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March 19, 2009: I really enjoyed this Utlra-Violent feature and this is coming from a person who started loving films strictly through mafia genre features (Godfather, Goodfellas). I've only seen two other Ferrara films (Bad Luitenant, Dangerous Game), so like those features, I was expecting his style and grittiness to come through ten-fold in this film. Nicholas St. John, a long time writer and collaborater with Director Abel Ferrara doesn't disappoint us with this epic. I would say...

Based on the play Dearly Departed by David Dean Bottrell and Jessie Jones (who also penned this screenplay), this new comedy from the director of Jason's Lyric looks at a family gathering after one of their clan dies of a stroke. In the midst of a sweltering summer, the Slocumb family convenes. They include Charisse (Jada Pinkett Smith), the long-suffering, frustrated wife of philandering Junior (Anthony Anderson); there's also the Bible-spouting Marguerite (Loretta Devine), who prays to save her...

On the eve before the political handover of Macao to the Peoples' Republic of China, police officer Shing suffers a terrible career crisis: he has been involved in years of money laundering with Portuguese officials and is now facing extradition. Shing seeks comfort in the arms of a young woman, Yan, with whom he wants a one-night stand. Yan, on the other hand, has a different agenda; she confronts Shing with the unexpected news that she's his daughter. Shing didn't even know he had a daughter. And...