Montag, 26. August 2013

youre next

Also Known As: Cacería macabra

Company: HanWay Films / Snoot Entertainment

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1

Plot: When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped... until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.

Cast and Character: Sharni Vinson as Erin / Nicholas Tucci as Felix / Wendy Glenn as Zee / AJ Bowen as Crispian / Joe Swanberg as Drake / Margaret Laney as Kelly / Amy Seimetz as Aimee / Ti West as Tariq / Rob Moran as Paul / Barbara Crampton as Aubrey / L.C. Holt as Lamb Mask / Simon Barrett as Tiger Mask / Lane Hughes as Fox Mask

Creators: n/A

Description: When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

Directors: Adam Wingard

Genres: Horror / Thriller

Location: Columbia, Missouri, USA

MPAA: Rated R for strong bloody violence, language and some sexuality/nudity

Opening Weekend: $7,050,000

Poster: posters/1853739.jpg

Rating: 7.1

Release Date: 23 August 2013 (USA)

Runtime: 94 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Datasat / Dolby Digital

Tagline: The Animals Will Hunt You

Title: You're Next

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1853739/

Votes: 2,367

Writers: Simon Barrett

Year: 2011


You're Next got rated 7.1.

About the movie: When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped... until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.


Riddick got rated n/A.

About the movie: Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.


You're Next got rated 7.1.

About the movie: When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped... until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.


The Adjuster got rated 6.8.

About the movie: A reflection about what makes everyone's life unique, through the story of Noah's family. Noah is an adjuster, having sex with his customers. His wife Hera watches pornographic movies for the Board of Censors. They live with their son Simon and Hera's sister in a show-flat. One day, they meet Bubba, who wants to make a movie in their house.

Sonntag, 25. August 2013

The World of Apu reviewed

The Warriors

Also Known As: Les guerriers de la nuit

Company: Paramount Pictures

Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1

Plot: Cyrus, the leader of the most powerful gang in New York City, the Gramercy Riffs, calls a midnight summit for all the area gangs, with all asked to send nine unarmed representatives for the conclave. A gang called The Warriors are blamed for killing Cyrus as he gives his speech. They now have to cross the territory of rivals in order to get to their own 'hood. The Warriors slowly cross the dangerous Bronx and Manhattan territories, narrowly escaping police and other gangs every step of the way.

Cast and Character: Michael Beck as Swan / James Remar as Ajax / Dorsey Wright as Cleon / Brian Tyler as Snow / David Harris as Cochise / Tom McKitterick as Cowboy / Marcelino Sánchez as Rembrandt / Terry Michos as Vermin / Deborah Van Valkenburgh as Mercy / Roger Hill as Cyrus / David Patrick Kelly as Luther / Lynne Thigpen as D.J. / Ginny Ortiz as Candy Store Girl / Mercedes Ruehl as Policewoman / John Snyder as Gas Station Man

Trailer: n/A

Creators: n/A

Description: In 1979 a charismatic leader summons the street gangs of New York City in a bid to take it over. When he is killed, The Warriors are falsely blamed and now must fight their way home while every other gang is hunting them down to kill them.

Directors: Walter Hill

Genres: Action / Thriller

Location: 72nd St. IRT Station, 72nd and Broadway, New York City, New York, USA

MPAA: Rated R for violence and language

Opening Weekend: n/A

Poster: posters/0080120.jpg

Rating: 7.6

Release Date: 9 February 1979 (USA)

Runtime: 92 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono

Tagline: They are 60,000 strong.

Title: The Warriors

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/

Votes: 48,509

Writers: Sol Yurick / David Shaber

Year: 1979


The Warriors got rated 7.6.

About the movie: Cyrus, the leader of the most powerful gang in New York City, the Gramercy Riffs, calls a midnight summit for all the area gangs, with all asked to send nine unarmed representatives for the conclave. A gang called The Warriors are blamed for killing Cyrus as he gives his speech. They now have to cross the territory of rivals in order to get to their own 'hood. The Warriors slowly cross the dangerous Bronx and Manhattan territories, narrowly escaping police and other gangs every step of the way.


The War Game got rated 7.9.

About the movie: The War Game is a fictional, worst-case-scenario docu-drama about nuclear war and its aftermath in and around a typical English city. Although it won an Oscar for Best Documentary, it is fiction. It was intended as an hour-long program to air on BBC 1, but it was deemed too intense and violent to broadcast. It went to theatrical distribution as a feature film instead. Low-budget and shot on location, it strives for and achieves convincing and unflinching realism.


Videodrome got rated 7.3.

About the movie: Max Renn runs a TV channel, and when looking for new material to show--he discovers "Videodrome." His girlfriend, Nicki Brand, goes to audition for the show, and Max gets drawn into the underlying plot that uses the show as its front for a global conspiracy.


Trust got rated 6.9.

About the movie: A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie (Liana Liberato) meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend (Chris Henry Coffey) is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her parents (Clive Owen and Catherine Keener) are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to support her as she comes to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life.

The Tree of the Wooden Clogs

Also Known As: The Tree of Wooden Clogs

Company: Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) / Ital-Noleggio Cinematografico

Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1

Plot: The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy's shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy other. What can they do?

Cast and Character: Luigi Ornaghi as Batistì / Francesca Moriggi as Batistina / Omar Brignoli as Minec / Antonio Ferrari as Tuni / Teresa Brescianini as Widow Runk / Giuseppe Brignoli as Anselmo / Carlo Rota as Peppino / Pasqualina Brolis as Teresina / Massimo Fratus as Pierino / Francesca Villa as Annetta / Maria Grazia Caroli as Bettina / Battista Trevaini as Il Finard / Giuseppina Langalelli as La Moglie Finarda / Lorenzo Pedroni as Il nonno Finard / Felice Cervi as Uslì

Creators: n/A

Description: The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever ...

Directors: Ermanno Olmi

Genres: Drama / History

Location: Cividate al Piano, Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy

MPAA: n/A

Opening Weekend: n/A

Poster: posters/0077138.jpg

Rating: 7.7

Release Date: 1 June 1979 (USA)

Runtime: 186 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono

Tagline: Once in a generation, a work of art appears as if by magic, to move and inspire its audience. A work that returns to a exhausted humanity the possibility of simple grandeur. We invite you to visit a time and place when life was still a sacred matter. When the family of man was still - a family.

Title: L'albero degli zoccoli

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077138/

Votes: 2,524

Writers: Ermanno Olmi

Year: 1978


L'albero degli zoccoli got rated 7.7.

About the movie: The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy's shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy other. What can they do?


The Treasure of the Sierra Madre got rated 8.4.

About the movie: Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.


Top Hat got rated 7.7.

About the movie: Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.


Three Comrades got rated 7.4.

About the movie: A love story centered around the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.

The Third Generation reviewed

The Ruling Class

Also Known As: La clase dirigente

Company: Keep Films

Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1

Plot: A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other somewhat-more respectable members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensues.

Cast and Character: Peter O'Toole as Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney - 14th Earl of Gurney / Hugh Owens as Toastmaster / Harry Andrews as 13th Earl of Gurney / Arthur Lowe as Tucker / William Mervyn as Sir Charles / Coral Browne as Lady Claire / James Villiers as Dinsdale / Alastair Sim as Bishop Lampton / Hugh Burden as Matthew Peake / Michael Bryant as Dr. Herder / Henry Woolf as Inmate / Griffith Davies as Inmate / Oliver MacGreevy as Inmate / Kay Walsh as Mrs. Piggot-Jones / Patsy Byrne as Mrs. Treadwell

Trailer: n/A

Creators: n/A

Description: A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other somewhat-more ...

Directors: Peter Medak

Genres: Comedy / Drama / Music

Location: Cliveden Estate, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

MPAA: R

Opening Weekend: n/A

Poster: posters/0069198.jpg

Rating: 7.4

Release Date: 10 May 1972 (France)

Runtime: 154 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono

Tagline: n/A

Title: The Ruling Class

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069198/

Votes: 3,650

Writers: Peter Barnes / Peter Barnes

Year: 1972


The Ruling Class got rated 7.4.

About the movie: A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other somewhat-more respectable members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensues.


Ruggles of Red Gap got rated 7.7.

About the movie: While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage of Ruggles' upper class background to influence Egbert's hick lifestyle. However, Egbert is more interested in partying and he takes Ruggles to the local 'beer bust'. When word gets out that "Colonel Ruggles is staying with his close friends" in the local paper, the butler becomes a town celebrity. After befriending Mrs. Judson, a widow who he impresses with his culinary skills, Ruggles decides to strike out on his own and open a restaurant. His transition from servant to independent man will depend on its success.


Roger & Me got rated 7.5.

About the movie: A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.


Reservoir Dogs got rated 8.4.

About the movie: Six criminals, who are strangers to each other, are hired by a crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a diamond robbery. Right at the outset, they are given false names with an intention that they won't get too close and concentrate on the job instead. They are completely sure that the robbery is going to be a success. But when the police show up right at the time and the site of the robbery, panic spreads amongst the group members and one of them is killed in the subsequent shootout along with a few policemen and civilians. When the remaining people assemble at the premeditated rendezvous point (a warehouse), they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop.

The Red Badge of Courage

Also Known As: Alma de valiente

Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1

Plot: Plot centers around how a young recruit (Audie Murphy) faces the horrors of war. Character vascilates between wanting to fight and doubting his own courage. In midst of first bloody encounter, Youth runs away. After seeing dead and wounded, sense of shame leads him back to his unit, where he distinguishes himself in the next battle. Having overcome his fear of "the great Death" he knows e can face whatever comes. Somewhat sentimental "coming of age" tale was pet project of John Huston, who fought MGM over casting of Murphy and Bill Mauldin in lead roles.

Cast and Character: Audie Murphy as The Youth / Bill Mauldin as The Loud Soldier / Douglas Dick as The Lieutenant / Royal Dano as The Tattered Man / John Dierkes as The Tall Soldier / Arthur Hunnicutt as Bill Porter / Tim Durant as The General / Andy Devine as The Cheery Soldier / Robert Easton as Thompson

Trailer: n/A

Creators: n/A

Description: Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.

Directors: John Huston

Genres: Drama / War

Location: Bidwell Park - Manzanita Avenue, Chico, California, USA

MPAA: Approved

Opening Weekend: n/A

Poster: posters/0043961.jpg

Rating: 7.2

Release Date: 16 March 1951 (USA)

Runtime: 69 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono

Tagline: M-G-M, the Company that Released "Gone With the Wind", Presents a New Drama of the War Between the States!

Title: The Red Badge of Courage

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043961/

Votes: 2,392

Writers: Stephen Crane / John Huston

Year: 1951


The Red Badge of Courage got rated 7.2.

About the movie: Plot centers around how a young recruit (Audie Murphy) faces the horrors of war. Character vascilates between wanting to fight and doubting his own courage. In midst of first bloody encounter, Youth runs away. After seeing dead and wounded, sense of shame leads him back to his unit, where he distinguishes himself in the next battle. Having overcome his fear of "the great Death" he knows e can face whatever comes. Somewhat sentimental "coming of age" tale was pet project of John Huston, who fought MGM over casting of Murphy and Bill Mauldin in lead roles.


Rebel Without a Cause got rated 7.8.

About the movie: Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that's why his family has had to move before. Here he hopes to find the love he doesn't get from his middle-class family. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's real concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers in switchblade knife fights and "chickie" games in which cars race toward a seaside cliff.


Rain Man got rated 8.0.

About the movie: Charles Sanford "Charlie" Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/bookie who is at war with his own life. Charlie, as a young teenager, used his father's 1948 Buick convertible without permission and as a result, he went to jail for two days on account that his father reported it stolen. It is then that Charlie learns that his estranged father died and left him from his last will and testament a huge bed of roses and the car while the remainder will of $3 Million goes into a trust fund to be distributed to someone. Charlie seemed pretty angry by this and decides to look into this matter. It seems as if that "someone" is Raymond, Charlie's unknown brother, an autistic savant who lives in a world of his own, resides at the Walbrook Institute. Charlie then kidnaps Raymond and decides to take him on a lust for life trip to the west coast as a threat to get the $3 Million inheritance. Raymond's acts and nagging, including repeated talks of "Abbott & Costello",...


The Prisoner got rated 5.9.

About the movie: A New Yorker awakens to find himself in a place called The Village run by a man known as Two. As everyone in The Village is referred to only by a number, everyone in The Village refers to him as Six - despite he himself knowing that he has another name - and seems to know who he is. He is told he lives in The Village and that The Village is the only reality there is. Six's mission becomes to find out where The Village is, who Two is and why he is seemingly keeping him prisoner in The Village (despite Two stating that Six is a free man), and how he can escape to his life back in New York. Six has to learn who among the Villagers he can trust - who include a doctor named 313, a cab driver named 147, and Two's own son named 11-12 - in his quest to escape from The Village. Six also has recurring memories of his life in New York, including an encounter with a woman named Lucy, which may be part of the key to discovering why he's in The Village.