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The Abduction Club

By CJ on February 10, 2008 5:25 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    Alice Evans ... Catherine Kennedy
    Daniel Lapaine ... Garrett Byrne
    Sophia Myles ... Anne Kennedy
    Matthew Rhys ... James Strang
  • Director:
    Stefan Schwartz
  • Genre:
    Comedy / Drama / Romance
  • Plot Outline:
    A group of Irish noblemen kidnap girls in order to marry into their fortune and avoid becoming priests or soldiers.
  • Comment:
    It was fun. The story itself is very predictable though, anyway I like Matthew Rhys, so it doesn't matter, lol.

    There are some twists and it breaks our expectations. Beginning of the story, I was wondering why an older guy were looking at younger daughter so much, then around Three-quarter has passed we learn what's going on her life.

    Catherine and Byrne's love is very predictable, but Anne and Strang's is a little twisted. As I wrote, I like Matthew Rhys and it's not only a reason I like better than Catherine and Byrne's couple, I liked Anne and Strang better.

Shooters

By CJ on January 31, 2008 7:15 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    • Adrian Dunbar ... Max Bell
    Andrew Howard ... J
    Louis Dempsey ... Gilly
    Gerard Butler ... Jackie Junior
    Jason Hughes ... Charlie Franklin
    Matthew Rhys ...  Eddie
    Ioan Gruffudd ... Freddy Guns
    Jamie Sweeney ... Skip
    Melanie Lynskey ...  Marie
    Emma Fielding ... Detective Inspector Sarah Pryce
    David Kennedy ... Sergeant Webb
    Joe Swash ... Boy #1 (as Joseph Swash)
    Ranjit Krishnamma ... Pac
    Nitin Ganatra ... Ajay
    Walter Roberts ... Jason
  • Director:
    • Glenn Durfort
    Colin Teague
  • Genre:
    • Crime / Drama / Thriller
  • Tagline:
    • In the tradition of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
  • Comment:
    • There is no subtitles, so I couldn't get some part of them because of thick accent.   Story itself is quite simple, I thought first, but in the end, there are some twists.   I expected more complicated human drama though not much.    I heard this film was under low budget.

Impostor

By CJ on November 26, 2007 7:08 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    • Gary Sinise ... Spencer Olham
    Madeleine Stowe ... Maya Olham
    Vincent D'Onofrio ... Hathaway
    Tony Shalhoub ... Nelson Gittes
    Tim Guinee ... Dr. Carone
    Mekhi Phifer ... Cale
    Gary Dourdan ... Captain Burke
  • Director:
    • Gary Fleder
  • Genre:
    • Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action / Drama
  • Plot Summary:
    • An engineer creates the ultimate weapon in a battle against aliens, only to be suspected as an alien himself.
  • Comment:
    • It's a Sci-Fi film.   I usually don't watch Sci-Fi, but Gary Sinise was in film, so I watched it. 

Bowling for Columbine

By CJ on August 20, 2007 6:35 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

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  • Cast:
    Michael Moore ... Himself/Narrator
    Richard Castaldo ... Himself, Columbine victim
    Mark Taylor ... Himself, Columbine victim
    Tom Mauser ... Himself, father of victim
    Amanda Lamante ... Herself, Columbine student
  • Director:
    Michael Moore
  • Genre:
    Documentary / Drama
  • Tagline
    Are we a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?
  • Plot Outline
    Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.
  • Comment
    I watched this film twice.    I'm against gun, so I really sympathized.

Stuart Little 2

By CJ on February 3, 2007 1:01 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    Michael J. Fox .... Stuart Little (voice)
    Geena Davis .... Mrs. Eleanor Little
    Hugh Laurie .... Mr. Frederick Little
    Jonathan Lipnicki .... George Little
    Nathan Lane .... Snowbell (voice)
    Melanie Griffith .... Margalo the Bird (voice)
    James Woods .... The Evil Falcon (voice)
  • Director:
    Rob Minkoff
  • Genre:
    Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Adventure
  • Tagline
    A Little Goes A Long Way
  • Plot Outline
    Stuart and Snowbell set out across town to rescue a friend.
  • Comment
    Actually it was aired on Disney Channel TV in Japan after they aired Stuart Little first one.   I didn't mean to watch this as I wrote in Stuart Little, but I had a fun with it, so I decided to watch this.

