Friday, March 11, 2016

Desperado


Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho (Joaquim de Almeida), for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. With the help of his best friend (Steve Buscemi) and a beautiful bookstore owner (Salma Hayek), the Mariachi tracks Bucho, takes on his army of desperados, and leaves a trail of blood of his own.

    Release date: August 25, 1995 (USA)
    Director: Robert Rodriguez
    Film series: Mexico Trilogy
    Music composed by: Los Lobos
    Languages: English, Spanish
    Source: Google

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

    Ten years after simian flu wiped out much of the world's homosapiens, genetically enhanced chimpanzee Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his ever-growing band of followers have established a thriving colony just outside San Francisco in Muir Woods. Meanwhile, a small band of human survivors emerges, which forces Caesar -- as leader -- to grapple with the dual challenge of protecting his people and re-establishing a relationship with the remaining human population -- the latter being Caesar's secret wish.
    Release date: July 11, 2014 (USA)
    Director: Matt Reeves
    Film series: Planet of the Apes reboot series
    Adapted from: Planet of the Apes
    Screenplay: Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, Scott Z. Burns, Amanda 
    Silver, Rick Jaffa
    Source: www.google.com

Thursday, March 3, 2016

The Killer

Mob assassin Jeffrey (Chow Yun-Fat) is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie (Sally Yeh) is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman (Danny Lee) to make things right.

Release date: September 1990 (USA)
Director: John Woo
Box office: 18.26 million HKD
Initial DVD release: March 2, 2007 (Sweden)
Awards: Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director, Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film Editing

Source: Google



Saturday, February 27, 2016

X-Men Origins : Wolverine

Seeking solace from his dark past, Logan (Hugh Jackman), better known as Wolverine, seems to have found love and contentment with Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins). Logan's peaceful existence is shattered when Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber), his vicious brother, brutally murders Kayla. Logan's thirst for revenge propels him into the Weapon X program, where he undergoes a painful procedure to bond his bones with adamantium, making him virtually indestructible and more than a match for Victor.

Release date: May 1, 2009 (USA)
Film series: X-Men
Director: Gavin Hood
Budget: 150 million USD



Thursday, February 25, 2016

Spectre 2015 film

SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) is a fictional global criminal syndicate and terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games. Led by evil genius and supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the international organisation first formally appeared in the novel Thunderball (1961) and in the film Dr. No (1962). As a NGO, SPECTRE is not aligned to any nation or political ideology, enabling the later Bond books and Bond films to be regarded as somewhat apolitical though the former Gestapo members are a clear sign of Fleming's warning of the Nazi fascists surviving after the Second World War first detailed in the novel Moonraker (1954). SPECTRE began in the novels as a small group of criminals but became a vast international organisation with its own SPECTRE Island training base in the films, to replace the Soviet SMERSH.
Release date: November 6, 2015 (USA)
Box office: 879.2 million USD
Director: Sam Mendes
Running time: 2h 30m

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECTRE

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Taken 2008 film 7.9/10

Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.

Release date: January 30, 2009 (USA)
Box office: 226.8 million USD
Director: Pierre Morel
MPAA rating: PG-13
Screenplay: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0936501/plotsummary

Saturday, February 20, 2016

The Jungle Book (2016)


An orphan boy is raised in the jungle with the help of a pack of wolves, a bear, and a black panther.

Director: Jon Favreau
Writers: Justin Marks (screenplay), Rudyard Kipling (book)
Stars: Neel Sethi, Ben Kingsley, Lupita Nyong'o | See full cast & crew »


Storyline

An orphan boy is raised in the jungle with the help of a pack of wolves, a bear, and a black panther.


Release date: April 15, 2016 (USA)
Director: Jon Favreau
MPAA rating: PG
Screenplay: Justin Marks
Music composed by: John Debney


Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3040964/