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On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. Today’s Free Movie of the Day is the true crime “dramedy” Casino Jack, which first premiered in 2010 and stars Kevin Spacey as the title character. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Directed by George Hickenlooper from a screenplay written by Norman Snider, Casino Jack has the following synopsis: A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.

Spacey is joined in the cast by Barry Pepper, Kelly Preston, Jon Lovitz, Rachelle Lefevre, Graham Greene, Ruth Marshall, Hannah Endicott-Douglas, John Robinson, Jason Weinberg, Spencer Garrett, Yok Come Ho,...

DeWanda Wise and Hisham Tawfiq are probably no strangers to readers of this blog, given that we've covered their work (film and TV) over the years. Both are starring in an upcoming indie feature film titled "The Truth of Miss Marshall," from writer/director Steven Bennett - his feature film debut. A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to raise $35,000 to complete the film (the campaign ends in 50 days).  Details on the project (including a video promo and campaign pitch video:) follow below. You'll find more on the Indiegogo campaign here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-truth-of-miss-marshall--3. -- Ruth Marshall is a fourth grade teacher and...

Network: CBS, Ion

Episodes: 75 (hour)

Seasons: Five

TV show dates: July 11, 2008 -- December 13, 2012

Series status: Ended

Performers include: Enrico Colantoni, Hugh Dillon, Michael Cram, Sergio Di Zio, Mark Taylor, Amy Jo Johnson, David Paetkau, Ruth Marshall, Pascale Hutton, Jessica Steen, Tattiawna Jones, Bill MacDonald, Tyler Stentiford, Janaya Stephens, Lisa Marcos, Philip Akin, Gabriel Hogan, Danijel Mandic, Matt Gordon, Tim Dutaud, Stephanie Morgenstern, and Cheyenne Freitas.

TV show description:

This drama series details the lives of the Strategic Response Unit (Sru), a special force that is called on in severe situations that are too intense for regular officers. Based on the real-life Emergency Task Force of Toronto, Canada, the expert cops are often called upon to rescue hostages, dissipate gangs, negotiate with kidnappers, investigate bomb threats, and talk down possible jumpers.

While...

George Hickenlooper directs this look at convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, on Blu-ray and DVD April 5th

The infamous Jack Abramoff was a Washington, D.C. lobbyist and businessman whose involvement in a massive corruption scandal landed him, two White House officials, and nine other lobbyist behind bars. In director George Hickenlooper's last movie Casino Jack, Kevin Spacey stars as Jack Abramoff in a tale that recounts the man's notorious fall from grace.

Sadly, George Hickenlooper died right before the movie's theatrical release last year. Today, in support of the Casino Jack Blu-ray and DVD debut, which hit store shelves on April 5th, we talked with Jon Lovitz, who plays Adam Kidan opposite Kevin Spacey. In 2005, Kidan pled guilty, alongside Abramoff, to fraud charges in relation to his 2000 purchase of SunCruz, a casino cruise line.

Here is our conversation.

The story behind this film is quite fascinating in itself. Were...

Casino Jack, which stars Kevin Spacey as the legendary lobbyist Jack Abramoff, will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on April 5, and we just have to celebrate this critically acclaimed drama. We have a new contest lined up and we're giving away copies of the DVD to our readers. These discs will surely go fast, so sign up to win this new DVD today.

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Casino Jack DVD

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Two-time Academy Award Winner Kevin Spacey delivers a "bravura performance" (The New Yorker) in this "uproarious, riveting and wickedly hilarious" (Elle) film inspired by a true story. Spacey stars as Jack Abramoff, the real-life Washington power player...

Chicago – In our latest Kevin Spacey edition of the HollywoodChicago.com Hookup, we have a Kevin Spacey-signed poster for the new film “Casino Jack” up for grabs plus these Kevin Spacey DVDs: “The Usual Suspects,” “American Beauty” and “Swimming With Sharks”! Kevin Spacey has just been nominated for a Golden Globe award for his portrayal of Jack Abramoff in the new film “Casino Jack”.

The poster is signed by Spacey along with “Casino Jack” stars Jon Lovitz and Barry Pepper. The film also stars Kelly Preston, Rachelle Lefevre, Anna Hardwick, Ruth Marshall, Graham Greene, Hannah Endicott-Douglas, John Robinson, Jason Weinberg, Spencer Garrett, Yok Come Ho, John David Whalen, Matt Gordon, Jeffrey R. Smith, Christian Campbell and Eric Schweig from director George Hickenlooper and writer Norman Snider.

To win your free Kevin Spacey prize pack courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer our question in this Web-based submission form.

Title: Casino Jack Director: George Hickenlooper Starring: Kevin Spacey (Horrible Bosses, American Beauty), Ruth Marshall, Graham Greene (New Moon) and Hannah Endicott-Douglas. Studios are often taking a gamble on new movies today, and Art Takes Over is no exception. It’s new biographical film ‘Casino Jack,’ which stars Kevin Spacey as well-meaning-turned-greedy Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, doesn’t live up to late director George Hickenlooper’s previously high standards. He tried to make ‘Casino Jack’ the next great biography movie of men involved in Washington, D.C. politics, but ultimately fails by attempting to give the plot an unneeded comedic undertone. The film follows lobbyist Jack Abramoff (portrayed by Spacey), who is determined to make as much money [...]...

There's finally some good news for fans of CBS's Flashpoint TV show.

Flashpoint follows the work of a group of highly trained police officers called the Strategic Response Unit (Sru). The series stars Enrico Colantoni, David Paetkau, Hugh Dillon, Sergio Di Zio, Michael Cram, Mark Taylor, Ruth Marshall, and Amy Jo Johnson.

After nine months away, the Canada-produced show is finally returning to Us primetime. A repeat of a first season episode, "Scorpio," is scheduled for Saturday, May 29th. Then, new episodes will begin airing on Friday, June 4th. This will be the cop series' third season on CBS.

Though Flashpoint has been off the schedule for a long time, it seemed a certainty that the program would eventually return. CBS purchased 13 additional episodes of Flashpoint in October 2009. Combined with the nine installments that the network already had...

CBS has been having a great season. Several of their new shows have been successful and many of their established series are still doing well. Unfortunately, that could be bad news for fans of a little show called Flashpoint.

Flashpoint follows the work of a group of highly trained police officers called the Strategic Response Unit (Sru). The series stars Enrico Colantoni, David Paetkau, Hugh Dillon, Sergio Di Zio, Michael Cram, Mark Taylor, Ruth Marshall, and Amy Jo Johnson.

The show was initially produced for Canada's CTV and CBS picked up the rights to air season one during the writers strike. It ended up performing well for the network and that led CBS to join CTV in renewing it for seasons two and three.

  Season three of Flashpoint was supposed to begin airing early this year but the network...

Faithful Flashpoint viewers can finally breath easy. CBS has renewed the cop drama for a third season.

Following the work of a group of highly trained police officers called Strategic Response Unit (Sru), the show stars Enrico Colantoni, David Paetkau, Hugh Dillon, Sergio Di Zio, Michael Cram, Mark Taylor, Ruth Marshall, and Amy Jo Johnson.

A Canada-based series, Flashpoint was initially produced for the CTV network. CBS picked up the rights to air the first season of episodes, in part to bank programming during the writers strike. It ended up being a ratings success for the network when it began airing in July 2008.

Both CTV and CBS renewed the series for a second year and those episodes began airing in February 2009. Nine additional installments were ordered with the plan to start running them in July. CBS changed...