Posts Tagged ‘shot-in-the-leg’

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.

Glory (1989)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Broderick | Denzel Washington | Cary Elwes | Morgan Freeman | Jihmi Kennedy | Andre Braugher | John Finn | Donovan Leitch | JD Cullum | Alan North | Bob Gunton | Cliff De Young | Christian Baskous | RonReaco Lee | Jay O. Sanders
Directors: Edward Zwick
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Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.

The Kingdom (2007)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jamie Foxx | Chris Cooper | Jennifer Garner | Jason Bateman | Ashraf Barhom | Ali Suliman | Jeremy Piven | Richard Jenkins | Kyle Chandler | Frances Fisher | Danny Huston | Kelly AuCoin | Anna Deavere Smith | Minka Kelly | Amy Hunter
Directors: Peter Berg
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When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury quickly assembles an elite team and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Upon landing in the desert kingdom, however, Fleury and his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious and unwelcoming of American interlopers into what they consider a local matter. Hamstrung by protocol-and with the clock ticking on their five days-the FBI agents find their expertise worthless without the trust of their Saudi counterparts, who want to locate the terrorist in their homeland on their own terms. Fleury’s crew finds a like-minded partner in Saudi Colonel Al-Ghazi, who helps them navigate royal politics and unlock the secrets of the crime scene and the workings of an extremist cell bent on further destruction. With these unlikely allies sharing a propulsive commitment to crack the case, the team is led to the killer’s front door in a blistering do-or-die confrontation. Now in a fight for their own lives, strangers united by one mission won’t stop until justice is found in The Kingdom.

Saw (2004)

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cary Elwes | Dina Meyer | Danny Glover | Leigh Whannell | Ken Leung | Mike Butters
Directors: James Wan
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Two men wake up at opposite sides of a dirty, disused bathroom, chained by their ankles to pipes. Between them lies a dead man loosely clutching a hand-held tape player and a handgun. Each finds a tape the perfect fit for the player in their back pocket. They play the tapes. One is threatened, the other isn’t. But they have a task: One must kill the other by 6:00, or his wife and daughter will die. They find hacksaws in a toilet, and try to cut the chains, but it doesn’t work. They are the two newest victims of the Jigsaw Killer. In a flashback, we learn of Amanda, a girl who falls victim to the Jigsaw Killer. On her head is a mask, which is hooked into her lower jaw. There is a timer on it. Only one key will unlock it, and that key is in the digestive tract of her cell mate who lies paralyzed on the opposite side of the room. If she doesn’t unlock the mask in time, her lower jaw will be ripped wide open. She survives, but her cell mate doesn’t. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn of more victims, and of the nearly-successful capture of the Jigsaw Killer, who doesn’t actually kill his victims. Instead, he finds ways to make them kill either themselves, or each other, and he thinks the entire ‘game’ out perfectly, with no other ways out. Or so it would seem.

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.

Four Brothers (2005)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Wahlberg | Tyrese Gibson | André Benjamin | Garrett Hedlund | Terrence Howard | Josh Charles | Sofía Vergara | Fionnula Flanagan | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Taraji P. Henson | Barry Shabaka Henley | Jernard Burks | Kenneth Welsh | Tony Nappo | Shawn Singleton
Directors: John Singleton
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In Detroit, when the beloved citizen Evelyn Mercer is murdered in a store heist, her four dangerous stepsons come to her funeral. Bobby Mercer, Angel Mercer and Jack Mercer join the regenerated ex-union leader Jeremiah Mercer, and they decide to investigate the murder. They disclose that her execution was intentional, and resolve to find the criminals by themselves.

Shooter (2007)

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Mark Wahlberg | Michael Pena | Danny Glover | Kate Mara | Elias Koteas | Rhona Mitra | Ned Beatty | Jonathan Walker | Justin Louis | Tate Donovan | Rade Serbedzija | Alan C. Peterson | Lane Garrison | Zak Santiago | Michael-Ann Connor
Directors: Antoine Fuqua
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Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world’s great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He’s left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he’s recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia.

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.

Lord of War (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Bridget Moynahan | Jared Leto | Shake Tukhmanyan | Jean-Pierre Nshanian | Jared Burke | Eric Uys | David Shumbris | Stewart Morgan | Jasper Lenz | Kobus Marx | Stephan De Abreu | Jeremy Crutchley | Ian Holm | Tanya Finch
Directors: Andrew Niccol
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This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.

