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Get Carter (2000)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvester Stallone | Miranda Richardson | Rachael Leigh Cook | Rhona Mitra | Johnny Strong | John C. McGinley | Alan Cumming | Michael Caine | John Cassini | Mickey Rourke | Mark Boone Junior | Garwin Sanford | Darryl Scheelar | Crystal Lowe | Lauren Lee Smith
Directors: Stephen T. Kay
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Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother’s funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible.

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Modine | Vanessa Redgrave | Mia Sara | Daryl Hannah | Jon Voight | Richard Attenborough | Bill Barretta | Honor Blackman | Jim Carter | James Corden | JJ Feild | Jonathan Hyde | Anton Lesser
Directors: Brian Henson
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Jack Robinson (Matthew Modine) is a wealthy business man with no time for anything but work. However, a family curse is looming over him - no man in the Robinson line ever lives past the age of thirty. With his upcoming birthday appears the remains of literally giant skeleton and a mysterious woman (Mia Sara) who claims to have once known the gaint. Jack decides to go with her to another world where all is revealed to him along with the story of his ancestor, the orginal Jack and the Beanstalk. In order to save his own life and the world of the giants, Jack must right the wrongs of the past and return the magical harp and goose that lays the golden eggs to their rightful home.

Mighty Wind, A (2003)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Moret | Stuart Luce | Mary Gross | Marty Belafsky | Michael Baser | Jared Nelson Smith | Ryan Raddatz | Todd Lieberman | Matthew Joy | Laura Harris | Brian Riley | Harry Shearer | Michael McKean | Eugene Levy
Directors: Christopher Guest
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When folk icon Irving Steinbloom passed away, he left behind a legacy of music and a family of performers he has shepherded to folk stardom. To celebrate a life spent submerged in folk, Irving’s loving son Jonathan has decided to put together a memorial concert featuring some of Steinbloom’s best-loved musicians. There’s Mitch and Mickey, who were the epitome of young love until their partnership was torn apart by heartbreak; classic troubadours The Folksmen, whose records were endlessly entertaining for anyone able to punch a hole in the center to play them; and The New Main Street Singers, the most meticulously color-coordinated neuftet ever to hit an amusement park. Now for one night only in New York City’s Town Hall, these three groups will reunite and gather together to celebrate the music that almost made them famous.

21 (Twenty One, The Movie) (2008)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Sturgess | Kevin Spacey | Aaron Yoo | Jacob Pitts | Laurence Fishburne | Jack McGee | Josh Gad | Sam Golzari | Jack Gilpin | Butch Williams | Jeffrey Ma | Frank Patton | Steven Richard Vezina | Chaska T. Werner | Kyle Morris
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

Vanity Fair (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gabriel Byrne | Angelica Mandy | Roger Lloyd-Pack | Ruth Sheen | Kate Fleetwood | Reese Witherspoon | Lillete Dubey | Romola Garai | Tony Maudsley | Deborah Findlay | John Franklyn-Robbins | Paul Bazely | Rhys Ifans | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Charlie Beall
Directors: Mira Nair
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The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.

Empire Records (1995)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony LaPaglia | Maxwell Caulfield | Debi Mazar | Rory Cochrane | Johnny Whitworth | Robin Tunney | Renée Zellweger | Ethan Embry | Coyote Shivers | Brendan Sexton III | Liv Tyler | James 'Kimo' Wills | Ben Bode | Gary Bolen | Kimber Sissons
Directors: Allan Moyle
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Empire Records is going to be turned into a Music Town. It is up to the wacky employees to figure out a way to raise enough money to help their boss Joe keep the store from changing hands. They also deal with problems amongst themselves, love, and a has-been spoiled rock star named Rex Manning.

The Sting (1973)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Newman | Robert Redford | Robert Shaw | Charles Durning | Ray Walston | Eileen Brennan | Harold Gould | John Heffernan | Dana Elcar | Jack Kehoe | Dimitra Arliss | Robert Earl Jones | James Sloyan | Charles Dierkop | Lee Paul
Directors: George Roy Hill
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Johnny Hooker is a young con-man who is being taught by Luther. One day they pull one of their con jobs and net themselves a huge roll. What they don’t know is that the man they conned is the courier for a numbers runner. And it turns out that the boss, Doyle Lonigan, considers it an attack on him and orders all the people involved terminated. Hooker is shaken down by a crooked cop, Snyder, who threatens to turn him over to Lonigan unless he pays him off. Hooker pays him, he then tries to warn Luther but is too late. He then goes to see Henry Gondorf, a friend of Luther’s and a one time great con-man, who has had a bit of bad luck. After hearing what happened to Luther and seeing how hungry Hooker is for payback, he assembles a gang and decides to con Lonigan. While everything seems to be going ok, there is just the problem of the hit on Hooker and Snyder, whom Hooker paid off with counterfeit money.

Rush Hour 2 (2001)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackie Chan | Chris Tucker | John Lone | Ziyi Zhang | Roselyn Sanchez | Harris Yulin | Alan King | Kenneth Tsang | Lisa Lo Cicero | Meiling Melancon | Maggie Q | Patricia Chan | Gelbert Coloma | Lucy Lin | Cindy Lu
Directors: Brett Ratner
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It’s vacation time for Det. James Carter and he finds himself alongside Det. Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot by L.A. crime boss Steven Reign and Triad Ricky Tan, an ex-cop who played a mysterious part in the death of Det. Lee’s father. Throw in a power struggle between Tan and the gorgeous but dangerous Hu Li and the boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella. Then again, it may turn up more excitement than Carter was looking for during his vacation.

Snake Eyes (1998)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Gary Sinise | John Heard | Carla Gugino | Stan Shaw | Kevin Dunn | Michael Rispoli | Joel Fabiani | Luis Guzmán | David Anthony Higgins | Mike Starr | Tamara Tunie | Chip Zien | Michaella Bassey | Paul Joseph Bernardo
Directors: Brian De Palma
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After the assassination of a prominent political official at a major boxing match, a corrupt cop must solve the crime to protect his friend, who was overseeing protection of the fallen. But what the cop uncovers is a conspiracy connected to everyone that was at the boxing match that night, and the one woman who knows everything must run from those behind the murder.

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Elisabeth Shue | Julian Sands | Richard Lewis | Steven Weber | Kim Adams | Emily Procter | Stuart Regen | Valeria Golino | Graham Beckel | Al Henderson | Shashi Bhatia | Carey Lowell | Anne Lange | Thomas Kopache
Directors: Mike Figgis
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Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.