Archive for the ‘2004’ Category
The Raspberry Reich (2004)Friday, March 12th, 2010 |
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Gay pornography mixes with tongue-in-cheek political commentary in this well-photographed and absolutely unique comedy written and directed by Bruce LaBruce as ‘a critique of terrorist chic’. An effervescently irreverent screenplay relentlessly attacks anything any normal person might consider to be within the realm of human decency, with clever but utterly demented dialogue delivered with utmost sincerity. Suzanne Sachsse portrays the kidnapping leader of a band of terrorists, but graphic gay sex never seems far from the film’s agenda. Search keywords |
Ghost Rock (2004)Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 |
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In 1882, 20 years after an almost forgotten massacre took place, the only living witness to the crime, John Slaughter, returns to the town where it happened. Now finding the town run by the man behind the terrible act, Slaughter teams up with the mysterious gunslinger Savannah Starr to try and rid the west of one of it’s great evils. Search keywords |
North & South (2004)Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 |
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This series operates on many levels. At the heart of the series is the tempestuous relationship between Margaret Hale, a young woman from a southern middle class family who finds herself uprooted to the north, and John Thornton, a formerly poverty-stricken cotton mill owner terrified of losing the viability of his business. Around them are class struggles between the workers and mill owners and ideological struggles between the industrial North and the agrarian South. After moving North, Margaret’s father befriends his student Mr. Thornton. Margaret has already formed her opinion of Mr. Thornton independently after seeing him treat his workers harshly. As the series progresses, she and we the audience begin to learn that his strict treatment is due to an overarching concern for his mill and by extension, his employees. John Thornton, on the other hand, is attracted to Margaret’s independence and position in society as a well-educated Southerner. As in “Pride and Prejudice” the marriage proposal comes in the middle of the series and is rejected by Margaret. Contrary to “Pride and Prejudice” it is mirrored in social upheaval as the entire town is brought to its knees by a strike. The latter half of the series is an unraveling of the former misunderstandings ending in a romantic reconciliation which is again mirrored by reconciliation between workers and mill owners. Search keywords |
11:11 (2004)Thursday, March 4th, 2010 |
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Eighteen years after the murder of her parents, Sara Tobias searches for the meaning of the numbers ‘11:11′ that was scratched in blood beside her mother’s body. Following three sudden murders, supernatural events are unleashed as she gets closer to the truth… Search keywords |
Head in the Clouds (2004)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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HEAD IN THE CLOUDS is a sweeping romantic drama set in 1930’s England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated – seemingly forever. |
Les choristes (2004)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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On 15 January 1949, the former music teacher Clément Mathieu arrives in “Fond de l’ Etang” (“Bottom of the Well”), a boarding school for orphans and problematic boys, to work as an inspector. The place is administrated with iron fist by the cruel director Rachin, and most of the boys have severe punishments for their faults. Clément decides to teach the boys to sing in a choir in their spare time, and identify the musical potential of the rebel Pierre Morhange, the son of a beautiful single mother for whom he feels a crush. He also has a special feeling for the young Pépinot, a boy that expects the visit of his father every Saturday near the gate, but indeed lost his parents in the war. With his methods, Clément changes the lives of the boys, of the other employees and his own. |
Pédale dure (2004)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Loïc et Seb forment un couple de notables installés dans le Marais. Seb est le patron de la boîte de nuit la plus chic et la plus folle du quartier. Loïc va réaliser son rêve : transmettre tout ce qu’il a dans la tête, tout ce qu’il a dans le coeur. Il va être père. C’est lui qui a donné son sperme. Fécondation in vitro. Leur complice Marie Hagutte leur a fait ce cadeau. Le plus beau des cadeaux qu’on puisse faire à deux homos : un bébé ! Elle est enceinte de trois mois… Sauf que l’amour remet tout en cause. Marie tombe amoureuse de Charles, un merveilleux inconnu ; un hétéro en tous cas. Et d’ailleurs, il vient dîner demain… Que faire ? Rendre hommage à l’amour et honorer la femme de leur vie ? Ou bien tout faire pour écarter cet homme qui représente le départ de Marie, la perte de leur équilibre à trois et peut-être aussi la perte de l’enfant ? |
Kumo no mukô, yakusoku no basho (2004)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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The story takes place in a alternate postwar period, in 1996, where Japan is divided. Hokkaido is ruled by the “Union” while Honshu and other southern islands are under US authority. A tall tower was built on Hokkaido, which could even be seen from Tokyo. In the summer of 1996, three middle-school students make a promise that they’ll cross the border with a self-constructed plane and unravel the tower’s secret, but their project was abandoned after the girl, Sayuri Sawatari, became mysteriously ill and transferred to Tokyo. Years later on the brink of another war Hiroki Fujisawa finds out that Sayuri had been in coma since then, and he asks Takuya Shirakawa to help him finding a way to wake her up. |
