Thomas Jane stars as Beat writer and Jack Kerouac-crony Neal Cassady in The Last Time I Committed Suicide, a promising film that quickly flops. Based on a letter Cassady wrote to Kerouac, this highly stylised feature from director Stephen Kay pretty much follows the former around as he does not much of anything at all. Keanu Reeves is incomprehensible as a friend of Cassady, and Kay's jazzy, angular, colliding style does nothing to illuminate the Beat icon's all-important internal life. If you're new to the whole Kerouac-Cassady-Beat world, this is not a good first stop; slightly better is John Byrum's 1980 Heart Beat, which at least introduces some of the principal figures. --Tom Keogh
A high-strung yet winning crime comedy, Triggermen features an appealing cast in the story of two British con artists mistaken for a pair of seasoned assassins. Adrian Dunbar and Neil Morrissey play displaced, small-time thieves rotting away in Chicago and desperate to get home to the U.K. Morrissey's character has a solution: He takes a briefcase full of cash left in a hotel lobby for a pair of laidback, Yankee killers (Donnie Wahlberg, Michael Rapaport) hired through a second party to murder a Windy City crime boss (Pete Postlethwaite). The client (Louis Di Bianco) pressures the Brits to get the job done, while the real hitmen figure out they've been supplanted. It all makes for an enjoyable (and violent) lark, but an interesting angle finds Wahlberg's soft-spoken criminal anxious to get out of his trade (he falls for Postlethwaite's gorgeous daughter, played by Claire Forlani) while Morrissey becomes increasingly convincing as a gangster. --Tom Keogh
This visually stunning film explores passion betrayal vengeance and revenge and their effect on the life of a naive and unseasoned young man. Basil yearning for freedom from the constraints of aristocracy disregards his position and wealth to pursue the passionate love of a beautiful woman. Betrayed by this love and deceived by the man he thought a friend Basil finds he is the victim of a sinister plot for revenge. He hunts down his tormentor and in a violent fight comes face to face with the price of vengeance. He escaped to the coast of Ireland to face his demons comes to terms with his past and discovers a future that holds the promise of new beginnings.
Northfork: Northfork is a mythical tale of loss and resurrection continuing The Polish Brothers' cinematic obsession with the American heartland and the country's shifting dreams and visions. It is 1955 and the barren town of Northfork is quite literally about to be 'dammed'. Plans for a new hydro-electric plant in the area mean that the plains on which the town stands are soon to be flooded. With most of the townsfolk already evacuated several stoic citizens remain among them a lustful young couple a modern-day Noah who has built an ark for his two wives and a frail orphan boy who dreams he is the lost member of a host of wandering angels. Charged with removing the last of the residents is an Evacuation Committee comprising of six trench-coated agents some of whom will discover their own lives profoundly changed before the deluge is over. (Dir. Michael Polish 2003) Twin Falls Idaho: A different kind of love story. The minute he wakes up and the minute before sleep - for two minutes each day Blake Falls feels alone. He tries to grab those minutes before they vanish. They are enough to remind him who he is. Francis Falls understands that if it weren't for Blake he wouldn't be able to make it. His conjoined twin's heart is very strong. Blake he knows could live without him. The brothers live quietly in an eccentric hotel peopled with odd characters talking in a shorthand formed over 25 years. They dress impeccably in a custom-tailored suit adjusting each other's ties; they dine on cotton candy and on their birthday their only meal is their trademark chocolate cake; they blow out two candles one at a time. They can keep straight faces while telling outrageous tales from their earlier days in show business. When Francis becomes ill Blake holds him through the night the way he always has. Together they feel complete. When Penny (Michele Hicks) a beautiful young woman enters their lives for the first time someone sees the brothers' world from the inside. She makes them think of possibilities when they're certain there aren't any. They start to wonder how it would be to feel complete in new ways. ""Maybe I'll call you when I'm single "" Blake quips. They imagine living not as medical anomalies but as individuals who can breathe walk and dream on their own. (Dir. Michael Polish 1999)
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A dream-like story of loss and redemption set in the lost Montana town of Northfork, flooded to make way for a hydroelectric damn in 1955.
Mystery Men (Dir. Kinka Usher 1999): The hippest cast in history has united to become the funniest superhero team ever. Ben Stiller Janeane Garofalo Hank Azaria William H Macy Greg Kinnear and Paul Reubens join forces to battle Geoffrey Rush in this wild funny and thoroughly original misadventure. When Captain Amazing (Kinnear) Champion City's legendary superhero falls into the hands of the evil madman Casanova Frankenstein (Rush) and his disco-dancing henchmen there's suddenly a chance for the aspiring superheroes to show what they can do. They're the Mystery Men a ragtag team of superhero wannabes featuring: Mr Furious (Stiller) whose power comes from his boundless rage; The Shoveler (Macy) a father who shovels ""better than anyone""; The Blue Raja (Azaria) a fork-flinging mama's boy; The Bowler (Garofalo) who fights crime with the help of her father's skull; The Spleen (Reubens) whose power is pure flatulence; Invisible Boy (Mitchell) who's only invisible when no one's watching and The Sphinx (Studi) a clich-spewing philosopher. Your friends And Neighbours (Dir. Neil LaBute 1998): A dark comedy of the highest order from director Neil La Bute (In The Company Of Men) this is the first time 'Your Friends And Neigbours' has been available on DVD. Theater instructor Jerry starts an affair with Mary and that starts a chain of events that affect their respective partners Terri and Barry and other characters in the film creating a web of relationships. Reality Bites (Dir. Ben Stiller 1993): Winona Ryder Ethan Hawke and Ben Stiller (directing his first feature film) star in this wildly romantic comedy that looks at life love and the pursuit of gainful employment through the eyes of a generation sandwiched somewhere between The Brady Bunch and Melrose Place! As her college valedictorian Lelaina Pierce (Ryder) should be destined for greatness. In reality she is a lowly production assistant for an obnoxious TV morning show (John Mahoney). In her free time Lelaina is making a biting often outrageous video documentary about her peers: (Steve Zahn) and her best friend Troy (Hawke) a brilliant but unmotivated rebel. Meanwhile Lelaina meets Michael (Stiller) an ambitious video executive who wants to showcase her documentary on ""In Your Face TV"". Suddenly she finds herself at the centre of a very odd love triangle with dependable fast-track Michael on the one side and a sexy brooding Troy on the other. Whether cruising to ""Tempted"" by Squeeze or rocking to The Knack's ""My Sharona"" Ryder and friends shine in this hilarious romance that's ""pure entertainment"".
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