Director Wim Wenders' most corrosive statement on the art of filmmaking 'The State of Things' is a powerful journey into the underbelly of the American film industry. When his Hollywood producer disappears leaving the actors and crew on the Portugese set of a sci-fi thriller with no money or film director Friedrich Munro (Patrick Bauchau) travels to Hollywood to find him. What he uncovers is a shady world where criminals and moguls barely differ and the art of filmmaking is merely another money-making enterprise. The result is both visually arresting and one of the best films about filmmaking ever made.
Diabolique is Jeremiah Chechik's 1996 revamped version of the 1955 French film noir tale of two teachers at a boys school conspiring to kill the headmaster (played in the remake by Chazz Palminteri of Jade and The Usual Suspects). The three assemble an intriguing triangle of revenge and deceit as the headmaster's abused and humiliated wife and mistress team up to get even. Mia Baran is the fragile wife with a delicate heart condition, portrayed by Isabelle Adjani (Queen Margot), and Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct) is the plotting, contemptuous mistress. Together they set out to wreak an unfortunate revenge, but as the story reveals itself, miscalculations abound as hidden agendas and secret lives are unexpectedly exposed. Chechik's new look and timeless setting give film noir audiences something neoteric and seductive to play with. A welcomed change to the film's story line is the fresh addition of Kathy Bates as a daunting private detective. Fans of Stone's will not be disappointed with the latest version of her "I-could-give-a-damn smoldering broad" technique and anyone not yet familiar with Chazz Palminteri will love watching him succeed as the ultimately despicable headmaster. --Michele Goodson
Step into a virtual reality nightmare... Desperately in need of money to care for a sick parent, Jenny takes a job supervising children at a learning centre for gifted students. But when she and two other new employees are ushered into a maximum-security underground bunker where eerily robotic children are outfitted with augmented reality glasses, Jenny finds herself thrust into a disturbing technological experiment in which she is an unwitting player in a terrifying virtual game. This future shock brain-bender, starring Kara Tointon (TV s Mr Selfridge, Last Passenger), Isabelle Allen (Les Miserables) and Elliot James Langridge (Northern Soul, TV s Hollyoaks) , is a creepy kids thriller for our tech-addicted culture.
A young architect (Guttenberg) is engaged in an affair with his boss's wife. Witnessing an attack on a young girl from his bedroom window she needs him to report it since she cannot admit to being there for fear of alerting her husband to the affair. The architect dutifully steps forward and pretends to be the witness only to become the chief suspect in a series of brutal murders...
The Contract is a high concept film set over one night in London where two worlds collide when wealthy hedge fund manager, Nick Dalton, returns home to find squatters have occupied his country house. This ignites a chain of events leading to chaos he could never have foreseen. Nick finds himself thrown into a race against time - he'll be thrust into the world of London's criminal class that is so hellish and so fraught with danger that it will tax every fibre of Nick's being and eventually awaken the part of his soul that has grown limp. Nick is joined on his journey by Erika, a woman who has lost her memory in a violent accident and is being hunted by smalltime gangsters because she has something that they want. Nick is drawn into her dilemma and her seedy, violent world. For the sake of his own life and hers, he must piece together the jigsaw puzzle of her confused mind and rescue them both from harm.
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