3.9

Detention

2003, USA, Canada

• Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Alex Karzis, Kata Dobó, Corey Sevier, Dov Tiefenbach, K.C. Collins, Mpho Koaho, Larry Day, Jennifer Baxter, Danielle Hampton, Nicole Dicker, Joseph Scoren, Mif, Roy Lewis, Shawn Roberts, Alan Catlin, Daniel Enright, Dan Willmott, Dejan Zahirovic, Joseph Griffin, Richard Yearwood, Dennis James, Eric Cabral, Joanna Glass, Jack Newman, Quentin Dixon, Len Wagner, Ryan Weichel, Dave Van Zeyl, Dwayne McLean
• Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Sidney J. Furie
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Hamilton High is no place for a teacher who cares. Teacher Sam Decker doesn't care anymore. He's quitting. Sam marks his last day in the battleground of public education by getting saddled with the detention class after hours, playing warden to a pack of rebellious students, the worst troublemakers in school. But Hamilton High is about to become an all too real battleground when a well-organized group of killers armed with automatic weapons and explosives invade the supposedly deserted school after hours to use it as an operating base for meticulously planned armored car robbery. Led by the brilliant and sadistic Chester Lamb, the invaders are surprised to discover Sam and the kids from the detention room are still inside the school. The hunt is on as the killers ruthlessly stalk the teacher and students through the school's halls and classrooms, while Lamb tracks them on the surveillance cameras, turning the school's security system against his prey. Sam and the kids band together and manage to combat the armed thugs and foil Lamb's perfectly planned crime. Along the way, they discover a sinister conspiracy that reaches to the police department and even the highest level of government. But Sam Decker still has a few tricks to teach the kids, and he's got some thingfs to learn from them. Tonight at Hamilton High, the lesson is survival.

  7.2

Chicago

2001, USA, Germany

• Actors: Taye Diggs, Renée Zellweger, Cliff Saunders, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly, Dominic West, Christine Baranski, Jayne Eastwood, Bruce Beaton, Roman Podhora, Colm Feore, Rob Smith, Sean Wayne Doyle, Steve Behal, Robbie Rox, Chita Rivera, Susan Misner, Denise Faye, Deidre Goodwin, Ekaterina Chtchelkanova, Mya, Joey Pizzi, Scott Wise, Ken Ard, Marc Calamia, Niki Wray, Gregory Mitchell, Sebastian La Cause
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Musical
• Director(s): Rob Marshall
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make her a star) find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

  7.0

Cypher

2001, USA

• Actors: Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu, Nigel Bennett, Timothy Webber, David Hewlett, Kari Matchett, Kristina Nicoll, Joseph Scoren, Stephen Brown, Arnold Pinnock, Jocelyn Snowdon, Boyd Banks, Steve Jackson, Dan Duran, Valerie Buhagiar, Roberta Angelica, George Santino, Nelson Tynes, Dennis Akayama, Vickie Papavs, Murray Furrow, Scott McLaren, David Bolt, Len Carlson, Les Porter, Bruce McFee, Judy Sinclair, Shanly Trinidad, Anne Marie Scheffler, Mike O'Shea
• Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Vincenzo Natali
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Hoping for a more exciting life than the suburban drawl he currently inhabits, nerdy salary man Morgan Sullivan takes a job as an industrial spy at Digicorp, a global computer corporation. Digicorp assigns him the duty of flying to various conventions around America, recording the speeches that are made. But when Sullivan meets a mysterious woman he begins to realize that his job may not be what it seems, as he descends into a dark underworld of brainwashing and struggles to maintain his own identity.

  6.9

Naked Lunch

1991, Canada, UK, Japan

• Actors: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Monique Mercure, Nicholas Campbell, Michael Zelniker, Robert A. Silverman, Joseph Scoren, Peter Boretski, Yuval Daniel, John Friesen, Sean McCann, Howard Jerome, Michael Caruana, Kurt Reis, Justin Louis, Julian Richings, Jim Yip, Claude Aflalo, Laurent Hazout, Joseph Di Mambro
• Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
• Director(s): David Cronenberg
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who accidentally shoots his wife, whose typewriter transforms into a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in an Islamic port called Interzone. Wonderfully bizarre, not unlike Burrough's books.