Posts Tagged ‘watching-tv’

Tailor of Panama, The

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Rush, Geoffrey | Gleeson, Brendan | Curtis, Jamie Lee | McCormack, Catherine |
Directors: Boorman, John
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John LeCarre’s spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador’s mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor (Geoffrey Rush) with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife (Jamie Lee Curtis), who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal. But what the two do is concoct a tremendous fictional tale about former mercenaries who are ready to topple the current government and are willing to work with Britain and the US to do so.

In the Land of Women

Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Actors: Anaya, Elena | Brody, Adam | Keel, Kelsey | Savre, Danielle | Mantegna, Gina | Reinis, Rob | Williams, JoBeth | Vega, Makenzie | Stewart, Kristen | Ryan, Meg | Dukakis, Olympia | Milligan, Dustin | Wardle, Graham | Gatien, Elise | Danielle, Christine
Directors: Kasdan, Jon
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His world in complete disorder after his break-up with a famous actress, Carter, a young soft-core porn writer, goes to suburban Detroit to care for his sickly Grandmother and heal his broken heart. Along the way he forms a special bond with the family that lives across from his Grandma, and changes the life of each woman. In the course of this, as is required in every film—and thus the world, he changes his own life as well.

Lake House, The

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Bullock, Sandra | Plummer, Christopher | Aghdashloo, Shohreh | Moss-Bachrach, Ebon | Ammelrooy, Willeke van | Walsh, Dylan | Lynn Collins | Bacarella, Mike | Brennan, Kevin | Caeti, Frank | Elias, Scott | Gerdisch, Lori Ann | Gorman, Michael Andrew | Kern, Jennifer
Directors: Agresti, Alejandro
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In Chicago, the lonely architect Alex Wyler has a troubled relationship with his father Simon Wyler. In 2004, he buys an old glass house in a lake, designed and built by his father, and he finds a message in his mailbox from the former tenant, the also lonely Dr. Kate Forster, asking to deliver her correspondence in an address downtown. Alex meets his brother Henry in Chicago and when they go to the address with Dr. Forster’s correspondence, they find a building of luxury apartments under construction to be delivered eighteen months later. After some messages, Alex and Kate disclose that she is living in 2006 and Alex in 2004, they fall in love for each other and they try to find means to meet each other.

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.

Two for the Money

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Sport | Thriller
Actors: Pacino, Al | McConaughey, Matthew | Russo, Rene | Assante, Armand | Piven, Jeremy | King, Jaime | Chapman, Kevin | Garman, Ralph | Watanabe, Gedde | Pope, Carly | Carroll, Charles | Plunkett, Gerard | Veroni, Craig | Kirk, James | Austin, Chrislyn
Directors: D.J. Caruso
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Brandon Lang loves football: an injury keeps him from the pros, but his quarterback’s anticipation makes him a brilliant predictor of games’ outcomes. Needing money, he leaves Vegas for Manhattan to work for Walter Abrams advising gamblers. Walter has a doting wife, a young daughter, and a thriving business, but he has problems: a bum heart, a belief he’s a master manipulator, and addictions barely kept in check. He remakes Brandon, and a father-son relationship grows. Then, things go awry. Walter may be running a con. The odds against Brandon mount.

Proof

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Actors: Paltrow, Gwyneth | Hopkins, Anthony | Gyllenhaal, Jake | Davis, Hope | McCarthy, Danny | Daszkjewicz, Tobiasz | Houston, Gary | Wittman, Anne | Zimmerman, Leigh | Stinton, Colin | Burnett, Leland | Keefe, John | Chung, Chipo | Harris, C. Gerod | Seth, Roshan
Directors: Madden, John
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The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father’s ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.

Snakes on a Plane

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Margulies, Julianna | Phillips, Nathan | Blanchard, Rachel | Alexander, Flex | Thompson, Kenan | Dallas, Keith | Shaye, Lin | Bruce, James | Mabrey, Sunny | Dubois, Casey | Hogarth, Daniel | Plunkett, Gerard | Chen, Terry | Pataky, Elsa
Directors: Ellis, David R.
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When Sean Jones witnesses a murder, he is asked to fly from Hawaii to Los Angeles to testify against the notorious gangster Eddie Kim. However, Kim has paid an assassin to release a crate-full of deadly snakes loose when the plane is 30,000 feet in the air. Only FBI agent Neville Flynn can protect Sean and rally the passengers together in hope of landing in L.A. alive.

Projectionist, The

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Actors: McCann, Chuck | Balin, Ina | Dangerfield, Rodney | Kohout, Jára | Gentry, Mike | Kargo, Lucky | Holliday, David | Stewart, Sam | Stevens, Alex | Lee, Robert | Philips, Stephen | Morocco | Rosenthal, Clara | Glenn, Jacqueline
Directors: Hurwitz, Harry
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A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows.

World Trade Center

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | History
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Bello, Maria | Paolo, Connor | Piccininni, Anthony | Gerasimovich, Alexa | Flynn, Morgan | Pena, Michael | Riesco, Armando | Hernandez, Jay | Starr, Joe | Bernthal, Jon | Jimeno, William | Damici, Nick | Ciccolella, Jude | Pfefferkorn, Martin
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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On September, 11th 2001, after the terrorist attack to the World Trade Center, the building collapses over the rescue team from the Port Authority Police Department. Will Jimeno and his sergeant John McLoughlin are found alive trapped under the wreckage while the rescue teams fight to save them.

Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, The

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Actors: Moore, Julianne | Harrelson, Woody | Dern, Laura | Morgan, Trevor | Porterfield, Ellary | Reynolds, Simon | Gagné, Monté | Clark, Robert | Seater, Michael | Knudsen, Erik | Scott, Jake | Todosey, Jordan | Price, Ryan | Norris, Shae | Falle, Abigail
Directors: Anderson, Jane
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This true-story-based bittersweet drama follows Evelyn Ryan (Julianna Moore) who was a housewife and a devoted mother of 10. Her remarkable ingenuity and an uncommon wit had success at the jingle contests staged by corporations to promote their products. Evelyn had found the way to keep her family together, notwithstanding an alcoholic husband and the other difficult circumstances.