After Alice 1999  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Eye of the Killer
Director: Paul Marcus
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Henry Czerny, Stephen Ouimette, Polly Walker, Eve Crawford, Jason Jones, Ronn Sarosiak, Gary Hudson, Dennis Akayama, Ardon Bess
Detective Mickey Hayden (Kiefer Sutherland) is an alcoholic, due in part to failed attempts in hunting down a serial killer 10 years earlier. After all this time, the killer strikes again, and Mickey is put on the case. But this time, something is different: when coming in physical contact with evidence, he has psychic powers that provide information.
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The Boys of St. Vincent 1992  TV, 186 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John N. Smith
Cast: Henry Czerny, Johnny Morina, Bryan Dooley, Greg Thomey, Brian Dodd, Ashley Billard, Alain Goulem, Sam Grana, Maurice Podbrey, Aidan Devine, David Francis, Gordon Day
Based on mistreatments that took place at St. Vincent's orphanage in Newfoundland, this story reveals physical, sexual, and emotional abuses as well as the religious and political forces determined to keep the public unaware.
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Cement 1999 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Adrian Pasdar
Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Chris Penn, Sherilyn Fenn, Henry Czerny, Anthony DeSando, Gregory Jbara, Yorgo Constantine, Titus Welliver, Kevin Jackson, Max Martini
Corrupt cops Nin (Jeffrey Wright) and Holt (Chris Penn) are into the gangster and drug scenes. When hot-headed Holt finds his girlfriend with another gangster, there's hell to pay–a bath in cement for the gangster. Flashbacks show how they got to this point.
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Chaos 2006 R, 106 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Tony Giglio
Cast: Jason Statham, Ryan Phillippe, Wesley Snipes, Henry Czerny, Justine Waddell, Nicholas Lea, Jessica Steen, Rob LaBelle, John Cassini, Damon Johnson, Paul Perri, Keegan Connor Tracy, Natassia Malthe, Terry Chen
Quentin Conners (Jason Statham) is not happy to be assigned rookie Shane Dekker (Ryan Phillippe) as his new partner but finds that they must work together to end a series of bank heists. Lorenz (Wesley Snipes) and his gang of thieves have held hostages and blown up banks but stolen no money. Instead, they have planted a virus in an international bank system and plan to steal billions from accounts. Now, Conners and Decker enter into a game of cat-and-mouse as they try to uncover what is going on.
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 Clear and Present Danger 1994 PG-13, 142 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, James Earl Jones, Donald Moffat, Harris Yulin, Joaquim de Almeida, Dean Jones, Thora Birch, Hope Lange, Henry Czerny, Miguel Sandoval, Benjamin Bratt, Raymond Cruz, Ann Magnuson
In the United States, the President is given the power to order military might only in the case of "clear and present danger" to the national security. This is the reasoning behind President Edward Bennett (Donald Moffat) ordering Special Forces into Colombia to break up a drug cartel. Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) is the President's intelligence deputy who leads the covert military attack. Intrigue and action prevail from beginning to end.
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 The Exorcism of Emily Rose 2005 PG-13, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cast: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Carpenter, Colm Feore, Joshua Close, Duncan Fraser, Kenneth Welsh, JR Bourne, Mary Beth Hurt, Henry Czerny, Shohreh Aghdashloo
When Catholic priest Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson) performs an exorcism on 19-year-old Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter), she dies, and Father Moore is arrested and charged with murder. The lawyer (Laura Linney) who defends him goes up against a cocky state's attorney (Campbell Scott) and the fight is on. Eerie flashbacks of Emily's possession provide horror scenes–interspersed with courtroom drama.
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Fido 2007  R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi
Director: Andrew Currie
Cast: Carrie-Anne Moss, Dylan Baker, K'Sun Ray, Billy Connolly, Henry Czerny, Tim Blake Nelson, Alexia Fast, Jennifer Clement, Sonja Bennett, Aaron Brown, Brandon Olds, Rob LaBelle, Mary Black, David Kaye
Set in the imaginary town of Willard during the 1950s, this satire features an alternate world in which zombies once rose from the dead and threatened all of humanity. But all was not lost; a company named ZomCon came up with a special collar that turns zombies into slaves that do labor for the law-abiding citizens. Eleven-year-old Timmy's (K'Sun Ray) mother Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss) buys a zombie to use as a status symbol, and Timmy bonds with it and names it Fido (Billy Connolly) because it growls at people. Timmy's Dad (Dylan Baker) is not happy with the situation because Fido, who never complains and does one chore after another, is a better father and husband than he is. There is one slipup, however, when Fido's collar malfunctions and he mauls an elderly neighbor, Mrs. Henderson (Mary Black). Now a zombie outbreak threatens the neighborhood.
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The Ice Storm 1997 R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Henry Czerny, Sigourney Weaver, Jamey Sheridan, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Courtney Peldon, David Krumholtz, Adam Hann-Byrd, Tobey Maguire, Kate Burton, Katie Holmes, Maia Danziger, Michael Cumpsty
Set in Connecticut during the weekend after Thanksgiving, 1973, this is a tale about members of the wealthy Hood and Carver families who have lost purpose in their lives. Sixteen-year-old Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire) is home from prep school but wishing he was nearer to Casey (Katie Holmes) who he has a crush on. Meanwhile, his 14-year-old sister Wendy (Christina Ricci) has been playing around sexually with neighbor Mikey Carver (Elijah Wood)–whose mother Janey (Sigourney Weaver) is having an affair with Wendy's father Ben (Kevin Kline). Ben's wife Elena (Joan Allen) knows that there are problems but has no idea of how to cope. The ice storm hits, and they find things turning from bad to worse.
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 Mission: Impossible 1996 PG-13, 111 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Beart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Dale Dye, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Marcel Iures, Ion Caramitru, Valentina Yakunina, Marek Vasut, Nathan Osgood
Tom Cruise stars as government agent Ethan Hunt whose mission is to find a stolen, top-secret computer disk that lists spies and their whereabouts. The evidence has pointed to Hunt as the one responsible for the theft, but he sets out to clear his name. Off he heads with his group of special agents from Eastern Europe to CIA headquarters–always on guard against terrorist attacks against U.S. citizens and searching for the mole.
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 The Pink Panther 2006 PG, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure
Director: Shawn Levy
Cast: Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Beyonce Knowles, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Henry Czerny, Kristin Chenoweth, Roger Rees, William Abadie, Scott Adkins, Dexter Bell, Monty C. Floyd, Beyonce Knowles, Phillip Goodwin, Henri Garcin
In this prequel to the original "Pink Panther" (1964), the bumbling Inspector Clousseau (Steve Martin) is working on a murder case in which a diamond ring has been stolen from a murdered soccer coach. That ring just happens to be the famous Pink Panther diamond, and Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Kevin Kline) promotes Clousseau to inspector in the quest to find the diamond. Dreyfus then places Gendarme Gilbert Ponton (Jean Reno) on the case with instructions to report back all actions taken by Clousseau–and the search is on.
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Possessed 2000  TV, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Steven E. DeSouza
Cast: Timothy Dalton, Henry Czerny, Christopher Plummer, Piper Laurie, Jonathan Malen, Michael Rhoades, Shannon Lawson, Michael McLachlan, Richard Waugh
"The Exorcist" this is not, though both are based on the only Vatican-sanctioned exorcism in the U.S. in the 20th century. Timothy Dalton is the priest who tries to cast out the demon possessing a boy in 1950s' St. Louis, though he has several demons of his own to contend with.
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| 1. After Alice (1999)
aka: Eye of the Killer
2. The Boys of St. Vincent (1992)
3. Cement (1999)
4. Chaos (2006)
5. Clear and Present Danger (1994)
6. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
7. Fido (2007)
8. The Ice Storm (1997)
9. Mission: Impossible (1996)
10. The Pink Panther (2006)
11. Possessed (2000)
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