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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Bang Bang their dead

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writers: Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary
Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Maria de Medeiros, Uma Thurman
Plot: The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Genre: Crime, Drama

Something Cozy...

Instinct (1999)

Director: Jon Turteltaub
Writer: Gerald Di Pego
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Suterland, Maura Tierney
Plot: When a noted anthropologist who left society to live in the jungle is imprisoned for murder, it's up to young psychiatrist to get through to him. One man's mind is another man's mystery.
Genre: Drama, Thriller

Feeling depressed...

The Nutty Professor (1996)

Director: Tom Shadyac
Writers: Jerry Lewis , Bill Richmond (1963)
Writers : David Sheffield, Barry W. Blaustein, Tom Shadyac, Steve Oedekerk (screenplay)
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Larry Miller, Dave Chappelle
Plot: Murphy plays a benevolent university professor Sherman Klump who suffers from severe obesity. He invents a miracle weight loss potion hoping to win the girl of his dreams…
Genre: Comedy

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Leading ladies

"The Sun Also Rises" (1957)

Director: Henry King
Writers: Ernest Hemingway (novel), Peter Viertel ( screenplay)
Cast: Ava Gardner, Tyrone power, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn,
Plot: A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in France and Spain.
Genre. Drama

Romance is still alive!!

Dracula (1992)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writers: Bram Stoker (novel), James V. Hart (screenplay)
Cast: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Richard E. Grant, Lucy Westenra, Tom Waits
Plot: A classic about how love can beat death and doesn’t live happier ever after …
Genre: Romance, Horror

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Leading ladies

Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)

Director: Richard Brooks
Writers: Judith Rossner (novel), Richard Brooks (screenplay)
Cast: Diane Keaton, Tuesday Welt, William Atherton, Richard Gere, Tom Berenger
Plot: A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.
Genre: Drama

Feeling depressed…

Airplane! (1980)

Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker
Writers: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker
Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Robert Stack
Plot: This is a spoof of the airport disaster movies. When the crew of an airplane are struck by some form of virus, the fate of the passengers depends on an ex-war pilot who is the only one able to land the plane safely…
Genre: Comedy, Romance

Bang Bang their dead

Apocalypse now (1979)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writers: John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Dennis hopper
Plot: Vietnam, one man is sent to with a mission, to eliminate a general.
Genre: Action, Drama, war

Romance is still alive!

An American in Paris (1951)

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner
Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch
Plot: An American painter living in Paris trying to find his place as an artist but finds something else…
Genre: Musical, Romance

Something Cozy

Mary Poppins (1964)

Director: Robert stevenson
Writers: Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi
Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley
Plot: A very special nanny with magic powers goes to work for an unhappy family…
Genre: Comedy, musical, Fantasy

Monday, July 13, 2009

Leading Ladies

My Fair Lady ( 1964)


Director: George Cukor
Writers: Alan Jay Lemer (novel)
Alan Jay Lemer (screenplay)
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Jeremy Brett
Plot: A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Bang Bang their dead…

Dodge City (1939)

Director: Michael Curtiz
Writer: Robert Buckner
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh
Plot: Dodge City has to get rid of the baddies terrorizing the citizens, and it takes a new sheriff and his deputy to clean up the town and introduce law and order.
Genre: Romance/Western



(my favorite fight scene ever)

Feeling depressed…

Snatch (2000)


Director: Guy Ritchie
Writer: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Brad Pitt, Jason Statham,
Plot: An unlicensed boxing promoter wants to buy a caravan off the Irish Gypsies. They then try to convince Pitt not only to fight for them, but to lose for them too. Whilst all this is going on, a huge diamond heist takes place,
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Something Cozy

Practical Magic (1998)


Director: Griffin Dunne
Writers: Alice Hoffman (novel), Robin Swicord (screenplay)
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, Goran Visnjic, Aidan Quinn
Plot: Sally and the fiery Gillian must use all of their powers to fight the family curse and a swarm.
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Romance is still alive!!!

Reckless (1984)

Director: James Foley
Writer: Chris Columbus
Cast: Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah, Kenneth Mcmillan

Plot: Rebellious high school footballer Johnny Rourke can’t seem to identify himself with a small “cozy” town where everything stays the same, no bounds, nothing seems to be alive but his heart...
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Romance is still alive!!!

Adam's Rib (1949)

Director: George Cukor
Writers: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Catharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne
Plot: Two lawyers married with each other, working in a case on opposite sides.
Genre: Comedy, Romance

Bang Bang, their dead...

Assassins (1995)

Director: Richard Donner
Writers: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Julianne Moore, Antonio Banderas.
Plot: Robert Rath is a hitman trying to get out of his business…
Genre: Action, Thriller

Hmmmm feeling depressed...

Annie Hall (1977)

Director: Woody Allen
Writers: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Plot: Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with equally neurotic Annie hall.
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Christopher Walken

Something Cozy

How to Make an American Quilt (1995)

Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse
Writers: Whitney Otto (novel) Jane Anderson (screenplay)
Cast: Winona Ryder, Maya Angelou, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn
Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Tagline: There's beauty in patterns of life.

Leading Ladies

Now, Voyager (1942)

Director: Irving Rapper
Writers: Olive Higgins Prouty (novel), Casey Robinson (screenplay)
Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Genre: Drama, Romance
Plot: living with her domineering mother in Boston, Charlotte is high-strung and deeply depressed, on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She will start her path to free herself and get her life back.