Ole Bornedal's thriller about a young law student who takes a job as a night watchman in a creepy morgue is long on style but comes up a little short on quality of storytelling. Bornedal sets things up in high style as Martin Bells (Ewan McGregor doing an American accent) makes his rounds in the middle of the night, with only corpses and his own paranoia for company. When bodies start coming in, the prostitute victims of a grisly serial killer, the imposing detective on the case (a hulking Nick Nolte) begins to suspect that Bells is the killer, as all clues start pointing to him. Coscripted by Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight) and adapted from Bornedal's 1994 Danish thriller, Nightwatch forsakes out-and-out thrills for a more moody approach with flickering lights, menacing shadows and echoing footsteps down long hallways. If only there was a little more energy before the highly effective denouement, which does get scares, even after the killer is revealed. Still, McGregor is supported by a stronger than average cast: in addition to Nolte, Josh Brolin does an amusing turn as McGregor's out-of-control best friend, Patricia Arquette fares well in the standard girlfriend role and the always creepy Brad Dourif makes the most of a sinister and funny bit part as the on-call doctor. You won't jump out of your seat but by the end of Nightwatch you will find yourself remarkably tense. --Mark Englehart
The controversial sitcom first broadcast on Channel 5 featuring the exploits and sexploits of the staff in a modern bordello... 'The Debonnaire' is a brothel like thousands of others in suburbs across Britain: it's respectable twee and it could be next door to you. Run by Maureen a chain-smoking granny who's seen it all 'the Debonnaire' is the workplace for Hayley a sweet and adorable girl; Kate a brainy post-grad student and scary Yalena a Serbian war criminal on the run. Int
What started as a holiday for 14 enthusiasts ended in a Greek jail on espionage charges! Caught in a minefield of regional politics 14 spotter found themselves arrested for behaving 'suspiciously' at an air base in remote Greece. Their protests fell on bemused and then incredulous ears. Surely the telescopes radio scanners and aircraft serial numbers could mean only one thing: they were spies! What started as an extraordinary farce soon became terribly serious when the spotters we
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