Bovie Movie

Based on the popular novels about that other suave, globe-trotting man of action, this genre picture from director Phillip Noyce mixed romance and character development with dangerous stunts, geopolitical intrigue, and a variety of elaborate disguises, resulting in an uneven stew of a spy thriller. Val Kilmer is Simon Templar, a classy, cunning master thief and “man of a thousand faces” who cribs his phony names from those of obscure saints and sells his illegal services to the highest bidder. Hired by an ambitious Russian politician (Rade Serbedzija) to steal the formula for cold fusion, Templar falls in love with Dr. Emma Russell (Elisabeth Shue), the frail Oxford scientist who has unlocked the secret of the process. Back in Moscow, the thief debates whether to betray his new love or the powerful madman who is paying him millions, until he discovers that his client is concealing oil reserves that could save his freezing people. Often seen as an also-ran to the legendary James Bond, Templar, the creation of author Leslie Charteris, in fact predated the first Bond novel by decades and probably inspired Ian Fleming in his creation of the debonair agent.

A skilled official assigned the task of protecting the U.S. ambassador to an unstable Eastern European nation gets trapped in the middle of a deadly coup d’etat in an action-packed tale of political intrigue starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and directed by Simon Fellows. Sam Keenan (Van Damme)’s job is to protect the U.S. ambassador to a troubled Eastern European nation at all costs. When a collection of heavily armed local insurgents stages a violent revolt and the country’s president seeks refuge in the very embassy building where Keenan and his charge are based, the devoted officer soon finds himself guarding two men against an army of angry killers. With the embassy overtaken by insurgents and nothing more than a small detachment of U.S. Marines to fend off the fire, Keenan is forced to work overtime just to keep his men breathing and overcome the merciless invading onslaught.

A petty thief is the link between a well-to-do businessman and a single mother struggling to get by in his edgy, emotional drama. Will Francis (Jude Law) is a successful landscape architect who runs an upscale business with his friend Sandy (Martin Freeman) in the King’s Cross section of London, a neighborhood that has long been plagued by crime and poverty but has lately become the target of a major gentrification program. Will’s longtime girlfriend is Liv (Robin Wright Penn), a lovely woman troubled by a lack of communication between herself and her husband and emotional problems with their teenage daughter, Bea (Poppy Rogers), who can’t sleep and is obsessed with gymnastics. A thief has broken into Will and Sandy’s office not once but twice, taking Will’s laptop and the company’s computer equipment, and Will begins spending his evenings at the shop in hopes of catching the culprit in action. The burglar strikes a third time, and while giving chase, Will sees him make his way into a shabby apartment building. Will learns the criminal is Miro (Rafi Gavron), a 15-year-old refugee from Bosnia. Without revealing what he knows, Will makes the acquaintance of Amira (Juliette Binoche), Miro’s widowed mother — a Bosnian refugee who makes a living as a seamstress. As Will begins bringing Amira business on a regular basis, the two begin an affair which continues even as Will maintains his relationship with Liv. Breaking & Entering was written and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Anthony Minghella; it was his first project made from his own original script since Truly, Madly, Deeply in 1991.

Martin Freeman, Corey Johnson and Velibor Topic helm the unabashedly rude, gross-out crime comedy The All Together. As the story opens, successful television producer Chris Ashworth (Freeman) leaves his home to head off to work, and puts his boarder, the Bosnian immigrant Bob (Topic), in charge of showing the home to real estate appraisers. An eccentric taxidermist who makes his living from stuffed models of copulating animals, Bob is also untrustworthy and lazy; he nonetheless consents to Chris’s request, which frees up Chris for the rest of the day and provides a much needed relief from stress. Meanwhile, in another part of town, the thug Dennis Earle (Danny Dyer) chauffeurs an American criminal associate, Mr. Gaspardi (Corey Johnson) to the airport, when Gaspardi grows violently ill - the result of curry eaten the night before - and declares that he must find a toilet in which to vomit. The two decide to find a bathroom in a nearby house, and happen upon Chris’s house. Their visit, of course, falls right in the middle of the real estate tour, and a series of subsequent mishaps set the stage for a violent and outrageously messy afternoon.