Archive for January, 1997
Tomorrow Never Dies
Elloit Carver is an egotistical media baron. Carver has the power to reach every person on the planet through his Carver Media Group Network- except for the People’s Republic of Chinese who refuse his presence in their country. When he is tied to the disappearance of a British battleship in the South China Sea, James Bond is sent to investigate. It is in Hong Kong where Bond meets Wai Lin, a member of the People’s External Security Force of China. With and without Wai Lin’s help, Bond soon starts to uncover a plot that goes all the way back to a mission on the Russian-Kazakh Boarder, and will start a war only to feed the fire that is Carver’s ego.
Tomorrow Never Dies DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.40 out of 10 (27872 votes)
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Ricky Acker, Götz Otto, Joe Don Baker, Vincent Schiavelli, Judi Dench, Desmond Llewelyn, Samantha Bond, Colin Salmon, Geoffrey Palmer, Julian Fellowes, Terence Rigby,
Tags: Thriller, Adventure, Action, adultery, afghanistan, asia, asian, asian-woman, automobile, blockbuster, bond-girl, british, british-intelligence, british-navy, chakra, chase, china, ex-girlfriend, exotic-locale, female-agent, female-martial-artist, female-spy, funny-accent, gadget-car, hamburg-germany, helicopter, heroin-addict, james-bond, london-england, martial-arts, media, media-manipulation, media-tycoon, mi6, missile, motor-car-park, motorcycle, motorcycle-stunt, murder, navy, news, nuclear-weapons, official-james-bond-series, oxford, political, product-placement, remote-control, remote-control-car, sabotage, safecracker, saigon-vietnam, satellite, sea, secret-service, sequel, ship, ship-wreck, spy, stealth-boat, undercover, vietnam, woman-agent, woman-spy
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Devil’s Advocate, The
Kevin Lomax, a ruthless young Florida attorney that never lost a case, is recruited by the most powerful law firm in the world. In spite of his mother’s disagreement, which compares New York City to Babylon, he accepts the offer and the money that comes along. But soon, his wife starts feeling homesick as she witnesses devilish apparitions. However, Kevin is sinking in his new cases and pays less and less attention to his wife. His boss and mentor, John Milton, seems to always know how to overcome every problem and that just freaks Kevin right off.
Devil’s Advocate, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.10 out of 10 (31340 votes)
Director: Taylor Hackford
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey, Connie Nielsen, Craig T. Nelson, Tamara Tunie, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Debra Monk, Vyto Ruginis, Laura Harrington, Pamela Gray, Heather Matarazzo, George Wyner,
Tags: Drama, Thriller, antichrist, apartment, arrest, art, attorney, balcony, bar, based-on-novel, bathroom-scene, bible, bilocation, black-magic, blasphemy, bloody-body-of-child, boxing, brooklyn-bridge, brooklyn-bridge-new-york, catholic, chinatown, christianity, church, corruption, courtroom, courtroom-scene, dead-dog, demon, devil, ethics, father-son-relationship, female-frontal-nudity, florida, goat, gun, gunshot-wound, holy-water, incest, insanity, intrigue, judge, law, law-firm, lawsuit, lawyer, legal-trial, lesbian-kiss, lucifer, marriage, mental-breakdown, money, morphing, mother-son-relationship, murder, murder-of-family, mythological, new-york, new-york-city, nudity, oral-sex, party, perjury, photograph, police, psychological-drama, rapid-decomposition, religion, satan, satanism, seduction, sex, sexuality, shot-in-the-head, sin, single-mother, southern-u.s., subculture, subway, suicide, supernatural, teacher-student-relationship, temptation, the-devil, throat-slitting, time-lapse-photography, trial, troubled-marriage, twist-in-the-end, vanity, virtuality, voodoo
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Hercules
After Zeus fights and sends the Titans to the underworld, he becomes the ruler of Mount Olympus, home of all greek gods. Hades is sent to rule the underworld, but he makes plans to throw Zeus out of Mount Olympus with the Titans’ help. The three Fates warn him that his plans would be endangered if Hercules, Zeus newborn child, is still around by the time he tries to take over Mount Olympus. Hades sends Pain and Panic to turn Hercules into a mortal and kill him, but they fail in their attempt and leave him on earth with his divine strength to be raised as a human. Hercules grows up but later learns he is the son of gods, and in order to return to Mt. Olympus he must turn into a “true hero”. He is trained by Phil the satyr and becomes the most famous hero in ancient Greece after battling monsters of all kinds. He even saves Mt. Olympus from Hade’s take-over, but he only becomes a god again after he offers to exchange his life in order to save Meg, his love, from Hades’ underworld and shows that a true hero must have a strong heart and not only physical strength.
