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Drive (2011) Straw Dogs (2011) The Driver (1978) Cross of Iron (1977) Warrior (2011) Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) Cobra Verde (1987) The Debt (2010) Fighting Mad (1976) Our Idiot Brother (2011)

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Drive (2011)

Written by: Hossein Amini (screenplay) and James Sallis (novel)
Directed by: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Ron Perlman, and Albert Brooks
Reviewer: Brett Gallman

“If I drive for you, you give me a time and a place. I give you a five-minute window, anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours no matter what.”

Reviewer's Rating: **** (Four Stars)

Straw Dogs (2011)

Written by: Rod Lurie (screenplay), David Zelag Goodman & Sam Peckinpah (story), and Gordon Williams (original novel)
Directed by: Rod Lurie
Starring: James Mardsen, Kate Bosworth, and Alexander Skarsgard
Reviewer: Brett Gallman

“I will not allow violence against this house.”

Reviewer's Rating: *** (Three Stars)

The Driver (1978)

Written and Directed by: Walter Hill
Starring: Ryan O’Neal, Bruce Dern, and Isabelle Adjani
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“There isn’t going to be a next time. ”

Reviewer's Rating: ***½ (Three Stars)

Cross of Iron (1977)

Written by: Julius J. Epstein, Walter Kelley, & James Hamilton (screenplay), Willi Heinrich (novel)
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, and David Warner
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“Steiner is a myth. Men like him are our last hope, and in that sense, he is a truly dangerous man.”

Reviewer's Rating: **** (Four Stars)

Warrior (2011)

Written by: Gavin O’Connor, Anthony Tambakis, and Cliff Dorman
Directed by: Gavin O’Connor
Starring: Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, and Nick Nolte
Reviewer: Brett Gallman

“This is impossible--the two men fighting for the championship tonight are brothers!”

Reviewer's Rating: *** (Three Stars)

Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)

Written and Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: James Spader, Andie MacDowell, and Peter Gallagher
Reviewer: Brett Gallman

“I think that sex is overrated. I think that people place far too much importance on it...”

Reviewer's Rating: ***½ (Three and a half Stars)