3.8

Kill Switch

2007, USA, Canada

• Actors: Steven Seagal, Holly Dignard, Chris Thomas King, Michael Filipowich, Isaac Hayes, Mark Collie, Karyn Michelle Baltzer, Philip Granger, Riley Jang, Connor Jang, Finn Michael, Aliyah O'Brien, David Patrick Green, Holly Eglington, Reese Alexander, Apollonia Vanova, Daniella Evangelista, Chris Bradford, Paul Herbert, Ali Liebert, Brandi Alexander, Marci T. House, Alison Araya, Phillip Mitchell, Stephanie Nudd, Louis Chirillo, Dean McKenzie, Chris Shields, Anna Mae Routledge, Brock Johnson
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Jeff King
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A troubled detective travels to Memphis in order to track down a pair of serial killers.

  7.7

Ray

2004, USA

• Actors: Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King, Clifton Powell, Harry Lennix, Bokeem Woodbine, Aunjanue Ellis, Sharon Warren, C.J. Sanders, Curtis Armstrong, Richard Schiff, Larenz Tate, Terrence Howard, David Krumholtz, Wendell Pierce, Chris Thomas King, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Rick Gomez, Denise Dowse, Warwick Davis, Patrick Bauchau, Robert Wisdom, Kurt Fuller, Julian Bond, Kimberly J. Ardison, Renee Wilson, Willie Metcalf, Mike Pniewski, Terrone Bell, Richard A. Smith
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
• Director(s): Taylor Hackford
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Ray Charles has the distinction of being both a national treasure and an international phenomenon. By the early 1960's Ray Charles had accomplished his dream. He'd come of age musically. He'd made it to Carnegie Hall. The hit records "Georgia," "Born to Lose" successively kept climbing to the top of the charts. He'd made his first triumphant European concert tour in 1960 (a feat which, except for 1965, he's repeated at least once a year ever since). He had taken virtually every form of popular music and broken through its boundaries with such awe inspiring achievements as the LP's "Genius Plus Soul Equals Jazz" and "Modern Sounds in Country & Western." Rhythm & blues (or "race music" as it had been called) became universally respectable through his efforts. Jazz found a mainstream audience it had never previously enjoyed. And country & western music began to chart an unexpected course to general acceptance, then worldwide popularity. And along the way Ray Charles was instrumental in the invention of rock & roll. Born in a poor African American town in central Florida, Ray Charles went blind at the age of 7. With the staunch support of his determined single mother, he developed the fierce resolve, wit and incredible talent that would eventually enable him to overcome not only Jim Crow Racism and the cruel prejudices against the blind, but also discover his own sound which revolutionized American popular music. Nonetheless, as Ray's unprecedented fame grew, so did his weakness for drugs and women, until they threatened to strip away the very things he held most dear. This little known story of Ray Charles' meteoric rise from humble beginnings, his successful struggle to excel in a sighted world and his eventual defeat of his own personal demons make for an inspiring and unforgettable true story of human triumph.

  7.8

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

2000, UK, France, USA

• Actors: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, Chris Thomas King, Charles Durning, Del Pentecost, Michael Badalucco, J.R. Horne, Brian Reddy, Wayne Duvall, Ed Gale, Ray McKinnon, Daniel von Bargen, Royce D. Applegate, Frank Collison, Quinn Gasaway, Lee Weaver, Millford Fortenberry, Stephen Root, John Locke, Gillian Welch, A. Ray Ratliff, Mia Tate, Musetta Vander, Christy Taylor, April Hardcastle, Michael W. Finnell, Georgia Rae Rainer
• Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Music
• Director(s): Joel Coen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey' the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bank robber George 'Babyface' Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find."