Crazy as Hell 2002  R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Eriq La Salle
Cast: Eriq La Salle, Ronny Cox, Michael Beach, John C. McGinley, Sinbad, Tia Texada, Tracy Pettit, William Bassett, Twink Caplan, Tom Everett, Jane Carr, Roberta Haze, Khylan Jones, Jim Ortlieb, J.P. Manoux
Dr. Ty Adams (Michael Beach) arrives at Sedah State Mental Hospital along with a documentary crew that plans to film his unorthodox psychiatric treatments. But, Adams does not count on a new patient (Eriq La Salle) who claims to be Satan and has more than a few tricks up his sleeve.
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Glitter 2001  PG-13, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall
Cast: Mariah Carey, Max Beesley, Da Brat, Tia Texada, Valarie Pettiford, Ann Magnuson, Terrence Howard, Dorian Harewood, Grant Nickalls, Eric Benet
Pop music's Mariah Carey gets her first film role as aspiring singer Billie Franklin who joins forces with a DJ, Julian Dice (Max Beesley). He serves as her producer as well as lover; together they set off on a precarious journey that ends in superstardom.
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 Nurse Betty 2000  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
Director: Neil LaBute
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Renee Zellweger, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear, Aaron Eckhart, Tia Texada, Crispin Glover, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Allison Janney, Kathleen Wilhoite, Elizabeth Mitchell, Susan Barnes, Laird Macintosh, Sung Hi Lee, Harriet Sansom Harris
Two romantic fantasies evolve after Betty (Renee Zellweger) witnesses hit men Charlie (Morgan Freeman) and Wesley (Chris Rock) murder her no-good husband Del (Aaron Eckhart). Betty blocks out all memory of the trauma, climbs into her Buick, and plans to meet the man of her dreams: Dr. David Ravell (Greg Kinnear)–a soap opera character she imagines, in her muddled state, to be her long lost lover. Unknown to Betty, that Buick just happens to contain the drugs that Del stole from Charlie and Wesley. Hence, those two are in hot pursuit. Along the route–the Grand Canyon, to be precise–Charlie begins to fantasize about a romance with Betty. Once in L.A., Betty is mistaken for an ambitious actress, and the fun begins.
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Paulie 1998 PG, 91 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Director: John Roberts
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Bruce Davison, Jay Mohr, Trini Alvarado, Buddy Hackett, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Matt Craven, Bill Cobbs, Tia Texada, Laura Harrington
Paulie (voice of Jay Mohr) is a parrot that can do more than speak–it can also reason mentally. Paulie helps Marie (Hallie Kate Eisenberg), a young girl who stutters. But when the two are separated, Paulie spends years searching for Marie. Despite adversities, Paulie flies the skies searching for Marie who has moved across country.
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 Phone Booth 2003  R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell, Katie Holmes, Paula Jai Parker, Arian Ash, Tia Texada, John Enos III, Keith Nobbs, Richard T. Jones
When Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) picks up a ringing, pay telephone, the voice on the line tells Stu that there is a high-power rifle aimed at him and that he will be shot if he tries to leave the phone booth. Will Stu win this deadly game of wits?
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 Spartan 2004 R, 106 min.
Genre: Action
Director: David Mamet
Cast: Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Ed O'Neill, Kristen Bell, Johnny Messner, Alexandra Kerry, Tia Texada, Lionel Mark Smith, Chris LaCentra, Jeremie Campbell, Renato Magno
After the President's daughter (Kristen Bell) is kidnapped, military special-operations officers–Scott (Val Kilmer) and Curtis (Derek Luke)–are called in to rescue her before the press gets wind of what is going on.
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing 2001 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: 13 Conversations About One Thing
Director: Jill Sprecher
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, John Turturro, Alan Arkin, Clea DuVall, Amy Irving, Barbara Sukowa, Tia Texada, Frankie Faison, Shawn Elliott, William Wise
"What is happiness?" and "How does one find it?" are the questions this film deals with in crisscrossing stories involving New Yorkers whose reactions run the gamut from happiness to self-destruction.
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The Thirteenth Floor 1999 R, 120 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Josef Rusnak
Cast: Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dennis Haysbert, Steve Schub, Jeremy Roberts, Leon Rippy, Janet MacLachlan, Rif Hutton, Tia Texada, Brad William Henke, Venessia Valentino, Burt Bulos, Howard S. Miller
A computer scientist, Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl), is murdered but not before he leaves Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko) a message about his new discovery. When Douglas logs on to his computer, he uncovers a massive cyberspace invention that allows journeys back and forth to 1937–but not without consequences.
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| 1. Crazy as Hell (2002)
2. Glitter (2001)
3. Nurse Betty (2000)
4. Paulie (1998)
5. Phone Booth (2003)
6. Spartan (2004)
7. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
aka: 13 Conversations About One Thing
8. The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
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