Posts Tagged ‘tape-recorder’

Session 9 (2001)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Caruso, David | Gevedon, Stephen | Guilfoyle, Paul | Lucas, Josh | Mullan, Peter | Sexton III, Brendan | Broderick, Charley | Farmer, Lonnie | Fessenden, Larry | Hughes, Jurian | Stasack, Sheila | Daly, Sean
Directors: Anderson, Brad
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An asbestos abatement crew wins the bid for an abandoned insane asylum. What should be a straightforward, if rather rushed, job, is complicated by the personal histories of the crew. In particular, Hank is dating Phil’s old girlfriend, and Gordon’s new baby seems to be unnerving him more than should be expected. Things get more complicated as would-be lawyer Mike plays the tapes from a former patient with multiple personalities, including the mysterious Simon who does not appear until Session 9, and as Hank disappears after finding some old coins.

Saw (2004)

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Elwes, Cary | Meyer, Dina | Glover, Danny | Leigh Whannell | Leung, Ken | Mike Butters
Directors: James Wan
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Two men wake up at opposite sides of a dirty, disused bathroom, chained by their ankles to pipes. Between them lies a dead man loosely clutching a hand-held tape player and a handgun. Each finds a tape the perfect fit for the player in their back pocket. They play the tapes. One is threatened, the other isn’t. But they have a task: One must kill the other by 6:00, or his wife and daughter will die. They find hacksaws in a toilet, and try to cut the chains, but it doesn’t work. They are the two newest victims of the Jigsaw Killer. In a flashback, we learn of Amanda, a girl who falls victim to the Jigsaw Killer. On her head is a mask, which is hooked into her lower jaw. There is a timer on it. Only one key will unlock it, and that key is in the digestive tract of her cell mate who lies paralyzed on the opposite side of the room. If she doesn’t unlock the mask in time, her lower jaw will be ripped wide open. She survives, but her cell mate doesn’t. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn of more victims, and of the nearly-successful capture of the Jigsaw Killer, who doesn’t actually kill his victims. Instead, he finds ways to make them kill either themselves, or each other, and he thinks the entire ‘game’ out perfectly, with no other ways out. Or so it would seem.

Brave One, The (2007)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Foster, Jodie | Howard, Terrence | Katt, Nicky | Andrews, Naveen | Steenburgen, Mary | Oloja, Ene | Da Silva Jr., Luis | Foster, Blaze | Sardina, Rafael | Adams, Jane | MacDonald, Gordon | Kravitz, Zöe | Magaro, John | Colicchio, Victor | Howard, Jermel
Directors: Jordan, Neil
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A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Shalhoub, Tony | Davidtz, Embeth | Lillard, Matthew | Elizabeth, Shannon | Roberts, Alec | Bourne, JR | Rah Digga | Abraham, F. Murray | Harrison, Matthew | Rupp, Jacob | Crestejo, Mike | Culp, Aubrey | Andre, Charles | Speidel, Mikhael | Wesley, Daniel
Directors: Beck, Steve
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Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus’s estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby’s Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine “designed by the devil and powered by the dead” to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

Femme Fatale (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Romijn, Rebecca | Banderas, Antonio | Coyote, Peter | Ebouaney, Eriq | Edouard Montoute | Rasmussen, Rie | Frémont, Thierry | Henry, Gregg | Curzon, Fiona | Milgram, Daniel | Minéo, Jean-Marc | Chatel, Jean | Petit, Stéphane | Follet, Olivier | Eva Darlan
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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International con artist/thief Laure Ash helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. She double-crosses her partners-in-crime and makes off with the diamonds to Paris where she accidently assumes the identy of a distraught woman who commits suicide and then leaves the country. Seven years later, Laure (now called Lily Watts) re-surfaces as the wife of the new American ambassador to France where a certain Nicolas Barto, a Spanish photographer, takes her picture which sets the stage for a motion of events as the evil Laure resorts to low, underhanded means to protect her former identity by emotionally and financially destroying Nicolas while evading her former partners-in-crime still looking for her to reclaim the stolen diamonds.

