Posts Tagged ‘mission’

Time Bandits (1981)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Cleese, John | Connery, Sean | Holm, Ian | Palin, Michael | Richardson, Ralph | Vaughan, Peter | Warner, David | Rappaport, David | Baker, Kenny | Dixon, Malcolm | Edmonds, Mike | Purvis, Jack | Ross, Tiny | Warnock, Craig | Daker, David
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A young boy’s wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness where they confront Evil.

MirrorMask (2005)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Barry, Jason | Brydon, Rob | Fry, Stephen | Hamilton, Andy | Harvey, Simon | Henry, Lenny | Llewellyn, Robert | Robson, Nik | Allen, Rick | Schofield, Simon | Tate, Mark | Thompson, Richard | Thompson, Robin | Ballamy, Iain | Batchelor, Chris
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister.

Black Cauldron, The (1985)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bardsley, Grant | Sheridan, Susan | Jones, Freddie | Hawthorne, Nigel | Malet, Arthur | Byner, John | Rich, Lindsay | Call, Brandon | Levinson, Gregory | Merin, Eda Reiss | Malis-Morey, Adele | Hayes, Billie | Fondacaro, Phil | Renaday, Peter | Almanzar, James
Directors: Berman, Ted
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Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers. With the aid of a stubborn princess, an exaggerating bard, and a pestering creature called Gurgi, Taran will try to save the world of Prydain from the Horned King. As the new friends face witches, elves, magic swords, and the Cauldron itself, Taran starts to learn what being a hero really means and that some things are more important than glory.

Edmond (2005)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Macy, William H. | Bay, Frances | Pidgeon, Rebecca | Mantegna, Joe | Richards, Denise | Thompson, Wendy | Guastaferro, Vincent | Bai, Ling | Landers, Matt | Hill, Dulé | Hornsby, Russell | Hodge, Aldis | Mazar, Debi | Suvari, Mena | Combs, Jeffrey
Directors: Gordon, Stuart
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A man in a suit at a Manhattan firm leaves work on Friday; he looks unhappy. He stops at a fortune teller’s for a Tarot reading: “You are not where you belong,” she tells him. That evening he quits his marriage and walks the streets of New York, passing from a classy bar to a gentleman’s club, then to a high-class bordello, a mugging, a pawnshop, and a diner where someone does listen. He shares his insights with her and later with others. Violence, disappointment, and musings entwine as Edmond loses his moorings while believing he’s found them. Where does he belong?

Witches, The (1990)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Family | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: UK
Actors: Huston, Anjelica | Zetterling, Mai | Fisher, Jasen | Horrocks, Jane | Lambton, Anne | Atkinson, Rowan | Paterson, Bill | Blethyn, Brenda | Potter, Charlie | Smith, Sukie | English, Rose | Runacre, Jenny | Brooks, Annabel | Relph, Emma | Connolly, Nora
Directors: Roeg, Nicolas
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A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid the world of all children.

Superman II (1980)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Reeve, Christopher | Beatty, Ned | Cooper, Jackie | Douglas, Sarah | Kidder, Margot | O'Halloran, Jack | Perrine, Valerie | York, Susannah | James, Clifton | Marshall, E.G. | McClure, Marc | Stamp, Terence | Willoughby, Leueen | Pappas, Robin
Directors: Donner, Richard
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This time, the Man of Steel has his hands full with a trio of super-powered villains who escape from their Phantom Zone prison (remember the weird flying diamond-shaped mirror that scooped them up from the planet Krypton?) and land on Earth, where all three have powers to rival Superman’s own. How does it all come out? With a fabulous duel above the streets of Metropolis, and a startling plot twist that neatly ties in Superman’s explosive past. Arch-criminal Lex Luthor plays both ends gleefully against the middle in hopes of a modest reward: Australia.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: Hong Kong | USA
Actors: Turco, Paige | Caso, Mark | Warner, David | Sisti, Michelan | Tilden, Leif | Scott, Kenn | Clash, Kevin | Reyes Jr., Ernie | Chau, François | Obata, Toshirô | Serra, Raymond | Ginther, Mark | Bryant, Kurt | Nash, Kevin | Amodei, Joseph
Directors: Pressman, Michael
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The turtles find out where the Ooze, the substance which made them mutate, came from. Unfortunately Shredder learns about it too, and uses it to enhance himself. So the turtles have to prove again who’s the better ninja fighter.

African Queen, The (1951)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Hepburn, Katharine | Morley, Robert | Bull, Peter | Bikel, Theodore | Gotell, Walter | Swanwick, Peter | Marner, Richard | John, Errol | Onn, Gerald | von Kotze, John
Directors: Huston, John
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At the start of World War 1, Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer, The African Queen, to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When the Rev. Samuel Sayer dies, Charlie agrees to take Sayers’ sister, Rose, back to civilization. taking on the Germans at the same time.

Where Eagles Dare (1968)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Burton, Richard | Eastwood, Clint | Ure, Mary | Wymark, Patrick | Michael Hordern | Houston, Donald | Barkworth, Peter | Squire, William | Beatty, Robert | Williams, Brook | McCarthy, Neil | Ball, Vincent | Diffring, Anton | Mayne, Ferdy | Nesbitt, Derren
Directors: Hutton, Brian G.
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In 1944, an American General is shot down over a heavily defended German fortress and imprisoned within. A rescue attempt is at once launched by British Intellegence, since the General must be liberated before being made to reveal Allied plans for an invasion of France. As the mission unfolds, however, double and triple agents begin to appear in the ranks of the rescue team with the added mystery of an American Lieutenant assigned to the mission for reasons unknown.

Uncommon Valor (1983)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Robert Stack | Ward, Fred | Brown, Reb | Cobb, Randall 'Tex' | Swayze, Patrick | Sylvester, Harold | Thomerson, Tim | Lai, Lau Nga | Lim, Kwan Hi | Junkerman, Kelly | Allen, Todd | Strickland, Gail | Kaczmarek, Jane | Stroock, Gloria
Directors: Kotcheff, Ted
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A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese. Supported his father (a retired military man himself) and a rich businessman whose son was also a POW, the group engages in a dangerous and violent adventure trying to rescue the POWs and at the same time re-direct their lives.