Hercules DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.50 out of 10 (6377 votes)
Director: John Musker; ; Ron Clements
Actors: Charlton Heston, Tate Donovan, Josh Keaton, Roger Bart, Danny DeVito, James Woods, Susan Egan, Bob Goldthwait, Matt Frewer, Rip Torn, Samantha Eggar, Barbara Barrie, Hal Holbrook, Paul Shaffer, Amanda Plummer, Carole Shelley,
Tags: Musical, Animation, Family, Comedy, Adventure, blockbuster, death, disney-animated-feature, greece, greek-god, greek-mythology, helicopter, hercules, kids-and-family, legend, love, monster, mythological, mythology, pegasus, pitchfork, planetary-alignment, title-spoken-by-character, underworld
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Starship Troopers
Set on the future earth, Johnny rico is a young student dating a girl named Carmen. When Carmen decides to join the military in order to become a class citizen (citizenship is only achieved through serving your country), Johnny follows and joins as well. He soon realizes that he joined for the wrong reasons but just as he is about to quit, an asteroid that originated from the orbit of planet “klendathu” hits Buenos Aires (his home town) and kills his family. Johnny and his fellow troopers set out to destroy the planet’s inhabitants: a type of deadly and very large scaled space bugs. Through a seemingly ordinary action flick, director paul verhoeven creates a subtle anti-war theme, that shows us a fascist and military world far more frightening than WW2’s Germany, Italy or Russia, the kind of world that is actually functioning.
Starship Troopers DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.70 out of 10 (36816 votes)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
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,
Tags: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Adventure, Action, alien, alien-attack, alien-invasion, american-football, amputation, army-life, asteroid, aviation, based-on-book, based-on-novel, black-comedy, boot-camp, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brain, breasts, buenos-aires, burial, burned-alive, butt, buttocks, casper, cgi, citizenship, colonel, colony, concentration, courtroom, creature, death, death-of-loved-one, death-sentence, decapitation, dismemberment, dissection, drill-instructor, explosion, fascism, father-son-relationship, female-nudity, female-soldier, fort, friendship, funeral, future, futuristic, giant-insect, gore, high-school-friend, infantry, insect, jealousy, lieutenant, mass-destruction, media, military, military-base, missile, mother-son-relationship, mutilation, nuclear-weapons, nude, nudity, outer-space, part-computer-animation, party, pilot, private, psychic, reporter, rocket, satire, sergeant, sex, shot-in-the-chest, shower, shower-room, shower-scene, slapping, soldier, south-america, space, space-station, space-travel, space-war, spacecraft, spaceship, splatter, stabbed-in-the-back, stabbed-in-the-chest, stabbed-in-the-hand, stabbed-in-the-leg, stabbed-in-the-shoulder, teacher-student-relationship, telepath, telepathy, tent, test-fight, topless, tragedy, unisex-bathroom, violence, vomit, war, weapon, whipping, women-soldiers
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Game, The
Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad, who has gone long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving up to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him.
Game, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.60 out of 10 (41222 votes)
Director: David Fincher
Actors: Kimberly Russell, Harrison Young, Joe Frank, James Brooks, Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn, Peter Donat, Carroll Baker, Anna Katarina, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Charles Martinet, Scott Hunter McGuire, Florentine Mocanu, Elizabeth Dennehy, Caroline Barclay, Daniel Schorr, John Aprea,
Tags: Mystery, Thriller, Adventure, ambulance, birthday, brother, brother-brother-relationship, business-tycoon, businessman, car-in-water, cell-phone, character's-point-of-view-camera-shot, chase, claustrophobic, control-freak, disturbing, dog, elevator, fall-from-height, flat-tire, free-fall, game, graffiti, gun, hallucination, happy-birthday-to-you, hotel, hotel-lobby, hotel-room, humiliation, identity-crisis, independent-film, isolation, jump-from-car, key, kidnap, loss-of-control, manipulation, midlife-crisis, millionaire, mind-game, neo-noir, office, paranoia, paranoid, persecution-mania, phone-booth, product-placement, psycho-thriller, psychological-thriller, restaurant, rich-snob, san-francisco-california, shower, suicide, suicide-attempt, surprise-ending, taxi, tense, title-spoken-by-character, tragedy, twist-ending, twist-in-the-end, underwater, waitress, watch, white-rabbit, yellow-book, yuppie, zoo
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Men in Black
In present-day America, Tommy Lee Jones plays Agent K, a member of an organization that has been keeping track of extra-terrestrial aliens on Earth for over 40 years. When K finds himself in need of a new partner, a brash NYPD detective, James Edwards (Will Smith) fills the position, becoming Agent J. Armed with space-age technology (which J barely understands) and their razor-sharp wits, J and K investigate a newcomer (played by Vincent D’Onofrio) who is bad news for Earth.
Men in Black DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.80 out of 10 (59337 votes)
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D’Onofrio, Rip Torn, Tony Shalhoub, Siobhan Fallon, Mike Nussbaum, Jon Gries, Sergio Calderón, Carel Struycken, Fredric Lehne, Richard Hamilton, Kent Faulcon, John Alexander,
Tags: Sci-Fi, Comedy, Action, 8-track, alien, alien-contact, alien-intelligence, amnesia, automobile, babe-scientist, based-on-comic, blockbuster, bravery, buddy-comedy, bug, bully, cat, cockroach, cosmic-zoom, cover-up, creature, diamond, dog, famous-score, fashion, government, gun, hero, high-tech, identity, loose-cannon, masked-villain, men-in-black, monster, morgue, newspaper, patriot, ray-gun, recapitation, retirement, rookie, sacrifice, satire, spacecraft, spoof, sunglasses, tabloid, technology, title-spoken-by-character, tragedy, twist-in-the-end, ufo, world-trade-center-new-york
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Saint, The
As a young orphan, a boy refuses to accept the name given him by priests and instead chooses to take on the name of Simon Templar after the Saint of magic. Speed ahead and the young boy is now a master thief in bidding wars with countries for his services. Using his skills of master disguise, he eludes all pursuers as he assumes names associated with the various Saints. In this role after stealing from a Russian industrialist, the industrialist hires The Saint to steal a formula for cold fusion being developed by a young female scientist. Cold fusion is said to permit a nation to heat its citizens with only a few gallons of water. However, on this case The Saint falls in love with the scientist placing him in a quandary of fulfilling his professional obligations or staying with the innocent young scientist. When she becomes threatened by the Russian Mafia, he has no choice but to go ahead with his job. However, she follows him to Moscow, setting off a chase across the City and through their sewers.
Saint, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.70 out of 10 (14218 votes)
Director: Phillip Noyce
Actors: Valery Nikolaev, Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Valeri Nikolayev, Henry Goodman, Alun Armstrong, Michael Byrne, Eugene Lazarev, Irina Apeksimova, Lev Prygunov, Charlotte Cornwell, Emily Mortimer, Lucija Serbedzija, Velibor Topic, Tommy Flanagan,
Tags: Romance, Thriller, Action, babe-scientist, based-on-tv-series, career-criminal, chemist, cold-fusion, computer, coup-d'état, disguise, energy, fake-accent, former-soviet-union, master-of-disguise, microchip, nuclear-power, one-last-job, physics, political, russia, russian-mafia, sci-fi, secret-agent, sequel, spy, the-saint, thief
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Alien: Resurrection
200 years after the conclusion of Alien 3, the company is able to resurrect Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) through the process of cloning and the scientists successfully take the Queen Alien out of her. But, Ripley’s DNA gets mixed up with the Queen’s and she begins to develop certain alien characteristics. The scientists begin breeding the aliens, but they later escape. Soon the Xeno-morphs are running amok on the ship, which is on course to earth. The Queen then gives birth to a deadly new breed of alien, which could spell disaster for the entire human race. It’s up to Ripley and a band of space pirates to stop the ship before it reaches earth.
Alien: Resurrection DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.00 out of 10 (28140 votes)
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, Gary Dourdan, Michael Wincott, Kim Flowers, Dan Hedaya, J. E. Freeman, Brad Dourif, Raymond Cruz, Leland Orser, Carolyn Campbell, Marlene Bush, David St. James,
Tags: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action, acid, alien, alien-dna, android, anti-hero, basketball, birth, bitterness, black-comedy, black-market, blood, bloody-violence, bullet-carom-shot, bullet-dodging, clone, computer, cryogenics, cynicism, death-wish, disability, drowning, entrails, eugenics, exploding-head, explosive-decompression, flame-thrower, fourth-part, gene-manipulation, genetic-engineering, gore, gun, hand-grenade, hit-in-crotch, human-duplication, knife-in-thigh, laser-cutter, long-tongue, matricide, military, monster, mutation, nose-bleeding, outer-space, parasite, part-computer-animation, pistol, poetic-justice, regeneration, robot, scalpel, scientist, sequel, sequel-to-cult-favorite, shot-in-the-head, shot-through-the-mouth, skull-crushing, sleeve-gun, spacecraft, spit-in-the-face, splatter, stabbed-in-the-hand, swimming, swimming-underwater, underwater, vacuum, video-game, xenomorph
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