Infamous (2006)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Weaver, Sigourney | Jones, Toby | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Rubin, Mark | Schwelling, Steve | Gill, Glover Johns | Arteaga, Rey | Sherburn, Justin | Halbreich, Andrew | Stevenson, Juliet | Panes, Michael | Davis, Hope | Curcio, Frank G. | Bullock, Sandra | Rossellini, Isabella
Directors: McGrath, Douglas
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On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arrests, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote is implacable, wanting the story, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?

Clear and Present Danger (1994)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Dafoe, Willem | Archer, Anne | de Almeida, Joaquim | Czerny, Henry | Yulin, Harris | Moffat, Donald | Sandoval, Miguel | Bratt, Benjamin | Cruz, Raymond | Jones, Dean | Birch, Thora | Magnuson, Ann | Lange, Hope | Tammi, Tom
Directors: Noyce, Phillip
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Based upon the Tom Clancy novel of the same name, Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst, is thrust right in the middle of a power struggle within the Colombian drug cartel after one of the President’s “life long” friends is murdered, apparently in retaliation for stealing money as part of a money laundering scheme for the cartel. Jack is then appointed acting Deputy Director of Intelligence, CIA, upon the terminal illness of Admiral James Greer, former DDI, and quickly gets in over his head due to his political naivete. The situation rapidly deteriorates when some of the presidents men convince the President to conduct covert actions against the cartel, in direct violation of congress. Felix Cortez, the security chief of Ernesto Escobeda, the “victim” of the missing money, is one of the cartel boss’s. Cortez tries to play both sides, appearing to inform Escobeda about the CIA’s involvement in the covert operations against him, while trying to orchestrate a coup to take over the cartel, with Cortez as it’s sole boss. James Cutter, the President’s National Security Advisor, makes his own deal with Cortez, with the Presidents knowledge, and halts communications to the covert troops still in Colombia, through the Deputy Director of Operations, CIA, Robert Ritter. Ryan ends up going to Colombia to rescue the covet ops troops with the help of field agent John Clark, but not before some fence mending between the two, being that Ritter blamed Ryan for the comm outage, with Clark’s men subsequently being captured by Cortez’s mercenaries.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Jane | Monroe, Marilyn | Coburn, Charles | Reid, Elliott | Noonan, Tommy | Winslow, George | Dalio, Marcel | Holmes, Taylor | Varden, Norma | Wendell, Howard | Geray, Steven | Letondal, Henri | Mostovoy, Leo | Frazer, Alex | Davis, George
Directors: Hawks, Howard
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Lorelei and Dorothy are just “Two Little Girls from Little Rock”, lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, even though “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend.” Based on the Broadway musical based on the novel.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Family | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: | Culkin, Macaulay | Pesci, Joe | Stern, Daniel | O'Hara, Catherine | Heard, John | Ratray, Devin | Wolf, Hillary | Shay, Maureen Elisabeth | Maronna, Michael C. | Bamman, Gerry | Snell, Terrie | Cohen, Jedidiah | Moses, Senta | Campeanu, Daiana | Culkin, Kieran
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Kevin McCallister is back. But this time he’s in New York City with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his very own playground. But Kevin won’t be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are bound for New York too, plotting a huge holiday heist! Kevin’s ready to welcome them with more battery of booby traps the bumbling bandits will never forget!

Whole Nine Yards, The (2000)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Perry, Matthew | Arquette, Rosanna | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Henstridge, Natasha | Peet, Amanda | Pollak, Kevin | Williams, Harland | Ferland, Carmen | Christianssens, Serge | Le Guerrier, Renee Madeline | Bouchard, Jean-Guy | Bilerman, Howard | Goar, Johnny | Clavet, Deano
Directors: Lynn, Jonathan
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Oz is a Montréal dentist, paying off debts so he can divorce his wife: the dislike is mutual. When she learns their new neighbor is hit man Jimmy the Tulip, with a price on his head, she sends Oz to Chicago to earn a finder’s fee telling Mob boss Yanni where to find Jimmy. To get his wife off his back, Oz goes, his assistant Jill urging him to get laid while there. One of Yanni’s men awaits Oz at the hotel; Oz’s now in too deep to avoid telling Yanni what he knows. Meanwhile, Oz’s wife rats on Oz to Jimmy, hoping Jimmy will kill Oz and she can cash in on life insurance. Oz meets Jimmy’s wife (Yanni’s captive), flips for her, and the double-crosses mount. Even Jill isn’t whom she seems.