Posts Tagged ‘motel’

Bullitt (1968)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | Robert Vaughn | Jacqueline Bisset | Don Gordon | Robert Duvall | Simon Oakland | Norman Fell | Georg Stanford Brown | Justin Tarr | Carl Reindel | Felice Orlandi | Vic Tayback | Robert Lipton | Ed Peck | Pat Renella
Directors: Peter Yates
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Johnny Ross works for Chicago mobster Peter Ross, his brother. In April 1968 Johnny Ross escapes two attempts on his life and flees to San Francisco, where he is placed in protective custody by politician Walter Chalmers, who hopes to use Ross to further his own national aspirations. To protect Ross, Chalmers asks the SFPD to assign Detective Lieutenant Frank Bullitt and his partners, Sergeants Don Delgetti and Carl Stanton, to guard him at a flophouse near an overhead freeway. It looks like a simple assignment, but at 1 AM the next day it all goes awry in a blast of a shotgun, leaving Stanton and Ross fighting for life at San Francisco General. Bullitt gets what information he can, but breathing down his neck is the angered Chalmers who vows to ruin Bullitt’s career should Ross die. Bullitt gets a break when the gunman appears at the hospital to finish off Ross, and Bullitt gets a good look at him; now Bullitt must smoke out the gunman and his backup man before Chalmers carries out his threat, leading to a high-speed pursuit, a fiery crash at a gas station, and a fingerprint check that leads to a stunning discovery about Ross, and about a couple staying at a swanky hotel in San Mateo.

The Client (1994)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Susan Sarandon | Tommy Lee Jones | Mary-Louise Parker | Anthony LaPaglia | J.T. Walsh | Anthony Edwards | Brad Renfro | Will Patton | Bradley Whitford | Anthony Heald | Kim Coates | Kimberly Scott | David Speck | William H. Macy | Ossie Davis
Directors: Joel Schumacher
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A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry ‘The Blade’ Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of Senator Boyd Boyette is buried. Mark escapes, and Clifford shoots himself. Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says. Mark decides he needs a lawyer, and goes looking for one. He finds Reggie Love, who also becomes convinced that Mark knows more than he says, but Mark isn’t talking…

Phantasm II (1988)

Friday, April 17th, 2009
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: James LeGros | Reggie Bannister | Angus Scrimm | Paula Irvine | Samantha Phillips | Kenneth Tigar | Ruth C. Engel | Mark Anthony Major | Rubin Kushner | Stacey Travis | J. Patrick McNamara | A. Michael Baldwin | Amanda Gray | Elizabeth Quezada | Lauren Gray
Directors: Don Coscarelli
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Mike, following his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike’s dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man does. They reach an Oregon cemetery that has had all the bodies dug up and removed. Realizing this is the work of the Tall Man, they venture inside armed heavily. But the Tall Man still has his deadly flying spheres - and a couple of cronies who will stop at nothing to keep their evil plans a secret.

Palindromes (2004)

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Faber | Angela Pietropinto | Bill Buell | Emani Sledge | Ellen Barkin | Valerie Shusterov | Richard Masur | Hillary Bailey Smith | Danton Stone | Robert Agri | Hannah Freiman | Stephen Singer | Rachel Corr | Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directors: Todd Solondz
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A fable of innocence: thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a ‘mom’. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. She takes a road trip from the suburbs of New Jersey, through Ohio to the plains of Kansas and back. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it’s hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again.

Coach Carter (2005)

Friday, February 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sport
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson | Rob Brown | Robert Ri'chard | Rick Gonzalez | Nana Gbewonyo | Antwon Tanner | Channing Tatum | Ashanti | Texas Battle | Denise Dowse | Debbi Morgan | Mel Winkler | Vincent Laresca | Sidney Faison | Octavia Spencer
Directors: Thomas Carter
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In 1999, Ken Carter, a successful sporting goods store owner, accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA, where he was a champion athlete. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance, Carter sets about to change both. He immediately imposes a strict regime typified in written contracts that include stipulations for respectful behavior, a dress code and good grades as requisites to being allowed to participate. The initial resistance from the boys is soon dispelled as the team under Carter’s tutelage becomes a undefeated competitor in the games. However, when the overconfident team’s behavior begins to stray and Carter learns that too many players are doing poorly in class, he takes immediate action. To the outrage of the team, the school and the community, Carter cancels all team activities and locks the court until the team shows acceptable academic improvement. In the ensuing debate, Carter fights to keep his methods, determined to show the boys that they need to rely on more than sports for their futures and eventually finds he has affected them more profoundly than he ever expected.

Small Town Folk (2007)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror
Countries: UK
Actors: Chris R. Wright | Warwick Davis | Dan Palmer | Simon Stanley-Ward | Greg Martin | Hannah Flint | Howard Lew Lewis | Jon Nicholas | Ben Richards | James Ford | Sophie Rundle | Tamaryn Payne | Chris Musselwhite
Directors: Peter Stanley-Ward
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There is a place… a place called Grockleton, wherein, high on a hill-top stands the lonely Beesley’s Manor, governed by the villainous ‘Landlord’ and his lowly male counterparts (Pooch, Pike and the diesel-swilling Dobbin). Always on the look-out for new female company to help carry on the Beesley name, the Landlord keeps a watchful eye over Grockleton and anyone who dares to enter his land. When three improbable heroes stumble unsuspectingly into the Beesley’s realm they are cruelly snared into a menacing hunt and an unstoppable frenzy of heart racing mayhem! Will the Landlord triumph and collect his ‘trophies’ (and maybe even a future bride?), or can the unlikely trio be victorious against him in his own game?…

They Live by Night (1948)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Film-Noir | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Cathy O'Donnell | Farley Granger | Howard Da Silva | Jay C. Flippen | Helen Craig | Will Wright | Marie Bryant | Ian Wolfe | William Phipps | Harry Harvey | Will Lee | Jim Nolan | Teddy Infuhr | Byron Foulger | Guy Beach
Directors: Nicholas Ray
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In the ’30s, three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after “Bowie the Kid” harder than ever.

Starman (1984)

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeff Bridges | Karen Allen | Charles Martin Smith | Richard Jaeckel | Robert Phalen | Tony Edwards | John Walter Davis | Ted White | Dirk Blocker | M.C. Gainey | Sean Stanek | George 'Buck' Flower | Russ Benning | Ralph Cosham | David Wells
Directors: John Carpenter
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An alien who has crash-landed in the United States takes on the the appearance of a woman’s dead husband and enlists her help to escape from pursuing authorities and rendezvous with a spacecraft on the other side of the country. As he learns how to be more human the alien begins to take on more and more qualities of the woman’s husband, drawing the woman closer.

Mighty Wind, A (2003)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Moret | Stuart Luce | Mary Gross | Marty Belafsky | Michael Baser | Jared Nelson Smith | Ryan Raddatz | Todd Lieberman | Matthew Joy | Laura Harris | Brian Riley | Harry Shearer | Michael McKean | Eugene Levy
Directors: Christopher Guest
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When folk icon Irving Steinbloom passed away, he left behind a legacy of music and a family of performers he has shepherded to folk stardom. To celebrate a life spent submerged in folk, Irving’s loving son Jonathan has decided to put together a memorial concert featuring some of Steinbloom’s best-loved musicians. There’s Mitch and Mickey, who were the epitome of young love until their partnership was torn apart by heartbreak; classic troubadours The Folksmen, whose records were endlessly entertaining for anyone able to punch a hole in the center to play them; and The New Main Street Singers, the most meticulously color-coordinated neuftet ever to hit an amusement park. Now for one night only in New York City’s Town Hall, these three groups will reunite and gather together to celebrate the music that almost made them famous.

Psycho (1960)

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Perkins | Janet Leigh | Vera Miles | John Gavin | Martin Balsam | John McIntire
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
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Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.