Posts Tagged ‘hunger’

In the Valley of Elah (2007)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Theron, Charlize | Patric, Jason | Sarandon, Susan | Franco, James | Corbin, Barry | Brolin, Josh | Fisher, Frances | Chatham, Wes | McLaughlin, Jake | Brooks, Mehcad | Tucker, Jonathan | Duvall, Wayne | Wolf, Victor | Briscoe, Brent
Directors: Haggis, Paul
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When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man’s disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police’s apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike’s disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose

Resident Evil (2002)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | UK
Actors: Pasquale Aleardi | Jovovich, Milla | Rodriguez, Michelle | Mabius, Eric | Purefoy, James | Crewes, Martin | Salmon, Colin | McCluskey, Ryan | Pearce, Oscar | Ové, Indra | Bolt, Anna | May, Joseph | Tannion, Robert | Makatsch, Heike | Butler, Jaymes | Billington, Stephen
Directors: Anderson, Paul W.S.
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Something rotten is brewing beneath the industrial mecca known as Raccoon City. Unknown to its millions of residents, a huge underground bioengineering facility known as The Hive has accidentally unleashed the deadly and mutating T-virus, killing all of its employees. To contain the leak, the governing supercomputer, Red Queen, has sealed all entrances and exits. Now a team of highly-trained super commandos including Rain, Alice and Matt must race to penetrate The Hive in order to isolate the T-virus before it overwhelms humanity. To do so, they must get past the Red Queen’s deadly defenses, face the flesh-eating undead employees, fight killer mutant dogs and battle The Licker, a genetically mutated savage beast whose strength increases with each of its slain victims.

Oliver Twist (2005)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Clark, Barney | Swift, Jeremy | McNeice, Ian | Durden, Richard | Bateson, Timothy | de la Tour, Andy | Hess, Filip | Papadopoulos, Andreas | Athey, Laurie | Tremain, Joseph | Copley, Peter | Linden, Andy | Nettleton, John | Noble, Tony | Heath, Michael
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Oliver Twist (Clark) is an orphan, who is soon kicked out of the orphanage and thrown into a terrible home. The bad treatment Oliver receives, forces him to run off to London. Here, he is soon picked up by the Artful Dodger (Eden) and taken to Fagin (Kingsley). Fagin treats Oliver well, but is it the life Oliver really wants?

Cast Away (2000)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sanchez, Paul | White, Lari | Citer, Leonid | Brooks, David Allen | Popovic, Yelena | Suradikov, Semion | Hanks, Tom | Hunt, Helen | Berg, Peter | Boudrine, Dmitri S. | Duhamel, François | Forest, Michael | Davis, Viveka | Searcy, Nick | Choe, Jennifer
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. His fast-paced career takes him, often at a moment’s notice, to far-flung locales - and away from his girlfriend Kelly, played by Helen Hunt. Chuck’s manic existence abruptly ends when, after a plane crash, he becomes isolated on a remote island - cast away into the most desolate environment imaginable. Stripped of the conveniences of everyday life, he first must meet the basic needs of survival, including water, food and shelter. Chuck, the consummate problem solver, eventually figures out how to sustain himself physically. But then what? Chuck begins his true personal journey. After four years, fate gives Chuck a chance to fight his way back to civilization, only to find an unexpected emotional challenge greater than all the earlier physical ones. His ability to persevere and to hope are a product of his life-changing experience.

Madagascar (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Stiller, Ben | Rock, Chris | Schwimmer, David | Pinkett Smith, Jada | Baron Cohen, Sacha | Cedric the Entertainer | Richter, Andy | Tom McGrath | Knights, Christopher | Miller, Chris | Vernon, Conrad | Darnell, Eric | Cowgill, David | Apostolina, Stephen | Gabrielli, Elisa
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At New York’s Central Park Zoo, a lion (Stiller), a zebra (Rock), a giraffe (Schwimmer), and a hippo (Smith) are best friends and stars of the show. But when one of the animals goes missing from their cage, the other three break free to look for him, only to find themselves reunited … on a ship en route to Africa. When their vessel is hijacked, however, the friends, who have all been raised in captivity, learn first-hand what life can be like in the wild.

Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bobo, Jonah | Hutcherson, Josh | Shepard, Dax | Stewart, Kristen | Robbins, Tim | Oz, Frank | Alexander, John | Mears, Derek | Tait, Douglas | Bucaro III, Joe | Wolfe, Jeff
Directors: Favreau, Jon
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Danny and Walter are two brothers who barely get along even while driving their parents to distraction as their older sister tries to ignore them. Despite their squabbling, the brothers manage cooperate enough to play an old mechanical board game named Zathura. However, after their first move, they find that the game has apparently flung them, their sister and their entire house into outer space. Furthermore, the brothers surmise the only way to return home is to finish the game. However with almost every move, new dangers arise as the siblings find themselves learning to cooperate in ways they never expected as they realize what they mean to each other.

Pianist, The (2002)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | War
Countries: France | Germany | Poland | UK
Actors: Brody, Adrien | | Finlay, Frank | Lipman, Maureen | Fox, Emilia | Stoppard, Ed | Rayner, Julia | Meyer, Jessica Kate | Zebrowski, Michal | Mues, Wanja | Ridings, Richard | Sharron, Nomi | Milner, Anthony | Skeaping, Lucy | Skeaping, Roddy
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.