Posts Tagged ‘independent-film’

Halloween (2007)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Donald Pleasence | Jamie Lee Curtis | P.J. Soles | Charles Cyphers | Kyle Richards | Brian Andrews | John Michael Graham | Nancy Kyes | Arthur Malet | Mickey Yablans | Brent Le Page | Adam Hollander | Robert Phalen | Tony Moran
Directors: John Carpenter
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After being committed for 15 years, Michael Myers, now a 21-year-old man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 6 year old) and immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.

Bone Dry (2007)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Luke Goss | Lance Henriksen | Tommy 'Tiny' Lister | Dee Wallace | Jennifer Siebel | Carl Buffington | Richard Larsen | Chad Stalcup | Hudson Thames | Julia Self
Directors: Brett A. Hart
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Eddie (Goss) finds himself being forced at a gunpoint, by an unseen assailant, on a dark and brutal journey through the harsh terrain of Texas. His nemesis is Jimmy (Henriksen), a man with an aberrant agenda; armed with a rifle, a scope, walkie-talkies and a truck, he has organized a series of ambushes and mantraps designed to push Eddie to the limits of his humanity and beyond.

Human Traffic (1999)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: John Simm | Lorraine Pilkington | Shaun Parkes | Danny Dyer | Nicola Reynolds | Dean Davies | Peter Albert | Jan Anderson | Terence Beesley | Sarah Blackburn | Anne Bowen | Neil Bowens | Peter Bramhill | Jo Brand | Stephanie Brooks
Directors: Justin Kerrigan
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The Cardiff club scene in the 90’s: five best friends deal with their relationships and their personal demons during a weekend. Jip calls himself a sexual paranoid, afraid he’s impotent. Lulu, Jip’s mate, doesn’t find much to fancy in men. Nina hates her job at a fast food joint, and her man, Koop, who dreams of being a great hip-hop d.j., is prone to fits of un-provoked jealousy. The fifth is Moff, whose family is down on his behavior. Starting Friday afternoon, with preparations for clubbing, we follow the five from Ecstacy-induced fun through a booze-laden come-down early Saturday morning followed by the weekend’s aftermath. It’s breakthrough time for at least three of them.

Orgazmo (1997)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Dian Bachar | Robyn Lynne Raab | Michael Dean Jacobs | Ron Jeremy | Andrew Kemler | David Dunn | Matt Stone | Toddy Walters | Chasey Lain | Juli Ashton | Masao Maki | Joseph Arsenault | Jeff Schubert | Desi Singh
Directors: Trey Parker
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Joe Young is a young Mormon actor who preaches the word of God in LA and can’t get anything from it. One day he stumbles on the set of new porno movie shot by well known porn director Maxxx Orbison. Maxxx chooses Joe for the title part in his new movie Captain Orgazmo. Joe soon befriends short and skinny Ben Chapleski (his sidekick in the film), who invented a ray-gun which emits a light beam that causes the most intense orgasm in whoever it hits (called Orgasmorator). Unexpectedly movie Captain Orgazmo becomes a cult hit, and Joe’s girlfriend Lisa accidentally sees the movie in the video store - and the problems begin.

My Little Eye (2002)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | France | UK | USA
Actors: Sean Cw Johnson | Kris Lemche | Stephen O'Reilly | Laura Regan | Jennifer Sky | Bradley Cooper | Nick Mennell
Directors: Marc Evans
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Five young people apply to live in an isolated house together for six months whilst their every move is filmed by numerous cameras. Each has their reason for wanting to be there - fame, money, adventure. The prize - $1 million. The rules - if one person leaves, everyone loses. It becomes the ultimate morality test. When Danny’s beloved grandfather dies, does his greed overcome his love? When the skittish Emma finds blood on her pillow why does she still stay behind? And what dark secret does the house harbour that leaves them feeling as though they’re being watched by more than just a million pairs of eyes?

Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror
Countries: Canada
Actors: Katharine Isabelle | Emily Perkins | Nathaniel Arcand | JR Bourne | Hugh Dillon | Adrien Dorval | Brendan Fletcher | David La Haye | Tom McCamus | Matthew Walker | Fabian Bird | Kirk Jarrett | David MacInnis | Stevie Mitchell | Edna Rain
Directors: Grant Harvey
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Prequal to ‘Ginger Snaps’ has the orphaned sisters Ginger and Brigette, before becoming werewolves, in 1815 Canada where they stumble into a war between Native American “Wendigos” besieging a remote trading post populated by brutal settlers.

Papillon (1973)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | Dustin Hoffman | Victor Jory | Don Gordon | Anthony Zerbe | Robert Deman | Woodrow Parfrey | Bill Mumy | George Coulouris | Ratna Assan | William Smithers | Val Avery | Gregory Sierra | Vic Tayback | Mills Watson
Directors: Franklin J. Schaffner
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Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for ‘butterfly’ (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in ‘Guiane’ (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment.

G:MT Greenwich Mean Time (1999)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Music
Countries: UK
Actors: Steve John Shepherd | Ben Waters | Alec Newman | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Anjela Lauren Smith | Melanie Gutteridge | Georgia Mackenzie | Alicia Eyo | Freddie Annobil-Dodoo | Alun Armstrong | Geoffrey Beevers | Annette Bentley | John Blundell | Debbi Blythe | Karl Collins
Directors: John Strickland
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Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry against the pressures and tragedies of everyday life.

The Cooler (2003)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: William H. Macy | Alec Baldwin | Maria Bello | Shawn Hatosy | Ron Livingston | Paul Sorvino | Estella Warren | Arthur J. Nascarella | Joey Fatone | M.C. Gainey | Ellen Greene | Don Scribner | Tony Longo | Richard Israel | Timothy Landfield
Directors: Wayne Kramer
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The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and THE COOLER is a love story about the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels loser who has made a career out of spreading his virulent bad luck on the floor of Las Vegas’ aging Shangri-La casino. When Bernie falls for a gorgeous cocktail waitress his bad luck is thrown into reverse.

Rising Damp (1980)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Leonard Rossiter | Frances de la Tour | Denholm Elliott | Don Warrington | Christopher Strauli | Carrie Jones | Glynn Edwards | John Cater | Derek Griffiths | Ronnie Brody | Alan Clare | Jonathan Cecil | Bill Dean | Pat Roach
Directors: Joseph McGrath
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First broadcast in 1974, the ITV bedsitland sitcom Rising Damp was an instant and enduring success. It starred Leonard Rossiter as the miserly and lovelorn landlord Rigsby who is constantly needling young lodger Alan (Richard Beckinsale), a science student whose long hair and earrings are symptomatic to Rigsby of the parlous effeminacy of the modern age. He’s also in love with Frances De La Tour’s dowdy spinster Miss Jones, though his tentative advances are forever rebuffed. She in turn carries a torch for Philip (Don Warrington), the elegant son of an African chief who also resides at Rigsby Towers.

Some aspects of Rising Damp have not aged well, principally Rigsby’s stream of racist jibes at Philip. Although these were doubtless well-meant and supposed to illustrate Rigsby’s foolish bigotry, you suspect that that was a convenient cover for audiences in the 1970s to enjoy racist humour. However, Rossiter’s Rigsby—stuttering, stammering, bent perpetually over backwards—remains a great comic creation, embodying all the festering prejudices, small-mindedness and self-delusion of the lower middle class Little Englander.