Bordertown 2007  R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Gregory Nava
Cast: Maya Zapata, Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Sonia Braga, Martin Sheen, Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, Irineo Alvarez, Rene Rivera, Juan Diego Botto, Kate del Castillo, Randall Batinkoff, Karolinah Villarreal, Julio Cedillo, Brandon Smith
Lauren (Jennifer Lopez) is an American correspondent from a Chicago newspaper who is assigned to the border town of Juarez, Mexico, to investigate unsolved homicides involving many women. It appears that the police are covering up the brutal crimes, and when one of the victims, Eva (Maya Zapata), escapes her captors she gives Lauren her story. While tracking down the attackers, Lauren finds herself in grave danger from a web of corruption that extends over both sides of the border.
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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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 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1992 PG-13, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Fran Rubel Kuzui
Cast: Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry, Michele Abrams, Hilary Swank, Paris Vaughan, David Arquette, Randall Batinkoff
When teenager Buffy (Kristy Swanson) finds out that she is descended from vampire slayers, she learns how to ply her skills. And just in time, too, since L.A. is being invaded by vampires. Some funny scenes, and the film spawned a TV series.
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The Curve 1998 R, 91 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Dan Rosen
Cast: Matthew Lillard, Michael Vartan, Randall Batinkoff, Keri Russell, Tamara Craig Thomas, Anthony Griffith, Bo Dietl, Kevin Ruf, Henry Strozier, Ben Livingston, Dana Delaney
Tim, Chris, and Rand (Matthew Lillard, Michael Vartan, and Randall Batinkoff) are college roommates and have enjoyed partying so much that their low grades may hamper acceptance into graduate school. So, when Tim and Chris find out that a grade of 4.0 will be given if a roommate commits suicide, Tim convinces Chris that they should kill Rand so they can get the grades they need. After Rand disappears but his body is not found, and Rand's girlfriend commits suicide in despair, it becomes clear that there is more going on than meets the eye.
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For Keeps 1988  PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Randall Batinkoff, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn, Conchata Ferrell, Sharon Brown, Jack Ong, Sean Frye, Renee Estevez, J. Trevor Edmond
This film could have taken the subject of birth control and teen pregnancy and really made a statement. It did not, and is an insult to today's problems.
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Heartwood 1998 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lanny Cotler
Cast: Eddie Mills, Hilary Swank, Jason Robards, Randall Batinkoff, John Terry, John Dennis Johnston, Stanley DeSantis, Tantoo Cardinal, Tomas Arana, Muse Watson, Kai Lennox, Kevin Breznahan, Erin Beaux, Jenna Byrne
Sawmill owner Logan Reeser (Jason Robards) comes close to being forced into shutting down his mill when he refuses to strip the nearby forest of its redwood trees. Coming to the rescue is town outcast Frank Burris (Eddie Mills) who falls in love with the mill manager's (John Terry) daughter Sylvia (Hilary Swank). Then, while wandering in the forest, Frank finds gold along the riverbed and comes up with a plan to save the mill and the town as well.
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Higher Learning 1995 R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Singleton
Cast: Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Ice Cube, Jennifer Connelly, Tyra Banks, Michael Rapaport, Laurence Fishburne, Jason Wiles, Cole Hauser, Bradford English, Regina King, Busta Rhymes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kari Wuhrer, Randall Batinkoff
The Black vs. White, men vs. women issues are exploited in this film about college students in the 1970s. Freshman Malik Williams (Omar Epps) is confronted with conflicting views of senior Fudge (Ice Cube), his Black Professor Maurice Phipps (Laurence Fishburne), and his new girlfriend Deja (Tyra Banks) who becomes his tutor. Meanwhile, after naive Kristen Connor (Kristy Swanson) suffers a date rape, she becomes involved with lesbian Taryn (Jennifer Connelly). And then there is Remy (Michael Rapaport), a confused young man, who joins local skinheads carrying out violent acts. The stories intertwine in this lesson about hypocrisy in institutions of higher learning.
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Peacemaker 1997 R, 122 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Mimi Leder
Cast: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Marcel Iures, Michael Boatman, Aleksandr Baluyev, Rene Medvesek, Gary Werntz, Randall Batinkoff, Jim Haynie, Alexander Strobele, Holt McCallany, Joan Copeland, Carlos Gomez, Slavko Juraga
A train crash in Russia sets off a nuclear explosion. Was it an accident or not? White House anti-smuggling official Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman) thinks not, and U.S. intelligence officer Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe (George Clooney) agrees. Together, they set out to get answers that lead to a terrorist Dusan Gavrich (Marcel Iures) who has plans to set off a nuclear explosion in Manhattan.
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School Ties 1992  PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Mandel
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Randall Batinkoff, Ben Affleck, Anthony Rapp, Amy Locane, Peter Donat, Kevin Tighe, Zeljko Ivanek, Andrew Lowery, Cole Hauser, Ed Lauter, Michael Higgins, Peter McRobbie
David Greene (Brendan Fraser) is a 1950s' high-school student who wants to attend an Ivy League university. After he wins a football scholarship to a snooty New England prep school that will ensure his entrance into an Ivy League school, David keeps the fact that he is Jewish a secret in an effort to fit in with his schoolmates and avoid anti-Semitism. David does become a star player, but when classmate Charlie Dillon (Matt Damon)–who has lost both his football position and girlfriend Sally (Amy Locane) to David–learns David's secret, he tells others. Now David must deal with the religious intolerance at his WASP prep school if he wants to keep his dream alive.
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The Stepford Children 1987 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Horror
Director: Alan J. Levi
Cast: Barbara Eden, Don Murray, Tammy Lauren, Ken Swofford, Pat Corley, Richard Anderson, Dick Butkus, James Coco, Sharon Spelman, James Staley, Raye Birk, Debbie Barker, Randall Batinkoff, John Cameron Mitchell, Judith Baldwin
Once more the town of Stepford, Connecticut, with its peculiar women, is brought to the screen. This time around, not only the wives but the children as well are being turned into robots by the Men's Club members. Laura and Steven Harding (Barbara Eden and Don Murray) have just moved to Stepford with their children David and Mary (Randall Batinkoff and Tammy Lauren). Steven's first wife had mysteriously died in Stepford years before. What problems will Steven's family encounter, and will Laura be able to save her family from being turned into robots?
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Streetwalkin' 1984 R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joan Freeman
Cast: Melissa Leo, Dale Midkiff, Antonio Fargas, Julie Newmar, Annie Golden, Leon, Randall Batinkoff, Deborah Offner, Khandi Alexander, Julie Cohen
Cookie (Melissa Leo) escapes from an unhappy home and ends up as a prostitute in NYC working for the evil Duke (Dale Midkiff). Good grief.
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| 1. Bordertown (2007)
2. Broken (2007)
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
4. The Curve (1998)
5. For Keeps (1988)
6. Heartwood (1998)
7. Higher Learning (1995)
8. Peacemaker (1997)
9. School Ties (1992)
10. The Stepford Children (1987)
11. Streetwalkin' (1984)
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