Blade 1998  R, 120 min.
Genre: Action / Horror / Thriller
Director: Stephen Norrington
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Donal Logue, Kevin Patrick Walls, Udo Kier, Arly Jover, Traci Lords, Tim Guinee, Sanaa Lathan, Eric Edwards, Donna Wong, Shannon Lee, Carmen Thomas
Based on comic book hero Blade (Wesley Snipes), this is an action-packed story about Blade's effort to stop his archenemy, vampire king Frost (Stephen Dorff), who is trying to take over the world and turn Earth into the vampires' planet. With help from his mentor Abraham Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) and hematologist Dr. Karen Jensen (N'Bushe Wright), Blade sets off to stop Frost before he can complete his evil deed.
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Broken English 2007 PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Zoe R. Cassavetes
Cast: Parker Posey, Drea de Matteo, Tim Guinee, Gena Rowlands, Peter Bogdanovich, Roy Thinnes, Michael Panes, Justin Theroux, Philip Pavel, Melvil Poupaud, Dana Ivey, Bill Wise, Josh Hamilton, Griffin Dunne, Lucy Gordon
Having forsaken the art world for her job as guest-coordinator at a Manhattan hotel and lacking a love life, overly cautious Nora Wilder (Parker Posey) is not living the "good life." It doesn't help that her mother (Gena Rowlands) never misses the chance to point out that Nora is now in her thirties and not in a solid relationship. Adding to her discontent is that her best friend Audrey (Drea de Matteo) just celebrated her fifth wedding anniversary with her adoring husband Mark (Tim Guinee)–but Audrey does question whether she is really in a "perfect marriage." Then Nora meets and falls for well-known French actor Julien (Melvil Poupaud) who asks her to go to France with him. Nora declines, but later, at Audrey's urging, Nora throws caution to the wind, and the two women fly to Paris in search of Julien. It turns out that Nora has lost Julien's phone number and he has a common name, which result in a search involving a more than a few humorous moments.
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 Courage Under Fire 1996  R, 155 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Mystery
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt Damon, Seth Gilliam, Scott Glenn, Regina Taylor, Bronson Pinchot, Sean Astin, Zeljko Ivanek, Kathleen Widdoes, Tim Guinee, Tim Ransom, Mark Adair-Rios
After overcoming his own scandal involving a night tank battle during the 1991 Gulf War, Colonel Serling (Denzel Washington) is now called upon to investigate the bravery of deceased Captain Karen Walden (Meg Ryan) who has been nominated as the first woman to be awarded the Medal of Honor. His investigation results in inconsistencies concerning Walden's leadership of her downed helicopter crew. Ilario (Matt Damon) describes Walden as courageous, but Monfriez (Lou Diamond Phillips) remembers her actions as cowardly–leading Serling to question the wisdom of awarding Walden the Medal of Honor.
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Follow the River 1995 PG, 130 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Martin Davidson
Cast: Sheryl Lee, Ellen Burstyn, Eric Schweig, Tim Guinee, Renee O'Connor, Tyler Noyes, Andy Stahl, Gabriel Macht, Tony Amendola, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Sammy D. Miller, Graeme Malcolm, Juddson Keith Linn
Set in the Colonial era, this made-for-TV film tells the story of young Mary Ingles (Sheryl Lee) who, after being captured by the Shawnee Indians, escapes with another captive, Gretel (Ellen Burstyn). Now, they must find their way home through the Virginia wilderness.
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Heaven & Earth 1993  R, 140 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Hiep Thi Le, Joan Chen, Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Debbie Reynolds, Robert John Burke, Tim Guinee, Timothy Carhart, Dale Dye, Conchata Ferrell
Here we go again! Oliver Stone presents the third of his Vietnam stories following "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July." This time the story is about an Asian woman who falls in love with an American and tries to adjust to life in America.
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A Hole in One 2005  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Ledes
Cast: Michelle Williams, Tim Guinee, Meat Loaf, Wendell Pierce, Bill Raymond, Merritt Wever, Louis Zorich, Jonathan Watton, Mark Day, Ileen Getz, Gerry Mendicino
When Dr. Harold Ashton (Bill Raymond) comes to town promoting lobotomies, Anna (Michelle Williams) opts for a transorbital lobotomy as the solution to the depression she has suffered since the death of her brother. Anna's gangster boyfriend, Billy (Meat Loaf), asks a friend to pose as a neurologist, Dr. Tom Franklin (Tim Guinee), and convince Anna that she doesn't need surgery. The ploy works, but complications ensue when Tom falls in love with Anna.
