Posts Tagged ‘pistol-whip’

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Friday, August 8th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Hauer, Rutger | Roberts, Julia | Westley, Jennifer Rae | Clark, Dick | Rockwell, Sam | Sweeney, Michelle | Barrymore, Drew | Ceci, Chelsea | Pitt, Brad | Damon, Matt | Cera, Michael | Rose Ambroziak, Aimee | Blais, Isabelle | Carter, Melissa | Hall, Jennifer | Elkin, Ilona | Tucker, Sean | Morgan, Jaye P. | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Hirsh, David Julian
Directors: Clooney, George
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is the story of a legendary showman’s double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

Undercover Brother (2002)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Griffin, Eddie | Kattan, Chris | Richards, Denise | Ellis, Aunjanue | Chappelle, Dave | McBride, Chi | Harris, Neil Patrick | Williams, Gary Anthony | Williams, Billy Dee | Noseworthy, Jack | Trumbull, Robert | Hall, J.D. | Taylor, William B. | MacDonald, Shauna | Pardo, Ron
Directors: Lee, Malcolm D.
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Anton Jackson is an African-American man who seems harmless enough on the surface, but is a secret agent in the all-black Brotherhood, an entity that levels the playing field against the all-white establishment. Partnered with the sassy, stunning Sistah Girl, our hero must first undergo the ultimate attitude adjustment and trade in his ‘fro and platforms for tennis sweaters and penny loafers. Once the transformation is complete, he’s ready to take on the evil perpetrators of Operation Whitewash—Mr Feather, Penelope Snow aka White She Devil, and, ultimately, The Man.

Unforgiven (1992)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Hackman, Gene | Freeman, Morgan | Harris, Richard | Woolvett, Jaimz | Rubinek, Saul | Fisher, Frances | Levine, Anna | Mucci, David | Campbell, Rob | James, Anthony | Frederick, Tara | Elliott, Beverley | Repo-Martell, Liisa | Smith, Josie
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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.

8MM (1999)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Phoenix, Joaquin | Gandolfini, James | Stormare, Peter | Heald, Anthony | Bauer, Chris | Keener, Catherine | Carter, Myra | Morton, Amy | Powell, Jenny | Byrd, Anne Gee | Betts, Jack | Oropeza, Luis | Singer, Rachel | Creech, Don
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max (Joaquin Phoenix), Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife (Catherine Keener), family and simple life as a small-town private eye.

Shoot ‘Em Up (2007)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Owen, Clive | Giamatti, Paul | Bellucci, Monica | McHattie, Stephen | Bryk, Greg | Pilon, Daniel | Mende-Gibson, Sidney | Mende-Gibson, Lucas | Yellowlees, Kaylyn | Pringle, Ramona | Richings, Julian | Munch, Tony | McCord, Scott | Pickett, Wiley M. | Hart, Stephen R.
Directors: Davis, Michael
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Late at night, in an unnamed U.S. city, a solitary man sits at a bus stop. A pregnant woman runs by, pursued by a man with a gun. With reluctance, the man at the bus stop rescues her and assists with the baby’s delivery, while additional pursuers fire at them, including the gang’s particularly nasty leader, an intuitive man named Hertz. Our hero, known only as Smith, determines to save the child and find out why Hertz wants the baby dead. At a local bordello, he tries to employ a lactating hooker to watch the child, but things quickly escalate, and this makeshift family is soon on the run. Heavy metal music calms the baby. Why? A laboratory, a gun factory, and a presidential campaign all figure in Smith’s search for the child’s ultimate safety.

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

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Parker, Mary-Louise | Proulx, Brooklynn | Bollinger, Dustin | Affleck, Casey | Rockwell, Sam | Renner, Jeremy | Shepard, Sam | Dillahunt, Garret | Schneider, Paul | McNichol, Joel | Defelice, James | Roberts, J.C. | Orydzuk, Darrell | Drachenberg, Jonathan Erich
Directors: Dominik, Andrew
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Robert Ford, who’s idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

Blow (2001)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Cruz, Penélope | Potente, Franka | Griffiths, Rachel | Reubens, Paul | Mollà, Jordi | Curtis, Cliff | Sandoval, Miguel | Suplee, Ethan | Liotta, Ray | Gage, Kevin | Perlich, Max | James, Jesse | Pérez, Miguel | Ferro, Dan
Directors: Demme, Ted
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George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner. Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment. In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him into a partnership to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes instrumental in establishing the exploding US market for cocaine in which he claimed that he handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970’s. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his dangerously treacherous occupation catch up with him in ways from which he would never recover.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Downey Jr., Robert | Kilmer, Val | Monaghan, Michelle | Bernsen, Corbin | Mihok, Dash | Miller, Larry | Dunbar, Rockmond | Sossamon, Shannyn | Lindvall, Angela | Downey, Indio Falconer | Winter, Ariel | Carnahan, Duane | Richman, Josh | Hackett, Martha | Fish, Nancy
Directors: Black, Shane
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A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who’s been training him for his upcoming role…

Goodfellas (1990)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Liotta, Ray | Pesci, Joe | Bracco, Lorraine | Sorvino, Paul | Low, Chuck | DiLeo, Frank | Sivero, Frank | Darrow, Tony | Starr, Mike | Vincent, Frank | Adonis, Frank | Scorsese, Catherine | Mastrogiacomo, Gina | Shepherd, Suzanne
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960’s and 70’s New York. Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Joe Pesci plays Tommy Devito, a pure bred gangster, who turns out to be Henry’s best friend. Robert De Niro plays Jimmy Conway, the man who puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, played by Paul Sorvino, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive.

Proposition, The (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Pearce, Guy | Budge, Tom | Watson, Emily | Winstone, Ray | Wenham, David | Hurt, John | Wilson, Richard | Morgan, Robert
Directors: Hillcoat, John
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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.