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.

The term PRIDE AND GLORY or finest is sometimes referred to police officers.  But this week, the NYPD is taken down in director Gavin O’Connor’s saga on a cop multi-generational family headed by patriarch Jon Voight just as the LAPD is taken down in Clint Eastwood’s CHANGELING.

Eastwood’s latest film is an engrossing thriller drama centering on the true events following an L.A. woman, Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) search for her missing son.  But the fight takes a different route when she is returned the wrong boy.  She fights the system, in the form of the corrupt L.A. Police Department who refuses to be embarrassed by the mistake of finding the wrong boy.  This is Eastwood doing a DIRTY HARRY of a varied sort, where the dirty guys (inside and out) are the cops.