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Post by Lynnrose on May 16, 2012 15:00:29 GMT
A-Z Movies
Me First...
A
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Starring Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox
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Post by Lynnrose on May 17, 2012 8:32:33 GMT
Come on, the next letter is...B
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Post by marcus on May 17, 2012 18:09:04 GMT
Battle of the Bulge ..... surely not another dieting film?
Battle of the Bulge is a widescreen war film produced in Spain that was released in 1965. It was directed by Ken Annakin. It starred Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews and Charles Bronson.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 18, 2012 7:55:17 GMT
Candyman
Researching urban folklore, a University of Chicago student snoops around the housing projects of Cabrini Green to find more about the legend of the Candyman who supposedly appears (whenever one looks into the mirror and repeats his name five times) to slash his victims with a metal hook. Only after she witnesses the atrocities herself, does she believe he exists. To her horror, he wants her to join him in his afterlife dimension. This unsettling feature is based on a short story by Clive Barker.
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Post by marcus on May 18, 2012 17:27:52 GMT
Die Hard
Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Steve de Souza and Jeb Stuart based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 19, 2012 5:21:27 GMT
Easter Parade
Fred Astaire had announced his retirement before the cameras began to roll on Easter Parade, but he decided to accept the film's leading role when its original star Gene Kelly became incapacitated. The thinnish plot, which finds Astaire trying to turn chorus girl Judy Garland into a star in order to show up his former partner Ann Miller, is hardly what keeps the audience's eyes riveted to the screen. All that truly matters are the 17 musical numbers, all written by Irving Berlin (ten were standards, while seven were new to this film). Among the many highlights are Astaire's slow-motion version of "Steppin' Out," the Astaire/Garland duet "We're a Couple of Swells," the opening rendition of "Happy Easter," and the closing performance of the title number. So successful was Easter Parade that plans were immediately drawn to reteam Fred Astaire and Judy Garland in The Barkeleys of Broadway; this time, however, it was Garland who withdrew, to be replaced by Astaire's most famous vis-…-vis, Ginger Rogers. Hal Erickson
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Post by marcus on May 19, 2012 7:47:31 GMT
Forever Amber
Forever Amber is a 1947 American film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Linda Darnell and Cornel Wilde. It was based on the book of the same name. It also starred Richard Greene, George Sanders, Glenn Langan, Richard Haydn, Dolores Hart, and Jessica Tandy. It was adapted by Jerome Cady, Philip Dunne and Ring Lardner, Jr., and directed by Otto Preminger, who replaced original director John M. Stahl after 39 days of filming and $1 million of production. The Hays Office condemned the work, but within a month of its publication the movie rights had been purchased by 20th Century Fox
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Post by Lynnrose on May 20, 2012 13:54:36 GMT
Gangs Of New York
Returning to Lower Manhattan's mean streets, Martin Scorsese's profoundly ambitious and engaging Gangs of New York (2002) sheds a different light on America's violent foundation myths. Embedding his signature concerns with Catholic immigrants, rival gangs, and arcane ethical codes in the spectacularly recreated squalor of the Five Points ghetto on the cusp of the 1863 Draft Riots, Scorsese's epic tale of nativist conflict, official corruption, and familial revenge is at once a precursor to his earlier Mob films and a sharp indictment of the usual American bromides about liberty and righteous conflict.
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Post by marcus on May 20, 2012 16:37:02 GMT
Heartbreak Ridge
Heartbreak Ridge is a 1986 American war film, starring Clint Eastwood (who also produced and directed) and Mario Van Peebles, surrounding the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada, West Indies. A portion of the movie was filmed on the island itself.
The title comes from the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge in the Korean War
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Post by Lynnrose on May 21, 2012 7:46:49 GMT
I am Legend
Stars:
Will Smith, Alice Braga and Charlie Tahan
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Post by marcus on May 21, 2012 8:29:02 GMT
Johnny English Reborn
Johnny English Reborn is a 2011 British spy comedy film parodying the James Bond secret agent genre. The film is the sequel to Johnny English (2003), and stars Rowan Atkinson reprising his role as the title character[5] and directed by Oliver Parker. The film has a slightly darker tone than the previous film, but retains Atkinson's signature humour. Like its predecessor, it was met with mixed reviews, but has grossed a total of $160,078,586 worldwide.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 21, 2012 8:47:14 GMT
Kung Fu Panda
...follows the title character (Jack Black's Po) through the various misadventures that ensue after he's selected as his small village's "Dragon Warrior."
