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Rush Hour

City traffic can make you scream. The lights change too soon, other drivers are distracted by cell phones, dining and personal grooming. What can you do? Well one thing is to have a singalong. Soo Yung (Julia Hsu) may not be a teenager yet but she knows how to have a good time. All you need to do is sing and with a back seat all to herself, she’s finding it a grand endeavour. However, Soo Yung’s bodyguard (Roger Fan) isn’t so lucky since he has a job to do. Neither is Soo Yung’s driver (George Cheung) as he has to keep his mind on the road.


Director:  Brett Ratner
Writer:  Ross LaManna; Jim Kouf
Cast:
Ken Leung -  Sang
Jackie Chan -  Chief Inspector Lee
Tom Wilkinson -  Thomas Griffin/Juntao
Tzi Ma -  Consul Han
Robert Littman -  First Caucasian
Michael Chow -  Diner Guest
Julia Hsu -  Soo Yung
Chris Tucker -  Detective James Carter
Chris Penn -  Clive Cod
Kai Lennox -  Cop at Diner
Larry Sullivan Jr. -  Cop at Diner
Yan Ling -  Consul Secretary
Roger Fan -  Soo Yung’s Bodyguard
George Cheung -  Soo Yung’s Driver
Lucy Lin -  Exposition Official
Rex Linn -  FBI Agent Dan Whitney









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The Avengers

There are times when we see what we want to see rather than what is really there. We pluck images out of our brain and compare them to what we see and conclude that we know what is happening rather than trap details of the circumstances and organize them together into their proper perspective. We’re all quite lazy in that way. Usually, doing a haphazard job doesn’t affect us one way or the other but sometimes it can cause us no end of grief, cause a bucket of confusion and make us wonder what it was that we really did see. Such is the case for John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) who sees a sled pulled by dogs approaching during a freak summer snow storm. Riding the sled is Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) who stops a few feet away and pulls out a spear gun and whips off a shot that narrowly misses only due to Steed’s reflexes. So she pulls out a gun and plugs him in the chest. Needless to say, Steed is quite confused when he awakes to find Mrs. Peel taking care of him.


Director:  Jeremiah S. Chechik
Writer:  Sydney Newman; Don MacPherson
Cast:
Ralph Fiennes -  John Steed
Uma Thurman -  Emma Peel
Sean Connery -  Sir August de Wynter
Patrick Macnee -  Invisible Jones (voice)
Jim Broadbent -  Mother
Fiona Shaw -  Father
Eddie Izzard -  Bailey
Eileen Atkins -  Alice
John Wood -  Trubshaw
Carmen Ejogo -  Brenda
Keeley Hawes -  Tamara
Shaun Ryder -  Donavan
Nicholas Woodeson -  Dr. Darling
Michael Godley -  Butler
Richard Lumsden -  Boodle’s Porter
Daniel Crowder -  Messenger









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Razor Blade Smile

Is there such a thing as overkill? Our vamp Lilith (Eileen Daley) sucks the life out of her victim and then pops him three times with her pistol. But then she is part assassin. But her escape is impeded by two tennis-playing bodyguards. With a vague aim, she fire off a couple of rounds missing each one. I guess she is a short-range assassin.


Director:  Jake West
Writer:  Jake West
Cast:
Eileen Daly -  Lilith Silver
Christopher Adamson -  Sethane Blake
Jonathan Coote -  Detective Inspector Price
Kevin Howarth -  Platinum
David Warbeck -  The Horror Movie Man
Heidi James -  Ariauna
Isabel Brook -  Celeste
Louisa Moore -  Silk
Grahame Wood -  Student Photographer
Jennifer Guy -  Cindy Arnold
Georgio Serafini -  Leonard Arnold
Mark Caven -  The Detective
Brad Lavelle -  The Chill Pilgrim
Peter Godwin -  Illuminati Conspirator
Scott Bennett -  Guard 1 – Max
Paul Marino -  Guard 2 – Paul









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Very Bad Things

How do you know if you’ve made the wrong decision? Most likely, it will be evident in what happens as a result. What do you do if you can’t back out of the choice made? Compound it with another choice that could go wrong too? Sure, why not? It can’t get much worse, can it? Yup, it can. Just ask Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) who is about to marry Laura Garrity (Cameron Diaz). His buddy Robert Boyd (Christian Slater) has organized a bachelor party for him in Las Vegas, replete with recreational drugs, gallons of booze and a stripper. The stripper winds up dead through some rather over-enthusiastic sex with Michael Berkow (Jeremy Piven). Robert convinces the others that the best thing to do is not dial 911, but to bury her out in the desert. When a hotel security guard investigates the hubbub, Robert deliberately murders him and convinces the others to bury both of the bodies in the desert and head home. Dear, dear…


Director:  Peter Berg
Writer:  Peter Berg
Cast:
Jon Favreau -  Kyle Fisher
Leland Orser -  Charles Moore
Cameron Diaz -  Laura Garrity
Christian Slater -  Robert Boyd
Rob Brownstein -  Man
Jeremy Piven -  Michael Berkow
Daniel Stern -  Adam Berkow
Jeanne Tripplehorn -  Lois Berkow
Joey Zimmerman -  Adam Berkow Jr.
Tyler Malinger -  Timmy Berkow
Carla Scott -  Tina
Russell B. McKenzie -  Security Guard
Pancho Demmings -  Cop
Blake Gibbons -  Suit
Angelo Di Mascio Jr. -  Clerk
Lawrence Pressman -  Mr. Fisher









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Wild Things

Suzie Toller (Neve Campbell) and Kelly Van Ryan (Denise Richards) concoct abuse by their guidance counselor Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon). In court, they sabotage one another’s story when Suzie claims it was a setup. Kelly started it when she was spurned by Sam who was making the moves on her mom, Sandra (Theresa Russell). But that is only part of the plan. To what lengths would you go to get your hands on millions of dollars?


Director:  John McNaughton
Writer:  Stephen Peters
Cast:
Matt Dillon -  Sam Lombardo
Kevin Bacon -  Sgt. Ray Duquette
Neve Campbell -  Suzie Marie Toller
Denise Richards -  Kelly Lanier Van Ryan
Daphne Rubin-Vega -  Det. Gloria Perez
Bill Murray -  Kenneth Bowden
Theresa Russell -  Sandra Van Ryan
Robert Wagner -  Tom Baxter
Carrie Snodgress -  Ruby
Jeff Perry -  Det. Bryce Hunter
Cory Pendergast -  Jimmy ‘Jimbo’ Leach
Marc Macaulay -  Walter
Toi Svane -  Nicole Beach
Dennis Neal -  Art Maddox
Eduardo Yáñez -  Frankie Condo
Paulo Benedeti -  Kirk