Posts Tagged ‘thunderstorm’

28 Days Later… (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Palmer, Alex | De Stoppani, Bindu | Hiltunen, Jukka | Schneider, David | Murphy, Cillian | Sedgwick, Toby | Harris, Naomie | Huntley, Noah | Dunne, Christopher | Hitching, Emma | Delamere, Alexander | McGarrity, Kim | Gleeson, Brendan | Burns, Megan | Hackney, Justin
Directors: Boyle, Danny
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A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.

Stardust (2007)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cox, Charlie | Danes, Claire | De Niro, Robert | Miller, Sienna | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Flemyng, Jason | Barnes, Ben | Burns, Mark | Buxton, Adam | Cavill, Henry | Curran, Jake | David, Elwin 'Chopper' | Ellis, Frank | Everett, Rupert | Fletcher, Dexter
Directors: Vaughn, Matthew
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“Stardust,” based on the best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman illustrated by Charles Vess, takes audiences on an adventure that begins in a village in England and ends up in a magical world. A young man named Tristan (Charlie Cox) tries to win the heart of village beauty Victoria (Sienna Miller) by promising to bring her a falling star. His journey takes him beyond the walls of his village to a mysterious and forbidden land.

When Tristan finds the star, he is stunned to discover that it is, not a lump of meteoric rock, but an angry, injured girl named Yvaine (Claire Danes) – who has no desire to be dragged across the world and presented to anyone’s girlfriend. But Tristan is not the only one seeking the star. A dying king’s (Peter O’Toole) four sons – not to mention the ghosts of their three dead brothers – all need the star as they vie for the throne. Three evil witches, led by the murderous Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer) seek the star’s heart to make them young again.
Tristan and Yvaine are forced to flee together, encountering the captain of a flying pirate ship (Robert De Niro) and a shady trader named Ferdy the Fence (Ricky Gervais) along the way. As they travel Tristan discovers the meaning of true love, but does not realise he’s leading Yvaine into even more danger…

African Queen, The (1951)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Hepburn, Katharine | Morley, Robert | Bull, Peter | Bikel, Theodore | Gotell, Walter | Swanwick, Peter | Marner, Richard | John, Errol | Onn, Gerald | von Kotze, John
Directors: Huston, John
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At the start of World War 1, Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer, The African Queen, to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When the Rev. Samuel Sayer dies, Charlie agrees to take Sayers’ sister, Rose, back to civilization. taking on the Germans at the same time.

Snakes on a Plane (2006)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Margulies, Julianna | Phillips, Nathan | Blanchard, Rachel | Alexander, Flex | Thompson, Kenan | Dallas, Keith | Shaye, Lin | Bruce, James | Mabrey, Sunny | Dubois, Casey | Hogarth, Daniel | Plunkett, Gerard | Chen, Terry | Pataky, Elsa
Directors: Ellis, David R.
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When Sean Jones witnesses a murder, he is asked to fly from Hawaii to Los Angeles to testify against the notorious gangster Eddie Kim. However, Kim has paid an assassin to release a crate-full of deadly snakes loose when the plane is 30,000 feet in the air. Only FBI agent Neville Flynn can protect Sean and rally the passengers together in hope of landing in L.A. alive.

Aquamarine (2006)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Roberts, Emma | Levesque, Joanna 'JoJo' | Paxton, Sara | McDorman, Jake | Kebbel, Arielle | Karvan, Claudia | Spence, Bruce | Sursok, Tammin | Billing, Roy | Blake, Julia | Micallef, Shaun | McClatchy, Lulu | Cunningham, Natasha | Lachman, Dichen | Lewis, Lincoln
Directors: Allen, Elizabeth
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After a vicious storm , half the ocean washes into the beach club swimming pool. Two teenagers, Haley and Claire, discover a mermaid in the pool. She tells them that she needs to find love in three days, and they agree to help her because helping a mermaid means you get a wish, and they decide that they can use their wish to try and stop Haley from moving to Australia.

Toolbox Murders (2004)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Bettis, Angela | Roam, Brent | Rodríguez, Marco | Howard, Rance | Landau, Juliet | Gierasch, Adam | Travis, Greg | Doyle, Christopher | Weisman, Adam | Venuti, Christina | Downing, Sara | Reeves, Jamison | Silverman, Stephanie | Polonsky, Alan | Paulson, Charlie
Directors: Hooper, Tobe
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In Hollywood, the young teacher Nell (Angela Bettis) and her husband, the resident Steven Barrows (Brent Roam), move to an old building called Lusman Arms. Some sixty years ago, the place was glamorous, but presently is completely decadent, inclusive many dwellers have disappeared along the years. While her husband is working in the hospital, the lonely Nell hears some weird noises and becomes afraid of the place. While jogging, she is introduced and becomes close to her neighbor Julia Cunningham (Juliet Landau) and they schedule a hike together on the next day. Julia never shows up, and Nell looks for her in the building, finding a hiding block behind the wall, where an evil being, which was born from death, lives with many dead bodies.

