Green Street Hooligans 2005  R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Hooligans
Green Street
Director: Lexi Alexander
Cast: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani, Marc Warren, Leo Gregory, Henry Goodman, Geoff Bell, Rafe Spall, Kieran Bew, Ross McCall, Mhairi Steenbock
Matt (Elijah Wood) takes the fall for his roommate's cocaine possession and is expelled from Harvard. With time on his hands, Matt moves to London to live with his sister, Shannon (Claire Forlani), and her husband, Steve (Marc Warren). It does not take long for Matt to get to know Steve's brother Pete (Charlie Hunnam), and that experience leads to Matt's introduction into the world of "firms," which regular guys join and then fight other firms on weekends during soccer season. The Green Street Hooligans represents one firm in this story that involves loyalty amidst violence in the world of football rivals living on the edge.
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 Mean Machine 2001  R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Barry Skolnick
Cast: Vinnie Jones, David Kelly, David Hemmings, Vas Blackwood, Jason Statham, Robbie Gee, John Forgeham, Jason Flemyng, Ralph Brown, Geoff Bell, Sally Phillips, Danny Dyer, Martin Wimbush, David Reid, David Cropman
Vinnie Jones plays the out-of-shape jock Danny Meehan in the U.K. remake of Robert Aldrich's "The Longest Yard." This time around, U.K. football (what the U.S. calls soccer) provides the hook for prison inmates taking on prison guards in one free-for-all game.
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Night Train 2009 R, 83 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Brian King
Cast: Danny Glover, Leelee Sobieski, Steve Zahn, Matthias Schweighofer, Takatsuna Mukai, Togo Igawa, Richard O'Brien, Jo Marr, Constantine Gregory, Geoff Bell, Luca Bercovici, Harry Anichkin, Marianne Stanicheva, Dessi Morales, Yana Atanasova Popova
A dead body is found on a night train by the conductor, Miles (Danny Glover), pre-med student Chloe (Leelee Sobieski), and salesman Peter (Steve Zahn). The only possession of the dead man is a box, which contains a valuable treasure. Greed steps in as each tries to out-deceive the other two and claim the entire loot. But there is more to the box that meets the eye.
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Scoop 2006 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Ian McShane, Woody Allen, Romola Garai, Kevin McNally, Jim Dunk, Geoff Bell, Christopher Fulford, Nigel Lindsay, Fenella Woolgar, Matt Day, Rupert Frazer
Recently deceased journalist Joe Strombel (Ian McShane) is still able, in his after-life, to uncover a good story. He works through college journalist Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson) who, in turn, teams up with two-bit magician Sid Waterman (Woody Allen) to uncover information implicating distinguished British Lord Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman) as the "Tarot Card Killer" who has been terrorizing London.
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The Seeker: The Dark is Rising 2007  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
Director: David L. Cunningham
Cast: Alexander Ludwig, Christopher Eccleston, Ian McShane, Frances Conroy, James Cosmo, Jim Piddock, Amelia Warner, John Benjamin Hickey, Wendy Crewson, Emma Lockhart, Drew Tyler Bell, Gregory Smith, Geoff Bell, Edmund Entin, Gary Entin
Will Stanton (Alexander Ludwig) has been relegated to the attic of his parents' (John Benjamin Hickey and Wendy Crewson) home to provide space when one of his brothers (Gregory Smith) comes home from college. On his 14th birthday, Will learns that, as the seventh son of a seventh son, he is "The Seeker" and has the power to battle the Dark forces led by "The Rider" (Christopher Eccleston) and save the world. Will travels through time looking for six hidden signs providing the power of Light and the key to defeating the Dark forces.
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| 1. Green Street Hooligans (2005)
aka: Hooligans
aka: Green Street
2. Mean Machine (2001)
3. Night Train (2009)
4. Scoop (2006)
5. The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (2007)
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