Posts Tagged ‘scorpion’

Good Year, A (2006)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Highmore, Freddie | Finney, Albert | Crowe, Russell | Spall, Rafe | Panjabi, Archie | Coyle, Richard | Righton, Ben | Kennedy, Patrick | Rhodes, Ali | Daniel Mays | Aalia, Nila | Hudson, Stephen | Facio, Giannina | Hollander, Tom | Briand, Lionel
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready to show. Memories, a beautiful woman, and a young American who says she’s Henry’s illegitimate daughter interrupt his plans. Did Max the boy know things that Max the man has forgotten?

War, Inc. (2008)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cusack, John | Cusack, Joan | Tomei, Marisa | Duff, Hilary | Kingsley, Ben | Aykroyd, Dan | Bellamy, Ned | Binev, Velizar | Casabani, Marc | Cross, Ben | Dearth, Doug | Diakov, Itai | Gatzov, Georgi | Harvey, Nick | Neikov, Lyubomir
Directors: Seftel, Joshua
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A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President (Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation’s CEO hires a troubled hit man (Cusack), to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation’s Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Duff) an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter (Tomei) in check.

Longest Yard, The (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Cox, Courteney | Schneider, Rob | Fichtner, William | Cromwell, James | Sandler, Adam | Rock, Chris | Reynolds, Burt | Nelly | Irvin, Michael | Williamson, Walter | Goldberg, Bill | Crews, Terry | Sapp, Bob | Turturro, Nicholas | Singh, Dalip | Sebastian, Lobo | Diaz, Joey | Reevis, Steve | Kelly, David Patrick
Directors: Segal, Peter
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Paul “Wrecking” Crewe was a revered football superstar back in his day, but that time has since faded. But when a messy drunk driving incident lands him in jail, Paul finds he was specifically requested by Warden Hazen (James Cromwell), a duplicitous prison official well aware of Paul’s athletic skills. Paul has been assigned the task of assembling a team of convicts, to square off in a big football game against the sadistic guards. With the help of fellow convict Caretaker, and an old legend named Nate Scarborough to coach, Crewe is ready for what promises to be a very interesting game. It’s only the warden and the guards who have no idea who or what they’re up against, with Paul the driving force behind the new team.

Hitcher, The (2007)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Howell, C. Thomas | Hauer, Rutger | Leigh, Jennifer Jason | DeMunn, Jeffrey | Jackson, John M. | Bush, Billy Green | Thibeau, Jack | Shimerman, Armin | Davis, Gene | Van Ness, Jon | Darrow, Henry | Epper, Tony | Spratley, Tom | Campbell, Colin
Directors: Harmon, Robert
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A road trip takes a deadly turn when a young couple are tormented by a pyschotic hitchhiker who forces them to face their fears head-on.

3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Costner, Kevin | Cox, Courteney | Slater, Christian | Pollak, Kevin | Arquette, David | Lovitz, Jon | Long, Howie | Church, Thomas Haden | Woodbine, Bokeem | Ice-T | Kaye, David | Lombardi, Louis | Howard, Shawn Michael | Kopsa, Michael
Directors: Lichtenstein, Demian
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It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino’s count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. With $3.2 million at stake, the Marshals Service closing in, and single mom Cybil Waingrow and her son Jesse constantly confounding things, Michael must track down Murphy.

Predator (1987)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Weathers, Carl | Carrillo, Elpidia | Duke, Bill | Ventura, Jesse | Landham, Sonny | Chaves, Richard | Armstrong, R.G. | Black, Shane | Hall, Kevin Peter
Directors: McTiernan, John
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Dutch (Arnlod Schwarzenegger) and a team of commandos have been sent into a Central American jungle to track down some missing airmen that were kidnapped by terrorists. By the time they get to the camp, the airmen have been butchered in a very violent fashion and the commandos retaliate on the terrorists’ camp. After that’s over, they wait for a helicopter to pick them up, but something strange begins to happen in the woods. It isn’t long before the commandos start getting killed off and Dutch and a girl from the camp, Anna (Elpidia Carrillo), are the only people left and fighting for their lives. But what they discover is too shocking for them to imagine. What’s been killing them is the Predator, an alien that hunts rare species and make his trophies out of their skulls. And human beings are the new species he has discovered.

Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The (2001)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Tormey, John | Schuck, John | Allen, Woody | Berkley, Elizabeth | Vernoff, Kaili | Markinson, Brian | Sonnenberg, Maurice | Doumanian, John | Gerety, Peter | Hunt, Helen | Cahoon, Kevin | Levy, Philip | Shawn, Wallace | Aykroyd, Dan | Giordano, Vince
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CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don’t like each other - or at least that’s what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them, in order to use them for his dirty schemes. The next evening already, Briggs makes his first robbery, and when he wakes up in the morning he has no memory of it. Things get really complicated when he starts investigating the case. Will he be able to uncover… himself?

007 Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | St. John, Jill | Gray, Charles | Wood, Lana | Dean, Jimmy | Cabot, Bruce | Smith, Putter | Glover, Bruce | Burton, Norman | Fürst, Joseph | Lee, Bernard | Llewelyn, Desmond | Barr, Leonard | Maxwell, Lois | Lacey, Margaret
Directors: Hamilton, Guy
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When Bond investigates mysterious activities in the world diamond market, he discovers that the evil Ernst Blofeld (Charles Gray) is stockpiling the precious gems to use in a deadly laser satellite capable of destroying massive targets on land, sea and air. Bond, with the help of beautiful smuggler Tiffany Case (Jill St. John), sets out to stop the madman, but first he must grapple with a host of enemies. He confronts offbeat assassins Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, as well as Bambi and Thumper–two scantily-clad beauties who are more than a match for Bond in hand-to-hand combat! Finally, there’s the reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte (Jimmy Dean), who may just hold a vital clue to Blofeld’s whereabouts.

Scorpion King, The (2002)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Belgium | Germany | USA
Actors: Rock, The | Brand, Steven | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Hu, Kelly | Hill, Bernard | Heslov, Grant | Facinelli, Peter | Moeller, Ralf | Richmond, Branscombe | Rees, Roger | Howard, Sherri | Roberts, Conrad | Ruskin, Joseph | Cueto, Esteban | Stewart, Nils Allen
Directors: Russell, Chuck
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In an ancient time, predating the pyramids, the evil king Memnon is using the psychic powers of his sorceress Cassandra to fortell his great victories. In a last ditch effort to stop Memnon from taking over the world, the leaders of the remaining free tribes hire the assassin Mathayus to kill the sorceress. But Mathayus ends up getting much more than he bargained for. Now with the help of the trickster Arpid, tribal leader Balthazar and an unexpected ally, it’s up to Mathayus to fufill his destiny and become the great Scorpion King.

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.