Posts Tagged ‘television’

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Rennie | Patricia Neal | Hugh Marlowe | Sam Jaffe | Billy Gray | Frances Bavier | Lock Martin | Elmer Davis | H.V. Kaltenborn | Drew Pearson | Gabriel Heatter | Holly Bane | Marshall Bradford | John Brown | John Burton
Directors: Robert Wise
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A flying saucer orbits the 1950s Earth. It lands in Washington, DC, on the Mall. The lone occupant steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. Gort, a large and very powerful robot appears to save him and is able to melt tanks with the slightest bit of his power. The wounded alien orders Gort to stop his rampage and is taken to a hospital from which he escapes in order to learn more about this planet, even moving in as a boarder with an Earth family. When they begin to suspect him, he reveals himself, along with the news that Gort is a member of a race of super-robot enforcers invented to keep the peace of the galaxy that will destroy the Earth if provoked.

The Cooler (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: William H. Macy | Alec Baldwin | Maria Bello | Shawn Hatosy | Ron Livingston | Paul Sorvino | Estella Warren | Arthur J. Nascarella | Joey Fatone | M.C. Gainey | Ellen Greene | Don Scribner | Tony Longo | Richard Israel | Timothy Landfield
Directors: Wayne Kramer
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The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and THE COOLER is a love story about the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels loser who has made a career out of spreading his virulent bad luck on the floor of Las Vegas’ aging Shangri-La casino. When Bernie falls for a gorgeous cocktail waitress his bad luck is thrown into reverse.

Being There (1979)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Sellers | Shirley MacLaine | Melvyn Douglas | Jack Warden | Richard Dysart | Richard Basehart | Ruth Attaway | David Clennon | Fran Brill | Denise DuBarry | Oteil Burbridge | Ravenell Keller III | Brian Corrigan | Alfredine P. Brown | Donald Jacob
Directors: Hal Ashby
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A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Documentary | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Forrest J Ackerman | Gilbert Adler | Stephan Bender | Marlon Brando | Dean Cain | Mike Carlin | Gerard Christopher | Jackie Cooper | Dan Didio | Richard Donner | Michael Dougherty | Stephen Fishler | Alfred Gough | Gary H. Grossman | Mark Hamill
Directors: Kevin Burns
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In 1938, two aspiring comic strip talents, Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster, published a character that would create a new genre of fantasy, Superman, the first superhero. This film explores the creation of the character and his subsequent evolution over the decades through various media. With various interviews of noted creative luminaries, the film shows how the character has adapted to the times and bounced back from times when he felt irrelevant to always regain his prominence as one of the great heroes of popular culture.

The Weather Man (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Michael Caine | Hope Davis | Gemmenne de la Peña | Nicholas Hoult | Michael Rispoli | Gil Bellows | Judith McConnell | Chris Marrs | Dina Facklis | DeAnna N.J. Brooks | Sia A. Moody | Guy Van Swearingen | Alejandro Pina | Jackson Bubala
Directors: Gore Verbinski
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Clever and insightful movie on the subject of growing-up in upper middle class America. Dave Spritz, a weatherman without meteorological qualifications in Chicago, is confronted with his own rage that life hasn’t proceeded as he had planned. A talented man who finds it difficult to see his own talent because he compares himself with his Pulitzer winning, distant father is at a low ebb. Not to mention that “fans” delight in recognizing him on the street and throwing food at him. The other problems in his life, an angry ex-wife, a daughter bullied at school and a son just leaving rehab don’t help. And Spritz would really rather just think about sex. Through finding a hobby, connecting with his dying father and standing by his kids we see the character grow and become a hero.

Edtv (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew McConaughey | Jenna Elfman | Woody Harrelson | Sally Kirkland | Martin Landau | Ellen DeGeneres | Rob Reiner | Dennis Hopper | Elizabeth Hurley | Adam Goldberg | Viveka Davis | Clint Howard | Geoffrey Blake | Gail Boggs | Jenna Byrne
Directors: Ron Howard
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Cynthia, TV producer, has an idea about how to save the station: A normal person’s life should be broadcasted 24 hours a day. “Ed TV” is born the second her eye falls on Ed Pekurny, a sympathetic Joe Sixpack. After the first week on air Eds fame grows and grows, but conflicts break open: His brother Ray publishes a very negative book about Ed, who now dates Ray’s ex; Ed’s parent’s partnership problematics are broadcasted nationwide and a very attractive and seducing model uses innocent Ed to raise her own fame. Also, Ed’s contract proves to be unquittable, so that Ed Pekurny suddenly can see the golden bars around his cage. But in a country that switches the TV set on for breakfast and off for bedtime, nearly everything can happen - and people can be counted on.

Grumpy Old Men (1993)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Lemmon | Walter Matthau | Ann-Margret | Burgess Meredith | Daryl Hannah | Kevin Pollak | Ossie Davis | Buck Henry | Christopher McDonald | Steve Cochran | Joe Howard | Isabell O'Connor | Buffy Sedlachek | John Carroll Lynch | Charles Brin
Directors: Donald Petrie
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John and Max are elderly men living next door to each other. They’re continuously arguing and insulting each other, and have been this way for over 50 years. One day, Ariel, moves into the street. Both men are attracted to her, and their rivalry steps up a gear.

Fat Albert (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Kenan Thompson | Shedrack Anderson III | Jermaine Williams | Keith Robinson | Alphonso McAuley | Aaron Frazier | Marques Houston | Dania Ramirez | Omarion Grandberry | J. Mack Slaughter | Rick Overton | Kyla Pratt | Alice Greczyn | Farnsworth Bentley
Directors: Joel Zwick
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Fat Albert and the rest of the Cosby Kids are living happily in their animated world of Philadelphia when one day, a young teen cries on her remote control because she doesn’t have any friends. Fat Albert and his gang then magically come out of her TV and enter the real Philadelphia! They decide-being such good kids-to help the teen make friends. Albert then falls in love with the girl’s beautiful foster sister-but oh, no! If Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids stray from their TV world, they begin to fade away! Will Albert be able to return home after enlisting the help of Bill Cosby himself, or will he and his gang vanish forever? Go and see to find out!

How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Kenneth Branagh | Robin Wright Penn | Suzi Hofrichter | Lynn Redgrave | Jared Harris | Peter Riegert | David Krumholtz | Johnathon Schaech | Kaitlin Hopkins | Suzy Joachim | Brett Rickaby | Lucinda Jenney | Derek Kellock | Stacy Hogue | Peri Gilpin
Directors: Michael Kalesniko
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Shy, chain-smoking, insomniac Peter McGowan is an L.A. playwright with a string of hits that preceded his current ten years of failed productions. His mother-in-law is sinking into senility, a stranger is meandering the neighborhood claiming to be him, neighbors have a new dog that barks all night; his wife wants to have a child, and he does not: he’s become impotent. He’s working on a new play when a single mom moves in next door with her 8-year-old daughter. His wife immediately invites the girl into the McGowan household. Will this child stir Peter’s paternal feelings? Will she also help him get his dialogue right? And what of his doppelganger and the neighbor’s dog?

007 You Only Live Twice (1967)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Sean Connery | Akiko Wakabayashi | Mie Hama | Tetsuro Tamba | Teru Shimada | Karin Dor | Donald Pleasence | Bernard Lee | Lois Maxwell | Desmond Llewelyn | Charles Gray | Tsai Chin | Peter Fanene Maivia | Burt Kwouk | Michael Chow
Directors: Lewis Gilbert
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When an American space capsule is swallowed up by what they believe to be a Russian spaceship, World War 3 nearly breaks out. The British Government, however, suspect that other powers are at work as the space craft went down near Japan. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the force behind the theft, as James Bond discovers, but its motives are far from clear, and he must first find out where the captured space capsule is held before America and Russia initiate another world war.