Michael Rogers

Outrage -- Boldly revealing the hidden lives of some of the United States' most powerful policymakers, Outrage takes a comprehensive look at the harm they've inflicted on millions of Americans, and examines the media's complicity in keeping their secrets.

Two for the Money -- Brandon Lang loves football: an injury keeps him from the pros, but his quarterback's anticipation makes him a brilliant predictor of games' outcomes. Needing money, he leaves Vegas for Manhattan to work for Walter Abrams advising gamblers. Walter has a doting wife, a young daughter, and a thriving business, but he has problems: a bum heart, a belief he's a master manipulator, and addictions barely kept in check. He remakes Brandon, and a father-son relationship grows. Then, things go awry. Walter may be running a con. The odds against Brandon mount.

Paul Diller is the brains behind a multi-million dollar jewel heist. The team includes Robert Lasky, and his girlfriend, Kate Neville. After they steal the gems, they hurl them to the bottom of Brazil's deepest lake. Diller then fills the lake with deadly man-eating piranhas. When two of the thieves try to recover the riches for themselves, one meets a violent and bloody death. The other confronts Lasky, who denies knowledge of the incident. He is busy pursuing a beautiful model named Gabrielle. Diller uses Gabrielle as a way to separate Kate from Lasky. He admits to Kate that he had planted the fish, and that they have now multiplied beyond his wildest dreams. The plot takes twists and turns, deep-diving through bloody caldrons of violence. Who can make it through the flesh tearing jaws of the killer fish?

The names ricochet through Western lore. Jesse James (Brad Pitt) was the most notorious outlaw of his time, wanted by the law in 10 states yet celebrated as a Robin Hood in newspapers and dime novels. Teenaged Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) idolized Jesse, sought his friendship, rode with him. It wasn’t enough. The up-and-comer wanted his shot at fame. And when he got it, he took it. Pitt gives a volcanic, charismatic performance as Jesse in this saga of celebrity and obsession adapted from Ron Hansen’s historical novel by director Andrew Dominik (Chopper). “They’re all lies,” Jesse says of the stories surrounding him. A deeper, more human truth awaits in this ambitious and stirring epic film.