Posts Tagged ‘boxing’

Bad Santa (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton | Tony Cox | Brett Kelly | Lauren Graham | Lauren Tom | Bernie Mac | John Ritter | Ajay Naidu | Lorna Scott | Harrison Bieker | Alex Borstein | Dylan Charles | Billy Gardell | Lisa Ross | Bryan Callen
Directors: Terry Zwigoff
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“Bad Santa” is the story of two conmen who go on a road trip to malls dressed as Santa and his elf. Rather than spreading good cheer, the duo’s motive is to rob each establishment, a strategy that becomes complicated when they encounter an 8-year-old who teaches them the true meaning of Christmas.

Original Sin (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Antonio Banderas | Angelina Jolie | Thomas Jane | Jack Thompson | Gregory Itzin | Allison Mackie | Joan Pringle | Cordelia Richards | James Haven | Pedro Armendáriz Jr. | Mario Iván Martínez | Harry Porter | Fernando Torre Laphame | Shaula Vega | Lisa Owen
Directors: Michael Cristofer
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Can love release our true self? A wealthy Cuban coffee exporter, Luis Vargas, advertises for a US wife; Julia Russell, from Delaware, sends her photograph, but the woman who steps off the ship is much lovelier. Luis marries her immediately and gives in to love. But Julia may not be who she claims: first a private eye shows up on behalf of Julia’s sister, then the sister herself. By now, Luis has given has wife access to bank accounts, and when she runs with his cash, he pursues her, with the help of Downs, the P.I., perhaps to kill her. Pursuit may be part of a con game as well, and Julia’s past explains some, if not all, of what remains of the story. A priest hears her confession.

Daredevil (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Jennifer Garner | Colin Farrell | Michael Clarke Duncan | Jon Favreau | Scott Terra | Ellen Pompeo | Joe Pantoliano | Leland Orser | Lennie Loftin | Erick Avari
Directors: Mark Steven Johnson
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Fate deals young orphan Matt Murdock a strange hand when he is doused with hazardous waste. The accident leaves Matt blind but also gives him a heightened “radar sense” that allows him to “see” far better than any man. Years later Murdock has grown into a man and becomes a respected criminal attorney. But after he’s done his “day job” Matt takes on a secret identity as “The Man Without Fear,” Daredevil, the masked avenger that patrols the neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen and New York City to combat the injustice that he cannot tackle in the courtroom.

Soldier (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Kurt Russell | Jason Scott Lee | Jason Isaacs | Connie Nielsen | Sean Pertwee | Jared Thorne | Taylor Thorne | Mark Bringleson | Gary Busey | K.K. Dodds | James Black | Mark De Alessandro | Vladimir Orlov | Carsten Norgaard | Duffy Gaver
Directors: Paul W.S. Anderson
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In a futuristic society, some people are selected at birth to become soldiers, and trained in such a manner that they become inhuman killing machines. One of the most succesfull and older of these soldiers (Russell) is pitted against a new breed of soldiers, and after the confrontation is believed to be dead. His body is left behind in a semi-abandoned colonial planet, where everything is peaceful, and he is taught about the other aspects of life. But eventually he has to fight the new breed of soldiers again, this time to defend his new home…

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Hilary Swank | Morgan Freeman | Jay Baruchel | Mike Colter | Lucia Rijker | Brian F. O'Byrne | Anthony Mackie | Margo Martindale | Riki Lindhome | Michael Pena | Benito Martinez | Bruce MacVittie | David Powledge | Joe D'Angerio
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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Frankie Dunn has trained and managed some incredible fighters during a lifetime spent in the ring. The most important lesson he teaches his boxers is the one that rules life: above all, always protect yourself. In the wake of a painful estrangement from his daughter, Frankie has been unwilling to let himself get close to anyone for a very long time. His only friend, Scrap, an ex-boxer who looks after Frankie’s gym, knows that beneath his gruff exterior is a man who has been seeking, for the past 25 years, the forgiveness that somehow continues to elude him. Then Maggie Fitzgerald walks into his gym…

Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Anton Yelchin | Hope Davis | Mika Boorem | David Morse | Alan Tudyk | Tom Bower | Celia Weston | Adam LeFevre | Will Rothhaar | Timothy Reifsnyder | Deirdre O'Connell | Terry Beaver | Joe T. Blankenship | Brett Fleisher
Directors: Scott Hicks
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This is a gentle, innocent film about the reflections of an aging man (David Morse), who returns to his home town after the death of his best friend. Memories of life at age 11 floods back as it was a magical time that changed his life. Three 11 year old children (Anton Yelchin as Bobby, Mika Boorem as Carol, and Will Rothaar as Sully) share their lives. Carol & Bobby have a special affection for one another including sharing a kiss “by which all others will be measured”. Bobby lives with his mother (Hope Davis), a bitter, vain woman who looks for pleasures for herself without sharing much with her son. Into their lives comes a mysterious new boarder (Anthony Hopkins), who befriends the boy but generates distrust from the mother. As time passes, the man and boy share confidences and special powers are revealed. The man warns the boy to be on the lookout for the “lowmen”, who were seeking him. The two share a summer’s adventures and come to love one another before the inevitable happens. A confrontation with a school bully (Timothy Reifsnyder) also changes everyone.

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tim Roth | Amanda Plummer | John Travolta | Samuel L. Jackson | Phil LaMarr | Bruce Willis | Ving Rhames | Maria de Medeiros | Rosanna Arquette | Duane Whitaker | Peter Greene | Eric Stoltz | Paul Calderon | Uma Thurman | Frank Whaley
Directors: Quentin Tarantino
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Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.

Against the Ropes (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sport
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Meg Ryan | Omar Epps | Charles S. Dutton | Tony Shalhoub | Timothy Daly | Joseph Cortese | Kerry Washington | Sean Bell | Dean McDermott | Skye McCole Bartusiak | Juan Carlos Hernández | Holt McCallany | Tory Kittles | Gene Mack | Beau Starr
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A Jewish woman from Detroit who became a boxing manager, guiding several major careers. This film focuses on her relationship with one boxer (Epps), who’s reportedly a composite of several including Toney, McKart and Hearns. Kallen eventually left her husband of 30 years, and moved to Los Angeles, becoming the commissioner of the International Female Boxers Association…

The Human Stain (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Nicole Kidman | Ed Harris | Gary Sinise | Wentworth Miller | Jacinda Barrett | Harry J. Lennix | Clark Gregg | Anna Deavere Smith | Lizan Mitchell | Kerry Washington | Phyllis Newman | Margo Martindale | Ron Canada | Mili Avital
Directors: Robert Benton
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The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk’s secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.

Mars Attacks! (1996)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Glenn Close | Annette Bening | Pierce Brosnan | Danny DeVito | Martin Short | Sarah Jessica Parker | Michael J. Fox | Rod Steiger | Tom Jones | Jim Brown | Lukas Haas | Natalie Portman | Pam Grier | Lisa Marie
Directors: Tim Burton
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It is a normal day for everyone, until the President of the United States (Nicholson). They are able to get in contact with the Martians, and arrange for a meeting behind them and us humans. But not everything goes to plan, and the Martians have other plans for Earth. Are they just misunderstood beings? or do they really want to destroy all of humanity.