NIGHTCRAWLER is a thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal
stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers
the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of
freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem,
Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling -
where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are
converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo
as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou blurs
the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own
story.
KILL THE MESSENGER
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives
him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming
Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based
on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
LAGGIES
Megan's approaching 30 with a good degree and a boyfriend in hand, but
when he proposes at her friend's wedding and everyone seems to think
that the best way to advance in her career is to take a seminar where
you find out what animal you are, Megan's understandably feeling lost.
After meeting teenagers who want her to buy them beer, Megan is drawn
into 16-year-old Annika's simpler life. She ends up moving in with
Annika and her single father, juggling the life of a teen and that of an
adult, two romantic interests, and the feeling of lagging behind.
BIRD PEOPLE
In an airport hotel on the outskirts of Paris, a Silicon Valley engineer
abruptly chucks his job, breaks things off with his wife, and holes up
in his room. Soon, fate draws him and a young French maid together.
FORCE MAJURE
A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of
skiing. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a
lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside
down. With diners fleeing in all directions, mother Ebba calls for her
husband Tomas as she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile,
is running for his life... The anticipated disaster failed to occur, and
yet the family's world has been shaken to its core, a question mark
hanging over their father in particular. Tomas and Ebba's marriage now
hangs in the balance as Tomas struggles desperately to reclaim his role
as family patriarch.
WETLANDS
The adventures of an eccentric girl who has strange attitudes towards
hygiene and sexuality longs for the reunion of her divorced parents.
STARRED UP
Eric Love (O'Connell) is a 19 year old teenager who is so violent he has
been 'Starred Up' (Moved to Adult prison) where he finds his father
Neville (Mendelsohn) who Eric hasn't seen since he was 5 (since he was
put into care). Neville try's to get Eric to settle down, so Eric gets a
chance to go through therapy with Oliver (Friend).
ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY
Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more
calamities. However, he finds little sympathy from his family and begins
to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother and
sister - who all find themselves living through their own terrible,
horrible, no good, very bad day.
NURSE JACKIE: 6th SEASON
A drug-addicted nurse struggles to find a balance between the demands of
her frenetic job at a New York City hospital and an array of personal
dramas.
BLACK SAILS: 1st SEASON
The highly anticipated pirate adventure, Black Sails, centers on the
tales of Captain Flint and his men and takes place twenty years prior to
Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most
brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a
fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John
Silver. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the
survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of
its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes,
thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened
ideals and its stunning brutality.
