Tim Roth

Captives
$14.99
I realize this isn't actually a 5 star movie, but the acting by both Tim Roth and Julia Ormond was excellent and their chemistry amazing. The premise didn't make much sense, a female dentist working in a prison and why at the beginning, this job was so important to her. She was insecure as her husband had cheated on her and Philip Chaney (Roth) was in prison for killing his wife for the same reason.

She still continued to love and trust him, even after the truth became known to her.He was lonely, desolate, isolated and yearning for female contact. Their rapport and connection was immediate and I would like to think his actions were beyond his control and he was seeking redemption. I can't tell you how many times I watched this movie for the marvelous acting and their relationship. The way he looked at her at the end, when he said that he'd go to the Governor and protect her, was so moving and sincere.

Should he, who was so insecure and yearning for love, be trusted by her, I don't know. Personally, I'd be very leery as he committed murder out of jealousy. Could he have changed during those 10 years of isolation. He appeared so, sweet, kind, empathetic and understanding, but there was a violent side to him. She felt dreadfully betrayed and violated, losing trust for her husband. Philip was there attentive, witty, attractive and intelligent and doting on her. I'd like to think her trust in him wouldn't be an error but I might be as vulnerable as she was. She was mesmerized by him.

Little Odessa
$14.98
"Little Odessa," (1994), written and directed by James Gray, is a remarkably powerful and effective, award-winning crime drama set among the Russian community in present-day Brooklyn, New York. At its heart, it's a tale of a dysfunctional family that has lost its way in its new American life. And it's been given a top-drawer cast, all of whom fully inhabit their roles. Arkady Shapira, played by Maximilian Schell, is the unhappy father of this brood: in Russia, he was a respected man; in Brooklyn he runs a newsstand. Irina, his wife, played by the superb Vanessa Redgrave, is suffering from a brain tumor. Tim Roth, in one of his best performances, is their disaffected son Joshua; he's become a professional hit man, and long exiled himself from family and neighborhood. Edward Furlong plays his confused younger brother Reuben. Moira Kelly turns in a fine performance as Alla Shustervich, former girlfriend of Roth's character.

Life and death business brings Roth's character back to Brooklyn's Brighton Beach neighborhood;it resembles the Russian Odessa, as both lie on the sea. It's bleak in winter, and he knows he should not return. But return he does, yearning to restore relations with his family, over his father's objections. It soon proves to have not been a good idea.

Those of us who lived in Brooklyn as the Russians came crowding in in the hundreds of thousands never quite knew what to make of them, nor, I suppose, do we yet. But this is surely the Brooklyn we know, with its massive, solid, prewar buildings -- huge boilers in the basements -- in which entire families have been born, lived, and died. And Gray's intense script has given his characters here dialog and usage that any Brooklynite would recognize, and these actors, most especially including the English Roth, have sure got the local accent.

The movie is as bleak in outlook and outcome as its wintry,dirty-snowy setting, and, in its specificity and verisimilitude, it earns its status as a solid gangster picture.

Lie to Me: Season One
$49.98
I find this show very interesting and even educational in someways. I find it refreshing as a different show among all the medical, legal, police dramas on T.V.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
$14.99
Super comedy with extraordinary actor Gary Oldman. I have a lot laughed.

What's more there is an interview with Gary Oldman, during 1 hour. Excellent for all Gary Oldman fan!!