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Inferno (1980)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Horror | Music | Mystery
Countries: Italy
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Morita, Pat | Trejo, Danny | Fitzpatrick, Gabrielle | Drake, Larry | Schiavelli, Vincent | Fralick, David 'Shark' | Mitchell, Silas Weir | Avildsen, Jonathan | Pressly, Jaime | Erwin, Bill | Rainey, Ford | West, Kevin | Pointer, Priscilla | Symonds, Robert
Directors: Avildsen, John G.
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Young poetess Rose Elliot buys a book from a local antique dealer, a diary in Latin of an architect, E. Varelli. She learns of the Three Mothers, and believes her apartment building is one of their houses. She pleads her brother Mark, who is studying musicology in Rome, to come, because she is afraid. Mark’s friend Sara reads her letter, which he left behind in class, and discovers the school is run by the Mater Lacrimarum, and is killed for this knowledge. The house of Mater Suspiriorum has already been destroyed, and by the time Mark arrives in New York City, he is investigating his sister’s murder.


Serpico (1973)

Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Randolph, John | Kehoe, Jack | McGuire, Biff | Eda-Young, Barbara | Sharpe, Cornelia | Roberts, Tony | Medici, John | Rich, Allan | Ornellas, Norman | Grover, Edward | Henderson, Albert | Garrett, Hank | Leake, Damien | Bova, Joseph
Directors: Lumet, Sidney
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Frank Serpico is a young, inexperienced cop who starts out on patrol. Later, he starts to work as an undercover cop who busts all sorts of criminals, but mostly drug dealers and pushers. Since Serpico is a young man living in the 70’s, he lives as one. His image, based on how others look on him, shows him as just a ‘hippie’ and the criminals he busts have no idea he is really an undercover officer. Everything is working out well, except the money situation. Serpico refuses to accept money, as the other officers do. He feels this isn’t right, and wants to expose the situation. Who he thought were his friends now turn into his enemies when Serpico takes the stand on a grand jury investigation. He continues to work undercover, and his life is placed into jeopardy at the hands of his colleagues.


Excalibur (1981)

Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Terry, Nigel | Mirren, Helen | Clay, Nicholas | Lunghi, Cherie | Geoffrey, Paul | Williamson, Nicol | Addie, Robert | Byrne, Gabriel | Buckley, Keith | Boorman, Katrine | Neeson, Liam | Redgrave, Corin | O'Brien, Niall | Stewart, Patrick | Swift, Clive
Directors: Boorman, John
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As the title would suggest, it follows the travels of the legendary sword Excalibur through Arthurian myth, from the violent, powerful hands of Uther Pendragon, to a long-years’ rest in the stone to being redrawn by Uther’s son Arthur, who uses it to defeat the evil invaders and establish the great court of Camelot and the great Knights of the Round Table. It is there in Arthur’s glory years and in his decline, brought on by the love affair between his wife Guenevere and best friend and best knight Sir Lancelot, the Holy Grail Quest which produces many casualties among the knights, and the arrival of Mordred, the son Arthur had by his evil half-sister, the sorceress Morgana. Through it all, the magician Merlin watches over everything, always ready to throw in a Charm of Making when it’s called for.


Princess Bride, The (1987)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Elwes, Cary | Patinkin, Mandy | Sarandon, Chris | Guest, Christopher | Shawn, Wallace | André the Giant | Savage, Fred | Wright Penn, Robin | Falk, Peter | Cook, Peter | Smith, Mel | Kane, Carol | Crystal, Billy
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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When a young boy falls ill, his grandfather pops round to visit him. To cheer his grandson up, Grandpa has brought a storybook; The Princess Bride, a tale of the love between the beautiful Buttercup and the besotted Westley, a love cruelly interrupted by Westley’s tragic apparent death at sea when seeking his fortune. Heartbroken, Buttercup has sworn never to love again, but accepts the marriage proposal of the rich and handsome Prince Humperdinck, heir to the throne of Florin; but death is no barrier to true love, and in a story filled with exotically-accented swordsmen, big-hearted giants, genius kidnappers, sadistic torturers, vile swamps, Rodents of Unusual Size, the Dread Pirate Roberts and a somewhat embittered miracle worker, the love between Westley and Buttercup twists and turns on a path filled with adventure. Will the True Love of Westley and Buttercup win the day? Will Inigo Montaya find the six-fingered man who murdered his father? Will Humperdinck’s evil plans come to fruition? And, more importantly, will Grandpa be able to tell the story without any of the yucky kissing?


Children of Dune (2003)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Newman, Alec | Cox, Julie | Atterton, Edward | McNeice, Ian | Kodetová, Barbora | Berkoff, Steven | Amavia, Daniela | Moriarty, P.H. | McAvoy, James | Brooks, Jessica | Bruun, Jonathan | Young, Rick | McDougall, Martin | Williams, Gee | Krige, Alice
Directors: Yaitanes, Greg
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The twins of Paul “Muad’dib” Atreides become embroiled in the political landscape of Arrakis (”Dune”) and the rest of the universe.


Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Ryder, Winona | Jolie, Angelina | DuVall, Clea | Murphy, Brittany | Moss, Elisabeth | Leto, Jared | Tambor, Jeffrey | Redgrave, Vanessa | Goldberg, Whoopi | Bettis, Angela | Armenante, Jillian | McDaniel, Drucie | Claire, Alison | Myers, Christina | Kerns, Joanna
Directors: Mangold, James
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Susanna is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she discusses this with a psychiatrist. She had been having some delusions. She had also been having an affair with the husband of her parents’ friend. The doctor suggests that combining a bottle of aspirin and a bottle of vodka was a suicide attempt. This she denies. He recommends a short period of rest at Claymoore. Claymoore is a private mental hospital full of noisy, crazy people. Georgina is a pathological liar. Polly has been badly scarred by fire. Daisy won’t eat in the presence of other people. Lisa is a sociopath, the biggest exasperation for the staff - like Nurse Valerie - and the biggest influence on the other girls in the hospital. Lisa has a history of escapes, so gaining access to personal medical files is not a problem… Susanna’s boyfriend Toby is concerned that she seems too comfortable living with her institutionalized friends…


Air America (1990)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Downey Jr., Robert | Travis, Nancy | Jenkins, Ken | Grant, David Marshall | Smith, Lane | LaFleur, Art | Eisenberg, Ned | Bell, Marshall | Bowe, David | Kwouk, Burt | Thomerson, Tim | Jason, Harvey | Plengpanit, Sinjai | Nantatanti, Natta
Directors: Spottiswoode, Roger
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Billy is a wacko pilot who loses his last straight job as a helicopter traffic reporter by getting into a screaming match with a driver. He takes a job working for what amounts to a CIA airline in Asia. Billy puts it as, “I’m used to being the weirdest person in the room. Here I don’t even make the top ten.” There is an insurgency shooting at them, government soldiers running drugs, a pilot who is supplying arms to the whole region, and those are the straightforward sub plots.


U Turn (1997)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Nolte, Nick | Lopez, Jennifer | Boothe, Powers | Danes, Claire | Phoenix, Joaquin | Voight, Jon | Thornton, Billy Bob | Benrubi, Abraham | Rutowski, Richard | Linares, Aida | Stone, Sean | Volok, Ilia | Nikolayev, Valeri | Briscoe, Brent
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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A man running from a mysterious past is trapped in a small desert town after his car breaks down. Everybody in this town seems to have totally lost their mind and Bobby can’t wait to leave. But there is a problem: Bobby doesn’t have the money to get his car back. So when an aging man offers him money to kill his young wife Bobby seriously thinks about it. However the gorgeous young woman casts some kind of spell on him and she asks him to get rid of her husband. But this time, the stakes are much higher…


Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Sizemore, Tom | Beals, Jennifer | Cheadle, Don | Chaykin, Maury | Kinney, Terry | Winkler, Mel | Hall, Albert | Carson, Lisa Nicole | Burks, Jernard | Wolos-Fonteno, David | Roselius, John | Starr, Beau | Randazzo, Steven | Lincoln, Scott
Directors: Franklin, Carl
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It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal “Easy” Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend’s bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere in LA’s Black community. This woman, Daphane Monet, happens to be the fiancée of a wealthy “blue blood,” Todd Carter, who is currently the favorite in the city’s mayoralty race. Daphane Monet is known to frequent the Black jazz clubs in LA. Easy, innocently, accepts Albright’s offer; however, he quickly finds himself amidst murder, crooked cops, ruthless politicians, and brutalizing hoodlums. This is a Chandler-esque “who-done-it” with an African-American theme.


Civil Action, A (1998)

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Duvall, Robert | Shalhoub, Tony | Macy, William H. | Ivanek, Zeljko | Norris, Bruce | Lithgow, John | Quinlan, Kathleen | Jacobson, Peter | Mara, Mary | Gandolfini, James | Fry, Stephen | Hedaya, Dan | Thornton, David | Pollack, Sydney
Directors: Zaillian, Steven
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Jan Schlichtmann is a successful lawyer whose practically his own entrepreneur. He’s a humble bachelor with a nice car, a nice house, and a career that has amassed huge rewards. Not to mention being the founder and practice of the lucrative law firm he runs with his Boston partners, all in a case’s settlement. However, when the families of deceased children sue a giant food conglomerate, with the accusation of their companies are responsible for poisoning their children and afflicting them fatally with cancer. Jan comes to the rescue, thinking it’s one more case he can easily knock out of the park and make a fortune, as well as a name for he and his firm. With a class action lawsuit to file, Jan willingly puts himself and his firm as representatives of those families. However, it’s one case that could ruin Jan: his pride, his ambition, and ultimately, his career. As the pressures of the case begin to take their turn on both the prosecution, the defense, as well as the families, Jan is about to realize that he has taken on the biggest case of his life, and there is a price to pay.