Posts Tagged ‘chess’



Beyond the Sea (2004)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | Musical
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Bosworth, Kate | Goodman, John | Hoskins, Bob | Blethyn, Brenda | Scacchi, Greta | Aaron, Caroline | Cincotti, Peter | Ullrich, William | Byrne, Michael | Rippy, Matt | Whelan, Gary | Broder, Jake | Bademsoy, Tayfun | Spencer, Tomas
Directors: Spacey, Kevin
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Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. He’s volatile, driven by the love of performing, ambition, perfectionism, and belief that he’s living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly, then “Splish Splash” puts him at the top of the charts and on “Bandstand.” He wants to be an entertainer, not a pop star, so he aims for the Copacabana; then it’s on to the movies, where he meets and marries Sandra Dee. After, it’s balancing career, health, marriage and family life, balances he doesn’t always keep. Throughout, conversations with his boyhood self give him perspective.

Bad Company (2002)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Rock, Chris | Stormare, Peter | Macht, Gabriel | Washington, Kerry | Maropis, Adoni | Beauvais, Garcelle | Marsh, Matthew | Micanovic, Dragan | Slattery, John | Smith, Brooke | Sunjata, Daniel | Lawson Jr., DeVone | Robbins, Wills | Vasut, Marek
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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When a CIA agent is killed during a nuclear arms purchase, his partner Oakes, recruits his twin brother, Jake Hayes. Jake had no idea he had a twin brother, let alone that he worked for the CIA. Jake, a.k.a. Michael Turner, has nine days to fill his brother’s place. However, the enemy terrorists learn of his secret identity and kidnap his girlfriend/fiancee. He has to rescue them and save New York city from an imminent nuclear terrorist act.

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Mason, James | Gardner, Ava | Patrick, Nigel | Sim, Sheila | Warrender, Harold | Cabré, Mario | Goring, Marius | Laurie, John | Mason, Pamela | Raine, Patricia | D'Alvarez, Margarita | La Pillina | Sofaer, Abraham | Igual, Francisco | Beltrán, Guillermo
Directors: Lewin, Albert
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In 1930, singer Pandora Reynolds, gorgeous, enigmatic, and fascinated by danger and destruction, has the men of a small Spanish town in despair. Just when race driver Stephen Cameron thinks he’s won her, a mysterious yacht appears in the bay whose eerie captain may be the legendary Flying Dutchman. Stephen has an apparently more dangerous rival in the form of an arrogant bullfighter; but Pandora’s friendship with the Dutchman may lead them both to a rendezvous with Fate…

Last Castle, The (2001)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gandolfini, James | Lindo, Delroy | Redford, Robert | Ruffalo, Mark | Steve Burton | Clifton Collins
Directors: Rod Lurie
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When three star General Irwin is transferred to a maximum security military prison, its warden, Colonel Winter, can’t hide his admiration towards the highly decorated and experienced soldier. Irwin has been stripped of his rank for disobedience in a mission, but not of fame. Colonel Winter, who runs the prison with an iron fist, deeply admires the General, but works with completely different methods in order to keep up discipline. After a short while, Irwin can feel Winter’s unjust treatment of the inmates. He decides to teach Winter a lesson by taking over command of the facility and thus depriving him of his smug attitude. When Winter decides to participate in what he still thinks of as a game, it may already be too late to win.

Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Liu, Lucy | Hartnett, Josh | Willis, Bruce | Freeman, Morgan | Kingsley, Ben | Williamson, Mykelti
Directors: McGuigan, Paul
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After landing in the wrong place at the wrong time, Slevin (Josh Hartnett) must kill The Rabbi’s (Ben Kingsley) to scratch a $96,000 debt to The Boss (Morgan Freeman) and pay off $33,000 to The Rabbi. He can’t go to the police and he can’t leave the city. On top of all this, behind the scene’s Mr. Smith aka Mr. Goodkat (Bruce Willis) is secretly plotting to kill Slevin.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cleese, John | Rickman, Alan | Grint, Rupert | Watson, Emma | Radcliffe, Daniel | Smith, Maggie | Coltrane, Robbie | Triplets, Saunders | Harris, Richard | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Griffiths, Richard | Deadman, Derek | Hart, Ian | Borowiecki, Ben | Davis, Warwick | Troyer, Verne | Hurt, John | Bremmer, Richard
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based off the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

Bone Collector, The (1999)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Jolie, Angelina | Latifah, Queen | Rooker, Michael | McGlone, Mike | Guzmán, Luis | Orser, Leland | Hickey, John Benjamin | Cannavale, Bobby | O'Neill, Ed | Zeman, Richard | Birkelund, Olivia | Swanson, Gary | Bulleit, James | Fontaine, Frank
Directors: Noyce, Phillip
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Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Amelia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father’s suicide and thinking she’s next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer.

Blade Runner (1982)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Hauer, Rutger | Young, Sean | Olmos, Edward James | Walsh, M. Emmet | Hannah, Daryl | Sanderson, William | James, Brion | Turkel, Joseph | Cassidy, Joanna | Hong, James | Paull, Morgan | Thompson, Kevin | Allen, John Edward | Pyke, Hy
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LPD’s Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & micro-chip jungle of the 21st century for assumed humanoids known as ‘replicants’. Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. Man’s obsession with creating a being equal to himself has back-fired.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Dullea, Keir | Lockwood, Gary | Sylvester, William | Richter, Daniel | Rossiter, Leonard | Tyzack, Margaret | Beatty, Robert | Sullivan, Sean | Rain, Douglas | Miller, Frank | Weston, Bill | Bishop, Ed | Beck, Glenn | Gifford, Alan | Gillis, Ann
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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2001 is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith here on earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well) Evolution then enabled man to reach the moon’s surface where he finds yet another monolith, one which signals the monolith-placers that we have evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and man (Bowman) to reach the monolith-placers, the winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.

Thing, The (1982)

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Brimley, Wilford | Carter, T.K. | Clennon, David | David, Keith | Dysart, Richard A. | Hallahan, Charles | Maloney, Peter | Masur, Richard | Moffat, Donald | Polis, Joel | Waites, Thomas G. | Weisser, Norbert | Franco, Larry J. | Irwin, Nate
Directors: Carpenter, John
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An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realises that an alien life-form with the ability to take over other bodies is on the loose and they don’t know who may already have been taken over.