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From Paris With Love (2010)
Aug 23rd
Director: Pierre Morel Writers: Adi Hasak, Luc Besson (story) Rated: R (violence, language) Cast: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Kasia Smutniak
Travolta and Meyers team up for the explosive spy thriller called From Paris With Love. Travolta plays the crazy and unorthodox secret agent, Charlie Wax, who gets paired with James Reece (Meyers), an aid to the US Ambassador in Paris. A reluctant Reece doesn’t know what to make of Wax’s outrageous methods, but soon finds that they’re involved in a a very serious situation. It starts off with drug rings, then Pakistani terrorist plots, but honestly the story isn’t More >
Salt (2010)
Aug 21st
Director: Phillip Noyce Writer: Kurt Wimmer Rated: PG-13 (violence) Cast: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski, and August Deihl
Angelina Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent caught in a possible Russian terrorist plot. Right from the beginning the action gets going and doesn’t let up. High tension chases, lightning fast martial arts ass-kickings, and balls-to-the-wall shoot outs kept my heart racing. To top it off, the story is quite exciting as well. It keeps you guessing who Salt really is and how things will play out. Jolie is in top form in this one, and I was very More >
Date Night (2010)
Aug 21st
Director: Shawn Levy Writer: Josh Klausner Rated: PG-13 (mild language) Cast: Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Mark Wahlberg, Jimmi Simpson, Common, and Taraji P. Henson
Date Night opens with The Ramones’ ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ playing, which right away gave me a bad feeling about this movie. Not that I don’t like the song, I love it, but it has no business in a romantic comedy.
Steve Carrell and Tina Fey play a couple in a marriage crisis who find themselves mixed up in a sticky situation after a case of mistaken identity. What follows is a series of wacky and unrealistic events and More >
Fireball (2010)
Jul 20th
Director: Kristoffer Tabori Writer: Kraig Wenmen TV air date: 2009 Cast: Aleks Paunovic, Lexa Doig, Ian Somerhalder, and Colin Cunningham
Tyler Draven (Aleks Paunovic) is a former football pro turned criminal who’s recently been thrown behind bars. After a prison fire, Draven discovers that he has a unique new ability which can help him fuel his revenge against those who’ve done him wrong.
Paunovic plays a true gritty villain with his hulking appearance and his fearless and terrifying demeanor. Though Draven has limited lines in the film, and we scarcely get to know him, every time he’s on the screen you know More >
Hit Parade (2010)
Jul 19th
Writer/director: Joe Casey Rated: n/a (violence, language) Cast: Jonathan Browning, Scott Brick, Mariah Robinson, Nicholas Lanier, and Roger McDonald
Ex-hitman Jerome Archer (Browning) is forced out of retirement when a pair of Census Bureau agents recruit his help to track down a dangerous contract killer. I will ignore the fact that I have no idea why they chose the Bureau of the Census as their heroic force in this movie, but then again it just adds to the uniqueness of this movie.
Speed Razor (Lanier) is the young, flamboyant, and dangerous hitman making a load of noise on the streets. The overachieving More >
