Posts Tagged ‘inventor’

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.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: UK
Actors: Dick Van Dyke | Sally Ann Howes | Lionel Jeffries | Gert Fröbe | Anna Quayle | Benny Hill | James Robertson Justice | Robert Helpmann | Heather Ripley | Adrian Hall | Barbara Windsor | Davy Kaye | Alexander Doré | Bernard Spear | Stanley Unwin
Directors: Ken Hughes
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A wierd inventor (Caractacus Potts) invents an amazing flying car, which drives by itself. It takes him and his family to Vulgaria, where the sinister buffoon Baron Bomburst kidnaps the car. The baron has made children illegal, and Caractacus and Co. have to try and rescue the children of Vulgaria…

Bug’s Life, A (1998)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Dave Foley | Kevin Spacey | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Hayden Panettiere | Phyllis Diller | Richard Kind | David Hyde Pierce | Joe Ranft | Denis Leary | Jonathan Harris | Madeline Kahn | Bonnie Hunt | Michael McShane | John Ratzenberger
Directors: John Lasseter
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Flik (the resident misfit ant) sets out on a journey to find “bigger bugs” to save his colony from the evil grasshoppers. Yet he mistakenly ends up getting a group of circus bugs for the job… and the adventure begins…

Fly Away Home (1996)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
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Actors: Jeff Daniels | Anna Paquin | Dana Delany | Terry Kinney | Holter Graham | Jeremy Ratchford | Deborah Verginella | Michael J. Reynolds | David Hemblen | Ken James | Nora Ballard | Sarena Paton | Carmen Lishman | Christi Hill | Judith Orban
Directors: Carroll Ballard
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Amy (Anna Paquin) is reunited with her father (Jeff Daniels) after her mother’s death. She withdraws from her new life, and life in general, until she finds a reason to participate in something: the preservation, parenting, and eventual migration-instruction of a flock of orphaned geese.

The Time Machine (1960)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Rod Taylor | Alan Young | Yvette Mimieux | Sebastian Cabot | Tom Helmore | Whit Bissell | Doris Lloyd | Bob Barran | Paul Frees | James Skelly | Josephine Powell
Directors: George Pal
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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.

Flubber (1997)

Friday, April 17th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Marcia Gay Harden | Christopher McDonald | Raymond J. Barry | Clancy Brown | Ted Levine | Wil Wheaton | Edie McClurg | Jodi Benson | Leslie Stefanson | Malcolm Brownson | Benjamin Brock | Dakin Matthews | Zack Zeigler | Sam Lloyd
Directors: Les Mayfield
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Phillip Brainard, who is a professor at a college and a small time worker in his own basement, is trying to create a great invention. Unfortunately he always failed to invent something, but he is so obsessed about it that he even puts off his own wedding to his fiancée, Sara. One day, he finally invents something that works, this substance can cause even the heaviest things to bounce in the air, ‘flying rubber’, but Brainard called it “Flubber”. However, he sees Sara going out with another professor from another college and several criminals trying to rob him. So, Brainard has to find out a way to defeat the criminals and to get back his Fiancee. Hopefully, Flubber can help him.

The Goonies (1985)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Astin | Josh Brolin | Jeff Cohen | Corey Feldman | Kerri Green | Martha Plimpton | Jonathan Ke Quan | John Matuszak | Robert Davi | Joe Pantoliano | Anne Ramsey | Lupe Ontiveros | Mary Ellen Trainor | Keith Walker | Curtis Hanson
Directors: Richard Donner
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The Goonies are a group of friends living in a village, the groups leader Mikey Walsh, his older brother Brand and gang members Andy, Data, Stef, Mouth, and Chunk are being evicted from their homes which are to be demolished. Setting out to find a way of saving their homes, The Goonies find a treasure map and they set off in search for the treasure of the legendary pirate One-Eyed Willy which is located beneath a abandoned restaurant. Joined by a deformed gentle giant named Sloth, The Goonies embark on a great adventure through a underground maze filled with traps and skeletons, where they are pursued by Sloth’s mother, thief Momma Fratelli and his brothers Jake and Francis who are also after One-Eyed Willy’s treasure and they willing to get the treasure first.

Flash of Genius (2008)

Friday, February 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jake Abel | Aaron Abrams | Alan Alda | London Angelis | Dylan Authors | Warren Belle | Grant Boyle | Ashton Doudelet | Tim Eddis | Andrew Gillies | Tim Kelleher | Greg Kinnear | Gavin & Ben Kuiack | Isaac Lupien | Dermot Mulroney
Directors: Marc Abraham
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Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns’ (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. But this determined engineer refused to be silenced, and he took on the corporate titans in a battle that nobody thought he could win. The Kearns were a typical 1960s Detroit family, trying to live their version of the American Dream. Local university professor Bob married teacher Phyllis (Lauren Graham) and, by their mid-thirties, had six kids who brought them a hectic but satisfying Midwestern existence. When Bob invents a device that would eventually be used by every car in the world, the Kearns think they have struck gold. But their aspirations are dashed after the auto giants who embraced Bob’s creation unceremoniously shunned the man who invented it. Ignored, threatened and then buried in years of litigation, Bob is haunted by what was done to his family and their future. He becomes a man obsessed with justice and the conviction that his life’s work-or for that matter, anyone’s work-be acknowledged by those who stood to benefit. And while paying the toll for refusing to compromise his dignity, this everyday David will try the unthinkable: to bring Goliath to his knees.

Religulous (2008)

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve Burg | Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda | Bill Maher | Andrew Newberg
Directors: Larry Charles
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Bill Maher’s take on the current state of world religion.
He interviews some of religion’s oddest adherents. Muslims, Jews and Christians of many kinds pass before his jaundiced eye. Maher goes to a Creationist Museum in Kentucky, which shows that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time 5000 years ago. He talks to truckers at a Truckers’ Chapel. (Sign outside: “Jesus love you.”) He goes to a theme park called Holy Land in Florida. He speaks to a rabbi in league with Holocaust deniers. He talks to a Muslim musician who preaches hatred of Jews. Maher finds the unlikeliest of believers and, in a certain Vatican priest, he even finds an unlikely skeptic. Written by J. Spurlin

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Joseph Cotten | Dolores Costello | Anne Baxter | Tim Holt | Agnes Moorehead | Ray Collins | Erskine Sanford | Richard Bennett | Orson Welles | Edwin August | Jack Baxley | William Blees | Lyle Clement | Bobby Cooper | Don Dillaway
Directors: Fred Fleck
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The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene comes back, now a mature widower and a successful automobile maker. After Wilbur dies, Eugene again asks Isabel to marry him, and she is receptive. But George resents the attentions paid to his mother, and he and his whacko aunt Fanny manage to sabotage the romance. A series of disasters befall the Ambersons and George, and he gets his come-uppance in the end.