Posts Tagged ‘pistol-whip’

Schindler’s List (1993)

Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Ben Kingsley | Ralph Fiennes | Caroline Goodall | Jonathan Sagall | Embeth Davidtz | Malgoscha Gebel | Shmuel Levy | Mark Ivanir | Béatrice Macola | Andrzej Seweryn | Friedrich von Thun | Krzysztof Luft | Harry Nehring | Norbert Weisser
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.

Running Scared (2006)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Paul Walker | Cameron Bright | Vera Farmiga | Chazz Palminteri | Karel Roden | Johnny Messner | Ivana Milicevic | Alex Neuberger | Michael Cudlitz | Bruce Altman | Elizabeth Mitchell | Arthur J. Nascarella | John Noble | Idalis DeLeon | David Warshofsky
Directors: Wayne Kramer
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After a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazelle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop. But things goes wrong for Joey after the neighbor kid stole the gun and used it to shoot his abusive father. Now Joey has to find the kid and the gun before the police and the mob find them first.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Rutger Hauer | Julia Roberts | Jennifer Rae Westley | Dick Clark | Sam Rockwell | Michelle Sweeney | Drew Barrymore | Chelsea Ceci | Brad Pitt | Matt Damon | Michael Cera | Aimee Rose Ambroziak | Isabelle Blais | Melissa Carter | Jennifer Hall | Ilona Elkin | Sean Tucker | Jaye P. Morgan | Maggie Gyllenhaal | David Julian Hirsh
Directors: George Clooney
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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.

All the Pretty Horses (2000)

Friday, October 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Damon | Henry Thomas | Penélope Cruz | J.D. Young | Laura Poe | Sam Shepard | Robert Patrick | Lucas Black | Yvette Diaz | Imelda Colindres | Augustin Solis | Rubén Blades | Elizabeth Ibarra | Miriam Colon | Lonnie Rodriguez
Directors: Billy Bob Thornton
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Two young Texas cowboys on the cusp of manhood ride into 1940’s Mexico in search of experience. What they find is a country as chaotic as it is beautiful, as cruel and unfeeling as it is mysterious, where death is a constant, capricious companion.

Unforgiven (1992)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Gene Hackman | Morgan Freeman | Richard Harris | Jaimz Woolvett | Saul Rubinek | Frances Fisher | Anna Levine | David Mucci | Rob Campbell | Anthony James | Tara Frederick | Beverley Elliott | Liisa Repo-Martell | Josie Smith
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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: Nicolas Cage | Joaquin Phoenix | James Gandolfini | Peter Stormare | Anthony Heald | Chris Bauer | Catherine Keener | Myra Carter | Amy Morton | Jenny Powell | Anne Gee Byrd | Jack Betts | Luis Oropeza | Rachel Singer | Don Creech
Directors: Joel Schumacher
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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: Clive Owen | Paul Giamatti | Monica Bellucci | Stephen McHattie | Greg Bryk | Daniel Pilon | Sidney Mende-Gibson | Lucas Mende-Gibson | Kaylyn Yellowlees | Ramona Pringle | Julian Richings | Tony Munch | Scott McCord | Wiley M. Pickett | Stephen R. Hart
Directors: Michael Davis
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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.

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

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Mary-Louise Parker | Brooklynn Proulx | Dustin Bollinger | Casey Affleck | Sam Rockwell | Jeremy Renner | Sam Shepard | Garret Dillahunt | Paul Schneider | Joel McNichol | James Defelice | J.C. Roberts | Darrell Orydzuk | Jonathan Erich Drachenberg
Directors: Andrew Dominik
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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: Johnny Depp | Penélope Cruz | Franka Potente | Rachel Griffiths | Paul Reubens | Jordi Mollà | Cliff Curtis | Miguel Sandoval | Ethan Suplee | Ray Liotta | Kevin Gage | Max Perlich | Jesse James | Miguel Pérez | Dan Ferro
Directors: Ted Demme
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A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950’s. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George’s father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960’s, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960’s, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.

Undercover Brother (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Griffin | Chris Kattan | Denise Richards | Aunjanue Ellis | Dave Chappelle | Chi McBride | Neil Patrick Harris | Gary Anthony Williams | Billy Dee Williams | Jack Noseworthy | Robert Trumbull | J.D. Hall | William B. Taylor | Shauna MacDonald | Ron Pardo
Directors: Malcolm D. Lee
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An Afro-American organization, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., is in permanent fight against a white organization, The Man, defending the values of the black people in North America. When the Afro-American candidate Gen. Warren Boutwell (Billy Dee Williams) has a weird behavior in his presidential campaign, the Undercover Brother (Eddie Griffin) is hired to work undercover in the white organization and find what happened with the potential candidate.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Downey Jr. | Val Kilmer | Michelle Monaghan | Corbin Bernsen | Dash Mihok | Larry Miller | Rockmond Dunbar | Shannyn Sossamon | Angela Lindvall | Indio Falconer Downey | Ariel Winter | Duane Carnahan | Josh Richman | Martha Hackett | Nancy Fish
Directors: Shane Black
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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: Robert De Niro | Ray Liotta | Joe Pesci | Lorraine Bracco | Paul Sorvino | Chuck Low | Frank DiLeo | Frank Sivero | Tony Darrow | Mike Starr | Frank Vincent | Frank Adonis | Catherine Scorsese | Gina Mastrogiacomo | Suzanne Shepherd
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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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.

The Proposition (2005)

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

Open Range (2003)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Duvall | Kevin Costner | Annette Bening | Michael Gambon | Michael Jeter | Diego Luna | James Russo | Abraham Benrubi | Dean McDermott | Kim Coates | Herb Kohler | Peter MacNeill | Cliff Saunders | Patricia Stutz | Julian Richings
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Boss Spearman, Charley Waite, Mose Harrison and Button freegraze their cattle across the vast prairies of the West, sharing a friendship forged by a steadfast code of honor and living a life unencumbered by civilization. When their wayward herd forces them near the small town of Harmonville, the cowboys encounter a corrupt sheriff and kingpin rancher who govern the territory through fear, tyranny and violence. Boss and Charley find themselves inextricably drawn towards an inevitable showdown, as they are forced to defend the freedom and values of a lifestyle that is all too quickly vanishing. Amidst the turmoil, life suddenly takes an unexpected turn for the loner Charley when he meets the beautiful and warm spirited Sue Barlow, a woman who embraces both his heart and his soul.

Sin City (2005)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jessica Alba | Devon Aoki | Alexis Bledel | Powers Boothe | Jude Ciccolella | Jeffrey J. Dashnaw | Rosario Dawson | Jesse De Luna | Benicio Del Toro | Jason Douglas | Michael Clarke Duncan | Tommy Flanagan | Christina Frankenfield | Rick Gomez | Carla Gugino
Directors: Quentin Tarantino | Robert Rodriguez | Frank Miller
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“Sin City” is Four stories inter-weaved telling tales of corruption in Basin City. The First Story (The Customer is always right)is short, and is based on the depression of women that they need to pay a man to feel loved when they commit suicide. The Next Story is Part 1 of “That Yellow Bastard” starring Bruce Willis as a cop who needs to save a young girl from being raped. The Third Story (The Hard Goodbye) features Mickey Rourke and his revenge on a heartless killer who murdered his one-night stand. The fourth story (The Big, Fat Kill) stars Clive Owen as a man who must dispatch of a cop’s body, but it will be a tough ride to do it. Following that are two conclusions to Sin City, the ending of “That Yellow Bastard” which is set 8 years later, and a short story that ends Sin City.