The Perfect Host - DVD

Warwick Wilson is the consummate host. He carefully prepares for a dinner party, the table impeccably set and the duck perfectly timed for 8 30 p.m. John Taylor is a career criminal. He's just robbed a bank and needs to get off the streets. He finds himself on Warwick's doorstep posing as a friend of a friend, new to Los Angeles, who's been mugged and lost his luggage. As the wine flows and the evening progresses, we become deeply intertwined in the lives of these two men and discover just how deceiving appearances can be. With outstanding performances by David Hyde Pierce and Clayne Crawford, co-writer/director Nick Tomnay takes US on a suspense-filled ride where nothing is as it seems. The Perfect Host is a slippery psychological thriller that exposes true human nature and reveals just how far we're willing to go to satisfy our needs.

A Perfect Murder [DVD]

With the death of his estranged, mentally ill father, insomniac trucker Will Stark (Steven Grayhm, who wrote and directed) reluctantly returned to Massachusetts for the bequest of his childhood home. Perhaps she should have stayed on the road, as a strange local murder is about to put the authorities' focus on the property-and it's bloody and unholy history. Unnerving effort also stars Tamara Austin, Nate Boyer, Laila Lockhart Kraner. 115 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.