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. |
Citizen Kane (1941)Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 |
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world’s richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - “Rosebud…” What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end. |
Total Recall (1990)Monday, October 27th, 2008 |
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Douglas Quaid is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen. Now the story really begins and it’s a rollercoaster ride until the massive end of the movie. |
Apocalypse Now (1979)Monday, October 27th, 2008 |
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Based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe. |
Commando (1985)Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 |
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A retired special agent named John Matrix led an elite unit and has left the armed forces to live in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny. But now he is forced out of retirement when his daughter is kidnapped by a band of thugs intent on revenge! Unbeknownst to Matrix, the members of his former unit are being killed one by one. Even though Matrix’ friend General Franklin Kirby gives Matrix armed guards, attackers manage to kidnap Matrix and Jenny. Matrix learns that Bennett, a former member of his Matrix’ unit who was presumed dead has kidnapped him to try to force Matrix to do a political assassination for a man called Arius (who calls himself El Presidente), a warlord formerly bested by Matrix who wishes to lead a military coup in his home country. Since Arius will have Jenny killed if Matrix refuses, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand. |
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 ? |
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)Friday, July 25th, 2008 |
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Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was held siege by a gay bank robber determined to steal enough money for his male lover to undergo a sex change operation. On a hot summer afternoon, the First Savings Bank of Brooklyn is held up by Sonny and Sal, two down-and-out characters. Although the bank manager and female tellers agree not to interfere with the robbery, Sonny finds that there’s actually nothing much to steal, as most of the cash has been picked up for the day. Sonny then gets an unexpected phone call from Police Captain Moretti, who tells him the place is surrounded by the city’s entire police force. Having few options under the circumstances, Sonny nervously bargains with Moretti, demanding safe escort to the airport and a plane out of the country in return for the bank employees’ safety. |
Sudden Impact (1983)Friday, July 25th, 2008 |
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After destroying a case involving a crime lord, Harry Callahan is sent down to San Paulo to investigate the killing of a man found dead in a car. Jennifer (the killer of the man in the car) is murdering all the rapists who brutally raped both her and her sister 10 years ago, and she has returned to San Paulo to exact her revenge. Harry becomes inadvertently involved in Jennifer’s own troubles during his investigations, all the while not suspecting she is the killer. |
Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984)Thursday, June 19th, 2008 |
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On Elm Terrace, Nancy Thompson (Langenkamp) and a club of her friends including Tina Gray (Wyss), Chastisement Lane (Garcia) and Glen Lantz (Depp) are being tormented around a clawed exterminator in their dreams named Freddy Krueger (Englund). Nancy be compelled think very soon, as Freddy tries to pick supplied his victims united by complete. When he has you in your nap, who is there to deliver you? |
Taxi Driver (1976)Thursday, April 24th, 2008 |
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Vietnam give something Travis Bickle is 26, a loner in the small streets of Green York Big Apple, slipping slowly into isolation and untamed misanthropy. In solving his insomnia past driving a yellow hansom cab on the ceaselessly shift, he grows increasingly tired of by the servile-lifes that dangle out at sunset: “Someday a genuine rain last wishes as come and cut all the scum insane the streets.” His emotional attempts to woo Betsy, a Senator’s push worker, boon sour when he takes her to a porn talkie on their leading date. He flatten fails in his have to win over child moll Iris to abscond her pander and carry back to her parents and approach. Driven to the apprehensive by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets outside to assassinate the Senator, heading through despite the loathsomeness of a ‘lone crazed gunman’… |