | Richard Dysart | Bo Hopkins | Pepe Serna | Lelia Goldoni | Billy Barty | Jackie Earle Haley | Gloria LeRoy | Jane Hoffman | Norman Leavitt | Madge Kennedy
Directors: John Schlesinger
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Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930’s Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye, a would-be starlet with possible designs of her own on a lonely, morose accountant. As Tod is drawn deeper into the lurid private lives of studio bosses and film industry workers, he gradually becomes desperate to know if Faye - or anyone - is capable of real love.

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Meryl Streep | Jane Alexander | Justin Henry | Howard Duff | George Coe | JoBeth Williams | Bill Moor | Howland Chamberlain | Jack Ramage | Jess Osuna | Nicholas Hormann | Ellen Parker | Shelby Brammer | Carol Nadell
Directors: Robert Benton
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Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new responsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted however refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son.

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Abigail Breslin | Greg Kinnear | Paul Dano | Alan Arkin | Toni Collette | Steve Carell | Marc Turtletaub | Jill Talley | Brenda Canela | Julio Oscar Mechoso | Chuck Loring | Justin Shilton | Gordon Thomson | Steven Christopher Parker | Bryan Cranston
Directors: Jonathan Dayton
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The Hoover family is the dictionary definition for the word “dysfunctional”. The dad Richard is a man who gives lectures on winners and losers, the wife is Sheryl, a chain-smoking, frazzled wife and working mother whose idea of a home cooked meal frequently consists of a bucket of chicken. Her gay brother Frank recently attempted suicide. The grandpa is Edwin, a drug addict. The son is Dwayne a rebel who has vowed not to talk until he gets into the Air Force. And then there is Olive, a seven-year old girl who dreams of going to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. So what happens when they do?

White Chicks (2004)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Shawn Wayans | Marlon Wayans | Jaime King | Frankie Faison | Lochlyn Munro | John Heard | Busy Philipps | Terry Crews | Brittany Daniel | Eddie Velez | Jessica Cauffiel | Maitland Ward | Anne Dudek | Rochelle Aytes | Jennifer Carpenter
Directors: Keenen Ivory Wayans
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When brothers and fellow FBI agents Marcus (Marlon Wayans) and Kevin Copeland (Shawn Wayans) accidentally ruin an otherwise painstakingly executed drug bust, getting back into the good graces of their boss becomes a high-priority assignment in itself. With this in mind, Marcus and Kevin take on a case far beneath their usual standards when they agree to escort socialite sisters Brittany (Maitland Ward) and Tiffany Wilton (Anne Dudek) from a private terminal at JFK Airport to their hotel room in the Hamptons. Once there, two considerably higher-ranking agents will take over the girls’ protection. The extra security is no mere perk of wealth, however, as it appears that Brittany and Tiffany have been targeted by a serial kidnapper. The FBI hopes to apprehend the perpetrator by using the girls as bait, unbeknownst to them. The plan may have worked if it weren’t for Kevin and Marcus, who manage to let the sisters in on the secret. Understandably, neither of them want any part in the process, so they force the brothers to come up with a radical solution: With the help of an FBI lab scientist, the very much African-American Kevin and Marcus will be transformed into two white women who could pass for Brittany and Tiffany. The agents must keep the charade up long enough to lure the kidnapper, but fooling everyone involved will be the job of their lives. Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, White Chicks also features James King and Lochlyn Munro.

Forrest Gump (1994)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Robin Wright Penn | Gary Sinise | Mykelti Williamson | Sally Field | Rebecca Williams | Michael Conner Humphreys | Harold G. Herthum | George Kelly | Bob Penny | John Randall | Sam Anderson | Margo Moorer | Ione M. Telech | Christine Seabrook
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950’s through the 1970’s including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he’s too stupid to realize the significance of his actions. Forrest becomes representative of the baby boomer generation having walked through life blindly.