Loading ...This movie came as a big surprise to me. Aksel Hennie gives a stunning performance as Roger Brown,a company’s head-hunter that seeks to recruit the best with his unique strategy of negotiating and “reading” people. Except that job Roger also steals very expensive paintings with his partners aid.Everything goes bad when he steals a painting [...]
Headhunters
At first I have to say I read the novel of which this movie is based upon, “Headhunters” by Jo Nesbø, two years ago. A thriller I liked quite a lot. Usually a novel is better than the film. Well, here Morten Tyldum (Acclaimed films as “Buddy” and “Most people usually live in China”), succeeded [...]
Screwed
A semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK’s most dangerous prisons. Based on Thompson’s book of the same name, the project stars James D’Arcy (“Master & Commander”), Noel Clarke (“Kidulthood”), Frank Harper (“The Football Factory”), Jamie Foreman (“Layer Cake”), Andrew [...]
Age of Heroes
Based on the true story of the formation of Ian Fleming’s 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K.
Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue (Chris Kerson) and DD Davis (Will Blagrove) return home from Iraq to the crime-stricken neighborhood in North Philadelphia they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith (Judy Jerome), whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. DD returns to find that his [...]
The Big Bang
The private detective from Los Angeles Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas) is interrogated by LAPD Detectives Poley (William Fichtner), Frizer (Thomas Kretschmann) and Skeres (Delroy Lindo). Cruz is blind after being hit on the face and asks many times whether “she is alive”. Cruz explains to the detectives that after a lost case of his client [...]
Decisions
When a group of friends decide to pull a bank heist to get out from underneath their money troubles. They quickly discover that things can unravel in a hurry! A compromised LAPD Detective (Corey Haim) on the take with a crime syndicate figure want the money back and will go to any lengths to get [...]
Decisions
When a group of friends decide to pull a bank heist to get out from underneath their money troubles. They quickly discover that things can unravel in a hurry! A compromised LAPD Detective (Corey Haim) on the take with a crime syndicate figure want the money back and will go to any lengths to get [...]
Kill the Irishman
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, “Kill the Irishman” chronicles Greene’s heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob. Turning [...]
A Somewhat Gentle Man
One-time gangster Ulrik (Skarsgard) is back on the outside after 12 years in prison. Despite finding a new home (and a new mission) with his former boss (Floberg), Ulrik considers a fresh start, given tentative connections to his now-grown son and his boss’s secretary.