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American Commune

A Father's Legacy


            CROWN VIC opens with an alarm blaring at a bank in downtown Los Angeles - two men in body armor trade gunfire with the police in a scene reminiscent of the legendary 1997 shootout in North Hollywood, and in the aftermath, manage to escape into the gritty streets of Los Angeles...That night, LAPD veteran Ray Mandel prepares for his patrol shift behind the wheel of a Crown Vic, during which he'll be training Nick Holland, who is seeing his first action as a cop and is looking to outrun the long shadow cast by his legendary LAPD father. As they patrol, the department on high alert with two cop killers out in the wind, Nick quickly learns about life as a patrol cop in a city that will dazzle you with its beauty one moment, then penetrate your world with an act of brutality in the next. Where police prowl the streets at night while the rest of us sleep, unaware of the nocturnal battles between good and evil that allow us to live unaffected by the brutality and disorder. To Ray, the Crown Vic is home. A place where things make sense. But he also knows that at his age the department is trying to force him out, an inevitability he must face but is unprepared for.As they make their way through the dangers of the night, a welfare check on the widow of Ray's former partner reveals she is back on drugs and her little girl has disappeared. To add to his problems, Ray must contend with over-amped bipolar speed freak cop Jack Van Zandt and his sycophantic partner Stroke Adams on the loose in his patrol zone looking to violently settle a score with a suspect who is back out on the streets.Ray finds out where the girl is being kept and decides to go off the grid to get her, the idealistic Nick knowing they will both be hung out to dry, but a defiant Ray says it was his partner's daughter, and Nick hesitantly goes along. Ray finds the girl, killing the drug dealer in cold blood and returns her to her grandmother. Nick is shaken in the aftermath and confronts Ray, who confesses that the little girl is in fact his daughter, the result of an affair he had with his partner's wife. Nick is startled by Ray's hypocrisy, and Ray tells him there's the kind of cop you want to be when you're young and the kind of cop you end up being. Nick realizes he and Ray are two sides of the same coin, that Nick is like Ray when he started out and that Ray is what Nick could end up being in 30 years.As their shift ends, Nick attempts his first solo action, a routine traffic stop as Ray observes. As the exchange with the driver gets heated we realize the two men in the car are the cop killers the police have been hunting all night. Gunfire and chaos erupt and Nick finds himself with a gun to his head, only to be saved by Ray. Ray and Nick return to the motor pool, where their night began. Ray expresses to Nick what he believes it truly means to be a cop, leaving Nick to ponder the devastating night he just experienced.
    

Crown Vic

The Holiday Junkie

5th & Alameda

Rolling Into Christmas

Arranged Love

Royal Rendezvous


            There's little in the first half of Ana Asensio's feature-length directorial debut that foreshadows its outrageous second half, except maybe the credit for indie-horror distributor Glass Eye Pix. At first, it seems odd that Larry Fessenden would have produced what seems like an archetypal Sundance selection about multicultural strivers in New York City: The story focuses on one, Luciana (Asensio), an immigrant from Spain, running away from her past, struggling-often along the F line, in Brooklyn-to survive and find odd jobs.Most Beautiful Island follows Luciana during a not-atypical day: to a doctor she can't afford, because she has no insurance; to her apartment, where most things in the fridge have "Not Yours" notes taped onto them by her roommate. We see her pick up insolent children from school and walk them home, and we see her dressed up in a provocative yet silly costume, handing out fliers. Then, a fellow immigrant and friend, Olga (Natasha Romanova), from the flyering job, asks Luciana to fill in for her at another gig, which sounds too good to be true: Get paid $2,000 to show up at a cocktail party and look pretty-no sex-stuff required, just a black dress and some high heels.Up to this point, Most Beautiful Island feels like a meandering, ethnographic quasi-documentary, set all over New York City, on familiar streets but also in back rooms and back alleys many people don't often see. It's set in a milieu of hustling immigrant women, living within a culture of seemingly infinite economic possibilities that all seem somehow out of reach. Each has her own reasons for being in the city and her own ways of making money-through Craigslist, or networks of other women in similar circumstances. Luciana often relies on the kindnesses of other immigrants: the shopkeepers who say she can pay tomorrow, and give her an extra little treat, or the cabbies who shrug off her inability to pay. But others tell her that we make our own luck and get what we deserve, espousing a moralistic social Darwinism that's brought to life in the film's second half, in the form of a biting metaphor.Olga's job offer, which leads Luciana to a cinderblock-lined basement along the West Side Highway, is indeed too good to be true. Women stand in narrow circles, drawn and numbered in chalk, in which they're ogled by ladies and gentlemen in evening dress holding champagne-and stern men in black prevent the women from leaving. We're made to wait there with them, airs of tension, menace, and mystery getting denser as the women are led one by one into a "party room," to which the well-dressed have retired. When Luciana is finally called in, the moment is nightmarish-a relatively simple yet quite unexpected scenario that's stomach-twisting in its elemental horror but also in the fact that many of these women, abject in their desperation, have volunteered to participate, putting their lives at risk for sport and cash. The experience seems as dehumanizing as a sexual assault.Many genre movies in which bad things happen to women end with them fighting back, but here, as people surely would in real life, they just take the money and run. There's no grand climax, no wicked revenge or Grand Guignol comeuppance, just a shot of a stretch of New York City highway, a faded sign, painted on a brick wall, visible if you squint: BIG APPLE BIG DREAMS. Its irony turns grotesque if you remember the film's opening text: "Inspired by true events." This is how the other half really lives today.
    

