Posts Tagged ‘butcher’

Hot Fuzz (2007)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Simon Pegg | Martin Freeman | Bill Nighy | Robert Popper | Joe Cornish | Chris Waitt | Eric Mason | Billie Whitelaw | Nick Frost | Peter Wight | Julia Deakin | Tom Strode Walton | Troy Woollan | Rory Lowings | Bill Bailey
Directors: Edgar Wright
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Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman (Frost), who countlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found decapitated. It is address to as an accident, but Angel isn’t going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent “acidents”.

Last Orders (2001)

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | UK
Actors: Michael Caine | Tom Courtenay | David Hemmings | Bob Hoskins | Helen Mirren | Ray Winstone | JJ Feild | Cameron Fitch | Nolan Hemmings | Anatol Yusef | Kelly Reilly | Stephen McCole | George Innes | Laura Morelli | Sally Hurst
Directors: Fred Schepisi
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Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, ‘Last Orders’, that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his foster son Vince as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife Amy

Killing Fields, The (1984)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Sam Waterston | Haing S. Ngor | John Malkovich | Julian Sands | Craig T. Nelson | Spalding Gray | Bill Paterson | Athol Fugard | Graham Kennedy | Katherine Krapum Chey | Oliver Pierpaoli | Edward Entero Chey | Tom Bird | Monirak Sisowath | Lambool Dtangpaibool
Directors: Roland Joffé
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Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist convering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the Americans forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won’t have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he’s a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.

Hard Word, The (2002)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Guy Pearce | Rachel Griffiths | Robert Taylor | Joel Edgerton | Damien Richardson | Rhondda Findleton | Kate Atkinson | Vince Colosimo | Paul Sonkkila | Kym Gyngell | Dorian Nkono | Stephen Whittaker | Torquil Neilson | Don Bridges | Doug Bowles
Directors: Scott Roberts
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Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you “know wot I mean?” However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.

Gangs of New York (2002)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | History
Countries: Germany | Italy | Netherlands | UK | USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Daniel Day-Lewis | Cameron Diaz | Jim Broadbent | Henry Thomas | Liam Neeson | Brendan Gleeson | John C. Reilly | Gary Lewis | Stephen Graham | Eddie Marsan | Alec McCowen | Larry Gilliard Jr. | Cara Seymour | David Hemmings
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in Manhattan’s Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. But Amsterdam’s personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland!