Masterminds (2016)

Title: Masterminds
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Jared Hess
Written by: Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Emily Spivey
Starring: Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones
Release Date: 9/30/2016
Running Time: 94 minutes

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Based on a true story, Masterminds follows the riotous misadventures of unlikely anti-hero David Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis) as he pulls off one of the largest robberies in U.S. history. The trouble begins when David, a trusted armored-truck driver for Loomis Fargo, falls for beautiful guard Kelly Campbell (Kristen Wiig). After she quits her job, Kelly, egged on by local petty thief Steve Chambers (Owen Wilson), persuades David to clean out the company’s vault in Charlotte, North Carolina.

After stuffing a van with more than $17 million of stolen cash, David delivers the money to Chambers’ gang and flees to Mexico to lie low while the FBI searches for the culprits. Steve and his wife Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) buy a mansion with their ill-gotten wealth and dispatch overzealous hit man Mike McKinney (Jason Sudeikis) to Mexico to kill David. Once David discovers the betrayal, he returns to North Carolina on a mission to rescue his true love and expose Steve as the heist’s real “mastermind.”

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Note: Bloopers and outtakes are shown after the movie ends but before the credits begin.

I.T. (2016)

Title: I.T.
Rating: NR
Directed by: John Moore
Written by: Dan Kay and William Wisher Jr.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Jason Barry and Karen Moskow
Release Date: 9/23/2016
Running Time: 95 minutes

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Mike Regan has everything he could ever want, a beautiful family and a top of the line smart house. The company he owns is on the verge of changing flight leasing forever. That is, until the relationship with his closest advisor turns nasty, to the point where his teenage daughter is being stalked and his family is under attack through every technological facet of their lives.

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Memoriam: In Loving Memory of Beau Marie St. Clair

Special thanks to Frank for this submission

Naam Hai Akira (2016)?

Title: Naam Hai Akira (aka. Akira)
Rating: NR
Directed by: A.R. Murugadoss
Written by: Kumar Santha, A.R. Murugadoss and Karan Singh Rathore
Starring: Sonakshi Sinha, Amit Sadh and Urmila Mahanta
Release Date: 9/2/2016
Running Time: 137 minutes

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A gripping action thriller about a college girl Akira, who has grown up with the ideals of being self reliant. Her life spirals out of control when she becomes unwittingly involved in a crime involving four corrupt police officers.

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Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)

Title: Mechanic: Resurrection
Rating: R
Directed by: Dennis Gansel
Written by: Philip Shelby and Tony Mosher
Starring: Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones and Michelle Yeoh
Release Date: 8/26/2016
Running Time: 99 minutes

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Arthur Bishop [Jason Statham] returns as the Mechanic in the sequel to the 2011 action thriller. When the deceitful actions of a cunning but beautiful woman [Jessica Alba] force him to return to the life he left behind, Bishop’s life is once again in danger as he has to complete an impossible list of assassinations of the most dangerous men in the world.

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In Order of Disappearance (2014)?

Title: In Order of Disappearance
Rating: R
Directed by: Hans Petter Moland
Written by: Kim Fupz Aakeson
Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen, Jakob Oftebro and Kristofer Hivju
Release Date: 8/26/2016
Running Time: 116 minutes

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Introverted and hard-working snowplow driver Nils has just been named “Citizen of the Year,” when he receives news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Disbelieving the official report, Nils soon uncovers evidence of the young man’s murder – a victim in a turf war between the local crime boss, known as “The Count”, and his Serbian rivals. Armed with heavy machinery and a good dose of beginner’s luck, Nils embarks upon a quest for revenge that soon escalates into a full-blown underworld gang war, with the body count spiraling ever higher and higher.

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Imperium (2016)

Title: Imperium
Rating: R
Directed by: Daniel Ragussis
Written by: Michael German and Daniel Ragussis
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette and Tracy Letts
Release Date: 8/19/2016
Running Time: 109 minutes

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Nate Foster (Daniel Radcliffe), a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical right-wing terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as he navigates the dangerous underworld of white supremacy.

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Dedication: This film is dedicated to the memory of my father, MICHAEL RAGUSSIS (1945 – 2010)

Hell or High Water (2016)

Title: Hell or High Water
Rating: R
Directed by: David Mackenzie
Written by: Taylor Sheridan
Starring: Dale Dickey, Ben Foster and Chris Pine
Release Date: 8/12/2016
Running Time: 102 minutes

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A story about the collision of the old and new West, two brothers — Toby (Chris Pine), a straight-living, divorced father trying to make a better life for his son; and Tanner (Ben Foster), a short-tempered ex-con with a loose trigger finger — come together to rob branch after branch of the bank that is foreclosing on their family land. The hold-ups are part of a last-ditch scheme to take back a future that powerful forces beyond their control have stolen from under their feet. Vengeance seems to be theirs until they find themselves in the crosshairs of a relentless, foul-mouthed Texas Ranger (Jeff Bridges) looking for one last triumph on the eve of his retirement. As the brothers plot a final bank heist to complete their plan, a showdown looms at the crossroads where the last honest law man and a pair of brothers with nothing to live for except family collide.

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Dedication: This film is dedicated to David John Mackenzie (1929 – 2015) and Ursula Sibyl Mackenzie (1940 – 2015)

Note: The credits are a sunset credit that plays over the Texas pasture that the camera panned to after Marcus drove off.

Brooklyn Banker, The (2016)

Title: The Brooklyn Banker
Rating: R
Directed by: Federico Castelluccio
Written by: Michael Ricigliano
Starring: Troy Garity, Paul Sorvino and David Proval
Release Date: 8/5/2016
Running Time: 95 minutes

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Children play stickball in the streets and parents think nothing of scolding their neighbor’s kids as if they were their own. This is an area where the Italian traditions of family, church, and loyalty are intimately intertwined.

Playing gin on a hot summer day during the Feast of Our Lady of Blessed Sorrow, we meet Santo Bastucci, a vice president at a local savings and loan. Santo is a family man who has an uncanny ability for keeping numbers in his head and a reputation for loyalty. Traits that did not go unnoticed by the Capo of the Brooklyn mob, Manny “ The Hand” Mistera.

Manny has a reputation of being a true friend to the neighborhood and an animal if crossed. A man who makes his major decisions by consulting an ephemeris (a tool used by astrologers to calculate the position of astronomical objects at specific dates and times), Manny is losing his grip on a neighborhood that is slowly but surely becoming more diverse. The traditions and loyalties that made his way of life at one time impregnable, is slowly eroding with his counterpart’s lack of devotion to “Omerta” and the government’s use of a brand new statute called, “RICO.” Manny could use a man like Santo.

Manny arranges to meet Santo’s through his dim witted soldier, Benny who has a special relationship with Santo…he’s his father-in-law. Under the guise of asking Santo to cash bogus cashiers’ checks at his bank, Manny tests his mettle. Santo, much to his displeasure, passes with flying colors and endears himself to Manny, much like his deceased father before him.

Manny has one problem; he now is in the cross hairs of the real power in Williamsburg, Father Matteo Bastucci, the Pastor of Our Lady of Blessed Sorrows Church and Santo’s uncle. A former wiseguy, Matteo has no problem shooting dice for the poor or holding some illegal gambling in the rectory knowing that the parish will get a vig. He runs his parish with efficiency and respect, which gives a glimpse of how he would have fared if he stayed the course as a wiseguy.

As Santo tries to walk the thin line of legitimate banker, loyal son-in-law and part time gangster, he realizes that each decision we make has consequences, not just for ourselves but for those around us. And taking the righteous path is not that easy, especially when there is a gun in your face.

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Special thanks to Frank S. for this submission

To Steal from a Thief (2016)

Title: To Steal from a Thief (aka. Cien años de perdón)
Rating: R
Directed by: Daniel Calparsoro
Written by: Jorge Guerricaechevarría
Starring: Luis Tosar, Rodrigo De la Serna and Raúl Arévalo
Release Date: 3/3/2016
Running Time: 96 minutes

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A group of thieves led by a man called El Uruguayo stalk a bank in Valencia to steal as many safety boxes as possible and later flee through a dug tunnel that communicates the building with an abandoned subway station. However, the press officer of the Prime Minister discovers what the thieves are actually after: they want to get their hands on box 314, property of Gonzalo Soriano, a former member of the government who slipped into a coma after a severe accident, left documents with compromising information. The gang’s plans start to go awry when the tunnel is flooded by heavy rain, leaving them with no escape, plus to discover that the box really doesn’t contains documents, but an external hard drive full of data about important names in all levels of the Spanish politic. At the same time, a fixer of the government receives the mission to assume the control of the negotiations, looking for recover at any cost the box 314 and the information before the robbers flee with it.

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Special thanks to Frank S. for this submission

Suicide Squad (2016)*

Title: Suicide Squad
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: David Ayer
Written by: David Ayer
Starring: >Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Will Smith, Cara Delevingne, Ben Affleck, Jai Courtney, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Karen Fukuhara, Common, Adam Beach, Jay Hernandez and Raymond Olubawale
Release Date: 8/5/2016
Running Time: 130 minutes

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It feels good to be bad… Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous, incarcerated Super Villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government’s disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they weren’t picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it’s every man for himself?

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We see Amanda Waller meet with Bruce Wayne and ask him to keep the attack on Midway City a secret. Waller gives a file labeled “TOP SECRET” to Bruce. He opens it and it shows photos of Enchantress, Barry Allen/The Flash and Arthur Curry/Aquaman. Bruce says “I like making friends”. She also tells Wayne that he looks tired and should stop working nights (implying that she knows his secret identity). Lastly Bruce tells Waller to stop her project or he and his team will stop it [The Justice League].

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Tag: Crime

Masterminds (2016)

I.T. (2016)

Naam Hai Akira (2016)?

Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)

In Order of Disappearance (2014)?

Imperium (2016)

Hell or High Water (2016)

Brooklyn Banker, The (2016)

To Steal from a Thief (2016)

Suicide Squad (2016)*

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