Posts Tagged ‘journalism’

Return to Paradise (1998)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Vaughn, Vince | Heche, Anne | Phoenix, Joaquin | Conrad, David | Farmiga, Vera | Sandow, Nick | Pinkett Smith, Jada | Lee, Ming | de la Fuente, Joel | Chang, Richard | McCauley, James Michael | Friese, Brettanya | Yusoff, Deanna | Zayas, David | Wong, Amy
Directors: Ruben, Joseph
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Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three American guys who meet and hang out one summer at the beach huts of Malaysia. There they enjoy the luxuries of women, rum and hashish. As the summer ends, Tony and Sheriff go back to New York, but Lewis decides to go to Borneo to help save the orangutan. But before he got the chance to leave, he was arrested for possession of the leftover hash and sentenced to death because he was considered to be trafficking. Two years go by and Sheriff and Tony are living their lives peacefully in The Big Apple when Lewis’ lawyer tells them the news: three years each if they both go, six years if one goes, Lewis’ death if neither go. Although they both do not want Lewis to die, they do not know him well enough to really want to sacrifice three years of their life to a Third-World prison. “Return to Paradise” watches Sheriff and Tony as they struggle to decide in the short period of time.

Bandits (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Thornton, Billy Bob | Blanchett, Cate | Garity, Troy | O'Byrne, Brian F. | Travis, Stacey | Slayton, Bobby | Jones, January | Skye, Azura | Miley, Peggy | Converse-Roberts, William | Riehle, Richard | Mercurio, Micole | Burkholder, Scott | Burch, Anthony
Directors: Levinson, Barry
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A charismatic convict (Bruce Willis) and a hypochondriac inmate (Billy Bob Thornton) break out of prison in a cement truck and immediately start a bank robbing spree. Becoming known as the “Sleepover Bandits”, the two kidnap bank managers the night before their robbery, spend the night with their families, and then all go to the bank in the morning to get the dough. Using a dim-witted stunt man (Troy Garrity) as their getaway driver and lookout, the three successfully pull off several jobs that gets them recognition on a tv show about America’s criminals. When a bored housewife (Cate Blanchett) with a failing marriage decides to runaway, she ends up in the hands of the criminals. Initially attracted to Willis, she nonetheless also ends up in bed with Thornton and a confused romantic relationship begins. Continuing along with their spree, the bandits hit the wall when the bank managers realize that they are non-violent and therefore no threat to them or their employees. This leads to one more big score at the Alamo Bank, where in the very opening scenes, things appear to go awry.

Killing Fields, The (1984)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Waterston, Sam | Ngor, Haing S. | Malkovich, John | Sands, Julian | Nelson, Craig T. | Gray, Spalding | Paterson, Bill | Fugard, Athol | Kennedy, Graham | Chey, Katherine Krapum | Pierpaoli, Oliver | Chey, Edward Entero | Bird, Tom | Sisowath, Monirak | Dtangpaibool, Lambool
Directors: Joffé, Roland
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Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist convering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the Americans forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won’t have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he’s a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.

Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Robbins, Tim | Leigh, Jennifer Jason | Newman, Paul | Durning, Charles | Mahoney, John | True-Frost, Jim | Cobbs, Bill | Campbell, Bruce | Bugin, Harry | Seitz, John | Grifasi, Joe | Brocksmith, Roy | Wylie, John | Hobson, I.M. | Allen, Gary
Directors: Coen, Joel | Coen, Ethan
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When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for pennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Del Toro, Benicio | Maguire, Tobey | Barkin, Ellen | Busey, Gary | Ricci, Christina | Harmon, Mark | Diaz, Cameron | Helmond, Katherine | Jeter, Michael | Jillette, Penn | Bierko, Craig | Lovett, Lyle | Flea | Newman, Laraine
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson’s seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the “American dream”… they were helped in large part by the huge amount of drugs and alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark.

