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Loyalty on Trial Vin Diesel plays mobster Jackie DiNorscio in Find Me Guilty. It’s a true story. New York prosecutors sought to take down the mob, DiNorscio defended himself, …

Devilish Shortcut Shortcut to Happiness’ inoffensive, simple morals don’t need explicitly revealed. Adam Baldwin stars as a struggling writer seeking success and fame, gets both after selling his soul …

Michael Winterbottom’s Ode To Manchester & Factory Records If groups like Joy Division and the Happy Mondays are your thing, this cheeky trip back to that music scene is …

More Like Depression Staying The New York of 2005 is a perfect setting for this dry indie from the new millennium. New York looks mournful and tired. So do …

About 60% Erik Kernan (Josh Hartnett) works in an active Denver newsroom. He’s a sportswriter, dressed casually, if white collar. Then there’s Champ (Samuel L Jackson), homeless, covered only …

The Other Prestige The title Illusionist gives away the eventual twist. How and why hold until various plot developments need them. Illusionist toys with its audience, with Edward Norton …

Balls and Booze Seeing Beer League release listed as 2006 is a surprise – it’s every bit the raunchy, sexist, homophobic, racist, drug-fueled lark spewed out in the ‘80s …

The Little Spy Thriller That Could Starring Martin Sheen Enigma comes from the 1980s when movie audiences had fewer expectations from their spy flicks. A CIA agent tries to …

Missing Patrick Swayze Can you pull off a Road House sequel without Patrick Swayze? Swayze turned down offers for this 2006 sequel, resulting in the derivative and uninspired Road …

Sharon Stone Sexes Things Up Once Again Basic Instinct hit America at just the right moment in the 1990s, quickly becoming a part of the cultural zeitgeist. The psycho-sexual …

Getting Sleepy Fourteen years on, Sleepover’s time capsule value is beyond its narrative value. It’s stuffed with soon to be mega-stars like Steve Carrell and Brie Larson. Summer Glau …

CageTalker John Woo’s entry into the post-Saving Private Ryan WWII Hollywood deluge is, at best, a disingenuous take on the Pacific front. There’s Nicolas Cage screaming and hollering, waving …