Phone Booth

By CJ on May 7, 2006 5:54 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    Colin Farrell .... Stu Shepard
    Kiefer Sutherland .... The Caller
    Forest Whitaker .... Captain Ed Ramey
    Radha Mitchell .... Kelly Shepard
    Katie Holmes .... Pamela McFadden
  • Director:
    Joel Schumacher
  • Genre:
    Crime / Drama / Thriller
  • Tagline
    Your life is on the line.
  • Plot Outline
    Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle.
  • Comment
    When I watched trailer on TV, I thought how they made this. Because it's focused on one point, it is a phone booth, and the story goes on that point almost whole film. So I bought this DVD, but I didn't have enough time to watch it, finally I watched after several months. It was good, but I expected more mysterious story, but the end of this film, the suspect went away. This means it'll happen again on him. That is mysterious.

The Gathering

By CJ on December 26, 2005 6:41 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    Christina Ricci ... Cassie Grant
    Ioan Gruffudd ... Dan Blakeley
    Stephen Dillane ... Simon Kirkman
    Kerry Fox ... Marion Kirkman
    Simon Russell Beale ... Luke Fraser
    Robert Hardy ... The Bishop
    Harry Forrester ... Michael Kirkman
    Jessica Mann ... Emma Kirkman
    Peter McNamara ... Frederick Michael Argyle
  • Director:
    Brian Gilbert
  • Genre:
    Horror / Mystery / Thriller
  • Tagline
    Evil Souls Rule.
  • Plot Summary
    While going to the town of Ashby Wake, the drifter Cassie (Christina Ricci) is hit by a car driven by Marion Kirkman (Kerry Fox) and loses her memory...
  • Comment
    A girl whose name is Christina Ricci is the main character. I saw her first in Ally McBeal from American sitcom, then in "The Ice Storm" (1997). She has strong atmosphere, like something strong will or something small devilish. When I saw her she was 22 years old, and when she was in the film "The Ice Storm", she was 17 years old, also when she was in this film, she was 22 years old. I think she looks younger than other foreign people.   Also Ioan Gruffudd is starring in this film.

Unfaithful

By CJ on July 22, 2004 4:51 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
  • Cast:
    Diane Lane .... Constance 'Connie'/'Con' Sumner
    Erik Per Sullivan .... Charlie Sumner
    Richard Gere .... Edward 'Ed' Sumner
    Olivier Martinez .... Paul Martel
  • Director:
    Adrian Lyne
  • Genre:
    Drama / Thriller
  • Plot Outline
    "Unfaithful" centres on Diane Lane and Richard Gere as a couple living in the New York city suburbs whose marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife (Lane) indulges in an adulterous fling.
  • Comment
    The three of them plays their character well. I think the casting was great.  Olivier Martinez's French accent is a bit difficult for me to understand.  The story of this film is not so dramatic, I think. Deployment of this story doesn't have unexpected one and it's slightly different from my expectation which I had when I watched the trailer. Of course I watched this film in English, so I guess I was not able to understand precise things. The end of this film, Diane Lane and Richard Gere were talking about escaping from reality with sleeping their son in rear sheet, at in front of police station. And finished at this scene.

One Hour Photo

By CJ on June 25, 2004 3:48 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    Robin Williams .... Seymour 'Sy' Parrish
    Connie Nielsen .... Nina Yorkin
    Michael Vartan .... William 'Will' Yorkin
    Dylan Smith .... Jake Yorkin
  • Director:
    Mark Romanek
  • Genre:
    Drama / Thriller
  • Tagline
    There's nothing more dangerous than a familiar face.
  • Plot Outline
    An employee of a one-hour photo lab becomes obsessed with a young suburban family.
  • Comment
    I saw some advertisement of this film on FOX TV. I wanted to see this because it seemed interesting. It is the first time to watch Robin Williams as actor. I was able to understand almost all, I guess. The story was not so bad, but I expected more serious story. Anyway I think "Sy" should've been written more psycho.

 

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