Posts Tagged ‘remake’

Sydney aka Hard Eight (1996)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hall, Philip Baker | Reilly, John C. | Jackson, Samuel L. | Parker, F. William | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Cooper, Nathanael | Ridgely, Robert | Rowe, Michael J. | D'Allesandro, Peter | Blane, Steve | Breen, Andy | Pinizza, Mark | Gross, Richard | Keeley, Cliff | Robbins, Truman
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John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room without losing much money. Under Sydney’s fatherly tutelage, John becomes a successful small-time professional gambler, and all is well, until he falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and sometimes hooker.

We’re No Angels (1989)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Penn, Sean | Axton, Hoyt | Kirby, Bruno | McAnally, Ray | Russo, James | Shawn, Wallace | Reilly, John C. | Brazeau, Jay | Buhay, Ken | Murdoch, Bill | Turner, Frank C. | Walker, Matthew | Hoy, Sean | Berry, Lloyd
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A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church when they are mistaken for two priests. The two are keen to flee but are unable to do so without the help of Molly.

Funny Games U.S. (2007)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Austria | France | Germany | Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Roth, Tim | Pitt, Michael | Corbet, Brady | Gearhart, Devon | Gaines, Boyd | LuPone, Robert
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In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, a middle-class housewife Anna tells the story of how she and her husband George and their 10-year-old son Georgie submitted both physically and mentally to the torture, violence, and death foisted upon them by two young, unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their weekend vacation retreat near a lake.

Halloween (2007)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Pleasence, Donald | Curtis, Jamie Lee | Soles, P.J. | Cyphers, Charles | Richards, Kyle | Andrews, Brian | Graham, John Michael | Kyes, Nancy | Malet, Arthur | Yablans, Mickey | Le Page, Brent | Hollander, Adam | Phalen, Robert | Moran, Tony
Directors: Carpenter, John
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After being attached for 15 years, Michael Myers, now a 21-year-old man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental psychiatric hospital (where he was attached as a 6 year old) and at once returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.

Black Christmas (2006)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Cassidy, Katie | Trachtenberg, Michelle | Chabert, Lacey | Cloke, Kristen | Martin, Andrea | Winstead, Mary Elizabeth | Lowe, Crystal | Hudson, Oliver | Harmon, Jessica | Savasta, Leela | Kole, Kathleen | Konoval, Karin | Mann, Robert | Friss, Dean | Wiebe, Cainan
Directors: Morgan, Glen
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Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she’d come to despise when she looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his beloved father’s brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the attic for good, to hold his silence of what he’d witnessed that night. His only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and starting a “new” family. As Billy’s mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic on Christmas Eve 1991, taking a rolling pin to his mother’s head, and a pointed tree ornament to her lovers eye before leaving his sister as disfigured as he was by blinding her. Before he could finish the job police forced there way in and dragged him off to mental institution and his sister a foster home, whose eye sight was saved in one eye… but not the other. Cut to the present where a security guard has been monitoring Billy’s progress since he came into his care, back in 1991. Knowing full well that during this time for fifteen years, Billy has made a break from this asylum, but never succeeding… until now. Far away, his childhood home is now a sorority house, where nine sisters and their house-mother are celebrating the holiday season together …but tonight they’re about to get a surprise visitor… and it’s not Santa.

Shutter (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackson, Joshua | Denman, David | Hensley, John | Lee, James Kyson | Yamamoto, Kei | Morineau, Pascal | Ota, Masaki | Tatsuo, Heideru | Kanzaki, Tomotaka | Yakushiji, Jun | Nagakura, Masakazu | Furukawa, Shinji | Ando, Akihido | Toji, Takao | Mishima, Yutaka
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A newlywed couple Ben and Jane move to Japan for a promising job opportunity - a fashion shoot in Tokyo. During their trip on a dark forest road they experience a tragic car accident, leading to the death of a young local girl. Upon regaining consciousness, they find no trace of her body. A bit distraught the couple arrives in Tokyo to begin their new life. Meanwhile Ben begins noticing strange white blurs in many of his fashion shoot photographs. Jane believes that the blurs are actually spirit photography of the dead girl who they hit on the road, and that she may be seeking vengeance.

Cape Fear (1991)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Nolte, Nick | Lange, Jessica | Lewis, Juliette | Baker, Joe Don | Mitchum, Robert | Peck, Gregory | Balsam, Martin | Douglas, Illeana | Thompson, Fred Dalton | Montero, Zully | Henne, Craig | Burton, Forest | Poe IV, Edgar Allan | Ball, Rod
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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Sam Bowden is a small-town incorporated attorney/”Leave It to Beaver”-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic person rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years, ago Sam was a public protector assigned to Max Cady’s rape trial, and he made a life-threatening error: he hid a written document from his nonreader client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, booklover Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Rob Roy (1995)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Neeson, Liam | Lange, Jessica | Hurt, John | Roth, Tim | Stoltz, Eric | Keir, Andrew | Cox, Brian | McCardie, Brian | Martin, Gilbert | Masson, Vicki | Gilchrist, Gilly | Flemyng, Jason | Stewart, Ewan | Hayman, David | McArthur, Brian
Directors: Caton-Jones, Michael
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In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.

Boogie Nights (1997)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Guzmán, Luis | Reynolds, Burt | Moore, Julianne | Bueno, Rico | Reilly, John C. | Parker, Nicole Ari | Cheadle, Don | Graham, Heather | Wahlberg, Mark | Macy, William H. | Barkhordarian, Samson | Hartley, Nina | Braeden, Brad | Gleason, Joanna | Hudd, Lawrence
Directors: Anderson, Paul Thomas
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Everyone’s born with one particular thing, and Eddie Adams uses his thumping “asset” to take the world of film porno by storm. Things get ugly though when winner leads to drugs and ruin. Will Dirk clean up and get back on top? Will Amber see her son? Will Rollergirl ever take off her skates?!

Drowning Mona (2000)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: DeVito, Danny | Midler, Bette | Campbell, Neve | Curtis, Jamie Lee | Affleck, Casey | Fichtner, William | Thomas, Marcus | Dobson, Peter | Wilhoite, Kathleen | Walter, Tracey | Ferrell, Will | Ben-Victor, Paul | Schulze, Paul | Pellegrino, Mark | O'Connor, Raymond
Directors: Gomez, Nick
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When Mona’s key won’t fit in her Yugo, she tries it in her son’s; when it works, she borrows his car. The brakes fail; she goes through the guard rail, into the river, and drowns. When police chief Rash learns that the brake lines were cut, he looks for a murderer. Suspect one: Mona’s dim son Jeff, whom she constantly denigrated. Suspect two: her husband Phil, whom she constantly belittled and who’s having an affair with Rona, a waitress with a secret of her own. Suspect three: Jeff’s landscape partner Bobby, who wants Jeff out, has yelled at Mona that he’d like to rip out her ovaries, and who is soon to be Rash’s son-in-law. Can Rash find the killer and keep Bobby out of jail?