Paul Calderon
Pub. Date
2002
Formats
Description
General Irwin is a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court martialed and sent to a maximum security military prison, The Castle. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter, who runs his command with an iron fist, even killing prisoners when he deems it necessary. Irwin rallies his fellow convicts into a rag-tag army and leads them in a revolt against Winter, an action that the...
3) Girlfight
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Bullied by her father at home and feeling adrift at school, Diana Guzman finds refuge in an unexpected pocket of her native Brooklyn, a timeworn boxing gym, where she learns to channel her strength, discovers a sense of community, and falls for a rival fighter. In Karyn Kusama's raw, understated feature debut, Rodriguez commands the screen with both tightly coiled intensity and deep wells of vulnerability as a young woman hitting back at society's...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Matt is an ex-cop with a gambling problem and a mountain of debt. A mysterious man offers to clear his debts in exchange for the assassination of the city's most notorious gangsters. The only man at Matt's back is married to his ex-wife. Even worse, Matt's heavy drinking and excessive gambling continually ruin his attempts to be a decent father. Now, Matt must learn to politics of the underworld and grapple with his role as a hired muscle. He soon...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Reservoir dogs: After a botched bank robbery, the gang meets up in a warehouse where the group suspects that one of them is really a cop.
Bad lieutenant: He's a gambler ... a thief ... a junkie ... a killer and a cop. Now he's investigating the most shocking case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth, his self-destructive past is closing in.