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The 007 World Is Not Enough (1999)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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The 19th installment follows MI-6 Commander James Bond to a swiss bank in Bilbao, Spain where upon retrieval of three million pounds (British dollars) a siege takes place. James barely escapes the local police, leaving them questioning the mysterious shooting that occurred minutes ago. The next day, at the MI-6 Headquarters in London, Bond first greet Miss Moneypenny and gives her a nice souvenir: a cigar. Q then calls him in first to meet Sir Robert King then to report on the mission. It was then that the three million pounds was in fact, a bomb which destroys the Headquarters and kills King. Bond’s only suspect, who happens to be the woman from the swiss bank blows herself up form a hot-air balloon. He then meets Sir King’s daughter, Electra, who now own her father’s oil company. But Bond’s real mission has a new enemy named Renard a man who feels no pain whatsoever after a bullet was put into his head, who along with Electra and their henchmen plan to nuke Europe and everything in it’s path. Now with the help of Christmas Jones, a research scientist, James must foil the terrorists plan before the entire Easternmost countries are wiped out forever. The world is not enough for disasters. And the world is not enough for terrorists. The world is only enough for one man- one hero: James Bond 007! |
Vegas Vacation (1997)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Thanks to the money brought in at work by one of Clark Griswold’s inventions, a long life food preservative, Clark has enough money to take his wife Ellen, his son Rusty, and his daughter Audrey on a trip to Las Vegas — the land of sand, slot machines, and the Hoover Dam. In Las Vegas, Clark crosses paths with Eddie, the sloppy husband of Ellen’s cousin Catherine. Eddie and his family now live in the desert north of Las Vegas on what used to be an H-bomb test site. During the vacation in Las Vegas, Ellen becomes addicted to Wayne Newton, Rusty gets a fake ID and becomes a winning high roller, Audrey starts hanging out with Eddie’s stripper daughter Vickie, and Clark becomes addicted to gambling and starts gambling away the family’s bank account, which amounts to $22,600. Ellen’s obsession with Wayne Newton is making Clark jealous, and Clark keeps losing money at the casino. After losing so much money, can Clark find a way to get the money back and save the family’s vacation? |
Sister Act (1992)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Delores is having an affair with her Mafia boss, Vince. Her career as a singer in Las Vegas is going nowhere and Vince won’t divorce his wife and she goes to him to break it off, witnessing a murder Vince just ordered. Running from the club, she seeks police protection. They agree to hide her in the one place Vince would never look for her. She finds, to her chagrin, that it is a convent, where she must impersonate a nun. After several false starts, she is assigned to the convent’s dismal choir. She challenges and reorganizes them to become a modern singing group. In this she is successful, and as the choir gets better, success brings it’s own problems. |
Showgirls (1995)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) travel to Las Vages to become an exotic dancer- a showgirl. She is doing very well at the beginning, and striding step by step towards the top of the stripper’s clubs in Las Vegas. But when she meets a new lead showgirl, named Cristal Conners (Gina Gershon) and they have to work and show together, the competition between those two best showgirls begin. Enthralled by the glamorous life of Las Vegas, Nomi Malone is prepared to do everything to be the leading showgirl, also if some very dirty steps must be taken from her side. |
Indecent Proposal (1993)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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A young couple very much in love are married and have started their respective careers, she as a real estate broker, he as an architect. She finds the perfect spot to build his dream house, and they get loans to finance it. When the recession hits, they stand to lose everything they own, so they go to Vegas to have one shot at winning the money they need. After losing at the tables, they are approached by a millionaire who offers them a million dollars for a night with the wife. Though the couple agrees that this is a way out of their financial dilemma, it threatens to destroy their relationship. |
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. They finally decide to tie the knot in Vegas, but a wealthy gambler arranges for the man to lose $65K in a poker game and offers to clear the debt for a weekend with his fiancée. Suddenly the man is insanely jealous, and pursues his fiancée and her rich companion, but finds pitfalls in his path as the gambler tries to delay his interference. |
Fantomas (1964)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Le journaliste Fandor invente une interview avec le mystérieux Fantomas. Fantomas s’indigne et enlève le journaliste pour le contraindre à dire la vérité et comme Fandor ne fait pas cela, il se déguise en Fandor et avec son visage il réalise un sensationnel vol de bijoux. Le Commissaire Juve arrête Fandor, croyant qu’il est Fantomas, mais il est à son tour arrêté quand Fantomas fait un autre coup, cette fois-ci déguisé en Juve. Mais les deux sont libérés par Fantomas lui-même. Le célèbre voleur n’a-t-il pas une raison cachée pour son acte de générosité ? |
29 Palms (2002)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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This plot may contain spoilers! A corrupt reservation judge — a fat, white man — who is presiding over the expansion of a poor tribal desert casino feels threatened when his niave clerk begins asking questions about the court’s handling of the native americans’ property rights. Snitching his clerk out to the Tribal Chief for being an FBI informant, the judge ignites the fuse of a professional hit leading to greed and betrayal that daisy chains through the remote desert community, starting with the murder of an innocent young women in the wrong place and culminating in an ironic justice for all. On the way, you may recognize many familiar actors in roles very uncharacteristic of their usual fare. “Sometimes, you ask for what you get in life. Other times, it gets handed to you. All you can hope for is that you do the right thing.” |
Run, Lola, Run (1998)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manny. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manny. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola’s run. |
The Pink Panther (2006)Monday, August 17th, 2009 |
