TV Guide: Maury Chaykin

Listing: Mystery, Alaska

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:05:00 -0400

Wed Oct 29 01:05 PM ENCR1

Listing: Dances with Wolves

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:50:00 -0400

Tue Oct 28 04:50 PM ENCR1

Listing: My Cousin Vinny

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Sat Oct 25 08:00 PM A&E

Listing: Camilla

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:45:00 -0400

Fri Oct 24 08:45 AM SHOe

Listing: The Art of War

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:00:00 -0400

Fri Oct 17 06:00 PM CINEMAX

Listing: Heavens Fall

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:00:00 -0400

Fri Oct 17 07:00 AM TMCe

Listing: Love and Death on Long Island

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:30:00 -0400

Thu Oct 16 02:30 AM MOMAXe

Listing: Harry & Son

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:00:00 -0400

Wed Oct 15 06:00 PM FLIXe

Video: Nero Wolfe: The Complete Second Season

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:30:16 -0400

Maury Chaykin returns as wealthy, eccentric, ill-tempered, self-indulgent, and insufferably brilliant private detective Nero Wolfe, with Timothy Hutton as his wisecracking, skirt-chasing assistant and legman, as the A&E series bearing the blanket title A Nero Wolfe Mystery enters its second season. As in season one, most of the episodes are directly based on the original Nero Wolfe novels written by Rex Stout between 1934 and 1975. All of the episodes are ample demonstrations of the keen deductive and analytical skills of the overweight protagonist, who specializes in solving seemingly unsolvable crimes -- but only when he feels like doing so. The season opens with the two-part Death of a Doxy, directed by series regular Timothy Hutton, in which Archie must explain the presence of a corpse in his apartment. In a later two-parter, Motherhunt, Wolfe ignores his precious prize-winning orchids and rare beers long enough to track down the mother of an abandoned infant. Also spread over two episodes is Too Many Cli

Video: Let The Devil Wear Black

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:37:28 -0400

Director and screenwriter Stacy Title (best known for the independent feature The Last Supper) obviously knows a good story when she sees one, and proves it with Let The Devil Wear Black, which takes the framework of Shakespeare's {~Hamlet} and recasts it with present-day characters and dialogue. Jack (Jonathan Penner), a professional student, is convinced something is rotten in the state of his family after the recent death of his father -- especially when Uncle Sammy (Jack Sheridan) decides to marry Jack's mother (Jacqueline Bisset) with what Jack thinks is inappropriate speed. Jack becomes convinced his father's death was at the hands of some shadowy conspiracy, while his girlfriend, Julia (Mary-Louise Parker) starts to unravel in the face of her own tensions and Jack's obsessions. The supporting cast includes Philip Baker Hall, Jonathan Banks, Maury Chaykin and Chris Sarandon; Let The Devil Wear Black was shown as part of the 1999 {~Slandance Film Festival}. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Strip Search

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:21:13 -0400

This silly Canadian action film concerns a cop named Robby (Michael Par ) hired by a mysterious woman, Sela (Caroline Neron), to find her missing sister. Not only does Sela have two different-colored eyes, but she may have actually once been the brother of the missing Billy (Lucie Laurier), who is now working in seedy gang-owned strip clubs. Robby has his own problems, too -- involving his no-good brother, who had his thumb cut off by a Chinese gangster and walks around with it in a box while complicating Robby's life. Throw in a slumming Pam Grier as Robby's lusty lesbian partner; Maury Chaykin in a hilarious bit part as a drooling voyeur; and Par turning in what must be his worst performance ever as the clueless cop -- and the resultant mess is a rare treat for fans of bad cinema. Viewers seeking a gritty action-thriller are advised to look elsewhere. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide.

Video: Owning Mahowny

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:16:55 -0400

A seemingly ordinary bank employee develops an obsession that could destroy his life and that of those around him in this drama. Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a quiet, unassuming employee of a bank in Toronto; he lives modestly, drives a used car, and is dating one of the bank's tellers, a sweet but mousy girl named Belinda (Minnie Driver). What no one knows is that Dan has a secret life -- Dan is a compulsive gambler, and after running up massive debts with his bookie Frank Perlin (Maury Chaykin), he begins making regular visits to Atlantic City in the United States, where he often bets (and loses) far beyond his means. Dan's expertise at the bank is rewarded with a promotion to assistant manager; his new responsibilities include approving loans, which gives him the authority to transfer funds in and out of the bank. Needing to cover his debts, Dan starts approving loans to non-existent clients and adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to other accounts, and Victor Fox) (John Hurt), manager of Da

Video: Cutthroat Island

Video Detective — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:51:49 -0400

Geena Davis stars in this adventure saga as the most swashbuckling female pirate to ever lay waste to the seven seas. Morgan Adams (Davis) is the daughter of a pirate who has followed in her father's footsteps. When he dies, he passes along his ship, a crew of bandits, and one third of a treasure map (which happens to be tattooed on his skull). Morgan is eager to search out the rest of the map and retrieve the riches, but the fragment she holds is in Latin. Morgan then buys a well-educated slave, William Shaw (Matthew Modine), who can read the ancient language and already has a taste for the criminal life. However, Morgan and William are not long into their search when they discover that someone else is following the same trail for the rest of the treasure map: Dawg Brown (Frank Langella), Morgan's uncle and as black-hearted a scurvy dog as ever boarded a ship. As Morgan and Dawg battle each other over the fragments of the map, a British journalist (Maury Chaykin) covers their feud for the penny press. Willia