5.9

Against the Current

2009, USA

• Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Samantha Sherman, Pell James, Justin Kirk, Elizabeth Reaser, Amy Hargreaves, Martin Shakar, Avery Glymph, Chad Brigockas, Tom O'Rourke, John Rue, Douglas Odell, Seth Kanor, Mary Tyler Moore, Constance Barron, Michelle Trachtenberg, Nimo Gandhi, Maggie Brown, Perry Callahan
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Peter Callahan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Struggling with a tragic past, a man with an urgent calling enlists two friends to help him swim the length of the Hudson River.

  4.5

Offspring

2008,

• Actors: Jessica Butler, Kelly Carey, Holter Graham, T.J. Graye, Stephen Grey, Amy Hargreaves, Art Hindle, Erick Kastel, Jack Ketchum, John Kochahney, Matt Larkin, Daniel Lemieux, Spencer List, Tracy Lorenz, Chris Martinez, Pollyanna McIntosh, Scott Mellema, Emma Elizabeth Messing, Andrew Elvis Miller, Will Miller, Preston Mulligan, Ed Nelson, Tommy Nelson, Frank Olsen, Taylor John Piedmonte, Luke Sass, Peter Sass, Tommy Sass, Leigh Shannan, Ahna Tessler
• Genre: Horror
• Director(s): Andrew van den Houten
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Survivors of a feral flesh-eating clan are chowing their way through the locals. Amy Halbard and Claire Carey strive to survive their abduction by the cannibals and save their children. A subplot involving Claire's despicable husband, Steven, gives an opportunity to cleverly compare predatory civilized folk to the appetite-driven primitives.

  7.4

Michael Clayton

2006, USA

• Actors: Tom Wilkinson, Michael O'Keefe, Sydney Pollack, Danielle Skraastad, Tilda Swinton, George Clooney, Wai Chan, Alberto Vazquez, Brian Koppelman, Thomas McCarthy, Denis O'Hare, Julie White, Austin Williams, Jennifer Van Dyck, Frank Wood, Richard Hecht, Bill Raymond, Jonathan Walker, Sharon Washington, Cynthia Mace, Michael Countryman, Ken Howard, Amy Hargreaves, Susan Pellegrino, Rachel Black, Matthew Detmer, John Douglas Thompson, Merritt Wever, Brian Poteat, Christopher Mann
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Tony Gilroy
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Michael Clayton, a high-priced-law-firm's fixer, leaves a late-night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he's taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. He owes a loan shark to cover his brother's debts (Michael's own gambling habits have left him virtually broke). His law firm is negotiating a high-stakes merger, and his firm's six-year defense of a conglomerate's pesticide use is at risk when one of the firm's top litigators goes off his meds and puts the case in jeopardy. While Michael is trying to fix things, someone decides to kill him. Who? Meanwhile, his son summarizes the plot of a dark fantasy novel.

  6.5

Delirious

2005, USA

• Actors: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Alison Lohman, Gina Gershon, Callie Thorne, Kevin Corrigan, Richard Short, Elvis Costello, David Wain, Mel Gorham, Peter Appel, Cinqué Lee, Kevin Phillips, Rodrigo Lopresti, Melissa Rauch, Douglas Crosby, Dennis Parlato, Jeff Branson, Rob Breckinridge, Amy Hargreaves, Juani Feliz, Matt Grace, Jack Gwaltney, Jerome Weinstein, Kristina Klebe, Katya Diaz, Kyndra Reevey, Sheryl Murakami, Phillip Bloch, Kevin Brown
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Tom DiCillo
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. When by chance Toby becomes romantically involved with K'Harma Leeds, the hottest pop star of the moment, Les grows jealous and plots revenge.