TV Guide: Brion James

Listing: Tango & Cash

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 10 02:00 PM CINEMAX

Listing: Enemy Mine

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:30:00 -0500

Sun Dec 7 03:30 AM AMC

Listing: Brown's Requiem

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:50:00 -0500

Fri Dec 5 02:50 PM FLIXe

Video: Double Dose

iTunes — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:15:12 -0500

Livewire (recurring guest star voice Lori Petty) teams with Parasite (recurring guest star voice Brion James) to confront and defeat Superman.

Video: Feeding Time

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:54:16 -0500

After toxic chemicals transform unremarkable janitor Rudy Jones (recurring guest star voice BRION JAMES) into the energy-draining Parasite, he imprisons Superman, intent on keeping the Man of Steel as his own personal power source.

Video: Two's A Crowd

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:48:55 -0500

When embittered scientist Dr. Earl Garver (guest star voice BRIAN COX) goes into a coma before revealing the location of a ticking bomb, Superman risks enlisting the help of Parasite (recurring guest star voice BRION JAMES) to drain the information from Garver's mind.

Video: Superman: The Animated Series Season 1

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:49:49 -0500

Video: Two's a Crowd

iTunes — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:37:50 -0500

When embittered scientist Dr. Earl Garver (guest star voice Brian Cox) goes into a coma before revealing the location of a ticking bomb, Superman risks enlisting the help of Parasite (recurring guest star voice Brion James) to drain the information from Garver's mind.

Video: Feeding Time

iTunes — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:37:33 -0500

After toxic chemicals transform unremarkable janitor Rudy Jones (recurring guest star voice Brion James) into the energy-draining Parasite, he imprisons Superman, intent on keeping the Man of Steel as his own personal power source.

Video: King Is Alive, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:20:16 -0500

Shot against the barren sand dunes of Africa's Namib Desert, The King Is Alive is the fourth film to adhere to the stripped-down aesthetic of the Dogma 95 movement, and the first to bear the directorial stamp of the manifesto's co-author Kristian Levring. The improvised, shot-on-digital video production concerns the exploits of almost a dozen tourists who find themselves stranded when their bus breaks down miles from civilization. A thespian amongst the group, Henry (David Bradley), is the first to suggest that their situation may be more dire than it seems. His doubts send the rest of the folks -- including American travelers Ray (Bruce Davison), Liz (Janet McTeer), Ashley (Brion James), and Gina (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and a high-minded Parisian, Catherine (Romane Bohringer) -- into fits of fear and dread. To get their minds off the heat, hunger, and dehydration, the castaways stage an impromptu reading of Shakespeare's {+King Lear}, which they can only fitfully remember. As their situations worsen, the tou

Video: Time Of The Gypsies

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:41:31 -0500

A scientist (Brion James) who once worked for a high-tech genetics lab has come back in disguise to work as a security guard so that he can free the lab's abused animals. However, the lab has also created a chimera, a man/animal combination, which, in this thriller, is a very violent creature. Once it gets free from its captors, it goes on a killing spree, and the security guard finds himself having to really get into the spirit of his new job. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide.

Video: Precious Find

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:17:35 -0500

Philippe Mora, the genre filmmaker whose marsupial-themed Howling III and alien-abduction hit Communion solidified his reputation as a director of clunky, substandard fantasy, returned with this space-set remake of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. True to form, it's a clunky mess, with Harold Pruett as a young prospector named Ben (complete with a lovable canine sidekick), who teams up with gambler Armand Crile (Rutger Hauer) and a shifty engineer named Horton (Brion James) to look for Au79, a valuable ore also called Precious. Mora throws in everything but the kitchen sink with sabotage, explosions, crazed hijackings, and a few tacky aliens in an obligatory cantina scene. He also includes a lame CGI monster and some campy humor (as if Don Stroud as a long-haired Asian robot wasn't campy enough). Brion James steals the show as the cynical Horton, and even gets to sing, while Mora makes a cameo appearance as a scummy merchant. Despite its outer-space setting, the science fiction elements pretty much fall by t

Video: Savage Land

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:53:20 -0500

A family anticipating a reunion is thrown into desperate circumstances in this Western adventure shot on location in Alberta, Canada. A woman is escorting her two children and her sister across the country to Colorado aboard a stagecoach when the stage is ambushed by a strange group of Indians. It turns out that the Indians are actually bandits in disguise, and the party is left stranded in the attack. The family must find their way to civilization through the wilderness, while the bandits scour the woods looking for their would-be victims. Corbin Bernsen, Brion James, and Sonny Landham play the bandits, while Charlotte Ross, Vivian Schilling, Corey Carrier, and Mercedes McNab play the family left to fend for themselves. Charles Napier appears as one of the stagecoach drivers, and Graham Greene plays an Indian who befriends the lost travelers. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Brown's Requiem