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Impostor 2002 PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Gary Fleder
Cast: Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tony Shalhoub, Mekhi Phifer, Tim Guinee, Shane Brolly, Lindsay Crouse, Gary Dourdan, Tracey Walter, Elizabeth Pena
The year is 2079, and respected scientist Spencer John Olham (Gary Sinise) has invented the ultimate weapon to fight aliens–just in time for agent Hathaway (Vincent D'Onofrio) to accuse him of being an alien himself. Now, it is up to Olham to clear his name.
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Iron Man 2008 PG-13, 126 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub, Faran Tahir, Clark Gregg, Bill Smitrovich, Sayed Badreya, Tim Guinee, Will Lyman, Kevin Foster, Garrett Noel, Marco Khan
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is a billionaire inventor of U.S. weapons who is kidnapped by terrorists in Afghanistan. His captors order him to build a super weapon, Jericho; Tony secretly builds a super-powered armored suit that he wears to escape. Now he is free and discovers that there is a power out there that plans to destabilize the world. Despite objections from his business partner Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges) and assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), Tony puts on his armored suit and, as Iron Man, vows to protect the world from his weapons that had fallen into the hands of the U.S. enemies.
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 Ladder 49 2004 PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Jay Russell
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Robert Patrick, Morris Chestnut, Billy Burke, Balthazar Getty, Tim Guinee, Kevin Chapman, Jay Hernandez
Baltimore probationary firefighter Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) is trapped inside a burning building, and his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy (John Travolta), is trying to save him. Fearing death, Jack reminisces about his life, career, and marriage to Linda (Jacinda Barrett).
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The Lost Room 2006   TV, 284 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama
Director: Craig R. Baxley, Michael W. Watkins
Cast: Peter Krause, Julianna Margulies, Kevin Pollak, Elle Fanning, Roger Bart, Dennis Christopher, Peter Jacobson, Ewen Bremner, Chris Bauer, April Grace, Margaret Cho, Jason Antoon, Jenny Gabrielle, Tim Guinee
This three-part, made-for-TV miniseries involves eerie events that take place in Room 10 of the Sunshine Motel on Route 66. As Police Detective Joe Miller (Peter Krause) collects clues to retrieve his young daughter Anna (Elle Fanning) who disappeared in the mysterious motel room, he is followed by shadowy figures every step of the way.
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Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis 1991 TV, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Iscove
Cast: Stacy Keach, Richard Thomas, Don Harvey, Robert Cicchini, David Caruso, Bob Gunton, Steve Landesberg, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tim Guinee, Andrew Prine
It is World War II, and the USS Indianapolis had just delivered the atomic bomb that would be used on Hiroshima. A Japanese submarine torpedoed the ship, but due to the secrecy surrounding the mission, rescue attempts were not made for several days and by then hundreds of crews' lives were lost in the shark-infested waters. Following the war, an expedient court martial dealt with the cover-up.
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Once Around 1991 R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Danny Aiello, Laura San Giacomo, Gena Rowlands, Griffin Dunne, Roxanne Hart, Garry Goodrow, Danton Stone, Tim Guinee
Bostonian Renata Bella (Holly Hunter) finds love with obnoxious millionaire Sam Sharpe (Richard Dreyfuss) who does NOT fit her family's image of "family member."
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Personal Velocity 2002 R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rebecca Miller
Cast: Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk, David Warshofsky, Leo Fitzpatrick, Tim Guinee, Wallace Shawn, Lou Taylor Pucci, Mara Hobel, John Ventimiglia
This powerful drama, composed of three stories, reveals how three women–Delia (Kyra Sedgwick), Greta (Parker Posey), and Paula (Fairuza Balk)–escape from their individual emotional prisons.
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The Pompatus of Love 1996 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Schenkman
Cast: Jon Cryer, Tim Guinee, Adam Oliensis, Adrian Pasdar, Kristen Wilson, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Jennifer Tilly
Four friends, Mark (Jon Cryer), Runyan (Tim Guinee), Josh (Adrian Pasdar), and Phil (Adam Oliensis) meet women and fall in and out of love.
