Jimmy Boyle

With a childhood tragedy that overshadowed their lives, three men are reunited by circumstance when one loses a daughter.

In the summer of 1975 in a neighborhood in Boston, 3 kids, Dave Boyle and two of his friends, Jimmy and Sean, are playing on the sidewalk when Dave gets abducted by two men and endures several days of sexual abuse. Eventually, Dave escapes traumatized throughout adulthood. Jimmy is an ex-con and a father of three, whose daughter Katie, is found dead and Dave becomes the number one suspect. Sean is a homicide detective, investigating Katie's murder, ends up finding himself faced with past and present demons as more is uncovered about Katie's murder. Learning Katie had a boyfriend, ballistics later turn up a gun belonging to the father, which then puts her boyfriend as the suspect. Will Sean find out who killed Katie? Will Jimmy make it through the investigation? And will Dave ever find out what really happened when he was abducted?

Mystic River tells the story of three men whose dark, interwoven history forces them to come to terms with a brutal murder on the mean streets of Boston. When one of their daughters is brutally killed, one of the men suffers, while another investigates the case that seems to pointing to their third friend. All three men must confront their personal demons and a tragic childhood experience to make sense of their present pain and suffering.

Director Wim Wenders made his American film bow with the ultra-stylish Hammett. Based on the speculative novel by Joe Gores, the story concerns real-life detective novelist Dashiell Hammett (Frederic Forest), who early in his career is involved in a complex mystery that will profoundly influence his later works. While hacking away for pulp magazines, Hammett is asked by Jimmy Ryan (Peter Boyle), his old boss at the Pinkerton agency (and the model for the writer's "Continental Op" character), to help out on a particularly difficult case. Before long, Hammett is prowling the nooks and crannies of San Francisco in search of a missing Chinese prostitute-blackmailer (Lydia Lei). Among the several delectable "inside jokes" in Hammett is the presence of Elisha Cook, who'd appeared in the 1941 film adaptation of Hammett's Maltese Falcon, as Eli the Cab Driver.

Since the start of this millennium, Mick Foster and Tony Allen have sold more than 1.25 MILLION albums in the UK and with the release of "Celebration" - the follow-up to 2014's Top 30 album 'Gold & Silver Days' are on course to extend their run of success in the UK Artist Albums Chart, which stretches back to 1983, although preceded by their first appearance on Top of The Pops in April 1982. "Celebration" does literally celebrate Foster & Allen's 40 years as a performing/recording duo, in this 20 track album. Featured on the album are two duets with THE CHIEFTAINS and SIR JIMMY SHAND & HIS BAND. Having sold almost 20 Million albums worldwide in the last 40 years, Foster & Allen have not forgotten their legions of fans by their constant touring and prolific album releases.

Black and white, gay and straight, mothers and daughters, class, and coming of age. Jo is working class, in her teens, living with her drunk and libidinous mother in northern England. When mom marries impulsively, Jo is out on the streets; she and Geoffrey, a gay co worker who's adrift himself, find a room together. Then Jo finds herself pregnant after a one night stand with Jimmy, a Black sailor. Geoffrey takes over the preparations for the baby's birth, and becomes, in effect, the child's father. The three of them seem to have things sorted out when Jo's mother reappears on the scene, assertive and domineering. Which "family" will emerge?