Alexander (2004)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: France | Germany | Netherlands | UK | USA
Actors: Leto, Jared | Hopkins, Anthony | Farrell, Colin | Bedella, David | Kamm, Jessie | Jolie, Angelina | Kilmer, Val | O'Shaughnessy, Fiona | Paolo, Connor | Carroll, Patrick | Blessed, Brian | Williamson, Peter | Ferris, Morgan Christopher | Earley, Robert | Gordon, Aleczander | Plummer, Christopher | Stretch, Gary
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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Alexander (Farrell), the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians he leads his Army across the then known world venturing further than any Westerner had ever gone all the way to India.

English Patient, The (1996)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Fiennes, Ralph | Binoche, Juliette | Dafoe, Willem | Scott Thomas, Kristin | Andrews, Naveen | Firth, Colin | Wadham, Julian | Prochnow, Jürgen | Whately, Kevin | Merrison, Clive | Castelnuovo, Nino | Rostom, Hichem | Rühring, Peter | Johnson, Geordie | Higginson, Torri
Directors: Minghella, Anthony
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Beginning in the 1930’s, “The English Patient” tells the story of Count Almasy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almasy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almasy is on his death bed after being horribly burned in a plane crash.

Evil Dead II (1987)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Campbell, Bruce | Berry, Sarah | Dan Hicks | DePaiva, Kassie | Raimi, Ted | Bixler, Denise | Domeier, Richard | Peaks, John | Hancock, Lou | Winters, Snowy | Abrams, Sid | Becker, Josh | Spiegel, Scott | Kidd, Thomas | Cantor, Mitch
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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Ash - the sole survivor of the original ‘Evil Dead’ - returns with his girlfriend Linda to the remote cabin in the woods. He discovers a tape recorder that a professor had used to record incantations from the Necronomicon XMortis - the Book of the Dead. When he turns it on, the recording releases a dark, sinister force from the woods. It turns Linda into a zombie, her soul possessed by some hideous demon, and then tries to do the same to Ash. Other people come to help Ash, but one by one they are taken over by the Evil Dead force that also possesses Linda, the Professor, and the Professor’s wife…and they try to make sure Ash is…Dead by Dawn!

Back to the Future (1985)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Fox, Michael J. | Lloyd, Christopher | Thompson, Lea | Glover, Crispin | Wilson, Thomas F. | Wells, Claudia | McClure, Marc | Sperber, Wendie Jo | Di Cenzo, George | McCain, Frances Lee | Tolkan, James | Cohen, J.J. | Siemaszko, Casey | Zane, Billy | Waters Jr., Harry
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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Marty McFly is an aspiring musician, but he is not sure of what the future holds for him; first his band was rejected as the performing band for the school dance, and historically, no McFly has succeeded in anything. The only bright spots in his existence are his girlfriend and Emmett Brown, the town crackpot scientist, who is Marty’s good friend. Marty was helping brown with his latest invention a time machine, which is fitted into a Delorean. The time machine needs a tremendous amount of power to work, which he gets from plutonium. Now Brown got the plutonium from some Libyans who want him to build a bomb; they find Brown and shoot him, Marty gets into the Delorean and drives off and when he reaches the speed of 88 mph that activates the time machine, he finds himself in 1955, cause that was the date that Brown entered, which was when he first conceived the time machine. Now having already used up all the power of the plutonium, Marty must find a way to get it working, so he can go back to his own time. Marty looks for Brown but before he does, he runs into his father as a teenager, and accidentally interferes with his father’s first meeting of Lorraine, his future mother. Marty then goes to see Brown and convinces him that he is from the future and to help him. But when he learns of the amount of power that is needed to power the machine, he tells Marty that it’s hopeless cause the only other thing that can generate that much power is a bolt of lightning and it’s impossible to determine when and where they will strike, but Marty has with him an old newspaper cliping that states that the town clock tower will be struck by lightning, so they plan to draw the energy from the lightning so they can power the machine. But before they do, Marty must act as cupid for his parents cause it seems that because they never met they won’t fall in love and get married and Marty will not exist.