City of God follows Rocket, a young man growing up in Ciudad de Dios, the City of God, a poor urban slum in Brazil. What swarms around him is a constant stream of death and crime, like something out of the mean streets of LA, but multiplied by hundreds. Indiscriminate killing, rampant poverty, drug dealing [...]
The Cooler is an old-school Vegas fable of an irascible loser named Bernie Lootz. As ‘the cooler’ of the aging Shangri-La Casino, Bernie’s mere presence at a table is enough to send people into major fits of losing. The Shangri-La isn’t on the strip, rather it’s stuck in the deep of downtown, where the sweat [...]
Year: 2002 Directed by: D.J. Caruso Written by: Tony Gayton Starring: Val Kilmer, Vincent D’Onofrio, B.D. Wong, Luis Guzman and Peter Sarsgaard Other Info: 103 mins / Warner Brothers / Rated R The Salton Sea follows a man who doesn’t know if he’s Danny Parker, speed freak and government snitch or Thomas Van Allen: trumpet [...]