Released May 18 , 2007 in the US.
Filmed in Hungary , Isle of Man and Slovakia.
The story : Sales people for weapons company , Palisade Defense are on their way to a retreat to build their team.
Never actually in Europe before , the sales crew experiences a bit of a language barrier.
When they come to a tree blocking the road they must travel , the head of the crew tries convincing the bus driver to just take the alternate route.
But because of them not speaking the same language , the crew head doesn't understand the driver telling him that its a dangerous route to go and he is not going.
Without any more assistance from the driver , the crew carry on down the alternate route.
They finally come to what they believe is the retreat and settle in.
But they are in the wrong place...
Stars Sandor Boros , Danny Dyer , Laura Harris , Andy Nyman , Babou Ceesay , Claudie Blakely , Toby Stephens , Tim McInnerny , David Gilliam , Juli Drajko , Judit Viktor , Levente Torkoly
Directed by Christopher Smith
Rated R
THRILLER/HORROR/DARK COMEDY
Released March 3rd in the US.
Filmed in Canada.
The story : Samantha is a popular high school student but she isn't very nice to her family and some of the kids she goes to school with who she used to be friends with.
When her and her three besties go to their first Senior party of the year , they get into a fight with a girl they bully.
After leaving the party , the girls get into a vicious car accident.
The next thing Samantha knows , she wakes up as if its the day the accident happened.
As this day goes on , she realizes that in fact the day is panning out to be the same exact as the day before.
Now , no matter what changes Samantha makes throughout the day , she wakes up as if its the day of the accident.
Samantha finally figures out that there is something really important she has to do differently so she doesnt have to relive that day again.
Stars Zoey Deutch , Logan Miller , Halston Sage , Jennifer Beals , Erica Tremblay , Cynthy Wu , Medalion Rahimi , Elena Kampouris , Diego Boneta , Liv Hewson , Nicholas Lea
Directed by Ry Russo Young
Rated PG13
MYSTERY/DRAMA/FANTASY
Released October 21st in the US.
Filmed entirely in Louisiana.
The story : Ramsey is a defense attorney for friend and client Boone , who is also an attorney.
When Boone is found dead in his bedroom and his son Michael claims he is to blame , Ramsey is hired by Michaels' mother to keep her son from going to prison for the rest of his life.
But Ramsey has his work cut out for him.
Michael will not speak to him or anyone else.
In fact , Michael hasn't spoken since the day of his fathers death.
It is up to Ramsey to convince a jury that there was possibly a very good reason for Michael to kill his father without Michaels' help.
Stars Keanu Reeves , Renee Zellweger , Gabriel Basso , Jim Belushi , Gugu Mbatha Raw , Jim Klock , Ritchie Montgomery , Lara Grice , Christopher Berry , Nicole Barre , Lucky Johnson
Directed by Courtney Hunt
Rated R
MYSTERY/THRILLER
Released March 6th in the US.
Filmed in South Africa and Canada.
The story : It's the future.
Most police officers are , more and more , being replaced by robots.
Deon is the man who invented these robots and their minds.
When one is seemingly destroyed , Deon takes the robot to experiment on.
Meanwhile , some thugs who are in big trouble need a large sum of fast cash.
They decide to kidnap Deon.
They want him to reprogram one of his police officer robots.
When Deon explains this isn't possible and that all he can do is start the robot he has with a fresh mind , the thugs decide to give it a go.
But the thugs want the robot to help them commit crimes and Deon is absolutely against it.
Stars Anderson Cooper , Dev Patel , Ninja , Yo Landi Visser , Jose Pablo Cantillo , Sharlto Copley , Hugh Jackman , Sigourney Weaver , Brandon Auret , Johnny Selema , Jason Cope
Directed by ( & story partly written) Neill Blomkamp
Rated R
SCIFI/ACTION/THRILLER/DRAMA
Released February 16 , 2016 in the US.
Filmed entirely in Canada.
The story : It is 1630 in New England.
William and Katherine are strict Christians and raising their five children the best they know how.
When their oldest daughter Thomasin is accused of doing secretive things and William swears its not so , the family is forced from the home that they know.
