New Flicks

Assault on Precinct 13

Unite and fight.

Genre: Action / Drama / Crime / Thriller
Director: Jean-François Richet
Distributor: Rogue Pictures
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Maria Bello, John Leguizamo, Drea de Matteo

During a snowy New Year's Eve, a mobster is temporarily incarcerated at Precinct 13, the soon-to-close police station. As the sun sets and a long night begins, a motley crew of policemen and prisoners reluctantly captained by a cop must band together to fight off a rogue gang that wants to free the mobster.

Racing Stripes

His stripes made him an outcast. His heart made him a hero.

Genre: Comedy / Family
Director: Frederik Du Chau
Distributor: Warner Brothers
Cast: M. Emmet Walsh, Michael Clarke Duncan, Michael Rosenberg, Fred Thompson, Hayden Panettiere

In the middle of a raging thunderstorm, a traveling circus accidentally leaves behind some very precious cargo--a baby zebra. Horse farmer Nolan Walsh, who takes him home to his young daughter Channing, rescues the gangly little foal. Once a champion thoroughbred trainer, Walsh has given up horse training for a quiet life with Channing on their modest Kentucky farm. The little zebra, or "Stripes," as Channing calls him, is soon introduced to the farm's misfit troupe of barnyard residents, led by a cranky Shetland Pony named Tucker and Franny, a wise old goat who keeps the family in line. But from the first moment Stripes lays eyes on the track, he's hooked--he knows that if he could just get the chance, he could leave all those other horses in the dust. What he doesn't know is--he's not exactly a horse. But with characteristic zeal, he devotes himself to training for the big time, with a little help from Tucker, who has coached a host of champion racehorses in the past.

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