Archive for February, 2007

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Movie Title: Kuwait (2006)

February 28, 2007

Movie Plot Summary: Captured while sneaking into a restricted area by US Marines during the first Gulf War, Times reporter Rachel Cayman (Lauren Seikaly) is blindfolded, bound and put in the charge of a young Marine (Andrew Lawton). Rachel must use all of her skills to forge a bond with her tight lipped and menacing captor in order to fight for her safety…only to force him towards uncovering the secret that is threatening to push him over the edge.

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Movie Title: Broken (1992) (V)

February 28, 2007

Movie Plot Summary: Trent Reznor presents his dark vision of the EP ‘Broken’ by telling the story of a man kidnapped and forced to watch Nine Inch Nails videos, disturbing in their own right, while being tortured.

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Movie Title: Vampire Lovers, The (1970)

February 28, 2007

Movie Plot Summary: The Countess is called away to tend a sick friend and imposes on the General to accept her daughter Marcilla as a houseguest. Some of the villagers begin dying, however, and the General’s daughter Laura soon gets weak and pale, but Marcilla is there to comfort her. The villagers begin whispering about vampires as Marcilla finds another family on which to impose herself. The pattern repeats as Emma gets ill, but the General cannot rest, and seeks the advice of Baron Hartog, who once dealt a decisive blow against a family of vampires. Well, almost.

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Movie Title: He Hired the Boss (1943)

February 27, 2007

Movie Plot Summary: Hubert Wilkins (Stuart Erwin), a bookkeeper for Mr. Bates (Thurston Hall) by day and an air raid warden by night, patrols the district where his boss’ warehouse is located, and finds two employees removing raw silk stocks. They say they are working under Bates’ orders and brush him off. Hubert wants to marry Emily Conway (Elelyn Venable), company secretary, but can’t see how he can afford it since he has loaned a salesman, Fuller (Chick Chandler), $400 with deeds to four lots as security. Don Bates (William T. Orr), son of the boss, is engaged to Emily’s sister Sally (Vivian Blaine) though his father disapproves. He and Emily encourage Sally and Don to elope. Hubert, a little tipsy, buys two more lots from Fuller and goes to Bates’ home and asks for a raise. He is fired and, the next morning, Emily also for helping Don to elope. Hubert discovers that the lots he bought are worth $100,000 and, unknown to Bates, buys the company. While on warden duty that night, he discovers that the two employees he previously saw taking silk from the warehouse are actually stealing it.

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Movie Title: Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)

February 27, 2007

Movie Plot Summary: A movie company is doing the Arabian Nights when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he’s back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Rosevelt’s New Deal, he organizes work programs, taxes the rich and abolishes the army.

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Movie Title: Signore & signori (1965)

February 27, 2007

Movie Plot Summary: Una cittadina del Veneto negli anni sessanta. Tre storie di amori di provincia: uno pseudo dongiovanni confessa la propria impotenza al medico di fiducia ma viene da questi tradito (parla del suo paziente con alcuni amici pettegoli); un impiegato di banca, dopo una tormentata relazione d’amore con la giovane cassiera di un bar, ritorna in famiglia solo, deluso e amareggiato; alcuni ragazzotti approfittano delle grazie di una ingenua ragazza del luogo. Il padre di lei li denuncia, ma ritratta tutto dopo un lauto compenso e salva dalla galera i pappagalli di paese.

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Movie Title: Waking the Dead (2000) {Burn Out: Part 1 (#1.3)}

February 26, 2007

Movie Plot Summary: Boyd encounters Marina, a young woman unable to accept the explanation of her father’s death, and investigates case When the man’s body is exhumed, DNA tests reveal some disturbing facts. The team faces a race against time to protect Marina.

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Movie Title: Second Best (1994)

February 26, 2007

Movie Plot Summary: Graham Holt is a lonely middle-aged man who runs a postal substation in a small village in England. He decides to adopt a son. James is the troubled youth he gets with the assistance of social worker Debbie. James has been in an orphanage for years since his mother committed suicide. He adores his outlaw father John, sent to prison not long after the mother’s death. Can James learn to love Graham? Can Graham settle for being second best?

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Movie Title: Cook, The (2007)

February 25, 2007

Movie Plot Summary: Over a long holiday weekend, unable to escape the confines of their sorority house, a handful of unsuspecting girls are left behind to enjoy the quiet sanctuary. The normal house staff has taken off for the weekend, leaving the girls to fend for themselves. Thankfully someone was kind enough to send them a temporary replacement chef to cook their meals. However, when the girls start disappearing one-by-one, they begin to suspect something may not be quite right with… THE COOK!

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Movie Title: Carnivāle (2003) {Los Moscos (#2.1)}

February 25, 2007

Movie Plot Summary: As the spiritual powers of Ben Hawkins evolve, the entity Management exposes him to a vision of the cataclysmic disasters that await the world if he doesn’t identify and conquer his nemesis: Brother Justin. In order to do this, Ben must find his father, the elusive Henry Scudder, who holds a crucial link not only for Ben, but for Justin as well. Continuing to function as Ben’s cover from the law, the Carnivāle troupe follows this lead further west towards California where Brother Justin resides. Meanwhile, Justin has employed a new Apostle to aid in his own search for Henry Scudder: a prison inmate named Varlyn Stroud. Justin and his sister Iris spread the word drawing throngs of weak and impoverished masses into their spiritual web.