
Autumn in New York, Highlander: Endgame, The Perfect Storm, The Way of the Gun, X-Men.



by
George Shaw
Autumn in New York
Successful restaurateur Will Keane is on the verge of turning fifty, yet he's still quite the playboy with a persistent case of commitment-phobia. When he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free spirited woman half his age, he expects another quick and easy romance. But their nothing about their relationship is quick or easy. Instead their encounters are rife with intergenerational clashes, differing philosophies and an urgent sense of sensuality and connection. Just when Will is tempted to bail out with his usual line about "not promising forever," Charlotte responds with reasons of her own about why she feels this relationship can't last forever -- she's dying.
Starring Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Anthony LaPaglia, Elaine Stritch, Sherry Stringfield. Directed Joan Chen.
Highlander: Endgame
The final battle is at hand and the fate of mankind rests in the balance.
Starring Adrian Paul, Christopher Lambert, Lisa Barbuscia, Jim Byrnes, Ian Paul Cassidy. Directed Doug Aarniokoski.
The Perfect Storm
October 1991. It was "the perfect storm" — a tempest that may happen only once in a century — a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour (193 kph), the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat headed towards its hellish center.
Starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, John C Reilly. Directed Wolfgang Petersen.
The Way of the Gun
Two inept criminals kidnap a wealthy pregnant woman, but soon find things going awry when the woman's parents send an aging mercenary to deliver the ransom.
Starring Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, James Caan, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs. Directed Christopher Mcquarrie.
X-Men
Adapted from the most popular Marvel comics of the 1990s, The X-Men are a group of genetic mutants with amazing abilities, brought together and trained by the world's most powerful telepath, Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) to help fight for his dream - a world where the mutant minority and human majority can live together in harmony - to be judged not by the fancy powers they posess, but by the content of their character. However, the Mutant Master of Magnetism, Magneto (Ian McKellen), scarred by the human brutality he's experienced, has come to believe the mutant race is superior to humanity, and should rule over them as their betters, and he's amassed a brotherhood of like-minded mutants to help achieve his goals by any means necessary. With anti-mutant sentiment prevailing at every turn, the X-Men strive to protect the very humans that fear and hate them.
Starring Ian McKellen, Ray Park, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry. Directed Bryan Singer.