Posts Tagged ‘desert’

First Snow

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Actors: Pearce, Guy | Perabo, Piper | Fichtner, William | J.K. Simmons | Whigham, Shea | Gonzalez, Rick | Burroughs, Jackie | Scott, Adam | Dawson, Portia | Hayres, Cherilyn | Rains, Luce | Gamble, Brian | House, David | Marquez, Jose J. | Burton Jr., John
Directors: Fergus, Mark
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Wound tight and cocky, Jimmy Starks (Pearce) is a smooth-talking salesman certain he’s on the verge of a big break. Even when his car stalls in the middle of nowhere, a roadside soothsayer (Simmons) assures him a windfall is on its way. But although Jimmy should be happy when his boss suddenly agrees to financially back his business venture, he starts to become paranoid instead. As his girlfriend Deirdre (Perabo) and his best friend/ business partner Ed (Fichtner) watch him slowly come unwound, Jimmy wonders if a past betrayal of his friend, newly paroled Vince (Whigham), could be catching up to him. And, as the weather turns cold, Jimmy can’t help but fear the mysterious seer’s other prediction… that they’ll be no tomorrow after the first snow.

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.

Transformers

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
Actors: LaBeouf, Shia | Fox, Megan | Duhamel, Josh | Taylor, Rachael | Gibson, Tyrese | Voight, Jon | Anderson, Anthony | Turturro, John | O'Neill, Michael | Cullen, Peter | Bodin, Charlie | Caldwell, Andrew | Cox, Bryan | David, Keith | Doss, Frederic
Directors: Bay, Michael
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A long time ago, far away on the planet of Cybertron, a war was being waged between the noble Autobots (led by the wise Optimus Prime) and the devious Decepticons (commanded by the dreaded Megatron) for control over the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessed it. The Autobots managed to smuggle the Allspark off the planet, but Megatron blasted off in search of it. He eventually tracked it to the planet of Earth (circa 1850), but his reckless desire for power sent him right into the Arctic Ocean, and the sheer cold forced him into a paralyzed state. His body was later found by Captain Archibald Witwicky, and before going into a comatose state Megatron used the last of his energy to engrave a map, showing the location of the Allspark, into the Captain’s glasses, and send a transmission to Cybertron. He is then carted away by the Captain’s ship. A century later, Sam Witwicky, nicknamed Spike by his friends, buys his first car. To his shock, he discovers it to be Bumblebee, an Autobot in disguise who is to protect Spike, as he bears the Captain’s glasses and the map carved on them. But Bumblebee is not the only Transformer to have arrived on Earth - in the desert of Qatar, the Decepticons Blackout and Scorponok attack a U.S. military base, causing the Pentagon to send their special Sector Seven agents to capture all “specimens of this alien race,” and Spike and his girlfriend Mikaela find themselves in the middle of a grand battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons, stretching from Hoover Dam all the way to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, within the depths of Hoover Dam, the cryogenically stored form of Megatron awakens…

Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Western
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Pepper, Barry | Cedillo, Julio | Yoakam, Dwight | Jones, January | Leo, Melissa | Bauche, Vanessa | Helm, Levon | Rodriguez, Mel | Suárez, Cecilia | Guadalupe, Ignacio | Campero, René | Pareja, Juan Gabriel | Pérez, Hugo | Torres, Angelina
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A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn’s town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule, Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.

Bordertown

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Banderas, Antonio | del Castillo, Kate | Norman, John | Alvarez, Irineo | Barela, Richard | Batinkoff, Randall | Botto, Juan Diego | Cedillo, Julio | Colon, Dave | Gonzales Falcon, Peter | Juanes | Rivera, Rene | Sheen, Martin | Talley, Chris
Directors: Nava, Gregory
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Lauren (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American reporter for the Chicago Sentinel heads to Juarez, a Mexican bordertown, in order to investigate a series of mysterious slayings involving young factory women from all over Mexico. As she discovers hundreds of victims, she gains the trust of local factory workers but falls into danger.

4: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Actors: Gruffudd, Ioan | Alba, Jessica | Evans, Chris | Chiklis, Michael | Jones, Doug | McMahon, Julian | Washington, Kerry | Garrett, Beau | Benson, Peter | Braugher, Andre | Duffy, Graeme | Fishburne, Laurence | Grover, Fabrice | Menendez, Gonzalo | Cant, Heather
Directors: Story, Tim
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With Von Doom back in his homeland of Latveria the fantastic four have new troubles when Galactus has decided that Earth is his next target. When his henchman, The Silver Surfer, is sent to Earth he discovers that he’s getting more than he bargained for when he encounters the Fantastic Four. But that’s not all when Dr. Doom decides that after two years in the homeland he is ready to return.

Lord of War

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Moynahan, Bridget | Leto, Jared | Tukhmanyan, Shake | Nshanian, Jean-Pierre | Burke, Jared | Uys, Eric | Shumbris, David | Morgan, Stewart | Lenz, Jasper | Marx, Kobus | De Abreu, Stephan | Crutchley, Jeremy | Holm, Ian | Finch, Tanya
Directors: Niccol, Andrew
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This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.

World’s Fastest Indian, The

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | Sport
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Rea, Iain | Mitchell, Tessa | Murphy, Aaron | Shadbolt, Tim | Whittle, Annie | Johnson, Greg | Starr, Antony | Sullivan, Kate | Hall, Craig | Bowman, Jim | Bruce, Alison | Falconer, Phoebe | Pierard, Charles | Ryan, Barry
Directors: Donaldson, Roger
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In `60s New Zealand, at the bottom of the world, Burt Munro takes a 1920 Indian motorcycle and, delightfully without resources other than his own obsession and a Kiwi #8 wire mentality, spends his retirement rebuilding the bike and following his dream to go to Speed Week at Salt Lake in Utah. Under funded, without the support of a team and against all the odds he not only makes it to Bonneville, he sets a world land spend record, not once, but again and again.

Syriana

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Actors: Novak, Kayvan | Clooney, George | Waked, Amr | Plummer, Christopher | Wright, Jeffrey | Cooper, Chris | Foxworth, Robert | Henson, Nicky | Art, Nicholas | Damon, Matt | Peet, Amanda | Hinkle, Steven | Tormé, Daisy | Gerety, Peter | Lintern, Richard
Directors: Gaghan, Stephen
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A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company’s law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.

Babel

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Blanchett, Cate | Akhzam, Mohamed | Wight, Peter | Walter, Harriet | Martin, Trevor | Gibbs, Matyelok | Bousquet, Georges | Acs, Claudine | Oumansky, André | Maloney, Michael | Crowley, Dermot | Nottingham, Wendy | Maratray, Henry | Broughton, Linda
Directors: González Iñárritu, Alejandro
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Richard and Susan are a couple from San Diego, California who are vacationing in Morocco while their two children are at home with their Mexican housekeeper, Amelia. A rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsman’s young sons, who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and hit Susan in the shoulder, causing her severe injury. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation, who shortly departs for Mexico to attend her son’s wedding, with Richard and Susan’s children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies, with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media, while Amelia meets with trouble at the Mexican border when she attempts to return to San Diego with Richard and Susan’s children. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a widower tied to the rifle in question, a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy, attempts to deal with the memories of his recently deceased wife and his strained relationship with his deaf teenage daughter.