Posts Tagged ‘shot-in-the-hand’

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 Crow (1994)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brandon Lee | Rochelle Davis | Ernie Hudson | Michael Wincott | Ling Bai | Sofia Shinas | Anna Levine | David Patrick Kelly | Angel David | Laurence Mason | Michael Massee | Tony Todd | Jon Polito | Bill Raymond | Marco Rodríguez
Directors: Alex Proyas
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A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante’s invincibility.

Crank (2006)

Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jason Statham | Amy Smart | Jose Pablo Cantillo | Efren Ramirez | Dwight Yoakam | Carlos Sanz | Reno Wilson | Edi Gathegi | Glenn Howerton | Jay Xcala | Keone Young | Valarie Rae Miller | Yousuf Azami | Laurent Schwaar | David Brown
Directors: Mark Neveldine
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Chev Chelios is a professional assassin working for the West Coast crime syndicate. Chev’s girlfriend Eve doesn’t know what Chev does and Chev is planning to quit the crime syndicate so he can spend more time with her. But for Chev, things about to get very bad, when he learns he has been injected with a poison called “The Beijing Cocktail” by his rival Verona, which will kill him if his heart rate drops. Trying to stay alive and seeking help from friend, Kaylo and Doc Miles, to keep his heart pumping. Chev sets out to find answers as well as protecting Eve, and get his revenge on those who have betrayed him before the poison kills him.

Children of Men (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Juan Gabriel Yacuzzi | Michelle Hussain | Rob Curling | Jon Chevalier | Rita Davies | Kim Fenton | Chris Gilbert | Phoebe Hawthorne | Rebecca Howard | Atalanta White | Laurence Woodbridge | Clive Owen | Maria McErlane | Michael Haughey | Paul Sharma
Directors: Alfonso Cuarón
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With this dystopian world ravished by war, paranoia and the frustrations of Man the Orwellian vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian future is now complete and amongst us. With female fertility becoming obsolete, Man cannot reproduce, and no child has been born on the face of the planet for eighteen years. Man, and his future, is dying. Soon he shall be extinct. Theo, the beaten, downtrodden and middle-aged ex-political activist will, unwittingly, become involved in a war of an underground revolt. Here he is active once more, in the perilous journey across England’s Home Counties, with a young girl, Kee, who, to Theo’s bewilderment is pregnant. The first pregnant woman for more than eighteen years. This secret must be protected, at all cost, and mother and child must flee to the mysterious and enigmatic Human Project, across the seas. Their flight is a constant fight for survival. Who can be trusted? Who can keep a secret?

Windtalkers (2002)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Adam Beach | Peter Stormare | Noah Emmerich | Mark Ruffalo | Brian Van Holt | Martin Henderson | Roger Willie | Frances O'Connor | Christian Slater | Jason Isaacs | Billy Morts | Cameron Thor | Kevin Cooney | Holmes Osborne
Directors: John Woo
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WWII. Joe Enders, a decorated Marine who is by-the-book to a fault, is just coming back on duty (by cheating on his medical tests). “Ox” Anderson, much greener, is also getting the same new task: Protect the Navajo codetalkers (Ben Yahzee and Charles Whitehorse, respectively). While Enders is initially frustrated with his assignment, his respect grows as the codetalkers prove their worth in the brutal battle to take Saipan.

Desperado (1995)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Antonio Banderas | Salma Hayek | Joaquim de Almeida | Cheech Marin | Steve Buscemi | Carlos Gómez | Quentin Tarantino | Tito Larriva | Angel Aviles | Danny Trejo | Abraham Verduzco | Carlos Gallardo | Albert Michel Jr. | David Alvarado | Angela Lanza
Directors: Robert Rodriguez
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With this sequel to his prize-winning independent previous film, “El Mariachi,” director Robert Rodriquez joins the ranks of Sam Peckinpah and John Woo as a master of slick, glamorized ultra-violence. We pick up the story as a continuation of “El Mariachi,” where an itinerant musician, looking for work, gets mistaken for a hitman and thereby entangled in a web of love, corruption, and death. This time, he is out to avenge the murder of his lover and the maiming of his fretting hand, which occurred at the end of the earlier movie. However, the plot is recapitulated, and again, a case of mistaken identity leads to a very high body count, involvement with a beautiful woman who works for the local drug lord, and finally, the inevitable face-to-face confrontation and bloody showdown.

