The cinematic equivalent of a half case of Red Bull chased with donuts, Kick-Ass is a giddy, violent experience--and not your average superhero movie. Based on the comic book by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., it offers a set of heroes who are decidedly without superpowers: Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) decides he'll be just like a comic-book character, and puts on a ridiculous green suit to fight crime as the mysterious Kick-Ass. Luckily, somebody else had the same idea and comes along to rescue the incompetent crusader: Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and his daughter Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz), who also happen to be running around town wearing masks and vanquishing evil. And here we have the movie's masterstroke: Hit Girl, a pint-sized preteen who slaughters bad guys and swears like a sailor on leave (and was the focus of a measure of controversy when the movie was released). The main target of our heroes is a gangster (Mark Strong, Sherlock Holmes), whose neglected son (Christopher Mintz-Plasse, McLovin from Superbad) figures he might just pull on a costume himself and becomeĀ Red Mist! (One of the many funny things about Kick-Ass is that the superhero names are hopelessly lame.) Director Matthew Vaughn is operating at the same glib level as his Layer Cake, with cutesy song cues galore and a freewheeling appetite for cartoon violence. This means the movie's high wears off quickly, but it does get high--a crazy, hilarious kick. All that, plus Nicolas Cage executes a deadly Adam West imitation when he pulls on his cape and cowl. That's entertainment. --Robert Horton
Colonel Ryan Beckett (Mark Dascascos) and his team of misfit tactical mavericks are called away from leave on orders from President Nelson (Rutger Hauer) only to be informed that the gravest threat to all humanity has become their ultimate challenge. Man's quest for harnessing the power of nuclear weapons has wreaked havoc on the earth. The Pacific plates are shifting. The world is hotting up. Earthquakes. Volcanic eruptions. An apocalypse of biblical proportions. They have just three days left to deflect the plates successfully with the power of another thermo-nuclear bomb - ground zero: Los Angeles. As both heat and panic flare through the cities of the world and with the help of a group of the US's top scientists Beckett must battle to save the planet and fight for the life of his daughter caught between marauding gangs taking the lawless streets hostage before the raging fire of hell on earth consumes them all!
L.A. artist Alex (Mark Ruffalo) seemingly has everything going for him when suddenly an art curator cancels his upcoming one-man show prompting his model girl friend (Anne-Marie Johnson) to immediately leave him. Forced to move back to his old job at a pizza parlor Alex moves into a rundown tenement where a number of oddballs wander the halls none more so than the oddly alluring Lori (Beth Ulrich)...
Sex is a currency it commands power and can instil fear. Tom a young man with a troubled past finds himself drawn into a seedy underworld run by George Norris a super villain with a sadistic streak. Tom becomes a helpless pawn in one of Norris's narcotic scams with a bent cop Dunston and is dragged deeper into a viscious circle of blood money vice and ruthless violence from which there seems no way out; until fate gives Tom a glimmer of hope. When Norris is killed in his apartment Tom seizes his chance to escape. Terrified and covered in Norris's blood Tom heads downstairs to his neighbours Max and Nikki his new friends in the city. With going to the police out of the question Max and Nikki speed Tom to their isolated cottage deep in the Welsh countryside. With the luxury of space Tom begins to realise a long-forgotten dream; a return to happier times before his innocence was shattered. Suppressed emotions flood back provoked by Tom's attraction to Nikki a beautiful woman fascinated by Tom's past. Yet how long can this last with Dunston desperate to hunt down Tom before he exposes the corruption? It's only a matter of time before his deadly past catches up with himagain. But just how much is Tom willing to sacrifice....?
Filmed on both sides of the Atlantic this documentary chronicalling Rothko's life and charting the development of his work fills the screen with his softly defined rectangular clouds of colour. There are penetrating contributions from his children and comments from a wide range of friends artists art historians collectors and curators. The focus is on Rothko's demands for the perfect setting for the showing of his work typified by the story of his iconic Seagram murals nine of which now hang at the Tate Modern. One of the murals' commissioners Philip Jonson is among those who explain why Rothko refused to allow these works to hang in their intended venue the Four Seasons restaurant in New York.
When Ryan Corey a hard nosed investigative reporter starts his investigation of the harmful after-effects of chemical and biological warfare he has no idea what he will uncover. His sources lead him toan Army Hospital where he discovers 'North West 3' a top secret wing. Corey is determined to learn what goes on behind the closed doors of this secret wing and when he gets too close is mysteriously injected with a deadly virus. As his own life is slipping away he is caught up in a frenzied effort to track down the perpetrators of his own murder and expose the truth...
Titles Comprise:The Other Guys:Misfit NYPD detectives Gamble and Hoitz (Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg) are sentenced to life behind the desk. They hate each other and the monotony of their meaningless jobs, as they're forced to live in the shadow of the two biggest and most badass cops on the force (Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson). But when those guys go down for the count, opportunity knocks for Gamble and Hoitz. Stumbling onto what could be one of the biggest crimes in years, can The Other Guys step up their game to solve the case without killing each other and destroying NYC in the process? From the director of Step Brothers and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.Hot Fuzz:Messers Pegg and Frost return with this rollickingly hilarious take on the cop action movie. Top London cop, Constable Nicholas Angel (Pegg), finds himself reassigned to the sleepy West Country village of Sandford. The quaintness is soon to be interrupted though as a series of grisly accidents sweeps the village. Convinced of foul play Angel and his new partner, Danny Butterman (Frost) swing into action!
From director Matthew Vaughn comes superhero movie with a difference Kick-Ass. Starring Nicolas Cage as Big Daddy who has trained his daughter Mindy played by Chloe Moretz since she was four to be the ultimate hit-girl Kick-Ass follows Mindy now aged eleven as she embarks on a series of bloody and violent assassins.
Clawgrass is a powerful banjo style that combines the percussive sounds of old-time clawhammer with the driving, complex rolls of bluegrass picking. Mark Johnson developed this exciting technique, and it's transforming the way many players are approaching
Heavyweight Martial Arts Action! - 8 men enter and only 1 man survives! K-1 fuses centuries of tradition from the martial arts into a thoroughly modern and electrifying spectator sport. The K-1 World Grand Prix is a heavyweight tournament with rules that are acceptable to all standing martial arts. The letter K appears in Karate Kung Fu Kickboxing and Taekwondo and the number 1 simply means the best and the strongest martial artist in the world. The elaborate staging of K-1 events makes these extravaganzas a veritable feast for the senses; music lighting lasers and pyrotechnics are all a part of the show. Honour and respect rule in the K-1 arena as the combatants draw on their finely honed skills to deliver clean punches and kicks that make K-1 the most sophisticated and advanced combat sport in the world today!
Twenty four years ago Carol Hillary was abducted by a mysterious alien presence at the remote Spruce Lake near Thornbury in up - state New York. Six weeks later she discovered she was pregnant. But this was to be no ordinary child. As an eight-year old under the influence of an alien power that he could not control Mark Hillary created an inferno in his own home which claimed the life of his mother. Now at the age of twenty four Mark is determined to find his roots. His search brings him to quiet Thornbury where he discovers the town Sheriff was a childhood friend of his mother but the Sheriff denies any knowledge of Mark's roots. As he sets about a new life in this quiet town the stillness of nearby Spruce Lake is broken once again.
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