Posts Tagged ‘looting’

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: O'Toole, Peter | Guinness, Alec | Quinn, Anthony | Hawkins, Jack | Sharif, Omar | Ferrer, José | Quayle, Anthony | Rains, Claude | Kennedy, Arthur | Wolfit, Donald | Johar, I.S. | Ratib, Gamil | Ray, Michel | Dimech, John | Mohyeddin, Zia
Directors: Lean, David
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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.

RoboCop (1987)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Weller, Peter | Allen, Nancy | Dan O'Herlihy | Cox, Ronny | Smith, Kurtwood | Ferrer, Miguel | Robert DoQui | Wise, Ray | Perry, Felton | McCrane, Paul | Goins, Jesse D. | Zamora, Del | Jung, Calvin | Lieberman, Rick | de Broux, Lee
Directors: Verhoeven, Paul
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In a near future, the Motor City known as Detroit slowly becomes the spawn-ground for Crime as a gang of Cop Killers goes on the rise. Private organism, Omni Consomer Products (OCP) eventually seizes control of local law enforcement to ensure a secure an Urban pacification program. Just assigned to the Metro West Precint, Officer Alex Murphy is massacred to death by this gang, as his partner Anne Lewis is barely able to do nothing. At the same time, a young visionary executive, Bob Morton, seizes the chance when the ED-209 law enforcement Droid shows lack of perfection by killing a fellow executive to create the Perfect Cop. The near death Murphy is used as the subject. With his memories erased, he is resurrected as Robocop, the future of law enforcement. As he sweeps away with crime, case by case, he eventually becomes involved with the Cop Killing Gang, and Anne Lewis herself. All of this, triggering his dormant memories of his past life as he searches for who he really is, and uncover a conspiracy going deep in OCP with the Senior Vice President himself.

Summer of Sam (1999)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Leguizamo, John | Brody, Adrien | Sorvino, Mira | Esposito, Jennifer | Rispoli, Michael | Guerra, Saverio | Tarantina, Brian | Palagonia, Al | Garito, Ken | Neuwirth, Bebe | LuPone, Patti | Starr, Mike | LaPaglia, Anthony | Smith, Roger Guenveur | Gazzara, Ben
Directors: Lee, Spike
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Spike Lee’s take on the “Son of Sam” murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

Control Factor (2003)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Baldwin, Adam | Berkley, Elizabeth | Todd, Tony | Dunn, Conrad | Neville, John | Marin, Ann | Spence, Peter | Potvin, Susan | Ferry, David | Mif | Bhaneja, Raoul | Messinger, Lisa | Rinzler, Joel | Gauthier, Louise | Magner, Colm
Directors: McCormick, Nelson
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An average everyman discovers he’s the unwitting target of an ultra secret domestic black-op centering on mind control.

Troy (2004)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | Romance
Countries: Malta | UK | USA
Actors: Glover, Julian | Cox, Brian | Jones, Nathan | Maropis, Adoni | Smith, Jacob | Pitt, Brad | Shrapnel, John | Gleeson, Brendan | Kruger, Diane | Bana, Eric | Bloom, Orlando | Svegler, Siri | Barat, Lucie | Bones, Ken | Cauchi, Manuel
Directors: Petersen, Wolfgang
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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.”

Dark Blue (2002)

Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Speedman, Scott | Michele, Michael | Gleeson, Brendan | Rhames, Ving | Kurupt | Mihok, Dash | Banks, Jonathan | Davidovich, Lolita | Alexander, Khandi | Lee, Dana | Way, Chapman Russell | Hinkle, Marin | Williams, Jim Cody | Casados, Eloy
Directors: Shelton, Ron
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Set in the Los Angeles Police Department in April 1992, Dark Blue is a dramatic thriller that takes place just days before the acquittal of four white officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King and the subsequent L.A. riots. In this racially-charged climate,the LAPD’s elite Special Investigations Squad (SIS) is assigned a high-profile quadruple homicide. As they work the case, veteran detective Eldon Perry, known for his tough street tactics and fiery temper, tutors SIS rookie Bobby Keough in the grim realities of police intimidation and corruption. Meanwhile, Assistant Chief Holland, the only man in the department willing to stand up to the SIS, threatens to end Perry’s brand of singlehanded “justice” on the Los Angeles streets. While navigating through the tumultuous neighborhoods of South Central L.A., Perry and Keough must track down cold-blooded killers and face their own demons, which prove to be more ruthless than the criminals they pursue.

Gangs of New York (2002)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | History
Countries: Germany | Italy | Netherlands | UK | USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Day-Lewis, Daniel | Diaz, Cameron | Broadbent, Jim | Thomas, Henry | Neeson, Liam | Gleeson, Brendan | Reilly, John C. | Lewis, Gary | Graham, Stephen | Marsan, Eddie | McCowen, Alec | Gilliard Jr., Larry | Seymour, Cara | Hemmings, David
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in Manhattan’s Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. But Amsterdam’s personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland!