"A Series of Unfortunate Events" (2004)

Genre: Comedy
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jude Law, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Meryl Streep

If you spliced Charles Addams, Dr. Seuss, Charles Dickens, Edward Gorey, and Roald Dahl into a Tim Burtonesque landscape, you'd surely come up with something like Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. There's plenty to recommend the playfully bleak scenario, in which three resourceful orphans thwart their wicked, maliciously greedy relative Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), who subjects them to... well, a series of unfortunate events. Along the way they encounter a herpetologist uncle (Billy Connolly), an anxious aunt (Meryl Streep) who's afraid of everything, and a variety of fantastical hazards and mysterious clues, some of which remain unresolved. Given endless wonders of art direction, costume design, and cinematography, the first Lemony movie suggests a promising franchise in the making.

"Derailed" (2005)

Genre: Thriller
Starring: Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel

When two married business executives (Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston) having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal the two must turn the tables on him to save their families.

"Out of Time" (2003)

Genre: Action Thriller
Starring: Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, Dean Cain

Two-time Academy AwardA(r) winner* Denzel Washington (Training Day) is "fantastic [in this] inventive, exciting and spellbinding thriller" ("The Movie Network") co-starring Eva Mendes (2 Fast 2 Furious), Sanaa Lathan (Blade) and Dean Cain ("Lois & Clark"). In Banyan Key, a small Florida town surrounded by azure seas and sultry secrets, Chief of Police Matt Whitlock (Washington) finds himself caught in the eye of a storm and about to get blown away. Investigating the murder of a woman he was secretly seeing, Matt races to uncover a murky trail of stolen money, drugs and deceit, all the while staying two steps ahead of his own detectives because all the evidence points to him!