 The Big Bounce 2004  PG-13, 88 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Thriller
Director: George Armitage
Cast: Owen Wilson, Sara Foster, Morgan Freeman, Charlie Sheen, Gary Sinise, Bebe Neuwirth, Vinnie Jones, Gregory Sporleder, Anahit Minasyan, Willie Nelson, Harry Dean Stanton, Andrew Wilson, Tony Dorsett, Brian L. Keaulana, Brian Costa
After getting in trouble with the law, drifter/con man Jack Ryan (Owen Wilson) is saved when Judge Karen H. Wyatt (Morgan Freeman) offers him a job as a handyman. All should go well, and it does–until Jack meets Nancy (Sara Foster) who wants his help in stealing $2,000,000. The plot thickens.
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Blast! 2005  R, 92 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Anthony Hickox
Cast: Eddie Griffin, Breckin Meyer, Vinnie Jones, Vivica A. Fox, Soup, Shaggy, Nadine Velazquez, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Hannes Jaenicke, Langley Kirkwood
Terrorist Michael Kittredge (Vinnie Jones) poses as an environmentalist and leads a team to take over an oil rig, use it to detonate a super bomb, and kill millions. But, Michael doesn't know that Lamont Dixon (Eddie Griffin) has infiltrated his team with plans to thwart the scheme.
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 The Condemned 2007  R, 100 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Scott Wiper
Cast: Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones, Robert Mammone, Tory Mussett, Manu Bennett, Madeleine West, Rick Hoffman, Christopher Baker, Sam Healy, Luke Pegler, Masa Yamaguchi, Emelia Burns, Marcus Johnson, Nathan Jones, Andy McPhee
Producer Ian Breckel (Robert Mammone) has dreamed up a reality TV show in which he frees 10 murderers, drops them off on a deserted island, and tells them to kill or be killed. The survivor will be set free. Steve Austin stars as American Jack Conrad, brought from a Central American prison, who finds himself fighting to the death against the other nine "contestants."
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 EuroTrip 2004 R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jeff Schaffer
Cast: Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Wester, Kristin Kruek, Jessica Boehrs, Lucy Lawless, Vinnie Jones, Matt Damon, Fred Armisen, Rade Serbedzija, Cathy Meils
Immediately following high-school graduation, four friends–Scotty (Scott Mechlowicz), Cooper (Jacob Pitts), and twins Jenny (Michelle Trachtenberg) and Jamie (Travis Wester)–enjoy a European vacation fraught with mayhem as Scotty tracks down his e-mail pen pal.
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 Gone in 60 Seconds 2000 PG-13, 119 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Dominic Sena
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Duvall, Delroy Lindo, Will Patton, Chi McBride, Scott Caan, James Duval, Timothy Olyphant, T.J. Cross, William Lee Scott, Christopher Eccleston, Vinnie Jones, Grace Zabriskie
A 40-minute car chase highlights this story about a once-great car thief, Randall "Memphis" Raines (Nicolas Cage), who comes to the aid of his little brother, Kip (Giovanni Ribisi). "Memphis" manages to recruit his old cohorts–including Otto Halliwell (Robert Duvall)–to steal 50 hard-to-find cars needed to bail Kip out of trouble.
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 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998  R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Vinnie Jones, Sting, Lenny McLean, P.H. Moriarty, Steve Sweeney, Nicholas Rowe, Nick Marq, Charles Forbes, Peter McNicholl, Frank Harper
Tom (Jason Flemyng), Soap (Dexter Fletcher), Eddy (Nick Moran), and Bacon (Jason Statham) are London schemers who pool their money and lose everything in a crooked card game. Now, they owe half a million pounds to porn broker "Hatchet" Harry Lonsdale (P.H. Moriarty) who gives them one week to pay up.
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 Mean Machine 2001 R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Barry Skolnick
Cast: Vinnie Jones, David Kelly, David Hemmings, Vas Blackwood, Jason Statham, Robbie Gee, John Forgeham, Jason Flemyng, Ralph Brown, Geoff Bell, Sally Phillips, Danny Dyer, Martin Wimbush, David Reid, David Cropman
Vinnie Jones plays the out-of-shape jock Danny Meehan in the U.K. remake of Robert Aldrich's "The Longest Yard." This time around, U.K. football (what the U.S. calls soccer) provides the hook for prison inmates taking on prison guards in one free-for-all game.
