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The Bank Job

Directed by Roger Donaldson Staring Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays Rated MA Score 5/6 Based on the infamous Baker Street Robbery when in September of 1971 thieves tunneled into the Lloyds bank and looted the safe deposit boxes, netting over 3 million pounds in cash and jewelry. Nobody was arrested and…

88 Minutes

Directed Jon Avnet Staring Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobeski & Neal McDonough Rated MA Score 3/6 Dr. Jack Gramm is a renowned forensic psychiatrist and college professor who works with the FBI profiling serial killers. One of his famous trials in which he gave expert testimony was the case of Jon Forster aka “The…

16 Blocks

Directed by Richard Donner Staring Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse & Jenna Stern Rated M Score 5/6 Detective Jack Mosley is assigned to transport convict Eddie Bunker 16 blocks to the court house to testify in front of a grand jury. Soon Mosley finds out that there are forces within the New York Police…

10th and Wolf

Directed by Robert Moresco Staring James Marsden, Giovanni Ribsi, Brad Renfro & Piper Perabo Rated MA Score 5/6 A young man has had a less then spectacular end to his military career which landed him in the brig. In a deal made with an FBI agent he is forced home to help take down a…

Act of Valor

Directed by Mike McCoy & Scott Waugh Staring Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sanchez & Nestor Serrano Rated MA Score 2/6 An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent. I am actually kind of embarrassed to say that I actually busted my ass to get to the cinema…

King of the Avenue

Directed by Ryan Combs Staring Simon Rex, Ving Rhames and Esai Morales Rated MA Score 3/6 A young drug dealer sells his soul to the devil in order to become the #1 seller on the block. Anyway you look at it the plot point of having somebody making a deal with the devil is always…

Red State

Directed by Kevin Smith Staring John Goodman, Melissa Leo & Michael Parks Rated MA Score 6/6 Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda. It is clear from the start that with Red State that Kevin Smith has…

Salvation Boulevard

Directed by George Ratliff Staring Greg Kinnear, Pierce Brosnan and Marisa Tomei Rated M Score 6/6 A former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will do anything to protect their larger-than-life pastor. It seems that Salvation Boulevard, is one of those movies that had a less than…

Drive

Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Staring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks, Ron Perlman, Oscar Isaac and Bryan Cranston Rated MA Score 6/6 A mysterious Hollywood stuntman, mechanic and getaway driver lands himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbour. If there is a list of actors under the age of forty whose career…

Contagion

Directed by Steven Soderbergh Staring Marrion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, Jude Law & Gwyneth Paltrow Rated M Score 5/6 Soon after her return from a business trip to Hong Kong, Beth Emhoff dies from what is a flu or some other type of infection. Her young son dies later the same day.…