Tick Tock (DVD)
Rachel (Megan Ward) and Carla (Kristin Minter) have trouble on their minds, and they want to spread it around. As they plan out a gruesome murder for money, they become involved in blackmail, seduction, and brutality. Rachel wants her super-rich husband dead, and she and Carla have got the ways and the means to get what they want: money.R"
ACTORS: Megan Ward, Kristin Minter, Linden Ashby, David Dukes
The Art of Murder (DVD)
A gripping, sexy suspense thriller, THE ART OF MURDER is an original take on the love triangle plots so often used in noir films like DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Here, an adulterous wife, Elizabeth, is living what seems to her an ideal life, which consists of being pampered by her rich husband and romanced by her young boyfriend. However, a scheming blackmail threatens to ruin it for her when he threatens to reveal Elizabeth`s affair to her cuckolded husband. When the situation leads to murder, Elizabeth realizes she might be in over her head.NR"
Director: Ruben Preuss
ACTORS: Boyd Kestner, Joanna Pacula, Michael Moriarty, Peter Onorati
P.D. James - Shroud for a Nightingale (DVD)
This miniseries is adapted from P.D. James`s popular novel of the same name and features Commander Adam Dalgliesh, the popular protagonist from many of James`s previous books. Here, Dalgliesh`s visit to a teaching hospital proves to be almost prophetic when two nurses are murdered shortly after he arrives. Never one to allow a murderer any leeway, Dalgliesh immediately puts his formidable investigative skills to use and sets out to find the killer.NR"
Mainline Run (DVD)
Hugo Speer (THE FULL MONTY) stars as Taro, a drug dealer recently released from prison who wastes no time before joining up with his former associates for their biggest score yet, which involves the sinister Mr. Fletcher. When the deal goes bad and his cronies begin to turn on each other, Taro's got to fight his way out to stay alive.NR"
Director: Howard Ford
ACTORS: Hugo Speer, Andrew Joseph, Nelson E. Ward, Kelly Marcel
The Last Samurai (VHS)
Edward Zwick directs this sumptuously designed, action-packed period epic that stars Tom Cruise as Captain Nathan Algren. Algren, a former Civil War hero, is adrift in 1870s San Francisco after the war, a lost soul struggling to stay afloat in a booze-soaked stupor. When he is recruited by the Japanese government to train the Emperor`s army, he departs for the unknown shores of Japan and begins training the soldiers in American military tactics. But these skills are useless against a band of samurai rebels led by the proud warrior Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe), and Algren is easily defeated. He is taken to a remote samurai village where he learns samurai warrior codes and ways of life, developing a deep bond with Katsumoto and sharing philosophical conversations with him. Caught between the feudal culture of the ancient samurai warriors and the encroachment of modern society, Algren is forced to choose between his own culture or Katsumoto`s. THE LAST SAMURAI is lavish in its dramatic period costumes and intense performances, and will thrill fans of both historical drama and action films.R"
Director: Edward Zwick
ACTORS: Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn
