Posts Tagged ‘casino’

In Cold Blood (1967)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Blake | Scott Wilson | John Forsythe | Paul Stewart | Gerald S. O'Loughlin | Jeff Corey | John Gallaudet | James Flavin | Charles McGraw | Will Geer | John McLiam | Ruth Storey | Brenda Currin | Paul Hough | Vaughn Taylor
Directors: Richard Brooks
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Truman Capote wrote the ‘non-fiction novel’ from which the film is drawn, using the novelist’s craft to render reality. The reality was that at two a.m. on November 15, 1959 in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were roused from their sleep, bound and gagged, and then brutally murdered by two unknown assailants. After the latters’ capture, sentencing and imprisonment prior to execution, Capote researched the case thoroughly, spent weeks talking with the prisoners, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, jurors, police, friends and neighbors, trying to unearth why such a senseless act was committed, and what society’s response might have been.

The Cooler (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: William H. Macy | Alec Baldwin | Maria Bello | Shawn Hatosy | Ron Livingston | Paul Sorvino | Estella Warren | Arthur J. Nascarella | Joey Fatone | M.C. Gainey | Ellen Greene | Don Scribner | Tony Longo | Richard Israel | Timothy Landfield
Directors: Wayne Kramer
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The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and THE COOLER is a love story about the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels loser who has made a career out of spreading his virulent bad luck on the floor of Las Vegas’ aging Shangri-La casino. When Bernie falls for a gorgeous cocktail waitress his bad luck is thrown into reverse.

Casino Royale (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Daniel Craig | Eva Green | Mads Mikkelsen | Judi Dench | Jeffrey Wright | Giancarlo Giannini | Caterina Murino | Simon Abkarian | Isaach De Bankolé | Jesper Christensen | Ivana Milicevic | Tobias Menzies | Claudio Santamaria | Sebastien Foucan | Malcolm Sinclair
Directors: Martin Campbell
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After receiving license to kill from the MI-6, the secret agent James Bond follows his leads and avoids the destruction of the greatest airplane in the world in Miami plotted by the evil banker Le Chiffre to crash the bonds in the stock market and break the air flight company. The banker loses the funds of international terrorist organizations and organizes a poker game in Casino Royale, in Montenegro, to raise the money of the investors. James Bond travels with the British accountant Vesper Lynd to bet and defeat La Chiffre and force him to look for protection with the MI-6, disclosing the names of the terrorists. James wins, but is double-crossed, in a game of betrayals and murders.

Next (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Julianne Moore | Jessica Biel | Thomas Kretschmann | Tory Kittles | José Zúñiga | Jim Beaver | Jason Butler Harner | Michael Trucco | Enzo Cilenti | Laetitia Danielle | Nicolas Pajon | Sergej Trifunovic | Charles Chun | Patricia Prata
Directors: Lee Tamahori
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Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling “winnings.” But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.

Go (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Katie Holmes | Sarah Polley | Suzanne Krull | Desmond Askew | Nathan Bexton | Robert Peters | Scott Wolf | Jay Mohr | Timothy Olyphant | Jodi Bianca Wise | William Fichtner | Rita Bland | Tony Denman | Scott Hass | Natasha Melnick
Directors: Doug Liman
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‘Go’ is set mostly during one long Christmas Eve in the lives of a group of young adults on the events surrounding a drug deal in Los Angeles replayed three different times from three different views. In a straightforward manner; when slacker Simon Baines (Desmond Asknew) takes off for a getaway to Las Vegas with his friends, Ronna (Sarah Polley) takes his shift at the 24-hour grocery store where they work. When two guys, named Adam and Zack (Scott Wolf and Jay Mohr), walk in asking to score some dope from Simon, Ronna takes it upon herself and her friends Claire (Katie Holmes) and Mannie (Nathan Bexton) to buy some some stuff from the local drug dealer Todd Gains (Timothy Olyphant). But the drug deal is a sting that Adam and Zack are forced to set up by an overzealous narcotics agent, Burke (William Fichtner). Ronna is forced to dispose of the drugs. With no other alternative, she tries to double-cross Todd with phony drugs. Meanwhile in Las Vegas, Simon’s adventures with his best friend Marcus (Taye Diggs) hit an unfortunate turn during a trip to a strip club, while Adam and Zack end up spending Christmas Eve with Burke and his wife Irene (Jane Krakowski), and afterwards while driving to a rave that Ronna is dealing, the guys accidentally hit Ronna with their car and leave her for dead. Nearby, Mannie nearly OD’s on dope, and Claire gets more friendly with a vengeful Todd whom is now looking for Ronna.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve Martin | Michael Caine | Glenne Headly | Anton Rodgers | Barbara Harris | Ian McDiarmid | Dana Ivey | Meagen Fay | Frances Conroy | Nicole Calfan | Aïna Walle | Cheryl Pay | Nathalie Auffret | Lolly Susi | Rupert Holliday-Evans
Directors: Frank Oz
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Lawrence and Freddie are con-men; big-time and small time respectively. They unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this town (on the French Mediterranean coast) aint big enough for the two of them. They agree to a “loser leaves” bet. The bet brings out the best/worse in the two. Interesting twist at the end.

