Speed is a 1994
American action-thriller film directed by Jan de Bont, and set in Los Angeles.
LAPD officer Jack Traven becomes the focus of a bomber and extortionist,
retired Atlanta bomb squad sergeant Howard Payne. After Payne escapes his first
entanglement with Traven, he sets up a bomb on a city bus that Traven boards
and must keep moving above 50 miles per hour or the bomb will explode. The film
stars Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock and Jeff Daniels. It won two
Academy Awards, for Best Sound and Best Sound Effects at the 67th Academy
Awards in 1995
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Prince of Persia: The
Sands of Time is a 2010 American sword-and-sorcery action film written by
Jordan Mechner, Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro, and Carlo Bernard; directed by Mike
Newell; produced by Jerry Bruckheimer; and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.
The film is a retelling of the 2003 video game of the same name, developed and
released by Ubisoft Montreal.
Source Code
Source Code is a 2011 American science fiction techno-thriller film
directed by Duncan Jones, written by Ben Ripley, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal,
Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Russell Peters and Jeffrey Wright. The film
had its world premiere on March 11, 2011 at South by Southwest (SXSW), and was
released by Summit Entertainment on April 1, in North America and Europe.
Lethal Weapon 4
Lethal Weapon 4
is a 1998 American action film directed by Richard Donner, starring Mel Gibson,
Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock and Jet Li. It is the third
sequel in the Lethal Weapon series of films
Monday, 26 March 2012
Rush Hour
Rush Hour is a
1998 American action comedy film and the first installment in the Rush Hour
film series. Directed by Brett Ratner and starring Jackie Chan and Chris
Tucker. It was followed by two sequels, Rush Hour 2 (2001) and Rush Hour 3
(2007).
Law Abiding Citizen
Law Abiding Citizen
is a 2009 American thriller film directed by F. Gary Gray from a screenplay
written by Kurt Wimmer, starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. The film takes
place in Philadelphia and tells the story of a man whose developed sociopathic
tendencies drove him into killing while targeting not only his family's killer
but also the criminal justice system. Law Abiding Citizen was released
theatrically in North America on October 16, 2009
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Independence Day
Independence Day
is a 1996 American disaster science fiction action film about an alien invasion
of Earth. The narrative focuses on a disparate group of individuals and
families as they converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the
human population, participate in a last-chance counterattack on July 4 – the
same date as the Independence Day holiday in the United States. It was directed
by German director Roland Emmerich, who co-wrote the script with producer Dean
Devlin.
Thursday, 22 March 2012
A Bug's Life
A Bug's Life is a
1998 American computer animated adventure comedy film produced by Pixar and
released by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States on November 25, 1998.
Directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Andrew Stanton, the film is the
second Disney-Pixar feature film after Toy Story, and the third American
computer-animated film after Toy Story and DreamWorks' Antz. Based on Akira
Kurosawa's film Seven Samurai, and Aesop's fable "The Ant and the
Grasshopper", it tells the tale of an oddball individualist inventor ant
named Flik who hires what he thinks are "warrior bugs" — actually
circus performers — to fight off a small band of grasshoppers who have made the
ant colony their servants. The film received positive reception and was a box
office success.
Monsters, Inc.
Monsters, Inc. is
a 2001 American computer-animated comedy film and the fourth feature-length
film produced by Pixar. It was directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Lee
Unkrich and David Silverman, and written by Jill Culton, Peter Docter, Ralph
Eggleston, Dan Gerson, Jeff Pidgeon, Rhett Reese, Jonathan Roberts, and Andrew
Stanton.[2] The starring voices are John Goodman and Billy Crystal as Sulley
and Mike, two monsters who work at a power plant that powers the monster world
with children's screams, Mary Gibbs as Boo, a little girl who enters the
monster world, Steve Buscemi as Randall, a rival monster.
The Patriot
The Patriot is a
2000 historical war film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Robert Rodat,
and starring Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, and Heath Ledger. It was produced by the
Mutual Film Company and Centropolis Entertainment and was distributed by
Columbia Pictures. The film mainly takes place in rural York County, South
Carolina and depicts the story of an American swept into the American
Revolutionary War when his family is threatened. The protagonist, Benjamin
Martin, is loosely based on real Continental Army officers Francis Marion,
Nathanael Greene, Andrew Pickens and other Revolutionary War figures.
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Wild Hogs
Wild Hogs is a
2007 comedy film directed by Walt Becker and starring Tim Allen, John Travolta,
Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy. It was released nationwide in the United
States and Canada on March 2, 2007.
Sunday, 18 March 2012
300
300 is a 2007
American fantasy action film based on the 1998 comic series of the same name by
Frank Miller. It is a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. The
film was directed by Zack Snyder, while Miller served as executive producer and
consultant. It was filmed mostly with a super-imposition Chroma key technique,
to help replicate the imagery of the original comic book.
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible
is a 1996 action thriller directed by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Cruise.
Following on from the television series of the same name, the plot follows a
new agent, Ethan Hunt and his mission to uncover the mole within the CIA who
has framed him for the murders of his entire IMF team. Work on the script had
begun early with filmmaker Sydney Pollack on board, before De Palma, Steven
Zaillian, David Koepp, and Robert Towne were brought in. In fact, the film went
into pre-production without a shooting script. De Palma came up with some
action sequences, but neither Koepp nor Towne were satisfied with the story
that leads up to these events. The film is part of the Mission: Impossible
(film series).
Friday, 9 March 2012
The Illusionist
The Illusionist
is a 2006 English-language period drama film written and directed by Neil Burger
and starring Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, and Paul Giamatti. It is based
loosely on Steven Millhauser's short story, "Eisenheim the
Illusionist". The Illusionist tells the story of Eisenheim, a magician in
turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna who uses his abilities to secure the love of a
woman far above his social standing.
Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a
2002 American superhero film, the first in the Spider-Man film series based on
the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It was directed by Sam Raimi
and written by David Koepp. It stars Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker, a
high-school student who turns to crimefighting after developing spiderlike
powers, along with Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn (a.k.a. the Green Goblin),
Kirsten Dunst as Peter's love interest Mary-Jane Watson, and James Franco as
his best friend Harry Osborn.
Bad Boys II
Bad Boys II is a
2003 action-comedy film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer,
and starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. It is a sequel to the 1995 film
Bad Boys. The film is about two police detectives investigating the flow of
ecstasy into Miami. Despite mainly negative reviews from professional critics,
the film performed well at the box office, grossing $273,339,556 worldwide.
Batman Begins
Batman Begins is
a 2005 superhero action film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman,
directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Christian Bale as Batman, along with
Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Morgan
Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Tom Wilkinson, and Rutger Hauer. The film reboots the
Batman film series, telling the origin story of the character and begins with
Bruce Wayne's initial fear of bats, the death of his parents, and his journey
to becoming Batman. It draws inspiration from classic comic book storylines
such as The Man Who Falls, Batman: Year One, and Batman: The Long Halloween.
Sunday, 4 March 2012
Kick-Ass
Kick-Ass is a
2010 black comedy superhero film based on the comic book of the same name by
Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn, who
co-produced the film with actor Brad Pitt, and co-wrote the screenplay with
Jane Goldman. The film's general release was on 25 March 2010 in the UK and on
16 April 2010 in the US.
Friday, 2 March 2012
RED
RED is a 2010
American action comedy film loosely inspired by the three-issue American comic
book series of the same name created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, and
published by the DC Comics imprint Homage. The film stars Bruce Willis, Morgan
Freeman, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren, and Karl Urban with
Robert Schwentke directing a screenplay by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber. The
film was released on October 15, 2010.
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