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.