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Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Friday, May 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Animation | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | UK
Actors: Atsuko Tanaka | Akio Ôtsuka | Tamio Ôki | Iemasa Kayumi | Kôichi Yamadera | Tesshô Genda | Richard Barnes | Steven Jay Blum | Steve Bulen | Richard Cansino | Tom Carlton | George Celik | Shigeru Chiba | Stephen Davis | Richard Epcar
Directors: Mamoru Oshii
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The year is 2029. The world has become intensively information oriented and humans are well-connected to the network. Crime has developed into a sophisticated stage by hacking into the interactive network. To prevent this, Section 9 is formed. These are cyborgs with incredible strengths and abilities that can access any network on Earth.

National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: USA
Actors:
Directors:
Download: DivX 

While Ben is presenting new information about John Wilkes Booth and the 18 pages missing from Booth’s diary, one man stands up and presents a missing page of John Wilkes Booth’s diary. Thomas Gates, Ben’s great-grandfather, is mentioned in the page. It shows that Ben’s great-grandfather could have been a person involved with Abraham Lincoln’s murder. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley to Buckingham Palace(which they break into). It takes them to a book in the White House(which they break into also)and they even steal a page from the book. But in order to see more from the book, their choice is either get elected president or kidnap the President of the United States. Which do they choose? It’s obvious. The conspiracy then crosses to Mount Rushmore and they even mention the JFK conspiracy. Could Ben clear his family’s name? Or will his family be known as the descendant of Abraham Licoln’s murderer?

Rancid (2004)

Monday, May 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: Sweden
Actors: Matthew Settle | Fay Masterson | Currie Graham | Patrik Ersgård | Jay Acovone | Michael Wiseman | Jennifer Jostyn | Siena Goines | Paul Satterfield | Pernilla August | Yun Choi | Alex Zonn | Jarmo Mäkinen | Ola Rapace | Daniela Svensson
Directors: Jack Ersgard
Download: DivX iPod 

Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. A personal tragedy has left him dispassionate about the world and his work and he lives his life in limbo. In the midst of this existential crisis he attends a high school reunion and meets three old friends; acquaintances he’s tried to forget but who now emerge like ominous shadows from his past. Once again, face to face with the love of his life, Hayson tries to right old wrongs and get his life back on track. However, life has other plans, and he realizes that the past is best laid to rest or it might haunt you forever. He soon finds himself embroiled in a nightmarish brew of deceit, passion and murder. Wanted by the police for a heinous killing, he must choose between succumbing to his darkest desires or the light that will renew his faith in himself and his future.

xXx: State of the Union (2005)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Gerald | Ice Cube | Samuel L. Jackson | Willem Dafoe | Scott Speedman | Peter Strauss | Xzibit | Michael Roof | Sunny Mabrey | Nona Gaye | John G. Connolly | Ramon De Ocamp | Barry Sigismondi | Michael Don Evans | David Rountree | Ned Schmidtke
Directors: Lee Tamahori
Download: DivX iPod 

NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons (Jackson), fresh off the success of his last renegade recruitment, once again finds himself in need of an outsider. Gibbons and his new agent (Ice Cube) must track a dangerous military splinter group, led by Willem Dafoe, that is conspiring to overthrow the U.S. Government in the nation’s capital.

Hackers (1995)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jonny Lee Miller | Angelina Jolie | Jesse Bradford | Matthew Lillard | Laurence Mason | Renoly Santiago | Fisher Stevens | Alberta Watson | Darren Lee | Peter Y. Kim | Ethan Browne | Lorraine Bracco | Wendell Pierce | Michael Gaston | Marc Anthony
Directors: Iain Softley
Download: DivX iPod 

A young boy is arrested by the US Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. Years later, he and his new-found friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.

G.I. Jane (1997)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Viggo Mortensen | Stephen Ramsey | Gregg Bello | David Vadim | Josh Hopkins | Scott Wilson | John Michael Higgins | Morris Chestnun | Angel David | Boyd Kestner | Anne Bancroft | Demi Moore | Daniel von Bargen | Lucinda Jenney | Jason Beghe | Jim Caviezel | Kevin Gage | David Warshofsky
Directors: Ridley Scott
Download: DivX iPod 

When a crusading chairperson of the military budget committee pressures the would be Navy secretary to begin full gender integration of the service, he offers the chance for a test case for a female trainee in the elite Navy SEALS commando force. Lt. Jordan O’Niel is given the assignment, but no one expects her to succeed in an inhumanly punishing regime that has a standard 60% dropout rate for men. However, O’Niel is determined to prove everyone wrong.

Romancing the Stone (1984)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Michael Douglas | Kathleen Turner | Danny DeVito | Zack Norman | Alfonso Arau | Manuel Ojeda | Holland Taylor | Mary Ellen Trainor | Eve Smith | Joe Nesnow | José Chávez | Evita Muñoz 'Chachita' | Camillo García | Rodrigo Puebla | Paco Morayta
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
Download: DivX iPod 

Joan Wilder is a mousey writer of romance novels. She finds a package from her sister mailed from Colombia in her mailbox. A call from her sister tells her that she has been kidnapped and that bringing the package to Colombia is necessary for her safety and release. Being fairly clueless, she leaves for Colombia to rescue her sister. She is lost within hours of her arrival. She is nearly murdered by one of the men searching for the package when Jack Colton, a fairly low life American rescues her. They begin a journey through the jungle with bullets flying nearby. Is Joan up to all of this? What a way to find out.

Betrayal (2003)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Erika Eleniak | Adam Baldwin | Julie Du Page | Jeremy Lelliott | James Remar | Damian Chapa | Louis Mandylor | Tom Wright | James Quattrochi | Jason Widener | Joe Sabatino | Kiko Ellsworth | Don Swayze | Peter Dobson | Darrell Dubovsky
Directors: Mark L. Lester
Download: DivX iPod 

Jayne Ferré needs to get out of Los Angeles fast. A strikingly beautiful woman, yet ruthless assassin for the mob; she is on the run with a suitcase full of a million dollars in blood money, stolen from mob boss Frank Bianci. Sixteen-year-old Kerry is on the run from a drug dealer set on payback. His mother Emily decides to take Kerry and start a new life in Texas, but doesn’t have enough money to get there. Jayne, who is now carrying a price on her head, must take out one would-be assassin at the train station before she offers to cover Emily’s expenses if she can hitch a ride to San Antonio. Emily and her son gladly accept the offer. The unlikely trio’s car breaks down and needs parts. They are left without a choice, so they check into a small motel for one night. While Jayne is showering, kerry sneaks a look through her belongings and discovers the case of cash. During the night, a well-meaning Kerry snakes into Jayne’s room and steals the briefcase, then hitches a ride back to Los Angeles. Jayne realizes what happened but first has to deal with Bianci’s men in a blazing gun battle outside the motel. Jayne forces Emily into a car and heads back to L.A. until Emily makes a daring escape. Alex Tyler, an FBI agent and seemingly Good Samaritan, picks Emily up and takes her back to L.A. At Emily’s house mob boss Frank Bianci is dead, along with a crooked detective, when Alex gets a call from Jayne, and it becomes clear that they are working together. Jayne has Kerry hostage and Emily must bring her money or she’ll kill him. But when Emily gets her hands on a gun, she turns the tables and a deadly standoff ensues between two trained killers, a couple of dirty cops, the mob, and a mother and son in what becomes a deadly game of wits to stay alive.

Two Tigers (2007)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Genres: Action
Countries: Italy
Actors: Jay Natelle | Olivier Pagès | Selena Khoo | Andrea Osvárt
Directors: Sandro Cecca
Download: DivX iPod 

Two Tigers is an action film about two beautiful, tough women, from different countries whose lives are destined to meet in the far east modern city of Shanghai and form a tight bond. One, a professional killer from Hungary, discovers that she has a heart. The other, a high-class call girl from China, is betrayed by the man who promised her a fairytale ending she could never have. Both these women’s lives cross in the exciting ‘Paris of the Orient’ and a friendship is sealed forever as they help each other overcome obstacles in their path to true happiness.

The Shepherd (2008)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Genres: Action
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Scott Adkins | Stephen Lord | Gary McDonald | Natalie J. Robb | Sava Dragunchev | Todd Jensen | Phil McKee | Velizar Peev | Bashar Rahal | Shero Rauf | George Zlatarev | Andrée Bernard
Directors: Isaac Florentine
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A texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.