http://showdowninlittletokyo.gibcosta.com Just another GibCosta weblog Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:12:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kid & I, The (2005) IMDB rating: 6.70 Plot: Bill Williams (Arnold) is a down-and-out actor who is unexpectedly hired to write a sequel a la "True Lies," the action film that made him famous more than a decade ago. When Bill learns that his co-star is Aaron Roman (Gores), a rich ... http://showdowninlittletokyo.gibcosta.com/2010/03/19/kid-i-the/ Behind the Wall (2008) IMDB rating: 4.90 Plot: For several generations the Parks family lived on a quiet hillside where Katelyn's grandfather and father were keepers to the town's lighthouse. At the tender age of ten, Katelyn watched her mom enter the basement in their lighthouse home where minutes later she was ... http://showdowninlittletokyo.gibcosta.com/2010/03/19/behind-the-wall/ Young Adam (2003) IMDB rating: 6.40 Plot: Joe, a rootless young drifter, finds work on a barge travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh, owned by Les and his wife Ella. One afternoon they discover the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Accident? Suicide? Murder? As the police investigate and suspect ... http://showdowninlittletokyo.gibcosta.com/2010/03/19/young-adam/ Ice Harvest, The (2005) IMDB rating: 6.10 Plot: A wickedly funny thriller that takes moviegoers on a wild ride brimming with larceny, lust and lethal behavior. In icebound Wichita, Kansas, it's Christmas Eve, and this year Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) just might have something to celebrate. Charlie, an attorney for the sleazy ... http://showdowninlittletokyo.gibcosta.com/2010/03/19/ice-harvest-the/ Entropy (1999) IMDB rating: 5.90 Plot: Stephen Dorff narrates this tale about how his life goes astray as his character attempts to strike a balance between the demands of directing his first film and the pressures of his new romance with a model. U2's Bono plays a role in this film as ... http://showdowninlittletokyo.gibcosta.com/2010/03/18/entropy/ Sunshine Cleaning (2008) IMDB rating: 7.40 Plot: In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school, a mom starts an unusual business — a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service — with her unreliable sister. Directors: Jeffs Christine Actors: Arkin Alan,Spevack Jason,Zahn Steve,Collins Jr. Clifton,Olsen Eric Christian,Dooley Paul,Chapman Kevin,Dempsey ... http://showdowninlittletokyo.gibcosta.com/2010/03/18/sunshine-cleaning/ Reservoir Dogs (1992) IMDB rating: 8.40 Plot: Six criminals, who are strangers to each other, are hired by a crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a diamond robbery. Right at the outset, they are given false names with an intention that they won't get too close and concentrate on the job ... http://showdowninlittletokyo.gibcosta.com/2010/03/17/reservoir-dogs/ Hello, Dolly! (1969) IMDB rating: 6.70 Plot: Film adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical. Concerns itself with Dolly Levi, a New York-based matchmaker who merrily arranges things... like furniture and daffodils and lives. A widow, she has found herself in love with a "half-a-millionaire" Yonkers merchant named Horace Vandergelder. So she proceeds ... http://showdowninlittletokyo.gibcosta.com/2010/03/17/hello-dolly/ Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) IMDB rating: 7.40 Plot: Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's ... http://showdowninlittletokyo.gibcosta.com/2010/03/16/fried-green-tomatoes/ Cass (2008) IMDB rating: 6.70 Plot: The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain. CASS grew up in a time before political correctness ... http://showdowninlittletokyo.gibcosta.com/2010/03/15/cass/