A HBO TV movie featuring a strong cast bringing the four-day Attica Prison riot of 1971 to audiences. Samuel L Jackson leads with confidence as Jamaal X and Kyle Maclachlan is a new prison officer wrestling with his morals in the dangerous system. A fascinating look at the fight for prisoners rights and to be treated as humans, not animals, with well shot action sequences and a undercurrent of danger throughout.
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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2022
The story is very apt with our Rangers seeking out the one who is kidnapping cartoons and forcing them to work in bootleg animation. It takes its time to get going and find it's feet, but the more the plot unravels, the more fun it gets with silly action and sillier characters. It's safe to say the inclusion of so many sweet references make this more entertaining than it could have been, but that's not a bad thing because Schaffer knows what he is working with and doesn't forget the target audience and what they love...
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Newly promoted MI6 00-Agent James Bond (Craig) tackles his first assignment in Madagascar to trace down and apprehend a suspected bomb maker, a gun-for-hire, which upon investigation leads him to the shady character of Le Chiffre (Mikkelsen), a banker and terrorist financer…
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Hollow Man 2000
This 2000 American fantasy horror is directed by Paul Verhoeven and stars Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens, Greg Grunberg and Rhona Mitra.
Scientist Sebastian Caine (Bacon) and his team, including ex-girlfriend Linda McKay (Shue) and Matt Kensington (Brolin), successfully develop a serum that turns a subject invisible and then reverse it to full visibility. After a positive test on a gorilla, Caine decides to hold back on reporting their success to R&D board in the Military and…
