Posts Tagged ‘shot-in-the-back’

Untouchables, The (1987)

Friday, September 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Connery, Sean | Smith, Charles Martin | Garcia, Andy | De Niro, Robert | Bradford, Richard | Kehoe, Jack | Sullivan, Brad | Drago, Billy | Clarkson, Patricia | D'Ambrosio, Vito | Goldstein, Steven | Aylward, Peter | Harvey, Don | Swan, Robert
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein’s _The Battleship Potemkin_.

007 GoldenEye (1995)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Bean, Sean | Scorupco, Izabella | Janssen, Famke | Baker, Joe Don | Dench, Judi | John, Gottfried | Coltrane, Robbie | Cumming, Alan | Karyo, Tchéky | Llewelyn, Desmond | Bond, Samantha | Kitchen, Michael | Gordon, Serena | Kunz, Simon
Directors: Campbell, Martin
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James Bond has a mission to recover the ‘Goldeneye’ access key. A Russian computer programmer called Natalya Siminova survives a murder spree by Xenia Onatopp and General Ourumov. Bond must work with Natalya to find this key and uncovers a sinister secret. His fellow agent, Alec Trevelyan who was believed to have been shot and killed 9 years ago re-surfaces. Bond soon realizes that Trevelyan is behind everything. Bond must now battle his former friend, in order to stop him from destroying London with the Goldeneye satellite.

Postal (2007)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | Germany | USA
Actors: Ward, Zack | Foley, Dave | Coppola, Chris | Tohn, Jackie | J.K. Simmons | Moeller, Ralf | Troyer, Verne | Spencer, Chris | Thomas, Larry | Paré, Michael | Avari, Erick | Hollister, Lindsay | Mendenhall, Brent | Hoffman, Rick | Benyaer, Michael
Directors: Boll, Uwe
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The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a violent rampage when he teams up with cult leader Uncle Dave. Their first act is to heist an amusement park, only to learn that the Taliban are planning the same heist as well. Chaos ensues, and now the Postal Dude must not only take on terrorists but political figures as well.

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.

Galaxy Quest (1999)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Shalhoub, Tony | Rockwell, Sam | Breen, Patrick | Allen, Tim | Weaver, Sigourney | Rickman, Alan | Mitchell, Daryl | Sachs, Robin | Colantoni, Enrico
Directors: Parisot, Dean
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Eighteen years after their sci-fi adventure show “Galaxy Quest” was canceled, actors Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco, Alexander Dane, Tommy Webber, and Fred Kwan are making appearances at sci-fi conventions and store openings in costume and character. They’re wallowing in despair and at each other’s throats until aliens known as Thermians arrive and, having mistaken the show for fact and consequently modeling their entire culture around it, take them into space to save them from the genocidal General Sarris and his armada.

Doomsday (2008)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: South Africa | UK | USA
Actors: Willemse, Vernon | Hyett, Paul | Read, Daniel | Thaning, Karl | Hughes, Stephen | Cope, Jason | Kruger, Ryan | Wheatley, Nathan | Carter, Cecil | Crutchley, Jeremy | Fairfoot, Tom | Abrahams, Az | Hoskins, Bob | Siddig, Alexander | O'Hara, David
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Great Britain, 2007. A deadly plague, known as the “Reaper Virus,” has broken out, killing hundreds of thousands in its wake. In desperation, the British Government evacuates as many survivors as it can out of the infected area, and then builds a wall, preventing the remainder from escaping. Thirty years later, with the wall still up and the victims all but forgotten, the virus breaks out again. The Government decides to send a crack team of operatives, led by Major Eden Sinclair, into the hot zone to investigate the possibility of a cure.

Vantage Point (2008)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Quaid, Dennis | Fox, Matthew | Whitaker, Forest | McGill, Bruce | Ramirez, Edgar | Taghmaoui, Saïd | Hurt, William | LeGros, James | Noriega, Eduardo | Jones, Richard T. | McCallany, Holt | Nam, Leonardo | Sundquist, Justin | O'Bryan, Sean | Rodríguez, José Carlos
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The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Cho, John | Penn, Kal | Corddry, Rob | Conley, Jack | Bart, Roger | Harris, Neil Patrick | Winter, Eric | Reep, Jon | Munoz, Mark | Adomian, James | Voltz, Todd | Christy, Richard | Herschman, Adam | Beals, Jackson | Talai, Amir
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Follows the cross-country adventures of the pot-smoking duo as they try to outrun authorities who suspect them of being terrorists when they try to sneak a bong on board their flight to Amsterdam.

Lawman (1971)

Friday, July 4th, 2008
Genres: Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Lancaster, Burt | Ryan, Robert | Cobb, Lee J. | Duvall, Robert | Joseph Wiseman | Cannon, J.D. | Salmi, Albert | Jordan, Richard | McGiver, John | Waite, Ralph | Beck, John | Watson, William | Brooke, Walter | Emhardt, Robert | Tyner, Charles
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While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken, trail-weary cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident. Maddox, however, will not compromise even though small ranchers like Vern Adams are not in a position to desert their responsibilities for a long and protracted trial. Sabbath’s marshal, Cotton Ryan, is an aging lawman whose tough reputation rests on a single incident that occurred years before. Ryan admits to being only a shadow of what he once was and no threat to stop Maddox. Maddox confides to Ryan that Bannock’s judicial system is weak and corrupt, and while he’s doubtful that anyone he brings back will suffer more than the price of a bribe, he will not be deterred in his unrelenting pursuit of his duty. Initially Bronson appears willing to make concessions, but when his oldest friend Harvey Stenbaugh is killed after deliberately picking a fight with Maddox, Bronson digs in his heels with the rest of the town to resist the relentless lawman.

In Bruges (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: Belgium | UK
Actors: Blomme, Rudy | Bonjour, Olivier | Donovan, Mark | Farrell, Colin | Favorin, Jean-Marc | Fiennes, Ralph | Gleeson, Brendan | Godon, Eric | Ivanek, Zeljko | Nummy, Louis | Prentice, Jordan | Renier, Jérémie | Stevenson, Theo | Witney, Angel | Hinds, Ciarán
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Bruges, the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the world. But for hit men Ray and Ken, it could be their final destination; a difficult job has resulted in the pair being ordered right before Christmas by their London boss Harry to go and cool their heels in the storybook Flemish city for a couple of weeks. Very much out of place amidst the gothic architecture, canals, and cobbled streets, the two hit men fill their days living the lives of tourists. Ray, still haunted by the bloodshed in London, hates the place, while Ken, even as he keeps a fatherly eye on Ray’s often profanely funny exploits, finds his mind and soul being expanded by the beauty and serenity of the city. But the longer they stay waiting for Harry’s call, the more surreal their experience becomes, as they find themselves in weird encounters with locals, tourists, violent medieval art, a dwarf American actor shooting a European art film, Dutch prostitutes, and a potential romance for Ray in the form of Chloë, who may have some dark secrets of her own. And when the call from Harry does finally come, Ken and Ray’s vacation becomes a life-and-death struggle of darkly comic proportions and surprisingly emotional consequences.