In the early ’70s, police corruption was rampant in New York City. The Vietnam War was taking a devastating toll overseas and at home. Soldiers were brought back to the U.S. either in body bags or addicted to an imported opiate called heroin-which they shared with curious experimenters who became instantly hooked. With the assistance…
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Even Money (2007)
Tagline: Life is a gamble. How much are you willing to risk? Even Money is a ferociously compelling drama that follows the lives of nine individuals as their fates become increasingly entwined in a web of addiction and gambling, culminating at one critical moment where their lives will be lost or reclaimed. In Even Money…
The Lookout (2007)
Tagline: Whoever has the money has the power. From writer / director Scott Frank (Out of Sight) comes The Lookout, an inventive and moving new riff on the crime thriller with a most unusual person at its center: Chris Pratt (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a night janitor who, in the wake of a traumatic car accident, suffers…
Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)
Tagline: Victim. Vampire. Assassin. “Rise” is a supernatural thriller in which a reporter (Liu) wakes up in a morgue to discover she is no longer among the living. She vows revenge against the cult responsible for putting her there and hunts them down one by one. Chiklis plays ‘Rawlins,’ a haunted police detective whose daughter…