Showing posts with label Drama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drama. Show all posts

Friday, March 5, 2010

The Road

Based on Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen leads an all-star cast in the big screen adaptation of The Road, the epic post-apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son across a barren landscape that was blasted by an unnamed catastrophe that destroyed civilization and most life on earth. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless cannibalistic gangs that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food--and each other.

Directed by: John Hillcoat
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, Molly Parker
Duration: 111 min

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

The Time Traveler's Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife.Chicago librarian Henry De Tamble suffers from a rare genetic disorder that causes him to drift uncontrollably back and forth through time. On one of his sojourns, he meets the love of his life, Claire (Rachel McAdams), and they marry. But the problems and complexities of any relationship are multiplied by Henry's inability to remain in one time and place, so that he and his beloved are forever out of sync.


Directed by: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Arliss Howard, Ron Livingston, Stephen Tobolowsky
Duration: 108 min

Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds. begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus(Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” Raine’s squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich.

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Cast:Brad Pitt,Eli Roth,Diane Kruger,Melanie Laurent

War, Inc.

War, Inc.A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires Hauser (John Cusack), a troubled hit man, to kill a Middle East oil minister. Struggling with his own demons, Hauser must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Hillary Duff), an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter (Marisa Tomei) in check.


Directed by: Joshua Seftel
Cast: John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei, Ben Kingsley, Joan Cusack, Dan Aykroyd
Duration: 107 min

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Shrink

Shrink.Henry Carter (Kevin Spacey, "American Beauty") is a psychiatrist with an A-list clientele, including a once-famous actress (Saffron Burrows, "Deep Blue Sea") and a comically obsessive-compulsive super agent (Dallas Roberts, "The L Word"). Henry is not in a good place, however. He has been asked to take his first pro bono case: a troubled teenage girl from a neighborhood far from the Hollywood hills (Keke Palmer, "Akeelah and The Bee"). Considering his present state of mind, is he ready for the real-life troubles of a young woman who loves the world of movies he has become so jaded by?

Directed by: Jonas Pate
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Saffron Burrows, Dallas Roberts, Keke Palmer, Robin Williams, Jack Huston
Duration: 110 min