Home Media Magazine - October 14-20, 2007 - (Page 26) REVIEWS I DECEIT Prebook 10/18; Street 11/13 ThinkFilm, Thriller, $27.98 DVD. Stars Emmanuelle Chriqui, Matt Long, Luke Mably, Pell James, Jon Abrahams, Joe Pantoliano. www.homemediamagazine.com but not before an alcohol-inspired fling with Emily. Flash-forward five years: Brian is a millionaire married to Emily and Dave returns home with his new girlfriend when his father dies. Dave decides to remain in town and run his father’s bar while preparing to sell the family home. He soon finds his relationships with Brian and Emily complicated by both his past indiscretion and current attraction to her, as well as tensions between the couple. Add dark secrets to ulterior motives and the result is a potent mix of sexual tension and lethal intentions. Like much of film noir, the engrossing Deceit boasts flashbacks, voiceover narration, a complex, maybe convoluted, storyline and, like many of the best films of its kind, some wildly contrived elements. The appealing cast also includes a wonderfully understated turn by the always engaging veteran character actor Pantoliano, who produced the film. — David Greenberg W riter-director Matthew Cole Weiss clearly knows his film history, celebrating the legacy of film noir without merely copying the classics. Weiss has crafted a completely modern-feeling film that could have easily been made decades ago — albeit with slightly less-steamy softcore sensuality. The familiar, though nonetheless entertaining, narrative focuses on a trio of fresh college graduates — Dave (Long of TV’s “Jack and Bobby”), his best friend Brian (Mably of The Prince & Me) and Brian’s girlfriend Emily (Chriqui of “Entourage”) — with their futures waiting for them. Dave prepares to leave town and head to New York for law school, I CIA: EXILED Prebook 10/16; Street 11/13 Universal/Screen Media, Action, $24.98 DVD, ‘R’ for sexuality and violence. Stars William Peterson, George C. Scott, Julie Carmen. T his smart, sexy 1993 British TV movie stars Peterson (“CSI”) as Stephen Guerin, an ex-CIA agent who has been exiled by the U.S. government to the Caribbean island of Curaçao after killing a traitorous fellow agent. Now forced to work as a security officer for the American Consulate, Stephen spends most of 26 Home Media Magazine October 14–20, 2007 http://www.homemediamagazine.com http://www.disinfo.com http://myspace.com/disinfo
For optimal viewing of this digital publication, please enable JavaScript and then refresh the page. If you would like to try to load the digital publication without using Flash Player detection, please click here.