Posts Tagged ‘new-york-city’

Madigan (1968)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Widmark, Richard | Fonda, Henry | Stevens, Inger | Guardino, Harry | Whitmore, James | Clark, Susan | Dunn, Michael | Ihnat, Steve | Stroud, Don | North, Sheree | Stevens, Warren | St. Jacques, Raymond | Freed, Bert | Bellaver, Harry | Marth, Frank
Directors: Siegel, Don
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Policemen Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, the two NYC detectives are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While Bonaro and Madigan follow up on various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and counseling the spouses of fallen officers.

Talk to Me (2007)

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Annan, Jim | Antoine, Benz | Birman, Matt | Brown, David | Cedric the Entertainer | Cheadle, Don | Dale, J. Miles | Davidx | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Epps, Mike | Jones, Kamal | Kassel, Jeff | Malmberg, Jim | Peterson, Erick | Rakes, Kwame
Directors: Lemmons, Kasi
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The true life story of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and “tell it like it is.” With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with fellow prison inmate Milo’s brother Dewey Hughes. From the first wild morning on the air, Petey relies on the more straight-laced Dewey to run interference at WOL-AM, where Dewey is the program director. At the station, Petey becomes an iconic radio personality, surpassing even the established popularity of his fellow disc jockeys, Nighthawk and Sunny Jim. Combining biting humor with social commentary, Petey openly courts controversy for station owner E.G. Sonderling. Petey was determined to make not just himself but his community heard during an exciting and turbulent period in American history. As Petey’s voice, humor, and spirit surge across the airwaves with the vitality of the era, listeners tune in to hear not only incredible music but also a man speaking directly to them about race and power in America like few people ever have. Through the years, Petey’s “The truth just is” style — on - and off-air - would redefine both Petey and Dewey, and empower each to become the man he would most like to be.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Hauer, Rutger | Roberts, Julia | Westley, Jennifer Rae | Clark, Dick | Rockwell, Sam | Sweeney, Michelle | Barrymore, Drew | Ceci, Chelsea | Pitt, Brad | Damon, Matt | Cera, Michael | Rose Ambroziak, Aimee | Blais, Isabelle | Carter, Melissa | Hall, Jennifer | Elkin, Ilona | Tucker, Sean | Morgan, Jaye P. | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Hirsh, David Julian
Directors: Clooney, George
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is the story of a legendary showman’s double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

Thomas Crown Affair, The (1999)

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Russo, Rene | Leary, Denis | Gazzara, Ben | Faison, Frankie | Weaver, Fritz | Keating, Charles | Margolis, Mark | Dunaway, Faye | Lombard, Michael | Ambrozy, Bill | Bahr, Michael | Novak, Robert D. | Lamb, Joe H. | Saito, James
Directors: McTiernan, John
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Self-made billionaire Thomas Crown is bored of being able to buy everything he desires. Being irresistible to women, he also does not feel any challenge in that area. But there are a few things even he can’t get, therefore Thomas Crown has a seldom hobby: He steals priceless masterpieces of Art. After the theft of a famous painting from Claude Monet, the only person suspecting Thomas Crown is Catherine Banning. Her job is to get the picture back, no matter how she accomplishes her mission. Unfortunately, Catherine gets involved too deeply with Thomas to keep a professional distance to the case. Fortunately, Thomas seems to fall for her, too.

Art of War, The (2000)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Snipes, Wesley | Sutherland, Donald | Chaykin, Maury | Archer, Anne | Matiko, Marie | Biehn, Michael | Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki | Komorowska, Liliana | Hong, James | Hopkins, Paul | Chin, Glen | Yuan, Ron | Mak, Bonnie | Park, Uni | Selby, Erin
Directors: Duguay, Christian
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Shaw is an operative for the United Nations’ covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China’s ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade agreement with China and the US, Shaw is framed for the murder and must evade the FBI and Triad gangsters to find out what is really going on.

Dark Water (2005)

Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Connelly, Jennifer | Reilly, John | Roth, Tim | Scott, Dougray | Postlethwaite, Pete | Manheim, Camryn | Gade, Ariel | Haney-Jardine, Perla | Monk, Debra | Emond, Linda | Buell, Bill | Horne, J.R. | Löwensohn, Elina | Belle, Warren | Sealy-Smith, Alison
Directors: Salles, Walter
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Dahlia Williams is starting a new life; newly separated with a new job and a new apartment, she’s determined to put her relationship with her estranged husband behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. But when the strained separation disintegrates into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse. Her new apartment—dilapidated, cramped, and worn—seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild, sending her on a puzzling and mystifying pursuit to find out who is behind the endless mind games. As Dahlia frantically searches for the links between the riddles, the dark water seems to close around her. But one thing trumps all others in Dahlia’s world: no matter what it is that’s out there, she’ll stop at nothing to find it.

Shortbus (2006)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Dawson, Paul | DeBoy, PJ | Barker, Raphael | Stickles, Peter | Brannan, Jay | Mandell, Alan | Hardman, Adam | Rivas, Ray | Hagan, Justin | Hilmer, Jan | Jusick, Stephen Kent | Jackson, Derek | Stovall, Paul Oakley | Bond, Justin | Pittu, David
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Numerous New York City-dwellers come to the exclusive club Shortbus to work out problems in their sexual relationships. Rob and Sophia are a happily married couple, except for the fact that she has never experienced sexual climax. This irony follows her to work, because she is a couples counselor who frequently has to deal with the sexual issues other couples have. Two of her patients are Jamie and James, a gay couple who have been monogamous for five years and counting. James wants to bring other men in to the relationship, and his own history with depression may hint at an ulterior motive. Ceth (Pronounced like Seth) may be the perfect addition to their family, but Caleb, a voyeur from across the street, may have his own ideas about that. Sophia visits Severin, a dominatrix with secrets of her own to reveal.

Murder Party (2007)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Barnett, Alex | Blair, Macon | Clomegah, Michael | da Costa, Andre | Du Laney, Alton | Goldblatt, Paul | Lacey, William | Lindsay, Damon | Reeves, B. | Sharp, Chris | Sia, Beau | Tangradi, Bill | Zellerford, David
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A random invitation to a Halloween party leads a man into the hands of a rogue collective intent on murdering him for the sake of their art, sparking a bloodbath of mishap, mayhem and hilarity.

Frida (2002)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Canada | Mexico | USA
Actors: Hayek, Salma | Maestro, Mía | Zapata, Amelia | Usigli, Alejandro | Luna, Diego | Molina, Alfred | Bravo, Lucia | Golino, Valeria | Reyes Spíndola, Patricia | Navarro, Loló | Rees, Roger | Martínez, Fermín | Medina, Roberto | Judd, Ashley | Banderas, Antonio
Directors: Taymor, Julie
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“Frida” chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

Godfather: Part III, The (1990)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Keaton, Diane | Shire, Talia | Garcia, Andy | Wallach, Eli | Mantegna, Joe | Hamilton, George | Fonda, Bridget | Coppola, Sofia | Vallone, Raf | D'Ambrosio, Franc | Donnelly, Donal | Bright, Richard
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family’s interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone’s finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protoge’s love affair with his daughter.