I Got the Hook Up 1998   R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Martin
Cast: Master P, Anthony Johnson, Gretchen Palmer, Frantz Turner, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Anthony Boswell, Helen Martin, John Witherspoon, Ice Cube
Black (Master P) and Blue (A.J. Johnson) happen upon a truck filled with cellular phones and set up a wireless phone business from their van in a parking lot. But, when the phones don't work, the entrepreneurs end up in BIG trouble with their irate customers, local gangsters, and the FBI.
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Sliver 1993  R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker, Martin Landau, Colleen Camp, CCH Pounder, Nina Foch, Keene Curtis, Nicholas Pryor, Amanda Foreman, Anne Betancourt, Tony Peck, Dr. Melvyn Kinder, Frantz Turner
Following her divorce, Carly Norris (Sharon Stone) finds a new apartment in a needle-shaped structure. The shape of this apartment building is not the only thing strange about it; its occupants could only be described as extremely peculiar. Carly meets new neighbors–author Jack Lansford (Tom Berenger) and her landlord Zeke Hawkins (William Baldwin)–who are both attracted to her, and she begins an affair with Zeke. Carly learns that women in the apartment building have been killed and that the police suspect that a serial killer is responsible. When Carly discovers that Zeke has secretly wired the apartments and watches the activities of the tenants, she suspects him as the killer but, at the same time, becomes obsessed with the lives of her neighbors. Is Carly setting herself up to be the next victim?
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Solar Crisis 1990 PG-13, 111 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Alan Smithee
Cast: Tim Matheson, Peter Boyle, Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, Annabel Schofield, Dorian Harewood, Corin Nemec, Brenda Bakke, Tetsuya Bessho, Paul Koslo, Sandy McPeak, Silvana Gallardo, Dan Shor, Scott Allan Campbell, Frantz Turner
Earth is threatened by a solar flare-up, and scientists on a space station try to explode an anti-matter bomb, named Freddy, on the sun to save the people of Earth. The mission leader, Steve Kelso (Tim Matheson) commands the space vessel, but Arnold Teague (Peter Boyle) is plotting to sabotage the mission and places Alex Noffe (Annabel Schofield) on the space vessel to destroy Freddy. Meanwhile, Steve's father, Admiral "Skeet" Kelso (Charlton Heston), is searching the desert for his grandson Mike (Corin Nemec) who has crashed a plane while going AWOL from his military academy. Mike meets Travis (Jack Palance) in the desert, and they go to Teague's headquarters where Travis is killed and Mike is captured. The Admiral and his commandos raid the headquarters and rescue Mike. Meanwhile, Alex changes her mind, knocks out Kelso, and pilots Freddy into the sun and saves the world.
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The Sure Thing 1985  PG-13, 94 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Romance
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Viveca Lindfors, Anthony Edwards, Boyd Gaines, Lisa Jane Persky, Tim Robbins, Nicollette Sheridan, George Memmoli, Garry Goodrow, Marcia Christie, Robert Anthony Marcucci, Sarah Buxton, John Putch, Frantz Turner
An unlikely couple–Walter and Alison (John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga)–is forced to get acquainted when they share a ride on their way to California. He is on his way to meet his "sure thing" and she to meet her boyfriend. Cusack and Zuniga bring a lot to their characters and allow this movie to be a winner.
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| 1. I Got the Hook Up (1998)
2. Sliver (1993)
3. Solar Crisis (1990)
4. The Sure Thing (1985)
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