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When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Insp. Dreyfus (Kevin Kline) assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau (Steve Martin) to the case. His intention is to give a diversion to the press, while he uses his best men to chase the killer and thief. He assigns Gendarme Gilbert Ponton (Jean Reno) to work with Closeau and inform each step of the investigation. When Clouseau is nominated with honor to the highest prize in France, Dreyfus decides to humiliate Clouseau and take him out of the case. However Clouseau has already solved the mystery. Search keywords |
The Magnificent Seven (1960)Saturday, July 11th, 2009 |
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A remake of ”The Seven Samurai”, this American version star Yul Brenner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, and Robert Vaughn, just to name a few. They are picked to guard a Mexican village from Banditos that come every now and then to take whatever the town has grown since their last visit. When they are hired, they go to the town and teach the villagers how to defend themselves. When the leader of the bandits come ,they fight him and his men off. the second time he comes the villagers give the seven to them, due to a heated argument. The leader of the bandits take their guns and throw them out of town he gives them horses and gives their guns back to them when they are far out of town. The seven decide that they aren’t going to run, and head back to the village for a final showdown. Search keywords |
Going in Style (1979)Monday, June 29th, 2009 |
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Joe, Al, and Willie are three old men who have resigned themselves to dying. One night, Joe hatches a scheme to put a bit of excitement back into their lives: robbing a bank…. |
Vanity Fair (2004)Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 |
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The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible. Search keywords |
Empire Records (1995)Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 |
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Empire Records is going to be turned into a Music Town. It is up to the wacky employees to figure out a way to raise enough money to help their boss Joe keep the store from changing hands. They also deal with problems amongst themselves, love, and a has-been spoiled rock star named Rex Manning. Search keywords |
The Sting (1973)Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 |
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Johnny Hooker is a young con-man who is being taught by Luther. One day they pull one of their con jobs and net themselves a huge roll. What they don’t know is that the man they conned is the courier for a numbers runner. And it turns out that the boss, Doyle Lonigan, considers it an attack on him and orders all the people involved terminated. Hooker is shaken down by a crooked cop, Snyder, who threatens to turn him over to Lonigan unless he pays him off. Hooker pays him, he then tries to warn Luther but is too late. He then goes to see Henry Gondorf, a friend of Luther’s and a one time great con-man, who has had a bit of bad luck. After hearing what happened to Luther and seeing how hungry Hooker is for payback, he assembles a gang and decides to con Lonigan. While everything seems to be going ok, there is just the problem of the hit on Hooker and Snyder, whom Hooker paid off with counterfeit money. |
Get Carter (2000)Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 |
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Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother’s funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible. |
Snake Eyes (1998)Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 |
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After the assassination of a prominent political official at a major boxing match, a corrupt cop must solve the crime to protect his friend, who was overseeing protection of the fallen. But what the cop uncovers is a conspiracy connected to everyone that was at the boxing match that night, and the one woman who knows everything must run from those behind the murder. |
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)Friday, April 17th, 2009 |
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Jack Robinson (Matthew Modine) is a wealthy business man with no time for anything but work. However, a family curse is looming over him – no man in the Robinson line ever lives past the age of thirty. With his upcoming birthday appears the remains of literally giant skeleton and a mysterious woman (Mia Sara) who claims to have once known the gaint. Jack decides to go with her to another world where all is revealed to him along with the story of his ancestor, the orginal Jack and the Beanstalk. In order to save his own life and the world of the giants, Jack must right the wrongs of the past and return the magical harp and goose that lays the golden eggs to their rightful home. |
Blind Fury (1989)Monday, April 6th, 2009 |
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Nick Parker was a Vietnam vet who got blinded during the war. He would be found by one of the local tribes. They would teach how to handle a sword. He would eventually become quite good with it. He would then return to the States and would visit an old Army buddy. When he gets there, he discovers that he and his wife are divorced. What they don’t know is that he (his friend) was playing in a crooked casino in Vegas, and accumulated a large debt. The owner’s willing to forget his debt, if he does something for him. His friend is a chemist and they want him to make some designer drugs, and in order to make sure he does it they try and kidnap his son. But lucky Nick is there, Nick saves his son but not his wife. He and the boy begin a road trip for Vegas to save his father, with the owner’s people in pursuit. |
Owning Mahowny (2003)Friday, March 27th, 2009 |
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Based on the true story of a Toronto bank manager, Dan Mahowny is addicted to gambling. Horses and sports are only a few of his interests. Eventually, he creates dummy accounts at his bank and uses that money to fly to Atlantic City to gamble. He seems to get little joy from winning and his addiction is such that he is unable to stop in any event. Even if he wins huge amounts – which he does – he simply continues to play until he has lost it all. It’s a frighteningly lonely experience that cannot include friends or anyone else around him. In the end, his hours and hours at the tables give him nothing and as his embezzlement catches up to him, he is arrested and sent to jail. |



















