Taken

Posted in Action, Drama
16May
Taken Poster YEAR: 2008

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STARRING:
Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen

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6 STARS
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PLOT SUMMARY: A teenage girl is the pride and joy of her father, a retired agent that left the secret service to stay near his daughter.  She lives with her mother and her wealthy stepfather, and she convinces her reluctant father to sign an authorization to travel to Paris with her girlfriend.  When they arrive, they share a cab with a total stranger who finds out the two young girls have travelled their alone.  When the father succeeds in contacting his daughter, she tells him that men have just broken into the apartment where they are staying, and they get kidnapped by an Albanese gang of human traffickers.  The father promises on the phone to kill the kidnapper of his daughter.  He then immediately travels to Paris to find the young girls and hunt down the criminals and their vast network of cohorts.
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Training Day

Posted in Crime, Drama
10May
Training Day Poster YEAR: 2001

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STARRING:
Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke

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OVERALL RATING:
9 STARS
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PLOT SUMMARY: In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets.  A veteran narcotics detective whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt is training a rookie over a period 24 hours.  Ethical dilemmas arise for the new officer as questions present themselves as to whether or not the detective’s methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong
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Revolutionary Road

Posted in Drama, Romance
09May
Revolutionary Road Poster YEAR: 2008

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STARRING:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet

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5 STARS
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PLOT SUMMARY: It’s 1955. a couple are in their seventh year of their marriage, have fallen into a life that appears to most as being perfect.  They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children.  The husband commutes to New York City where he works in an office job while the wife stays at home as a housewife, but they’re not happy.  She has forgone her dream of becoming an actress, and he hates his job and puts little effort into his work.  One day, she suggests that they move to Paris, a city where he visited during the war and loved.  As a means to rejuvenate their life, they plan the big move where the wife would be the breadwinner while the husband would have free time to find himself and discover his passion.  Initially skeptical, he ultimately agrees to the plan, but when circumstances change around for the couple, she decides she will do whatever she has to, to get herself out of her unhappy existence.
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Rocky Balboa

Posted in Drama, Sports
03May
Rocky Balboa Poster YEAR: 2006
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STARRING:
Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young

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6 STARS
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PLOT SUMMARY: Rocky Balboa is a longtime retired boxer and remembered by most as one of the greatest boxing champions in the world.  He now lives back in the skids of Philadelphia but manages a good life including running his restaurant Adrian’s, helping an adult Little Marie and her son Steps, and saying hello at any opportunity to his estranged son Robert.  After seeing a virtual fight of Rocky in his prime verse the current heavyweight champion of the world, Mason “The Line” Dixon, Rocky’s interest in fighting sparks again and he plans to fight in local clubs.  The current champ and his managers have a different agenda though, with a plan to pit Rocky vs. Mason in real life for a publicity act to regain Mason’s lost respect from his fans.  Finally agreeing to Mason Dixon’s proposal, Rocky prepares to step in the ring for one last time.
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Obsessed

Posted in Drama, Thriller
02May
Obsessed Poster YEAR: 2009
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STARRING:
Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles


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5 STARS
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PLOT SUMMARY: A hard working man, employed as an asset manager in a private company is very happy with his beautiful wife and only daughter, and because of his hard work he just got a huge promotion, but suddenly he gets a temporary worker who is both attractive and smart, and he is understandably impressed with her and also finds himself physically drawn to her.  However, this new girl is desperate to get close to him at any cost.
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