Posts Tagged ‘escape’



Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The (1974)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthau, Walter | Shaw, Robert | Balsam, Martin | Elizondo, Hector | Hindman, Earl | Broderick, James | O'Neill, Dick | Wallace, Lee | Pedi, Tom | Winde, Beatrice | Stiller, Jerry | George, Nathan | Bond, Rudy | McMillan, Kenneth | Roberts, Doris
Directors: Sargent, Joseph
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Pelham 1-2-3, a subway train, becomes the focal point of the most audacious and unusual terrorist attack ever seen. Four gunmen, going by color codenames, seize the train and hold its passengers and conductor hostage halfway between underground stations, demanding a hefty ransom else they will begin executing hostages. A veteran NY transit policeman leads negotiations with the hijackers to prevent any killing, but amid the showdown a question nags at authrorities - with the gunmen and their hostages in a tunnel surrounded by police on all sides, how can they possibly escape?

Wolf Creek (2005)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: O'Donnell, Guy | Poole, Gordon | Phillips, Nathan | Morassi, Kestie | Magrath, Cassandra | Jarratt, John
Directors: McLean, Greg
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Just when you thought it was safe to go hiking in the bushes again…along comes Mick Taylor. Kristy, Ben and Liz are three pals in their twenties who set out to hike through the scenic Wolf Creek National Park in the Australian Outback. The trouble begins when they get back only to find that their car won’t start. The trio think they have a way out when they run into a local bushman named Mick Taylor. Wait until you get a load of what Mick has in store for them. Their troubles have just begun.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Almendarez, Herman | Baron Cohen, Sacha | Cedric the Entertainer | Gordon, Zachary | Holcomb, Bryceson | Lister, Tommy 'Tiny' | Mac, Bernie | McGrath, Tom | Richter, Andy | Rock, Chris | Schwimmer, David | Stanley, Thomas | Stiller, Ben | Vernon, Conrad | (person unknown)
Directors: Darnell, Eric
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The sequel of the first movie, the New York Zoo Animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, still stranded on Madagascar, started to leave the island. All of a sudden, they landed in the wilderness of Africa. There, Alex soon meet the rest of his family and starting to have trouble communicating with them after much of his time at the Central Park Zoo.

Brotherhood of Blood (2007)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pratt, Victoria | Haig, Sid | Foree, Ken | Connery, Jason | Snow, William | Ramsey, Wes | Kissner, Jeremy James | Grant, Rachel | Donner, Jack | Doyle, Bill | Fasen, Maxwell | Fraser, Jonathan | Izay, Ryan | James, Darrin | Kievsky, Boris
Directors: Roesch, Michael
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Claustrophobic thriller about a team of vampire hunters who infiltrate a nest of undead to rescue one of their own.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Music
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Clooney, George | Hunter, Holly | Turturro, John | Root, Stephen | Goodman, John | Durning, Charles
Directors: Coen, Joel
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Loosely based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bankrobber George ‘Babyface’ Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that “the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find.”

Ref, The (1994)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Leary, Denis | Davis, Judy | Spacey, Kevin | Steinmiller Jr., Robert J. | Johns, Glynis | Barry, Raymond J. | Bright, Richard | Baranski, Christine | LeFevre, Adam | Nicoll, Phillip | Raab, Ellie | Raymond, Bill | Scurti, John | Turner, Jim | Ade, Herbie
Directors: Demme, Ted
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Denis Leary plays an unfortunate cat burglar, who is abandonded by his partner in the middle of a heist, and is forced to take an irritating Connecticut couple (Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis) hostage. He soon finds that he took more than he bargained for when the couple’s blackmailing son and despicable in-laws step into the picture. Before long they’re driving him nuts with their petty bickering and family problems. The only way for him to survive is to be their referee and resolve their differences, before he can be nabbed by the police.

Pineapple Express (2008)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rogen, Seth | Franco, James | Dunn, Nora | Ahn, Rio | Carson, Sam | Cole, Gary | Crosby, Adam | Flisher, Rich | Hader, Bill | Jeong, Ken | Khoo, Jourdan Lee | Lewis, Peter | Lo Truglio, Joe | Longstreet, Robert | McBride, Danny R.
Directors: Green, David Gordon
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Lazy stoner Dale Denton has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver: to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city’s most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him. And it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they’re not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. All aboard the Pineapple Express.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hit The Ice (1943)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Abbott, Bud | Costello, Lou | Simms, Ginny | Knowles, Patric | Knox, Elyse | Sawyer, Joe | Lawrence, Marc | Leonard, Sheldon | Johnny Long and His Orchestra | Barber, Bobby | Bell, Hank | Boteler, Wade | Christy, Ken | Crehan, Joseph | Dunn, Eddie
Directors: Kenton, Erle C.
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Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox), they also meet old friend Johnny Long (Himself) and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.

Kite Runner, The (2007)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Abdalla, Khalid | Leoni, Atossa | Toub, Shaun | Gharibzada, Sayed Jafar Masihullah | Ebrahimi, Zekeria | Mahmoodzada, Ahmad Khan | Hashimi, Mir Mahmood Shah | Ershadi, Homayoun | Tanha, Nabi | Ehsas, Elham | Ehsas, Bahram | Nawabi, Tamim | Attai, Mohamad Nabi | Sarwari, Mohamad Nadir | Haidari, Mustafa
Directors: Forster, Marc
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In the 70’s in Afghanistan, the Pushtun boy Amir and the Hazara boy Hassan, who is his loyal friend and son of their Hazara servant Ali, are raised together in Amir’s father house, playing and kitting on the streets of a peaceful Kabul. Amir feels that his wise and good father Baba blames him for the death of his mother in the delivery, and also that his father loves and prefers Hassam to him. In return, Amir feels a great respect for his father’s best friend Rahim Khan, who supports his intention to become a writer. After Amir winning a competition of kitting, Hassam runs to bring a kite to Amir, but he is beaten and raped by the brutal Assef in an empty street to protect Amir’s kite; the coward Amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal Hassam. On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam’s bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal. In 1979, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir escape to Pakistan. In 1988, they have a simple life in Fremont, California, when Amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of Baba. Later Amir meets his countrywoman Soraya and they get married. In 2000, after the death of Baba, Amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal Rahim Khan, who discloses secrets about his family, forcing Amir to return to Peshawar, in Pakistan, in a journey of redemption.

Die Another Day (2002)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Berry, Halle | Stephens, Toby | Pike, Rosamund | Yune, Rick | Dench, Judi | Cleese, John | Madsen, Michael | Lee, Will Yun | Tsang, Kenneth | Echevarría, Emilio | Gorevoy, Mikhail | Makoare, Lawrence | Salmon, Colin | Bond, Samantha
Directors: Tamahori, Lee
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Pierce Brosnan gives one last mission as James Bond. Starting off in North Korea, Bond is betrayed and captured. 14 months later, Bond is set free, but traded for Zao (Yune) who was captured by MI6. When back in his world, Bond sets off to track down Zao. Bond gets caught up in yet another scheme which sends him to millionaire Gustav Graves (Stephens). Another MI6 agent known as Miranda Frost (Pike) is also posing as a friend of Graves. Bond is invited to a presentation held by Graves about a satellite found in space which can project a huge laser beam. Bond must stop this madman with a fellow American agent, known as Jinx (Berry). Whilst Bond tries to stop Graves and Zao, will he finally reveal who betrayed him?