Posts Tagged ‘journalism’

Batman (1989)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Adam West | Burt Ward | Lee Meriwether | Cesar Romero | Burgess Meredith | Frank Gorshin | Alan Napier | Neil Hamilton | Stafford Repp | Madge Blake | Reginald Denny | Milton Frome | Gil Perkins | Dick Crockett | George Sawaya
Directors: Leslie H. Martinson
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In Gotham City, a dark knight known as Batman helps to defeat evil and keep the city’s citizens safe. When Jack Napier is transformed into the evil, Joker, he promises to take over Gotham City it is up to Batman to stop him in his tracks before it is too late.

Cherry Falls (2000)

Friday, March 27th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brittany Murphy | Jay Mohr | Michael Biehn | Jesse Bradford | Candy Clark | Amanda Anka | Joe Inscoe | Gabriel Mann | Natalie Ramsey | Douglas Spain | Bre Blair | Kristen Miller | Michael Weston | Keram Malicki-Sánchez | Joannah Portman
Directors: Geoffrey Wright
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In the small town of Cherry Falls, Virginia, a black-clad, long-haired killer is offing various high school teenage virgins in various gory ways. Jody Markam, the virginal teenage daughter of the town’s sheriff in charge of the investigation, launches her own investigation to figure out the killer’s identity and stumbles into a web of long hidden dark secrets spun around the killings involving people of the town she always thought she trusted which makes her one of the killer’s primary targets.

The Pelican Brief (1993)

Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Julia Roberts | Denzel Washington | Sam Shepard | John Heard | Tony Goldwyn | James Sikking | William Atherton | Robert Culp | Stanley Tucci | Hume Cronyn | John Lithgow | Anthony Heald | Nicholas Woodeson | Stanley Anderson | John Finn
Directors: Alan J. Pakula
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Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who’s also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the preseident’s men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he adivises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend’s friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the president and all what they have are theories, he asks her to help him but she wants to leave the country. When Grantham’s editor tells him that they have nothing that he should drop cause the man she implicated is extremely powerful. Grantham’s about to drop it when she says that she will help him. But can they stay alive?

Capote (2005)

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Allie Mickelson | Kelci Stephenson | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Craig Archibald | Bronwen Coleman | Kate Shindle | David Wilson Barnes | Michael J. Burg | Catherine Keener | Kwesi Ameyaw | Andrew Farago | Ken Krotowich | Chris Cooper | R.D. Reid | Rob McLaughlin
Directors: Bennett Miller
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On the night of 14 November 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, a farmhouse is broken into by the criminals Perry Smith and Dick Hickock that expect to get US$ 10,000.00. With the policy of “no witness”, the murderers kill the entire family. The homosexual writer Truman Capote travels to the small town with his friend Nelle Harper Lee and decide to use the topic to write a book. When the killers are arrested, he becomes friend of Perry for his own interest and then he falls in love for him, and gets a new lawyer for them, postponing their execution until 14 April 1965.

I Love Trouble (1994)

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Nick Nolte | Julia Roberts | Saul Rubinek | James Rebhorn | Robert Loggia | Kelly Rutherford | Olympia Dukakis | Marsha Mason | Eugene Levy | Charles Martin Smith | Dan Butler | Paul Gleason | Jane Adams | Lisa Lu | Nora Dunn
Directors: Charles Shyer
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She’s green and eager. He’s seasoned and jaded. They’re reporters for rival Chicago newspapers assigned to cover the same story. He offers tips and advice; she scoops him. Then, their snappy patter, repartee, and ripostes get romantic even as their competitive juices overflow. Will corrupt scientists at a chemical company whose goats give cancer-causing milk kill the cub and the columnist, or will they escape with their lives and their by-lines to hear wedding bells?

The Insider (1999)

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Russell Crowe | Christopher Plummer | Diane Venora | Philip Baker Hall | Lindsay Crouse | Debi Mazar | Stephen Tobolowsky | Colm Feore | Bruce McGill | Gina Gershon | Michael Gambon | Rip Torn | Lynne Thigpen | Hallie Kate Eisenberg
Directors: Michael Mann
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This film tells the true story of Jeffrey Wigand, a former tobacco executive, who decided to appear on the CBS-TV News show “60 Minutes.” As matter of conscience partially prodded by producer Lowell Bergman, he revealed that, the tobacco industry was not only aware that cigarettes are addictive & harmful, but deliberately worked on increasing that addictiveness. Unfortunately, both protagonists of this story learn the hard way that simply telling the truth is not enough as they struggle against both Big Tobacco’s attempts to silence them and the CBS TV Network’s own cowardly complict preference of putting money as a higher priority over the truth.

Citizen Kane (1941)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Joseph Cotten | Dorothy Comingore | Agnes Moorehead | Ruth Warrick | Ray Collins | Erskine Sanford | Everett Sloane | William Alland | Paul Stewart | George Coulouris | Fortunio Bonanova | Gus Schilling | Philip Van Zandt | Georgia Backus | Harry Shannon
Directors: Orson Welles
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world’s richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - “Rosebud…” What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.

Almost Famous (2000)

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Billy Crudup | Frances McDormand | Kate Hudson | Jason Lee | Patrick Fugit | Zooey Deschanel | Michael Angarano | Anna Paquin | Fairuza Balk | Noah Taylor | John Fedevich | Mark Kozelek | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Liz Stauber | Jimmy Fallon
Directors: Cameron Crowe
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William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.

Runaway (1984)

Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
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A police officer specializes in runaway robots in the near future. When a robot becomes homicidal, he begins to unravel a mastermind’s plot to create killer robot weapons, and then the policeman becomes a target himself.

Michael (1996)

Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Andie MacDowell | William Hurt | Bob Hoskins | Robert Pastorelli | Jean Stapleton | Teri Garr | Wallace Langham | Joey Lauren Adams | Carla Gugino | Tom Hodges | Catherine Lloyd Burns | Richard Schiff | Calvin Trillin | Donald J. Lee Jr.
Directors: Nora Ephron
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Frank Quinlan and Huey Driscoll, two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with Dorothy Winters, an ‘angel expert’, are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her house with a real, live archangel named Michael. Upon arrival, they see that her claims are true - but Michael is not what they expected: he smokes, drinks beer, has a very active libido and has a rather colourful vocabulary. In fact, they would never believe it were it not for the two feathery wings protruding from his back. Michael agrees to travel to Chicago with the threesome, but what they don’t realise is that the journey they are about to undertake will change their lives forever.