Thursday, January 13, 2011

The Sky Crawlers

The Sky Crawlers

Actors: Rinko Kikuchi , Chiaki Kuriyama , Shosuke Tanihara , Bryce Hitchcock
Director: Mamoru Oshii
IMDB Rate: 6.8 out of 10 (1390 votes)
Plot Summary:From Mamoru Oshii, the world-acclaimed director of Ghost in the Shell comes an award-winning story of an exciting but endless war with heroes too young to understand the meaning of their battles. A group of eternally young fighter pilots known as Kildren experience the sudden loss of innocence as they battle the enemy in astonishing dogfights above the clouds. With his only childhood memory consisting of intense flight training, the fearless teenage pilot Yuichis dogfights coexist with his struggle to find his missing past. When his beautiful, young female commander Suito is reluctant to discuss the fate of the pilot that Yuichi is replacing - or the strangely perfect condition of that pilots former aircraft - Yuichis curiosity becomes heightened.

The Killing Jar

The Killing Jar

Actors: Michael Madsen , Danny Trejo , Harold Perrineau , Jake Busey , Kevin Gage , Lew Temple , Talan Torriero , Amber Benson , Patrick Durham , Jonathan Sachar , Lindsey Axelsson , Emily Catherine Young , Mark Young
Director: Mark Young
IMDB Rate: 5.6 out of 10 (283 votes)
Plot Summary:A stranger armed with a shotgun takes seven patrons hostage in a remote roadside diner. But as the body count increases, the desperate survivors discover that one of the hostages may be even more dangerous than their captor.

Undermind

Undermind

Actors: Celia Weston , Ellen Pompeo , Aasif Mandvi , Sam Trammell , Susan May Pratt , Michael Ryan Segal , Erik Jensen , P.J. Morrison , Tara McNamee , Brad Calcaterra , Joseph Mosso
Director: Nevil Dwek
IMDB Rate: 6.3 out of 10 (228 votes)
Plot Summary:This psychological dramatic thriller set in New York City is about one man on a journey to find himself. Derrick, a 27 year-old corporate lawyer with a large trust fund, enters the polar opposite world of Zane, a hapless criminal and an aspiring musician. Although the two have never met, and never will, the lives of Derrick and Zane are more connected than either one could ever imagine. One morning the privileged Derrick wakes up in a different apartment, in bed with a woman he has never seen before. Its clear that she knows him, but she calls him Zane. And so does everybody else. From that moment on, Derrick finds himself living Zanes criminal life, where individuals strangely resemble those in his real life A man he shoots in self defense in this new world resembles his former psychiatrist Lucy, a manager of an upscale jewelry store that he has been forced to rob is the embodiment of his former girlfriend, Olivia he takes as hostage a woman who is his mothers doppelganger, as well as the Sampson couple, Brian Sampson and Wendy Sampson. Meanwhile, Zane has also entered a parallel world and must now grapple with Derricks life. He is seduced by Derricks privileged world of money and power. As he begins to contend with Derricks demons, he yearns to return to and improve his own life, yet is completely powerless to do so. As Derrick and Zane make his way through the life of the other, each of them starts to reshape his new world and in so doing discover hidden strengths that neither knew he possessed.

Viper: Legend in it

Viper: Legend in it

Actors:
Director: Studio: Duke
IMDB Rate: 0 out of 10 (0 votes)
Plot Summary:This program tells the whole story from the introduction of that first production car in 1990 through to the Vipers 1998 class-winning success at the world famous 24-hr Le Mans sports car race. We hear from the key players in the creation of the Viper and from those currently involved in the designing and building of Vipers past, present and future.

We Were Strangers

We Were Strangers

Actors: Morris Ankrum , Gilbert Roland , Wally Cassell , José Pérez , Jennifer Jones , John Garfield , Ramon Novarro , David Bond , Pedro Armendáriz
Director: John Huston
IMDB Rate: 6.5 out of 10 (342 votes)
Plot Summary:China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner. Tony develops a plan to tunnel under the citys cemetery to a plot owned by a high official, assassinate him, and blow up the whole Cuban hierarchy at the ensuing state funeral. Together with a band of dedicated revolutionaries, they begin digging.

Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown

Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown

Actors: John Carpenter , Neil Gaiman , Stuart Gordon , Guillermo del Toro , Robin Atkin Downes , Andrew Migliore , S.T. Joshi , Robert M. Price , Caitlin R. Kiernan , Ramsey Campbell , Peter Straub
Director: Frank H. Woodward
IMDB Rate: 7.9 out of 10 (37 votes)
Plot Summary:A chronicle of the life, work and mind that created the Cthulhu mythos.

Body Slam

Body Slam

Actors: Barry Gordon , Billy Barty , Sydney Lassick , John Fujioka , Roddy Piper , Dirk Benedict , Kellie Martin , John Astin , Tanya Roberts , Charles Nelson Reilly , Sika Anoai , Dani Janssen , Lou Albano , Afa Anoai , Sam Fatu
Director: Hal Needham
IMDB Rate: 4.7 out of 10 (417 votes)
Plot Summary:M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his teammate Tonga Tom. The team is a success, and Harry decides to take his wrestlers and his band on a Rock n Wrestling tour. The tour is a success, and Harry feels what it is like to be a winner again.