Thursday, November 8, 2018

FROM PARIS WITH LOVE (2010)



Directed By: Pierre Morel 
Written By: Adi Hasak 
Story By: Luc Besson 
Cinematography By: Michael Abramowicz 
Editor: Frederic Thoraval 


Cast: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Amber Rose Revah, Richard Durden 


James Reece is an ambitious aide to the U.S. Ambassador in Paris, doing little jobs for the CIA and hoping to get into black ops. On the night he and his girlfriend, Caroline, become engaged, he's told to pick up Charlie Wax at Orly. Charlie is an unorthodox government employee - large, bald and bearded, foul-mouthed and eccentric. Charlie immediately takes James on a wild ride of murder and mayhem, through ethnic enclaves. As bodies pile up, the purpose remains opaque to James. Caroline, unhappy that James has been out of touch for a day, tells him to bring Charlie for dinner. Charlie can be charming - where will it lead? Does the chess-playing James have what it takes?

THE GUNMAN (2015)



Directed By: Pierre Morel 
Written By: Sean Penn, Pete Travis & Don McPherson 
Based on the Novel By: Jean-Patrick Machette 
Cinematography By: Flavio Martinez Labiano 
Editor: Frederic Thoraval 

Cast: Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Mark Rylance, Ray Winstone, Jasmine Trinca, Peter Franzen 

A sniper on a mercenary assassination team, kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's successful kill shot forces him into hiding. Returning to the Congo years later, he becomes the target of a hit squad himself.

Sunday, November 4, 2018

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME: FILE #0053: DOMINO (2005)


Directed By: Tony Scott 
Written By: Richard Kelly 
Story By: Richard Kelly & Steve Barancik 
Cinematography By: Dan Mindel 
Editor: William Goldenberg & Christian Wagner 


Cast: Kiera Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo, Mo’Nique, Christopher Walken, Mena Suvari, Tom Waits, Ian Ziering, Brian Austin Green, Lew Temple, Lucy Liu, Dale Dickey, Jaqueline Bisset, Macy Gray, T.K. Carter, Dabney Coleman, Peter Jacobson, Jerry Springer, Frederick Koehler, Andy Milder 


The daughter of an actor father and a social-climber mother, Domino Harvey, bored with her life, decides to join the team of Ed Moseby and becomes a bounty hunter. But she gets in trouble when the Mafia's money is stolen from an armored truck, while Moseby and his crew are participating in a reality show produced by Mark Heiss. The situation gets out of control when the sons of a rival mobster are kidnapped while the FBI is monitoring two gangs of mobsters.

DEEP END (1970)



Directed By: Jerzy Skolimowski 
Written By: Jerzy Skolimowski & J. Gruza & B. Sulik 
Cinematography By: Charly Steinberger 
Editor: Barrie Vince 


Cast: Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler, Christopher Sanford, Diana Dors, Louise Martini 


15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant. Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike does his best to sabotage the relationship, to the extent of stalking both her and her fiancé. Mike becomes increasingly desperate to have Susan for himself, with tragic results.

MOVIES WATCHED IN OCTOBER (2018)

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