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It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: James Stewart | Donna Reed | Lionel Barrymore | Thomas Mitchell | Henry Travers | Beulah Bondi | Frank Faylen | Ward Bond | Gloria Grahame | H.B. Warner | Frank Albertson | Todd Karns | Samuel S. Hinds | Mary Treen | Virginia Patton
Directors: Frank Capra
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On Christmas eve, all of the citizens of the small town of Bedford Falls pray to the heavens to help George Bailey. It’s then decided that Clarence, an angel who hasn’t earned his wings, is to help George. Before he does, he should know who George Bailey was. George Bailey grew up in Bedford Falls, a small town where he dreams of leaving it and making his mark on the world. His family’s business is the only thing stands between the good citizens and Mr. Potter, a rich miser who takes sick pleasure in taking from everybody, without even caring how it affects them. George was all set to leave when his father died and had to take care of the business. George would forever be hindered by his plans to leave and thinks that he is nothing but a failure, he decides to kill himself. That’s when Clarence comes in and tries to convince him that he has made something with his life, and that he had a “Wonderful Life”.

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.

The Freshman (1990)

Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
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Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine “Jimmy the Toucan” Sabatini, an “importer” bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. When Sabatini makes Clark an offer he can’t refuse, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.

Rat Race (2001)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: John Cleese | Rowan Atkinson | Amy Smart | Breckin Meyer | Jenica Bergere | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Carrie Diamond | Douglas Haase | Chris Myers | Kevin Frazier | Seth Green | Gloria Allred | Vince Vieluf | Ren?e Lee | Corinna Harney | Jane C. Walsh | Whoopi Goldberg | Lanei Chapman
Directors: Jerry Zucker
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A group of billionaires led by a Las Vegas casino owner (John Cleese) search for things to bet on. They decide to pull a group of six strangers together to race from Vegas to Silver City, New Mexico to retrieve $2 million hidden in a locker. First one there gets all of the money. The first team are two addled brothers (Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, who talks indecipherably because of a newly pierced tongue). When they cannot catch a plane, they plot to destroy an airport control tower in a very funny sequence. Their antics carry them into a hot air balloon chase that catches a cow with a dangling rope and into a monster truck competition. The second team is an estranged mother (Whoopi Goldberg) reunited with her daughter (Lanai Chapman), who is struggling to start a business. They face an insane squirrel-selling woman (Kathy Bates) and steal a rocket car scheduled for a land speed record attempt. A hated NFL referee (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is stranded in the desert by an irate cabbie (Paul Rodriguez) and hijacks a busload of Lucille Ball look-alikes on the way to a convention. The Jewish family man (Jon Lovitz) on a family vacation joins the race without telling his wife (Kathy Najimy) why they are rushing across the country. When his daughter insists on stopping at a Barbie museum, it is without realization that it is the Klaus Barbie Nazi Museum. The escape from that location involves the theft of Hitler’s personal touring car and culminates with Lovitz having his tongue burned and accidentally crashing into a WWII Veteran’s convention. A narcoleptic Italian (Rowan Atkinson in his best Mr. Bean-like manner) gets a ride with an ambulance driver (Wayne Knight), who is carting a human heart for a transplant. Through various ineptitude, the heart ends up flying out of the truck’s window and the two have to recover it from a playful dog. The final race member (Breckin Meyer) is a straight-laced future lawyer who at first declines to participate in the race, but re-thinks his position after he meets a smart, beautiful woman (Amy Smart) who is flying a helicopter to New Mexico. He quickly finds out that she is unbalanced after she flies over her boy friend’s house and starts an attack on the boy friend when she sees him in the pool with an ex-girl friend. An air pursuit results in the crash of the helicopter. Dave Thomas also appears as Cleese’s humorless attorney.

