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Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Keitel, Harvey | Roth, Tim | Madsen, Michael | Buscemi, Steve | Penn, Chris | Tierney, Lawrence | Brooks, Randy | Baltz, Kirk | Tarantino, Quentin | Bunker, Edward | Wright, Steven | Turner, Rich | Steen, David | Cosmo, Tony | Polyi, Stevo
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Six criminals, who are strangers to each other, are hired by a crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a diamond robbery. Right at the outset, they are given false names with an intention that they won’t get too close and concentrate on the job instead. They are completely sure that the robbery is going to be a success. But when the police show up right at the time and the site of the robbery, panic spreads amongst the group members and one of them is killed in the subsequent shootout along with a few policemen and civilians. When the remaining people assemble at the premeditated rendezvous point (a warehouse), they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop.

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

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Parker, Mary-Louise | Proulx, Brooklynn | Bollinger, Dustin | Affleck, Casey | Rockwell, Sam | Renner, Jeremy | Shepard, Sam | Dillahunt, Garret | Schneider, Paul | McNichol, Joel | Defelice, James | Roberts, J.C. | Orydzuk, Darrell | Drachenberg, Jonathan Erich
Directors: Dominik, Andrew
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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.

Boa vs. Python (2004)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hewlett, David | Bergman, Jaime | Woller, Kirk B.R. | Kendrick, Adam | Boris, Angel | Stanicheva, Marianne | Furst, Griff | Naidenov, Ivo | Sheffey, George R. | Srebrev, Atanas | Anichkin, Harry | Rank, Jeff | Blatechki, Assen | Binev, Velizar | Talkington, Jonas
Directors: Flores, David
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After an overly ambitious businessman transports an 80-foot python to the United States, the beast escapes and starts to leave behind a trail of human victims. An FBI agent and a snake specialist come up with a plot to combat the creature by pitting it against a bioengineered, 70-foot boa constrictor. It’s two great snakes that snake great together!

Layer Cake (2004)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Craig, Daniel | Hardy, Tom | Foreman, Jamie | Hawkins, Sally | Gorman, Burn | Harris, George | Hassan, Tamer | Meaney, Colm | Iures, Marcel | Magee, Francis | Andreas, Dimitri | Cranham, Kenneth | Tubbs, Garry | Lunghi, Nathalie | Benoit, Marvin
Directors: Vaughn, Matthew
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A successful cocaine dealer, who has earned a respected place among England’s Mafia elite, plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy’s old pal Edward, a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds’ worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal neo-Nazi sect and a whole series of double crossings. The title “LAYER CAKE” refers to the layers or levels anyone in business goes through in rising to the top. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no ‘codes’, or ‘families’ and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust, he has to use all his ’savvy’, ‘telling’ and skills which make him one of the best, to escape his own. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy, and an international drug ring threaten to draw him back into the ‘cake mix’. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime..

Lord of War (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Moynahan, Bridget | Leto, Jared | Tukhmanyan, Shake | Nshanian, Jean-Pierre | Burke, Jared | Uys, Eric | Shumbris, David | Morgan, Stewart | Lenz, Jasper | Marx, Kobus | De Abreu, Stephan | Crutchley, Jeremy | Holm, Ian | Finch, Tanya
Directors: Niccol, Andrew
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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.

Original Sin (2001)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Banderas, Antonio | Jolie, Angelina | Jane, Thomas | Thompson, Jack | Itzin, Gregory | Mackie, Allison | Pringle, Joan | Richards, Cordelia | Haven, James | Armendáriz Jr., Pedro | Martínez, Mario Iván | Porter, Harry | Torre Laphame, Fernando | Vega, Shaula | Owen, Lisa
Directors: Cristofer, Michael
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Can love release our true self? A wealthy Cuban coffee exporter, Luis Vargas, advertises for a US wife; Julia Russell, from Delaware, sends her photograph, but the woman who steps off the ship is much lovelier. Luis marries her immediately and gives in to love. But Julia may not be who she claims: first a private eye shows up on behalf of Julia’s sister, then the sister herself. By now, Luis has given has wife access to bank accounts, and when she runs with his cash, he pursues her, with the help of Downs, the P.I., perhaps to kill her. Pursuit may be part of a con game as well, and Julia’s past explains some, if not all, of what remains of the story. A priest hears her confession.

