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In an agonizing dilemma torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs in A Banquet, young uptight English writer Henry’s novel is a resolute failure but is a surprise hit in Mexico in Book of Love, and trust, identity and the danger of unchecked power push a covert operative to the edge in director Mark Williams’ intense action-thriller Blacklight.
A Banquet
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 79% Fresh (Critics) – (Audience Rating Unavailable)
The plot: Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight.
Book Of Love
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 52% Fresh (Critics) – 73% Fresh (Audience)
The plot: Henry Copper—young, English and about as relaxed as a stiff collar—is a novelist. He’s written one book that wasn’t a best-seller and Henry is resigned to its obscure fate. Suddenly his novel is a huge hit in Mexico.
Blacklight
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 7% Fresh (Critics) – 70% Fresh (Audience)
The plot: Travis Block (Neeson) lives and fights in the shadows. A freelance government “fixer,” Block is a dangerous man whose assignments have included extracting agents out of deep-cover situations.
When Block discovers a shadowy program called Operation Unity is striking down ordinary citizens for reasons known only to Block’s boss, FBI chief Robinson (Quinn), he enlists the help of a journalist (Raver-Lampman), but his past and present collide when his daughter and granddaughter are threatened.
Now Block needs to rescue the people he loves and expose the truth for a shot at redemption. Nothing and no one is safe when secrets are hidden in Blacklight.
