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Drama on October 27th, 2006 by Chad Everett
Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) should be living the good life. He’s working as the head of ad sales for a major sports magazine and getting ready to coast into the best years of his life.
Unfortunately, the magazine has just become the part of a larger company in a corporate takeover, and he’s been “demoted” (which has to be better than being “downsized”) in the shakeup. To make matters worse, his new boss Carter Duryea (Topher Grace) is half his age and thinks he knows everything. He is about to find out that he doesn’t.
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Drama on April 14th, 2006 by Chad Everett
This movie is an odd bird. For those of you who like to see Pierce Brosnan in his fancy suits, you may not like him here. He’s more like Leisure Suit Larry than James Bond. But I think that this role actually fits him better.
Julian Noble is a Fatality Facilitator (his words). In other words, he is a hit man who takes care of situations for people who needs things done. Nothing so fancy as a spy or a mafia Wiseguy. His clients are from the corporate world, or so he says, and they come to him as they have for 22 years. The only problem is that it’s his birthday and he’s left without a soul in the world to talk to, so he heads to the bar, and there he finds Danny Wright (Greg Kinnear), in Mexico City trying to make the sale of a lifetime.
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Action on April 3rd, 2006 by Chad Everett
I don’t know why, but I always seem to like productions from Jerry Bruckheimer. Cat People was probably the first film of his that I saw, but I think that it was Days of Thunder that was the first film that really had his “feel” to it. I’m not sure what it is, exactly, either – I think it is likely the score, usually quite powerful, but not enough to overpower the video. In any case, this one was square in his busy period.
Starring Sean Connery and Ed Harris, the film is set almost entirely on Alcatraz island, currently taken over by Harris’ band of Marines, intent on securing honor for their fallen comrades who have managed to miss out on military recognition because of the circumstances surrounding their deaths. Oh yeah, and they’d like $100 million too.
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