Posts Tagged ‘radio’

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Duane Jones | Judith O'Dea | Karl Hardman | Marilyn Eastman | Keith Wayne | Judith Ridley | Kyra Schon | Charles Craig | S. William Hinzman | George Kosana | Frank Doak | Bill 'Chilly Billy' Cardille | A.C. McDonald
Directors: George A. Romero
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Chaos descends upon the world as the brains of the recently deceased become inexplicably reanimated, causing the dead to rise and feed on human flesh. Speculation rests on a radiation-covered NASA satellite returning from Venus, but it only remains a speculation. Anyone who dies during the crisis of causes unrelated to brain trauma will return as a flesh-eating zombie, including anyone who has been bitten by a zombie. The only way to destroy the zombies is to destroy the brain. As the catastrophe unfolds, a young woman visiting her father’s grave takes refuge in a nearby farmhouse, where she is met by a man who protects her and barricades them inside. They both later discover people hiding in the basement, and they each attempt to cope with the situation. Their only hope rests on getting some gasoline from a nearby pump into a truck that is running on empty, but this requires braving the hordes of ravenous walking corpses outside. When they finally put their plans into action, panic and personal tensions only add to the terror as they try to survive.

Sweet Land (2005)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Elizabeth Reaser | Lois Smith | Patrick Heusinger | Stephen Pelinski | Tim Guinee | Robert Hogan | Alan Cumming | Paul Sand | Jodie Markell | Sage Kermes | Kirsten Frantzich | Stephen Yoakam | Karen Landry | James Cada | Debbie DeLisi
Directors: Ali Selim
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As Inge buries her husband Olaf on their Minnesota farm in 1968, we relive her life story as she tells her grown grandson about how she arrived from Germany in 1920 as Olaf’s postal bride and of the obstacles they overcame in order to marry…

Private Parts (1997)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Howard Stern | Robin Quivers | Mary McCormack | Fred Norris | Paul Giamatti | Gary Dell'Abate | Jackie Martling | Carol Alt | Richard Portnow | Kelly Bishop | Henry Goodman | Jonathan Hadary | Paul Hecht | Allison Janney | Michael Murphy
Directors: Betty Thomas
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Having always wanted to be a disc-jockey, Howard Stern works his way painfully from radio at his 1970’s college to a Detroit station. It is with a move to Washington that he hits on an outrageous off-the-wall style that catches audience attention. Despite his on-air blue talk, at home he is a loving husband. He needs all the support he can get when he joins NBC in New York and comes up against a very different vision of radio.

The Defiant Ones (1958)

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tony Curtis | Sidney Poitier | Theodore Bikel | Charles McGraw | Lon Chaney Jr. | King Donovan | Claude Akins | Lawrence Dobkin | Whit Bissell | Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer | Kevin Coughlin | Cara Williams | Harold Jacob Smith | Nedrick Young
Directors: Stanley Kramer
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Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on a chain gang who hate each other. After a truck prison accident, they flee and are pursued by the police. While they’re chained, the two are dependent on one another. When they eventually get rid of their chains, their hostility has been changed into fellowship and respect.

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ralph Meeker | Albert Dekker | Paul Stewart | Juano Hernandez | Wesley Addy | Marian Carr | Maxine Cooper | Cloris Leachman | Gaby Rodgers | Nick Dennis | Jack Lambert | Jack Elam | Jerry Zinneman | Leigh Snowden | Percy Helton
Directors: Robert Aldrich
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Tough L.A. private eye Mike Hammer gives a ride to Christina, a frightened young woman he finds running along the road one night. His car is run off the road by unseen thugs. Hammer is knocked out and Christina is tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to get information from her. They are put back into Hammer’s car which then is forced off a cliff. Hammer wakes up in the hospital. Velda, his trusty secretary, informs him that Christina is dead. Pat Chambers, Mike’s policeman friend, tells him to stay off the case, but Mike thinks it might be a big story—meaning big money for him—because the FBI is interested. He, Velda, and Nick, his garage mechanic friend, start investigating in hopes of finding out why Christina was killed.

Bless the Beasts & Children (1971)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Mumy | Barry Robins | Miles Chapin | Darel Glaser | Bob Kramer | Marc Vahanian | Jesse White | Ken Swofford | David Ketchum | Elaine Devry | Wayne Sutherlin | Vanessa Brown | William Bramley | Frank Farmer | Charles H. Gray
Directors: Stanley Kramer
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A group of adolescent boys, placed in a summer camp by their otherwise too busy parents, find themselves unable to fit in and are soon branded as bedwetters by their fellow campers and unsympathetic counselor. After their counselor exposes them to what they perceive as a cruel slaughter of corralled bison, these misfits are soon drawn to a common purpose to break free of their camp and free the bison. On their way to free the bison, individual flashbacks reveal the relationships each has with his own family and give insight to their reasons behind wanting to set the bison free. Karen and Richard Carpenter’s singing of the title song occurs now and again throughout the movie to underscore the the drama.

Torch Singer (1933)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Claudette Colbert | Ricardo Cortez | David Manners | Lyda Roberti | Baby LeRoy | Charley Grapewin | Sam Godfrey | Florence Roberts | Virginia Hammond | Mildred Washington | Cora Sue Collins | Helen Jerome Eddy | Albert Conti | Ethel Griffies | James Burke
Directors: Alexander Hall
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Sally Trent has an illegitimate child, but cannot support her and gives the baby up for adoption. The father, Michael Gardner, leaves for China not knowing about the baby, and she assumes he has abandoned her for life. She gets a job as a torch singer, changes her name to Mimi Benton, and becomes notorious for her drinking and philadering. Mimi fills in on a children’s radio program as the character “Aunt Jenny,” singing and telling bedtime stories, and eventually uses the airtime to find her long lost daughter, part with her wild lifestyle, and reunite with Michael.

Creepshow III (2006)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stephanie Pettee | Roy Abramsohn | Susan Schramm | Bunny Gibson | Matt Fromm | Nathan Kirkland | Selma Pinkard | Kalena Knox | Brian Jacobs | Leonardo Mill?n | Magi Avila | Margarita Lugo | Robert Gonzales | Simon Burzynski | Rami Rank
Directors: Ana Clavell
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There are five new tales of horror and suspense in this follow-up to George A. Romero & Stephen King’s 1982 horror anthology classic. In “Alice”, a snotty teenage girl gets her just desserts in the form of a demonic universal television remote. In “The Radio”, a security guard is driven to the very brink of madness and eventually murder thanks to a possessed radio. Next up, in “Call Girl” a murdering, cold-blooded prostitute accidentally hooks up with a vampire client. In “The Professor’s Wife”, a demented professor with a taste for pranks tricks his two best students into believing he’s getting married. But there’s something rather sinister about his new bride-to-be. Lastly, in “Haunted Dog”, a cruel miserly doctor kills a homeless man by purposely giving him a contaminated hotdog - a tale of savage revenge from beyond the grave.

Abbott and Costello in Who Done It? (1942)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Bud Abbott | Lou Costello | Patric Knowles | William Gargan | Louise Allbritton | Thomas Gomez | William Bendix | Don Porter | Jerome Cowan | Mary Wickes | Ludwig St?ssel | Norman Abbott | Bobby Barber | Eddie Bruce | Paul Dubov
Directors: Erle C. Kenton
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Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

Proof of Life (2000)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Meg Ryan | Russell Crowe | David Morse | Pamela Reed | David Caruso | Anthony Heald | Stanley Anderson | Gottfried John | Alun Armstrong | Michael Kitchen | Margo Martindale | Mario Ernesto S?nchez | Pietro Sibille | Vicky Hern?ndez | Norma Mart?nez
Directors: Taylor Hackford
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In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company’s subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman’s wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter’s sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne’s strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them?