Jane Austen’s Mafia! (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Jay Mohr | Billy Burke | Christina Applegate | Pamela Gidley | Olympia Dukakis | Lloyd Bridges | Jason Fuchs | Joe Viterelli | Tony Lo Bianco | Blake Hammond | Philip Suriano | Vincent Pastore | Marisol Nichols | Carol Ann Susi | Gregory Sierra
Directors: Jim Abrahams
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Young Vincenzo Cortino, son of a Sicilian postman, delivers a package for his father and accidentally sees something he should not see. In a donkey’s, well, he is smuggled out of town, where he tries to reach a ship headed for America. There, Vincenzo works his way up to the top of the Mafia. One day, his youngest son makes a mistake and has to leave town. A little later, he ends up as a casino boss in Las Vegas. But the heads of the other families want old Don Cortino out of the way. So, they shoot him 47 times and send a *very* attractive woman to distract his son from his casino work. Will he fall for her or will he return to Diane, who, by the way, had run for President successfully in the meantime?

Quicksand (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Michael Keaton | Michael Caine | Judith Godrèche | Rade Serbedzija | Matthew Marsh | Xander Berkeley | Kathleen Wilhoite | Rachel Ferjani | Elina Löwensohn | Clare Thomas | Hermione Norris | William Beck | Jean-Yves Berteloot | Jean-Pierre Castaldi | Colin Stinton
Directors: John Mackenzie
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The workaholic head of the compliance section of a New York bank flies to Monaco to investigate unusual deposits from an offshore bank and meets a down-on-his-luck international film star who has become embroiled in criminal activities.

The 007 Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Roger Moore | Christopher Lee | Britt Ekland | Maud Adams | Hervé Villechaize | Clifton James | Richard Loo | Soon-Tek Oh | Marc Lawrence | Bernard Lee | Lois Maxwell | Marne Maitland | Desmond Llewelyn | James Cossins | Yiu Lam Chan
Directors: Guy Hamilton
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Scaramanga is a hit-man who charges a million dollars per job. He becomes linked to the death of a scientist working on a powerful solar cell, and James Bond is called in to investigate. As he tracks down Scaramanga, he realises that he is highly respected by the killer, but will this prove to be an advantage in the final showdown?

007 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: George Lazenby | Diana Rigg | Telly Savalas | Gabriele Ferzetti | Ilse Steppat | Lois Maxwell | George Baker | Bernard Lee | Bernard Horsfall | Desmond Llewelyn | Yuri Borionko | Virginia North | Geoffrey Cheshire | Irvin Allen | Terence Mountain
Directors: Peter R. Hunt
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Whilst on leave, British agent James Bond prevents a young woman, Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a powerful crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange he offers Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy Ernst Blofeld. At first Bond agrees to the deal purely to fulfil his objective to kill Blofeld but later he grows to love Tracy but when the British learn that Blofeld plans to destroy mankind with a deadly virus, 007 is torn between his loyalty to his county and his intent to marry Tracy.