Posts Tagged ‘dark-hero’

Ghost Rider

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Thriller
Actors: Long, Matt | Alessi, Raquel | Cullen, Brett | Fonda, Peter | Cage, Nicolas | Logue, Donal | Ghosthawk, Tony | Sexton, Hugh | Jones, Marcus | Norman, Matt | Steele, Lawrence Cameron | Bentley, Wes | Baroo, Eddie | Napier, Jessica | Breuls, Laurence
Directors: Johnson, Mark Steven
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In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life. Years later, Johnny’s path crosses again with Roxanne, now a reporter, and also with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny’s soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery Ghost Rider, a supernatural agent of vengeance and justice. Mephistopheles charges Johnny with defeating the despicable Blackheart, Mephistopheles’s nemesis and son, who plans to displace his father and create a new hell even more terrible than the old one.

American Psycho

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Actors: Bale, Christian | Theroux, Justin | Lucas, Josh | Sage, Bill | Sevigny, Chloë | Witherspoon, Reese | Mathis, Samantha | Ross, Matt | Leto, Jared | Dafoe, Willem | Seymour, Cara | Turner, Guinevere | Bogaert, Stephen | Meier, Monika | Cathey, Reg E.
Directors: Harron, Mary
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Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.

Batman Returns

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
Actors: Keaton, Michael | DeVito, Danny | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Walken, Christopher | Gough, Michael | Murphy, Michael | Conaway, Cristi | Bryniarski, Andrew | Hingle, Pat | Schiavelli, Vincent | Hooks, Jan | Witting, Steve | Strong, John | Zumwalt, Rick | Katarina, Anna
Directors: Burton, Tim
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Having defeated the Joker, Batman now faces the Penguin - a warped and deformed individual who is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is coerced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt to expose Batman in a different light. Earlier however, Selina Kyle, Max’s secretary, is thrown from the top of a building and is transformed into Catwoman - a mysterious figure who has the same personality disorder as Batman. Batman must attempt to clear his name, all the time deciding just what must be done with the Catwoman.

Beowulf & Grendel

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Actors: Butler, Gerard | Skarsgård, Stellan | Curran, Tony
Directors: Gunnarsson, Sturla
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The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior’s battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll. Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster. The monster, Grendel, is not a creature of mythic powers, but one of flesh and blood - immense flesh and raging blood, driven by a vengeance from being wronged, while Beowulf, a victorious soldier in his own right, has become increasingly troubled by the hero-myth rising up around his exploits. Beowulf’s willingness to kill on behalf of Hrothgar wavers when it becomes clear that the King is more responsible for the troll’s rampages than was first apparent. As a soldier, Beowulf is unaccustomed to hesitating. His relationship with the mesmerizing witch, Selma, creates deeper confusion. Swinging his sword at a great, stinking beast is no longer such a simple act. The story is set in barbarous Northern Europe where the reign of the many-gods is giving way to one - the southern invader, Christ. Beowulf is a man caught between sides in this great shift, his simple code transforming and falling apart before his eyes. Vengeance, loyalty and mercy powerfully entwine. A story of blood and beer and sweat, which strips away the mask of the hero-myth, leaving a raw and tangled tale.

Desperado

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Banderas, Antonio | Hayek, Salma | de Almeida, Joaquim | Marin, Cheech | Buscemi, Steve | Gómez, Carlos | Tarantino, Quentin | Larriva, Tito | Aviles, Angel | Trejo, Danny | Verduzco, Abraham | Gallardo, Carlos | Michel Jr., Albert | Alvarado, David | Lanza, Angela
Directors: Rodriguez, Robert
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With this sequel to his prize-winning independent previous film, “El Mariachi,” director Robert Rodriquez joins the ranks of Sam Peckinpah and John Woo as a master of slick, glamorized ultra-violence. We pick up the story as a continuation of “El Mariachi,” where an itinerant musician, looking for work, gets mistaken for a hitman and thereby entangled in a web of love, corruption, and death. This time, he is out to avenge the murder of his lover and the maiming of his fretting hand, which occurred at the end of the earlier movie. However, the plot is recapitulated, and again, a case of mistaken identity leads to a very high body count, involvement with a beautiful woman who works for the local drug lord, and finally, the inevitable face-to-face confrontation and bloody showdown.

