WHAT JUST HAPPENED? is a very sharp but quietly (though it does contain a number of laugh out loud moments) funny comedy tracing two weeks in the hellish life of a Hollywood producer, Ben (Robert De Niro) trying to salvage his career.

At one screening during the Toronto International Film Festival years ago, actor Matthew Modine (while introducing his Abel Ferrara movie) described Madonna as bad energy.  Some of this so-called energy can be often observed in Madonna’s directorial debut about three London flatmates surviving their nasty desperate lives.

A jilted swordsman hit-man pines in the desert hiring other hit-men do perform his contract killings.

The first half hour of THE TIGER’S TAIL is compelling to watch despite the fact that nothing actually is going on, on screen as yet.  Writer/director John Boorman (HOPE AND GLORY, THE TAILOR OF PANAMA and his best film DELIVERANCE) shows his prowess by upping the angst while introducing his characters in a tale set in the booming capital of Dublin.

The third of the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL series features the same lead characters in another dance musical romp.