Posts Tagged ‘drugs’
Celebrity (1998)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Lee Simon, unsuccessful journalist and wanna-be novelist, tries to get a foot into the door with celebrities. After divorcing his wife Robin, Lee gets to meet a lot folks of the rich and / or beautiful, partly through journalism, partly because he has a script to offer. But life among those from out-of-this-world is hard, and his putative success always results in defeat. Meanwhile Robin meets a very desirable TV-producer and takes the first steps in the world of celebrities herself. |
54 (1998)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Mike Myers stars as the late Steve Rubell, real-life owner and cocaine-addict of New York’s notorious Studio 54 in a fictionalized portrayal of ’70s disco. |
Blue Streak (1999)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Miles Logan is a jewel thief. Things go awry while he’s stealing a huge diamond in downtown L.A.: a thief, Deacon, tries a double-cross, the police arrive, and Miles is arrested, but not before he hides the jewel in an air duct of a building under construction. Two years’ later, he’s out of prison and he heads for the site: it’s L.A.’s new police headquarters! Posing as a reassigned cop, Miles gets into the building, but before he can recover the swag, he’s partnered with a naive detective and sent out to investigate burglaries. With Deacon on his trail, he must recover the diamond, keep the cops fooled, and do a few good deeds as a detective who can think like a criminal. |
Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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In this parody of buddy-cop comedies, General Curtis Mortars (William Shattner, “Star Trek”) and Mr. Jigsaw (Tim Curry, “Charlie’s Angels) are lacing Wilderness Girls cookies with cocaine. It’s up to Sergeants Jack Colt (Emilio Esteves, “The Mighty Ducks”) and Wes Luger (Samuel L. Jackson, “Pulp Fiction”), as well as Billy York informant Becker (Jon Lovitz, “Rat Race”), to put a stop to this. |
Reeker (2005)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Freeway (1996)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Little Red Riding Hood for the 1990’s: After her mom and step-dad are arrested, 15-year-old Vanessa Lutz decides that instead of once again being put into a foster home, she’d rather go and search for the grandmother she’s never met, and live with her. “On the way to grandma’s house,” (actually a trailer park) Vanessa’s car breaks down, and she’s picked up from the side of the road by Bob Wolverton, a counselor at a school for troubled boys. Bob slowly earns Vanessa’s trust, and eventually convinces her to talk about her sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather. When Vanessa realizes that Bob is enjoying what she’s saying, she realizes that he’s “The I-5 Killer,” from the news. She tries to get out of his truck, but the inside door handle has been removed… |
Black Sheep (1996)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Comedy about the prospective Washington State Governor Al Donnelly (Matheson) whose only stumbling block on the road to power is his embarrassing younger brother Mike (Farley). To keep him out of mischief, Al forces one of his aides, Steve Dodds (Spade) to keep an eye on him during the election. However, this is easier said than done… |
The Crow: City of Angels (1996)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Some time ago, Ashe Corven and his son Danny were killed when they stumbled across a pack of drug dealers murdering a fellow dealer. The dealers work for Los Angeles drug kingpin Judah Earl. Local tattoo artist Sarah, who has great knowledge of the crow legend because of what happened with her late friend Eric Draven, has been having dreams about Ashe and Danny. One night when a crow leads her to the scene of the murders of Ashe and Danny, Ashe appears before her. The crow has resurrected Ashe, so Ashe can go after Judah and his right hand man Curve. With the guidance of the crow, Ashe starts killing off Judah’s men one by one, on his way to Judah. |
The Beach (2000)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Garland’s novel centers on a young nicotine-addicted traveler named Richard, an avid pop-culture buff with a particular love for video games and Vietnam War movies. While at a hotel in Bangkok, he finds a map left by his strange, whacked-out neighbor, who just committed suicide. The map supposedly leads to a legendary island paradise where some other wayward souls have settled. |
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. |
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Based on the biography of the same name. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the story of the comic actor, who would later immortalize bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series. From his beginnings in show business as a variety performer to his ultimate success as a movie star, Peter Sellers was a man of many faces. But it was also that moniker that caught up with his personal life, when Sellers was a man without an identity and only a library of oddball characters to make up for his personality. Focusing on his rising success and his family life, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the story of a man whose personal life clashed with stardom, while he was an individual completely immersed in the characters he portrayed. |
Malevolence (2004)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Created as the middle section of a three-part trilogy, ‘Malevolence’ is the tragic story of a group of bank robbers on the run from the law. They hide out in an abandoned house on the outskirts of town, unaware it is next door to the home of a family of serial killers. One of their hostages escapes and runs for help, but all hell breaks loose when she runs to the “wrong” house. |
Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Richard returns home from military service to a small town in the Midlands. He has one thing on his mind: revenge. Payback for the local bullies who did some very bad things to his brother. At first his campaign employs guerrilla tactics, designed to frighten the men and put them ill at ease. But then he steps up his operation, and one by one these local tough guys are picked off by the terrifying angel of vengeance that Richard has become. |
Out for Justice (1991)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Brooklyn cop Gino Felino is about to go outside and play catch with his son Tony when he receives a phone call alerting him that his best friend Bobby Lupo has been shot dead in broad daylight on 18th Avenue in front of his wife Laurie Lupo and his two kids by drug kingpin Richie Madano, who has been Gino and Bobby’s enemy since childhood. As Gino is hunting Madano down, Gino discovers the motive behind Bobby’s murder. This is when Gino’s hunt for Madano leads to the showdown of a lifetime. |
Scarlet Diva (2000)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Anna Battista is a young, popular, 24-year-old Italian-born International film actress who engages herself on a hectic and self-destructive spree which takes her across Europe and to America to shed her “boy-toy” image to become an “artist” in order to write and direct herself in a semi-biography movie of herself titled “Scarlet Diva.” After working in Rome, and winning a presigious film award in Milan, Anna travels to Paris to save her best friend from an abusive relationship, then avoids sleazy film producers in Los Angeles, meets and falls in love with a rock star who abandons her, finds out later that she’s pregnant, and begins using drugs to numb her pain at this predictament she’s gotten herself into. |
The Dreamers (2003)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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The tumultuous political landscape of Paris in 1968 serves as the backdrop for a tale about three young cineastes who are drawn together through their passion for film. Matthew, an American exchange student, pursuing his education abroad in Paris, becomes friends with a French brother and sister duo, named Theo and Isabelle, who share a common love of the cinema. While the May 1968 Paris student riots–which eventually shut down most of the French government–are happening around them, the three friends develop a relationship unlike anything Matthew has ever experienced, or will ever encounter again. |
Dead Ringers (1988)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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The Mantle brothers are both doctors – both gynecologists – and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he’s tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother – without her knowing. Everything runs smoothly, until an actress visits their clinic, and the shy brother is the first to fall in love. Will they be able to ’share’ her ? |
Outland (1981)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Marshal W.T. O’Niel is assigned to a mining colony on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. During his tenure miners are dying – usually violently. When the marshal investigates he discovers the one thing all the deaths have in common is a lethal amphetamine-type drug, which allows the miners to work continuously for days at a time until they become “burned out” and expire. O’Niel follows the trail of the dealers, which leads to the man overseeing the colony. Now O’Niel must watch his back at every turn, as those who seek to protect their income begin targeting him… |
9 Songs (2004)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall–London’s Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night’s end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages (familiar to anyone who’s ever been in love) unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs. |
Orange County (2002)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his disfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends the wrong application. So, Shaun goes to great lengths with a little help from his girlfriend Ashley and his drugged-out loser brother Lance to get into Stanford any way they see fit. |



