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Young Sophie Hatter is cursed by the Witch of the Waste, and turns into an old hag. Ashamed of how she looks, she flees into the hills where a moving castle roams the hills. It is said to belong to the young and handsome wizard Howl, who has a bad reputation. Within the castle, Sophie befriends the fire demon Calcifer, who promises to help her become young again. One catch: she must help Calcifer to be free of Howl, and Calcifer cannot tell her how. However, Sophie agrees to stay and try to find out about the contract through other ways. Still, Howl can see that Sophie is under a spell like Calcifer can, and he falls in love with her for who she is and not for what she looks like. Sophie manages to bring life to the moving castle, and she helps Howl to face his former tutor, Madam Suliman. |
Spanglish (2004)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. When they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter’s soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous! |
Homeland Security (2004)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Homeland Security and the September 11th disaster |
London Voodoo (2004)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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When a young man relocates his family from New York to London his wife discovers a new sexuality and power that threatens to tear the family apart. As his wife’s behaviour becomes more violent and erratic, our hero accepts that to save the woman he married he must open his mind and trust the people whose beliefs he has refused to acknowledge. |
Ginger Snaps: Unleashed (2004)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she’s not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister’s specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood – the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay – leads to her being incarcerated in a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts where her only friend is an eccentric young girl by the name of Ghost. Without the Monkshood her transformation is beginning to accelerate and to make matters worse, her werewolf stalker knows where she is. |
Out of Season (2004)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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It is out of season and the temporary employee Pierre of an amusement park seaside has all his savings stolen by the crook Simeon Guant, a friend of his girlfriend Kelly Phillips. Kelly is daughter of the owner of the park, Michael Philipps, who is married with Eileen Phillips. Eileen cheats her husband with Simeon, and they plot to kill Michael simulating a burglary and get his life insurance. Pierre, without any money, associates to the owner of a bar, the former thief Harry Barlow, who teaches him how to burglar. The reunion of these six characters has no happy ending. |
I Do (But I Don’t) (2004)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Based on the biography of the same name. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the story of the comic actor, who would later immortalize bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series. From his beginnings in show business as a variety performer to his ultimate success as a movie star, Peter Sellers was a man of many faces. But it was also that moniker that caught up with his personal life, when Sellers was a man without an identity and only a library of oddball characters to make up for his personality. Focusing on his rising success and his family life, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the story of a man whose personal life clashed with stardom, while he was an individual completely immersed in the characters he portrayed. |
Malevolence (2004)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Created as the middle section of a three-part trilogy, ‘Malevolence’ is the tragic story of a group of bank robbers on the run from the law. They hide out in an abandoned house on the outskirts of town, unaware it is next door to the home of a family of serial killers. One of their hostages escapes and runs for help, but all hell breaks loose when she runs to the “wrong” house. |
Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Richard returns home from military service to a small town in the Midlands. He has one thing on his mind: revenge. Payback for the local bullies who did some very bad things to his brother. At first his campaign employs guerrilla tactics, designed to frighten the men and put them ill at ease. But then he steps up his operation, and one by one these local tough guys are picked off by the terrifying angel of vengeance that Richard has become. |
Kingdom Hospital (2004)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Shocking and frightening tale of a haunted hospital that was built over an ancient graveyard. The doctors have put all their faith into science and technology, and are dismissive of any suggestion of mysticism or unseen powers…at their own peril. |
Crash (2004)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a black police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the distracted district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful black Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more. |



















