Posts Tagged ‘torture’

In the Valley of Elah (2007)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Theron, Charlize | Patric, Jason | Sarandon, Susan | Franco, James | Corbin, Barry | Brolin, Josh | Fisher, Frances | Chatham, Wes | McLaughlin, Jake | Brooks, Mehcad | Tucker, Jonathan | Duvall, Wayne | Wolf, Victor | Briscoe, Brent
Directors: Haggis, Paul
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When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man’s disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police’s apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike’s disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose

Iron Man (2008)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Downey Jr., Robert | Howard, Terrence | Bridges, Jeff | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Bibb, Leslie | Toub, Shaun | Tahir, Faran | Badreya, Sayed | Smitrovich, Bill | Gregg, Clark | Guinee, Tim | Lyman, Will | Khan, Marco | Foster, Kevin | Noel, Garret
Directors: Favreau, Jon
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Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he’s captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Shane from misusing his research.

Speed Racer (2008)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Hirsch, Emile | Elia, Nicholas | Ricci, Christina | Goodman, John | Holroyd, Melissa | Sarandon, Susan | Fox, Matthew | Winter, Ariel | Porter, Scott | Fürmann, Benno | Ganziano, Gian | Fernandez, Peter | Friedman, Harvey | Roundtree, Richard | Ueda, Sadao
Directors: Wachowski, Andy
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Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized-the legendary Rex Racer - whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill. Speed is loyal to the family racing business, led by his father, Pops Racer, the designer of Speed’s thundering Mach 5. When Speed turns down a lucrative and tempting offer from Royalton Industries, he not only infuriates the company’s maniacal owner but uncovers a terrible secret-some of the biggest races are being fixed by a handful of ruthless moguls who manipulate the top drivers to boost profits. If Speed won’t drive for Royalton, Royalton will see to it that the Mach 5 never crosses another finish line. The only way for Speed to save his family’s business and the sport he loves is to beat Royalton at his own game. With the support of his family and his loyal girlfriend, Trixie, Speed teams with his one-time rival-the mysterious Racer X - to win the race that had taken his brother’s life: the death-defying, cross-country rally known as The Crucible.

Mark of Cain, The (2007)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Kearns, Gerard | McNulty, Matthew | Gregory, Leo | Dooley, Shaun | Dingwall, Shaun | Bentley, Naomi | Angell, Robert | Barclay, Roger | Byrne, Michael | Casson, Ralph | Chapman, Matt | Coyle, Brendan | Dolan, Mike | Gravelle, Matthew | Herd, Edmund
Directors: Munden, Marc
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GULLIVER and TATE - nickname ‘Treacle’ - are two ordinary 18 year-olds serving in the British Army in Iraq. Their platoon is struggling to maintain the uneasy peace of 2003. When their popular company captain, GODBER, is killed on patrol by a roadside bomb, morale in the platoon hits rock bottom. Acting on orders they round up several suspects from house-to-house searches. That night feelings at the camp are running high and as the chain of command is weakened and events spiral out of control. The lads end their tour of duty and return to England full of stories but also shaken by their experiences. Iraq comes back to haunt them when Gulliver’s jilted girlfriend, Shelley, decides to get her own back on him by giving photos of the events in Iraq to the British police. The story hits the press, and Gulliver and Treacle, now the most reviled men in Britain, face court martial. The army claims the two are ‘rotten apples’ acting alone. Guilt-ridden and abandoned, the pressure is too much for a traumatized Treacle. Gulliver, however, is determined to remain loyal to ‘his army’. Only when he is truly alone does he have to decide if he must keep his secrets or explosively have his day in court, and tell the truth about the events of that fateful night.

Galaxy Quest (1999)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Shalhoub, Tony | Rockwell, Sam | Breen, Patrick | Allen, Tim | Weaver, Sigourney | Rickman, Alan | Mitchell, Daryl | Sachs, Robin | Colantoni, Enrico
Directors: Parisot, Dean
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Eighteen years after their sci-fi adventure show “Galaxy Quest” was canceled, actors Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco, Alexander Dane, Tommy Webber, and Fred Kwan are making appearances at sci-fi conventions and store openings in costume and character. They’re wallowing in despair and at each other’s throats until aliens known as Thermians arrive and, having mistaken the show for fact and consequently modeling their entire culture around it, take them into space to save them from the genocidal General Sarris and his armada.

Creep (2004)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK
Actors: Blackwood, Vas | Campbell, Ken | Sheffield, Jeremy | Rattray, Paul | Harris, Sean | Ibbs, Grant | Anderson, Joe | De Vrind, Sean | Duncan, Ian | Fackrell, Craig | Taylor, Jonathan | Jones, Morgan | Scott, Daniel Joseph | Hawken, Spencer | Senden, Bonito
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While inspecting the sewage system of London, two workers are attacked by a weird creature. Later, Kate decides to leave a party trying to meet the actor ‘George Clooney’ (qv) who is in London. She waits for the last underground train, but after drinking many alcoholic beverages, she falls asleep accidentally on the platform bench, missing the last train and being trapped in the closed underground station. Later, a train going to the depot stops at the platform. She boards the train and she meets her acquaintance Guy, who tries to sexually assault her in the underground car. Guy is attacked by the creature, dragged off, and Kate leaves the train through the tunnel. This is the beginning of her claustrophobic, scary and gore night running through the Underground of London.

Last House on the Left, The (1972)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hess, David | Lincoln, Fred J. | Sheffler, Marc | Towers, Richard | Anker, Marshall | Kove, Martin | Edwards, Ray | Craven, Jonathan | Forcelli, Anthony J. | Miner, Steve
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After kidnapping and butchering two teenagers, a gang of rapists and murderers unknowingly seeks refuge with the parents of one of the victims.

V for Vendetta (2005)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Portman, Natalie | Weaving, Hugo | Rea, Stephen | Fry, Stephen | Hurt, John | Pigott-Smith, Tim | Graves, Rupert | Allam, Roger | Miles, Ben | Cusack, Sinéad | Wightman, Natasha | Standing, John | Marsan, Eddie | Ashborn, Clive | Field-Rayner, Emma
Directors: McTeigue, James
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The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that’s a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.

Extraordinary Rendition (2007)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Berdouni, Omar | Serkis, Andy | Yuill, Jimmy | Ross, Hugh | Aslam, Ehti | Bartlett, Nick | Doorgasingh, Emilio | Ghadami, Davood | Hilmi, Rami | Ireland, Luke | Khairdin, Munir | Kostic, Goran | Lindsay, Angus | McDevitt, Roddy | Mikic, Aleksandar
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A man is abducted from the streets of London and transported via secret flights to an unknown country. Held in solitary confinement and cut off from the outside world, he is plunged into a lawless nightmare of detention without trial, interrogation and torture. Returned without explanation to the UK many months later, he is left to pick up the pieces of a shattered life in a world he no longer recognises.

Long Kiss Goodnight, The (1996)

Friday, July 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Bierko, Craig | Tom Amandes | Cox, Brian | Malahide, Patrick | Morse, David | McKenna, Joseph | Warry-Smith, Dan | Linn, Rex | North, Alan | Hodge, Edwin | MacDonald, Bill | Moore, Frank | Spradlin, G.D. | McPherson, Graham
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Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to remember small parts of her previous life as a lethal, top-secret agent. Her old chums in the Chapter are now out to kill her so she enlists the help of a cheap detective named Mitch. As Samantha remembers more and more of her previous life, she becomes deadlier and more resourceful. Both Mitch and Charly proceed to do the killing thing, the bleeding thing and the shooting thing.