Boondock Saints (1999)
In Boston, two brothers of Irish descent, Connor (Flanery) and Murphy (Reedus), see themselves as the “saints” meant to rid the town of evildoers once they off some Russian hoods. The people of the city...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 17, 1999 · Last modified March 24, 2019
In Boston, two brothers of Irish descent, Connor (Flanery) and Murphy (Reedus), see themselves as the “saints” meant to rid the town of evildoers once they off some Russian hoods. The people of the city...
Clint Eastwood stars as Ben Shockley, a Phoenix cop sent to Nevada to transport a key witness for a well-publicized mafia trial. The woman in question is a feisty prostitute named Gus Malley (Locke),...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 4, 1999 · Last modified February 13, 2019
Dr. Ethan Powell is a psychiatrist who studied apes in Africa then mysteriously disappeared for two years. Upon his discovery, he kills three men and is declared insane and sent to a shoddy mental...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 3, 1999 · Last modified February 12, 2019
While obvious comparisons to the American release, The Negotiator, will abound, credit producer-director Johnnie To (Lifeline, The Heroic Trio) for making this not only substantially different, but just as fun and exciting. The film casts Andy...
20 years before the Millennium, a newborn girl is tagged by some Satanists who need her to be the sex partner of choice for Satan when he appears before the year 2000. Satan himself...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 21, 1999 · Last modified February 12, 2019
The plot: A British oil tycoon is killed in the MI6 HQ. His daughter inherits his fortune along with his precious oil deposits in the Caspian Sea. British super-agent James Bond is assigned for...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 12, 1999 · Last modified February 21, 2019
Perhaps the biggest problem with the faceless killer gimmick is that when you finally see who the perpetrator is, more often than not the revelation sinks the film from being effective to laughably ludicrous. The...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 18, 1999 · Last modified March 22, 2019
An Oakland journalist, alcoholic and womanizer (Eastwood), is given the job to write a human interest story about a man who is slated to be executed that evening (Washington). The label on the reporter...
Scheming step-siblings take delight in controlling the social lives of various students at a New York prep school. Sebastian (Phillippe) plots to seduce every girl in school, while Kathryn (Gellar) delights in tormenting ex-boyfriends and new...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 2, 1999 · Last modified March 15, 2019
A deadly biological weapon which destroys all life for miles when it reaches above 50 degrees is sought after by terrorists and it’s up to a lowly diner worker and ice cream man to...
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