简介：Charles Burnett, one of America's most highly regarded independent filmmakers, wrote and directed this domestic drama about a black middle-class family living in South central Los Angeles. However, there are no gangs, no guns, no drugs but instead a lyrical story that draws on folklore and the supernatural.family tensions are already simmering when Harry (Danny Glover) arrives to visit his old friends. He exudes an easy charm, knows secret past and present and is soon installed in the heart of the family. However, as his stay lengthens, so does he begin to cast an even more malevolent spell, provoking turmoil, setting son against son, reviving past hatreds, and inflicting a mysterious illness.Glover delivers a career-topping performance as the garrulous family friend, full of hidden menace, effortlessly evoking nostalgia and horror in the same breath.As ever, Burnett provides a wonderful music track featuring gospel, blues and jazz and a cameo from the legendary Jimmy Weatherspoon.'A slow-burning, soul-insinuating, 12-bar blues of a movie.' Tom Charity, Time Out'Danny Glover is marvellous, and terrifying, as a charismatic old-timer.' The Times(from the description on the back cover of the DVD)
简介：二十七岁的马克斯（詹姆斯·斯派德 James Spader 饰）是一位事业有成的广告人，不久前，他的妻子不幸去世，至今，马克斯都未能走出丧妻的悲痛阴影中，个性也因此而变得封闭和阴沉。某日，他来到了一间小酒吧喝酒解闷，在这里，马克斯遇见了名为诺拉（苏珊·萨兰登 Susan Sarandon 饰）的四十三岁女招待。命运让这两个身份地位和年龄都悬殊巨大的人相互吸引，诺拉让马克斯暂时淡忘了痛苦，马克斯亦教会了诺拉什么是尊重，随着时间的推移，他们坠入了爱河。然而，这段世人眼中并不匹配的恋情注定要遭到诸多的考验，最终，他们的真爱能否战胜世俗的非议和彼此之间巨大的鸿沟呢？
简介：约翰·波耶加正商谈主演新片《裸奇点》(A Naked Singularity)。由《小丑回魂》《沉默的天使》编剧Chase Palmer执导，David Matthews(《毒枭》《黑胶时代》)写初版剧本，Palmer进行了润色。基于Sergio De La Pava所著同名小说，探索了美国的刑事司法体系，讲述卡西在纽约工作，是一名成功的公共辩护律师。他在工作的重压下开始紧张，在输掉第一个案子后，他开始质疑一切。
简介：Over sixty years after the end of World War II, recently declassified documents and contemporary experiments offer insight into a multitude of attempts at assassinating one of the most feared and despised dictators of the 20th Century. As the Nazi war machine spread terror and death across Europe, there were at least forty-two documented plots to kill Adolf Hitler and bring his regime crumbling to the ground. But who were the men that offered to lay their own lives on the line for the sake of killing one of history's most despised tyrants, and just how did they plan on accomplishing such a formidable feat? In this documentary, the filmmakers at National Geographic offer detailed insight into the forty-two assassination plots that may have altered the course of history had they actually succeeded. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide从最近的一堆已解密的绝密档案中，发现有多达42次试图刺杀德国独裁者-希特勒的行为，最著名的莫过于1944年7月20日的施陶芬伯格事件，当然最终还是成功的几乎没有。了跟随这个节目，让我们来了解了解当年的历史始末吧。