Posts Tagged ‘gambling’

The Last Castle (2001)

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: James Gandolfini | Delroy Lindo | Robert Redford | Mark Ruffalo | Steve Burton | Clifton Collins
Directors: Rod Lurie
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When three star General Irwin is transferred to a maximum security military prison, its warden, Colonel Winter, can’t hide his admiration towards the highly decorated and experienced soldier. Irwin has been stripped of his rank for disobedience in a mission, but not of fame. Colonel Winter, who runs the prison with an iron fist, deeply admires the General, but works with completely different methods in order to keep up discipline. After a short while, Irwin can feel Winter’s unjust treatment of the inmates. He decides to teach Winter a lesson by taking over command of the facility and thus depriving him of his smug attitude. When Winter decides to participate in what he still thinks of as a game, it may already be too late to win.

Rigged (2008)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Chad Ortis | Rebecca Neuenswander | Kurt Hanover | Lahcen Anajjar | Adrian Bartholomew | Ari Bavel | Richard A. Buswell | Robert P. Campbell | Garrett Dutton | Jeffrey Fellin | Will Fowler | David Alan Graf | Stephen Hence | James Kellogg | Jonathan Laurans
Directors: Jonathan Dillon
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Michael Dublin is a full-time con man working the underground boxing circuit. A lonely drifter on the run from a past best forgotten, he moves from one scam to another, leaving a trail of enemies in his wake. Dublin invents his best scam yet when he meets Katherine Paker, a female fighter with the skills to take down a man twice her size. In a scheme Dublin calls “fight-rigging, in reverse”, the two hit the road working fights in seedy basement bars, abandoned warehouses, and backwoods county fairs. But Dublin’s shady past catches up with them and suddenly the stakes are higher - and more dangerous - than they’d ever imagined.

Rush Hour 2 (2001)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
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.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Bud Abbott | Lou Costello | Nancy Guild | Arthur Franz | Adele Jergens | Sheldon Leonard | William Frawley | Gavin Muir | Sam Balter | John Daheim | Paul Maxey | Walter F. Appler | Howard Banks | Bobby Barber | Richard Bartell
Directors: Charles Lamont
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Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy’s invisible help.

Bronx Tale, A (1993)

Monday, September 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Chazz Palminteri | Lillo Brancato | Francis Capra | Taral Hicks | Kathrine Narducci | Clem Caserta | Alfred Sauchelli Jr. | Frank Pietrangolare | Joe Pesci | Robert D'Andrea | Eddie Montanaro | Fred Fischer | Dave Salerno | Joe D'Onofrio
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Gangster Sonny is the big man in Calogero’s Bronx neighborhood. A shooting witnessed by Calogero is the starting point of a lasting bond between the gangster and the small boy. Father (bus driver Lorenzo), however, disap- proves. Calogero grows up under the wings of both men, torn between his own natural honesty and his fascination with Sonny. C’s neighborhood cronies get involved in theft, use of guns, racial fights. When C meets girl, things don’t become easier. C’s leap to manhood is marked by tragedy, but also by his recognition of the many faces of love.

007 Thunderball (1965)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Sean Connery | Adolfo Celi | Rik Van Nutter | Guy Doleman | Bernard Lee | Desmond Llewelyn | Roland Culver | Earl Cameron | Paul Stassino | Philip Locke | George Pravda | Michael Brennan | Leonard Sachs | Edward Underdown | Reginald Beckwith
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When two colleagues of James Bond are murdered, James follows the widow of a double agent who has been killed - and a confrontation ensues. The double agent is part of SPECTRE, and the organization’s meeting in a secret lair in Paris regrets the agent’s passing as it deals with new criminal business. Emilio Largo, a ruthless and flamboyant one-eyed enforcer, has hatched a scheme against the North Atlantic Treaty powers that begins at a rehabilitation clinic near an RAF airbase. Scheduled to pilot an RAF Vulcan strategic bomber on a normal “fail-safe” flight is Francois Derval, who is having a passionate affair with the magnificently endowed beauty Fiona Volpe - an affair that SPECTRE exploits. Soon, the Vulcan and its warload of two nuclear bombs has been hijacked, the bombs seized by Largo, for use in SPECTRE’s most audacious extortion scheme yet. James Bond, however, finds a key clue in the sister of Francois Derval, Dominique “Domino” Derval, a beautiful young woman who is a passionate scuba-diver living in Nassau. When James investigates Domino, he comes into contact with a SPECTRE operation on the island, and he gets help from HMSS’ man in Nassau, Pinder, and in old CIA chum Felix Leiter. But when James and Felix find out what SPECTRE is up to, it may be to late to save a major US coastal city from nuclear annihilation.

Daylight Robbery (2008)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Max Brown | Geoff Bell | Vas Blackwood | Robert Boulter | Antonio Gil | Leo Gregory | Johnny Harris | Rhys Meredith | Paul Nicholls | Shaun Parkes | Justin Salinger | Shaun Williamson
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Alex (Geoff Bell, The Business) masterminds an ambitious plan to steal millions of untraceable cash that is stacked in the underground vaults of The London Exchange Bank, waiting for its last journey, Incineration. Lucky (Vas Blackwood, Lock Stock) Matty (Leo Gregory, Stoned) Terry (Johnny Harris, London to Brighton) Chubby (Paul Nicholls, The Trench) Norman (Justin Salinger, Hitler) and Jay (Robert Boulter, The Long Firm) make up his unlikely gang of robbers. Setting up their alibi, the gang check in for a flight and join in with thousands of England supporters that are part of a mass exodus to The World Cup Tournament in Germany. Instead of passing through to Departure Lounge, the gang head out to the car park, pile into a van and head for Central London where they spectacularly ram raid London Exchange Bank, blocking any exit for those caught up inside. But with an unexpected turn of events, their plan is hampered from the start and they are left with a whole lot more than just a bank robbery to deal with. They have twenty hostages inside and the Police have laid siege to The Bank. There are two and a half hours before their plane leaves, and seventy million pounds in hard cash to steal. A daunting task, even for the most seasoned Blagger!

The Big Bad Swim (2006)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeff Branson | Ricky Ullman | Grant Aleksander | Alexander Fagan | Paul T. Gosselin | Tim Hayes | Christopher Larkin | Michael Mosley | Matt Servitto | Avi Setton | Todd Susman | Richard Sheridan Willis | Scott Winters | Kevin Porter Young
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An adult swim class sets the stage for this sexually charged comedy-drama about love, loss, and second chances. Three strangers-inextricably connected through personal heartbreak-find themselves entering deep water as they learn that life isn’t always about diving right in-it’s about getting your feet wet once in awhile.

Sydney aka Hard Eight (1996)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Philip Baker Hall | John C. Reilly | Samuel L. Jackson | F. William Parker | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Nathanael Cooper | Robert Ridgely | Michael J. Rowe | Peter D'Allesandro | Steve Blane | Andy Breen | Mark Pinizza | Richard Gross | Cliff Keeley | Truman Robbins
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John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room without losing much money. Under Sydney’s fatherly tutelage, John becomes a successful small-time professional gambler, and all is well, until he falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and sometimes hooker.

Player 5150 (2007)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Christopher McDonald | Bob Gunton | Ethan Embry | Bob Sapp | Paul Ben-Victor | Larry Braggs | Michael Bretten | Nick D'Egidio | Brett Davern | Jim DePue | Jim Dunning | Wesley Eskildsen | David Graham-Costain | Christopher Jude | Stephen Lattimer
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A day trader (Embry) and his fiancée (Robertson) get caught up in high stakes gambling.