Rock Star (2001)Thursday, September 17th, 2009 |
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Rock Star is based on Tim “Ripper” Owens, who initially was in a Judas Priest cover band. He then left to join the real Judas Priest. |
| Biography: Son of Alma and Donald. Brother of 5 brothers and 3 sisters. Born in Dorchester. High-school dropout, later got GED. Did various jobs including bricklayer and was convicted of several minor felonies. Recorded two albums and toured as Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. "Music For the People" (Interscope, 1991) and "You Gotta Believe" (Interscope, 1992). Won Best Dance Single for "Good Vibrations" Stil ... show all |
Rock Star (2001)Thursday, September 17th, 2009 |
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Rock Star is based on Tim “Ripper” Owens, who initially was in a Judas Priest cover band. He then left to join the real Judas Priest. |
Italian Job, The (1969)Thursday, June 4th, 2009 |
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Charlie has just left prison, and now wants to do a ‘big job’. The job is to steal $4m of gold arriving in Italy from China. Charlie’s job needs financing, so he goes to Mr Bridger (a Mafia-type boss) who is in prison (Charlie has to break in !). In Italy, a clever plan is used to distract the authorities, while the raiders make their get-away in three Minis. This leads to an excellent car chase sequence through Italian streets, buildings, rivers, sewers, |
Planet of the Apes (1968)Thursday, February 26th, 2009 |
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After having their ship crash on a mysterious planet, two US astronauts wander across the desert plain. Thinking they are alone, the surprise comes when life forms appear, not just as mute human but as apes. Walking, talking apes. The apes see themselves as the original beings on the planet and do anything to keep all humans locked up. |
MAX Payne (2008)Monday, December 1st, 2008 |
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Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a DEA agent whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin out to avenge her sister’s death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation. |
Happening, The (2008)Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 |
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A paranoid thriller about a family on the run from a natural crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity. |
Basketball Diaries, The (1995)Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 |
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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. |
Boogie Nights (1997)Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 |
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Everyone’s born with one special thing, and Eddie Adams uses his humongous “asset” to take the world of film pornography by storm. Things get ugly though when success leads to drugs and ruin. Will Dirk clean up and get back on top? Will Amber see her son? Will Rollergirl ever take off her skates?! |
We Own the Night (2007)Friday, February 22nd, 2008 |
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A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hit men. |
Four Brothers (2005)Sunday, December 9th, 2007 |
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In Detroit, when the beloved citizen Evelyn Mercer is murdered in a store heist, her four dangerous stepsons come to her funeral. Bobby Mercer, Angel Mercer and Jack Mercer join the regenerated ex-union leader Jeremiah Mercer, and they decide to investigate the murder. They disclose that her execution was intentional, and resolve to find the criminals by themselves. |
Shooter (2007)Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 |
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Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world’s great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He’s left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he’s recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia. |