Posts Tagged ‘friendship’

Spiderwick Chronicles, The (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Highmore, Freddie | Nolte, Nick | Strathairn, David | Rogen, Seth | Short, Martin | McCarthy, Andrew | Fennell, Tod | Lavalley, Jeremy | Jones, Tyler Patrick | Switzer, Kyle
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Once upon a time, upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family blames it all on Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate what’s really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate and of the creatures that inhabit it.

Be Kind Rewind (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Black, Jack | Def, Mos | Glover, Danny | Gooch, Irv | Parker, Chandler | Smith, Arjay | Aaron, Quinton | Perez, Gio | Soltys, Tomasz | Franklin, Marcus Carl | Hightower, Blake | Said, Amir Ali | Slotkoff, David | Heins, Frank | Hogan, Harvey
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A small VHS only video store faces foreclosure in a poor community. While watching the store for the owner, a blundering employee’s friend accidentally erases all of the tapes. In order to keep their blunder from becoming apparent, the duo of Mos Def and Jack Black begin remaking the films themselves using homemade special effects and outdated filming techniques.

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: Canada | Germany | USA
Actors: Cho, John | Penn, Kal | Harris, Neil Patrick | Krumholtz, David | Thomas, Eddie Kaye | Meloni, Christopher | Reynolds, Ryan | Willard, Fred | Embry, Ethan | Tinkler, Robert | Braun, Steve | Bochart, Dan | Sheer, Mike | Thompson, Christopher | Tsarouchas, Angelo
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Two twenty-something stoner roommates — one a Korean American investment banker; the other an Indian American medical school candidate — go through a life changing journey, as they spend a night roaming the state of New Jersey in search of White Castle hamburgers.

Secret Garden, The (1993)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Maberly, Kate | Prowse, Heydon | Knott, Andrew | Smith, Maggie | Crossley, Laura | Lynch, John | Sparrow, Walter | Jacob, Irène | Baker, Frank | Hill, Valerie | Pickering, Andrea | Moreton, Peter | Spreckley, Arthur | Bruce, Colin | Singh, Parsan
Directors: Holland, Agnieszka
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After losing her self-indulging parents in an earthquake, a bitter young girl named Mary Lennox is sent to live in England with her reclusive Uncle. Eventually she discovers her bedridden cousin and a ’secret garden’ that once belonged to her deceased aunt. With the help of her cousin, the kindly Dikon, and a little ‘magic’, can Mary find a way to bring love back to her family?

21 (2008)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sturgess, Jim | Spacey, Kevin | Yoo, Aaron | Pitts, Jacob | Fishburne, Laurence | McGee, Jack | Gad, Josh | Golzari, Sam | Gilpin, Jack | Williams, Butch | Ma, Jeffrey | Patton, Frank | Vezina, Steven Richard | Werner, Chaska T. | Morris, Kyle
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

40 Year Old Virgin, The (2005)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Carell, Steve | Keener, Catherine | Rudd, Paul | Malco, Romany | Rogen, Seth | Banks, Elizabeth | Mann, Leslie | Lynch, Jane | Bednob, Gerry | Malil, Shelley | Dennings, Kat | Masterson, Jordy | Smith, Chelsea | Hill, Jonah | Phillips, Erica Vittina
Directors: Lehmann, Michael
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Andy at the age of 40 still hasn’t had sex. He lets his secret slip at a poker game with his buds from work. After the revealing all his friends are on a mission to help get him laid. Along the way Andy meets a nice mom: Trish who fall head over heels for each other.

It (1990)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Anderson, Harry | Christopher, Dennis | Masur, Richard | O'Toole, Annette | Reid, Tim | Ritter, John | Thomas, Richard | Curry, Tim | Brandis, Jonathan | Crane, Brandon | Faraizl, Adam | Green, Seth | Heller, Ben | Perkins, Emily | Taylor, Marlon
Directors: Wallace, Tommy Lee
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Derry, Maine is a quiet town, terrorized every 30 years by a horror known only as “It”. The only victims of “It” are children. Through the form of a clown named Pennywise, “It” wakes up every 30 years and feeds. The adults of Derry act like “It” doesn’t happen. Ironically they know about “It”, but the events are too horrible to talk about. Seven outcasts, know as The Lucky Seven, Bill, Ben, Beverly, Eddie, Richie, Mike, and Stan are able to defeat “It” as children and make a pact to return and do battle again should the terror return. Now 30 years later, Mike Hanlon who stayed behind, is puzzled by a bizarre occurance of child murders. When he discovers that “It” has come back, he reunites what’s left of The Lucky Seven, now in their middle ages to do battle once again, and “It” is ready. The Lucky Seven must now defeat “It” and cure Derry of “The Derry Disease”.

Basketball Diaries, The (1995)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Bracco, Lorraine | Sokol, Marilyn | Madio, James | McGaw, Patrick | Wahlberg, Mark | Cooper, Roy | Kirby, Bruno | Papiris, Jimmy | Gaetani, Nick | Chaplin, Alexander | Jorgensen, Ben | Mostel, Josh | Lewis, Juliette | Imperioli, Michael
Directors: Kalvert, Scott
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Film adjustment of street tough Jim Carroll’s epistle about his kaleidoscopical free fall into the torturesome world of drug addiction. As a member of a ostensibly invincible high school basketball game squad, Jim’s life centers around the hoops court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach (”Swifty”) who takes unaccepted liberties with the boys on his team, adolescent sexual angst, and an insalubrious appetence for heroin — all of these begin to entrench on young Jim’s dream of decorous a basketball game star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother’s climb business concern for her son. He can’t go home and his only escape from the realism of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older region friend with whom Jim “picked up a game” now and then, is he able to begin the long journeying back to sanity.

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (2005)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Henley, Georgie | Keynes, Skandar | Moseley, William | Popplewell, Anna | Swinton, Tilda | McAvoy, James | Broadbent, Jim | Shah, Kiran | Cosmo, James | McIntosh, Judy | Hawthorne, Elizabeth | Kake, Patrick | Rangi, Shane | Cook, Brandon | Cook, Cassie
Directors: Adamson, Andrew
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Based on the classical novel by ‘CS Lewis’ (qv). Four London children are sent to a professor’s body politic home in order for aegis during World War II. There they find a magic closet which leads to a secret land called Narnia, which is being ruled by an evil witch. To defeat the witch, they must join forces with Aslan, the lion God of Narnia.

New Jack City (1991)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Snipes, Wesley | Ice-T | Payne, Allen | Rock, Chris | Michele, Michael | Nunn, Bill | Wong, Russell | Cobbs, Bill | Williams, Christopher | Nelson, Judd | Williams, Vanessa | Johns, Tracy Camilla | DeSando, Anthony | Ashford, Nick
Directors: Van Peebles, Mario
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In 1989, Nino Brown, a small time drug dealer, is convinced by one of his fellow thugs that the wave of the future is in the cocaine derivative, crack. Brown sees potential in crack and sets out to establish himself as chief kingpin by killing off his rivals and even going as far as to take over a whole apartment complex. Out to stop him are undercover cops Scottie Appleton and Nick Paretti. Appleton especially wants to get Nino because of the fact that he murdered Scottie’s mother as part of a gang initiaton. Also involved is Pookie, a former crackhead who wants to bring down Nino as well.