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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter Sellers | George C. Scott | Sterling Hayden | Keenan Wynn | Slim Pickens | Peter Bull | James Earl Jones | Tracy Reed | Jack Creley | Frank Berry | Robert O'Neil | Glenn Beck | Roy Stephens
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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U.S. President Merkin Muffley is on the hot line to Moscow with some rather embarrassing news for the Soviet premier: “Hello, Dimitri….I’m fine….Now then, you know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb….The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb….Well, now, what happened is that, uh, one of our base commanders…he went a little funny in the head….and he went and did a silly thing….He ordered his planes to attack your country.” A comedy about an accidental nuclear attack? One that ends with total annihilation, thermonuclear apocalypse? Preposterous! Stanley Kubrick thought otherwise. In the end his thinking prevailed. The mad saga revolves around a psychotic Strategic Air Command officer, Gen. Jack D. Ripper, who lets loose his B-52 bomber squadron on the Soviet Union. Ripper takes this unilateral action because of his paranoid belief that Communists are sapping and contaminating “all our precious bodily fluids” as part of their plan to take over the world.” Unbeknownst to Ripper, his attack will trigger the Russian’s ultimate weapon, the Doomsday Machine, a diabolical retaliatory device set to blow up the planet.

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Roddy McDowall | Kim Hunter | Bradford Dillman | Natalie Trundy | Eric Braeden | William Windom | Sal Mineo | Albert Salmi | Jason Evers | John Randolph | Harry Lauter | M. Emmet Walsh | Roy Glenn | Peter Forster | Norman Burton
Directors: Don Taylor
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The third chapter of the Apes saga. Two intelligent simians from the future, Cornelius and Zira travel to present-day Earth. They become instant sensations, wined and dined and treated like celebrities — until a high-level plot forces them to run for their lives!

Hulk (2003)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Eric Bana | Jennifer Connelly | Sam Elliott | Josh Lucas | Nick Nolte | Paul Kersey | Cara Buono | Todd Tesen | Kevin O. Rankin | Celia Weston | Mike Erwin | Lou Ferrigno | Stan Lee | Regi Davis | Craig Damon
Directors: Ang Lee | Ang Lee
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After a terrible accident of Bruce banner in the lab his extraordinary mind is now making him angry.He then figures out that David banner is his real father.Bruce has now turned into hulk and nothing can stop him for when he is angry.Betty is the only person that can stop him from being angry.Betty has now gone to the father to ask for help how to help him,but the father has now sent his super villian dogs like hulk to kill her,hulk is now the only person to stop the mutant dogs.David banner has now transformed himself into anything he touches and with evil power,hulk must now save the world and save the people.

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Josh Hartnett | Kate Beckinsale | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Jon Voight | Alec Baldwin | Tom Sizemore | William Lee Scott | Greg Zola | Ewen Bremner | Jaime King | Catherine Kellner | Jennifer Garner | Sara Rue | Michael Shannon
Directors: Michael Bay
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The above summaries do a great job of describing the dynamics of the love triangle that develops between the two pilots that fall in love with the same nurse. The movie also does a credible job of displaying the war from the American side with FDR and our side. It also shows the strategy of Japan as they plan for and execute all facets of the attack on Pearl Harbor. While all details may not be historically correct, I believe that they do the job well - all things considered. Historic events that were altered were probably done so in an attempt to also make this movie the entertaining epic that it is.

Starship Troopers (1997)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Casper Van Dien | Dina Meyer | Denise Richards | Jake Busey | Neil Patrick Harris | Clancy Brown | Seth Gilliam | Patrick Muldoon | Michael Ironside | Rue McClanahan | Marshall Bell | Eric Bruskotter | Matt Levin | Blake Lindsley | Anthony Ruivivar
Directors: Paul Verhoeven
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In the distant future high school kids are encouraged to become citizens by joining the military. What they don’t know is that they’ll soon be engaged in a full scale war against a planet of alien insects. The fight is on to ensure the safety of humanity.

D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Genres: Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Mary Beth Hurt | Michael McKean | Kathryn Walker | Colleen Camp | Josef Sommer | Ron Frazier | Steve Ryan | David Wohl | Danny Corkill | Amy Linker | Barret Oliver | Ed Grady | Tucker McGuire | Richard Hammatt | Charlie Gudger
Directors: Simon Wincer
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A young boy is found wandering without any memory of who he is. A family takes him in and begin to look for clues to help him find his way home. In the meantime, they notice that the boy seems to have certain special abilities, not usually found in kids his age, or even fully-grown adults.

In the Valley of Elah (2007)

Friday, September 19th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones | Charlize Theron | Jason Patric | Susan Sarandon | James Franco | Barry Corbin | Josh Brolin | Frances Fisher | Wes Chatham | Jake McLaughlin | Mehcad Brooks | Jonathan Tucker | Wayne Duvall | Victor Wolf | Brent Briscoe
Directors: Paul Haggis
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When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man’s disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police’s apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike’s disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose

Tigerland (2000)

Friday, August 8th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Colin Farrell | Matthew Davis | Clifton Collins Jr. | Tom Guiry | Shea Whigham | Russell Richardson | Nick Searcy | Afemo Omilami | James MacDonald | Keith Ewell | Matt Gerald | Stephen Fulton | Tyler Cravens | Michael Edmiston | Michael Shannon
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In September 1971, a platoon of recruits arrives in Ft. Polk, LA, for infantry training before leaving for war. The final week takes place in Tigerland, a swamp similar to Vietnam. Jim Paxton has enlisted; he wants to experience everything and write books later. He befriends Roland Bozz, a cool Texan with a gift for getting into trouble and for helping misfits get discharges. At least one sociopath in the platoon hates Bozz, even as the sergeants grudgingly recognize his leadership abilities. As the platoon heads into its week in Tigerland, Paxton’s body gives out, Bozz makes plans to go AWOL, and the sociopath gets hold of live ammo. Is the Louisiana swamp more dangerous than the DMZ?

Planet Terror (2007)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rose McGowan | Freddy Rodríguez | Josh Brolin | Marley Shelton | Jeff Fahey | Michael Biehn | Rebel Rodriguez | Bruce Willis | Naveen Andrews | Julio Oscar Mechoso | Stacy Ferguson | Nicky Katt | Hung Nguyen | Cecilia Conti | Tommy Nix
Directors: Robert Rodriguez
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After an experimental bio-nerve gas is accidentally released at a remote U.S. military base in Texas, those exposed to the gas turn into flesh-eating, mutating zombies out to kill. An assortment of various people who include stripper Cherry, her shady mechanic ex-boyfriend Wray, a strong-willed doctor, the local sheriff, and an assortment of various people must join forces to survive the night as the so-called “sickos” threaten to take over the whole town and the world.

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Kimberly Stringer | Chazz Dominguez | Shari Hall | R.J. Parnell | David Kaff | Tony Hendra | Michael McKean | Christopher Guest | Harry Shearer | Bruno Kirby | Jean Cromie | Patrick Maher | Ed Begley Jr. | Danny Kortchmar
Directors: Rob Reiner
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Marti DeBergi is a film-maker who decides to make a documentary, a rockumentary actually, about the world’s loudest band, the British heavy metal group Spinal Tap. The movie is in fact a biting satire and spoof of the whole rock and roll scene that passes itself off as a real documentary of a real band. Hilarious behind-the-scenes footage is combined with faux-concert clips to breath life into the imaginary group.