Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Movies for Feb

Wed. nights, 7 PM, Flip Flopz

February 2nd: SALT
Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a dedicated, well-liked, high-ranking agent with the CIA. One day, her world is turned upside down when a Russian spy accuses Evelyn of being a Russian mole, and declares that she is the assassin set to kill the President of Russia. Confused and feeling trapped, Evelyn flees, trying to avoid being captured while she attempts to prove her innocence and figure out who is behind all of this. Evelyn's boss at the CIA, Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber), doesn't believe she's an assassin, but he may not be able to help her either. Can Evelyn get to the bottom of this mystery before she's caught?

February 9th: The Backup Plan

Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) has dated for years but has not found the right man yet. She wants to be a mother and does not want to wait for too long. As a result, she goes through artificial insemination and gets pregnant. However, on the same day she meets Stan (Alex O'Loughlin) who she realizes might be the right man for her. She starts dating Stan but must tell him soon. The confusion created by pregnancy and hormonal imbalances send confusing signals to Stan till Zoe tells him about the pregnancy. While he accepts that he still loves her, it is difficult to date through nine months of pregnancy and then get married.


February 16th: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

A run for Governor by a criminal attorney is in jeopardy when a journalist (Jesse Metcalfe) suspects him of evidence tampering in his years of practice. Mark Hunter (Michael Douglas) put criminals in jail for a living and he looks like a cinch to win the election. Can his record be held up to serious scrutiny? The reporter sets himself up as a suspect in a murder in hopes of catching the two in the act and revealing their true mode of operation. The reporter’s girlfriend Ella Crystal (Amber Tamblyn) is an Assistant DA and has no clue about her boyfriend’s assignment. She is grave danger as the evidence mounts against the two lawyers and she holds their fate in her hands.

 
February 23rd: Harvard Man
 
Alan Jensen (Adrian Grenier) is a promising young student and athlete at the esteemed, Harvard University in Boston. He excels greatly as the star point guard on Harvard’s surprising basketball team and dates the voluptuous cheerleader, Cindy (Sarah Michelle Gellar). As goes well for Alan until he begins to gamble on sporting events, something he is able to do through mob connections established with Cindy’s father. He becomes more and more dependent on them that he must now try to alter his own school’s basketball games as to earn money for the mob. While Alan faces pressure from his girlfriend and her criminal cohorts to go through with it, he also is under the constant surveillance of a federal agent who believes he can use Alan to convict.
 
March 2nd: Assault on Precinct 13
 
May your new years eve celebration never be spent with cops like these. Sgt. Roenick (Ethan Hawke) refuses to believe he is not responsible for the recent deaths of two of his partners. He hides out on the job as a sergeant at a remote precinct headquarters that is about to be closed permanently. Joining him there is Jasper (Brian Dennehy) who is about to retire and Iris (Drea de Matteo) as the sexy, seductive secretary. It's new years eve and they are having a private celebration with some co-workers when a prisoner bus carrying a cop killer named Bishop (Laurence Fishburne) and some other prisoners is diverted to his precinct due to back weather. Bishop is on the to-be-killed list of Duvall (Gabriel Bryne) who is a specialized unit commander. Duvall and Bishop have been "business partners" and Bishop knows too much on too many cops to be allowed to live. Duvall and his cops lay siege to the precinct during the night and the plot twists and turns begin. Who is a good cop and who is a bad cop. Who is a good criminal and who is a bad criminal. Will they work together or try to kill one another while defending the precinct.

 
Thank you,

Bob and Bernie

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