Author: grahams

Ricardo Tubbs is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy, as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett is charismatic and flirtatious until-while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group-he gets romantically entangled with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The intensity of this case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one-especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.

A calamity at Dante and Randall’s shops sends them looking for new horizons – but they ultimately settle at Mooby’s, a fictional Disney-McDonald’s-style fast-food empire. Free from his dead-end job (and lodged in a new one), Dante begins to break free of his rut, planning to move away with his clingy fiancé. Dante is ready to leave the horrors of minimum-wage New Jersey behind, but Randal – always the more hostile of the two – starts to become overwhelmed by his own rancor.

Since bursting onto the music scene in 1967, Leonard Cohen has inspired generations with his unique personality and haunting music. Director Lian Lunson documents a series of candid interviews with Cohen, using the musician’s artwork, poetry and photographs to reflect upon his colorful past and his creative process. Also featured is live concert and behind-the-scenes footage from the historic “Came So Far For Beauty” Cohen tribute held in Australia in early 2005, with U2, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright, Beth Orton, Jarvis Cocker, Antony, Martha Wainwright, Julie Christensen and others.

AmericaÂ’s endless and futile war on drugs has become one and the same with its war on terror. Reluctant undercover cop Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) follows orders to start spying on his friends, Jim Barris, Ernie Luckman, Donna Hawthorne and Charles Freck. When he is directed to step up the surveillance on himself, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode.

Based on legendary science-fiction author Philip K. DickÂ’s own experiences, “A Scanner Darkly” tells the darkly comedic, caustic, but deeply tragic tale of drug use in the modern world. The film plays like a graphic novel come to life with live-action photography overlaid with an advanced animation process – a method known as interpolated rotoscoping, first employed in writer/director Richard LinklaterÂ’s 2001 film “Waking Life” – to create a haunting version of America, seven years from now.

The man most associated with crossword puzzles is New York Times puzzle editor and NPR puzzle-master Will Shortz. Director/co-writer Patrick Creadon introduces us to this passionate hero, and to the inner workings of his brilliant and often hilarious contributors, revealing the process and allure of this uniquely American pastime. The odyssey leads to the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, an annual challenge founded by Shortz which is as much about community and camaraderie as it is about competition. Featuring interviews with celebrity crossword puzzlers such as Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Jon Stewart, Ken Burns and Mike Mussina.

“One of the most memorable chapters of the Vietnam War has also long been one of the least revisited: the antiwar movement inside the military. Called the G.I. Movement, this resistance manifested itself in countless ways: in organized protests, in desertions and in the coffeehouses that sprang up across the country near military bases. In the early 1970’s the documentary filmmaker David Zeiger worked in one such coffeehouse, the Oleo Strut in Killeen, TX, not far from Fort Hood…

In his smart, timely documentary about the G.I. Movement, SIR! NO SIR!, Mr. Zeiger takes a look at how the movement changed and occasionally even rocked the military from the ground troops on up… During the 1960’s and 70’s American newspapers routinely reported a significantly different story than the one later cooked up by Hollywood and other revisionists. This film shows that as antiwar sentiment gathered strength in American streets, a parallel movement seized the armed forces. By September 1971 dissent among the ranks had become a front-page subject in this newspaper, with a headline that read “Army Is Shaken by Crisis in Morale and Discipline.” … John Kerry’s bid for president proved that long after fighting in Vietnam came to an end, a war of words continues to rage. It’s a war of words that finds Jane Fonda – who performed for tens of thousands of troops in an antiwar revue, ‘Free the Army,’ and makes a passionate appearance in the film – still labeled Hanoi Jane. ‘Remembered as a war that was lost because of betrayal at home,’ Mr. Lembcke has written, ‘Vietnam becomes a modern-day Alamo that must be avenged, a pretext for more war and generations of more veterans.’ In SIR! NO SIR!, Mr. Zeiger remembers that war and the veterans whose struggles against it are too often forgotten.” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is hired by the U.S. Government to find the Ark of the Covenant, which is believed to still hold the ten commandments. Unfortunately, agents of Hitler are also after the Ark. Indy, and his ex-flame Marion, escape from various close scrapes in a quest that takes them from Nepal to Cairo.