Posts Tagged ‘singing’

Little Voice (1998)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Blethyn, Brenda | Horrocks, Jane | McGregor, Ewan | Jackson, Philip | Badland, Annette | Caine, Michael | Broadbent, Jim | Fogerty, Adam | Welsh, James | Gregory, Karen | Feast, Fred | Turner, Graham | Oliver, George | Tracy, Virgil | Van Winkle, Dick
Directors: Herman, Mark
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After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV (played by Jane Horrocks) becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father’s collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother’s boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise.

I’m Not There (2007)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Blanchett, Cate | Whishaw, Ben | Bale, Christian | Gere, Richard | Franklin, Marcus Carl | Ledger, Heath | Kristofferson, Kris | Francks, Don | LaFortune, Roc | Day, Larry | Cagelet, Paul | Fortin, Pierre-Alexandre | Havens, Richie | Benskin, Tyrone | Roberts, Kim
Directors: Haynes, Todd
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Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan’s music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the artist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won’t be classified.

Cabaret (1972)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Minnelli, Liza | York, Michael | Griem, Helmut | Joel Grey | Wepper, Fritz | Berenson, Marisa | Neumann-Viertel, Elisabeth | Vita, Helen | von Richthofen, Sigrid | Vespermann, Gerd | Wolter, Ralf | Hartmann, Georg | Renée, Ricky | Nachama, Estrongo | Doby, Kathryn
Directors: Fosse, Bob
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Sally Bowles, an American singer in 1930s Berlin, fall in love with bi-sexual Brian. They are both then seduced by Max, a rich playboy. Sally becomes pregnant, and Brian offers to marry her… All the characters are linked by the Kit-Kat club, a nightspot where Sally sings.

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Costa, Mary | Shirley, Bill | Audley, Eleanor | Felton, Verna | Luddy, Barbara | Allen, Barbara Jo | Holmes, Taylor | Thompson, Bill | Amsbery, Bill | Candido, Candy | Colvig, Pinto | McKennon, Dal | Miller, Marvin | Ravenscroft, Thurl
Directors: Geronimi, Clyde
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When a new princess is born to King Stefan & his wife, the entire kingdom rejoices. At a ceremony, three good fairies - Flora, Fauna & Merryweather - bestow gifts of magic on the child. But an evil sorceress named Maleficent shows up, and because of a rude remark by Merryweather, she places a curse on the princess - that she will die on her 16th birthday after touching a poisoned spinning wheel. Merryweather tries to undo the damage by casting a spell that will allow the princess - named Aurora - to awake from an ageless sleep with a kiss from her true love. The fairies take Aurora to their cottage in the woods to keep her away from the eyes of Maleficent, and raise her as their own child, named Briar Rose. On her 16th birthday Aurora meets Prince Phillip, the son of a king whose own kingdom will soon merge with King Stefan’s - and falls in love. Maleficent manages to kidnap the Prince and her horrible prophecy is fulfilled when she tricks Aurora into touching a spinning wheel created by Maleficent herself! Realizing that the Prince is in trouble, the 3 good fairies head to Maleficent’s castle at the Forbidden Mountain, and spring the Prince loose. But the Prince soon finds himself up against Maleficent’s army of brutes, and the power of Maleficent’s evil spells - which include a thorn forest as thick as weeds around King Stefan’s castle, and a fight against Maleficent when she turns herself into a dragon! Is the Prince strong enough to withstand the powers of the evil sorceress?

Life of Brian (1979)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Chapman, Graham | Cleese, John | Gilliam, Terry | Idle, Eric | Palin, Michael | Bayler, Terence | Cleveland, Carol | Colley, Kenneth | Innes, Neil | McKeown, Charles | Young, John | Taylor, Gwen | Jones-Davies, Sue | Brett, Peter
Directors: Jones, Terry
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The Monty Pyton team tells the life, death and resurrection (?) of Brian from Nazareth, an unwilling prophet who wants to free his land from the oppression of Rome. When Brian covers a huge wall with the writing “ROMANI ITE DOMUM” (Romans go home), a local revolutionary group begins to take him seriously…

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Little, Cleavon | Wilder, Gene | Pickens, Slim | Huddleston, David | Dunn, Liam | Karras, Alex | Hillerman, John | Furth, George | Starrett, Jack | Korman, Harvey | Kahn, Madeline | Arthur, Carol | Collier, Richard | McGregor, Charles
Directors: Brooks, Mel
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The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.

