Posts Tagged ‘casino’

007 Thunderball (1965)

Tuesday, August 26th, 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.

Boiler Room (2000)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Giovanni Ribisi | Vin Diesel | Nicky Katt | Scott Caan | Ron Rifkin | Jamie Kennedy | Taylor Nichols | Bill Sage | Tom Everett Scott | Ben Affleck | John Griesemer | David Younger | Russel Harper | Mark Webber | Christopher Fitzgerald
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A young man has dropped out of Queens College but desperately wants to please his father, a federal judge who’s harsh with his son. At his father’s insistence, Seth Davis closes a casino he operates in his own house, mostly for college students. Thinking he’ll please dad, he takes a job in a small brokerage house, an hour from Manhattan, where trainees make cold calls to lists of well-paid men, and then apply high-pressure tactics to sell initial public offerings exclusive to the firm. He’s terrific at sales. Once training is over, the pay is phenomenal, and Seth wonders why. Curiosity leads him to ethical dilemmas, encounters with the Feds, and new territory with his father.

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.

21 (2008)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
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.

Swingers (1996)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jon Favreau | Vince Vaughn | Ron Livingston | Patrick Van Horn | Alex Désert | Heather Graham | Deena Martin | Katherine Kendall | Brooke Langton | Blake Lindsley | Kevin James Kelly | Stephanie Ittleson | Vernon Vaughn | Joan Favreau | Rio Hackford
Directors: Doug Liman
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This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star. It’s been six months since his girlfriend left him and he’s not doing so good. So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the social scene and forget about his 6 year relationship.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Crime | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Mike Judge | Bruce Willis | Robert Stack | Eric Bogosian | Kristofor Brown | Tony Darling | John Doman | Francis Dumaurier | Jim Flaherty | Tim Guinee | David Letterman | Toby Huss | Sam Johnson | Richard Linklater | Harsh Nayyar
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MTV junkies Beavis and Butt-head awaken one day to find their beloved TV stolen. On their adventure to do a murderous smuggler’s wife (Demi Moore), they encounter an FBI agent (Robert Stack) with a predilection for cavity searches, two rather familiar looking ex-Motley Crue roadies, Mr. Van Driessen singing “Lesbian Seagull”, a little old lady, and, of course, Mr. Anderson and his trailer. Can the Great Cornholio save the day? Let’s hope so!

Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies (1999)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Andrew Divoff | Paul Johansson | Holly Fields | Bokeem Woodbine | Carlos Leon | Robert LaSardo | Oleg Vidov | Tommy 'Tiny' Lister | Chris Weber | Al Foster | Vyto Ruginis | Randy Hall | Maria Genero | James Staszkiel | Rhino Michaels
Directors: Jack Sholder
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During a failed art heist, the Djinn is once again liberated. This time, to complete the 1001 wishes that he needs before the final 3, he lets himself go to prison, where he starts his evil reign twisting the hopes of the prisoners. Meanwhile, the woman who set him free accidently, Morgana, tries to find a way to stop him, aided by a young priest.

Resurrecting the Champ (2007)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson | Josh Hartnett | Kathryn Morris | Dakota Goyo | Alan Alda | Rachel Nichols | Teri Hatcher | Kristen Shaw | Nick Sandow | David Paymer | Harry J. Lennix | Peter Coyote | Ryan McDonald | Chris Ippolito | Jameson Trenholm
Directors: Rod Lurie
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Up-and-coming sports reporter (Hartnett) rescues a homeless man (”Champ”, Jackson) only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ’s story and escape the shadow of his father’s success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.

Godfather: Part II, The (1974)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Robert Duvall | Diane Keaton | Robert De Niro | John Cazale | Talia Shire | Lee Strasberg | Michael V. Gazzo | G.D. Spradlin | Richard Bright | Gastone Moschin | Tom Rosqui | Bruno Kirby | Frank Sivero | Francesca De Sapio
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Mike Myers | Elizabeth Hurley | Michael York | Mimi Rogers | Robert Wagner | Seth Green | Fabiana Udenio | Mindy Sterling | Paul Dillon | Charles Napier | Will Ferrell | Joann Richter | Anastasia Sakelaris | Afifi Alaouie | Monet Mazur
Directors: Jay Roach
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Austin Powers is a 60’s spy who is cryonically frozen and released in the 1990’s. The world is a very different place for Powers. Unfortunately for Austin, everyone is no longer sex-mad. Although he may be in a different decade, his mission is still the same. He has teamed up with Vanessa Kensington to stop the evil Dr. Evil, who was also frozen in the past. Dr. Evil stole a nuclear weapon and is demanding a payment of (when he realises its the 90’s) 100 billion dollars. Can Austin Powers stop this madman? or will he caught up with Evil’s henchman, with names like Alotta Fagina and Random Task? Only time will tell!