Wednesday, March 3, 2010

"Flashpoint" Season 2, Volume 1 - March 23

Phase 4 Films will release the award-winning, Toronto-lensed cop TV series "Flashpoint" Season 2, Volume 1 on DVD March 23, 2010.

"...'The Strategic Response Unit' is a team of cops like no other - they're the elite, the blueblood of the force. High risk is their business, and life-and-death stakes are their world. The SRU team is also unique; they rescue hostages, bust gangs, defuse bombs, climb buildings, see through walls and talk down suicidal teens. It takes years on the street, intense physical conditioning and elite marksmanship to qualify for the SRU. They have to prove that they're at the top of their game on a daily basis - because if they're not, there are hundreds of others willing to step in and take their place. The team uses state-of-the-art equipment - sniper rifles, snake-cameras, robots, flash-bangs, night-vision and Tasers. But beyond all of the cool gadgetry, the most important weapons in their arsenal are human intuition, a gift for words and their ability to read emotion. Each team member is uniquely trained in negotiating, profiling and getting inside a subject's head. They stand out because of the rare balance between lethal hardware and people skills: pure muscle and pure intuition. They're the envy of law enforcement everywhere.The stakes are always high in Flashpoint -- only here, the lives of the men and women on the team are also always on the line. That's the nature of the job. The SRU may be heroes, but they are also human. At the end of the day, they each go home haunted by what they've seen, by what they've had to do - pursued by new demons which they cram into already bulging closets. They lock down emotion and they second-guess decisions made in the heat of the moment. These individuals are constant witnesses to the extremes of human distress. Not everyone is cut out for this.

"...If you're a cop, you're three times more likely to kill yourself than to be killed by a bad guy..."

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"Max Manus": Toronto Screening Ticket Give-Aaway- March 15

TorontoFilm.Net is giving away double ticket passes to a special screening of "Max Manus" in Toronto, Monday March 15 at 7PM @ AMC Yonge & Dundas.

"Max Manus" opens in Toronto April 2.

"...Based on a true story, 'Max Manus', follows 'Manus' (Aksel Hennie) from the outbreak of World War II until the summer of 1945. After fighting against the Russians during the Winter War in Finland, Manus returns to a German-occupied Norway. He joins the resistance movement and becomes one of the most important members of the so-called 'Oslo Gang', soon confirming his reputation for audacity by making two daring escapes from German captivity. One of the film’s most thrilling sequences is a detailed account of the sabotage techniques used to sink a heavily guarded German supply ship in Oslo harbour, an act that leads to severe retaliation from the local Gestapo leader, 'Siegfred Fehmer' (Ken Dunkun)..."

To get your free double-pass to see "Max Manus", go to Toronto's Filmfest DVD Rentals @ 405 Duplex Avenue, Toronto and tell them TorontoFilm.Net sent you.

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