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[DVD Review] The Negotiator

10 November 2009 12:00 PM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Pulse-pounding police dramas flood the film market place. Good cops, bad criminals and sometimes even worse cops make for compelling stories with lines that don’t always stay on the respective sides of black and white. Casting the excitable Samuel L. Jackson in the role of a man caught in that gray territory plays perfectly into the actor’s safe zone, as does Kevin Spacey playing a calm and controlling negotiator charged with navigating the path between total crisis meltdown and healthy resolution. The main and background players alike, many of whom even the casual viewer will recognize from bit parts, all take on roles well within their typecast boxes and the film benefits from their expertise. If any shortcoming can be found in the film it’s with the story’s convenient oversights at key moments, but unless you’re actively looking for them the story hurries along with a prompt pace. »

- Lex Walker

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Review: Did you ever see… The Negotiator?

15 October 2009 12:19 PM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

This week sees the release of Law Abiding Citizen. The story of a man, played by Gerard Butler, who is forced to watch his family murdered. When the District Attorney makes a shady deal with the defendants, Butler takes matters into his own hands.

The director is F. Gary Gray. You may not recognise the name, but he has directed a tense thriller before, again about a man taking justice into his own hands. Starring the then dream partnership of Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson, let’s take a look at 1998’s The Negotiator.

As so often happens, there were a couple of movies on the same subject released around the same time, namely hostage negotiators. The other in this case was the Eddie Murphy vehicle, 1997’s Metro. Metro wasn’t very good, but ironically turned out to be, barring Bowfinger, his best movie for years to come.

At the time, »

- Barry Steele

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Can’t Miss: The West Wing Complete Series At Amazon $120 (60% Off)

9 September 2009 5:26 AM, PDT | The Cinema Post | See recent The Cinema Post news »

For One Day Only you can get the truly wonderful (45 disc!) complete series boxset of The West Wing for an incredibly cheap $120 at Amazon. That’s 60% off of their regular price compared to the last month. Snap it up within the next 20 hours, or you’ll lose out.

Starring Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, Rob Lowe, Melissa Fitzgerald and Dulé Hill, The West Wing ventured where no other TV series had gone before: an extraordinarily intimate look at an American President and the inner workings of the White House. Experience all the crises, triumphs, lofty idealism and hard realities of the acclaimed series in this complete seven-season DVD set. Here, on 45 discs, are all 154 episodes of the series that won 26 Emmys, including 4 for Outstanding Drama Series. Hail to chief - and to the creators and stars of this ground-breaking series. Also Included: Pilot »

- Paul Larn

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[DVD Review] Hiding Out

16 April 2009 12:13 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

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Lionsgate's Lost Collection finds itself stranded in a purgatory of film fandom. Each of the movies, including Hiding Out, feels like a hybrid of two better and more popular films. In that vein, Hiding Out feels like a mixture of numerous 80s high school films mixed with the tone of an 80s cop film. More than once you'll cock your head slightly to the side and wonder ‘why did that feel like slightly like the Fugitive?'

Andrew Morenski (Jon Cryer) works as one of those faceless suits on Wall Street doing things with the money of the rich that the rest of the world doesn't really want to hear about. Unfortunately for Mr. Morenski, the money he's been investing hasn't come from entirely legitimate avenues and he's wanted to testify against the Mafioso types whose money he's laundered unwittingly. After a »

- Lex Walker

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Review of Cory McAbee's postmodern masterpiece Stingray Sam!

4 March 2009 9:52 AM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

Year: 2009

Release date: Unknown

Directors: Cory McAbee

Writers: Cory McAbee

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: Bob Doto

Rating: 9 out of 10

Don't forget screening in NYC on March 5th open to the public!

Been to Mars lately? No? You should go sometime. It’s not like it used to be, but still has its charms. Yes, there’s the odd barroom brawl, and maybe an abandoned building or two, but what planet doesn’t have such sore spots? And, frankly, who are you to judge? If you do hang up your cultural biases and go, however, be sure to look up Stingray Sam, a local lounge singer created by master of cosmic gun slinging, Cory McAbee.

Who is Stingray Sam you ask? Stingray Sam is a stand up guy. Actually, he’s The stand up guy. A lover of justice with a loyalty to his profession as entertainer, Stingray Sam »

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