Peel (2019)
Comedy | Drama
A coming-of-age story about a young man whose child-like innocence has a healing quality on all the damaged characters he meets on his journey to rebuild his broken family.
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Jack Kesy, Shiloh Fernandez, Jacob Vargas, Garrett Clayton, Amy Brenneman
Director: Rafael Monserrate
The Public (2018)
Drama
An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Emilio Estevez, Jena Malone, Taylor Schilling, Christian Slate, Gabrielle Union, Jeffrey Wright , Michael Kenneth Williams, Rhymefest, Jacob Vargas
Director: Emilio Estevez
Crossing Point (2016)
Action | Thriller
A young American couple, in love, is on vacation in Baja, but things take a frightening turn when Olivia is kidnapped by a drug dealer, who demands that Michael smuggle a backpack full of cocaine, stolen from a rival cartel over the border into the US within 12 hours or Olivia will be killed. A good Tijuana cop is on the trail, as Michael navigates the treacherous underworld of Mexico, and he himself becomes a force to be reckoned with.
Starring: Shawn Lock, Paulina Gaitan, Tom Sizemore, Jacob Vargas, María Gabriela de Faría, Rudy Youngblood, Luke Goss, Burton Perez
Director: Daniel Zirilli
Only specific members can view this post! Check the TIPS4U page to find more details.
Selena / Selena: The Movie (1997)
Biography | Drama | Music
The true story of Selena Quintanilla Pérez, a Texas born tejano singer who rose from cult status to performing at the Astrodome, as well as having chart topping albums on the Latin music charts.
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Jon Seda, Constance Marie, Jacob Vargas, George Perez
Director: Gregory Nava
Next Friday / Friday 2 (2000)
Comedy
Last Friday, Craig (Ice Cube) kicked Debo's (Tiny Lister, Jr.) butt. Now Debo is out for revenge, so Craig's dad smuggles him out of the hood and into the burbs to stay with his sex-crazed Uncle Elroy and cousin Day-Day. But between Day-Day's crazy ex-girlfriend, the gun-toting homies next door and a rumble with a record store owner, Craig is gonna wish he was back in South Central where it's safe!
Starring: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, John Witherspoon, Jacob Vargas, Tommy Lister, Kym Whitley
Director: Steve Carr
Jarhead (2005)
Biography | Drama | War
Set during the Gulf War, the episodic tale follows Anthony Swofford (a.k.a. "Swoff"), a third- generation enlistee, from his sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, where he's sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck sack on his back, while moving through Middle East deserts with no cover from the intolerable heat. As well, he advances with no protection from the Iraqi soldiers–and there's always a potential enemy sighting, just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves on humor and camaraderie as they tread the blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand, against an enemy they can't see, for a cause they don't fully fathom.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Jamie Foxx, Brian Geraghty, Jacob Vargas, Chris Cooper
Director: Sam Mendes
The Hills Have Eyes II / The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
Horror | Thriller
What started with the Carter family, clearly didn't end with the Carter family. Some time later, as part of a routine mission, a unit of National Guard soldiers stop at a New Mexican outpost only to find the isolated research camp mysteriously deserted. After spotting a distress signal in a distant mountain range, the team decides to commence a search and rescue mission into the hills. Little do they know that these are the very hills that the ill- fated Carter family once visited, and that a tribe of cannibalistic mutants lies in wait. And this time, there is an even larger force of evil at work that is intent on the soldiers'' very destruction.
Starring: Michael McMillian, Jessica Stroup, Daniella Alonso, Jacob Vargas, Flex Alexander
Director: Martin Weisz
Traffic (2000)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A patchwork of stories about various factions of the drug trade, including dealers, abusers and the law enforcement officials who pursue them. Mexican policeman Javier Rodriguez works on and around the border with his close friend and fellow policeman Manolo Sanchez, under Mexico's number one crime fighter, General Salazar. Confronted with temptations of power and money, Javier resists them but finds himself–and Manolo–caught in a web of corruption that leads to an untenable situation. Back in the U.S., Ohio State Supreme Court Justice Robert Wakefield is named by the president as the new antidrug czar. Collecting information, the uncompromising and conservative Wakefield prepares to supervise the country's task forces and partner them with Mexico's. But, at home, he and his wife Barbara must deal with their increasingly drug-addicted teenage daughter Caroline. In San Diego, undercover DEA agents Montel Gordon and Ray Castro work overtime to help the U.S. government build its case against the infamous Obregon drug cartel. Their bust of midlevel drug trafficker Eduardo Ruiz pays off when their new prisoner cuts a deal to testify against wealthy drug baron Carlos Ayala, who lives in the upscale suburbs. Carlos is arrested, shocking his unknowing and pregnant wife Helena. Helena and her son are quickly threatened by her husband's associates and tailed by the DEA agents. Enlisting the aid of attorney Arnie Metzger. Helena vows to get Carlos out of jail and keep her children safe– even if it means taking over her husband's business.
Starring: Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, Luis Guzmán, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas, Miguel Ferrer
Director: Steven Soderbergh
