Head to the New York Library’s Soundview branch on Friday afternoons in January for their free Movie Matinee! This month they are screening movies featuring Denzel Washington!
January 6
Safe House (R)
114 min
When a CIA-operated safe house is targeted by a group of bad guys, the facility’s house-sitter is tasked with the dangerous job of moving the criminal who is being hidden there to another secure location.
January 13
Training Day (R)
120 min
Ethan Hawke stars as Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced Los Angeles Police Department rookie anxious to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington). Harris has agreed to give Hoyt a shot at joining his team with a one-day ride-along during which Hoyt must prove his mettle.
January 20
The Taking of Pelham 123 (PG-13)
105 min
Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) is drifting through his daily routine when he receives word that a heavily armed gang of four has hijacked a subway train and is holding all of the passengers hostage. Led by cunning master thief Ryder (John Travolta), the gunmen will begin executing everyone aboard should the authorities fail in delivering ten million dollars in the space of just one hour.
January 27
American Gangster (R)
156 min
Biopic about a real-life Harlem drug kingpin in the 1970s, and a N.Y. cop trying to nail him.
*Titles may be subject to change.*
*Films begin promptly at 2:00p.*
