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Street Kings

April 11th, 2008 - DeMarco Williams | Theatre Release | Comments: 22
The back allies in Zion may have been dark but they have nothing on the scary streets of Los Angeles. Tom Ludlow (Keanu “I’ll do anything to separate myself from Neo” Reeves) has a police badge but his off-the-book duties are more in line with a garbage man. He’s the cop that enters a house with a rock to the window instead of a knock to the door. But Captain Jack Wander (the ever-sharp Forest Whitaker) needs a guy like that on his team. There’s so much corruption and disruption in his unit he could probably use some Febreeze to ease the stench of crap his men seem to stay

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April 2nd, 2008 - B. Love | Theatre Release | Comments: 3

From films like Rounders and the Ocean’s Eleven series to TV’s "Las Vegas" and endless "World Series of Poker" broadcasts, the allure of high stakes gambling has been exploited to the fullest in recent years, but bombs like Lucky You prove that audiences may be growing weary of the Texas Hold ‘Em craze. In this ode to the joys of blackjack, director Robert Luketic (Legally Blond, Monster-In-Law) does a fine job of capturing the glitz and glamour of Sin City, using so many flashy camera angles and slo-mo shots that the film occasionally borders on gambler porn. But his loose adaptation of the book "Bringing Down the House" is far from perfect.

The mostly true story follows a team

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