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Night at the Golden Eagle 2002 R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Adam Rifkin
Cast: Vinny Argiro, Donnie Montemarano, James Caan, Natasha Lyonne, Vinnie Jones, Ann Magnuson, Fayard Nicholas, Sam Moore, Miles Dougal, Badja Djola
LA's seedy Golden Eagle Hotel is the setting for this film. The action takes place during the course of one evening when Brooklyn hoods Mick (Vinny Argiro) and Tommy (Donnie Montemarano) reunite and plan for the future. But, everything changes after Tommy accidentally kills a prostitute and the two losers are left with the job of disposing of her corpse.
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 She's the Man 2006  PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Andy Fickman
Cast: Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey, Vinnie Jones, David Cross, Julie Hagerty, Alex Breckenridge, Jonathan Sadowski, Robert Hoffman, Amanda Crew, Jessica Lucas, Emily Perkins, James Kirk
In this modern version of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," Viola's (Amanda Bynes) soccer team loses its funding so she pretends to be her twin brother, Sebastian, and joins the soccer team at his new boarding school. She rooms with Duke (Channing Tatum) and falls for him, but Duke is infatuated with Olivia (Laura Ramsey) who, in turn, falls in love with "Sebastian," and the fun begins.
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 Snatch 2000 R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Jason Flemyng, Vinnie Jones, Brad Pitt, Rade Serbedzija, Jason Statham, Mike Reid, Ewen Bremner, Lennie James, Alan Ford, Stephen Graham, Robbie Gee
Guy Ritchie scores again with this very funny crime thriller involving several plots, which take place as members of London's underworld try to get their hands on an 84-carat diamond. The fun involves trying to figure out who will finally get–and hold onto–the diamond.
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 Swordfish 2001 R, 98 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Dominic Sena
Cast: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Vinnie Jones, Camryn Grimes, Sam Shepard, Zach Grenier, Drea de Matteo, Rudolf Martin, Chic Daniel, Kirk B.R. Woller, Carmen Argenziano, Tim DeKay, Angelo Pagan
Dangerous spy Gabriel Shear (John Travolta) and his partner Ginger Knowles (Halle Berry) use the services of master computer hacker Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) for a $9.5 billion electronic bank heist. Gabriel heads up the covert counter-terrorists, the Black Cell, and he wants the money in order to pay for his war against international terrorism. Stanley has been paroled from prison but is forbidden from entering electronics stores after infiltrating the F.B.I.'s surveillance operations. Stanley agrees to help because it will provide the legal fees he needs to see his daughter Holly (Camryn Grimes) and, too late, realizes how dangerous the Black Cell is and that he is simply a pawn in the operation.
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 X-Men: The Last Stand 2006 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi
Director: Brett Ratner
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, James Marsden, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones, Rebecca Romijn, Ben Foster, Dania Ramirez, Ellen Page
In this last entry of the X-Men trilogy, those mutant heroes are back and must now face a choice to retain their unique powers or give up those powers and become human. Battle lines are drawn with mutant leader Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) preaching tolerance versus Magneto (Ian McKellen) who believes in survival of the fittest. Their followers meet on Alcatraz Island–after Magneto levitates the Golden Gate Bridge–and a battle follows involving not only the two mutant armies but the real army that, instead of firing guns, fires needles filled with a potion to cure the mutants.
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Year One 2009 PG-13, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure
Director: Harold Ramis
Cast: Jack Black, Michael Cera, Oliver Platt, David Cross, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Vinnie Jones, Hank Azaria, Juno Temple, Olivia Wilde, June Diane Raphael, Xander Berkeley, Gia Carides, David Pasquesi, Horatio Sanz, Matthew Willig
Prehistoric, misfit hunter-gatherers Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera) flee their village and encounter Cain (David Cross) slaying Abel (Paul Rudd). They continue on their trek through Biblical times and come across Abraham (Hank Azaria) preparing to sacrifice his son Isaac (Christopher Mintz-Plasse). Later, Zed and Oh are sold into slavery and become orgy slaves in the city of Sodom where they attract the attention of a High Priest (Oliver Platt).
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| 1. The Big Bounce (2004)
2. Blast! (2005)
3. The Condemned (2007)
4. EuroTrip (2004)
5. Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
6. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
7. Mean Machine (2001)
8. Night at the Golden Eagle (2002)
9. She's the Man (2006)
10. Snatch (2000)
11. Swordfish (2001)
12. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
13. Year One (2009)
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