Deliverance (1972)Monday, December 22nd, 2008 |
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Based on James Dickey’s novel, this film tells the story of an ill-fated canoe trip in deep backwoods America, where the people are as scary as the country is beautiful. |
Deliverance (1972)Monday, December 22nd, 2008 |
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Based on James Dickey’s novel, this film tells the story of an ill-fated canoe trip in deep backwoods America, where the people are as scary as the country is beautiful. |
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)Friday, December 12th, 2008 |
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Big budget account of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants, and Columbus’ struggle to civilize the New World. |
Brubaker (1980)Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 |
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Henry Brubaker is the new warden at Wakefield prison. He makes his entrance as a prisoner in order to get a convict’s-eye-view of the real state of the institution. To his horror he finds all manner of abuse and corruption which, after disclosing his real identity, he sets out to correct. |
Full Metal Jacket (1987)Sunday, November 16th, 2008 |
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Full Metal Jacket begins by following the trials and tribulations of a platoon of fresh Marine Corps recruits focusing on the relationship between Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and Privates Pyle and Joker. We see Pyle grow into an instrument of death as Hartman has forseen of all of his recruits. Through Pyle’s torment and Joker’s unwillingness to stand up against it the climax of part one is achieved with all three main characters deciding their fates by their action or inaction. The second chapter of Full Metal Jacket delves into Joker’s psyche and the repeated referal to the fact that he joined the Corps to become a killer. When his mostly behind the scenes job as a combat correspondant is interfered with by the Tet offensive he is thrust into real combat and ultimately must choose if he really is a killer. |
Cool Hand Luke (1967)Monday, October 6th, 2008 |
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Luke is sent to a prison camp, where he gets a reputation as a hard man. The head of the gang hates him, and tries to break him by beating him up. It doesn’t work, and he gains respect. His mother dies, and he escapes, but is caught, escapes again, and is caught again. Will the camp bosses ever break him ? |
Basketball Diaries, The (1995)Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 |
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Overlay adaptation of boulevard tough Jim Carroll’s epistle involving his kaleidoscopic loosen fall into the horrible world of treatment addiction. As a fellow of a outwardly unbeatable acute school basketball team, Jim’s living centers wide the basketball court and the court becomes a figure of speech for the humankind in his undecided. A best bib friend who is slipping away of leukemia, a prompt (”Swifty”) who takes improper liberties with the boys on his side, teenage genital angst, and an injurious appetite with a view heroin — all of these open to encroach on young Jim’s imagine of chic a basketball celebrated. Soon, the ill-lighted streets of Unheard Of York transform into a safe house from his materfamilias’s mounting issue for her son. He can’t use a fade home and his solitary escape from the authenticity of the streets is heroin since which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Single with the aid of Reggie, an older neighborhood boon companion with whom Jim “picked up a tactic” now and then, is he masterly to set out the eat one’s heart out journey with little to rationality. |
Shine (1996)Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 |
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Based on the steadfast story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this attractive movie charts the untimely and harmful early years. Telling the life story in flashback we welcome David as he grows up and into a son prodigy while his establish abuses him and his siblings with the celebration of his minority in Europe and the disappearance of his kith and kin in the concentration camps. David ultimately breaks away from his forefather and goes away to memorize overseas, he later suffers a distillation and returns to Australia and a life story in an custom. Many years later he is released and by way of several twists of destination (in fact even more unpromising than video portrays) he starts playing a piano in a barricade before inexorably returning to the concert lecture-room. |
In a Dark Place (2006)Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 |
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She deliberating she was their Protector Angel, but was she exceedingly their Nanny from Ordeal? A chilling in style ghost allegation, inspired aside a undying of the character, In A Occult Place is the suspenseful, anacreontic story of a callow woman fighting to reform the souls of two children seduced on dark influences beyond the grim. Anna Veigh, a recently limited art counsellor and schoolma’m, is pronouncement work at her inner bishopric special instruct a tougher unconscious challenge than she can deal with with. The advance of a unheard of post minding two rich young orphans whilst their well-to-do uncle is away on partnership seems a unequalled escape throughout her. It is a accepted escape. Her strange workplace is Bly Bagnio, a far-away country development with pretty grounds and a insignificant resident crozier. Miles and Flora, the children, sound sweet and charming, if a scrap strange, and Anna thinks that she has at the end of the day “landed on her feet” after the rigors of her above job. The no more than fly in the lotion is the frosty landed estate manager, Pass Over Grose, who seems subtle and unfriendly to the altered arrival. Utter soon, not only that, Anna makes disquieting discoveries. Miles, the caitiff public schoolmate, has been expelled from his instruct, for a foible so horrendous the headmaster devise not to discuss it. Anna then learns that her predecessor in the drudgery, one Pine For Jessel, died in mistrustful circumstances. To tot up to her unease, she begins to draw a understand glimpses of mysterious sinister figures lurking in the grounds, but nothing else admits to seeing them. Anna confronts the Virgin Grose with her suspicions close to these intruders, but is surprised via the drive of Skip Grose’s feedback. The figures Anna describes are unmistakably those of two ex-employees at the household. The contrariwise problem is that these employees are totally. Anna senses that the weird manifestations are malevolent in their decided. Not just is the spiritual welfare of the children in exceptionally real jeopardy, but their lives and their souls are also at jeopardize. But Anna is mannered to confront benighted secrets buried involved in her own divine spark as she fights to scour the children’s souls of darkness, with scary consequences looking for all anxious. |
Lord of the Flies (1990)Monday, January 21st, 2008 |
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After a skid crash in the the drink flood, a gathering of military students reach an islet. Ralph organizes the boys, assigning responsibilities after each inseparable. When the rise up defy Jack Merridew neglects the enkindle camp and they mislay the incidental to be seen beside a helicopter, the class split junior to the guidance of Jack. While Ralph rationalizes the procedures, Jack returns to the primitivism, using the consternation for the strange (in a trope to the dogma) to sway the other boys, and hunting and chasing pigs, thieving the tenure of Ralph’s team and down repay killing people. |