Michael Schmidt

Margarita Happy Hour -- In Brooklyn, Zelda, her lover Max, and their small daughter Little Z share one room in a flat with seven others...

January 5, 2012 Michael S. Schmidt reports from Baghdad on the sectarian violence and explosions that killed dozens in Iraq.

Michael S. Schmidt and Stephen Farrell report from Baghdad, as the United States declares the mission in Iraq over.

Two inept lounge singers who can't get a break find themselves breaking into the burglary biz and unlocking the right combination for comedy. A hilarious tale of music, Mafioso and mistaken identity.

Always Will movie trailer - starring Andrew Baglini, John Schmidt, Noelle Meixell. Directed by Michael Sammaciccia. Genre: Family Rating: PG

Crime And Punishment In Suburbia movie trailer - starring Michael Ironside, Ellen Barkin, Jeffrey Wright, Vincent Kartheiser, Monica Keena, James DeBello. Directed by Rob Schmidt. Genre: Drama Rating: R

A ten year old girl is found brutally murdered outside the small blue-collar city of Rochester, New York, and obsessed police detective Megan Paige (Eliza Dushku of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and DOLLHOUSE) suffers a mental breakdown while trying to solve the crime. But when the child-killings resume two years later, Megan s return to the investigation also brings back her own horrific hallucinations. Even if she can prove a double initial connection to the slayings, will she hang onto her sanity long enough to catch a psychopath? Cary Elwes (SAW), Michael Ironside (STARSHIP TROOPERS), Bill Moseley (THE DEVIL S REJECTS), Carl Lumbly (ALIAS) and Academy Award winner Timothy Hutton co-star in this chilling thriller directed by Rob Schmidt and based on the true story of the murders that shocked America.

Young Elena has been a prisoner her entire life, her world consisting of just four stark white walls and one single window. And on the other side of that window, Doctor Barry Nyle. Is he Elena s salvation or her tormenter? Will she ever be free to live a normal life? And what, pray tell, is the exact purpose of the mysterious glowing pyramid at the center of the institute that contains them both? Born of the pre-teen fantasies of writer-director Panos Cosmatos as he browsed the selection of early 1980s Canadian science fiction and horror VHS tapes that he would never be allowed to rent, BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW is a psychedelic head trip of the highest order. Cosmatos captures the aesthetics of an era effortlessly while fusing those influences into something bold and visionary and entirely his own. The accomplished music video director he s done work for The Handsome Furs, among others plunges the audience into a sort of sensory overload as he fuses elements of Reagan-era paranoia, social engineering run amok, and a drug fueled step up the evolutionary ladder to create a hypnotic experience that plays out like a Tarkovsky style science fiction picture as filtered through the visual style of LOGAN S RUN. Michael Rogers delivers a mesmerizing performance as Barry Nyle, hiding a layer of obsession and ... something else beneath his cold and clinical exterior. But as gripping as Rogers is, it is the world that Cosmatos creates that is the real star, the visuals providing a truly immersive experience matched by the original score composed by Black Mountain s Jeremy Schmidt entirely on vintage analog synthesizers. Smoke em if you got em and just let it all wash over you.

A ten year old girl is found brutally murdered outside the small blue-collar city of Rochester, New York, and obsessed police detective Megan Paige (Eliza Dushku) suffers a mental breakdown while trying to solve the crime. But when the child-killings resume two years later, Megan s return to the investigation also brings back her own horrific hallucinations. Even if she can prove a double initial connection to the slayings, will she hang onto her sanity long enough to catch a psychopath? Cary Elwes, Michael Ironside, Bill Moseley, Carl Lumbly and Academy Award winner Timothy Hutton co-star in this chilling thriller directed by Rob Schmidt and based on the true story of the murders that shocked America.