Fourth Angel, The (2001)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Irons, Jeremy | Whitaker, Forest | Priestley, Jason | Glassco, Briony | Rampling, Charlotte | Maxwell, Lois | West, Timothy | Pitts, Joel | Maguire, Anna | Boyd, Holly | Weber, Kal | McNeice, Ian | Armstrong, William | Hagon, Garrick | Soric, Serge
Directors: Irvin, John
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Jack Elgin is the European editor of The Economist, which is based in London, England. Jack has a wife named Maria and three kids named Joanne, Julia, and Andrew. Jack subtly changes the family vacation from a lazy week of Mediterranean fun and sun in Corfu, Greece, to a tour of India, because of a story he has to cover. Maria is not as impressed by this as the kids are. Jack himself envisioned a chance to simultaneously work an easy reporting assignment and spend a little quality time with his family. But on the way to India, the airplane, a 747 owned by AM Air, an American airline, makes an unscheduled stopover in Limassol Cyprus, because of a mechanical problem. After a while of waiting inside the Limassol airport, everyone gets back on the plane — which is then hijacked by a group of terrorists known as the August 15th Movement, led by a Serbian man named Ivanic Loyvek and his right-hand man Karadan Maldic. And they are demanding $50,000,000 from the US State Department in one hour, or everyone on the airplane will die. The demand is met, and Loyvek and Maldic start releasing the women and children, with the men to go last. But as soon as a front passenger door is opened, a local police team gunning for the terrorists opens fire. The flight attendants frantically open the rest of the airplane’s doors and start getting passengers out, but the terrorists start killing passengers, leading to an explosion. Maria, Joanne, and Julia get out of the airplane, and then Jack, holding Andrew, gets out — only to watch Maria, Joanne, and Julia get shot by the terrorists. Jack tries to hide Andrew’s face so he can’t see it. Maria and Joanne are dead, and Julia is still alive — but Julia burns to death while crying for help. Jack and Andrew survive. In all, a total of 15 passengers die, and Loyvek and Maldic, the surviving terrorists, escape, knowing that they now have the $50,000,000. The hijacking would never have ended this way if the police team had waited until after the passengers were released from the airplane before getting trigger happy. Back in London, an absolutely devastated Jack is told that the terrorists were captured, but they were released and deported secretly, with no charges and no arrest, the result of some awfully compromised politics. Jack is understandably enraged that Loyvek and Maldic got off scot-free. While helping Andrew cope, Jack tries all the legal ways to ensure justice for his family, but to no avail. Jack even pays a visit to Henry Davidson, a CIA agent who works at the American Embassy in London. Davidson tells Jack that there’s little that can be done. Obviously, the American and British governments are completely impotent when it comes to going after Loyvek and Maldic, so Jack has absolutely no choice in the matter. He must do it himself. With the help of his ex-intelligence operative friend Kate Stockton, who is well-schooled in the finer points of international intelligence, Jack becomes a one-man anti-terrorist squadron, searching for Loyvek and Maldich. Dogging Jack’s trail is FBI agent Jules Bernard, who’s cooperating with Scotland Yard on anti-terrorist activities, and who suspects that Jack is the man who has been killing anyone involved in the hijacking. But as it turns out, Jules is on Jack’s side, and he’s willing to help Jack make those responsible pay for the deaths of his family and the other people who died in Cyprus.

We Were Soldiers (2002)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Stowe, Madeleine | Kinnear, Greg | Elliott, Sam | Klein, Chris | Russell, Keri | Pepper, Barry | Don, Duong | Hurst, Ryan | Bagnell, Robert | Blucas, Marc | Daugherty, Josh | Garcia, Jsu | Hamm, Jon | Gregg, Clark
Directors: Wallace, Randall
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In a place soon to be known as The Valley of Death, in a small clearing called landing zone X-Ray, Lt. Colonel Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) and 400 young fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons, all troopers from an elite American combat division, were surrounded by 4,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history. We Were Soldiers Once…And Young is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to and love for one another.

Shallow Grave (1994)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Fox, Kerry | Eccleston, Christopher | McGregor, Ewan | Stott, Ken | Allen, Keith | McCredie, Colin | Nairn, Victoria | Lewis, Gary | Coffey, Jean Marie | Mullan, Peter
Directors: Boyle, Danny
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To avoid spoiling the movie this plot summary is very brief. It starts when three people living together in a four bedroom flat are looking for a house mate. The interviews they conduct are very unorthodox and very funny. Eventually the three agree on one prospective tenant. He moves in, locks his door, and is not seen again. After a couple of days the three become curious and break in to his room. What follows is an amazing piece of cinema and to say more would ruin it.

Natural Born Killers (1994)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sizemore, Tom | Jones, Tommy Lee | Harrelson, Woody | Lewis, Juliette | Quinton, Everett | Dangerfield, Rodney | Vince, Pruitt Taylor | McClurg, Edie | Means, Russell | Jones, O-Lan | Flaherty, Lanny | Lineback, Richard | Downey Jr., Robert | White, Ed | Baltz, Kirk | Terrylene | Pitillo, Maria
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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The misadventures of Mickey and Mallory: outcasts, lovers, and serial killers. They travel across Route 666 conducting psychadelic mass-slaughters not for money, not for revenge, just for kicks. Glorified by the media, the pair become legendary folk heroes; their story told by the single person they leave alive at the scene of each of their slaughters.

Shipping News, The (2001)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Spacey, Kevin | Moore, Julianne | Dench, Judi | Blanchett, Cate | Postlethwaite, Pete | Glenn, Scott | Ifans, Rhys | Pinsent, Gordon | Behr, Jason | Pine, Larry | Arnette, Jeanetta | Joy, Robert | Gainer, Alyssa | Gainer, Lauren
Directors: Hallström, Lasse
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An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family’s longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper “The Gammy Bird” finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey…