Posts Tagged ‘shot-in-the-shoulder’

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_.

Deja Vu (2006)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Patton, Paula | Kilmer, Val | Caviezel, James | Goldberg, Adam | Henson, Elden | Alexander, Erika | Greenwood, Bruce | Hutchman, Rich | Craven, Matt | Scott, Donna W. | Fanning, Elle | Howe, Brian | Castillo, Enrique | Phinney, Mark
Directors: Scott, Tony
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After an explosion on a ferry kills over 500 people including a large group of party-going sailors, an ATF agent investigates the crime. AN FBI agent also joins the investigation. Impressed with the ATF agent’s skills, the FBI agent invites him to join a new team that has a new program that uses satellite technology to look backwards in time for 4-1/2 days to try to capture the terrorist. Meanwhile a young woman who was burned washes up on shore. Meant to look like part of of the explosion, the body arrives at its location too soon, which leads the agents to believe her death is related to the explosion. As they use the new technology to study the woman, the ATF agent determines that this is not satellite imagery but somehow is using a time warp. From this point in the film, the movie moves from a crime film to a sci-fi time paradox film. Nonetheless, the action is non-stop and always captivating. The end of the film may be confusing to some people, but it is all laid out if one cares to look carefully. Contains some extreme violence that some may find disturbing, particularly during the explosion when many people are shown jumping off the boat in flames.

Jackal, The (1997)

Friday, August 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Gere, Richard | Poitier, Sidney | Venora, Diane | May, Mathilda | J.K. Simmons | Lineback, Richard | Cunningham, John | Black, Jack | Harper, Tess | Phillips, Leslie | Spinella, Stephen | Okonedo, Sophie | Hayman, David | Bassett, Steve
Directors: Caton-Jones, Michael
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Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.

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.

Stop-Loss (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Phillippe, Ryan | Gordon-Levitt, Joseph | Brown, Rob | Tatum, Channing | Rasuk, Victor | Quay, Terry | Wilcox, Matthew Scott | Brewer, Connett | Olyphant, Timothy | Sommer, Josef | Hinds, Ciarán | Frost, Alex | Saldivar, Isreal | Kroll, David | Calmbach, Ricky
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Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries to resume the life he left behind. Then, against Brandon’s will, the Army orders him back to duty in Iraq, which upends his world. The conflict tests everything he believes in: the bond of family, the loyalty of friendship, the limits of love and the value of honor.

Street Kings (2008)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Whitaker, Forest | Common | Cedric the Entertainer | Evans, Chris | Gugliemi, Noel | Choi, Kenneth | Laurie, Hugh | Sloan, Cle Shaheed | Nolasco, Amaury | Corbett, John | Crews, Terry | Game, The | Benton, Kevin | Gates, Daryl
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Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

Boogie Nights (1997)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Guzmán, Luis | Reynolds, Burt | Moore, Julianne | Bueno, Rico | Reilly, John C. | Parker, Nicole Ari | Cheadle, Don | Graham, Heather | Wahlberg, Mark | Macy, William H. | Barkhordarian, Samson | Hartley, Nina | Braeden, Brad | Gleason, Joanna | Hudd, Lawrence
Directors: Anderson, Paul Thomas
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Everyone’s born with one special thing, and Eddie Adams uses his humongous “asset” to take the world of film pornography by storm. Things get ugly though when success leads to drugs and ruin. Will Dirk clean up and get back on top? Will Amber see her son? Will Rollergirl ever take off her skates?!

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Allen, Karen | Freeman, Paul | Lacey, Ronald | Rhys-Davies, John | Elliott, Denholm | Molina, Alfred | Kahler, Wolf | Higgins, Anthony | Tablian, Vic | Fellows, Don | Hootkins, William | Reimbold, Bill | Sorenson, Fred | Durkin, Patrick
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Spring 1936. In the thick jungle of the South American continent, a renowned archeologist and expert on the occult is studying fragments of a map, when one of his exploration party pulls a gun. The archeologist pulls out a bullwhip and with such disarms the turncoat, sending him running - thus does Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones stay alive. He and a guide enter a dank and oppressively vast cave that contains several traps created by the ancient race which hid inside a famous handheld statue; Indy barely escapes such traps but is cornered by native tribesmen served by Belloq, an old enemy who arrogantly makes off with the statue, while Indy must flee for his life and escape on a friend’s seaplane. Back in the US two agents from US Army intelligence tell him of Nazi German activities in archeology, including a gigantic excavation site in Egypt - a site that an intercepted cable indicates to Indy is the location of the Ark of the Covenant, the powerful chest bearing the Ten Commandments, that the Nazis can use to obliterate any enemy. Indy must recruit a former girlfriend (the daughter of his old professor) and an old chum in Cairo to infiltrate the Nazi site and make off with the Ark, but along the way Indy gets involved in a series of fights, chases, and traps, before the Nazis learn the full power of the Ark.

Fifty Pills (2006)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Pucci, Lou Taylor | Bell, Kristen | Hensley, John | Zehetner, Nora | Thomas, Eddie Kaye | Keena, Monica | Peña, Michael | Lynch, Jane | Kapelos, John | Rawlings, Donnell | Boston, Rachel | Jones, John Marshall | Yuan, Ron | Johnson, Chris J. | Connor, Curran
Directors: Avgerinos, Theo
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Darren Giles has lost his college scholarship, can’t work up the courage to ask out the girl of his dreams and doesn’t have the cash to stay in college another semester. Unless he can survive the teenage dominatrix, New York’s largest drug mogul, convince his parents he’s not gay, write a paper on Dante’s Inferno, escape three thugs chasing the wrong guy and sell fifty pills of ecstasy in time to make his tuition payment, he’ll never get the chance to date the girl of his dreams.

Man on Fire (2004)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Mexico | UK | USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Fanning, Dakota | Anthony, Marc | Mitchell, Radha | Walken, Christopher | Giannini, Giancarlo | Ticotin, Rachel | Ochoa, Jesús | Rourke, Mickey | Peláez, Angelina | Sánchez Parra, Gustavo | Camilo, Gero | Hernández, Rosa María | Del Castillo, Heriberto | Zaragoza, Mario
Directors: Scott, Tony
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A wave of kidnappings has swept through Mexico, feeding a growing sense of panic among its wealthier citizens, especially parents. In one six-day period, there were twenty-four abductions, leading many to hire bodyguards for their children. Into this world enters John Creasy, a burned-out ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has given up on life. Creasy’s friend Rayburn brings him to Mexico City to be a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos, daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his wife Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a youngster, but for lack of something better to do, he accepts the assignment. Creasy barely tolerates the precocious child and her pestering questions about him and his life. But slowly, she chips away at his seemingly impenetrable exterior, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her. Creasy’s new-found purpose in life is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. Despite being seriously wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to kill anyone involved in or profiting from the kidnapping. And no one can stop him.