Tagline: Feelings get you killed. Set in 1882 in the Old West territory of New Mexico, city marshal Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and his deputy and partner Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen), have made their reputation as peacekeepers in the lawless towns springing up in the untamed land. In the small mining community of Appaloosa, a…
Category: Period Films
Australia (2008)
“Australia” is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. An English aristocrat inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver to drive 2000 head of cattle across…
The Bank Job (2008)
Tagline: The true story of a heist gone wrong… in all the right ways. “The Bank Job” was inspired by a real-life 1971 London bank robbery that was never solved. A band of thieves tunneled their way into a safe deposit vault, taking millions of dollars in cash and jewelry. The robbery made headlines for…
Battle in Seattle (2008)
Tagline: The whole world is watching. Based on one of the most incendiary political uprisings in a generation, “Battle in Seattle” takes an in-depth look at the five days that rocked the world in 1999 as tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in protest of the World Trade Organization. What began as…
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
Eight year-old Bruno is the sheltered son of a Nazi officer whose promotion takes the family from their comfortable home in Berlin to a desolate area. Bruno ignores his mother’s repeated instructions not to explore the back garden and heads for the `farm’ he has seen in the near distance. There he meets Shmuel, a…
Brideshead Revisited (2008)
Tagline: Privilege, ambition, desire. At Brideshead everything comes at a price. Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw), Oxford student Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) finds that the power and privilege experienced by the family is seductive. On a visit to Brideshead, the ancestral home, he falls in love with his friend’s sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell)….