Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts

Brick Mansions

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In the not-to-dystopian future, the ghettos of Detroit have gotten so crime-ridden, they are walled off from the rest of the city. Within these “brick mansions,” criminal elements battle it out on their own, with at least one saintly resident (David Belle) trying to do some good. Enter an undercover cop (Paul Walker, in his last role), tasked with entering the brick mansions and tracking down a neutron bomb stolen by the slum’s chief drug lord (RZA). Walker and Belle’s characters team up to clean up the neighborhood, find the bomb and instigate a lot of action sequences Read More>>>
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Muppets Most Wanted

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The Muppets are back, giddy with the success of their last movie. In Muppets Most Wanted, evil promoter Dominic (Ricky Gervais), in tandem with escaped criminal mastermind and Kermit lookalike Constantine, harnesses the Muppets’ popularity to plan a world concert tour. Each of the tour’s venues is strategically located next to a prime criminal target. When Kermit is thrown into a Russian Gulag due to mistaken identity, the other unwitting Muppets are accused of the heists committed by Dominic and Constantine. Read More>>>
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Devil’s Knot

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More than 20 years ago, three eight-year-old boys were brutally killed in an Arkansas town. The subsequent arrests, trial and media storm that upended the town is the subject of Devil’s Knot. Reese Witherspoon plays the mother of one of the victims, with Colin Firth as an investigator for the defense.  Three teenage boys are arrested for the crime, based on some odd testimony and the boys’ alleged alliance to Satanism.  Read More>>>
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RoboCop

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Police Officer and family man Alex Murphy is critically injured in the line of duty, but Omnicorp saves him by creating a human-machine hybrid. The mix produces a crime fighter like no other, but the company that created him wants to use him for a political agenda and bury his human side. To survive Alex must find a way to keep the human inside the machine alive and uncover the plot against him.  Read More>>>

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3 Days to Kill

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Ethan Renner is a burned out CIA agent who finds out he has terminal cancer. He returns home to attempt to patch up the marriage and family life he has neglected, trying to get to know his bitter teenage daughter. But a top level agent finds Ethan and offers him a deal: if he does one last job he can have an experimental treatment for his disease that may extend the time he has for his family. He accepts, trying to juggle winning over his daughter and secretly hunting a terrorist.  Read More>>>

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The Frozen Ground

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Based on a true story, The Frozen Ground follows the case of a serial killer in Alaska (John Cusack) who has abducted and killed several prostitutes. A State Trooper (Nicolas Cage) follows leads, including a would-be victim who escaped (Vanessa Hudgens), to build a case.  The problem:  While he knows who the killer is, there is no hard evidence linking him to the crimes.  If he arrests the killer, he runs the risk of losing the case, and the killer, for good.  Read More>>>

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The Bling Ring

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Marc (Israel Broussard), the new kid at the high school, finds a friend in Rebecca (Katie Chang). Bored with her upper middle class life, Rebecca encourages Marc to accompany her into other people’s houses and cars to rob them. Their gang expands and so do the stakes as they begin casing celebrity homes and stealing high class bling. Based on a true story, and also stars Emma Watson.  Read More>>>

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Homeland

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After eight years, Nicholas Brody has returned home from being held captive in Iraq. Now a hero to America with the exception of Carrie Mathison, CIA , who thinks his loyalty may have “turned”.   Read More>>>
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Pain & Gain

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Based on a true story, Pain & Gain follows the exploits of a driven body builder (Mark Wahlberg) who enlists the help of two other he–men (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Anthony Mackie) to use their motivational techniques to bilk a wealthy spa patron (Tony Shalhoub). Unfortunately, they aren’t the brightest bulbs, and their hapless attempts spiral out of control, leading to dire, tragic consequences. Oh…and it’s a comedy.  Read More>>>

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Bones

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This TV series follows the anthropologist Temperance Brennan as she and FBI agent Seeley Booth find out what happened to victims of murder when all they have left are the bones. Interestingly this TV series is (loosely) based on the professional life of anthropologist Kathy Reichs.  Read More>>>
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Now You See Me

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When a rising group of magicians called the Four Horsemen steal money from a bank through magic, the FBI scrambles to make sense of it. A professional magic debunker is called in to help figure out how the money stealing tricks are done. As more money disappears, the magicians are forced to run from the law and the investigators realize that someone else may be behind the magic.  Read More>>>

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Fight Club

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When our insomniac narrator meets Tyler Durden, the free-living soap maker, the two create a tight bond of friendship while also creating a fight club and asking questions about life and sanity.  Read More>>>

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A Place Beyond the Pines

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In A Place Beyond the Pines, Ryan Gosling plays a stunt motorcycle rider who finds out he has a one–year–old son and tries to re–insert himself into the life of a former fling. He takes to robbing banks and his path ultimately crosses with a young policeman (Bradley Cooper), who also has a one–year–old. Their stories, and the stories of their sons, make up the simple plot, and not-so-simple character studies of these four people.  Read More>>>
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Red 2

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The Retired and Extremely Dangerous team of old codgers is back to locate a missing portable nuclear device.

Catch Me If You Can

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Based on a true story of a young man who conned millions of dollars in fraudulent checks, all before he turned 19. Only FBI agent Carl Hanratty can stop him, if he can catch him!  Read More>>>

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Side Effects

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Emily Taylor’s life is finally falling into place since her husband’s release from serving 3-to-5 in prison. But the adjustment is challenging and she seeks help from psychiatrist Dr. Banks. The two make progress through different medications but some of the side effects may lead Emily to serving 3-to-5 herself.  Read More>>>
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Identity Thief

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Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman), seems to have it all — great family in Colorado, new job opportunity, affluent lifestyle — but it’s all in jeopardy when his identity is stolen by a woman in Florida (Melissa McCarthy). Because of the workings of the legal system, the only quick way Sandy can get himself out of the mess is to produce the identity thief to the police in Denver. He goes to Florida armed with handcuffs and little else, and ends up facing a bounty hunter, other criminals, and the belligerent thief herself.  Read More>>>

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