Alex Coleman Movies

Part of the Video Cookbook series hosted by celebrity chef Jim Coleman, who teaches viewers how to prepare one gourmet meal per episode, Video Cookbook: Horseradish Crusted Salmon Filet contains a step-by-step lesson in the art of fish filet. Coleman shows viewers how to crust and cook the salmon. He also prepares companion dishes including bay scallop chowder, pecan rice, sautéed snow peas, and for dessert, coconut blueberry tart. ~ Betsy Boyd, Rovi

Part of the Video Cookbook series hosted by celebrity chef Jim Coleman, who teaches viewers how to prepare one gourmet meal per episode, Video Cookbook: Herb and Garlic Roasted Turkey contains a step-by-step lesson in gourmet turkey roasting. Coleman demonstrates the herb and garlic roasting process and offers serving suggestions. He prepares acorn squash soup, sautéed broccoli, sausage stuffing, whipped cinnamon sweet potatoes, natural gravy, and for dessert, apple cobbler. ~ Betsy Boyd, Rovi

Part of the Video Cookbook series hosted by celebrity chef Jim Coleman, who teaches viewers how to prepare one gourmet meal per episode, Video Cookbook: Heart Healthy Pan Seared Chicken Breast contains a step-by-step lesson in pan searing for health-conscious cooks. Coleman demonstrates the fat-saving method and dresses his healthful main course with mushroom ragout, watercress salad with tomato vinaigrette, and asparagus. For dessert, in keeping with his light dinner theme, he prepares a lemon ginger Anjou pear with Merlot glaze. ~ Betsy Boyd, Rovi

Part of the Video Cookbook series hosted by celebrity chef Jim Coleman, who teaches viewers how to prepare one gourmet meal per episode, Video Cookbook: Steak Au Poivre contains a step-by-step lesson in preparing steak with pepper. Coleman shows aspiring chefs how to dress the dish, too, whipping up an elaborate assortment of sides, including asparagus and hearts of palm salad, garlic mashed potatoes, haricot verts, and for dessert, bananas foster shortcake. ~ Betsy Boyd, Rovi

When a district attorney starts an investigation into corruption that leads her back to her own family--rife with police officers--she finds some decisions hard to make. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi

Directed by onetime Rookies co-star Georg Stanford Brown, Alone in the Neon Jungle has all the earmarks of a TV pilot film-albeit a better-than-usual example of the genre. Suzanne Pleshette plays a no-nonsense police captain, assigned to the town's most corrupt police district. In attempting to clean things up, She is handicapped by the fact that she can't tell her friends from her enemies. Director Brown costars as a police sergeant who turns out to be a valuable ally to the new captain. Filmed in Pittsburgh, Alone in the Neon Jungle was first telecast January 17, 1988. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and then removes the skin from their bodies. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into this case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out. Lecter does indeed know something of Buffalo Bill, but his information comes with a price: in exchange for telling what he knows, he wants to be housed in a more comfortable facility. More important, he wants to speak with Clarice about her past. He skillfully digs into her psyche, forcing her to reveal her innermost traumas and putting her in a position of vulnerability when she can least afford to be weak. The film mingles the horrors of criminal acts with the psychological horrors of Lecter's slow-motion interrogation of Clarice and of her memories that emerge from it. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

A sterling cast headed by Oscar-nominated Susan Sarandon makes this slick thriller one of the better adaptations of a John Grisham bestseller. Mark Sway (Brad Renfro) witnesses the suicide of a Mafia lawyer, who confesses that the Mob was behind the murder of a U.S. senator. Mark's brother is traumatized into a coma by the incident; gangster Barry Muldano (Anthony LaPaglia) is soon on Mark's trail, and in desperation, he arrives at the office of recovering alcoholic lawyer Reggie Love (Sarandon). With the Mob after them, and a ruthless federal attorney (Tommy Lee Jones) trying to force Mark to reveal what he knows, Love battles to guarantee the safety of her client and his family. The relationship between Reggie Love and Mark Sway is the center of the film, adding considerable character development to plot's routine elements. Director Joel Schumacher helmed another Grisham adaptation, A Time To Kill, in 1996. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi