Posts Tagged ‘god’
The Odyssey (1997)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Homer’s classic epic poem about the travels of Ulisses after his conquest of Troy is brought to the small screen. However, the gods seize the opportunity to make Odysseus and his crew a domino in their games forcing him to take detours that add years to his trip and throw him into conflict with Circe, the Cyclops, Poseidon, and ultimately to Hades itself. Meanwhile, Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, is forced to hold off suitors trying to claim his property in the thought that Odysseus has died. Nonetheless, Odysseus keeps trying to find his way back with the aid of Athena. |
Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (2001)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Chihiro and her family are on their way to their new house in the suburbs when her father decides to take a shortcut along a lonely-looking dirt road. After getting out of the car and walking along a path for a while, they discover an open-air restaurant filled with food but with no workers or customers present. Mom and Dad don’t hesitate to sit down and dig in, but Chihiro senses danger and refuses. As night falls, she is terrified to see the area fill with faceless spirits, but when she runs to find her parents, she discovers that they have been turned into pigs. She is found by a mysterious boy named Haku, who promises to help her. He gets her a job working in a nearby building, which turns out to be a bathhouse for the thousands of Japan’s gods and spirits. Though the work is hard and the people strange, she does as well as she can. Her parents, however, are still waiting in the hotel’s stockyard, and Chihiro must find a way to break the spell on them before they end up as the main course of some guest’s dinner. |
Two of a Kind (1983)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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God has had just about enough of the human’s attitude so he will destroy the planet very soon. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank teller, both with very amateur criminal minds, to save the world… |
Frailty (2001)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Fenton Meeks (Matthew McConaughey), comes forth to tell the FBI that his brother Adam may be the serial killer who calls himself God’s Hands, who the FBI has been searching for. The film uses flashbacks to show Meeks’ childhood with a father (Bill Paxton) who believed he was on a mission from God to destroy demons that inhabit human bodies. Fenton saw his dad as evil, while Adam saw him as a hero. |
City of Angels (1998)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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Inspired by the modern classic, Wings of Desire, City involves an angel (Cage) who is spotted by a doctor in an operating room. Franz plays Cage’s buddy who somehow knows a lot about angels. |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)Monday, May 4th, 2009 |
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Eddie is the responsible for the maintenance of the Ruby Pier amusement park and a veteran of World War II. While trying to save a five year old girl from an accident with ride that is falling after rupturing the wire, Eddie dies. He awakes in Heaven, and the Blue Man explains him that he will have a journey meeting five people in their heavens that will show the importance of his life before he goes to the next level. |
Choke (2008)Monday, April 27th, 2009 |
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Victor Mancini, a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida, in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical re-enactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park. At night, Victor runs a scam by deliberately choking in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who “save” him. When, in a rare lucid movement, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father’s identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend, Denny and his mother’s beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall, to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever. Search keywords |
Repo! The Genetic Opera (1992)Thursday, February 12th, 2009 |
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In the year 2056 – the not too distant future – an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. The tragedy of a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by villainous Repo Men. In a world where surgery addicts are connected on painkilling drugs and murder is sanctioned by law, a sheltered young man, seeks to cure his own rare disease as well as information about his mysterious family history. After being absorbed by the disturbing world of GeneCo, she is unable to turn back, as all of your questions will be answered at the wildly anticipated spectacular event: The Genetic Opera. En el año 2056 – el futuro no muy lejano – una epidemia de fallos orgánicos devasta el planeta. De la tragedia surge un salvador: GeneCo, una empresa de biotecnología que ofrece trasplantes de órganos, por un precio. Aquellos que pierdan sus pagos están programadas para el prestamista, y cazaban por villainous repo Hombre. En un mundo donde los adictos a la cirugía están conectados painkilling sobre las drogas y el asesinato es sancionado por la ley, un joven protegido, busca la cura a su propia enfermedad rara, así como información sobre su familia misteriosa historia. Después de ser absorbidos por el inquietante mundo de GeneCo, ella es incapaz de dar marcha atrás, como todos los de sus preguntas serán contestadas en el anticipados salvajemente espectacular evento: La Opera Genética. |







