A hitman who’s in Bangkok to pull off a series of jobs falls for a local woman and bonds with his errand boy.
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22
Sep
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
Author: admin // Category: Comedy Movies, Crime Movies, Movies & TV
The day before Globodyne’s stock tanks, a la Enron, and its pension fund evaporates, the corporation’s CEO and CFO set up middle manager Dick Harper to be the public face of the disaster. Jobless, and with no savings, pension, or home equity, Dick and his wife Jane sink slowly into poverty. He looks for work (as do all former Globodyne executives); he even tries day labor with the relatives of their Mexican nanny. A foreclosure notice sends Dick and Jane over the edge into a life of blue-collar crime. Then, as things finally look up, the report of an looming indictment pushes Dick and Jane toward a denouement with the real criminals, the white-collar guys.
It’s about that time: another gambling film! Andy Lau is the gambling hero of the film’s title, only this isn’t his character from the God of Gamblers movies. He plays King, a “sharper” who uses technology and sleight-of-hand to win at gambling. After being jailed for the accidental murder of evil mobster Bad Temper (Ben Ng), he returns to the world in search of his missing wife (Angie Cheung) and his son, who he’s never seen. Read more…
Bob Barnes (George Clooney) is a career CIA undercover operative who has been assigned a mission in Beirut. Things go wrong and he ends up being kidnapped. After he is released, he returns to the U.S. and is caught up in a secret plot against a Persian Gulf Prince Nasir Al-Subaai (Alexander Siddig). Bryan Woodman (Matt Damon) is an oil stock broker, who has become a friend to the prince, after a tragedy hits home.
Michael Clayton, a high-priced-law-firm’s fixer, leaves a late-night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he’s taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. Read more…
19
Sep
In the Valley of Elah (2007)
Author: admin // Category: Action movies, Crime Movies, Movies & TV
In Monroe, Tennessee, Hank Deerfield, an aging warrior, gets a call that his son, just back from 18 months’ fighting in Iraq, is missing from his base. Hank drives to Fort Rudd, New Mexico, to search. Within a day, the charred and dismembered body of his son is found on the outskirts of town. Deerfield pushes himself into the investigation, marked by jurisdictional antagonism between the Army and local police. Working mostly with a new detective, Emily Sanders, Hank seems to close in on what happened. Major smuggling? A drug deal gone awry? Credit card slips, some photographs, and video clips from Iraq may hold the key. If Hank gets to the truth, what will it tell him? Read more…
“The unofficial story of a killer who kidnaps and kills three girls is told through the tale of his last victim, ‘Amateur Porn Star Killer’ is about a girl he picks up on the street and convinces to go back to his hotel room. The girl, played by Michiko Jimenez, is shy, unnerved, and yet unable to take herself out of a bad situation. Shane Ryan himself is the killer, a guy who seems at first nothing more than your standard, 18 year old pervert with a penchant for filming his sexual escapades. What unravels is a story far darker, unsettling, and downright mesmerizing then what originally presents itself in the first few minutes of the story.” Read more…
In London, the Russian pregnant teenager Tatiana arrives bleeding in a hospital, and the doctors save her baby only. The Russian descendant midwife Anna Khitrova finds Tatiana’s diary written in Russian language in her belongings and decided to find her family to deliver the baby, she brings the diary home and ask her uncle Stepan to translate the document. Stepan refuses, but Anna finds a card of a restaurant owned by the Russian Semyon inside the diary and she visits the old man trying to find a lead to contact Tatiana’s family. When she mentions the existence of the diary, Semyon immediately offers to translate the document. However, Stepan translates part of the diary and Anna discovers that Semyon and his sick son Kirill had raped Tatiana when she was fourteen years old and forced her to work as prostitute in a brothel of their own. Further, Semyon is the dangerous boss of the Russian mafia “Vory v Zakone”, jeopardizing the safety of Anna and her family. Meanwhile, Semyon’s driver Nikolai Luzhin gets close to Kirill and Semyon, climbing positions in the criminal organization, but he helps Anna, her family and the baby. Read more…
18
Sep
