Posts Tagged ‘shot-in-the-foot’

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.

The Rock (1996)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Connery | Nicolas Cage | Ed Harris | John Spencer | David Morse | William Forsythe | Michael Biehn | Vanessa Marcil | John C. McGinley | Gregory Sporleder | Tony Todd | Bokeem Woodbine | Jim Maniaci | Greg Collins | Brendan Kelly
Directors: Michael Bay
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Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington D.C., is a biochemist who works for the FBI. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from FBI director James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island has been taken hostage, along with 81 tourists, by marine General Francis Xavier Hummel, who, for years, has been protesting the government’s refusal to pay benefits to families of war veterans who died during covert military operations. The death of his wife Barbara Hummel on March 9, 1995 drove General Hummel over the edge, and now he’s holding hostages in order to get his point across. Stanley is needed because General Himmel has stolen some VX gas warheads and has announced that he will launch them onto San Francisco unless his demands are met. Stanley knows how to disarm the bombs, but Stanley needs someone who knows Alcatraz well enough to get him inside. That man is former British intelligence agent John Patrick Mason, who has been in prison for the past 30 years without a trial because he was accused of stealing the private files of J. Edgar Hoover. In 1962, John became the only inmate ever to escape from Alcatraz, and he stayed out of Alcatraz long enough to father a daughter named Jade Angelou. Despite his extreme hatred of the FBI, John agrees to help Stanley. When John and Stanley are sent into Alcatraz with a Navy SEAL team, General Hummel’s men kill the entire SEAL team, leaving Stanley and John to work on their own to rescue the hostages.

Casino Royale (2006)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Daniel Craig | Eva Green | Mads Mikkelsen | Judi Dench | Jeffrey Wright | Giancarlo Giannini | Caterina Murino | Simon Abkarian | Isaach De Bankolé | Jesper Christensen | Ivana Milicevic | Tobias Menzies | Claudio Santamaria | Sebastien Foucan | Malcolm Sinclair
Directors: Martin Campbell
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After receiving license to kill from the MI-6, the secret agent James Bond follows his leads and avoids the destruction of the greatest airplane in the world in Miami plotted by the evil banker Le Chiffre to crash the bonds in the stock market and break the air flight company. The banker loses the funds of international terrorist organizations and organizes a poker game in Casino Royale, in Montenegro, to raise the money of the investors. James Bond travels with the British accountant Vesper Lynd to bet and defeat La Chiffre and force him to look for protection with the MI-6, disclosing the names of the terrorists. James wins, but is double-crossed, in a game of betrayals and murders.

Troy (2004)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | Romance
Countries: Malta | UK | USA
Actors: Julian Glover | Brian Cox | Nathan Jones | Adoni Maropis | Jacob Smith | Brad Pitt | John Shrapnel | Brendan Gleeson | Diane Kruger | Eric Bana | Orlando Bloom | Siri Svegler | Lucie Barat | Ken Bones | Manuel Cauchi
Directors: Wolfgang Petersen
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer’s “The Iliad.”

Slither (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Nathan Fillion | Elizabeth Banks | Gregg Henry | Michael Rooker | Don Thompson | Tania Saulnier | Xantha Radley | Dustin Milligan | Haig Sutherland | Jennifer Copping | Zak Ludwig | Kathryn Kirkpatrick | Brenda James | Lorena Gale | Bart Anderson
Directors: James Gunn
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In this blend of the B movie classic The Blob (1958) and some Romero’s zombies film, a meteorite collides in a small town. Grant finds it, and is infected by a parasite worm, which installs in his brain and causes him a creepy transformation into a monster. Starla, his wife, and Bill, a policeman, will try to stop him and the plague of worms generated by the creature.

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.

The Mexican (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Romance
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Julia Roberts | James Gandolfini | J.K. Simmons | Bob Balaban | Sherman Augustus | Michael Cerveris | Gene Hackman | Richard Coca | David Krumholtz | Castulo Guerra | Mayra Serbulo | Salvador Sánchez | Alan Ciangherotti | Melisa Romero
Directors: Gore Verbinski
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Jerry Welbach is given two ultimatums. His mob boss wants him to travel to Mexico to get a priceless antique pistol called “The Mexican” or he will suffer the consequences. The other ultimatum comes from his girlfriend Samantha, who wants him to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures that being alive, although in trouble with his girlfriend is the better alternative so he heads south of the border. Finding the pistol is easy but getting it home is a whole other matter. The pistol supposedly carries a curse - a curse Jerry is given every reason to believe, especially when Samantha is held hostage by the gay hit man Leroy to ensure the safe return of the pistol.

