Touted as the next great family drama Brothers And Sisters explores the highs and lows of The Walkers - a postmodern American family and their delicate relationships. This is the complete season 1 - 4 collection.
Thomas Taylor (Christian Slater) is finally out on parole. He returns to his girlfriend and daughter and gets a ""legit"" job at a betting parlor... or so it seems. When the parlor gets held up by a band of masked robbers Taylor turns out not to be just an innocent bystander but the ringleader. Then to further complicate matters while in the process of negotiating the laundering of the stolen money someone pulls a con and the money disappears! Now his life and those of the ones he loves are at stake as the cops and the guys who are looking for their cut close in on his trail. Taylor must figure out what happened to the missing millions as well as figure out who in his ring of criminal associates has double crossed him...including a corrupt FBI agent (Val Kilmer). High-speed chases heavy duty danger great gunplay and a superstar cast make this cool caper a hot one to watch.
This ultra-dark shocker opens in tragedy when a beautiful young woman watches in terror as her raging husband kills her love and then himself. Her life is made increasingly traumatic when she becomes the victim of a relentless stalker who casts an evil shadow over her every move.
Drugs were just the beginning... Going beyond the Oscar-winning film this is a forceful and shocking miniseries which takes an inside look at the highly lucrative world of illegal trafficking in a world in which supply and demand isn't just for drugs: it extends to goods weapons and even human bodies. This is an explosive exploration of the dark inner workings of these illicit trade organizations as well as the secret agents that risk their lives to apprehend the elusive
Touted as the next great family drama Brothers And Sisters explores the highs and lows of The Walkers - a postmodern American family and their delicate relationships. This is the complete season 1 - 3 collection.
A semi-pretentious urban sleaze film, Shadow Hours offers Balthazar Getty--sporting a "BZAR" knuckle tattoo and a Charlie Sheen look as a recovering drug addict working nights in a Los Angeles filling station to support an angelic pregnant wife (Rebecca Gayheart). Getty is tempted to the wild side by sharp-suited mystery man Peter Weller, who takes him on a tour of nocturnal weirdsville: piercing clubs, bare-knuckle boxing arenas and big-money Russian roulette parlours. Getty comes to suspect that Weller is a perhaps-demonic serial killer who has been turning women's heads (literally) and calls in cop Peter Greene. But he also goes back to dealer Frederic Forrest to get back on drugs and is stuck with get-in-the-way boss Brad Dourif. The film has a good cast and the germ of an interesting idea, but ends up as just another drama about a backsliding rehab guy and nighttime folks. It works hard on being shocking without going all the way into Clive Barker territory, despite advice on extreme underground culture from shock-tactics queen Lydia Lunch and some nasty fishhook facial sculpture. The ending suggests Weller might be a semi-supernatural character, but cops out of dragging Getty all the way down to hell. Weller, who grabs most of the best lines ("I've seen things in this city make Dante's Inferno read like Winnie the Pooh"), is an interesting, ambiguous villain, but everyone else is very standardised. Writer-director Isaac H Eaton clearly has a large collection of David Lynch videos and watched Fight Club several times. On the DVD: Sound is presented in both 2.0 and 5.1, while the widescreen presentation looks a lot better than the full-frame video release. In addition, there's a trailer and a photo gallery montage of arty looking frame blow-ups scored with pounding weird-rock. --Kim Newman
A man who accidentally kills a prostitute is sent to jail for seven years. On his release he looks to the future and a chance to put the past behind him.... But he reckons without an alcoholic cop who is looking for an opportunity to put him back inside.
An entry in the recent rash of crooks-falling-out cynical crime-comedy noirs, Four Dogs Playing Poker opens with a robbery at a wedding in Buenos Aires. Five friends pose as staff and guests to penetrate the secret collector's vault of lecherous father-of-the-bride George Lazenby and walk away with a valuable dancing-girl statue. Back in Los Angeles, the team are visited by their sponsor, hefty guest-star crook Forrest Whitaker, who tells them there's a question as to whether the statue is on the ship that's supposed to be smuggling it into the country. If it doesn't show up they'll have to cough up a million dollars between them or get killed. To underline the point and in the first of many "it-just-doesn't-make-sense" plot turns, Whitaker has his men shoot Tim Curry, organiser of the gang, in the leg and then, to show that trying to leave town is a bad idea, has him hung up dead in a meat locker with his feet chain sawed off (offscreen) by the comedy British double-act thugs. An unbelievably complicated scheme is hatched between the surviving four, two couples, whereby they each take out insurance policies that benefit the rest and pick cards and safety-deposit box-keys that identify one of them as the designated murderer and another as a victim. Naturally, suspicions simmer (one character, when asked if she distrusts her friends, replies "all my friends are thieves") and triple-crosses are hatched. The prolific Olivia Williams, in Lulu wig and American accent, emerges as the star, walking a knife-edge between imperilled heroine and cynical manipulator but she is ably supported by druggie, computer savvy Daniel London, hunky bartender Balthazar Getty and jittery insurance functionary Stacy Edwards. Familiar, if watchable. --Kim Newman
No parents. No rules! A group of teenage runaways - fleeing abusive parents prostitution drugs and educational isolation - try to survive together on the mean streets of Los Angeles... An all-star cast takes you on an unforgettable tour of Hollywood's notorious underground; from the after-hours dance clubs to the hidden drug dens it's a no holds barred look at life in the fast lane.
Lost Highway has been described by its director as a 21st century film noir a graphic investigation into parallel identity crises a world where time is dangerously out of control and finally a terrifying ride down the lost highway. With typically Lynchian dreamlike quality Lost Highway expands the horizons of the medium taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. It is not only about the human psyche it seems to take place inside it. Set in a city of Lynch's imagination Lost Highway focuses on two separate but intersecting stories. One about musician Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) tortured by the notion that his wife Renee (Patricia Arquette) is having an affair who suddenly finds himself accused of her murder. The other concerns a young mechanic (Balthazar Getty) drawn into a web of deceit by a temptress who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend (Robert Loggia). The tales are connected by a mind-blowing turn of events that calls into question the protagonists' very identities. It all makes for a classic Lynchian nightmare.
Ladder 49: (Dir. Jay Russell) (2004): What does it take for a man to run into a burning building when everyone else is running out? Why do firemen leave their families each morning to risk their lives for strangers? The film chronicles Baltimore firefighter Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) as he makes the transition from inexperienced rookie to seasoned veteran. As he struggles to cope with a risky demanding job that often shortchanges his wife and kids he relies on the support of his mentor and chief Mike Kennedy (John Travolta) and his second family - the brotherly bond between the men of the firehouse. But when Jack becomes trapped in the worst blaze of his career his life and the things he holds important - family dignity courage - come into focus. As his fellow firemen of Ladder 49 do all they can to rescue him Jack's life hangs in the balance. Guardian: (Dir. Andrew Davis) (2006): In an effort to find his place in life a troubled young man enlists in the Coast Guard where he's taken in by a renowned rescue swimmer who's hardened by the loss of his team from an accident years back. Unfortunately for the pair the past is about to re-incarnate itself...
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