Posts Tagged ‘computer’

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Wilder | Jack Albertson | Peter Ostrum | Roy Kinnear | Julie Dawn Cole | Leonard Stone | Denise Nickerson | Nora Denney | Paris Themmen | Ursula Reit | Michael Bollner | Diana Sowle | Aubrey Woods | David Battley | Günter Meisner
Directors: Mel Stuart
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Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by ‘Gene Wilder’(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by ‘Jack Albertson’ (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done?

One Point O (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Iceland | Romania | USA
Actors: Jeremy Sisto | Deborah Kara Unger | Lance Henriksen | Eugene Byrd | Bruce Payne | Udo Kier | Ana Maria Popa | Emil Hostina | Sebastian Knapp | Constantin Cotimanis | Matt Devlen | Richard Rees | Lucia Maier | Roxana Ciuhulescu | Michael Weinberg
Directors: Jeff Renfroe | Marteinn Thorsson
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After receiving mysterious empty packages inside his apartment, a young computer-programmer (named Simon) begins a personal investigation into their origins. This leads him to discover his odd and eccentric neighbors; an artificially intelligent robot-head, named Adam; a virtual-reality sex game; and a possible corporate conspiracy. As the story progresses, Simon’s grip on reality becomes more and more tenuous, while his craving for Nature Fresh milk becomes almost unbearable. Is it all just in his mind, or is something more sinister happening here?

Bee Season (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Gere | Juliette Binoche | Flora Cross | Max Minghella | Kate Bosworth | Corey Fischer | Sam Zuckerman | Joan Mankin | Piers Mackenzie | Lorri Holt | Brian Leonard | Kathy McGraw | John Evans | Alisha Mullally | Olivia Charles
Directors: Scott McGehee | David Siegel
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11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty…

Swimfan (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jesse Bradford | Erika Christensen | Shiri Appleby | Kate Burton | Clayne Crawford | Jason Ritter | Kia Goodwin | Dan Hedaya | Michael Higgins | Nick Sandow | Pamela Isaacs | James DeBello | Phyllis Somerville | Tom Cappadona | Malcolm Barrett
Directors: John Polson
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Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he’s on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Not that it’s been easy - every day Ben juggles countless hours in the pool (training for a critical swim meet), with a job at the local hospital, and finding quality time with his high school sweetheart, Amy. Ben’s rock-solid, promising future and romance with Amy are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison Bell. Madison, the “new girl in town,” quickly sets her sights on the impressionable Ben. While their first few meetings are innocent enough, the obsessive and seductive Madison wants more - much more. Seducing Ben is only beginning; she becomes his biggest “fan” and most unexpected nightmare, as her obsessions quickly spiral out of control into betrayal, madness and, ultimately, murder.

Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandra Bullock | Jason Patric | Willem Dafoe | Temuera Morrison | Brian McCardie | Christine Firkins | Michael G. Hagerty | Colleen Camp | Lois Chiles | Francis Guinan | Tamia | Jeremy Hotz | Enrique Murciano | Jessica Diz | Connie Ray
Directors: Jan de Bont
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Annie and her policeman boyfriend Alex decide to take a romantic ocean cruise together. Once at sea, however, one of the passengers, a disgruntled computer genius named Giger, disables the ship. Alex must now foil Giger’s plans and bring everyone back safely to shore, but how can he outwit a man who can control the entire ship from his keyboard?

007 View to a Kill, A (1985)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Roger Moore | Christopher Walken | Tanya Roberts | Grace Jones | Patrick Macnee | Patrick Bauchau | David Yip | Fiona Fullerton | Manning Redwood | Alison Doody | Willoughby Gray | Desmond Llewelyn | Robert Brown | Lois Maxwell | Walter Gotell
Directors: John Glen
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A silicon chip is captured from the Soviets and found to be identical to a prototype British design capable of withstanding the intense electromagnetic radiation of a nuclear blast. The British suspect industrialist Max Zorin of leaking details of the design to the Russians. When James Bond is sent to investigate he finds that Zorin is stockpiling silicon chips and, mysteriously, drilling near the San Andreas fault.

Final Destination (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Devon Sawa | Ali Larter | Kerr Smith | Tony Todd | Kristen Cloke | Seann William Scott | Daniel Roebuck | Roger Guenveur Smith | Chad Donella | Amanda Detmer | Brendan Fehr | Forbes Angus | Lisa Marie Caruk | Christine Chatelain | Barbara Tyson
Directors: James Wong
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When a boy starts having a premonition of Flight 180 crashing, he tells his friends before they board that it is a bad idea and to not to take the flight. His friends listen to him and don’t go and soon after the plane crashes. Now since his friends didn’t get on the plane one by one they are getting killed in mysterious ways.

Serenity (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nathan Fillion | Gina Torres | Alan Tudyk | Morena Baccarin | Adam Baldwin | Jewel Staite | Sean Maher | Summer Glau | Ron Glass | Chiwetel Ejiofor | David Krumholtz | Michael Hitchcock | Sarah Paulson | Yan Feldman | Rafael Feldman
Directors: Joss Whedon
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The crew of the Serenity is getting desperate. They have lain lower and lower to protect their doctor, Simon Tam (Sean Maher), and his telepathic traumatized little sister, River (Summer Glau), from the alliance, whom he rescued her from a year earlier. This has made getting jobs harder and now they are desperate. When they take River on a robbery during which Reavers (humans who have gone crazy and turned into cannibals) attack, Simon decides that its time to leave the crew of the Serenity for his and River’s safety. She then mutters “Miranda” and goes berserk and nearly shoots Capt. Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), until her brother says the safety word to put her to sleep. Reynolds decides to take them back on board for safety, only now an alliance operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is on their tracks and making Reynolds determined to find out what “Miranda” is and what the Alliance is hiding.

Virus (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis | William Baldwin | Donald Sutherland | Joanna Pacula | Marshall Bell | Sherman Augustus | Cliff Curtis | Julio Oscar Mechoso | Yuri Chervotkin | Keith Flippen | Olga Rzhepetskaya-Retchin | Levani Outchaneichvili | David Eggby
Directors: John Bruno
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After losing their payload the ramshackle, sinking, ocean-going salvage tug “Sea Star” takes refuge in the eye of a typhoon in an attempt to make repairs. Whilst trying to find help the tug, captained by Robert Everton (’Donald Sutherland’ (qv)), discovers a Russian science vessel adrift in the eye. The crew believes their troubles are over and they are set for life when the captain informs them of the value of salvaging this apparent ghost-ship. However, the navigator Kit Foster (’Jamie Lee Curtis’ (qv)) and the chief engineer Steve Baker (’William Baldwin’ (qv)) are not convinced that it will be that easy. Once power is restored to the ship strange things start to happen and the crew mysteriously disappear one by one. It isn’t until the discovery of the last remaining Russian crew member, the chief science officer Nadia Vinogradiya (’Joanna Pacula’ (qv)), that the crew realise the enemy ranged against them isn’t the Russians but something far more malevolent…

S1m0ne (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Benjamin Salisbury | Winona Ryder | Darnell Williams | Steve Rash | Ron Perkins | Jay Mohr | Catherine Keener | Evan Rachel Wood | Jeffrey Pierce | Jeff Williams | Rachel Roberts | Mitzi Martin | Carole Androsky | Christopher Neiman
Directors: Andrew Niccol
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The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress “Simone” to sub for the star—the first totally believable synthetic actress. The “actress” becomes an overnight sensation, with a major singing career as well, and everyone thinks she’s a real person. However, as Simone’s fame skyrockets, he cannot bear to admit his fraud to himself or the world.