The Veteran (2006)
Sidney J. Furie’s The Veteran is a respectable straight-to-DVD movie that was headed for the “pleasant surprise” category before self-destructing with a terrible, out-of-the-blue ending.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Actors: Ally Sheedy, Austin Farwell, Bobby Hosea, Casper Van Dien, Colin Glazer, Donald Burda, Jim Codrington, Michael Ironside, Pablo Espinosa, Sean Baek
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn’t prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie’s determined to go pro and to convince…
Kundun (1997)
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as ‘Kundun’, which means ‘The Presence’. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an…
The Country Years (1992)
An adolescent comes of age during a summer in the Rhône valley with his maternal grandparents. Jules seems a little too close to his mother and distant from his father,…
Accidental Texan (2024)
Erwin blows his first acting job and finds himself stranded in Texas, where he’s taken under the wing of a nearly bankrupt oil driller Merle and his cohort Faye. The…
The Secret (2000)
Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with…
Lise and Andre (2000)
Lise is a Parisian prostitute who has a young son, Sebastien. Lise dotes on her boy, who has a gift for music and sings in a children’s choir directed by…
Alibi (2003)
A thriller with a bit of romance and touches of black humor along the way. Greg is discovered with the dead body of his wife’s lover by Marcey, a public…