Silent Hill

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Actors: Mitchell, Radha | Bean, Sean | Holden, Laurie | Unger, Deborah Kara | Coates, Kim | Allen, Tanya | Krige, Alice | Ferland, Jodelle | Williams, Colleen | Gabriel, Ron | Crawford, Eve | Ritschel, Derek | Hiebert, Amanda | Dumont, Maxine | Britton, Christopher
Directors: Gans, Christophe
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After the continuous sleep walking episodes of Sharon, the young daughter of Rose Da Silva, the decision is made to take Sharon to the place only mentioned in her restless dreams- Silent Hill. However, the road to Silent Hill is anything but easy to access, and Rose creates a high speed chase between herself and a police officer only to end in a crash for them both. When she wakes up, Sharon has disappeared and Rose is at the entrance to the deserted, dream-like town of Silent Hill. As Rose begins the search for her daughter, she does not realize the terror and mystery surrounding her. Rose is led on a blind search for her beloved daughter, finding herself getting more and more entwined into disturbing past of Silent Hill.

Batman Begins

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Actors: Bale, Christian | Caine, Michael | Neeson, Liam | Holmes, Katie | Oldman, Gary | Murphy, Cillian | Wilkinson, Tom | Hauer, Rutger | Watanabe, Ken | Boone Junior, Mark | Roache, Linus | Freeman, Morgan | Holden, Larry | Murphy, Gerard | McFarlane, Colin
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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In tone with the early “Batman: Year One” style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra’s Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan ‘The Scarecrow’ Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.

‘Salem’s Lot

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Lowe, Rob | Braugher, Andre | Sutherland, Donald | Mathis, Samantha | Mammone, Robert | Byrd, Dan | Hauer, Rutger | Cromwell, James | Anderson, Andy | Grubb, Robert | Vidler, Steven | McNamee, Penny | Cowell, Brendan | Morris, Christopher | MacDonald, Todd
Directors: Salomon, Mikael
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Ben Mears, a writer returns to the small Maine town of Jerusalem’s Lot (also known as Salem’s Lot), where he spent the first few years of his life, to write a book. Little does he or the townfolk realize that a couple of other new residents are coming…Straker, a antiques dealer, and his partner and master Barlow, a ancient and malevolent vampire bent on making Salem’s Lot his new home.

Highlander

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Fantasy
Actors: Hart, Roxanne | Brown, Clancy | Connery, Sean | Edney, Beatie | North, Alan | Polito, Jon | Gish, Sheila | Quarshie, Hugh | Lambert, Christopher | Diamond, Peter | Hartman, Billy | Cosmo, James | Imrie, Celia | Findlay, Alistair
Directors: Mulcahy, Russell
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Connor Macleod was born in 1518 in the Highlands of Scotland. In 1536, after facing a mysterious, evil opponent, he survives a fatal stab wound and is banished from his village, for they believe his survival is the work of the Devil. Five years later, Macleod is met by Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez, a Spanish swordsman who teaches Macleod the awful truth; he is immortal, one of a race of many who can only die when the head is cut from the body. When one immortal takes the head of another, the loser’s power is absorbed into the winner. Ramirez teaches Macleod the ways of the sword, until Ramirez is tragically killed by Connor’s ultimate opponent, the evil Kurgan, a murderous immortal brute who lusts for the ultimate power of the immortals, “The Prize”; enough power to rule the earth forever. Connor fights his way through the centuries, until the time of the Gathering, when the few immortals who have survived the endless battles come together to fight until only one remains, and that winner will receive The Prize. The time: 1985. The place: New York City. The final fight is about to begin, and in the end, there can be only one.

Donnie Darko

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Actors: Barrymore, Drew | Malone, Jena | Gyllenhaal, Jake | Osborne, Holmes | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Chase, Daveigh | McDonnell, Mary | Duval, James | Taxier, Arthur | Swayze, Patrick | Hoffman, Mark | St. James, David | Tangen, Tom | Mahannah, Jazzie | Purdy, Jolene | Stone, Stuart | Lundy, Gary
Directors: Kelly, Richard
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Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume. Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie’s escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie’s mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.