Murder by Numbers (2002)
IMDB rating: 5.90
Plot: Murder By Numbers is a psychological suspense-thriller that tells the story of a tenacious homicide detective, Cassie Mayweather (‘Sandra Bullock’ (qv)) and her new partner Sam Kennedy (‘Ben Chaplin’ (qv)) who become pitted against two malevolently brilliant young men (‘Ryan Gosling (I)’ (qv) and ‘Michael Pitt (II)’ (qv)) in [...]
Killer Movie (2008)
IMDB rating: 5.10
Plot: Killer Movie tells the story of a reality television shoot that goes awry when its crew finds itself stranded in a remote Northern town. A killer is on the loose, stalking cast and crew members one by one. A reality TV director copes with a spoiled celebutante and a show [...]
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
IMDB rating: 8.40
Plot: Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is [...]
Katyn (2007)
IMDB rating: 7.10
Plot: An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Directors: Wajda Andrzej
Actors: Chyra Andrzej,Zmijewski Artur,Englert Jan,Malaszynski Pawel,Kowalski Wladyslaw,Pawlicki Antoni,Garmash Sergey,Assbock Joachim Paul,Barwinski Waldemar,Drama,History,War,
Does anyone know when the Polish film, "Katyn" will come to Chicago?
It needs to find a U.S. distributor first [...]
Australia (2008)
IMDB rating: 7.10
Plot: Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by [...]
Waking the Dead (2000)
IMDB rating: 6.60
Plot: Fielding Pierce lives the life of an aspiring politician – in 1972 he’s serving in the Coast Guard (trying to avoid Vietnam in the most honorable way), and by 1973 he has entered law school. Along the way he falls in love with Sarah, a fiercely idealistic woman who [...]
Black Knight (2001)
IMDB rating: 4.20
Plot: Jamal Walker is a bumbling African-American loser with a lousy job at a crummy theme park called Medieval World, which is receiving heavy competition from a superior stadium with a similar theme, Castle World. Jamal’s pathetic life, however, is dramatically altered while cleaning the stagnant moat. He finds a medallion [...]
The Thaw (2009)
IMDB rating: 0.00
Plot: At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what’s frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary [...]
Black Christmas (2006)
IMDB rating: 4.40
Plot: Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer – take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she’d come to despise when she [...]
Entrapment (1999)
IMDB rating: 6.00
Plot: Following the theft of a highly-secured piece of artwork, an agent convinces her insurance agency employers to allow her to wriggle into the company of an aging but active master thief. Connery’s burglar takes her on suspiciously and demands rigorous training before their first job together—stealing a highly-valued mask from a [...]