Posts Tagged ‘lake’

Cabin Fever (2002)

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rider Strong | Jordan Ladd | James DeBello | Cerina Vincent | Joey Kern | Arie Verveen | Robert Harris | Hal Courtney | Matthew Helms | Richard Boone | Tim Parati | Dalton McGuire | Jana Farmer | Dante Walker | Jeff Rendell
Directors: Eli Roth
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An offbeat horror tale about a group of five college friends on vacation at a remote mountain cabin when one contracts a flesh-eating virus. As it spreads among the friends, their true feelings and personalities emerge as they struggle to survive the virus and each other.

Marathon Man (1976)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Laurence Olivier | Roy Scheider | William Devane | Marthe Keller | Fritz Weaver | Richard Bright | Marc Lawrence | Allen Joseph | Tito Goya | Ben Dova | Lou Gilbert | Jacques Marin | James Wing Woo | Nicole Deslauriers
Directors: John Schlesinger
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Babe’s brother appears out of the blue. He does this from time to time because his family never knows where he is, working as a government spy. One of his charges is a nazi war criminal who he has just told is no longer welcome in the United States. The doctor has a fortune hidden in a safety deposit box and is convinced that Babe knows whether or not it is safe to go to pick it up and will stop at nothing to find out.

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005)

Friday, April 17th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan Hanson Bradford | Wayne Brady | Michael J. Fox | Tom Kenny | Nathan Lane | Hugh Laurie | Peter MacNicol | Corey Padnos | Rino Romano | Geena Davis | Virginia Madsen | Sophia Paden | Kath Soucie | Tara Strong
Directors: Audu Paden
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Stuart Little’s back in an all-new, adventure! School’s out for the summer and the Little Family is spending their big vacation at a beautiful lakeside cabin near Lake Garland. But meanwhile, there is something lurking in the forest who could spoil all the fun: the Beast; a mean and isolated forest terror who rules the local animals with an iron paw. When Snowbell is taken prisoner, a Little bravery goes a long way as Stuart, along with his new skunk friend, named, Reeko, who heroically rescues Snowbell, frees the other woodland creatures and outwits the wily Beast.

Lake Placid (1999)

Friday, April 17th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Bill Pullman | Bridget Fonda | Oliver Platt | Brendan Gleeson | Betty White | David Lewis | Tim Dixon | Natassia Malthe | Mariska Hargitay | Meredith Salenger | Jed Rees | Richard Leacock | Jake T. Roberts | Warren Takeuchi | Ty Olsson
Directors: Steve Miner
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Lake Placid - Well it would be, but; “somebody said that name was taken.” At least according to the local Sheriff. When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden (Pullman) teams up with a paleontologist (Fonda) from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for “Crocs” (Platt), and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals…and people!

Possessed (1947)

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Joan Crawford | Van Heflin | Raymond Massey | Geraldine Brooks | Stanley Ridges | John Ridgely | Moroni Olsen | Erskine Sanford | Peter Miles | Jakob Gimpel | Isabel Withers | Lisa Golm | Douglas Kennedy | Monte Blue | Don McGuire
Directors: Curtis Bernhardt
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A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner, she’s taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital. Flashbacks reveal her obsession for David as a result of borderline personality disorder which ultimately leads to murder.

Keeping Mum (2005)

Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: UK
Actors: Rowan Atkinson | Kristin Scott Thomas | Maggie Smith | Patrick Swayze | Tamsin Egerton | Toby Parkes | Liz Smith | Emilia Fox | James Booth | Patrick Monckton | Rowley Irlam | Vivienne Moore | Murray McArthur | Morgan Gower | Rupert Simonian
Directors: Niall Johnson
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Gloria Goodfellow has a normal life in the countryside along with her family. She’s the mother of two children, one precocious teenager girl and a timid boy, who’s been bullied by a bunch of kids from his school. Occassionally, their peace is disrupted by a neighbor’s annoying dog or a meddler neighbor. Gloria’s husband, Reverend Walter Goodfellow, is a clumsy but well respected priest, who’s preparing to give a speech in a religious convention at Cornwall. One morning a charming, efficient and quite kind lady, Grace Hawkins, arrives to work as a housekeeper at the Goodfellows’ house. The family’s life will change forever, because Grace will care for its integrity in her own special way. First, Grace will help Walter to relax and find his funny side during masses. Then, Grace finds out that Gloria is having an affair with her golf instructor, a sort of pervert American man, interested in Gloria’s daughter as well. Last but not least, Grace will manage herself to get rid of the bullies who are giving a hard time to Petey. Despite this ideal reality, Gloria will discover a secret that Grace has been hiding… for more than 40 years.

Black Narcissus (1947)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Deborah Kerr | Flora Robson | Jean Simmons | David Farrar | Sabu | Esmond Knight | Kathleen Byron | Jenny Laird | Judith Furse | May Hallatt | Shaun Noble | Eddie Whaley Jr. | Nancy Roberts | Ley On | Maxwell Foster
Directors: Michael Powell
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Five young British nuns are invited to move to a windy “palace”, former house of the concubines of an old general, in the top of a mountain in Mopu, Himalaya, to raise the convent of Saint Faith Order, a school for children and girls, and an infirmary for the local dwellers. Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) is assigned as the superior sister, and her liaison with civilization is the rude government agent Mr. Dean (David Farrar). The lonely and exotic place and the presence of Mr. ‘Dean awake the innermost desires in the flesh of the sisters, and Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron) becomes mad with the temptation.

Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Robert Englund | Ken Kirzinger | Monica Keena | Kelly Rowland | Jason Ritter | Chris Marquette
Directors: Ronny Yu
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It’s been nearly ten years since Freddy Krueger (Englund) terrorised people in the dreams, and the towns folk want to keep him erased from their memory. Freddy still has one more plan on getting back to Elm Street. He resurrects Jason Vorhees (Kirzinger) and sends him off to kill. The more bodies which fall to the ground, the stronger in which Freddy becomes. This is until, Freddy realises that Jason isn’t going to step aside easily, and must be taken down himself.

Big Fish (2003)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Ewan McGregor | Albert Finney | Billy Crudup | Jessica Lange | Helena Bonham Carter | Alison Lohman | Robert Guillaume | Marion Cotillard | Matthew McGrory | David Denman | Missi Pyle | Loudon Wainwright III | Ada Tai | Arlene Tai | Steve Buscemi
Directors: Tim Burton
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The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father’s elusive life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father’s great feats and his great failings.

What Dreams May Come (1998)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Annabella Sciorra | Max von Sydow | Jessica Brooks Grant | Josh Paddock | Rosalind Chao | Lucinda Jenney | Maggie McCarthy | Wilma Bonet | Matt Salinger | Carin Sprague | June Lomena | Paul P. Card IV | Werner Herzog
Directors: Vincent Ward
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Soul mates Chris (’Robin Williams (I)’ (qv)) and Annie (’Annabella Sciorra’ (qv)) couldn’t be happier, having married each other and had two wonderful children. Unforutnately, tragedy strikes when they lose them both in a car accident, and then again for Annie many years later when Chris is killed in another accident. What Chris finds is a Paradise unlike anything he ever imagined, where he is guided by Albert (’Cuba Gooding Jr.’ (qv)), the first doctor he interned under and is helped to see his children once again. Unfortunately, when Annie takes her life in despair, she does not venture to the same plane of existence. Taking it upon himself to rescue her, Chris ventures into the pit of Hell with Albert and a Tracker (’Max von Sydow’ (qv)) to save his wife from the damnation she doesn’t even know she is forcing on herself. This is a beautiful story that reminds us that love is stronger than death.