Posts Tagged ‘paranoia’

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.

28 Days Later…

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Actors: Palmer, Alex | De Stoppani, Bindu | Hiltunen, Jukka | Schneider, David | Murphy, Cillian | Sedgwick, Toby | Harris, Naomie | Huntley, Noah | Dunne, Christopher | Hitching, Emma | Delamere, Alexander | McGarrity, Kim | Gleeson, Brendan | Burns, Megan | Hackney, Justin
Directors: Boyle, Danny
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A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.

Cube

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Actors: de Boer, Nicole | Guadagni, Nicky | Hewlett, David | Miller, Andrew | Richings, Julian | Robson, Wayne | Wint, Maurice Dean
Directors: Natali, Vincenzo
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Six different people, each from a very different walk of life, awaken to find themselves inside a giant cube with thousands of possible rooms. Each has a skill that becomes clear when they must band together to get out: a cop, a math whiz, a building designer, a doctor, an escape master, and a disabled man. Each plays a part in their thrilling quest to find answers as to why they’ve been imprisoned.

Twelve Monkeys

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Actors: Melito, Joseph | Willis, Bruce | Seda, Jon | Chance, Michael | Campbell, Vernon | Walls, H. Michael | Adrian, Bob | Jones, Simon | Florence, Carol | Raymond, Bill | Abuba, Ernest | St. Paule, Irma | Stowe, Madeleine | Perillo, Joey | Kirkpatrick, Bruce | Pitt, Brad | Plummer, Christopher
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he’s told was spread by a mysterious “Army of the Twelve Monkeys”) and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.

Infamous

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Actors: Weaver, Sigourney | Jones, Toby | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Rubin, Mark | Schwelling, Steve | Gill, Glover Johns | Arteaga, Rey | Sherburn, Justin | Halbreich, Andrew | Stevenson, Juliet | Panes, Michael | Davis, Hope | Curcio, Frank G. | Bullock, Sandra | Rossellini, Isabella
Directors: McGrath, Douglas
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On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arrests, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote is implacable, wanting the story, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?

Breach

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Actors: Cooper, Chris | Phillippe, Ryan | Linney, Laura | Dhavernas, Caroline | Cole, Gary | Haysbert, Dennis | Quinlan, Kathleen | Davison, Bruce | Watton, Jonathan | Barnett, Tom | Jonathan Potts | Huband, David | Burdon, Catherine | Gibson, Scott | Stevens, Courtenay J.
Directors: Ray, Billy
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In February, 2001, Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, is arrested for spying. Jump back two months: Eric O’Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Hanssen and to write down everything Hanssen does. O’Neill’s told it’s an investigation of Hanssen’s sexual habits. Within weeks, the crusty Hanssen, a devout Catholic, has warmed to O’Neill, who grows to respect Hanssen. O’Neill’s wife resents Hanssen’s intrusiveness; the personal and professional stakes get higher. How they catch Hanssen and why he spies become the film’s story. Can O’Neill help catch red-handed “the worst spy in history” and hold onto his personal life?

Blur

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Xuereb, Salvator | Sorvino, Michael | Carter, Wendy | Kolesarova, Jana | Rayburn, Nicole | Barba, Caroline | Baron, Joanne | Hodges, David | Kneeream, David | McCullough, Mark | Sanchez, Ivan | Sorvino, Bill | Velez, Victor | Kohler, Larissa | Phillips, Elyssa
Directors: Briscoe, Nick
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Artist Adrian Jonas toils in preparation for the biggest gallery opening of his career. The creative process takes Adrian deep into the depths of his mind, where he begins to experience premonitions of a terrible fate that awaits his beloved Iliana. Adrian grows to suspect that a mysterious neighbor is the phantom who means to harm his wife. Compounding the danger, a masquerade party planned for that evening allows unwanted guests to mingle unnoticed. As his premonitions begin to come true, Adrian races to interpret his visions while there is still time to cheat fate.

Number 23, The

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Madsen, Virginia | Lerman, Logan | Huston, Danny | Lynn Collins | Mitra, Rhona | Arthur, Michelle | Pellegrino, Mark | Butcher, Paul | Stifel, David | Stoll, Corey | Lauter, Ed | Kotsur, Troy | Soo Hoo, Walter | Belcher, Patricia
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She’s browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dreams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by “23,” he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth.

Point of Origin

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Liotta, Ray | Leguizamo, John | Feore, Colm | Curtis, Cliff | Bai, Ling | Douglas, Illeana | Cox, Ronny | Gill, Trent | Rubio, Ingrid | Adams, Ryan B. | Beckel, Graham | Camello, Mike | Colligan, Joe | Hall, Shashawnee | Manesh, Marshall
Directors: Sigel, Newton Thomas
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Based on a true story, this twisting psychological thriller focuses on a serial arsonist whose terrifying six-year crime spree is juxtaposed with the increasingly desperate efforts of investigators to bring him to justice. Charged with investigating many of these fires is Captain John Orr (Ray Liotta), a legendary figure in the Glendale Fire Department, possessed with an uncanny ability to pinpoint the origins of a fire, as well as the devices by which an arsonist may have carried out the crime. Through a fingerprint left at the scene of one crime and a series of surprise revelations focusing on arsons set in several towns, the task force is able to close in on an unlikely suspect. . . and ultimately crack the case.

Birds, The

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Actors: Taylor, Rod | Tandy, Jessica | Pleshette, Suzanne | Hedren, Tippi | Cartwright, Veronica | Griffies, Ethel | McGraw, Charles | McDevitt, Ruth | Chapman, Lonny | Mantell, Joe | Weaver, Doodles | Atterbury, Malcolm | McGovern, John | Swenson, Karl | Deacon, Richard
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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Guaranteed to make you want to stop bird-watching and put the old bird feeder to the ax—at least for a while. The whole thing starts when Melanie Daniels is crossing a lake and is nipped by a gull. Gradually, incidence of bird damage to humans by pecking increases. Glass windows splinter before diving birds, children are sent home from school to safety, townspeople take refuge in a lunchroom, Miss Daniels in a phone booth, and finally everyone hides in homes tightly boarded up against repeated attacks by the birds. It’s enough to make you kick the next pigeon you come across.