Posts Tagged ‘shot-in-the-neck’

The Jackal (1997)

Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Richard Gere | Sidney Poitier | Diane Venora | Mathilda May | J.K. Simmons | Richard Lineback | John Cunningham | Jack Black | Tess Harper | Leslie Phillips | Stephen Spinella | Sophie Okonedo | David Hayman | Steve Bassett
Directors: Michael Caton-Jones
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Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.

Stop-Loss (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan Phillippe | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Rob Brown | Channing Tatum | Victor Rasuk | Terry Quay | Matthew Scott Wilcox | Connett Brewer | Timothy Olyphant | Josef Sommer | Ciar?n Hinds | Alex Frost | Isreal Saldivar | David Kroll | Ricky Calmbach
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Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries to resume the life he left behind. Then, against Brandon’s will, the Army orders him back to duty in Iraq, which upends his world. The conflict tests everything he believes in: the bond of family, the loyalty of friendship, the limits of love and the value of honor.

In Bruges (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: Belgium | UK
Actors: Rudy Blomme | Olivier Bonjour | Mark Donovan | Colin Farrell | Jean-Marc Favorin | Ralph Fiennes | Brendan Gleeson | Eric Godon | Zeljko Ivanek | Louis Nummy | Jordan Prentice | J?r?mie Renier | Theo Stevenson | Angel Witney | Ciar?n Hinds
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Bruges, the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the world. But for hit men Ray and Ken, it could be their final destination; a difficult job has resulted in the pair being ordered right before Christmas by their London boss Harry to go and cool their heels in the storybook Flemish city for a couple of weeks. Very much out of place amidst the gothic architecture, canals, and cobbled streets, the two hit men fill their days living the lives of tourists. Ray, still haunted by the bloodshed in London, hates the place, while Ken, even as he keeps a fatherly eye on Ray’s often profanely funny exploits, finds his mind and soul being expanded by the beauty and serenity of the city. But the longer they stay waiting for Harry’s call, the more surreal their experience becomes, as they find themselves in weird encounters with locals, tourists, violent medieval art, a dwarf American actor shooting a European art film, Dutch prostitutes, and a potential romance for Ray in the form of Chlo?, who may have some dark secrets of her own. And when the call from Harry does finally come, Ken and Ray’s vacation becomes a life-and-death struggle of darkly comic proportions and surprisingly emotional consequences.

Street Kings (2008)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Keanu Reeves | Forest Whitaker | Common | Cedric the Entertainer | Chris Evans | Noel Gugliemi | Kenneth Choi | Hugh Laurie | Cle Shaheed Sloan | Amaury Nolasco | John Corbett | Terry Crews | The Game | Kevin Benton | Daryl Gates
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Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

Narc (2002)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Dan Leis | Jason Patric | Lloyd Adams | Meagan Issa | Lina Giornofelice | Alan C. Peterson | Karen Robinson | Chi McBride | Booth Savage | Alan Van Sprang | Gavyn Donaldson | Myles Donaldson | Krista Bridges | Ray Liotta | Thomas Patrice
Directors: Joe Carnahan
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An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads, informants turn up dead, Nick’s wife is unhappy he’s back on the street, Henry’s protective of the dead cop’s wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak’s heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know?

8MM (1999)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Joaquin Phoenix | James Gandolfini | Peter Stormare | Anthony Heald | Chris Bauer | Catherine Keener | Myra Carter | Amy Morton | Jenny Powell | Anne Gee Byrd | Jack Betts | Luis Oropeza | Rachel Singer | Don Creech
Directors: Joel Schumacher
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A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max (Joaquin Phoenix), Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife (Catherine Keener), family and simple life as a small-town private eye.

American Gangster (2007)

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Russell Crowe | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Josh Brolin | Lymari Nadal | Ted Levine | Roger Guenveur Smith | John Hawkes | RZA | Yul Vazquez | Malcolm Goodwin | Ruby Dee | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Carla Gugino | Skyler Fortgang
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.

Taxi Driver (1976)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Cybill Shepherd | Peter Boyle | Jodie Foster | Harvey Keitel | Leonard Harris | Albert Brooks | Diahnne Abbott | Frank Adu | Gino Ardito | Victor Argo | Garth Avery | Harry Cohn | Copper Cunningham | Brenda Dickson-Weinberg
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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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’…

Death Sentence (2007)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Bacon | Garrett Hedlund | Kelly Preston | Jordan Garrett | Stuart Lafferty | Aisha Tyler | John Goodman | Matt O'Leary | Edi Gathegi | Hector Atreyu Ruiz | Kanin J. Howell | Dennis Keiffer | Freddy Bouciegues | Leigh Whannell | Casey Pieretti
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.

ATL (2006)

Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Greg Andrews | Monica Arnold | Brandon Bernard Benton | Adam Boyer | April Clark | Albert Daniels | Steven R. Ewing | Alvin Lee Fleming | Cameron Gipp | Bart Hansard | T.I. | Khadijah | Malika | Bone Crusher | Monique Harris
Directors: Chris Robinson
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As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and resolve at their local rollerskating rink, Cascade.

Planet Terror (2007)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rose McGowan | Freddy Rodr?guez | Josh Brolin | Marley Shelton | Jeff Fahey | Michael Biehn | Rebel Rodriguez | Bruce Willis | Naveen Andrews | Julio Oscar Mechoso | Stacy Ferguson | Nicky Katt | Hung Nguyen | Cecilia Conti | Tommy Nix
Directors: Robert Rodriguez
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After an experimental bio-nerve gas is accidentally released at a remote U.S. military base in Texas, those exposed to the gas turn into flesh-eating, mutating zombies out to kill. An assortment of various people who include stripper Cherry, her shady mechanic ex-boyfriend Wray, a strong-willed doctor, the local sheriff, and an assortment of various people must join forces to survive the night as the so-called “sickos” threaten to take over the whole town and the world.

We Own the Night (2007)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Joaquin Phoenix | Eva Mendes | Mark Wahlberg | Robert Duvall | Alex Veadov | Dominic Colon | Danny Hoch | Oleg Taktarov | Moni Moshonov | Antoni Corone | Craig Walker | Tony Musante | Joe D'Onofrio | Yelena Solovey | Maggie Kiley
Directors: James Gray
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A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hit men.

Gone Baby Gone (2007)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Casey Affleck | Michelle Monaghan | Morgan Freeman | Ed Harris | John Ashton | Amy Ryan | Amy Madigan | Titus Welliver | Michael K. Williams | Edi Gathegi | Mark Margolis | Madeline O'Brien | Slaine | Trudi Goodman | Matthew Maher
Directors: Ben Affleck
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Dorchester, one of the toughest neighborhoods in all of Boston, is no place for the weak or innocent. Its a territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets littered with broken families, hearts, dreams. When one of its own, a 4-year-old girl, goes missing, private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don’t want the case. But after pleas from the child’s aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything — their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives — to find a little girl-lost.

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 IV (2007)

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tobin Bell | Costas Mandylor | Scott Patterson | Betsy Russell | Lyriq Bent | Athena Karkanis | Justin Louis | Simon Reynolds | Donnie Wahlberg | Angus Macfadyen | Shawnee Smith | Bahar Soomekh | Dina Meyer | Mike Realba | Marty Adams
Directors: Darren Lynn Bousman
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Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry’s murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw’s latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend or face the deadly consequences.