The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian/The Tracey Fragments/How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer/Reprise/The Flock

What are the differences between the US Version and the International Version?

Better than they say. Hell, better than "8 MM" too.

Suspenseful, dark movie about released sex offenders

I'm Not Going To Bother Watching This Till The End

Richard Gere and Topher Grace in The Double (2011)

Diane Lane and Mickey Rourke in Killshot (2008)

Tom Berenger and Cuba Gooding Jr. in A Murder of Crows (1998)

Richard Gere and Mark Knapton in Red Corner (1997)

Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, LL Cool J, and Justin Timberlake in Edison (2005)

Adrienne Larussa and Tomas Milian in The Conspiracy of Torture (1969)

People like Paul and Viola Gerard don't just tell lies, they *are* lies. In public they're decent, socially-responsible folk who look you in the eye, but never long enough to make you uncomfortable. They shake your hand, pat you on the back, but never overdo it. They're Christian if you are, they swear if you do, and they do this because people like you wrongly believe that public presentation tell us all about private lives.

Claire Danes and Richard Gere in The Flock (2007)

Richard Gere and KaDee Strickland in The Flock (2007)

Richard Gere

Claire Danes

KaDee Strickland

Craig Mitchell

Hans Bauer

A hyper-vigilant employee of the department of public safety, while training his young female replacement, has to track down a missing girl who he is convinced is connected to a paroled sex offender he is investigating.

Wai Keung Lau

The Flock

Nothing to &quot;Flock&quot; to see

I finally caught &quot;The Flock&quot; on HBO. A taping at 4:20 am while I was asleep, true, but it&apos;s better watched at that hour, methinks. It was apparently only released to theaters in Japan and Turkey, from all reports, but North Americans really didn&apos;t miss much.

It&apos;s professionally produced, pairs Claire Danes memorably with Richard Gere, and makes their interplay (standard retiring-burnout-and-protégé) entirely believable in most ways.

The gore and corpses aren&apos;t beyond those in many modern horror movies, though the camera often lingers more than it should. The fetishes (and worse) of Gere&apos;s monitored ex-cons shouldn&apos;t shock anyone who&apos;s ever been in a triple-X shop.

Danes&apos;s acting is superb, especially in pursuing an abductor&apos;s trail (standard police-procedural, though by non-cops) with Gere&apos;s brooding and effective Errol. What blew a hole in this, though, is that she was miscast in the first place.

Even though one of Gere&apos;s well-worn &quot;flock&quot; is female, nearly all are intimidating men, and the role her character Allison is training to take up calls for more heft. Both physically and professionally.

I didn&apos;t believe for one minute that Allison chose such a grueling job out of anything more than economic need, certainly not from any more personal calling. No hints are made as to her motivation, nor is anything mentioned of her personal life, beyond nosy behavior and a clumsy allusion by compulsive background-checker Errol.

It&apos;s a miscasting on a par with what was done with Danes in &quot;The Mod Squad,&quot; but unlike that idiocy of a plot-mangled remake, this gives Danes a quite strong setup — and much gore and many sad fetishes — to play against. If you accept that someone of her perception and refinement would ever take that job in the first place, that is.

Turn to it on cable, but I wouldn&apos;t take the effort to even go to the video store or put it in a Netflix queue. It&apos;s worth one viewing.

(Most of this review originally appeared on the IMDb board for Claire Danes, followed by considerable discussion.)

I finally caught "The Flock" on HBO. A taping at 4:20 am while I was asleep, true, but it's better watched at that hour, methinks. It was apparently only released to theaters in Japan and Turkey, from all reports, but North Americans really didn't miss much.

It's professionally produced, pairs Claire Danes memorably with Richard Gere, and makes their interplay (standard retiring-burnout-and-protégé) entirely believable in most ways.

The gore and corpses aren't beyond those in many modern horror movies, though the camera often lingers more than it should. The fetishes (and worse) of Gere's monitored ex-cons shouldn't shock anyone who's ever been in a triple-X shop.

Danes's acting is superb, especially in pursuing an abductor's trail (standard police-procedural, though by non-cops) with Gere's brooding and effective Errol. What blew a hole in this, though, is that she was miscast in the first place.

Even though one of Gere's well-worn "flock" is female, nearly all are intimidating men, and the role her character Allison is training to take up calls for more heft. Both physically and professionally.

I didn't believe for one minute that Allison chose such a grueling job out of anything more than economic need, certainly not from any more personal calling. No hints are made as to her motivation, nor is anything mentioned of her personal life, beyond nosy behavior and a clumsy allusion by compulsive background-checker Errol.

It's a miscasting on a par with what was done with Danes in "The Mod Squad," but unlike that idiocy of a plot-mangled remake, this gives Danes a quite strong setup — and much gore and many sad fetishes — to play against. If you accept that someone of her perception and refinement would ever take that job in the first place, that is.

Turn to it on cable, but I wouldn't take the effort to even go to the video store or put it in a Netflix queue. It's worth one viewing.

(Most of this review originally appeared on the IMDb board for Claire Danes, followed by considerable discussion.)

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