Mark Rolston’s Typical Vibe
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Mark Rolston has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Aliens.
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Ju-on: The Grudge 2
2003
Horror · Thriller

15 Minutes
2001
Action · Crime

Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
2004
Action · Thriller

End of the Line
2007
Horror · Thriller

The Ring Two
2005
Drama · Horror

Miami Vice
2006
Action · Crime

Saw IV
2007
Horror · Thriller

Night Watch
2004
Fantasy · Action

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
Dir. Frank Darabont · With Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
Dir. James Cameron · With Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn

When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
Dir. Brett Ratner · With Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson

Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.
Dir. Kevin Greutert · With Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston

Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Detective Mark Hoffman is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm is suspicious, and delves into Hoffman's past. Meanwhile, another group of people are put through a series of gruesome tests.
Dir. David Hackl · With Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson

Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in town. She hides the reindeer in her barn and feeds it cookies, until she can return it to Santa. Her father finds the reindeer and decides to sell it to the butcher, not for venison chops, but as an advertising display.
Dir. John D. Hancock · With Rebecca Harrell Tickell, Sam Elliott, John Duda
When a group of college students take part in a clinical drug trial, an unexpected side effect of the experimental medicine gives them terrifying visions of their own deaths...which begin to come true. As they scramble to escape their fate, they discover that the killer is among them and shares their ability to see the future - only he seems to be one step ahead of their efforts to survive.
Dir. D.J. Viola · With Virginia Gardner, Nathan Kress, Kirby Bliss Blanton

Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn't tell Jack why. The goons learn from Pilot's drug source where the youths are headed, and they follow, hell bent on breaking Jack's feet. On the road, Jack and Pilot give a ride to Cassie, a distressed young woman. She and Jack hit it off. They pick up an aging stoner headed to Seattle for Kurt Cobain's memorial, and they help a circus sideshow family. Why is Pilot so set on Seattle, will the goons catch Jack, and is there any way the friends' competing needs can be resolved?
Dir. James Cox · With Jared Leto, Selma Blair, Jake Gyllenhaal
Set in a Tex-Mex border town, Not Forgotten is a classic psychological thriller about Jack and Amaya Bishop, a couple who must come to terms with their tortured pasts in order to save their kidnapped daughter. It is a tale taut with intrigue and steeped in Latino mysticism, where the line between what's real and what's imagined becomes hopelessly blurred.
Dir. Dror Soref · With Simon Baker, Paz Vega, Michael DeLorenzo