Broken 2007  R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Alan White
Cast: Heather Graham, Jeremy Sisto, Tess Harper, Linda Hamilton, Michael A. Goorjian, Jake Busey, Mark Sheppard, Randall Batinkoff, Bianca Lawson, Joe Hursley, Marc Lynn, Jessica Stroup
Hope (Heather Graham) had left Cleveland and moved to Los Angeles hoping to become a successful recording artist. But that dream was not to be, and Hope is now working the night shift at a diner. She recalls the last few months during which her drifter ex-boyfriend Will (Jeremy Sisto) introduced her to heroin. Now, successions of quirky customers enter the diner–each one representing good and bad phases of her life. Meanwhile, Will is racing back to Los Angeles in a stolen car with plans to recover his relationship with Hope. What more could happen to Hope on this night of nights?
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Deep Shock 2003  R, 93 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Phillip J. Roth
Cast: David Keith, Simmone Mackinnon, Mark Sheppard, Sean Whalen, Tod Kimsey, Armando Valdes, Robert Zachar, Richard Gnolfo, Tyrone Pinkham, Jeffrey Rank, Velizar Binev, D.J. Johnson
A nuclear submarine is attacked by a mysterious object, the crew of an underwater research complex is incinerated, and the temperatures are rising in an underwater trench–threatening to melt the ice cap and flood the world's land masses. What is going on? Could those pesky giant electric eels have anything to do with it? A U.N. scientific team is on the way to the rescue, but one of the team members may be part of the problem.
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In the Name of the Father 1993  R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, Corin Redgrave, John Lynch, Joanna Irvine, Beatie Edney, Daniel Massey, Britta Smith, Don Baker, Gerard McSorley, John Benfield, Mark Sheppard, Anthony Brophy
Following an Irish Republican Army bombing attack in 1974, Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his commune friends (John Lynch, Mark Sheppard, and Beatie Edney), along with members of Gerry's own family, including his father Guiseppe (Pete Postlethwaite), are falsely convicted and sent to prison. Guiseppe dies while in prison, and during his 15 years of imprisonment Gerry, with help from British Attorney Gareth Peirce (Emma Thompson), tries to prove their innocence. Based on a true story. The film received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor and Actress (Pete Postlethwaite and Emma Thompson), and Director.
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New Alcatraz 2002  R, 95 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Boa
Director: Phillip J. Roth
Cast: Dean Cain, Elizabeth Lackey, Craig Wasson, Mark Sheppard, Grand L. Bush, Dean Biasucci, Amandah Reyne, Greg Collins, Gary Hershberger, Richard Tanner, Dana Ashbrook, Marcus Aurelius
Set in the near future, Antarctica is home to a high-security prison where the world's worst criminals are sent. Construction of the facility results in awakening an ancient snake-like monster, and now prisoners and guards must band together to stop the creature's feeding frenzy.
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Out of the Cold 1999 R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Aleksandr Buravsky
Cast: Keith Carradine, Mia Kirshner, Brian Dennehy, Judd Hirsch, Mercedes Ruehl, Bronson Pinchot, Kim Hunter, Mark Sheppard
Dan Scott (Keith Carradine) is a tap dancer in the 1930s who realizes his career, dating from vaudeville, is over when woman chasing and alcohol became more important. He tours his mother's home in Estonia where he is a star, and things go well–until he gets in trouble with the Nazis and with Russia. Poor.
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Unstoppable 2004 R, 96 min.
Genre: Action
Director: David Carson
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Jacqueline Obradors, Stuart Wilson, Kim Coates, Mark Sheppard, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Vincent Riotta, David Schofield, Nicholas Aaron, Kim Thomson
Special Forces operative Dean Cage (Wesley Snipes) is home from Bosnia with a heavy heart after having made a decision that cost the life of his friend. Events take a turn for the worse when CIA agents mistake him for another man and inject him with a drug that causes hallucinations. The race is on as Dean must find the antidote and prove his identity. Not one of Snipes' best films.
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| 1. Broken (2007)
2. Deep Shock (2003)
3. In the Name of the Father (1993)
4. New Alcatraz (2002)
aka: Boa
5. Out of the Cold (1999)
6. Unstoppable (2004)
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