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Jurassic Park (1993)
Dir Steven Spielberg Written by Michael Crichton, David Koepp Sam Neil, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Ariana Richards, Joseph Mazello, Samuel L Jackson, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, BD Wong, Wayne Knight A wealthy businessman, John Hammond (Attenborough) has spent the last five years developing an island where his scientific team have brought Dinosaurs back…
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The Negotiator
Directed by F Gary GrayWritten by James DeMonaco and Kevin Fox Samuel L Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse, Ron Rifkin, John Spenser, JT Walsh, Siobhan Fallon, Paul Giamatti, Regina Taylor, Michael Cudlitz, Dean Norris Chicago hostage negotiator Lt. Danny Roman (Jackson) becomes the hostage taker, after he finds himself being set up as the mastermind…
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Changing Lanes (2002)
Director Roger Mitchell Written by Chap Taylor & Michael Tolkin Ben Affleck, Samuel L Jackson, Kim Staunton, Toni Collette, Richard Jenkins, Amanda Peet, Sydney Pollack, Dylan Baker, Matt Molloy, Tina Sloan, Bruce Altman, Joe Grifasi. Gavin (Affleck) is an eager young lawyer whose firm is in the last steps of taking over a charity organisation…
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Jackie Brown (1997)
Directed by Quentin TarantinoWritten for the screen by Quentin TarantinoBased on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard Pam Grier, Samuel L Jackson, Robert Forster, Robert DeNiro, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Michael Bowen, Chris Tucker, LisaGay Hamilton. Forty-four year old flight attendant Jackie Brown (Grier), is stuck between a rock and hard place when she…
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Pulp Fiction
Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, Amanda Plummer, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Maria de Medeiros, Angela Jones, Julia Sweeney, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Greene, Frank Whaley, Phil LaMarr, Steve Buscemi. In QT’s second film, and arguably still his best,…
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The Long Kiss Goodnight
Director Renny HarlinWritten by Shane Black Geena Davis, Samuel L Jackson, Craig Bierko, Brian Cox, Patrick Malahide, Tom Amandes, Yvonne Zima, David Morse, Melina Kanakaredes, GD Spradlin, Rex Linn, Joseph McKenna. Eight years ago Charlene Baltimore (Davis) was one of the best assassins within the secret US Government group ‘Chapter’. When her potential target, tried…
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Django Unchained
Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino Jaimie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson, Kerry Washington, Walton Goggins, James Remar, Don Johnson, Franco Nero, Dennis Christopher, Laura Cayouette. In Tarantino’s seventh film, he delves into the horrible nature of slave trading in 1858. Foxx plays the title Django, having been freed by the German…
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The Hateful Eight (2015)
Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demian Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, James Parks, Channing Tatum. Tarantino’s Eighth film, (ironically) is another alternate history story, albeit this time with fictional characters. On a very bad blizzard day in Wyoming in 1877, several people…
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