Most Beautiful Island

ADDicted

A Very Merry Beauty Salon

I Hate the Man in My Basement

Serial Killing 4 Dummys

Last Seen in Idaho

Neverland

The Last Rescue

5th Street

The Gold Retrievers


            With assistance from new intern Mark, Gigaler.com employee Griffin records video interviews with company cofounders Tom and Chris. Tom and Chris explain their startup's goal of creating a predictive algorithm that curates custom video content for their homepage's visitors.An anonymous source sends Griffin a supposed snuff video of a blonde woman wearing white preparing to commit suicide in a cemetery. The video ends in a sudden jump scare when a loud scream accompanies a masked man lunging at the camera.Impressed at the effectiveness of the screamer video's scare, Tom, Chris, and other employees agree to post the video on their site. The content goes viral and boosts Gigaler's popularity.Griffin receives a second video. In it, the blonde woman is seen on a bed before the masked man suddenly appears for another screamer scare.Hoping to contact the creator in order to obtain exclusive content, Tom tasks programmer Abbi with tracing the video's source. Abbi traces the uploader to an address and phone number near Rochester, New York.Tom calls the number. A skittish woman who identifies herself as Tara hesitantly answers. Tara cryptically references a man named Francis in regards to who makes the videos, and implies that she is subservient to the unknown man. During a second phone call later, Tara continues to say that her association with Francis is complicated and he cannot find out she is talking to Tom.Comments posted to the videos indicate that the woman depicted resembles Tara Rogers, who went missing several years earlier. Concerned that they are connected to a crime, Tom calls Tara to confirm her identity. Tara abruptly tells Tom to not call her again before hanging up.Abbi identifies a tombstone in the first video as belonging to Francis Tumuelty, who was suspected of being Jack the Ripper. Based on this, Tom and the others conclude that they were the targets of a prank all along.Still hoping to turn the experience into content that will attract site traffic, Tom convinces Chris, Griffin, and Abbi to go to Rochester with him to film a video confrontation with Tara about the hoax. After visiting the Francis Tumblety tombstone, Tom surprises everyone with a nighttime stop at Tara's address. When no one responds to Tom's knocks, the quartet leaves.Tom, Chris, Griffin, and Abbi retire to the home of Abbi's friend Emma. The five of them share dinner and discuss Tara Rogers while also enjoying their evening together.The next day, Tom and Griffin return to Tara's address. Tom compels Griffin to go inside with him when he discovers the side door unlocked. Although the house appears dirty and deserted, Tom and Griffin find candles melted on a mantle and a pantry full of bloody jars.Upstairs the men find the bedroom depicted in the second screamer video. Tom's car alarm goes off outside. Tom leaves Griffin alone in the bedroom while he goes outside to his vehicle. Francis surprise attacks Griffin. When Tom returns, Francis attacks him too.Back at Emma's, Abbi shows Chris footage from the previous evening that shows someone was stalking them outside Tara's house. A text message from Tom's phone asks Chris and Abbi to come to Tara's address. Emma drives them.Inside the house, Abbi finds Tara curled up and crying in an upstairs bedroom. Francis suddenly attacks Chris, prompting Abbi and Emma to flee. Both women are separately chased and ultimately attacked by Francis.A new screamer video appears online with Abbi having replaced Tara as the woman in white in front of Francis' grave.
    

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