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The Naked Gun (2025)
P.L.O.T (DEVICE) After being demoted to traffic accidents due to one to many ‘incidents’ – Police Squad Lt Frank Drebbin Jr, first case might be connected to a Bank Heist he’s been kicked off of. Along with the victims sister, they investigate a tech billionaire, whose secret organisation has created a P.L.O.T device that will…
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Oceans 12
Plot Terry Benedict returns to the life of Danny Ocean and Tess – now happily re-married. He wants his money back (PLUS INTEREST) from the “Oceans Eleven”. So they plan to steal a priceless Faberge Egg, and find themselves entangled with a master criminal. Direction Steven Soderberg returns to direct, and while some of his…
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Beverly Hills Cop
Plot Axel Foley is a gifted detective in Detroit. One night, his old friend Mikey from his ‘old life’ comes to visit, and they have a night of reminiscing and heavy drinking. However Mikey, who hasn’t left “the life” is murdered, as Axel is left beaten unconscious. Axel takes ‘vacation’ and decides to head to…
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Novocaine
Plot Nathan Caine is a overly careful Assistant Bank Manager, who has CIPA(Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis) – so every aspect of his life is careful. He meets new teller, Sherry who is smitten by him, and they go on a date – and the following day the bank is robbed, and sherry is…
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Art of Self Defense
Plot Casey Davies is an accountant at a company. He is (almost) 36 (or 480 months), introverted, lives alone with his dog, and has no self confidence. One night he is attacked by a group on motorcycles, and almost killed. Seeking ‘vengeance’ he decides to take up Karate, and meets the Sensei who takes Casey…
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Nurse Betty (2000)
Dir Neil LaBute Written by John C Richards, James Famberg Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Greg Kinner, Aaron Eckhart,Tia Texada, Crispin Glover, Pruit Taylor Vince, Allison Janney, Kathleen Wilhoite, Elizabeth Mitchell, Harriet Sansom Harris, Matthew Cowles. Betty Sizemore (Zellweger) leads an ordinary and fulfilling life. She is waitress at a local diner, she is…
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Old Dads (2023)
Dir Bill Burr Bill Burr, Bobby Cannavale, Bokeeem Woodbine, Rachael Harris, Katie Aselton, Jackie Tohn, Reign Edwards, Miles Robbins, C Thomas Howell, Bruce Dern. Burr plays Jack, a 51 year old dad to 5 year old Nate. His wife, Leah is pregnant with their second baby. He has long struggled with his anger, and those…
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Election (1999)
Directed by Alexander PayneWritten by Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, Tom Perrotta (novel) Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell, Molly Hagan, Delaney Driscoll, Mark Herelik, Phil Reeves, Colleen Camp. At a Nebraska high school, Jim McCallister (Broderick) has been one of the most popular teachers, and guidance counsellors for over a decade. With a…
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White Noise (2022)
Directed by Noah BaumbachWritten by Noah Baumbach. Novel by Don DeLillo Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Lars Eidinger, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Henry Moore, Dean Moore, Danny Wolohan, In 1984, revered College professor J.A.K ‘Jack’ Gladney (Driver) teaches Hitler studies and has been running his program with awe from both his colleagues…
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Don’t Look Up (2021)
Directed by Adam McKayWritten by Adam McKay, David Sirota. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Rob Morgan, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Cate Blanchett, Tyler Perry, Melanie Lynskey, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi, Himesh Patel, Michael Chiklis, Paul Guilfolye, Robert Joy, Hettienne Park. Two astronauts in a low budget astronomy centre find a comet that is…
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Analyze This
Director Harold RamisWritten by Kenneth Lonergan, Peter Tolan, Harold Ramis Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Chazz Palminteri, Joe Viterelli, Bill Macy. New York Mob Boss Paul Vitti (DeNiro) is weeks away from one of the biggest meetings of the “Families”. The original meeting, decades earlier was hampered by the involvement of law enforcement.…
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Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Written and Directed by Martin McDonagh Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Zelko Ivanek, Tom Waits, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko, Michael Pitt, Michael Stuhlbarg. Marty (Farrell) is an alcoholic screenwriter with writers block, who is best friends with Billy (Rockwell). Billy and his friend Hans (Walken) are partners in a dog-napping business where…
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Scream 2
Director Wes CravenWritten by Kevin Williamson David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Jamie Kennedy, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Laurie Metcalf, Elise Neal, Jerry O’Connell, Timothy Olyphant, Liev Schreiber, Jada Pinkett-Smith (as Jada Pinkett), Omar Epps, David Warner, Duane Martin, Rebecca Gayheart, Portia DeRossi, Heather Graham, Tori Spelling, Luke Wilson. Two years after the events of the…
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