Woodsman, The (2004)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Eve | Bacon, Kevin | Grier, David Alan | Sedgwick, Kyra | Bratt, Benjamin | Leon, Carlos | Shannon, Michael | Rice, Kevin | Def, Mos | Pilkes, Hannah | Nagle, Jessica | Daniels, Liam | Hazinsky, Joey | Daniels, Clara Infinity | Coombs, Ashley C.
Directors: Kassell, Nicole
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After twelve years in prison, Walter arrives in an unnamed city, moves into a small apartment across the street from an elementary school, gets a job at a lumberyard, and mostly keeps to himself. A quiet, guarded man, Walter finds unexpected solace from Vickie, a tough-talking woman who promises not to judge him for his history. But Walter cannot escape his past. A convicted sex offender, Walter is warily eyed by his brother-in-law, shunned by his sister, lives in fear of being discovered at work, and is hounded by a suspicious local police officer, Detective Lucas. After befriending a young girl in a neighborhood park, Walter must also grapple with the terrible prospect of his own reawakened demons.

Revolver (2005)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Statham, Jason | Liotta, Ray | Benjamin, André | Pastore, Vincent | Pruti, Faruk | Shend | Moody, Bill | Flint, Jimmy | Wang, Bruce | Tang, Tony | Sweeney, George | Herdman, Martin | Denham, Tony | Stuart, Trevor | Tang, Gary
Directors: Ritchie, Guy
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Jake Green is a hotshot gambler, long on audacity and short on common sense. He’s rarely allowed to play in any casino because he is a winner. Jake has taken in so much money over the years, he is the only client of his accountant and older brother Billy. One night, Jake, Billy and their other brother Joe are invited to sit in on a private game, where Jake is expected to lose to Dorothy Macha, a crime boss and local casino owner who can’t play for squat, but always wins because people are too scared to beat him. Jake isn’t afraid of Macha, and not only beats Dorothy in a quick game of chance, but takes every possible opportunity to insult the man. Jake and his brothers leave the game, and Macha puts out the order for a hit on Jake, who ends up working for and being protected by a pair of brothers, Avi and Zack, who are out to take Macha down.

Be Cool (2005)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Thurman, Uma | Vaughn, Vince | Cedric the Entertainer | Benjamin, André | Tyler, Steven | Pastorelli, Robert | Milian, Christina | Adelstein, Paul | Mazar, Debi | Williams, Gregory Alan | Keitel, Harvey | Rock, The | DeVito, Danny | Woods, James
Directors: Gray, F. Gary
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Streetwise mobster-turned-movie producer Chili Palmer is back, but this time Chili has abandoned the fickle movie industry and veered into the music business, tangling with Russian mobsters and gangsta rappers and taking a talented, feisty young singer named Linda Moon under his wing. From the recording studio to an Aerosmith concert to the MTV Music Awards, he manipulates events to watch them play out the Chili way, using his signature blend of wiseguy skills and negotiation tactics. It’s a dangerous business, and everyone’s looking for their next big hit.

Hellboy (2004)

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Perlman, Ron | Hurt, John | Blair, Selma | Evans, Rupert | Roden, Karel | Tambor, Jeffrey | Jones, Doug | Steele, Brian | Beran, Ladislav | Hodson, Biddy | Johnson, Corey | Trainor, Kevin | Caspe, Brian | Babson, James | Fisher, Stephen
Directors: Toro, Guillermo del
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In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy - has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, Hellboy eventually grows to adulthood, serving the cause of good rather than evil.