Posts Tagged ‘government’

Host, The (2006)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Song, Kang-ho | Byeon, Hie-bong | Park, Hae-il | Ko, Ah-sung | Bae, Du-na | Anselmo, David Joseph | Hersh, Philip | Lazar, Paul | Morgan, Clinton | Oh, Dal-su | Park, No-shik | Rhee, Brian | Wilson, Scott | Yim, Pil-Sung
Directors: Bong, Joon-ho
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The film revolves around Park Hee-bong, a man in his late 60s. Park runs a small snack bar on the banks of the Han River and lives with his two sons, one daughter, and one granddaughter. The Parks seem to lead a quite ordinary and peaceful life, but maybe a bit poorer than the average Seoulite. Hee-bong’s elder son Gang-du is an immature and incompetent man in his 40s, whose wife left home long ago. Nam-il is the youngest son, an unemployed grumbler, and daughter Nam-joo is an archery medalist and member of the national team. One day, an unidentified monster suddenly appears from the depths of the Han River and spreads panic and death, and Gang-du’s daughter Hyun-seo is carried off by the monster and disappears. All the family members are in a great agony because they lost someone very dear to them. But when they find out she is still alive, they resolve to save her.

Evita (1996)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Banderas, Antonio | Pryce, Jonathan | Nail, Jimmy | Sus, Victoria | Littman, Julian | Merediz, Olga | Pallas, Laura | Worsley, Julia | Luján Hidalgo, María | Villamil, Servando | Corr, Andrea | Polycarpou, Peter | Brooker, Gary | Yerro, Maite
Directors: Parker, Alan
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Based on the incredible true story, Eva (Evita) Peron, starts out life as a poor girl who goes on to become an actress and then become the wife of the president of Argentina, Juan Peron. The musical is a story of love and politics, showing all the battles and triumphs Evita has in her short, but amazing life.

Idiocracy (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilson, Luke | Rudolph, Maya | Shepard, Dax | Campos, Anthony 'Citric' | Herman, David | Castillo, Sonny | McAfee, Kevin | Musgrave, Robert | Melton, Ryan | Long, Justin | Jones, Heath | Muñoz, Eli | Fischler, Patrick | Hunt, Darlene | Ransdell, Ryan
Directors: Judge, Mike
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The purpose of the program set up by the Pentagon, called the “Human Hibernation Project,” is designed so that the military can save their best men for when they’re needed most. According to the officers heading the project, too many times the talents and expensive training of the best pilots and soldiers go to waste during times of peace. So they enlist Bauers (Wilson), the most under-achieving average guy they’ve got, to be the test subject for the initial hibernation experiment. Also participating in the top-secret program is Rita (Rudolph), a prostitute who agreed to take part in exchange for dropping some criminal charges against her, among other things. Of course, the experiment, which was to last only a year, goes under due to the arrest of Officer Collins, who is busted for heading a prostitution ring. Seeing as though he was in charge of the experiment, one of the only ones who knew of its existence, and “due to a lot of top-secret red tape… and the massive scandals and base closure that followed, Joe and Rita were forgotten about.

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Strathairn, David | Downey Jr., Robert | Clarkson, Patricia | Wise, Ray | Langella, Frank | Daniels, Jeff | Clooney, George | Donovan, Tate | McCarthy, Thomas | Ross, Matt | Diamond, Reed | Burke, Robert John | Heslov, Grant | Borstein, Alex | Abdoo, Rose
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In the early 1950’s, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator ‘Joseph McCarthy (II)’ (qv) of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter ‘Edward R. Murrow (I)’ (qv) and his producer ‘Fred W. Friendly’ (qv) decided to take a stand and challenge McCarthy and expose him for the fear monger he was. However, their actions took a great personal toll on both men, but they stood by their convictions and helped to bring down one of the most controversial senators in American history.

In the Line of Fire (1993)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Malkovich, John | Russo, Rene | McDermott, Dylan | Cole, Gary | Thompson, Fred Dalton | Mahoney, John | Williams, Gregory Alan | Curley, Jim | Hughes, Sally | Kusatsu, Clyde | Hytner, Steve | Bell, Tobin | Schott, Bob | Riojas, Juan A.
Directors: Petersen, Wolfgang
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Frank Horrigan is a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as a hand-picked agent by President Kennedy, he became one of the few agents to have lost a President to an assassin when Kennedy died. Now, former CIA assassin Mitch Leary is stalking the current President, who is running for re-election. Mitch has spent long hours studying Horrigan, and he taunts Horrigan, telling him of his plans to kill the President. Leary plans to kill the president because Leary feels betrayed by the government — Leary was removed from the CIA, and the CIA is now trying to have him killed. After talking to Leary, Horrigan makes sure he is assigned to presidential protection duty, working with fellow secret service agent Lilly Raines. Horrigan has no intention of failing his President this time around, and he’s more than willing to take a bullet. White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent refuses to alter the President’s itinerary, while Horrigan’s boss, Secret Service Director Sam Campagna, is supportive of Horrigan. As the election gets closer, Horrigan begins to doubt his own abilities, especially when Horrigan’s colleague Al D’Andrea is killed by Leary. But Horrigan may be the only one who can stop Leary.

Assassination of Richard Nixon, The (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Watts, Naomi | Cheadle, Don | Thompson, Jack | Henke, Brad William | Searcy, Nick | Wincott, Michael | Williamson, Mykelti | Grace, April | Knight, Lily | Dorrance, Jared | Milton, Jenna | Massa, Mariah | Ryan, Eileen | Greene, Derek
Directors: Mueller, Niels
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Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman (Sean Penn) who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. At the start of the movie, the man is separated from his wife and stressed in his job where he is made the butt of jokes and is an under-performer. Attempts to get his brother’s old tire business resurrected with a black partner is rejected by the banks. When he is officially served with divorce papers, everything comes apart and Richard Nixon’s broken promises comes to represent all the evils that have come down on him. A news story about a pilot that landed a helicopter on the White House lawn gives him the idea for his attack. Bolting onto a Baltimore plane, he attempts the hi-jacking.

Alien Abduction (2005)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Ethridge, Megan Lee | Elias, Mark | Furst, Griff | Morse, Marissa | Thomassie, Patrick | Ghai, Jilon | James, Bobby | Katz, Claudia | Craig, Edwin | Landis, Angela | Schwiesow, Deirdre | Seaton, Alisha | Weier, Amanda | Lucchesi, Robert | Evans, Scott
Directors: Forsberg, Eric
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Written and directed by Eric Forsberg, this unabashedly low-budget sci-fi flick has a young woman being abducted by aliens on a camping trip—and then going through an even harder ordeal when she wakes up in a brutal military hospital for the rehabilitation of abductees.

Men in Black (1997)

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Smith, Will | Fiorentino, Linda | D'Onofrio, Vincent | Torn, Rip | Shalhoub, Tony | Fallon, Siobhan | Nussbaum, Mike | Gries, Jon | Calderón, Sergio | Struycken, Carel | Lehne, Fredric | Hamilton, Richard | Faulcon, Kent | Alexander, John
Directors: Sonnenfeld, Barry
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Men in Black follows the exploits of agents Kay (Jones) and Jay (Smith), members of a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth. The two Men in Black find themselves in the middle of the deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist (Vincent D’Onofrio) who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies. In order to prevent worlds from colliding, the MiB must track down the terrorist and prevent the destruction of Earth. It’s just another typical day for the Men in Black.

Evolution (2001)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Duchovny, David | Moore, Julianne | Jones, Orlando | Scott, Seann William | Levine, Ted | Suplee, Ethan | Bower, Michael | Kilbane, Pat | Burrell, Ty | Aykroyd, Dan | Towne, Katharine | Itzin, Gregory | Clark, Ashley | Wolff, Michelle | Silverman, Sarah
Directors: Reitman, Ivan
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Glen Canyon, Arizona, the present day. Wayne, practising at night in the desert for his upcoming fireman’s exam, witnesses the impact of a meteorite. The next day, biology teacher Dr. Ira Kane and geology teacher Harry Block from Glen Canyon Community College manage to get to the meteorite, which is stuck in the ground at the bottom of a cave. By taking a sample, they discover a slimy blue fluid coming out of the meteorite. A little later, Ira Kane finds out that myriads of single-celled life-forms dwell in the fluid, evolve at an incredible rate, even while he’s watching. What first seems like a sure ticket to Sweden for the Nobel Prize soon develops into a nightmare: By evolving and adapting at that unbelievably fast rate, the Aliens start spreading out, and the Military comes in. Now it all comes down to what Darwin so rightfully stated: Survival of the fittest. And no good idea in sight…

X Files, The (1998)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Duchovny, David | Anderson, Gillian | Neville, John | Davis, William B. | Landau, Martin | Pileggi, Mitch | De Munn, Jeffrey | Danner, Blythe | O'Quinn, Terry | Mueller-Stahl, Armin | Black, Lucas | Fennell, Christopher | Newton, Cody | Stokes, Blake | Haglund, Dean
Directors: Bowman, Rob
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Two people from two worlds. FBI Agent Fox Mulder, a believer. FBI Agent Dana Scully, a Skeptic. Together they must solve the mysteries such as who, or what destroyed a Federal Building in Dallas, what killed 4 firemen and a child supposedly killed in the blast and more, but these mysteries were not placed by some insane terrorist, these were placed by our very own Government.