Jameson Kowalczyk

Death of a President is director Gabriel Range’s speculative documentary set in December, 2008, that tells the story of the assassination of President George W. Bush on October 19, 2007. Part political thriller, part murder mystery, Range’s film documents the President’s ill-fated trip to Chicago to make a speech about economics, the violent protest that ensues outside, the shooting of the President, and the search for the assassin.

July 11, 1979. 2:28 p.m. Two Columbian men enter Crown Liquors at Miami’s Dadeland Mall and hose the place down with automatic weapon fire before fleeing on foot, leaving the interior of the store covered in broken glass, spilled booze, empty shell casings, and blood from the two bullet ridden bodies of former players in Miami’s billion dollar cocaine industry. And thus begins Cocaine Cowboys, director Billy Corben’s flashy, audacious, violent, and highly entertaining documentary about the international cocaine business that bloomed from Miami, Florida in the 1970s and 80s.

Running with Scissors is writer/director Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’s 2002 memoir of the same title. Murphy is the creator, producer, and also serves as a writer and director on the cable series “Nip/Tuck” – a show that is disturbing, graphic, lurid, and deserving of every word of critical acclaim it gets. He also served as a creator and producer on the WB series “Popular,” which only lasted two seasons, but in my opinion was the only WB series that did not involve vampires that was worth watching, and way ahead of it’s time.

Yeah, well people do get upset, because there are people that believe that you should be honest. And yeah I’m surprised there are actually people that believe you should be honest at all times, and all this kind of virtue and all this crap, and it’s like I don’t believe that.

The year is 2054. The city, Paris. Walled off from the rest of the world, Paris has been expanded in every direction—up, down, and inward—but out, resulting in a futuristic maze-like metropolis superimposed over the classical architecture for which the city is world famous. A network of streets and passageways (and also waterways) crisscross the airspace between street level and the heights of the city’s towers. Glass enclosed shopping centers operate below ground. Images on billboards move and speak, advertising the sale of eternal youth and beauty. Among these streets a woman in her early twenties is kidnapped outside a dance club in an intense, stylish, and bizarre sequence that projects through the windows of your mind like a scene from a David Lynch remake of Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train animated by Frank Miller.