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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - download movie
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Ralph Richardson | Ian Holm | James Fox | Christopher Lambert | Andie MacDowell | Cheryl Campbell | Ian Charleson | Nigel Davenport | Nicholas Farrell | Paul Geoffrey | Richard Griffiths | Hilton McRae | David Suchet | John Wells | Ravinder
Directors: Hugh Hudson
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A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D’Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization. Written by Murray Chapman {muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au}

Anna Karenina (1997)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Anna Karenina - download movie
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sophie Marceau | Sean Bean | Alfred Molina | Mia Kirshner | James Fox | Fiona Shaw | Danny Huston | Phyllida Law | David Schofield | Saskia Wickham | Jennifer Hall | Anna Calder-Marshall | Petr Shelokhonov | Valerie Braddell | Niall Buggy
Directors: Bernard Rose
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Anna is a young and elegant wife of Mr. Karenin, who is wealthy and old. She meets the handsome Count Vronsky. Anna and Vronsky fall in love with each other, and he comes to be with her in St. Petersburg. They are very happy together and make a great looking couple, but soon their happiness gets under social pressures. Anna is hopelessly begging Mr. Karenin for a divorce, but he wants to keep the mother of their child. She has another baby born from her lover Vronsky. Conflict between her untamed desires and painful reality causes her a depression and suicidal thoughts. Written by Steve Shelokhonov

Unforgiven (1992)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Unforgiven - download movie
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Gene Hackman | Morgan Freeman | Richard Harris | Jaimz Woolvett | Saul Rubinek | Frances Fisher | Anna Levine | David Mucci | Rob Campbell | Anthony James | Tara Frederick | Beverley Elliott | Liisa Repo-Martell | Josie Smith
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The town of Big Whisky is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys try to make a living. Sheriff ‘Little Bill’ tries to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The town whores just try to get by.Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill’s justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as ‘The Schofield Kid’, and aging killer William Munny. Munny reformed for his young wife, and has been raising crops and two children in peace. But his wife is gone. Farm life is hard. And Munny is no good at it. So he calls his old partner Ned, saddles his ornery nag, and rides off to kill one more time, blurring the lines between heroism and villainy, man and myth. Written by Charlie Ness

High Plains Drifter (1973)

Monday, March 31st, 2008
High Plains Drifter - download movie
Genres: Drama | Thriller | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Verna Bloom | Marianna Hill | Mitch Ryan | Jack Ging | Stefan Gierasch | Ted Hartley | Billy Curtis | Geoffrey Lewis | Scott Walker | Walter Barnes | Paul Brinegar | Richard Bull | Robert Donner | John Hillerman
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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A stranger rides out of the hot desert into a small town in the wild west. The towns people are scared of him, and 3 gunmen try, unsuccessfully, to kill him. He takes a room and decides to stay. Meanwhile, a group of outlaws are about to return to the town and take their revenge - will the towns leaders convince the mysterious man to help ? Written by Colin Tinto {cst@imdb.com}

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The - download movie
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Mary-Louise Parker | Brooklynn Proulx | Dustin Bollinger | Casey Affleck | Sam Rockwell | Jeremy Renner | Sam Shepard | Garret Dillahunt | Paul Schneider | Joel McNichol | James Defelice | J.C. Roberts | Darrell Orydzuk | Jonathan Erich Drachenberg
Directors: Andrew Dominik
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The Bottom Line

The performances are fantastic and the production design and photography are just phenomenal. But the plot is so plodding and the timing is so laboriously slow that not even Brad Pitt playing with snakes and Casey Affleck playing a tortured soul involved in a twisted love/hate relationship with the notorious outlaw can salvage The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (henceforth referred to as AJJCRF in order to save myself from a carpal tunnel injury).

The Proposition (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Proposition, The - download movie
Genres: Drama
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Guy Pearce | Tom Budge | Emily Watson | Ray Winstone | David Wenham | John Hurt | Richard Wilson | Robert Morgan
Directors: John Hillcoat
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Rural Australia in the late nineteenth century: Capt. Stanley and his men capture two of the four Burns brothers, Charlie and Mike. Their gang is held responsible for attacking the Hopkins farm, raping pregnant Mrs. Hopkins and murdering the whole family. Arthur Burns, the eldest brother and the gang’s mastermind, remains at large has and has retreated to a mountain hideout. Capt. Stanley’s proposition to Charlie is to gain pardon and - more importantly - save his beloved younger brother Mike from the gallows by finding and killing Arthur within nine days. Written by Armin Ortmann {armin@sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de}

Back to the Future Part III (1990)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Back to the Future Part III - download movie
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Dysart | ZZ Top | Michael J. Fox | Christopher Lloyd | Mary Steenburgen | Thomas F. Wilson | Lea Thompson | Elisabeth Shue | James Tolkan | Matt Clark | Dub Taylor | Harry Carey Jr. | Pat Buttram | Christopher Wynne | Sean Gregory Sullivan | Mike Watson | Marc McClure
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly receives written word from his friend, Doctor Emmett Brown, as to where can be found the DeLorean time machine. However, an unfortunate discovery prompts Marty to go to his friend’s aid. Using the time machine, Marty travels to the old west where his friend has run afoul of a gang of thugs and has fallen in love with a local schoolteacher. Using the technology from the time, Marty and Emmett devise one last chance to send the two of them back to the future. Written by Vampire Sharpshooter

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Open Range (2003)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Open Range - download movie
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Duvall | Kevin Costner | Annette Bening | Michael Gambon | Michael Jeter | Diego Luna | James Russo | Abraham Benrubi | Dean McDermott | Kim Coates | Herb Kohler | Peter MacNeill | Cliff Saunders | Patricia Stutz | Julian Richings
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Kevin Costner jumps back in the saddle for “Open Range,” a majestic look at the old west. The “Dances With Wolves” director and “Silverado” and “Wyatt Earp”star, with “Open Range” Costner reconnects with the genre that’s served him well in the past.

Open Range” is the nostalgic story of grizzled cowboys, the wide-open beauty of a young country, and the fading days of a way of life. “Open Range” is visually stunning and features an easy to follow plot with strictly defined heroes and villains. While the heroes don’t literally wear white hats, there’s never the slightest doubt whom to root for.

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Van Helsing (2004)

Friday, February 16th, 2007
Van Helsing - download movie
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | USA
Actors: Hugh Jackman | Kate Beckinsale | Richard Roxburgh | David Wenham | Shuler Hensley | Elena Anaya | Will Kemp | Kevin J. O'Connor | Alun Armstrong | Silvia Colloca | Josie Maran | Tom Fisher | Samuel West | Robbie Coltrane | Stephen Fisher
Directors: Stephen Sommers
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Van Helsing is in the world to rid all evil, even if not everyone agrees with him. The Vatican send the monster hunter and his ally, Carl to Transylvania. They have been sent to this land to stop the powerful Count Dracula. Whilst, here they join forces with a Gypsy Princess called Anna Valerious, who is determined to end an ancient curse on her family, by destroying the vampire. They just don’t know how! Written by Film_Fan

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