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Smokin' Aces (2009) Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Alicia Keys, Chris Pine, Ben Affleck. Written By: Joe Carnahan. Directed By: Joe Carnahan. Smokin' Aces is an American Crime movie about Las Vegas magician and wannabe mobster Buddy 'Aces' Israel (Jeremy Piven), when word gets out about Israel being a snitch and an eavesdropper, high ranking gangsta Primo Sparazza puts out a hit on him with a reward of $1 million, but he also wants his heart. Word gets out about the bounty and the race for Israel begins with participants of the highest assassination profession, as well as the less professional and more psychotic standard. This movie has FBI agents, bail bondsmen, Nazi-loving and bloodthirsty brothers, a man of all disguises and more all after this mans heart, all locked and loaded and ready to fire. With Israel hiding in the penthouse suite of the Nomad Hotel, with several ways up, this movie keeps you on the edge of your seat and gets you ready...

Spring Breakers (2012) Cast: Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, James Franco. Written By: Harmony Korine . Directed By: Harmony Korine. Spring breakers is a American drama film that follows four teenage college girls that are saving up and determined to get to Spring break. Not having enough money three of the girls rob a restaurant with squirt guns and hammers, giving them enough money to go. As the story goes on you see them living their life to the full with dancing, drugs, alcohol and a very large number of half naked women. The girls then get arrested at a hotel where other spring breakers are all doing substances, etc, when it all seems dark and troubled they are bailed out by a man whose eye they caught called Alien. Alien is a drug dealer and more, which is the key to all the chaos that goes from there within the movie, as the girls and him bond with love, drugs and violence. This Spring break is one they will never forget. Filmed in sunny...

The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones (2013) Cast: Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Jonathon Rhys Meyers. Based On: The Mortal Instruments: City Of. Series by Cassandra Clare . Screenplay By: Jessica Postigo Paquette . Directed By: Harald Zwart . The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones is a fantasy movie based on Cassandra Clare's novel series titled The Mortal Instruments: City Of . The movie introduces you to Clary, a normal teen girl who ends up seeing a murder in a club, a murder no one else could see. This man (Jace; played by Bower) who committed the murder then begins to stalk Clary (Collins), yet only she can see him. The two talk and Shadow Hunters and mystical creatures are introduced as chaos arises with the kidnapping of Clary's mother. Clary learns about shadow hunters; demon killers, people who are half angel that fight the dark underworld us 'Mundane's' cannot see. The fight for family, friends, love and sanity take you int...

This Means War (2012) Cast: Tom Hardy, Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon. Story By: Timothy Dowling, Marcus Gautesen. Directed By: McG. This Means War is a Rom-Com spy film about two CIA agents who both start dating the same girl, as they go on dates the other agent spy's on them, causing chaos and playing pranks to ruin each others chance with her. As the story follows this, there is a sub story that these agents are trying to capture a wanted fugitive, but the question of the friendship becomes a war between the two and causes them to have to pick between love, work or friendship. McG is a director I hadn't known by name but I had known for his great work on Terminator Salvation (2009), this is a director known for action films or even action films with a twist, also directing Charlie's Angels (2000). Is this a director to look out for? That is up to you, I feel he has done great work but I do not celebrate him as a professional with every film he works with, l...

Daybreakers (2010) Cast: Ethan Hawke, Williem Dafoe, Sam Neill. Written and Directed By: Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig. Daybreakers is science-fiction thriller movie based in futuristic 2019 where the human race is no longer human, but vampires. What humans are left are captured and harvested for blood in a corporation that are doing tests to try and create a blood substitute. This substitute needs to be created successfully as the humans are becoming extinct and the blood supply is beginning to run dry. Vampire and lead haematologist at the corporation has his work interrupted by human survivors who have created their own enterprise of human survival soldiers. These soldiers proclaim they have found a cure for the vampire virus which could save the chaos, the bloodshed, the war and the human race altogether. The movie was film in Australia, with sets that show you the futuristic key of movie, however that being said considering 2019 is no longer that far away they didn't ...

The Purge (2013) Cast: Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Rhys Wakefield. Directed By: James Demanco. Written By: James Demanco. The Purge is a psychological thriller based in they year 2022 where crime is at an ultimate low due to one night a year, for 12 hours, nothing is illegal. Most upper class neighbours have invested in new security technology which boards up doors and windows with thick metal and a room in the house filled with screens of outside cameras watching the territory around the house. A half beaten up man comes down this street screaming for help and hearing these cries the main small boy within the followed family lets him in, which automatically starts of the chaos of the film as a masked gang of polite, sophisticated upper class civilians' come for his blood. If the man is not given to this gang, to certain death, the gang are determined to go in for him. It's a film of survival and class, but what class will survive? James Demanco is known for work on the...

My Own Private Idaho (1991) Cast: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves. Written By: Gus Van Sant. Directed By: Gus Van Sant. My Own Private Idaho is a independent drama movie based on young street hustlers, which is loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry VI part 1 & 2. The movie shows you the lives of a group of young street hustlers in Portland, but mainly focuses on the lives of the main characters Mike (River Phoenix) and Scott (Keanu Reeves). These characters are best friends and make a living selling themselves, Mike is a sufferer of narcolepsy in which he just falls into a state of deep sleep and Scott, although being a hustler and spending his life in a derelict hotel with the others, is the mayors son who is due receive all his fathers inheritance upon his 21st birthday. The two take a trip to look for Mike's mother, ending in Rome where Scott ends up falling in love with a girl who let's them stay, resulting in him leaving Mike, know...