Posts Tagged ‘invasion’

My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Dan Aykroyd | Kim Basinger | Jon Lovitz | Alyson Hannigan | Joseph Maher | Seth Green | Ann Prentiss | Wesley Mann | Tony Jay | Peter Bromilow | Nina Henderson | Harry Shearer | Adrian Sparks | Juliette Lewis | Tanya Fenmore
Directors: Richard Benjamin
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Widowed astronomer Steven Mills accidentally sends a great surge of energy out into space, threatening life on another world. They respond by dispatching one of their race disguised in deliberately attractive human form (Celeste Martin) to Earth to sort things out, accompanied by a rather less attractive superior (Bag). Steven is indeed attracted, as is his untrustworthy brother, while Celeste becomes increasingly fond of Steven’s young daughter.

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Patrick Stewart | Brent Spiner | LeVar Burton | Michael Dorn | Gates McFadden | Marina Sirtis | Alfre Woodard | James Cromwell | Alice Krige | Michael Horton | Neal McDonough | Marnie McPhail | Robert Picardo
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It is the 24th century, and a collective of part humanoid, part machine beings face the Federation in what would be the biggest battle of all time. This collective, called the Borg, lose, and desperately attempt to go back in time to April 4th, 2063, to stop Earth’s First Contact with an alien species (the Vulcans, to be precise). Captain Picard, and the crew of the Enterprise-E (NCC 1701-E) go back in time to make sure that Zefram Cochrane makes his warp flight. The Enterprise runs into unexpected trouble, however, when they start to assimilate the Enterprise.

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Ken Watanabe | Kazunari Ninomiya | Tsuyoshi Ihara | Ryo Kase | Shido Nakamura | Hiroshi Watanabe | Takumi Bando | Yuki Matsuzaki | Takashi Yamaguchi | Eijiro Ozaki | Nae | Nobumasa Sakagami | Luke Eberl | Sonny Saito | Steve Santa Sekiyoshi
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is given command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester among his staff. In the lower echelons, a young soldier, Saigo, a poor baker in civilian life, strives with his friends to survive the harsh regime of the Japanese army itself, all the while knowing that a fierce battle looms. When the American invasion begins, both Kuribayashi and Saigo find strength, honor, courage, and horrors beyond imagination.

Antz (1998)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Woody Allen | Dan Aykroyd | Anne Bancroft | Jane Curtin | Danny Glover | Gene Hackman | Jennifer Lopez | John Mahoney | Paul Mazursky | Grant Shaud | Sylvester Stallone | Sharon Stone | Christopher Walken | Jim Cummings | April Winchell
Directors: Eric Darnell
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Z is just another ant in a colony of millions, striving for individuality. He falls in love with Princess Bala, and convinces his Warrior ant friend Weaver to switch places with him for a day, so that he can see Princess Bala once again. The outcome of this throws Z into a bigger adventure than he ever dreamed possible…

Mars Attacks! (1996)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Glenn Close | Annette Bening | Pierce Brosnan | Danny DeVito | Martin Short | Sarah Jessica Parker | Michael J. Fox | Rod Steiger | Tom Jones | Jim Brown | Lukas Haas | Natalie Portman | Pam Grier | Lisa Marie
Directors: Tim Burton
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It is a normal day for everyone, until the President of the United States (Nicholson). They are able to get in contact with the Martians, and arrange for a meeting behind them and us humans. But not everything goes to plan, and the Martians have other plans for Earth. Are they just misunderstood beings? or do they really want to destroy all of humanity.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Tom Sizemore | Edward Burns | Barry Pepper | Adam Goldberg | Vin Diesel | Giovanni Ribisi | Jeremy Davies | Matt Damon | Ted Danson | Paul Giamatti | Dennis Farina | Joerg Stadler | Steven Martini | Dylan Bruno
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother…

The 13th Warrior (1999)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Diane Venora | Antonio Banderas | Vladimir Kulich | Dennis Storhoi | Daniel Southern | Neil Maffin | John DeSantis | Clive Russell | Mischa Hausserman | Oliver Sveinall | Asbj?rn 'Bear' Riis | Richard Bremmer | Tony Curran | Albie Woodington | Omar Sharif | Erick Avari
Directors: John McTiernan | Michael Crichton
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In AD 922, an important emissary who is banished from his homeland. The nomadic outcast comes across a band of Norse warriors who coerce him into joining them when they are summoned to fight mysterious creatures legendary for consuming every living thing in their path. Eventually surrounded by the frightening and ferocious foe, Ibn must conquer his personal fears and help battle the illusive invaders—who emerge out of the shroud of fog in the black of the night.

The Mouse That Roared (1959)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter Sellers | Jean Seberg | William Hartnell | David Kossoff | Leo McKern | MacDonald Parke | Austin Willis | Timothy Bateson | Monte Landis | Alan Gifford | Colin Gordon | Harold Kasket | Wally Brown | Jacques Cey | Charles Clay
Directors: Jack Arnold
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The best laid plans of mice and men … A cold war satire emphasising the new emerged American Superpower’s use of foreign aid to buy friends and keep then away from the USSR’s influence. Peter Sellers, as the scheming Prime Minister of Grand Fenwick, plots with Peter Sellers, as the scheming Grand Duchess, to declare war on the USA, lose and get that foreign aid. Unfortunately, they forget to tell Peter Sellers, as Tully Bascombe, commander of their mediaeval army. This honourable man does his best for his country and through a series of unbelievable circumstances (well, this is a comedy) to win. Now, who has to give aid to whom?

The Last King of Scotland (2006)

Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Forest Whitaker | James McAvoy | Kerry Washington | Gillian Anderson | Simon McBurney | David Oyelowo | Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga | Adam Kotz | Barbara Rafferty | David Ashton | Giles Foden | Andy Williams | Martina Amati | Peter Salmon | Michael Wawuyo
Directors: Kevin Macdonald
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In the early 1970s, Nicholas Garrigan, a young semi-idealistic Scottish doctor, comes to Uganda to assist in a rural hospital. Once there, he soon meets up with the new President, Idi Amin, who promises a golden age for the African nation. Garrigan hits it off immediately with the rabid Scotland fan, who soon offers him a senior position in the national health department and becomes one of Amin’s closest advisers. However as the years pass, Garrigan cannot help but notice Amin’s increasingly erratic behavior that grows beyond a legitimate fear of assassination into a murderous insanity that is driving Uganda into bloody ruin. Realizing his dire situation with the lunatic leader unwilling to let him go home, Garrigan must make some crucial decisions that could mean his death if the despot finds out.

Slither (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Nathan Fillion | Elizabeth Banks | Gregg Henry | Michael Rooker | Don Thompson | Tania Saulnier | Xantha Radley | Dustin Milligan | Haig Sutherland | Jennifer Copping | Zak Ludwig | Kathryn Kirkpatrick | Brenda James | Lorena Gale | Bart Anderson
Directors: James Gunn
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In this blend of the B movie classic The Blob (1958) and some Romero’s zombies film, a meteorite collides in a small town. Grant finds it, and is infected by a parasite worm, which installs in his brain and causes him a creepy transformation into a monster. Starla, his wife, and Bill, a policeman, will try to stop him and the plague of worms generated by the creature.