Archive for January, 2007
88 Minutes
In Seattle, the successful forensic psychiatrist and college professor Jack Gramm is in evidence since he was responsible for the condemnation of the serial killer Jon Forster, influencing the jury to sentence him to the death row. Jon accuses Jack of manipulation, inducing one witness and sister of one of his victims to testify against him. On the eve of Jon’s execution, Jack receives a phone call telling him that he has only eighty-eight minutes of life, while a killer is copycatting Jon, killing women with the same “modus-operandi” and is investigated by Seattle Slayer Task Force. With the support of his former wife and associated Shelly Barnes, the FBI agent and his friend Frank Parks and his assistant Kim Cummings, Jack investigate some weird and problematic students, a security guard of the campus and the woman with whom he had one night stand.
88 Minutes DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.10 out of 10 (2141 votes)
Director: Jon Avnet
Actors: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Amy Brenneman, Leelee Sobieski, Benjamin McKenzie, Deborah Kara Unger, William Forsythe, Neal McDonough, Stephen Moyer, Michael Eklund, Michal Yannai, Brendan Fletcher, Carrie Genzel, Dexter Bell, Paul Campbell,
Tags: Drama, Crime, Thriller, death-threat, fbi, female-nudity, number-in-title, professor, real-time, time-for-title
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Epic Movie
The twisted minds of two of the six writers of “Scary Movie” tackle the biggest mega-blockbusters of all time in “Epic Movie.” The story centers on four not-so-young orphans: one raised by a curator at the Louvre (where an albino assassin lurks), another a refugee from Mexican “libre” wrestling, the third a recent victim of snakes on her plane, and the fourth a “normal” resident of a mutant “X”-community. The hapless quartet visits a chocolate factory, where they stumble into an enchanted wardrobe that transports them to the land of Gnarnia (with a “G”). There they meet a flamboyant pirate captain and earnest students of wizardry - and join forces with, among others, a wise-but-horny lion to defeat the evil White Bitch of Gnarnia.
Epic Movie DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 2.10 out of 10 (11517 votes)
Director: Jason Friedberg
Actors: Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Jayma Mays, Faune A. Chambers, Crispin Glover, Tony Cox, Héctor Jiménez, Darrell Hammond, Carmen Electra, Fred Willard, David Carradine, David Lehre, Kevin McDonald, George Alvarez,
Tags: Comedy, Adventure, airplane, albino, archery, battle, beaver, bestiality, boarding-school, camera, candy, cannibalism, castration, closet, crushed-to-death, dance, decapitation, double-cross, face-slap, factory, fall-from-height, faun, fight, flashback-sequence, fur-coat, heart-ripped-out, jailbreak, lamp-post, lucha-libre, magnet, martial-arts, midget, mona-lisa, monk, murder, museum, mutant, narration, orgy, orphan, orphanage, pirate, profanity, queen, remote-control, scene-during-end-credits, shapeshifting, slapstick, sleigh, snake, spoof, stabbing, superhero, superman, swimsuit, sword-fight, talking-animal, ticket, toilet, tongue, tour-guide, urination-scene, vending-machine, whipping, witchcraft, x-men
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Freedom Writers
A young teacher (Swank) inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Freedom Writers DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.40 out of 10 (3637 votes)
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Actors: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April L. Hernandez, Mario, Kristin Herrera, Jacklyn Ngan, Sergio Montalvo, Jason Finn, Deance Wyatt, Vanetta Smith, Gabriel Chavarria, Hunter Parrish, Antonio García,
Tags: Drama, 1990s, accidental-suicide, based-on-true-story, chase, convenience-store, dancing, dedicated-teacher, divorce, domestic-violence, drive-by-shooting, falsely-accused, father-daughter-relationship, flashback-sequence, gang-violence, high-school, holocaust-survivor, hotel, jail, journal, lawyer, los-angeles-california, los-angeles-riots, marriage, mother-daughter-relationship, mother-son-relationship, murder, museum, narration, new-job, profanity, racial-slur, racism, restaurant, teacher, trial, voice-over, what-happened-to-epilogue, writing
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Goal II: Living the Dream
After gaining experience with the football club Newcastle United, Santiago Munez (Becker) gets a huge break when he’s transferred to Real Madrid.
