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Director Guy Ritchie (Snatch Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels) brings you this no holds barred urban crime-thriller featuring an all-star cast of gangster movie icons including Jason Statham (London Collateral) Ray Liotta (Goodfellas John Q) Vincent Pastore (Made TV s The Sopranos ) and Outkast's Andr Benjamin (Idlewild Four Brothers). Jake Green is a hotshot gambler long on audacity and short on common sense. He's rarely allowed to play in any casino because he is a winner and has taken in so much money over the years. He is the only client of his accountant and older brother Billy. One night Jake Billy and their other brother Joe are invited to sit in on a private game where Jake is expected to lose to Dorothy Macha a crime boss and local casino owner who can't play for squat but always wins because people are too scared to beat him. Jake isn't afraid of Macha and not only beats Dorothy in a quick game of chance but takes every possible opportunity to insult the man. Jake and his brothers leave the game and Macha puts out the order for a hit on Jake who ends up working for and being protected by a pair of brothers Avi and Zack who are out to take Macha down.System Requirements:Run Time: 104 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/CRIME Rating: R UPC: 043396175624 Manufacturer No: 17562
Entertainment
The entertainment industry has grown and evolved over the years with music and cinema taking a new form through the ages and so have the technologies that fuel it. Gone are the days of eight songs on a cassette and VCR players with merely two hours of entertainment recorded on a single video cassette. With the advent of computers came digital data storage and hence the birth of DVD/CDs.
Quiet a step back in matters of physical form as these new generation audio/video storage devices hold an uncanny resemblance to the records that preceded the cassette generation. DVDs and CDs today are an everyday household entertainment storage device which has come a long way since the first records and cassettes were distributed commercially.
Notable advantages of DVD/CDs have to begin with the amount of storage space available. These days its possible to burn multiple movies on a single DVD and as far as audio goes if its in a highly compressed format such as .mp3 a single CD can accommodate multiple music albums. These discs are easy to handle, light and portable with no moving devices unlike the tape generation however they are delicate and a scratch on the DVD/CD surface could cause a disruption in the information being read by the player.
DVD/CDs were initially invented to provide high quality audio/video data to a user with the ability to regulate its production however this soon fizzled away with daily household computers gaining the ability to burn data in such formats. The race to curb piracy through such means has not hit a roadblock and DVD/CDs keep evolving with newer encryption technologies in a bid to curb unchecked replication of data spawning newer technologies like Blu-ray discs which seems to be yet another milestone on an unending road of innovation.