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.

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller | War
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Jude Law | Ed Harris | Rachel Weisz | Joseph Fiennes | Bob Hoskins | Ron Perlman | Eva Mattes | Gabriel Thomson | Matthias Habich | Sophie Rois | Ivan Shvedoff | Mario Bandi | Hans Martin Stier | Clemens Schick | Mikhail Matveyev
Directors: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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During the WWII battle of Stalingrad, two snipers, a Russian (Law), and a German (Harris), are locked in a battle of wills and marksmenship, while the Russian is boosted to the status of hero by a political official (Fiennes).

16 Blocks (2006)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Mos Def | David Morse | Steve Nuke | Jim Lavin
Directors: Richard Donner
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Jack Mosley, a burnt-out detective, is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail to a courthouse 16 blocks away. However, along the way he learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley’s colleagues, and the entire NYPD wants him dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long…

Serenity (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nathan Fillion | Gina Torres | Alan Tudyk | Morena Baccarin | Adam Baldwin | Jewel Staite | Sean Maher | Summer Glau | Ron Glass | Chiwetel Ejiofor | David Krumholtz | Michael Hitchcock | Sarah Paulson | Yan Feldman | Rafael Feldman
Directors: Joss Whedon
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The crew of the Serenity is getting desperate. They have lain lower and lower to protect their doctor, Simon Tam (Sean Maher), and his telepathic traumatized little sister, River (Summer Glau), from the alliance, whom he rescued her from a year earlier. This has made getting jobs harder and now they are desperate. When they take River on a robbery during which Reavers (humans who have gone crazy and turned into cannibals) attack, Simon decides that its time to leave the crew of the Serenity for his and River’s safety. She then mutters “Miranda” and goes berserk and nearly shoots Capt. Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), until her brother says the safety word to put her to sleep. Reynolds decides to take them back on board for safety, only now an alliance operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is on their tracks and making Reynolds determined to find out what “Miranda” is and what the Alliance is hiding.

Daredevil (2003)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Jennifer Garner | Colin Farrell | Michael Clarke Duncan | Jon Favreau | Scott Terra | Ellen Pompeo | Joe Pantoliano | Leland Orser | Lennie Loftin | Erick Avari
Directors: Mark Steven Johnson
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Fate deals young orphan Matt Murdock a strange hand when he is doused with hazardous waste. The accident leaves Matt blind but also gives him a heightened “radar sense” that allows him to “see” far better than any man. Years later Murdock has grown into a man and becomes a respected criminal attorney. But after he’s done his “day job” Matt takes on a secret identity as “The Man Without Fear,” Daredevil, the masked avenger that patrols the neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen and New York City to combat the injustice that he cannot tackle in the courtroom.

Natural Born Killers (1994)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Sizemore | Tommy Lee Jones | Woody Harrelson | Juliette Lewis | Everett Quinton | Rodney Dangerfield | Pruitt Taylor Vince | Edie McClurg | Russell Means | O-Lan Jones | Lanny Flaherty | Richard Lineback | Robert Downey Jr. | Ed White | Kirk Baltz | Terrylene | Maria Pitillo
Directors: Oliver Stone
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The misadventures of Mickey and Mallory: outcasts, lovers, and serial killers. They travel across Route 666 conducting psychadelic mass-slaughters not for money, not for revenge, just for kicks. Glorified by the media, the pair become legendary folk heroes; their story told by the single person they leave alive at the scene of each of their slaughters.