Porky’s (1982)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Monahan, Dan | Herrier, Mark | Knight, Wyatt | Wilson, Roger | Cyril O'Reilly | Ganios, Tony | Hunter, Kaki | Cattrall, Kim | Parsons, Nancy | Colomby, Scott | Gaines, Boyd | McGrath, Doug | Clark, Susan | Art Hindle | Maunder, Wayne
Directors: Clark, Bob
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The mother (and father) of all Teen Sex Gross Out comedies is set in the 1950’s where there’s only one thing on the male sex’s mind. Well, sex to be correct. We have PEE WEE: the horny toad that is desperate to lose his virginity. TOMMY: the bad boy of the bunch. MEAT: tough jock whose nickname originates from his abnormally large body appendage. MICKEY: a wiseass redneck without a care in all the universe. BRIAN: the smart Jew. And TIM: the racist giving talents of his abusive father. Each one takes a trip to PORKY’S, it’s the most popular strip joint in Florida. But when they try to get in, they’re tricked and humiliated. Returning home, they vow revenge. Following crazy sex jokes like Ms. Balbrick’s famous “Pecker Pull” incident, to the ultimate return fire on a strip club, PORKY’S is and will remain the grandest of all teenage comedies.

Notebook, The (2004)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ivey, Tim | Rowlands, Gena | DuPois, Starletta | Garner, James | Thomas, Anthony-Michael Q. | Grady, Ed | Amber, Renée | Echols, Jennifer | Knight, Geoffrey | Connolly, Kevin | Gosling, Ryan | Wahlquist, Heather | McAdams, Rachel | Schaff, Andrew | Shelly, Matt
Directors: Cassavetes, Nick
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An old man in a nursing home reads a story to an old woman each day. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun. They met one evening at a carnival many years ago. Allie’s parents separate Noah and Allie. They disapprove of Noah’s lack of wealth, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. In a local newspaper, Noah’s picture catches Allie’s eye. He is standing in front of a fully restored, 200 year old home. The article is filled with praise for his accomplishments. Allie’s heart nearly bursts. The last time she saw this house it was a rotted decaying shamble. She stood enfolded in Noah’s arms in the great entryway and listened to his plans to buy and restore this house. Just the way she wanted it. With her love for Noah still alive, the picture pulls at her heart. She has to go back, see if Noah is okay, and tell him about her marriage. They both think the echo deep in their hearts, the one that has lasted all these years, is not shared by the other. The cry they could not stifle. It wasn’t over for me.

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Ferrell, Will | Applegate, Christina | Rudd, Paul | Carell, Steve | Koechner, David | Willard, Fred | Parnell, Chris | Hahn, Kathryn | Armisen, Fred | Rogen, Seth | Tompkins, Paul F. | Trejo, Danny | Robinson, Scot | Roberts, Ian | Donavan, Darcy
Directors: McKay, Adam
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Ron Burgundy (Ferrell) is the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the ’70s. When feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica Corningstone (Applegate), Ron is willing to play along at first-as long as Veronica stays in her place, covering cat fashion shows, cooking, and other “female” interests. But when Veronica refuses to settle for being eye candy and steps behind the news desk, it’s more than a battle between two perfectly coiffed anchor-persons… it’s war.

Anger Management (2003)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandler, Adam | Nicholson, Jack | Tomei, Marisa | Guzmán, Luis | Loughran, Jonathan | Fuller, Kurt | Allen, Krista | Jones, January | Turturro, John | Thigpen, Lynne | Walls, Nancy | Nealon, Kevin | Harrelson, Woody | Covert, Allen | Ricard, Adrian
Directors: Segal, Peter
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After a misunderstanding aboard an airplane that escalates out of control, the mild-mannered Dave Buznik is ordered by Judge Daniels to attend anger management sessions run by Doctor Buddy Rydell, which are filled with highly eccentric and volatile men and women. Buddy’s unorthodox approach to therapy is confrontational and abrasive and Dave is bewildered by it. Then, after yet another mishap, Judge Daniels orders Dave to step up his therapy or wind up in jail. So, Buddy moves in with Dave to help him battle his inner demons. Buddy himself has no inner demons since he acts out at every opportunity and that includes making lewd comments about Dave’s girlfriend Linda and goading Dave into confronting every slight, past or present, head-on. But Buddy finally goes too far and Dave must decide whether to crawl back into his shell or stand up for himself. Could it be that Buddy’s confounding and contradictory treatment is just what the doctor ordered?