Stripes (1981)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Murray | Harold Ramis | Warren Oates | P.J. Soles | Sean Young | John Candy | John Larroquette | John Voldstad | John Diehl | Lance LeGault | Roberta Leighton | Conrad Dunn | Judge Reinhold | Antone Pagan | Glenn-Michael Jones
Directors: Ivan Reitman
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When New York City cab driver John Winger is fired from his job, his car is repossessed, he loses his apartment, and his girlfriend leaves him — all in the same day — John and his best friend Russell Ziskey decide to join the army. After enlisting, John and Russell are sent to Fort Arnold to undergo basic training under tough drill sergeant Hulka. Hulka is injured by a mortar bomb during basic training, and John has to lead the group in completing their training on their own. After graduation, General Barnicke Assigns Winger, Ziskey, and their platoon to Fort Milano, Italy, to man the EM-50 urban assault vehicle. By this time, sergeant Hulka has recovered from his injuries and has rejoined John, Russell, and the other men. When John and Russell decide to take the EM50 to Germany to pick up their girlfriends, MPs Stella Hansen and Louise Cooper, for a night on the town, the rest of the platoon searches for them because Captain Stillman wants the EM-50 to be put back where it was at. While searching for the EM-50, Stillman and the unit are captured by hostile Russian troops, who take them into Czechoslovakia. Now John, Russell, Stella, and Louise must venture into Czechoslovakia and rescue the guys.

Taxi Driver (1976)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Cybill Shepherd | Peter Boyle | Jodie Foster | Harvey Keitel | Leonard Harris | Albert Brooks | Diahnne Abbott | Frank Adu | Gino Ardito | Victor Argo | Garth Avery | Harry Cohn | Copper Cunningham | Brenda Dickson-Weinberg
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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Vietnam vet Travis Bickle is 26, a loner in the mean streets of New York City, slipping slowly into isolation and violent misanthropy. In solving his insomnia by driving a yellow cab on the night shift, he grows increasingly disgusted by the low-lifes that hang out at night: “Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.” His touching attempts to woo Betsy, a Senator’s campaign worker, turn sour when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He even fails in his attempt to persuade child prostitute Iris to desert her pimp and return to her parents and school. Driven to the edge by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets out to assassinate the Senator, heading for the infamy of a ‘lone crazed gunman’…

The Tuxedo (2002)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackie Chan | Jennifer Love Hewitt | Jason Isaacs | Debi Mazar | Ritchie Coster | Peter Stormare | Mia Cottet | Romany Malco | Daniel Kash | Jody Racicot | Boyd Banks | Scott Wickware | Christian Potenza | Karen Glave | Scott Yaphe
Directors: Kevin Donovan
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Jimmy Tong (Chan) is just a lowly chauffeur for millionaire Clark Devlin (Isaacs), until Devlin has an accident that puts him in the hospital. Tong is sent back to fetch some things for Devlin and unknowingly tries on Devlin’s tuxedo and finds that it gives extraordinary powers to anyone that dons the suit. This discovery thrusts Tong into world of international intrigue and espionage and pairs him with an inexperienced partner (Hewitt).

28 Days Later… (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Alex Palmer | Bindu De Stoppani | Jukka Hiltunen | David Schneider | Cillian Murphy | Toby Sedgwick | Naomie Harris | Noah Huntley | Christopher Dunne | Emma Hitching | Alexander Delamere | Kim McGarrity | Brendan Gleeson | Megan Burns | Justin Hackney
Directors: Danny Boyle
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A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.

Jackass Number Two (2006)

Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Knoxville | Bam Margera | (person unknown) | Chris Pontius | Ryan Dunn | Jason Acu?a | Preston Lacy | Dave England | Ehren McGhehey | Jess Margera | Brandon Dicamillo | Mat Hoffman | Tony Hawk | Mark Zupan
Directors: Jeff Tremaine
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Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before.

The Poet (2003)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Austria | Germany | UK
Actors: Dougray Scott | Laura Harring | Jürgen Prochnow | Andrew Lee Potts | Erika Marozs?n | Mavie H?rbiger | Miguel Herz-Kestranek | Peter Mouka | Hary Prinz | Rudy Ruggiero | Fanny Gatibelza | Gunther Gillian | J?rgen Kloth | Klaus Nierhoff | Siegfried Polap
Directors: Paul Hills
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A contract killer sees a chance to free himself from a tragic past.