Tag Archives: Jay O. Sanders

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Directed by Roland Emmerich, After years of unabated global warming, the greenhouse effect is wreaking havoc all over the globe in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and, most ominously, the beginning of the next Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall  tries to save the world while also shepherding to safety his son Sam, who was in New York when the city was overwhelmed by the beginnings of the new big freeze.

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Along Came a Spider (2001)

Directed by Lee Tamahori, Washington, D.C. homicide detective Alex Cross is through playing mind games with criminals–that is until a methodical predator, Gary Soneji kidnaps the young daughter of a United States senator from an elite school and lures Cross into the case. Soneji’s not out for ransom, he wants something much bigger–a place in the history books. His every move is planned with the precision of a spider spinning his web, and Cross and secret service agent Jezzie Flannigan are in a race against time to stop him.

Kiss the Girls (1997)

Directed by Gary Fleder, Alex Cross is cool and professional about his work, passionate and protective about his family. A widower with a teenage son and a daughter, the bonds of blood are all important to him. So when his niece Naomi turns up missing from her college campus in North Carolina, Cross knows he must apply his formidable investigative skills to search for her. But unlike his previous cases, this one is personal and there’s no room for error. Arriving in Durham, where the antebellum ruins of the Old South meets the modern buildings of the New South’s Research Triangle, Cross learns a special Task Force Officer is already operating and that Naomi isn’t the only victim. Seven other girls are missing and two bodies have been found, with a note left at the second murder scene signed “Cassanova.”

Glory (1989)

Directed by Edward Zwick, Based on mostly true story, The story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War.  Lead by two idealistic young Bostonians, the regiment also includes an inspirational sergeant who unites the troops and a runaway slave who embodies the indomitable spirit of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts. Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

( The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry the first formal unit of the US Army to be made up entirely of African American men.)

JFK (1991)

Directed by Oliver Stone, Details the actions of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who takes it upon himself to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Garrison is extremely suspicious of the official story presented by the FBI, and what he already knows and what he subsequently learns lead him to suspect that there is more to the story than the public is being told.

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