Craig Zisk Movies

The newest member of Vince's posse, Dom (Domenick Lombardozzi), tells a moving story that helps Vince land a role in his dream project, Medellin. ~ Joe Friedrich, All Movie Guide

Produced for cable's Showtime service, the half-hour Weeds starred Mary-Louise Parker as suburban housewife Nancy Botwin, whose comfy, affluent existence was shattered by the unexpected death of her husband. With no other readily available source of income, Nancy decided to service an ever-growing consumer demand -- by selling marijuana to other white-bread suburbanites. Purchasing her pot from streetwise dealer Conrad Shepard (Romany Malco) and his aunt, supplier Heylia James (Tonye Patano), Nancy set up her new business enterprise using a bakery as a front, with the assistance of city councilman Doug Wilson (Kevin Nealon) -- all the while keeping her activities a secret from her snooty, traditionalist best friend, PTA president Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins). Also in the cast were Alexander Gould and Hunter Parrish as Nancy's sons, Shane and Silas; Justin Kirk as her overgrown-slacker brother-in-law, Andy; Andy Milder as Celia's feeble husband, Dean Hodes; Allie Grant as the Hodes' overweight daughter, Isabelle; and Martin Donovan as Peter, a single dad whom Nancy fell for -- and who turned out to be a DEA agent. The series' ironic theme music was the Womenfolk's "Little Boxes," a satiric paean to split-level conformity. One of those series invariably described as "smart and sexy" by in-the-know critics, the Golden Globe-winning Weeds debuted August 7, 2005. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

As the third episode of Showtime's Weeds opens, Agrestic is being terrorized by a wild cougar which Shane (Alexander Gould) has taken it upon itself to trap and shoot with his BB gun. Silas (Hunter Parrish) puts a clumsy move on the rumor-plagued deaf girl, Megan (Shoshannah Stern), who makes known her lack of interest with a can of spray paint. At the Hodes house, Celia (Elizabeth Perkins) accuses young Isabelle (Allie Grant), who has been placed on a strict diet, of sneaking food. Celia goes to abusive extremes to curb this behavior, surreptitiously replacing the girl's chocolate stash with a chocolate-flavored laxative. This leads to an extremely embarrassing incident in school, and when Isabelle learns that her own mother was responsible, she takes a very fitting revenge. Nancy's (Mary-Louise Parker) budding business has been suffering and Doug (Kevin Nealon) lets her know why -- medical marijuana. There's a perfectly legal, cheap, and well-stocked supplier in the city, run by the effusive Craig X (Craig X Rubin), and all his clients need is a prescription. After a visit to this "weed boutique, " which Nancy refers to as "the Whole Foods of pot," she realizes that Heylia (Tonye Patano) and company have been selling her skank weed. With a little help from Conrad (Romany Malco), Nancy learns just what strains of marijuana to order, and how to cook them down into some delicious baked goods and candy. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Sean is touched by his consult with Megan O'Hara(Julie Warner), a cancer patient who, after having had a mastectomy, wants reconstructive breast surgery. Still deeply upset about Julia's miscarriage, Sean decides to get a vasectomy in order to prevent another accidental pregnancy from occurring. Meanwhile, Christian and Grace fluctuate from furious shouting matches to passionate sexual romps, and Christian mistakenly believes a former patient of his is responsible for vandalizing his car. Christian decides to get back together with Kimber(Kelly Carlson), his ex-girlfriend, and Matt engages in an awkward threesome with his girlfriend and one of her fellow cheerleaders. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide

Helena rescues an infant from murderous thugs, and brings the orphan to Barbara and Dinah at the lair. The three unlikely baby-sitters soon learn that he is no ordinary child: Each time the metahuman falls asleep, he ages several years. The superheroines work against the clock to save his life, however, Harley Quinn has other plans for the erstwhile little boy. ~ TV Guide, All Movie Guide

Irina (Lena Olin) turns herself in to the CIA, insisting that her main purpose in life is "Defeating Arvin Sloane. SD-6. The Alliance." She also offers to help track down "The Bible," the elusive operations manual for the evil cartel which she formerly headed. But her ex-husband, Jack (Victor Garber), and daughter, Sydney (Jennifer Garner), are extremely skeptical about Irina's sincerity, even after she provides Sydney with the safety measures needed to retrieve a computer disk used by Irina to blackmail other secret agents into complicity -- an assignment given to Sydney by the sinister Arvin Sloane (Ron Rifkin), as yet unaware of Irina's surrender. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Taking a "revisionist" approach to several DC Comics favorites, the weekly adventure series Birds of Prey could easily have been retitled "Charlie's Superheroines." Dina Meyer headed the cast as Barbara Gordon, who in her younger days fought crime in Gotham City as the caped-and-cowled Batgirl. Confined to a wheelchair since being attacked by the archvillain Joker, Barbara, now calling herself "Oracle," continued to battle evil as the mentor of her ward Helena Kyle (Ashley Scott), the out-of-wedlock daughter of stalwart hero Batman and slinky villainess Selena Kyle, aka Catwoman. Donning the crimefighting guise of "the Huntress," Helena likewise had a score to settle with the Joker, who was responsible for Catwoman's demise. Joining these two courageous ladies in their ongoing war on villainy was telepathic teenager Dinah Laurel Lance, aka "the Black Canary." Others in the cast included the perfidious Dr. Harleen Quinzel (Mia Sara), otherwise known as Harley Quinn (a character introduced on the various Batman animated cartoon series of the early '90s), and "official" lawman Detective Jesse Reese (Shemar Moore), whose dedication to his work was born of a disreputable childhood. Birds of Prey first aired on October 9, 2002. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Based on the FOX animated series The Tick created by Ben Edlund and first aired in 1994, this live-action superhero sitcom premiered on FOX in November of 2001. Patrick Warburton dons the blue suit to play lovable hyperbolic superhero The Tick and David Burke plays his winged weakling sidekick, Arthur. Nestor Carbonell is the charismatic Batmanuel (based on Die Fledermaus) while Liz Vassey is Captain Liberty (based on American Maid). The show was canceled after only one season of nine episodes, one of which remains unaired. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

Patient confidentiality rules may stymie John (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) and Andy (Dennis Franz) in their investigation of an abortion-clinic firebombing in which a security guard was killed. This same crime yields evidence that Valerie (Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon) lied to Baldwin (Henry Simmons) about her miscarriage. In other developments, a gun found in a car leads to reopening of a Jane Doe investigation; and Rita Ortiz (Jacqueline Obradors) realizes that a homicide victim is the woman with whom her husband, Don (Stan Cahill), was having an affair. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide