Posts Tagged ‘cigar-smoking’

Factotum (2005)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: France | Germany | Norway | Sweden | USA
Actors: Matt Dillon | Lili Taylor | Marisa Tomei | Fisher Stevens | Didier Flamand | Adrienne Shelly | Karen Young | Thomas Lyons | Dean Brewington | James Cada | James Michael Detmar | Kurt Schweickhardt | Dee Noah | James Noah | Michael Egan
Directors: Bent Hamer
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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of “Factotum” author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don’t interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.

Basketball Diaries, The (1995)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Lorraine Bracco | Marilyn Sokol | James Madio | Patrick McGaw | Mark Wahlberg | Roy Cooper | Bruno Kirby | Jimmy Papiris | Nick Gaetani | Alexander Chaplin | Ben Jorgensen | Josh Mostel | Juliette Lewis | Michael Imperioli
Directors: Scott Kalvert
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Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll’s epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim’s life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach (”Swifty”) who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin — all of these begin to encroach on young Jim’s dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother’s mounting concern for her son. He can’t go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim “picked up a game” now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.

Congo (1995)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Laura Linney | Dylan Walsh | Ernie Hudson | Tim Curry | Grant Heslov | Joe Don Baker | Lorene Noh | Mary Ellen Trainor | Misty Rosas | Stuart Pankin | Carolyn Seymour | Romy Rosemont | James Karen | Bill Pugin | Lawrence T. Wrentz
Directors: Frank Marshall
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Greed is bad, this simple morality tale cautions. A megalomaniacal C.E.O. sends his son into the dangerous African Congo on a quest for a source of diamonds large enough and pure enough to function as powerful laser communications transmitters (or is it laser weapons?). When contact is lost with his son and the team, his sometime daughter- in-law is sent after them. She is a former CIA operative and, accompanied by gee-whiz gadgetry and a few eccentric characters (including a mercenary, a researcher with a talking gorilla, and a a nutty Indiana-Jones-type looking for King Solomon’s Mines), sets out to rescue her former fiance. What they all discover is that often what we most want turns out to be the source of our downfall.

Moonlight Mile (2002)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal | Dustin Hoffman | Susan Sarandon | Ellen Pompeo | Aleksia Landeau | Richard Messing | Lev Friedman | Bob Clendenin | Jim Fyfe | Mary Ellen Trainor | Richard Fancy | Marcia Mitzman Gaven | Allan Corduner | Holly Hunter | Careena Melia
Directors: Brad Silberling
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A young man lingers in the family home of his fiancee, after her accidental death. While grieving along with her parents and drawn into legal issues presented by a district attorney seeking justice for the family, he finds himself falling in love with another woman, against his own best intentions.

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harvey Keitel | Tim Roth | Michael Madsen | Steve Buscemi | Chris Penn | Lawrence Tierney | Randy Brooks | Kirk Baltz | Quentin Tarantino | Edward Bunker | Steven Wright | Rich Turner | David Steen | Tony Cosmo | Stevo Polyi
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Six criminals, who are strangers to each other, are hired by a crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a diamond robbery. Right at the outset, they are given false names with an intention that they won’t get too close and concentrate on the job instead. They are completely sure that the robbery is going to be a success. But when the police show up right at the time and the site of the robbery, panic spreads amongst the group members and one of them is killed in the subsequent shootout along with a few policemen and civilians. When the remaining people assemble at the premeditated rendezvous point (a warehouse), they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop.

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (2007)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Mary-Louise Parker | Brooklynn Proulx | Dustin Bollinger | Casey Affleck | Sam Rockwell | Jeremy Renner | Sam Shepard | Garret Dillahunt | Paul Schneider | Joel McNichol | James Defelice | J.C. Roberts | Darrell Orydzuk | Jonathan Erich Drachenberg
Directors: Andrew Dominik
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Robert Ford, who’s idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

Layer Cake (2004)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Daniel Craig | Tom Hardy | Jamie Foreman | Sally Hawkins | Burn Gorman | George Harris | Tamer Hassan | Colm Meaney | Marcel Iures | Francis Magee | Dimitri Andreas | Kenneth Cranham | Garry Tubbs | Nathalie Lunghi | Marvin Benoit
Directors: Matthew Vaughn
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A successful cocaine dealer, who has earned a respected place among England’s Mafia elite, plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy’s old pal Edward, a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds’ worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal neo-Nazi sect and a whole series of double crossings. The title “LAYER CAKE” refers to the layers or levels anyone in business goes through in rising to the top. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no ‘codes’, or ‘families’ and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust, he has to use all his ’savvy’, ‘telling’ and skills which make him one of the best, to escape his own. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy, and an international drug ring threaten to draw him back into the ‘cake mix’. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime..

Lord of War (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Bridget Moynahan | Jared Leto | Shake Tukhmanyan | Jean-Pierre Nshanian | Jared Burke | Eric Uys | David Shumbris | Stewart Morgan | Jasper Lenz | Kobus Marx | Stephan De Abreu | Jeremy Crutchley | Ian Holm | Tanya Finch
Directors: Andrew Niccol
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This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.

Boa vs. Python (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: David Hewlett | Jaime Bergman | Kirk B.R. Woller | Adam Kendrick | Angel Boris | Marianne Stanicheva | Griff Furst | Ivo Naidenov | George R. Sheffey | Atanas Srebrev | Harry Anichkin | Jeff Rank | Assen Blatechki | Velizar Binev | Jonas Talkington
Directors: David Flores
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After an overly ambitious businessman transports an 80-foot python to the United States, the beast escapes and starts to leave behind a trail of human victims. An FBI agent and a snake specialist come up with a plot to combat the creature by pitting it against a bioengineered, 70-foot boa constrictor. It’s two great snakes that snake great together!

Basic Instinct (1992)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Michael Douglas | Sharon Stone | George Dzundza | Jeanne Tripplehorn | Denis Arndt | Leilani Sarelle | Bruce A. Young | Chelcie Ross | Dorothy Malone | Wayne Knight | Daniel von Bargen | Stephen Tobolowsky | Benjamin Mouton | Jack McGee | Bill Cable
Directors: Paul Verhoeven
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A former rockstar Johnny Boz is brutally killed during sex , and the case is assigned to the Detective Nick Curran of the SFPD . During the investigation , Nick meets Catherine Tramell , a crime novelist who was Boz’s girlfriend when he died . Catherine proves to be a very clever and manipulative woman , and though Nick is more or less convinced that she murdered Boz , he is unable to find any evidence . Later , when Nilsen , Nick’s rival in the police is killed , Nick suspects of Catherine’s involvement in it . He then starts to play a dangerous lust-filled mind game with Catherine to nail her , but as their relationship progresses , the body count rises and contradicting evidences force Nick to start questioning his own suspicions about Catherine’s guilt .