Archive for tag: Biography

Ali

18 March, 2010 (11:22) | Uncategorized | By: jimmymarquez1968

Ali (2001)
IMDB rating: 6.40
Plot: In 1964, a brash new pro boxer, fresh from his olympic gold medal victory, explodes on to the scene, Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African American’s in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer [...]

Annie Get Your Gun

6 February, 2010 (22:49) | Uncategorized | By: jimmymarquez1968

Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
IMDB rating: 7.20
Plot: Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised ‘Doin’ What Comes Naturally’. Frank Butler, the star sharpshooter in ‘Colonel Buffalo Bill’’s show, however, knows full well that’s not how ‘The Girl That I Marry’ must be. Anyway, not at least until he finds that ‘My Defences are [...]

Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The

12 January, 2010 (14:42) | Uncategorized | By: jimmymarquez1968

Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007)
IMDB rating: 8.20
Plot: Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment [...]

Dangerous Beauty

1 January, 2010 (15:02) | Uncategorized | By: jimmymarquez1968

Dangerous Beauty (1998)
IMDB rating: 7.00
Plot: In 16th century Venice, courtesans enjoy unique privileges: dressed richly in red, they read, compose poetry and music, and discuss affairs of state with the men who govern the Republic. When Veronica Franco comes of age, she cannot marry Marco Venier, whom she loves, because she is well born but [...]