Soon they are living in the wilderness , alone and off the land.
One day when Thomasin is out playing with baby Samuel he disappears.
The family is heartbroken and doesn't know what to make of his disappearance.
But soon their crops fail, food becomes more and more scarce and they all begin believing , because they are sinners , that the evil of a witch has a grip on all of them.
Stars Ralph Ineson , Kate Dickie , Anya Taylor Joy , Harvey Scrimshaw , Ellie Grainger , Lucas Dawson , Julian Richings , Axtun Henry Dube , Athan Conrad Dube , Viv Moore
Directed by (& story written) Robert Eggers
Rated R
MYSTERY/THRILLER/HORROR
(A 2015 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL WINNER)
Made for PBS , airing sometime in 2015.
Season 27. Episode 7.
The story : On July 13 , 1977 the weather was hot , muggy and uncomfortable for the residents of New York City.
At 8:30pm , a vicious lightening storm had rolled in and that's when it happened.
Two circuit breakers were tripped in Buchanan , New York due to a lightening strike at Buchanan South.
The Buchanan South Station attempted converting over 300,000 volts of electricity to lower voltage for commercial use but the attempt was faltered.
This caused all but southern Queens , some neighborhoods in the Rockaways and the Pratt Institute to lose all power.
What eventually resulted during the course of the night was complete and total chaos.
Directed by Callie T Wiser
Not Rated
DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY/SERIES
Made for Showtime , airing September 16th in the US.
Filming location (s) unknown .
The story : In the early 50s , Nick Bollertierri finished college , graduating with a degree in philosophy and went on to serve in the US Army.
By the mid 50s , Nick was teaching tennis after dropping out of the University of Miami Law School.
Before teaching , Nick hadn't done much more than play tennis.
On to Puerto Rico , Nick worked as the tennis director at the Dorado Beach Hotel there.
Then in 1977 he moved to Longboat Key , Florida and began teaching tennis instruction at the Colony Beach and Tennis Resort.
In 1978 , Nick opened his own Tennis Academy.
At the time The Nick Bollertierri Tennis Academy was the first major tennis boarding school , changing the way tennis was taught on a junior level.
Nick trained many of the best , aspiring young players and by the early 80s he was teaching and boarding rebellious and very talented Andre Agassi.
As Andre showed promise of becoming one of the greats Nick slowly dropped the previous attention he had on the other up and coming players and took on the role of Agassi's full-time coach.
Stars Nick Bollertierri , Jim Courier , Carling Bassett , Kathleen Horvath , Boris Becker , Martin Blackman , Julio Moros , Fritz Nau , Andre Agassi , Barbara Feltus , Andres Gomez , John F Bassett
Directed by Jason Kohn
Not Rated
DOCUMENTARY
Released September 26th in the US.
Filmed entirely in New York.
The story : Megan is lonely.
She got dumped not too long ago by her longtime boyfriend and is finally but apprehensively looking to hook up.
She makes a profile on a dating website and soon finds Alec.
Out of all the guys that message her , she likes him the best.
So the two agree to meet at Alec's place.
They spend the night together and in the morning Megan attempts to leave before Alec wakes up.
But various things keep that from happening so Megan makes sure to wake Alec so she can finally leave.
When he is awake the two began arguing and Megan walks out.
Only she cannot leave Alec's building.
There was a apocalypse of a snow storm that happened over night and neither Alec nor Megan can even open the door.
Now at a time when all Megan wants to do is go home and forget about Alec , the two are forced to spend how ever many more hours together until the snow storm lets up.
Stars Analeigh Tipton , Jessica Szohr , Kid Cudi , Josh Salatin , Miles Teller , Michael Showalter , Berto Colon , Kellyn Lindsay , Leven Rambin , Chris Conroy , Brian Pettsos , Joey Lauren Adams
Directed by Max Nichols
Rated R
COMEDY/DRAMA
Made for PBS , airing February 14th in the US.
Season 29. Episode 7.
The story : After married couple Randy and Vicki Weaver began having strict religious beliefs , they moved their family to isolated Ruby Ridge in an effort to get away from corrupt civilization.
Not to far away was the Aryan Nations - a white supremacist , anti-Semitic , neo-Nazi religious group.
Randy being curious , attended some the groups meetings but found that it was not for him.
Although in need of some extra money and work , asked some people from the group if there was anything he could do for them.
The Aryan Nations asked Randy to modify some shotguns by sawing them off.
He did and unknowingly sold two of them to an ATF informant posing as an illegal arms dealer and Aryan Nations member.
Sometime after , Randy was approached by the ATF wanting him to cooperate with their infiltration of the Aryan Nations or be arrested for the illegal shotguns he sold which he claimed he didn't do.
Randy was arrested and when released would not return for his court date , believing he was not guilty of the crime they arrested him for and had no chance at proving that.
A warrant was issued for his arrest.
Randy isolated himself and his family at their Ruby Ridge home for six months , being watched all the time by the government.
But when the government got sick of waiting around for Randy to surrender , a war of sorts began.
Directed by Barak Goodman
Not Rated
DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY/SERIES
Made for PBS , airing January 21st in the US.
Season 20. Episode 2.
The story : Walter Freeman was a doctor who was convinced he was born into medical greatness.
Studying the brain and mental illness after his grandfather before him , Dr Freeman seen many cases not being dealt with due to no one knowing what to do.
This frustrated and angered the doctor and he began doing many experiments in search of a cure for the mental illness he was surrounded by.
In the early 30s , shock treatment was seen as a temporary cure for its patients so that was not a good option.
In 1936 , Dr Freeman conducted his first and very successful brain surgery success , claiming lobotomy to be the way.
By the 40s , he was performing a lobotomy operations using an ice pick through the eye lids and teaching many other brain surgeons to do the operation quickly and massively.
By the 60s , the drug Thorazine was taking the place of lobotomies and Dr Freemans use was becoming less and less.
Stars Howard Dully , Carl Nubile , Jack El Hai , Walter Freeman III , Franklin Freeman , Angelene Forester , Christine Johnson , Leslie Jones McPortland , Richard Biermann , (voice) Campbell Scott
Directed by (& story written) Barak Goodman and John Maggio
Not Rated
DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY/SERIES
"What do we value about being human?"
Released March 28th in the US.
Filmed in Illinois.
The story : Lucas is a 14-year-old outcast.
He is so smart that he skipped a couple grades and goes to high school with older , much bigger teens.
Lucas doesn't really care about fitting in so when he meets 16-year-old Maggie during the last two weeks of summer before school starts , he fills her in on whose who and what to expect.
Namely , Lucas is interested in not conforming to fit in.
Shortly after school starts , Maggie gets to know popular jock Cappie , who happens to be the only senior who is nice to Lucas.
Maggie and Cappie fall for each other pretty quick and this angers Lucas.
Lucas believes that if he can be just like Cappie , Maggie will fall for him instead.
Stars Corey Haim , Kerri Green , Charlie Sheen , Courtney Thorne Smith , Winona Ryder , Ciro Poppiti , Guy Boyd , Tom Hodges , Jeremy Piven , Kevin Wixted , Emily Seltzer , Annie Ryan
Directed by (& story written) David Seltzer
Rated PG13
DRAMA/COMEDY
Released March 11th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Texas.
The story : Sinaloa is a young women who just lost her mom.
She decides to go visit the grave of her music legend dad , who she hadn't known very well or seen since she was little.
When dad past away Sinaloa learned she had a half sister.
So after visiting the grave she goes on over to half sister Merles' house for a visit.
Merle has no idea she had a sister and is hesitant to welcome her into her home.
With some encouragement from Merles' fiancee she decides to get to know Sinaloa.
But getting to know Sinaloa changes everything in Merles' mundane life.
Stars Sophie Reid , Allison Tolman , Luis Bordonada , Angelo Dylen , JoBeth Williams , Tanner Beard , Larry Jack Dotson , Monique Straw
Directed by ( & story written by) Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin
Not Rated
DRAMA/MYSTERY