Face/Off (1997)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Nicolas Cage | Joan Allen | Alessandro Nivola | Gina Gershon | Dominique Swain | Nick Cassavetes | Harve Presnell | Colm Feore | John Carroll Lynch | CCH Pounder | Robert Wisdom | Margaret Cho | James Denton | Matt Ross
Directors: John Woo
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Sean Archer is a government agent who for six years has been trying to apprehend terrorist, Caster Troy, who tried to kill him but ended up killing Archer’s son instead. When Archer corners Troy, Troy tells Archer that he has planted a bomb that will go off, unless he lets him go but Archer thinks that Troy is bluffing so a fight erupts that leaves Troy comatose. But later when they go through some of his brother, Pollux’s things, they discover that Troy was telling the truth. All what they need now is to find out where it is and the only person who knows is Pollux. And the only person that he will talk to about it, is his brother, Caster but unfortunately he is a vegetable. A government official then suggests to Archer that he assume Caster’s identity and ask Pollux about the bomb. So she brings him to a doctor who has perfected a method wherein the face of one individual is removed from him and placed on another. Archer agrees. The operation is a success so Archer as Troy goes to the prison where Pollux is being held and successfully gets him to tell him where the bomb is. Meanwhile, Troy who was believed to be comatose awakens and forces the doctor who operated on Archer to place Archer’s face on him. He then goes to the prison as Archer and taunts Archer by telling him that he has destroyed all documentation of the operation and eliminated everyone who knew about it. He then takes his brother out and leaves Archer in prison. But Archer somehow manages to escape and is now trying to find someone who will believe and help him, while Troy is plotting something.

The Punisher (2004)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Roy Scheider | Will Patton | John Travolta | Rebecca Romijn | A. Russell Andrews | Omar Avila | James Carpinello | Mark Collie | Russ Comegys | Antoni Corone | Rick Elmhurst | Ben Foster | Laura Harring | Michael Reardon | Will Hasenzahl | Thomas Jane | Eddie Jemison | Marco St. John | Marcus Johns
Directors: Jonathan Hensleigh
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Special agent Frank Castle had it all: A loving family, a great life, and an adventurous job. But when his life is taken away from him by a ruthless criminal and his associates, Frank has become reborn. Now serving as judge, jury, and executioner, he’s a new kind of vigilante out to wage a one man war against those who have done him wrong.

Batman Begins (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian Bale | Michael Caine | Liam Neeson | Katie Holmes | Gary Oldman | Cillian Murphy | Tom Wilkinson | Rutger Hauer | Ken Watanabe | Mark Boone Junior | Linus Roache | Morgan Freeman | Larry Holden | Gerard Murphy | Colin McFarlane
Directors: Christopher Nolan
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In tone with the early “Batman: Year One” style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra’s Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan ‘The Scarecrow’ Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.

Killing Zoe (1994)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Eric Stoltz | Julie Delpy | Jean-Hugues Anglade | Tai Thai | Bruce Ramsay | Kario Salem | Salvator Xuereb | Gary Kemp | Martin Raymond | Eric Pascal Chaltiel | Cecilia Peck | Gladys Holland | Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi | Gérard Bonn | Bernard Baski
Directors: Roger Avary
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Zed has only just arrived in the beautiful Paris and already he’s up to no good. Having just slept with a call girl, he spends a night on the town with his dangerous friends. They all decide to rob a bank the following day. There’s only one problem: Zed’s call-girl, Zoe, just happens to work at the bank which is to be robbed!

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.

The Fifth Element (1997)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Bruce Willis | Gary Oldman | Ian Holm | Milla Jovovich | Chris Tucker | Luke Perry | Brion James | Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr. | Lee Evans | Charlie Creed-Miles | Tricky | John Neville | John Bluthal | Mathieu Kassovitz | Christopher Fairbank
Directors: Luc Besson
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Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element (played by Milla Jovovich) can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years. She is helped by ex-soldier, current-cab-driver, Corben Dallas (played by Bruce Willis), who is, in turn, helped by Prince/Arsenio clone, Ruby Rhod. Unfortunately, Evil is being assisted by Mr. Zorg (Gary Oldman), who seeks to profit from the chaos that Evil will bring, and his alien mercenaries.

The Hard Word (2002)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Guy Pearce | Rachel Griffiths | Robert Taylor | Joel Edgerton | Damien Richardson | Rhondda Findleton | Kate Atkinson | Vince Colosimo | Paul Sonkkila | Kym Gyngell | Dorian Nkono | Stephen Whittaker | Torquil Neilson | Don Bridges | Doug Bowles
Directors: Scott Roberts
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Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you “know wot I mean?” However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.