 Donnie Brasco 1997  R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, Anne Heche, James Russo, Andrew Parks, Zach Grenier, Gretchen Mol, Val Avery, Zeljko Ivanek, Gerry Becker, Robert Miano, Brian Tarantina, Rocco Sisto
Based on FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone's 1989 memoirs, this is the story of how Pistone/Donnie Brasco (Johnny Depp) was able to infiltrate a Brooklyn mob, by acting as a mole, and win the trust of hit-man Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino). However, once he wins that trust, the two form a friendship that threatens to undermine Brasco's reason for infiltrating the gang. His friendship with Ruggiero also presents problems in his marriage to Maggie (Anne Heche) as well as his devotion to law and order.
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer 2007   PG, 92 min.
Genre: Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Director: Tim Story
Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington, Andre Braugher, Laurence Fishburne, Doug Jones, Beau Garrett, Brian Posehn, Zach Grenier, Dawn Chubai, Kevin McNulty, Andy Stahl
In this comic book film, the Fantastic Four–Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd), Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), Johnny Storm (Chris Evans), and Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis)–are back. This time around, the Silver Surfer (Doug Jones, Voice of Laurence Fishburne) appears on the scene and ruins Sue and Reed's wedding. The Silver Surfer is an intergalactic traveler who has come to Earth to destroy it, and now the Fantastic Four step in to rescue their world. 1 User Review
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| | The Younger Brother | 1fatts 10/15/2007 | Story goes like this: There were two brothers who worked together in business. They were liars, cheats, devious, cruel and unprincipled. When the elder of the two died, the clergyman called to give the eulogy found himself in a quandary: he did not want to lie, but, on the other hand, he could find no one who had anything whatever positive to say about the deceased. People he spoke to could not stop themselves from going on and on about how repugnant the man had been ethically, socially, morally, personally and professionally. The best the clergyman could come up with in his eulogy was: "No one I spoke to had a single bad word to say about him."
As luck would have it, however, within a few weeks, the younger brother died as well. While he was also universally despised, he had simply not lived long enough to achieve the level of detestability that his older brother had mastered.
This proved the salvation of the poor clergyman, who could begin his eulogy with, "This was a man that we even more beloved than his older brother."
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is an even better film than the first Fantastic Four. |
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 Fight Club 1999  R, 139 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Zach Grenier, Van Quattro, Markus Redmond, Paul Dillon, Peter Iacangelo, Richmond Arquette, David Andrews, Rachel Singer, Tim De Zarn, Ezra Buzzington
The "Narrator" (Edward Norton) is a lonely man who has trouble sleeping and feels alienated from those around him. When he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), Durden challenges him to a fight, and the "Narrator" finds new help for his problems. Durden has created a new form of self-help sessions in which the method of curing frustrations is to gather like-minded bodies together and beat each other to a pulp. Durden's idea gains enormous popularity, clubs sprout up across America, and he becomes a cult hero.
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Gang in Blue 1996  R, 99 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Mario Van Peebles, Melvin Van Peebles
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Josh Brolin, Melvin Van Peebles, Cynda Williams, J.T. Walsh, Stephen Lang, Sean McCann, Zach Grenier, Bruce Smolanoff, William MacDonald, Peter Kosaka, Sandi Ross, Michael Tough, Michael Copeman
Racism and corruption reign supreme within an inner-city police force, and Black policeman Michael Rhoades (Mario Van Peebles) ends up the target of a set-up when he launches a campaign to expose his fellow officers.
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Liebestraum 1991 R, 109 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Kevin Anderson, Pamela Gidley, Bill Pullman, Kim Novak, Graham Beckel, Zach Grenier, Thomas Kopache, Taina Elg, Max Perlich, Catherine Hicks
Nick (Kevin Anderson) is called back to his hometown by his dying mother (Kim Novak). Thus begins the story of an old scandal, his own affair with his boyhood friend's wife, and other brooding moments. While director Figgis does his usual great job of presenting his story beautifully, the story itself is not all that good in this instance.
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Maximum Risk 1996 R, 100 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Ringo Lam
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Frank Van Keeken, Natasha Henstridge, Zach Grenier, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Paul Ben-Victor, Frank Senger, Stephane Audran, David Hemblen, Rob Kaman, Stefanos Miltsakakis, Frank Van Keeken, Dan Moran, Donald Burda, Kedar Brown
French policeman Alain Moreau (Jean-Claude Van Damme) learns that he is a twin only after his brother Mikhail dies, and he determines to get to the truth behind Mikhail's death. He impersonates Mikhail and infiltrates Mikhail's Russian Mafia in his neighborhood in Brooklyn. Once there, Alain becomes involved with Mikhail's former girlfriend Alex (Natasha Henstridge) and then finds himself in danger from Mikhail's associates.
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Problem Child 2 1991  PG-13, 91 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Brian Levant
Cast: John Ritter, Michael Oliver, Jack Warden, Laraine Newman, Amy Yasbeck, Ivyann Schwan, Gilbert Gottfried, Paul Willson, Alan Blumenfeld, Charlene Tilton, James Tolkan, Martha Quinn, Zach Grenier
Why would you use a bomb of a movie to make another? Someone must have spent money on the first one! Anyway, Junior (Michael Oliver) and the family are back and move to a new town. Dad (John Ritter) is looking for a new wife–and having fun at it–while Junior meets a girl just as bad as he is. Junior's mean tricks continue.
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 Pulse 2006  R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Sci-Fi
Director: Jim Sonzero
Cast: Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder, Christina Milian, Rick Gonzalez, Jonathan Tucker, Samm Levine, Zach Grenier, Ron Rifkin, Octavia Spencer, Jeremy Guskin, Kel O'Neill
This remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Pulse" involves a plague brought on by the computer hacking of Josh (Jonathan Tucker) who hangs himself in the presence of his girlfriend, Mattie (Kristen Bell). After he has killed himself, Josh's e-mails, containing a virus, begin arriving on Maggie's and her friends' computers. Maggie tracks down the new owner of Josh's old computer, Dexter (Ian Somerhalder), and they join forces to try to put an end to the madness.
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Rescue Dawn 2006 PG-13, 126 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies, Pat Healy, Toby Huss, Evan Jones, Teerawat Mulvilai, Marshall Bell, Francois Chau, Craig Gellis, Zach Grenier, Bonnie Z. Hutchinson, Abhijati "Meuk" Jusakul, Tony B. King, Richard Manning
This film is based on the true story of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Dieter Dengler's (Christian Bale) first mission over North Vietnam in 1966. When he is shot down and captured by Laotian troops, Dieter admits that he is an American, is tortured, and taken to a POW camp where he meets veterans of the camp–Americans Lt. Duane Martin (Steve Zahn) and Eugene DeBruin (Jeremy Davies)–who have been prisoners for two years. Now, Dieter plans a death defying escape in which he will lead fellow POWs through the jungles of Laos in a race to freedom.
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 Swordfish 2001 R, 98 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Dominic Sena
Cast: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Vinnie Jones, Camryn Grimes, Sam Shepard, Zach Grenier, Drea de Matteo, Rudolf Martin, Chic Daniel, Kirk B.R. Woller, Carmen Argenziano, Tim DeKay, Angelo Pagan
Dangerous spy Gabriel Shear (John Travolta) and his partner Ginger Knowles (Halle Berry) use the services of master computer hacker Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) for a $9.5 billion electronic bank heist. Gabriel heads up the covert counter-terrorists, the Black Cell, and he wants the money in order to pay for his war against international terrorism. Stanley has been paroled from prison but is forbidden from entering electronics stores after infiltrating the F.B.I.'s surveillance operations. Stanley agrees to help because it will provide the legal fees he needs to see his daughter Holly (Camryn Grimes) and, too late, realizes how dangerous the Black Cell is and that he is simply a pawn in the operation.
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Talk Radio 1988 R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene, Alec Baldwin, Leslie Hope, John C. McGinley, John Pankow, Michael Wincott, Zach Grenier, Anna Levine, Robert Trebor
Eric Bogosian takes on the role of a Dallas radio talk-show host. His flippant and belittling chatter with the misfits of society who call in to his show leads to events over which he no longer has control.
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 Tommy Boy 1995  PG-13, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Segal
Cast: Chris Farley, David Spade, Bo Derek, Brian Dennehy, Rob Lowe, Julie Warner, Sean McCann, Dan Aykroyd, Zach Grenier, James Blendick
Tommy Callahan (Chris Farley) strives to save the family auto parts manufacturing business while his stepmother (Bo Derek) is trying to ruin it. Along with an accountant (David Spade), Tommy heads off on a very funny road trip to sell parts in order to save the business.
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 Twister 1996 PG-13, 113 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Jan de Bont
Cast: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Lois Smith, Alan Ruck, Zach Grenier, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Scott Thomson, Todd Field, Sean Whalen, Gregory Sporleder, Joey Slotnick, Wendle Josepher
An unfunded team of university researchers–including Bill Harding (Bill Paxton), his soon-to-be ex-wife Jo (Helen Hunt), and Bill's new fiancee Melissa (Jami Gertz)–chase tornadoes to obtain scientific data useful for prediction and control of the deadly twisters. While the love triangle lacks substance, the special effects of tornadoes are excellent and make this a movie worth watching. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Special Effects and Sound.
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Working Girl 1988 R, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Philip Bosco, Nora Dunn, Oliver Platt, Olympia Dukakis, James Lally, Robert Easton, Jeffrey Nordling, Elizabeth Whitcraft, Zach Grenier
A New York clerical worker (Melanie Griffith) takes full advantage of her rather unethical boss (Sigourney Weaver). While the boss is away, she performs a meteoric rise to the top of her brokerage firm. Carly Simon's song "Let the River Run" won an Oscar, and nominations included Best Picture, Actress (Griffith), two for Supporting Actress (Weaver and Joan Cusack), and Director.
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| 1. Donnie Brasco (1997)
2. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
3. Fight Club (1999)
4. Gang in Blue (1996)
5. Liebestraum (1991)
6. Maximum Risk (1996)
7. Problem Child 2 (1991)
8. Pulse (2006)
9. Rescue Dawn (2006)
10. Swordfish (2001)
11. Talk Radio (1988)
12. Tommy Boy (1995)
13. Twister (1996)
14. Working Girl (1988)
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