Blood Diamond (2006)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Djimon Hounsou | Jennifer Connelly | Kagiso Kuypers | Arnold Vosloo | Antony Coleman | Benu Mabhena | Anointing Lukola | David Harewood | Basil Wallace | Jimi Mistry | Michael Sheen | Marius Weyers | Stephen Collins | Ntare Mwine
Directors: Edward Zwick
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Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990’s Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) - an ex Mercenary from Zimbabwe - and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) - a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives. While in prison for smuggling, Archer learns that Solomon - who was taken from his family and forced to work in the diamond fields - has found and hidden the extraordinary rough stone. With the help of Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), an American journalist whose idealism is tempered by a deepening connection with Archer, the two men embark on a trek through rebel territory, a journey that could save Solomon’s family and give Archer the second chance he thought he would never have.

Point of Origin (2002)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ray Liotta | John Leguizamo | Colm Feore | Cliff Curtis | Ling Bai | Illeana Douglas | Ronny Cox | Trent Gill | Ingrid Rubio | Ryan B. Adams | Graham Beckel | Mike Camello | Joe Colligan | Shashawnee Hall | Marshall Manesh
Directors: Newton Thomas Sigel
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Based on a true story, this twisting psychological thriller focuses on a serial arsonist whose terrifying six-year crime spree is juxtaposed with the increasingly desperate efforts of investigators to bring him to justice. Charged with investigating many of these fires is Captain John Orr (Ray Liotta), a legendary figure in the Glendale Fire Department, possessed with an uncanny ability to pinpoint the origins of a fire, as well as the devices by which an arsonist may have carried out the crime. Through a fingerprint left at the scene of one crime and a series of surprise revelations focusing on arsons set in several towns, the task force is able to close in on an unlikely suspect. . . and ultimately crack the case.

Land of the Dead (2005)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | France | USA
Actors: Simon Baker | John Leguizamo | Dennis Hopper | Asia Argento | Robert Joy | Eugene Clark | Joanne Boland | Tony Nappo | Jennifer Baxter | Boyd Banks | Jasmin Geljo | Max McCabe | Tony Munch | Shawn Roberts | Pedro Miguel Arce
Directors: George A. Romero
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The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the evolving zombies from breaking into the city.

Smokin’ Aces (2007)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Zach Cumer | Jason Bateman | Common | Joseph Ruskin | Andy Garcia | Alex Rocco | Wayne Newton | Alicia Keys | Ray Liotta | Jeremy Piven | Peter Berg | Ryan Reynolds | Martin Henderson | Christopher Michael Holley
Directors: Joe Carnahan
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An FBI agent (Reynolds) hunts for a Las Vegas stand up comedian (Piven) who has decided to squeal on the mob but, before he heads off for protective custody, decides to go to the casinos at Lake Tahoe for one last good time, drawing a crowd of assassins (including Affleck and Keys).

Saw III (2006)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tobin Bell | Shawnee Smith | Angus Macfadyen | Bahar Soomekh | Donnie Wahlberg | Dina Meyer | Leigh Whannell | Mpho Koaho | Barry Flatman | Lyriq Bent | J. LaRose | Debra McCabe | Costas Mandylor | Betsy Russell | Jane Luk
Directors: Darren Lynn Bousman
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Jigsaw has disappeared. Now aided by his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Lynn Denlon is unaware that she is about to become the latest pawn on his vicious chessboard. One night, after finishing a shift at her hospital, Lynn is kidnapped by the deranged Amanda and taken to an abandoned warehouse where she meets Jigsaw, aka: John Kramer, who’s now bedridden and on the verge of death. Lynn is told that she must keep the madman alive for as long as it takes Jeff, another of his victims, to complete a game of his own. Racing against the ticking clock of Jigsaw’s own heartbeat, Lynn and Jeff struggle to make it through each of their vicious tests, unaware that Jigsaw and Amanda have a much bigger plan for both of them…

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan Phillippe | Jesse Bradford | Adam Beach | John Benjamin Hickey | John Slattery | Barry Pepper | Jamie Bell | Paul Walker | Robert Patrick | Neal McDonough | Melanie Lynskey | Thomas McCarthy | Chris Bauer | Judith Ivey | Myra Turley
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre. As a powerful inspiration to war-sick Americans, the photo becomes a symbol of the Allied cause. The three surviving flag raisers, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes, are whisked back to civilization to help raise funds for the war effort. But the accolades for heroism heaped upon the three men are at odds with their own personal realizations that thousands of real heroes lie dead on Iwo Jima, and that their own contributions to the fight are only symbolic and not deserving of the singling out they are experiencing. Each of the three must come to terms with the honors, exploitation, and grief that they face simply for being in a photograph.