[Mashiro]

Big Nothing / 2006 / UK / 6.8 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

A frustrated, unemployed professor joins forces with a scammer and a friend of his in a blackmailing scheme. Charlie is an ex-professor turned reluctant call center employee who gets fired on the first day. Distraught at being unable to provide for his daughter Emily and wife Penelope, he accepts when Gus, an aspiring scam artist who presents Charlie with a seemingly snag-free plan to make some cash. The plan is to blackmail Reverend Smalls, a man of the cloth, who's frequently turned up in the company database of visitors to illegal porn sites. Gus plans to extort Reverend Smalls, with the intention of publicly exposing his secret shame should he refuse, thus potentially destroying the man's career. Normally cautious, Charlie is keen on participating in this scam, confident that the money he'll make from the scam will finally help turn things around for him and his family. Joined by one-time teenage pageant queen Josie McBroom, Gus's ex, the plan goes ahead, but it all goes wrong as Reverend Smalls dies thanks to this trio, with this only being the start of their troubles.

A really great movie with dark humor and Simon Pegg in a leading role (king of several really great other comedy movies with dark humor elements). Imho this movie is way too underrated. You should watch it if you enjoy comedy movies with Simon Pegg and dark humor.


We're No Angels / 1989 / USA / 6.2 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.

Oh cool movie! Robert De Niro aund Sean Penn in it. It was also funny. Moreso if you imagine yourself in their situation and how the story went to the end. Well, of course being a con is still a bad thing.


...and justice for all. / 1979 / USA / 7.4 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

A lawyer is forced to defend a guilty judge, while defending other innocent clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent. When a judge is charged with rape, Arthur Kirkland is forced to defend him. Kirkland has had problems with the judge in the past, including one incident when the judge wrongly sentenced his client Jeff McCullaugh because of a technicality. Kirkland faces a moral and legal dilemma.

One of the older movies with Al Pacino. Again he is not playing the role of a villian and instead is playing the role of a lawyer (one of the movies before I posted here he was playing a undercover cop).

For a 42 year old movie it does a good job in my opinion . I have to admit though that I kind of enjoy the movies where he plays a villian (Scarface and others) more .