February, 2008 Hidden Gems

City Lights' "Descent" Starring Rosario Dawson, Chad Faust. A college co-ed who is book smart and shy and curious about sex, is raped. Her world is ripped inside out and she seeks revenge.

Fox's "Two Days in Paris" Starring "Julie Deply, Adam Goldberg. A couple try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of her parents and several of her ex-boyfriends.

Fox's "The Final Inquiry" Starring F. Murray Abraham, Anna Kanakis, Max Van Zydow. In 35 A.D., a Roman tribune is sent to Palestine to investigate the death and possible resurrection of a certain Jesus from Nazareth.

Anchor Bay's "To Kill A King" Starring Rupert Everett, Tim Roth, Olivia Williams, Dougray Scott. The year is 1645. King Charles the First is overthrown and two heroes have emerged - Lord General Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell. These two friends turn on each other.

Fox's "Feast of Love" Starring Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear. A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set with a community of friends in Oregon, and is an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.

Foxs "Death at a Funeral" Starring Matthew Macfayden. In this British comedy, a father dies and his family and friends convene at the family home for his funeral. Hilarious.

New Line's "Silk" Starring Carlo Cecchi, Alfred Molina, Keira Knightly. This is the story of a married silkworm smuggler in 19th century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo.

Screen Media's "When A Man Falls" Starring Sharon Stone, Timothy Hutton. When a lonely housewife faces the reality of her dying marriage, she seeks comfort in unlawful and forbidden activities.

January, 2008 Hidden Gems

Fox's "Wedding Daze" Starring Jason Biggs, Isla Fisher. After losing the woman of his dreams, a young man is urged to propose to a total stranger. He might have accidentally found the woman of his dreams.






City Lights "The Ten" Starring Adam Brody, Jessica Alba, Winoan Ryder, Paul Rudd. Ten laugh-out-loud funny stories inspired by the ten commandments, each told in a different style, with characters and themes overlapping.





Fox's "Sunshine" Satarring Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans. Fifty years from now, the sun is dying and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope is a spaceship and a crew of eight men and women. they carry a device which will breathe new life into the star. But their mission is beginning to unravel.




Vivendi's "Shiloh Falls" Starring Art Lefleur. A gritty lawman has finally tracked down a murderous gang. But before the fugitives can be brought to justice, a mysterious stranger appears that is more powerful than any man. There is no escaping his supernatural powers.


Fox's "Lake Placid 2" Starring John Schneider, Cloris Leachman. This is the sequel and the prehistoric, horrific crocs have three bloodthirsty offspring.






Echo Bridge's "Killer Diller" Starring William lee Scott, Lucas Black. A guitar-playing car thief is sentenced to a halfway house in the middel of the Bible Belt and is forced to play church music. He meets an autistic savant who is a rocking piano player and the red-hot Killer Diller Blues Band is born.






Fox's "Joshua" Starring Sam Rockwell. The perfect Manhatten parents in a perfect Manhatten apartment run into extreme problems with their first child after they have their second child.





Starz's "Jimmy and Judy" Starring Edward Furlong, Rachael Bells. Two teenage suburban outcasts fall in love, spin out of control, and hit the road as fugitives.






Starz's "He Was A Quiet Man" Starring Christian Slater, Willam H. Macy. A nebish office worker turns into a hero. Unfortunately the hero is a psychopath ... or not.





Allumination's "Forget About It" Starring Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Raquel Welch, Robert Loggia. In a trailer park located outside of Phenix, three retired veterans spend their days relaxing and vying for the attention of a sexy neighbor. But they stumble on $4,000,000 and the mafia and the Feds.




Echo Bridge's "Black Irish" Starring Michael Angarano, Brendan Gleeson, Emily VanCamp. Two brothers...one good, one bad...you can choose your dreams...but you can't choose your family.









Screen Media's "Adrift in Manhatten" Starring Heather Graham, Victor Rasuk, Dominic Chianese, William Baldwin Even surrounded by Manhatten's millions, New Yorkers are just as likely to feel lonely as people who live in literal isolation.

December, 2007 Hidden Gems

Echo Bridge's "Maximum Cage Fighting" Stars Jason Field, Chris Torres, Renzo Gracie. Jimmy Garren, a former Tae Kwon Do world champion, is now retired and a widowed father to ten-year-old Katie. So when he's challenged to a fight by famous cage fighter and former rival Nick "the Nasty" Harper, he refuses...until Katie is kidnapped by Harper's crew. With the match being the only way to save his daughter, Jimmy travels to train with world-renowned fighter Renzo Gracie for a deadly fight in the cage...that only one man will survive.




Anchor Bay's "The Girl Next Door" Stars Blythe Auffarth, Daniel Manche, Blanche Baker. New Jersey, 1958: a tragic car accident forces Megan and Susan Loughlin to live with their aunt, Ruth Chandler. But things are not what they seem as the harsh treatment of the girls quickly escalates from verbal to physical abuse involving not only Ruth, but her three sons as well. When Megan asks for help from a police officer, she instead is locked in the basement's old bomb shelter by Ruth. Sadly, that is just the beginning...




MTI's "48 Angels" Stars Shane Brolly, Ciaran Flynn, John Travers. Diagnosed with a serious illness and searching for a miracle, 9-year old Seamus sets off to find God before God comes for him. Inspired by Saint Columcille, Seamus sets out in a small boat without oars or a sail. On his quest he encounters James and Darry. Despite initial conflict, the trio decides to stay together and enter upon a journey that results in the healing of hearts and minds.




Anchor Bay's "Hatchet" Stars Joel David Moore, Deon Richmond, Tamara Feldman. Victor Crowley is a hideously deformed boy, living in seclusion with his father in an isolated cabin deep in the Louisiana bayou. When a Halloween prank initiated by local kids goes terribly awry, Victor is accidentally killed. Years later, a tourist group visiting New Orleans' "haunted swamps" stumble upon the remnants of that shocking event, transforming an evening of seemingly innocent fun into a horrofic nightmare, from which there is no escape.



City Light's "Everything's Cool" Documentary. For two decades, researchers, activists, scientists, and progressive politicians have struggled to rouse the public and the government to take action on global warming. See the harrowing story of what it takes to talk about global warming - the art of duking it out with collective denial, the struggle to communicate the urgency to an indifferent public and a laggard U.S. government.

November, 2007 Hidden Gems

Vivendi's "Cougar Club" Stars Jason Jurman, Warren Cole, Joe Mantegna When Spence and Hogan graduate from college, life is bleak. They have to work for heinous divorce lawyers that torture them with grueome jobs. Spence has a girlfriend from hell, and Hogan just wants to start his life. As luck would have it, these two young men are presented with an opportunity, and develop a club of horny young men devoted to way older women of their dreams.




First Look's "Broken" Stars Heather Graham, Jake Busey One night at the L.A. diner where she works, a waitress comes face to face withe seven deadly sins...sloth, gluttony, envy, lust, greed, prode, and wrath, which erupts in the form of her ex-boyfriend. her dar-side incarnate comes at her from every angle this night in an all-out effort to devour her soul.




Allumination's "Heavens Fall" Atars Timothy Hutton, David Strathaim, Leelee Sobieski A tragic true story that began in the spring of 1931 when nine black men were pulled off an Alabama train and accused of raping two young white women. News of their quick conviction and sentencing spread, forcing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, headed by a New York attorney. This sets in motion a legal battle that ultimately changed the lives of everyone involved as well as the course of American jurisprudence.


First Look's "Paris, Je T'Aime" Stars Natalie Portan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Fanny Ardant and many,many more... Made by a team of contributors as cosmopoiltan as Paris itself. This portrait of the city is a sdiverse as its creators' background and nationalities. With each director telling the story of an unusual encounter in one of the city
s neighborhoods, the vignettes go beyond the postcard view of Paris to portray aspects of the city raresly seen on the big screen including racial tensions, class struggles, romance, escape and sex.

First Look's "Guy-X" Stars Jason Biggs, Natasha McElhone, Jeremy Northam rudy awakens in an Army hospital to find that he has been mistakenly sent to a secret hospice for American casualties from a recless mission in the Vietnam War. When Rudy befriends one of the patients, Guy X, it creates a security breach that causes the Pentagon to intervene and risks the entire operation.

October, 2007 Hidden Gems

First Look's "Welcome To Paradise" Stars Crystal Bernard, Brain Dennehy, Brad Stine This is an inspirational family film about a female preacher and her son. They are sent from a big city church to the small town of Paradise, where they find a community in desperate need of direction and is uncharitable. She tries to build a new vision for her congregation that embraces everyone.


Echo Bridge's "Protecting The King" Stars Tom Sizemore, Brian Krause, Matt Barr Sex, drugs and violence. They are all part of the job when your working for the King of Rock & Roll. And when you are sixteen, the on-the-job training comes in ways that can't be taught in school. Prepare to be all shook up by this shocking true story.



Fox's "Wrong Turn 2: Dead End" Stars Henry Rollins, Erica Leerhsen, Kimberly Caldwell Six reality TV show contestants are thrown together for six days in a simulated post-apocalyptic wasteland called "The Ultimate Survivalist." Located in a remore part of West Virginia, the contestants discover that they really are fighting for their survival - against a family of hideously deformed inbred cannibals who plan to ruthlessly butcher them all.

Genius' "Killer Wave" Stars Angus Macfadyen, Tom Skerritt, Anna Hopkins There are mysterious Tidal aves originating in the Atlantic. There are supposed to be no tidal waves in the Atlantic. Scientists rush to find the answer. Is it a new natural force like Global Warming or is it Terrorism - fanatical, faith based or corporate?
First Look's "Tara Road" Stars Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, Stephen Rea, Brenda Fricker Marilyn Vine's idyllic life in Connecticutt is devastated by the tragic death of her only son during his 15th birthday party. 3,000 miles away, Ria Lynch's marriage comes to a stunningly abrupt end in Dublin, Ireland, when her husband reveals that he is leaving her for his pregnant mistress. An accidental phone call brings these otherwise unrelated women together and they agree to a two-month house exchange. They attempt to heal and move on.

First Look's "Shanghai Kiss" Stars Hayden Pannettiere, Ken Leung, Kelly Hu, Joel Moore A struggling Chinese-American actor, who unwittingly finds himself involved with a high school girl, learns he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai. The American-raised character moves to China in an attempt to connect with his ancestry, leaving behind quite possibly the only girl who has ever loved him.

September, 2007 Hidden Gems

New Line's "Gracie" Stars Dermot Mulroney, Elisabeth Shue, Andrew Shue, Carly Schroeder Teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.



Genius' "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" Stars Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald A sympathetic look at Republicans in early 20th century Ireland, and two brothers who are torn apart by anti-Brit rebellion.



LionsGate's "Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horrors" Stars Snoop Dogg, Ernie Hudson, Danny Trejo, Pooch Hall A hip hop horror anthology of three tales of terror told by the Hound of Hell (Snoop Dogg) that revolve around the residents of an inner-city neighborhood whose actions determine where they will go in the afterlife.


Image's "Splinter" Stars Tom Sizemore, Edward James Olmos, Ivonne Coll A gang member, suffering from severe memory loss, searches for his brother's murderer. He secretly enlists the aid of the investigating Detective, while other members of his gang are mysteriously and sadistically murdered.





Starz's "Pittsburgh" Stars Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley Jr., Illeana Douglas, Moby, Alanis Morrissette, Conan O'Brien, Rachel Carson Jeff Goldblum in this Mockumentary puts his Hollywood actor life on hold to star alongside his new girlfriend in a Pittsburgh regional theater production of The Music Man.



Genius' "Snow Cake" Stars Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman (Weaver) and a man (Rickman) who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.




Screen Media's "I Witness" Stars Jeff Daniels, James Spader After 27 bodies are discovered in a collapsed tunnel in Tijuana, a man tries to unravel the mystery before becoming the next victim.




City Light's "Broolyn Rules" Stars Alec Baldwin, Freddie Prinze Jr., Scott Caan Brooklyn in 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.




Vivendi's "BloodRayne 2: Deliverance Stars Natassia Malthe, Zack Ward, Michael Pare', Chris Coppola It's a hundred years later, and the Vampire Rayne has arrived in the town of Deliverance, Montana where a group of Vampire cowboys have emerged. Led by Billy the Kid, hell-bent on creating is own kingdom, he slaughters townspeople and rounds up children. He spares the life of Chicago Chronicle reported Newton Pyles. Rayne aligns herself with Pat Garret, a member of the long-thought-dead Brimstone society, a dishonest preacher, and a low life named Franson, to stop Billy the Kid and show the world how the West was really won.

August, 2007 Hidden Gems

Wolfe's "Bam Bam & Celeste" Stars Margaret Cho, Bruce Daniels, Alan Cumming. Free-spirited rejects Bam Bam and Celeste both feel that life is passing them by and after seeing an ad for a contestant search for "Trading Faces", a realty makeover show, they decide to follow their dreams to New York City. Their adventure is strewn with potential disasters and comical crises as they encounter thugs, survivalists, racists, a lesbian Lone Ranger, and other roadside distractions before finally reaching the city. They arrive, only to find their hometown high school nemeses, now the style dictators of the world-famous Salon Mirage, sitting in judgment at "Trading Faces". Helped by the show's assistant and Celeste's Mommy, the two friends persevere and discover that true beauty lies within.


Vivendi's "The Hit" Stars Blair Underwood, DeRay Davis, Ernest HardinJr. In this sequel to cult favorite "Straight Out Of Compton High", an up and coming record executive whose goal is to bring all rival rap record labels together and form one Black-owned label that gives back to the community. While trying to build this label, he inadvertently crosses the Mob, who attempts to shut down his plans. From rival gangsters to dodging mob hits to tangled love triangles, this film is full of plot twist and action.


Starz's "Elvis: The Miniseries" Stars Jonathon Rhys Meyers, Camryn Manheim, Randy Quaid, Rose McGowan. A definitive performance in the acclaimed miniseries event that depicts Elvis from 1950s teen outcast to worldwide sensation, through his grim decline to spectacular 1968 comeback. Experience the triumphs and tragedies, excesses and affairs, madness and music of the The King of Rock & Roll.

July, 2007 Hidden Gems

Screen Media's "Disappearances" Stars Kris Kristofferson, Gary Farmer, William Sanderson, Luis Guzman, Genevieve Bujold. Forced to smuggle whiskey in an attempt to save his family, a father and his son emabark on an unforgettable trip. This treachorous journey throuh the wilderness will lead them to discover a haunted and elusive past. It's a Western-type adventure taking place in New England and Canada.

Anchor Bay's "Jam" Stars Jonathon Silverman, Alex Rocco, William Forsythe, Amanda Detmer, Dan Byrd, Dan Byrd, Christopher Amitrano. A traffic accident on a rural mountain road becomes a life changing experience for fifteen diverse people. Sometimes humorous ... sometimes poignant. The plots intertwine in complicated and profound ways.

June, 2007 Hidden Gems

Anchor Bay's "Inside Out" - Stars Eriq La Salle, Steven Weber, Russell Wong, Nia peeples, Tyler Posey, Kate Walsh, Tim Maculan. A suburban homeowner becomes obsessed with the secretive family next door. Norman discovers he has new neighbors when he hears them moving into a nearby house during the dark of the night. While Norman soon learns that Dr. Peoples is a psychiatrist, he can't figure out much else about him, beyond the fact he only mows his lawn in the middle of the night. Eager to uncover the enigma of the folks next door, Norman becomes friendly with Maria, the Doctor's wife, and reaches out to their phobic son, Obert, but Dr. Peoples himself remains a mystery. As time goes on, Norman also discovers he's not the only one in the neighborhood eager to know more about the mysterious arrivals.

Genius Product's "Ruffian" - starring Sam Shepard, Christine Belford, Marian Guyot, Dennis O'Neill, Nicholas Pryor, Frank Whaley. The emotionally charged and heartbreaking story of the legendary "Queen of the Fillies" is splendidly told in this exciting sports biodrama. With two undefeated seasons of record-breaking wins behind her, Ruffian prepares for a grueling showdown with Kentucky Derby-winner Foolish pride at Belmont in 1975. The race takes a shocking turn witnessed by millions of thunderstruck racing enthusiasts.

Magnolia's "The Prisoner: or How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair." Powerful documentary. A freedom-loving Iraqui journalist is mistaken as Tony Blair's would-be assasin and sent to Abu Gahraib prison where he discovers the true meaning of liberation.





Echo Bridge's "The Derby Stallion" - Stars Zac Efron, William K. Moses, Tonja Walker, Bill Cobbs. Fifteen year old Patrick doesn't know what he wants to do with his life, and the pressure put on him by his Dad, an ex-professional baseball player isn't helping. Then Patrick meets Houston Jones, a misunderstood horse trainer who convinces him to train for a famous Derby Cup. But can Patrick convince his parents to help him compete, beat out the rich town bully, and somehow find the champion within him?