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Queen 1993 TV, 283 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Alex Haley's Queen
Director: John Erman
Cast: Halle Berry, Jasmine Guy, Tim Daly, Martin Sheen, Ann - Margret, Patricia Clarkson, Paul Winfield, Raven-Symone, Charlotte Moore, Ossie Davis, Jane Krakowski, Jasmine Guy, Samuel E. Wright, Peter Maloney, Tim Guinee
Alex Haley's saga continues. His first story, "Roots," involved seven generations of his mother's family. The miniseries "Queen" is based on Haley's father's family. Haley passed away in 1992 before completing his story, which was then completed by David Stevens. The plot revolves around Queen (Halle Berry) who was the daughter of a slave, Easter (Jasmine Guy), and plantation owner James Jackson Jr. (Tim Daly). Queen is light skinned and tries to pass for a White person, but in the aftermath of the Civil War, she faces many obstacles along the way.
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Sweet Land 2005 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ali Selim
Cast: Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Alan Cumming, John Heard, Alex Kingston, Ned Beatty, Lois Smith, Tom Gilroy, Patrick Heusinger, Paul Sand, Jodie Markell, Sage Kermes
"Sweet Land" begins with elderly Inge (Lois Smith) burying her husband, Olaf (Tim Guinee), in Minnesota's farm country. She relates the story of her past when, as a young German, Inge (Elizabeth Reaser) arrived in Minnesota during 1920 as a mail-order bride for Olaf. There were major problems with the planned marriage: Inge was German and a socialist, and Norwegian/American Olaf and his Norwegian farming neighbors had problems accepting a woman from the country with which America had just fought a war. Even the Lutheran Minister Sorrensen (John Heard) refused to marry them. These and other trials and tribulations of immigration rise to the fore, but as time passes the love story of Inge and Olaf ends happily.
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Tai-Pan 1986  R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daryl Duke
Cast: Bryan Brown, Joan Chen, John Stanton, Tim Guinee, Bill Leadbitter, Russell Wong, Kyra Sedgwick, Bert Remsen, Janine Turner, Katy Behean
This film could be in the running for "worst movie ever made." The jumbled plot involves a wealthy British trader (Bryan Brown) who does business in Hong Kong. Oh yes, there is also a romance, which is really just a chance to show off women's bodies. Watch for the scene where you can spot the hanging microphone. All in all, this flick is one big loser.
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 Vampires 1998 R, 104 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Action
aka: John Carpenter's Vampires
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Tim Guinee, Maximilian Schell, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Mark Boone Junior, Thomas Rosales Jr., Gregory Sierra, Mark Sivertsen, Henry Kingi, Clarke Coleman, David Rowden, John Furlong
To avenge his parents' murders by vampires, Jack Crow (James Woods) hunts vampires. One night, master vampire Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith) appears and wipes out most of Crow's team of vampire hunters. Crow knows that something big is up because Valek knew his name. Now, Crow and his friend Montoya (Daniel Baldwin) use vampire-bitten Katrina (Sheryl Lee) as a decoy and enlist the aid of Father Adam Guitean (Tim Guinee) in finding the Black Cross to end the killings.
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The Young Girl and the Monsoon 2000 R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Ryan
Cast: Terry Kinney, Ellen Muth, Mili Avital, Diane Venora, Tim Guinee, Domenick Lombardozzi, Liana Ryan, Lee Wong, Christine Merlich, Candyce Mason
When his teenage daughter, Constance (Ellen Muth), comes to live with Hank (Terry Kinney) for three months, problems are inevitable as the middle-aged father tries to deal with his manipulative daughter.
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| 1. Black Day, Blue Night (1995)
2. Blade (1998)
3. Broken English (2007)
4. Courage Under Fire (1996)
5. Follow the River (1995)
6. Heaven & Earth (1993)
7. A Hole in One (2005)
8. Impostor (2002)
9. Iron Man (2008)
10. Ladder 49 (2004)
11. The Lost Room (2006)
12. Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (1991)
13. Once Around (1991)
14. Personal Velocity (2002)
15. The Pompatus of Love (1996)
16. Queen (1993)
aka: Alex Haley's Queen
17. Sweet Land (2005)
18. Tai-Pan (1986)
19. Vampires (1998)
aka: John Carpenter's Vampires
20. The Young Girl and the Monsoon (2000)
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