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Friday, January 13, 2012

Blackjack (1978)


































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When the mob picks Roy King (Damu King) to take the rap for a crime he didn't commit — they picked on the the wrong man! Roy survives and gets out of Nevada's toughest prison with only one though on his mind — REVENGE! THe Mob's head boss in La Vegas (William Smith) tries to stop this One Man Hit Squad with everything he got, but when he "craps out", the Mob decides to turn Brother against Brother when they pay Roy's friend Charles (Tony Burton) $50,000 to kill Roy. The electrifying events that follow turn Las Vegas into a seething neon inferno when Roy and his gang of the Baddest Brothers to ever Strut on the Strip decide it's time for the Mob to cash in its' chips — permanently!

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)


































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Storyline
Dennis Brown (Lawrence Gilliard Jr.) is a young man living in poverty and struggling to deal with the plights of the Brooklyn ghetto. After many nights of listening to his father abuse his mother in a drunken rage, he decides to improve his situation by earning money by robbing a local drug dealer. The stolen briefcase is filled with thousands of dollars in cash, but things take a turn for the worse when the dealer and his henchmen track Dennis down.