Monday, September 24, 2007

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.



Monday, August 20, 2007

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.

Friday, July 20, 2007

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.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

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.