Posts Tagged ‘drugs’

The Vanguard (2008)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror
Countries: UK
Actors: Jack Bailey | Ray Bullock Jr. | Terry Cole | Rob Cooper | Bahi Ghubril | Shiv Grewal | Christopher Hatherall | Martin Hobbs | Farhan Khan | Steve Weston | Simon Whyman | Karen Admiraal | Emma Choy
Directors: Matthew Hope
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This gore-laden horror film imagines a terrifying future in which overpopulation and war have left the world a crozzled hull, beset by ragtag bands of human wreckage struggling for survival. If that weren’t bleak enough, there’s a cannibalistic twist to this dystopian scenario—zombies. THE VANGUARD follows a solitary man, pursued by both the living and the dead, as he fights to stay alive.

Creepshow III (2006)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stephanie Pettee | Roy Abramsohn | Susan Schramm | Bunny Gibson | Matt Fromm | Nathan Kirkland | Selma Pinkard | Kalena Knox | Brian Jacobs | Leonardo Millán | Magi Avila | Margarita Lugo | Robert Gonzales | Simon Burzynski | Rami Rank
Directors: Ana Clavell
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There are five new tales of horror and suspense in this follow-up to George A. Romero & Stephen King’s 1982 horror anthology classic. In “Alice”, a snotty teenage girl gets her just desserts in the form of a demonic universal television remote. In “The Radio”, a security guard is driven to the very brink of madness and eventually murder thanks to a possessed radio. Next up, in “Call Girl” a murdering, cold-blooded prostitute accidentally hooks up with a vampire client. In “The Professor’s Wife”, a demented professor with a taste for pranks tricks his two best students into believing he’s getting married. But there’s something rather sinister about his new bride-to-be. Lastly, in “Haunted Dog”, a cruel miserly doctor kills a homeless man by purposely giving him a contaminated hotdog - a tale of savage revenge from beyond the grave.

Vice (2008)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Madsen | Daryl Hannah | Mykelti Williamson | Mark Boone Junior | Kurupt | John Cassini | Nicholas Lea | Aaron Pearl | Matthew Robert Kelly | Peter LaCroix | Emy Aneke | Betty Linde | Justine Warrington | Martin Cummins | Frank Cassini
Directors: Raul Inglis
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Detective Walker is a deeply flawed hero fighting to redeem himself while solving, and simultaneously trying to prevent, a string of murders following a drug deal gone bad. As in other gritty, gripping urban dramas, such as The Usual Suspects, Vice takes the viewer by the throat and doesn t let go until the final plot twist reveals the truth about Walker and the hard cost of making tough choices.

Carlito’s Way (1993)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Sean Penn | Penelope Ann Miller | John Leguizamo | Ingrid Rogers | Luis Guzmán | James Rebhorn | Joseph Siravo | Viggo Mortensen | Richard Foronjy | Jorge Porcel | Frank Minucci | Adrian Pasdar | John Ortiz | Ángel Salazar
Directors: Brian De Palma
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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito’s associates cannot seem to leave him in peace…his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for “favours” which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss.

Traffic (2000)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Benicio Del Toro | Jacob Vargas | Andrew Chavez | Michael Saucedo | Tomas Milian | Jose Yenque | Emilio Rivera | Michael O'Neill | Michael Douglas | Russell G. Jones | Lorene Hetherington | Eric Collins | Beau Holden | Peter Stader | James Lew
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
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A modern day look at America’s war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who’s just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband’s drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse’s business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.

The Thing (1982)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kurt Russell | Wilford Brimley | T.K. Carter | David Clennon | Keith David | Richard A. Dysart | Charles Hallahan | Peter Maloney | Richard Masur | Donald Moffat | Joel Polis | Thomas G. Waites | Norbert Weisser | Larry J. Franco | Nate Irwin
Directors: John Carpenter
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An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realises that an alien life-form with the ability to take over other bodies is on the loose and they don’t know who may already have been taken over.

Stealing Beauty (1996)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | Italy | UK
Actors: Carlo Cecchi | Sinéad Cusack | Joseph Fiennes | Jason Flemyng | Anna-Maria Gherardi | Jeremy Irons | Jean Marais | Donal McCann | D.W. Moffett | Ignazio Oliva | Stefania Sandrelli | Francesco Siciliano | Mary Jo Sorgani | Leonardo Treviglio | Liv Tyler
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
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After her mother commits suicide, nineteen year old Lucy Harmon travels to Italy to have her picture painted. However, she has other reasons for wanting to go. She wants to renew her acquaintance with Nicolo Donati, a young boy with whom she fell in love on her last visit four years ago. She also is trying tosolve the riddle left in a diary written by her dead mother, Sara. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris).

Marked for Death (1990)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Steven Seagal | Basil Wallace | Keith David | Tom Wright | Joanna Pacula | Elizabeth Gracen | Bette Ford | Danielle Harris | Al Israel | Arlen Dean Snyder | Victor Romero Evans | Ralph Michael | Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter | Tony DiBenedetto | Kevin Dunn
Directors: Dwight H. Little
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Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher has just returned from Colombia, where his partner was killed in the line of duty by a drug dealer who has since been taken down. As a result of his partner’s death, John has decided to retire, but his retirement may not be permanent. On the next day, after reuniting with his sister Melissa and Melissa’s daughter Tracy, John gets into a shootout against a Jamaican drug kingpin known as Screwface, taking down some of Screwface’s men. John brings himself out of retirement when Screwface retaliates by attempting to kill Melissa and Tracy. After the shooting, John is reunited with two old friends - a local high school football coach named Max, and a Jamaican Chicago cop named Charles. John and Max set out to hunt Screwface down, only to discover that Screwface has gone back to Jamaica. John and Max take Charles with them to Jamaica for an all out war against Screwface and his drug empire.

THX 1138 (1971)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Duvall | Donald Pleasence | Don Pedro Colley | Ian Wolfe | Marshall Efron | Sid Haig | John Pearce | Gary Alan Marsh | John Seaton | Eugene I. Stillman | Jack Walsh | Mark Lawhead | Robert Feero | Johnny Weissmuller Jr. | James Wheaton
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The human race has been relocated to a underground city located beneath the Earth’s surface. In the underground city, the population are entertained by holographic TV which broadcasts sex and violence and robotic police force enforces the law. In the underground city, society controls all life, all citizens are drugged to control their emotions and their behavior and sex is a crime. Factory worker THX-1138 stops taking the drugs and he breaks the law when he finds himself falling in love with his room-mate LUH 3417 and is imprisoned when LUH 3417 is pregnant. Escaping from jail with illegal programmer SEN 5241 and a hologram named SRT, THX 1138 goes in search of LUH 3417 and escape to the surface, whilst being pursued by robotic policemen.

Kidulthood (2006)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Aml Ameen | Noel Clarke | Adam Deacon | Femi Oyeniran | David Ajala | Richard Angol | Tom Burroughs | Sam Callis | Stephen Da Costa | Toby Dantzic | Ortis Deley | Alexander Hanson | Nicholas Hoult | Sushil Hunjan | John Cornell
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A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.