Posts Tagged ‘shot-in-the-arm’

Taxi Driver (1976)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Shepherd, Cybill | Boyle, Peter | Foster, Jodie | Keitel, Harvey | Harris, Leonard | Brooks, Albert | Abbott, Diahnne | Adu, Frank | Ardito, Gino | Argo, Victor | Avery, Garth | Cohn, Harry | Cunningham, Copper | Dickson-Weinberg, Brenda
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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Vietnam vet Travis Bickle is 26, a loner in the mean streets of New York City, slipping slowly into isolation and violent misanthropy. In solving his insomnia by driving a yellow cab on the night shift, he grows increasingly disgusted by the low-lifes that hang out at night: “Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.” His touching attempts to woo Betsy, a Senator’s campaign worker, turn sour when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He even fails in his attempt to persuade child prostitute Iris to desert her pimp and return to her parents and school. Driven to the edge by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets out to assassinate the Senator, heading for the infamy of a ‘lone crazed gunman’…

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Sizemore, Tom | Burns, Edward | Pepper, Barry | Goldberg, Adam | Diesel, Vin | Ribisi, Giovanni | Davies, Jeremy | Damon, Matt | Danson, Ted | Giamatti, Paul | Farina, Dennis | Stadler, Joerg | Martini, Steven | Bruno, Dylan
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother…

Rundown, The (2003)

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rock, Chris | Rock, The | Scott, Seann William | Dawson, Rosario | Walken, Christopher | Bremner, Ewen | Gries, Jon | Lucking, William | Reyes Jr., Ernie | Wilson, Stuart F. | Keiffer, Dennis | Warren, Garrett | Holguin, Toby | Power, Paul S. | Bishop, Stephen | Norman, Chuck
Directors: Berg, Peter
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In order to get out of hock with mobster Billy Walker, restaraunteur-turned-”retrieval expert” Beck has to go down to Brazil and retrieve Billy’s ne’er-do-well archaeologist-wannabe son Travis, who is searching for an ancient gold idol called the Gato del Diablo. This idol is prized by not only the local population as the path to their salvation, but by Cornelius Hatcher, slavedriving operator of the Helldorado mining town who oppresses said population in the name of profits, and Hatcher just won’t let Beck leave with Travis.

Seraphim Falls (2006)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Neeson, Liam | Brosnan, Pierce | Wincott, Michael | Lauter, Ed | Robinson, John | Baker, Robert | Simpson, Jimmi | Mooney, Nate | Jordan, James | O'Connor, Kevin J. | Huston, Anjelica | Zeller, Shannon | Noonan, Tom | Harmon, Angie | Berkeley, Xander
Directors: Von Ancken, David
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In the 1860s, five men have been tracking a sixth across Nevada for more than two weeks. They shoot and wound him, but he gets away. They pursue, led by the dour Carver, who will pay them each $1 a day once he’s captured. The hunted is Gideon, resourceful, skilled with a knife. Gideon’s flight and Carver’s hunt require horses, water, and bullets. The course takes them past lone settlers, a wagon train, a rail crew, settlements, and an Indian philosopher. What is the reason for the hunt; what connects Gideon and Carver? What happened at Seraphim Falls?

Death Sentence (2007)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bacon, Kevin | Garrett Hedlund | Preston, Kelly | Garrett, Jordan | Lafferty, Stuart | Tyler, Aisha | Goodman, John | O'Leary, Matt | Gathegi, Edi | Ruiz, Hector Atreyu | Howell, Kanin J. | Keiffer, Dennis | Bouciegues, Freddy | Leigh Whannell | Pieretti, Casey
Directors: James Wan
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When a family falls victim to a vicious attack perpetrated as a gang initiation ritual, the vengeful father vows to track down each person involved in the crime in Saw director James Wan and screenwriter Ian Jeffers feature adaptation of author Brian Garfield’s original novel. Aisha Tyler co-stars as the sympathetic homicide detective who questions her pledge to assist Bacon’s character after suspecting that he may have turned to murder as a means of exacting his revenge.

Hot Fuzz (2007)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Pegg, Simon | Freeman, Martin | Nighy, Bill | Popper, Robert | Cornish, Joe | Waitt, Chris | Mason, Eric | Whitelaw, Billie | Frost, Nick | Wight, Peter | Deakin, Julia | Walton, Tom Strode | Woollan, Troy | Lowings, Rory | Bailey, Bill
Directors: Wright, Edgar
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Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman (Frost), who countlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found decapitated. It is address to as an accident, but Angel isn’t going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent “acidents”.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Banderas, Antonio | Hayek, Salma | Depp, Johnny | Rourke, Mickey | Mendes, Eva | Trejo, Danny | Iglesias, Enrique | Leonardi, Marco | Marin, Cheech | Blades, Rubén | Dafoe, Willem | Vigil, Gerardo | Armendáriz Jr., Pedro | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Larriva, Tito
Directors: Rodriguez, Robert
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A drug lord who pretends to overthrow the Mexican government. A corrupt CIA agent (Johnny Depp) who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy to carry out the drug lord’s uprising against the government.

Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)

Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror
Countries: Canada
Actors: Isabelle, Katharine | Perkins, Emily | Nathaniel Arcand | Bourne, JR | Dillon, Hugh | Dorval, Adrien | Fletcher, Brendan | La Haye, David | McCamus, Tom | Walker, Matthew | Bird, Fabian | Jarrett, Kirk | MacInnis, David | Mitchell, Stevie | Rain, Edna
Directors: Harvey, Grant
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Prequal to ‘Ginger Snaps’ has the orphaned sisters Ginger and Brigette, before becoming werewolves, in 1815 Canada where they stumble into a war between Native American “Wendigos” besieging a remote trading post populated by brutal settlers.

30 Days of Night (2007)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Hartnett, Josh | Huston, Danny | George, Melissa | Foster, Ben | Boone Junior, Mark | Rendall, Mark | Sainsbury, Amber | Bennett, Manu | Franich, Megan | Tobeck, Joel | Hawthorne, Elizabeth | Lees, Nathaniel | Hall, Craig | Littlewood, Chic | Feeney, Peter
Directors: Slade, David
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This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town’s husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

War (2007)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Li, Jet | Statham, Jason | Lone, John | Aoki, Devon | Guzmán, Luis | Rubinek, Saul | Ishibashi, Ryo | Kang, Sung | St. Patrick, Mathew | Velazquez, Nadine | Roth, Andrea | Choi, Kenneth | Cheng, Mark | Kosugi, Kane | Montano, Kennedy
Directors: Atwell, Philip G.
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After his partner Tom Wynne (Terry Chen) and family are killed apparently by the infamous and elusive assassin Rogue (Jet Li), FBI agent Jack Crawford (Jason Statham) becomes obsessed with revenge as his world unravels into a vortex of guilt and betrayal. Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own, setting off a bloody crime war between Asian mob rivals Chang (John Lone) of the Triad’s and Yakuza boss Shiro (Ryo Ishibashi). When Jack and Rogue finally come face to face, the ultimate truth of their pasts will be revealed.