Alice Through the Looking Glass 1998  TV, 90 min.
Genre: Family / Fantasy
Director: John Henderson
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, Michael Medwin, Geoffrey Palmer, Steve Coogan, Gary Olsen, Ian Richardson, Marc Warren, Sian Phillips, Rebecca R. Palmer, Greg Wise, Louise J. Taylor
In this TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic, grown-up Alice (Kate Beckinsale) is transported through the looking glass while reading to her daughter. Her adventures are enhanced by a combination of live action, animation, and special effects.
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 B. Monkey 1999  R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Radford
Cast: Asia Argento, Jared Harris, Rupert Everett, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Tim Woodward, Ian Hart, Bryan Pringle, Julie T. Wallace, Clare Higgins, Marc Warren
Alan (Jared Harris), a very proper British schoolteacher, falls head over heels for a London jewel thief, Beatrice (Asia Argento), who provides more excitement in his life than he is prepared for.
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Color Me Kubrick 2005  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Colour Me Kubrick: A True...ish Story
Director: Brian W. Cook
Cast: John Malkovich, Jim Davidson, Richard E. Grant, Luke Mably, Marc Warren, Terence Rigby, James Dreyfus, Peter Bowles, Ayesha Dharker, Robert Powell, Henry Goodman, Maynard Eziashi, Leslie Phillips, Honor Blackman
This film is an amusing story of how con-artist Alan Conway (John Malkovich) passed himself off for years as filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. Working out of London during the 1990s, Conway swindled numerous unsuspecting people who were captivated with the thought of being close to the famous film director and failed to check out his true identity.
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Green Street Hooligans 2005 R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Hooligans
Green Street
Director: Lexi Alexander
Cast: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani, Marc Warren, Leo Gregory, Henry Goodman, Geoff Bell, Rafe Spall, Kieran Bew, Ross McCall, Mhairi Steenbock
Matt (Elijah Wood) takes the fall for his roommate's cocaine possession and is expelled from Harvard. With time on his hands, Matt moves to London to live with his sister, Shannon (Claire Forlani), and her husband, Steve (Marc Warren). It does not take long for Matt to get to know Steve's brother Pete (Charlie Hunnam), and that experience leads to Matt's introduction into the world of "firms," which regular guys join and then fight other firms on weekends during soccer season. The Green Street Hooligans represents one firm in this story that involves loyalty amidst violence in the world of football rivals living on the edge.
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Land of the Blind 2006 R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Robert Edwards
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Donald Sutherland, Lara Flynn Boyle, Tom Hollander, Camilla Rutherford, Marc Warren, Robert Daws, Don Warrington, Ron Cook, Laura Fraser, Jonathan Hyde, Harry Eden
In this political satire, a military man, Joe (Ralph Fiennes), befriends political prisoner Thorne (Donald Sutherland) who teaches Joe about corruption within his government, recruits him to aid in the cause, and they work together–for awhile.
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Oliver Twist 1999  TV, 360 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Renny Rye
Cast: Sam Smith, Sophia Myles, David Ross, Julie Walters, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Ger Ryan, Michael Kitchen, Annette Crosbie, Keira Knightley, Robert Lindsay, Andy Serkis, Tim Dutton, Lindsay Duncan, Marc Warren, Alex Crowley
This made-for-TV miniseries begins where others do not in relating Charles Dickens' classic story of Oliver Twist. This version begins with Oliver's mother (Sophia Myles) becoming pregnant out of wedlock, giving birth, and dying as a result of childbirth. Abused as a child, Oliver (Sam Smith) escapes to London where he comes under the watchful eye of the conniving Fagin (Robert Lindsay).
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Revengers Tragedy 2002 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alex Cox
Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Eddie Izzard, Derek Jacobi, Diana Quick, Andrew Schofield, Anthony Booth, Margi Clarke, Alex Cox, Marc Warren, Fraser Ayres
This nearly unintelligible comedy/drama is based on Thomas Middleton's 17th-century play and uses dialog from that era with modern settings. Years after the poisoning of his fiancee by the Duke (Derek Jacobi), unstable Vindici (Christopher Eccleston) makes plans to extract revenge on not only the Duke but his entire aristocratic family. A dark and violent tale.
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Wanted 2008 R, 110 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common, Kristen Hager, Marc Warren, David O'Hara, Konstantin Khabensky, Dato Bakhtadze, Chris Pratt, Lorna Scott
Fox (Angelina Jolie) recruits Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) into an assassination club, The Fraternity, that devotes itself to maintaining a good balance in life through assassinations. Fox tells Wesley that his father had been a member, and Wesley learns that his father was brutally murdered. The Fraternity leader Sloan (Morgan Freeman) wants Wesley to avenge his father's death. Now, Wesley goes through rigorous training with guns, fists, knives, cars crashing, and blood spewing until he is prepared for his mission. In the process of learning how to destroy lives, will Wesley learn how to control his own destiny?
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| 1. Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998)
2. B. Monkey (1999)
3. Color Me Kubrick (2005)
aka: Colour Me Kubrick: A True...ish Story
4. Dad Savage (1998)
5. Green Street Hooligans (2005)
aka: Hooligans
aka: Green Street
6. Land of the Blind (2006)
7. Oliver Twist (1999)
8. Revengers Tragedy (2002)
9. Wanted (2008)
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