Goal II: Living the Dream DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.30 out of 10 (421 votes)
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Actors: Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel, Stephen Dillane, Rutger Hauer, David Beckham, Frances Barber, Kieran O’Brien, Miriam Colon, Leonor Varela, Sean Pertwee, Nick Cannon, Alfredo Rodríguez, Elizabeth Peña, Mike Jefferies,
Tags: Sport, Drama, child-driving-car, naked-man, sequel, sequel-mentioned-during-end-credits, title-spoken-by-character
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Music and Lyrics
Cheery Alex Fletcher lives comfortably in Manhattan off the residuals from his 80’s pop success and reprising his hits at school reunions, theme parks, and state fairs. But those gigs are declining, so he jumps at the chance to write a song and record it with reigning teen idol Cora Corman. Trouble is, he’s good at melodies but needs a lyricist and has less than a week to finish. Enter Sophie Fisher, subbing for a friend who waters Alex’s plants; she’s a pretty good poet, quick witted, and could do it, if she’d agree. But there’s some sort of shadow over her head that Alex may not be able to charm his way past. And what if they do get a song written, what then?
Music and Lyrics DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.50 out of 10 (7965 votes)
Director: Marc Lawrence
Actors: Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Brad Garrett, Kristen Johnston, Campbell Scott, Scott Porter, Nick Bacon, Andrew Wyatt, Dan McMillan, Tom Foligno, Zak Orth, Brooke Tansley, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Aasif Mandvi, Haley Bennett,
Tags: Music, Romance, Comedy, affection, apartment, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, doorman, ex-boyfriend, grand-piano, helicopter, love, lyricist, male-female-relationship, music-video, musician, new-york-city, nostalgic, opposites-attract, pop-concert, pop-star, recording-studio, restaurant-scene, singer, songwriter, washed-up-star, whimsical
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Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling “winnings.” But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.
Next DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.80 out of 10 (2835 votes)
Director: Lee Tamahori
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann, Tory Kittles, José Zúñiga, Jim Beaver, Jason Butler Harner, Michael Trucco, Enzo Cilenti, Laetitia Danielle, Nicolas Pajon, Sergej Trifunovic, Charles Chun, Patricia Prata,
Tags: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action, based-on-short-story, bomb, bullet-dodging, car-chase, car-hit-by-train, casino, chase, chase-scene, clairvoyant, counter-terrorism, diner, explosion, fbi, fbi-agent, future, gambling, grand-canyon, helicopter, kidnapping, las-vegas, los-angeles, los-angeles-california, magician, motel, murder, newscaster, nuclear-attack, nuclear-bomb, nuclear-explosion, pickup-line, precognition, prediction, psychic, pursuit, robbery, shootout, sniper, soothsayer, teacher, terrorism, terrorist, theft, thief, title-spoken-by-character, voice-over-narration, wristwatch
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Norbit
Norbit (Murphy) is a normal person, who after being adopted by Mr. Wong (Murphy), ends up being married to the very large, Rasputia (Murphy). Norbit’s childhood love, Kate Thomas (Newton) arrives back in town to buy the orphanage. Norbit sees this as his chance to get back together with Kate, until he discovers that she is in fact engaged to Deion Hughes (Gooding, Jr.). Norbit isn’t going to lay this to rest, whilst he tries to survive life with Rasputia, and it looks like Deion also has something he would like to keep secret.
Norbit DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 3.00 out of 10 (5609 votes)
Director: Brian Robbins
Actors: Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Terry Crews, Clifton Powell, Mighty Rasta, Cuba Gooding Jr., Eddie Griffin, Katt Williams, Floyd Levine, Anthony Russell, Pat Crawford Brown, Jeanette Miller, Michael Colyar, Marlon Wayans, Alexis Rhee,
Tags: Romance, Comedy, actor-playing-multiple-roles, character-name-in-title, chinese, fat-suit, forced-marriage, lollipop, obesity, pimp, pressure, puppet, water-slide, wedding-ceremony-gone-awry, weight, whaler, wilhelm-scream
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Outlaw
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
Outlaw DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.20 out of 10 (546 votes)
Director: Nick Love
Actors: Sean Bean, Danny Dyer, Lennie James, Rupert Friend, Sean Harris, Bob Hoskins, Allan Aldred, Matthew Badham, Ian Calver, Michael Culkin, Alexander Ellery, Jack Ellis, Michael Foden, Neil Hardy, Stephen Humby,
Tags: Crime, Action,
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