A tired old cop is asked to escort a witness 16 blocks to a courtroom in just under 2 hours. Pretty simple until we find half the cops in New York trying to kill the witness and therefore the cop.
This isn’t an amazing movie but it certainly isn’t a waste of time either. Bruce Willis [...]
December 25, 2006
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A salesman and a hitman meet up in a bar in Mexico. The salesman, down on his luck, needs his luck to change. The hitman, is a little off kilter and has time to kill. A friendship forms and lives change.
Pierce Brosnan & Greg Kinnear star as the hitman and salesman respectively. Greg Kinnear looks [...]
December 24, 2006
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A woman who is planning to divorce her husband but before she can, he turns up murdered and every thing she owned sold. Just when it couldn’t get any worse a gang of men decide she knows where her husband put all their money and start to apply pressure. He only hope maybe a man [...]
December 23, 2006
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Two undercover Miami cops get pulled into an undercover operation that maybe over their heads.
A “re-imaging” of the classic, and some might say, kitschy 80s TV show that was almost as much about pastel coloured clothes and fast cars as it was about crime. That statement does do the TV show a dis-service as the [...]
December 22, 2006
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A footballer (soccer player) is convicted of a drunken assualt is asked to help coach the prison guards team. When he refuses he organizes a team to play against them with predictable results.
Yes, this is a remake of The Longest Yard, which was released in the UK as Mean Machine. This time the game is [...]
December 21, 2006
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Snatch is the tale of two small time boxing promoters who get in over their heads, lose their boxer, find a champion gypsy boxer to take his place, and then things get interesting! Throw in some Jewish jewelers, criminals, a bookmaker who likes to feed his pigs……with people, a large diamond that has just been [...]
December 20, 2006
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Three friends help bankroll a forth for a high stakes game of poker, but when the friend loses the fixed game, they have to come up with 1/2 mil in a week or the friends father loses his bar.
Guy Richie directs this tale of four small time crooks who get into trouble with a much [...]
December 19, 2006
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The movie remake of the much loved TV show of the 70s teams up two cops with different styles teaming up to take down a bad man.
Set in the 1970’s, S & H is as much a tribute to the original series and stars as it is an original movie. Perfectly cast as the main [...]
December 18, 2006
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An ex-Ranger, released for parole after killing a man while protecting his wife finds himself on a plane with various dangerous criminals, which in hindsight was probably not the best idea someone has ever had.
Nicholas Cage yet again stars in a Jerry Bruckheimer action movie, and yet again with a great supporting cast including John [...]
December 17, 2006
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A 10 year old black girl is viciously raped but when the father kills the two accused men, a white lawyer defends the man against a rising KKK and racial tension in the deep south.
Based on the book of the same name by John Grisham, A Time To Kill is a breath taking story of [...]
December 16, 2006
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