Shaft (2000)
This is, of course, a remake of the classic film from the 70s that kicked off the beginning of the blaxploitation craze that followed for the next few years. Updated to the 90s with...
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Rules of Engagement (2000)
A soon-to-be retiring Marine (Jones) is called upon by a Colonel (Jackson) who saved his life under dubious circumstances in Vietnam. Colonel Terry Childers was sent into Yemen to rescue the American ambassador (Kingsley) and his...
Hard Eight (1996)
A young man named John blows all of his money in Vegas trying to get $6000 to bury his recently deceased mother. Sitting outside of a diner, an elderly gentleman named Sydney approaches and...
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
If there’s one thing Hollywood needs to learn is that Jaws is the definitive shark terror movie. There has never been another remotely close to being as good and there probably never will be. Deep Blue Sea is...
The Red Violin (1998)
A famous violin is put up for auction in Montreal, and many interested parties are willing to spend a small fortune to get it for their own reasons. Through a series of flashbacks, the...
Jackie Brown (1997)
Based on the Elmore Leonard book, “Rum Punch”, a flight attendant (Grier, Foxy Brown) for a Mexican airline is smuggling up money to Compton from her criminal boss’s (Jackson, Trees Lounge) gun selling operation. She gets busted by...
The Negotiator (1998)
A locally famous Chicago hostage negotiator (Jackson, Sphere) gets framed in the murder of his partner, then panics and takes hostages of his own in order to buy himself time to solve his case and clear...
Sphere (1998)
Michael Crichton began writing “Sphere” in 1969 as a conceptual follow-up idea after his best-selling novel, “The Andromeda Strain”. He liked sci-fi stories where aliens wouldn’t resemble humans in any way. Whereas “The Andromeda...