As our world expands to include the entire galaxy everyone rushes to claim their own piece of this new world and thousands of colonies arise. With no core government, rogue colonies begin to wreak havoc and without a centralized army to protect the innocent peace is all but lost. Now at the end of mankind’s greatest battle, empires will crumble, alliances will form, enemies will rise, and heroes will fall.
Jesse Stone is a former LA policeman, who relocates to Paradise, Massachusetts after leaving the force due to a drinking problem. He becomes Chief in the small coastal town and buys a secluded house where he lives with his senior hound dog. Intervening in a domestic abuse case, he soon becomes involved with the husband’s more serious criminal behavior, connected to the mob. While solving a murder he wins over his new staff and becomes romantically involved with a local attorney.
Nobody wants them but everybody is watching: from time immemorial, animal fights have been as much looked down upon as they have been loved. “The Beast Within” pursues the reasons for man’s drive to have animals fight against each other. It picks up the trails of our martial instincts that lead into various cultures.
Romulus is mentally ill, a troglodyte in a New York City park. He’s also a gifted composer and the father of a city cop. On Valentine’s Day, a young man freezes in a tree near his cave. The police determine it’s the accidental death of someone behaving bizarrely, but Romulus believes a friend of the dead youth who says that noted avant-garde photographer, David Leppenraub, murdered him. Romulus, urged on by hallucinations of his wife as a young woman, resolves to catch the killer and manages to be invited to Leppenraub’s farm to play a new composition. Can Romulus hold it together long enough to get to the bottom of the death and also to make a breakthrough with his daughter?
A group of friends on vacation decide to venture onto a trail high up in the mountains that has been closed for repairs. The climb proves more perilous than planned, especially as they soon realize that they are not alone. The adventure turns into a nightmare.
Fact merges with fiction in writer/director Tom Quinn’s deeply personal tale of two teenagers struggling to make sense of their complicated family life after their mother and father decide to separate. While sixteen year-old Kat holds out hope that her parents will eventually work things out, her quiet suffering causes her to become emotionally isolated from both family and friends. Meanwhile, Kat’s brother Jack not only finds himself in the difficult position of having to mediate between mom and dad, but also having to keep track of their fragmented finances. Complicating matters is the fact that Jack plays in the string band his father longs to lead to victory in Philadelphia’s annual Mummer’s Parade.
Frank Yuma, a long time enforcer and hit man for an organized crime syndicate is suspected of being an informer for the FBI. The syndicate orders a hit on Frank and hires his own crew to do the job. But unfortunately for them, Frank Yuma survives.