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Post by marcus on May 21, 2012 13:21:18 GMT
Live and let die
Live and Let Die (1973) is the eighth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. Although the producers had wanted Sean Connery to return after his role in the previous Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, he declined, sparking a search for a new actor to play James Bond. Roger Moore was signed for the lead role.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 22, 2012 9:31:23 GMT
Malcolm X
Biography of Malcolm X, the famous African American leader. Born Malcolm Little, his father (a minister) was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad.
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Post by marcus on May 22, 2012 16:03:09 GMT
'North by Northwest'
'North by Northwest' is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchthingy, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchthingy picture to end all Hitchthingy pictures".
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Post by Lynnrose on May 23, 2012 6:55:11 GMT
Oliver
Musical adaptation about an orphan who runs away from an orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor
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Post by marcus on May 23, 2012 7:06:05 GMT
Pinocchio
Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the story The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. It is the second film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, and was made after the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was released to theaters by RKO Radio Pictures on February 7, 1940.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 24, 2012 9:12:23 GMT
Quadrophenia
15 - Suspense/Thriller, Drama
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Post by marcus on May 24, 2012 15:03:12 GMT
Road to Rio
Road to Rio is a 1947 comedy film, directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby as Scat Sweeney, Bob Hope as "Hot Lips" Barton, and Dorothy Lamour as Lucia Maria de Andrade. It was the fifth of the "Road to …" series.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 24, 2012 15:07:10 GMT
Saw
Much of the film transpires in flashback, as the aforementioned men - Lawrence (Cary Elwes) and Adam (Whannell) - attempt to figure a way out of their situation by recalling recent events in their own lives. We learn that a pair of detectives (played by Danny Glover and Ken Leung) have been working a case involving increasingly baffling deaths, and that the media has nicknamed the killer "Jigsaw."
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Post by marcus on May 24, 2012 21:03:37 GMT
To have and have not (1944)
Expatriate American Harry Morgan helps to transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer.
Director: Howard Hawks
Writers: Jules Furthman (screenplay), William Faulkner (screenplay), and 3 more credits »
Stars:Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Walter Brennan
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Post by Lynnrose on May 25, 2012 4:49:45 GMT
Universal Soldier...1992
Stars:
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren
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Post by marcus on May 25, 2012 16:23:22 GMT
Vera Cruz
Vera Cruz is a 1954 American Technicolor Western starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, and featuring Denise Darcel, Sara Montiel, and Cesar Romero. The movie was directed by Robert Aldrich from a story by Borden Chase
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Post by Lynnrose on May 25, 2012 17:12:41 GMT
Walk the Line
Starring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash, Walk the Line revolves around the various ups and downs in Cash's life - from the childhood loss of his brother to his record deal at the legendary Sun Records in Memphis to his eventual relationship with June Carter
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Post by marcus on May 26, 2012 13:07:20 GMT
X-Men Origins ( Wolverine) (2009)
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Lynn Collins, Ryan Reynolds, will.i.am, Taylor Kitsch, Dominic Monaghan, Daniel Henney, Kevin Durand, Adelaide Clemens, Alice Parkinson
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Post by Lynnrose on May 26, 2012 17:58:07 GMT
You Don't Mess With The Zohan (October 3/08)
An undeniable improvement over I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, You Don't Mess With The Zohan nevertheless comes off as the latest in a long line of underwhelming Adam Sandler comedies - with the film's absurdly padded-out running time proving instrumental in its transformation from amiable time-killer to oppressive disaster.
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Post by marcus on May 26, 2012 21:14:01 GMT
Zulu Dawn
Zulu Dawn is a 1979 war film about the historical Battle of Isandlwana between British and Zulu forces in 1879 in South Africa. The screenplay was by Cy Endfield, from his book, and Anthony Story. The film was directed by Douglas Hickox. The score was composed by Elmer Bernstein.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 27, 2012 5:07:03 GMT
American Psycho
Despite a game performance from Christian Bale, American Psycho never quite achieves lift-off. Bale stars as the American psycho, a young, '80s-era Wall Street tycoon who happens to murder people in his spare time.
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Post by marcus on May 27, 2012 6:48:34 GMT
Brighton Rock (1947)
Brighton Rock is a British, black-and-white, drama film, film directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough as Pinkie (reprising his breakthrough West End creation of the character some three years prior),[Carol Marsh as Rose, William Hartnell as Dallow and Hermione Baddeley as Ida. It was produced by Roy Boulting and Charter Film Productions. The film was adapted from the 1938 novel, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
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Post by Lynnrose on May 29, 2012 10:39:23 GMT
Calendar Girls
Helen Mirren stars as Chris, a rebellious member of a local women's institute who comes up with an idea to raise money by posing nude for a risque calendar.
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