 Broken Arrow 1996  R, 110 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: John Woo
Cast: John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo, Bob Gunton, Frank Whaley, Howie Long, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jack Thompson, Kurtwood Smith, Casey Biggs, Shaun Toub, Vyto Ruginis, Qusaun Elam, Joey Box
Vic Deakins (John Travolta) and Riley Hale (Christian Slater) are pilots on a "Stealth" bomber packed with nuclear weaponry. On a routine patrol, Deakins knocks out copilot Hale, crashes the plane, and takes off with the weapons. He then threatens to detonate them if the Pentagon doesn't give him money. The chase is on as a recovered Hale and park ranger Terry Carmichael (Samantha Mathis) set out to track down Deakins.
|  | |
Iron Man 2008  PG-13, 126 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub, Faran Tahir, Clark Gregg, Bill Smitrovich, Sayed Badreya, Tim Guinee, Will Lyman, Kevin Foster, Garrett Noel, Marco Khan
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is a billionaire inventor of U.S. weapons who is kidnapped by terrorists in Afghanistan. His captors order him to build a super weapon, Jericho; Tony secretly builds a super-powered armored suit that he wears to escape. Now he is free and discovers that there is a power out there that plans to destabilize the world. Despite objections from his business partner Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges) and assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), Tony puts on his armored suit and, as Iron Man, vows to protect the world from his weapons that had fallen into the hands of the U.S. enemies.
| | |
The Kite Runner 2007  PG-13, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marc Forster
Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub, Sayed Jafar Masihullah Gharibzada, Zekeria Ebrahimi, Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada, Nabi Tanha, Mir Mahmood Shah Hashimi, Tamim Nawabi, Elham Ehsas, Bahram Ehsas
The year is 1978, and despite the fact that Hassan (Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada) and his family are servants in Amir's (Zekeria Ebrahimi) family home, the boys are good friends. They participate in a kite-fighting competition, and, with Hassan's help, Amir wins. But, while retrieving an opponent's kite, Hassan is cornered by a racist bully and is assaulted. Amir does nothing to help his friend and is so ashamed of his lack of action that he tells a lie that results in Hassan and his family being driven out of the household. Soon after, Amir and his family flee to the United States before the Soviet takeover of Afghanistan. Now, in 2000, Amir (now played by Khalid Abdalla) gets a call asking him to return to Afghanistan to help find Hassan's child who is being held by the Taliban. Amir returns and, given the chance to atone for his past mistake, sets out to rescue Hassan's child. An Academy Award nomination was received for Best Original Musical Score.
| | |
Land of Plenty 2004 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Michelle Williams, John Diehl, Shaun Toub, Wendell Pierce, Richard Edson, Burt Young, Yuri Elvin, Jeris Poindexter, Rhonda Stubbins White, Bernard White, Matthew Kimbrough, Gloria Stuart
Paul Jeffries (John Diehl) served with the Special Forces in Vietnam, and his niece, Lana (Michelle Williams), worked as a missionary in the Middle East. They use their past experiences to deal in their own unique ways with the effects of the events of September 11, 2001.
| | |
Maryam 2000  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ramin Serry
Cast: Mariam Parris, David Ackert, Shaun Toub, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Maz Jobrani, Victor(2) Jory, Sabine Singh, Michael Blieden, Jason Nash, Goli Samii
During the hostage crisis of 1979, anti-Iranian hostility erupts in a New Jersey town where a local Iranian-born teen finds the sentiments directly influencing his personal relationships.
| | |
 The Nativity Story 2006 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass, Shaun Toub, Ciaran Hinds, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Stanley Townsend, Alexander Siddig, Nadim Sawalha, Eriq Ebouaney, Stefan Kalipha, Alessandro Giuggioli
This chronicle of the year before the birth of Jesus covers teenage Mary's (Keisha Castle-Hughes) visit from the Angel Gabriel (Alexander Siddig) telling her she will give birth to Jesus, her subsequent marriage to Joseph (Oscar Isaac), and their journey to Bethlehem where Jesus is born.
| | |
Steel Sharks 1996  R, 94 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Rodney McDonald
Cast: Gary Busey, Billy Dee Williams, Billy Warlock, Shaun Toub, Robert Miranda, David Roberson, Barry Livingston, Tim Abell, Mathew St. Patrick, Eric Lawson, Tim Lounibos, Larry Poindexter
After terrorists kidnap a noted biological/chemical expert, the elite Navy team, "Steel Sharks," is assigned the task of freeing him. Good-guy and bad-guy high-tech submarines play a role in the action.
| | |
| 1. Broken Arrow (1996)
2. Iron Man (2008)
3. The Kite Runner (2007)
4. Land of Plenty (2004)
5. Maryam (2000)
6. The Nativity Story (2006)
7. Steel Sharks (1996)
In The News
|