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:55:07 -0500

Based on a novel by acclaimed crime writer James Ellroy, this film stars Michael Rooker as Fritz Brown, a former L.A.P.D. detective who was kicked off the force due to his drinking. Now struggling to remain sober, Brown works as a private eye when he can, but he makes most of his money repossessing cars. One day, Brown is offered some detective work by Freddie Fat Dog Baker (William Sasso), a golf caddy who has some severe reservations about his younger sister, Jane (Selma Blair) and her relationship with Solly (Harold Gould), a wealthy businessman with mob connections who is old enough to be Jane's grandfather. Brown isn't interested at first, but when Fat Dog starts flashing an impressive bankroll, he decides to take the case. Brown's investigation of Solly causes him to cross paths with Cathcart (Brion James), the head of L.A.P.D. internal affairs who was responsible for Brown losing his job. Soon Brown runs afoul of a group of hired thugs and several key figures wind up dead as Brown tries to find out the

Video: American Strays

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:15:46 -0500

A collection of losers, misfits, and outcasts find their lives unexpectedly converging at a diner along a desert highway in this violent and offbeat comedy drama. Dwayne (John Savage) is a strait-laced-looking vacuum cleaner salesman with a bad habit of murdering prospective customers, while Patty Mae (Jennifer Tilly) is a sexy mystery woman who has amassed an impressive collection of carpet sweepers. Martin (Eric Roberts) is a down-on-his-luck family man wondering how he'll support his wife and kids now that he has lost his job. Johnny (Luke Perry) is a deeply depressed young man who has arranged for a hired killer (Sam J. Jones) to murder him, not knowing that the killer has no intentions of allowing him to die quickly or easily. And Harv (James Russo) and Gene (Joe Viterelli) are a pair of mobsters from Las Vegas who discuss their various problems with women, not very concerned about the fact there's a man locked in the trunk of their car. American Strays also features Carol Kane, Brion James, and Melora W

Video: Mom

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:26:33 -0500

While investigating a bizarre series of slayings, reporter Clay Dwyer (Mark Thomas Miller) begins to suspect his tenant (Brion James) of being a vampire, and indeed, the man soon turns Dwyer's mother (Jeanne Bates) into one of the undead. Though Clay is able to kill the original blood-sucker, he just can't bring himself to off good old Mom. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide.

Video: King Is Alive, The

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:19:49 -0500

Video: Dark, The

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:05:09 -0500

This well-crafted Canadian monster movie pits a rag-tag crew of cops, gravediggers, and the requisite scientist against a giant subterranean rodent that tunnels beneath graveyards and lives off the interred bodies. Scientist Dr. Henderson (Stephen McHattie) wants to analyze the beast's body chemistry, which he believes has healing properties, but he continually butts heads with a vengeful, violent cop (Brion James) whose partner was swallowed up by the creature. Henderson enlists the aid of a waitress (Cynthia Belliveau), a pair of gravediggers, and a pretty sheriff's deputy (Neve Campbell) in hunting the mega-rodent, but his plans turn awry thanks to the murderous meddling of the cop, who proves to be far more monstrous than the monster. Director Craig Pryce keeps the monster shrouded in darkness for much of the film, and its climactic appearance is not disappointing. Excellent performances, a tight script, and good use of the claustrophobic sets make this effective chiller worth seeking out. ~ Cavett Binion

Video: Hong Kong 97

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:56:10 -0500

In this suspense thriller, Reginald Cameron (Robert Patrick) is an executive with a major American corporation who has a secret life as a high-level hit man. As the British government makes the final preparations to hand over control of Hong Kong to China, Cameron takes unusual steps to protect his company's interests in the city; he kills several key members of the Chinese team handling the takeover. Soon Cameron has a price on his head and with every hired gun in Hong Kong hot on his trail, he tries to get out of town with the help of his mentor at the company (Brion James), his best friend (Tim Thomerson), and his former girlfriend (Ming-Na Wen). ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Red Scorpion

Video Detective — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:12:31 -0500

Dolph Lundgren stars in this controversial action film directed by Joseph Zito (Missing in Action). The beefy Swede plays Soviet KGB agent Lt. Nikolai, who is sent to Africa with orders to eliminate a black rebel. Eventually, Nikolai begins to side with the locals, has a red scorpion tattooed on his chest by a shaman, and helps fight against the Cubans and the Soviets. Horror fans should note Tom Savini's expert gore effects during a torture scene, while others will be pleased with a fine supporting cast including M. Emmet Walsh, Carmen Argenziano, and Brion James. The film was originally commissioned by Warner Bros., which dropped it after controversy over its South African genesis, but they might as well have dropped it for its endless desert treks and uninvolving screenplay. An unrelated Canadian sequel followed five years later. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide.

Video: Moody River

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:13:54 -0500

Riding near the Arizona town of Moody River, renegade cop and bounty hunter Reno Raines defends a black farmer, Calvin Moses (WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG), from attack by a gang of masked hoodlums. Their leader is an arrogant young bigot, Jed Johnson (ED BEECHNER). Reno learns that Calvin's farm commune, called "Second Chance," is a multi-racial clan of former convicts and their families, trying to buy the mortgage on their cultivated land. However, they are continually vandalized by Jed's gang under orders from his uncle, Eli Starke (BRION JAMES), a corrupt judge.